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  • Saudi Heritage Commission to retrieve underwater artifacts

    The designated sites will be photographed using high-quality 3D photogrammetry and video technology, making an accurate map of the wrecks and determining the locations of fixed reference points using the GPS. It will cover more than 25 designated survey sites along the path in Ras Sheikh Humaid, Dubai, Al-Wajh, and Umluj areas, which will also be monitored.

  • How might Saudi Arabia’s third sector be developed through public-private partnerships?

    In lieu of its development plan, the Saudi government aims to empower the non-profit sector, also known as the third sector, hand in hand with the cooperation of the private sector. Fully aware of the important developmental role the private sector has and its potential impact in the third sector, the Kingdom’s government has actively formed partnerships with private organizations, entrepreneurs, and business owners in different sectors, including education, health, housing, and job employment.

  • Boxing: Ramla Ali ‘honoured’ to be part of first female fight in Saudi Arabia

    Already used to making history in a career that has taken her from becoming Somalia's first boxer to compete at an Olympic Games, a British Vogue cover model and UNICEF Ambassador, Ramla Ali will mark another major first in Jeddah on Saturday Ali will feature on the undercard of the Oleksandr Usyk versus Anthony Joshua fight in the first professional female bout to take place in Saudi Arabia. She'll face Crystal Garcia Nova of the Dominican Republic.

  • China: Saudi Arabia is a ‘strategic partner’

    Saudi Arabia is China's "strategic partner", the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, said yesterday. "China and Saudi Arabia are comprehensive strategic partners," Wenbin said. "In recent years, with the commitment and guidance from the leaders of both countries, China-Saudi Arabia relations have grown robustly with fruitful cooperation in various areas." Wenbin added.

  • IMF Executive Board Concludes 2022 Article IV Consultation with Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia is recovering strongly following a deep pandemic-induced recession. Liquidity and fiscal support, reform momentum under Vision 2030, and high oil prices and production helped the economy recover with a robust growth, contained inflation and a resilient financial sector. The receding effects of the pandemic, rising oil production/prices and a strengthening economy have improved the fiscal and external positions.

  • Eros Media World Enters Saudi Via Partnership With Arabia Pictures Group

    Indian media and entertainment giant Eros Media World is moving into the rapidly growing Saudi Arabia market, entering a strategic partnership with Riyadh-based content production company Arabia Pictures Group. The pair will explore opportunities in the film, technology and Web3 spaces and eye investments in content production, including end-to-end production, line production, distribution and more. They will also seek to introduce new technologies that can further the growth of the media and entertainment sector in Saudi. Eros and APG are already in the advanced stages of testing movie archive digitization and virtual location scouting technologies.

  • Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia Have Unearthed an 8,000-Year-Old Settlement That Includes an Tribute to the Deity Khaal

    The Kingdom of Kindah was established in the fifth and sixth centuries by a group of once-nomadic tribes from north and central Arabia. Today, the site sits roughly 400 miles southwest of the Saudi capital city of Riyad.

  • China, Saudi Arabia Announce Massive Strategic Partnership Energy Agreement

    The world’s largest oil-exporting company Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). According to an official statement from Aramco, the agreement outlines “pathways for strategic cooperation between Aramco and Sinopec and supports the long-term relationship between the two companies and their existing joint ventures in China and in the kingdom”.

  • 8,000-Year-Old Settlement Unearthed in Saudi Arabia

    An 8,000-year-old settlement has been discovered by a group of Saudi and French archaeologists working at a site southwest of the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Led by the Saudi Heritage Commission, the team uncovered the Neolithic-era remains using laser scanning, aerial photography, drones, and various forms of surveying. The archaeologists located the settlement at Al-Faw, an archaeological site that has previously turned up evidence of a strong trade network that sustained an ancient city.