The company plans to Saudi Research and Publishing Award broaden the base of «economic» the best work environment Saudi Arabia, which issued annually to include in 2010 the GCC release a list of the best work environment in the Gulf and in collaboration with our technical partner to the list of company «Tim Wen» Consulting. [...]

TREP$, short for entrepreneur, is an after-school program that teaches children between grades 5 to 10 everything they need to start their own business. It comprises of a series of carefully planned 6 workshops that are information-filled and action-packed. About 60 children from Kingdom School, Najd School, King Khaled International School, Jawahir Al Riyadh International [...]

The Riyadh International Book Fair 2010 is the largest yearly cultural event in the Middle East. It aims to facilitate and promote exchange between authors, publishers, all those professionally concerned with books, and all responsible for reading and culture in all countries. Invited to take part in the fair are publishers, distributors, authorized representatives, importers, [...]

DUBAI – More than three in five Saudis support a minimum age for marriage for women, according to a survey that comes as nuptials between barely teen girls and men old enough to be their great grandfathers have caught the world’s attention. But 28 percent of 887 respondents in the survey by pollster YouGovSiraj said [...]

The Institutes of Technology in Galway, Athlone and Waterford have signed a deal worth €9m which will see more than 1,000 Saudi Arabian students enter Irish higher education over the next four years. The scheme will commence in September with 80 students enrolling in both GMIT and AIT and 100 in WIT, at the start [...]

News Corp. has reached an agreement to buy a 9.1% stake in Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s Rotana Media Group for $70 million, marking its first major investment in the Middle East. News Corp. has an option to raise its holding to 18.2% in the 18 months following completion of the current deal, the [...]

March 2 (Bloomberg) — Saudi author Abdo Khal won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for “She Throws Sparks as Big as Castles,” a satirical novel about a poor young man who goes to work for a wealthy businessman and becomes embroiled in his palace intrigues. Khal was awarded the $50,000 prize during a ceremony [...]

More than 1,000 Saudi and foreign publishing houses and companies are expected to take part in the Riyadh International Book Fair which opens on March 2. “We want to make this annual exhibition a Saudi cultural festival,” said Abdullah Al-Jasser, deputy minister of culture and information for media affairs and supervisor of the exhibition. Senegal [...]