Contributor ReportsSaudi Arabia 'must combat terrorism'
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Thu Oct 01 03:09:45 -0700 2009 | disasters
A report by the US’s government accountability office said US governmental agencies remain concerned about the ability of Saudis and Saudi-based charities to fund terrorist organisations in other countries. The report said Treasury officials have “noted that Saudi-based individuals are...
200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English
Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Thu Nov 19 15:58:47 -0800 2009 | disasters
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Abdulmanam Almushawah, the head of a Saudi government program called Assakeena, checks radical web sites in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida 's message to Muslims in...
Saudi security policy under fire
Source: Hagada Hasmalit
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Thu Nov 19 14:25:05 -0800 2009 | disasters
Under pressure due to the preponderance of Saudi nationals in the al-Qaida attacks on the US in 2001, the Saudi security forces launched a major crackdown on Islamic militant groups. The frequency of militant attacks and reported raids and shootouts...
Saudi farms turn soil for seeds of change
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Tue Nov 17 01:03:29 -0800 2009 | disasters
Similar scenes were being repeated with the potato and grape crops elsewhere in this 36,000-hectare corner of north-western Saudi Arabia being cultivated by the Tabuk Agricultural Development Company. Two months earlier, wheat and alfalfa, a livestock fodder, were being harvested....
Continuous confrontations between al-Houthi rebels and Saudi forces ...
Source: Yemen Observer
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Thu Nov 05 02:15:15 -0800 2009 | disasters
At least 5 Saudi soldiers and 15 al-Houthi rebels were killed in fierce confrontations between the rebels and Saudi forces in al-Khuba and Jabal al-Dukhan in Jaizan area south of the Kingdom, local sources said Thursday. The leader of the...
Saudi Arabia set to reform commercial courts
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Wed Nov 04 08:49:23 -0800 2009 | disasters
An announcement last week that verdicts will be published on the justice ministry’s website suggests that the new courts will be more than window-dressing, and that an absence of sorely needed consistency has been recognised. The Saudi capital markets authority...
Saad chief in fight to have US case dismissed
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Mon Nov 02 18:44:49 -0800 2009 | disasters
Maan al Sanea, chairman of Saad Group, alleges that his increasingly rancorous battle with fellow conglomerate Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers (Ahab) has “no business” being heard in New York and should be fought in Saudi Arabia instead. The case...
Nymex blow as Saudis drop benchmark
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Wed Oct 28 13:48:44 -0700 2009 | disasters
The decision by the world’s biggest oil exporter could encourage other producers to abandon the benchmark and threatens the dominance of the world’s most heavily traded oil futures contract...The move reveals the growing discontent of Riyadh and its US refinery...
Testing the limits of Islamic debt
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Mon Oct 19 22:20:47 -0700 2009 | disasters
The default of two prominent Middle Eastern investment companies is shaping up to be a test case for the $1,000bn Islamic finance industry on how Islamic bonds, or sukuk, are settled. Until recently, the market for bonds that comply with...
Saudi telecoms newcomers find a tangled web
Source: Financial Times
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated Mon Oct 19 10:08:09 -0700 2009 | disasters
Customers, frustrated by the slow, unreliable internet service of Saudi Telecom (STC), quickly opted for the wireless broadband services, including voice and high-speed data, that Etihad Atheeb began to provide under the brand name Go in certain cities.
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