Modern Electronics Co. the sole distributor of “Sony” products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today announced the opening of the first PlayStation Store in the Middle East in Riyadh- Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has started construction of an ambitious light-rail project exclusively for the capital city, where 36 stations will be built in the first phase. This project is aimed at reducing congestion in a city where 87 percent of the population uses private cars as the primary mode of transport.

Gallup the opinion poll company has done a survey from 2007 to 2009 in 135 Countries to find out what people’s intentions are. 16 percent of the World’s population would like to, if possible, move permanently to another Country. This is about 700 million people worldwide.

A group of Saudi women have launched an international campaign against the kingdom’s male guardianship law, on the anniversary of a prominent protest, in which dozens of Saudi women publicly drove their cars through the country’s capital.

Check out the biggest development projects in Riyadh. Most projects are in development, and will be complete by 2012-2013. Click on images to view.

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims are flocking to the home of a 9-month-old boy in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan to see the verses from the Koran that seem to appear and fade on his body every few days.

DUBAI — Four Gulf Arab states that are planning monetary union won’t be able to introduce a single currency for at least four years, Banque Saudi 
Fransi said.

Rolls- Royce Motor Cars has launched its new model, the Ghost, in the Middle East. It was unveiled in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia for the first time in the region.

JEDDAH: The Ministry of Education has not backed away from a trial to allow boys up to third year to study in private elementary schools for girls, a senior education official announced on Monday.

RIYADH — Remittances from Saudi Arabia’s estimated nine million mostly Asian foreign workers are soaring as the kingdom recruits more of them for its massive development plan, an economist said on Saturday.