GE has announced the appointment of Dr. Manar A Al-Moneef, a Saudi Arabian national and experienced healthcare professional, as the Managing Director of Imagination Breakthrough in the Middle East and Pakistan. Dr. Al-Moneef will be responsible for leading the business development of GE Healthcare, the healthcare operations of the company in the region, and providing [...]

Plans to introduce a value-added tax for Gulf Arab oil exporters remain at a technical stage with the timing of the long-considered project still undecided though 2012-2015 have been tentatively discussed as potential launch dates, officials said. Six Gulf Arab crude producers have been mulling the joint VAT plan over the past five years, aiming [...]

Avnet in association with Oracle holds training workshops for its Preferred Partners across the Middle East North Africa region  Dubai, UAE, August 4, 2011 – Avnet Technology Solutions, the leading Value Added Distributor in the Middle East and Africa region recently held a special training workshop “Improving Datacenter Efficiency with Oracle” for its Preferred Partners [...]

  Ending speculation that it is about to limit the stay of expatriate workers to six years, Saudi Arabia has clarified that the decision applies to only those private sector firms that do not abide by the country’s job nationalisation quotas. A government official was reacting to statements made by Saudi Labour Minister, Mr Adel Faqih [...]

Riyadh 4 SPT, 2010: Compared to the same period last year, advertising expenditure in the GCC increased 20%. According to the Pan Arab Research Centre (PARC), advertising expenditure in the region, which includes Pan Arab media which is mainly satellite TV channels, reached $5.05 billion from January to June compared to $4.22 billion in 2009. The increase exceeded [...]

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has lifted a ban on books written by its ailing labour minister whose liberal tone provoked both the official clerical establishment and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, government officials said on Sunday. Ghazi Algosaibi, 70, is a former ambassador to London and a confidant of King Abdullah whose push for [...]

Over the next 10 to 20 years, media in the Middle East will become revolutionized, and a clear winner will emerge in the race to become the information headquarters of the region. From Iran to Morocco, Saudi Arabia to Iraq, media expertise and infrastructure will be in ever-greater demand. Abu Dhabiis poised to take the lead in [...]

(via huffingtonpost.com) Following Sept. 11, reports of hate crime rose exponentially across the United States. But, living deep in the heart of Texas, Dr. Salam Al-Dini says he had no problems. The reason, says the former-Texas A&M student, was because he served as a volunteer in the community. In his years studying and working in [...]

An average of 17 people die on the roads of Saudi Arabia each day, according to a report by the General Directorate of Traffic. The study, released to mark the start of the 26th Gulf Traffic Week on Sunday, showed there were more than 485,000 accidents in various parts of the kingdom in 2008-2009, with [...]

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia is donating 50 million dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, foreign ministry spokesman Osama Nugali said on Monday. “The kingdom, by instruction of King Abdullah, is donating 50 million dollars… to assist the Haitian people,” Nugali told AFP. The donation, the largest announced by a Middle Eastern country, will go through [...]