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  • Saudi King Salman holds cabinet meeting virtually from hospital: SPA

    On Monday Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler was admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said.

  • Qatar Airways seeks $5 billion compensation from Arab bloc over airspace ban

    Qatar Airways said the measures specifically targeted the airline and aimed to close its operations in the four countries, destroying the value of its investments and causing damage to its global operations.

  • Perspective: R&D potential could be key to spark Saudi economy

    The impact of COVID-19 and low oil prices has led to even further expected declines in Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product, but research and development could hold the key to an economic reset.

  • Demand for office space to remain intact in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, CBRE says

    Demand for office space in the Arab world’s two biggest economies – Saudi Arabia and the UAE – will remain intact despite expectations of major changes to the workplace caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a belief in the market that uncertainty and weak economic conditions will cause businesses to take up less office space as many employees opt to continue working from home.

  • Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Have Entered Their Own Space Race

    The two Gulf kingdoms have made space part of far-reaching plans to modernize and diversify their economies. Their moves in this direction, though, haven’t prevented persistent accusations of human-rights abuses at home and criticism of their ongoing involvement in Yemen’s civil war. The question, for many, is whether there’s real substance to the drive for space, or if it’s intended mostly to revise global perceptions.

  • ‘Champions’ Saudi Arabia Remake Sparks Vox, Shahid, Latido Deals

    Some 90 film professionals from Saudi Arabia, Spain, Lebanon and Egypt were busy filming the Saudi remake of “Campeones” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for some seven weeks when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, forcing the production to shut down on March 17. “We had only two scenes to go,” said “Champions” producer Andres Vicente Gomez of LolaFilms.

  • Saudi downturn deepens Yemen’s economic despair

    Analysts anticipate the Yemeni rial will weaken substantially this year as a $2 billion central bank deposit from Saudi Arabia in 2018 is nearly exhausted, a scenario that will diminish purchasing power and leave millions unable to afford basic food staples.

  • Saudi Arabia’s ‘Okaz’, a 60-year-young newspaper

    Having worked as a journalist for more than 50 years, Othman Al Omeir is certainly not short of stories. The list of his interview subjects, as the editor of several Arabic newspapers and founder of Elaph.com, is a who’s who of the modern age. He has quizzed everyone — from Mikhail Gorbachev to George Bush Senior, from Margaret Thatcher to John Major.

  • How mobile data consumption can spark Saudi recovery

    Growth will, however, resume in 2021 and remain healthy during the 2021-2025 forecast period, supported by higher mobile data consumption, 5G adoption, telcos’ focus on prepaid to postpaid migration, and growth in cellular M2M/IoT.

  • Saudi Space Commission gets UN listing

    Dr. Al-Sheikh also said that the Commission has completed the preparation of the national space strategy and the Space Regulation draft as well as a study to establish the Saudi Space Company and they have been submitted for review and approval.