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  • Aramco, AEC announce partnership focused on accelerating Saudi Arabia’s digital ecosystem

    AEC, a Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) company, and Aramco said that the MoU would support efforts to enable the internet of things, computing and communication, drones, robotics, and semiconductors in Saudi Arabia.

  • Saudi Arabia’s defenses thwart new Houthi attacks

    Earlier on Monday, the Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense said air defenses intercepted and destroyed a “hostile aerial target” launched toward the city of Taif. “The aerial threat was launched by the Houthi militia from inside Yemen,” the ministry said, adding: “We are taking deterrent operational measures to neutralize the threat and protect civilians.”

  • 2022 Look Ahead: Saudi Arabia’s booming entertainment sector is just getting started

    Five years on, the thirst for entertainment in Saudi Arabia is plain to see. In the space of just two months, up to 8 million people have taken part in Riyadh Season 2021 — a cultural extravaganza that was unheard of just half a decade ago.

  • Saudi shares make positive start to 2022 despite COVID cases

    Saudi Arabian shares began 2022 on a positive note, in spite of a jump in cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. The largest Gulf state, with a population of around 30 million people, registered 1,024 new coronavirus infections and one death on Sunday.

  • Foreign Investment Into Saudi Arabia Falls Back To Earth

    The latest figures from the Saudi Central Bank (Sama), released this week, show inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country was $1.75 billion in the third quarter of 2021. That was a sharp fall from the record figure of $13.8 billion in the April-June quarter, which had been boosted by a deal for the pipeline network of energy giant Saudi Aramco.

  • Saudi and Israeli foreign ministers joined State Department virtual meeting on Omicron

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's virtual meeting with foreign ministers about the Omicron coronavirus variant last week included the ministers from both Saudi Arabia and Israel, a rare instance where the two countries who do not have formal diplomatic relations participated in the same call.

  • Spring migration in Saudi Arabia, part one – BirdGuides

  • With Rappers, Race Cars and Raves, Saudi Arabia Learns How to Party

    This conservative Islamic kingdom is rapidly trying to ease its staid social norms, allowing women to drive and travel freely in recent years, opening doors to tourists and tolerating music blaring from modern coffee shops. Now: Dance parties in the desert. A four-day music festival earlier this month is emblematic of how Saudis are learning to have fun in ways that are common in much of the world but long forbidden here. The festival—called Soundstorm and organized by a Saudi company called MDLBeast (pronounced Middle Beast)—featured 200 performances, including from big-name DJs such as David Guetta.

  • PIF’s $40bln investment plan to boost growth of startups in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia continues to focus on efforts to spur the growth of startups in the Kingdom to help boost the national economy, as is evident from the recently announced Saudi budget 2022. According to Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, the MENA region’s largest economy is expected to post a surplus of SR27 billion in 2023 and SR42 billion in 2024.

  • Saudi Arabia starts giving Covid-19 vaccines to children aged 5-11

    Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that children in the age group of 5-11 will now be able to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccines. The Ministry of Health noted in a statement that the priority of receiving the shots will be giving for those children at high-risk and have more susceptible from the virus' complications.