Business & Money | Saturday 8 April, 2017 4:45 am

MetLife Foundation Announces Sponsorship Of “Multipliers of Prosperity” For A Third Year

MetLife Foundation today proudly announces its third year as sponsor of Multipliers of Prosperity, an award winning custom content hub led by WSJ. Custom Studios that helps raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities in the realm of financial inclusion. According to the...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 8 April, 2017 4:15 am

Rixos The Palm Dubai Wins Best Family & Lifestyle Beach Resort at the 2017 UAE Business Awards

Rixos The Palm Dubai scooped the coveted Best Family & Lifestyle Beach Resort 2017 at this year’s UAE Business Awards. The winners that were announced earlier last week, are recognized as the very best in business from the region – including the leaders in oil and gas, tourism and...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 8 April, 2017 4:02 am

Huawei launches P10 Plus and P10 smartphones in Saudi Arabia for fast, convenient business use

Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia launched its advanced P10 Plus and P10 smartphones in the Kingdom, offering cutting-edge performance designed with business users in mind. The new smartphones provide innovative "Portrait" photograph capturing capabilities as well as fast battery...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 8 April, 2017 3:58 am

ETIHAD AIRWAYS PLAYS HOST TO THE WORLD’S 50 BEST CHEFS IN AUSTRALIA

Many of the world’s best chefs and culinary media have experienced Etihad Airways’ award-winning hospitality on their way to Australia for this week’s announcement of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. As the Official Airline Partner of the 2017 event, Etihad Airways has...

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Government | Friday 7 April, 2017 4:26 pm

Riyadh Gov. Prince Faisal signs contract for groundwater level reduction

Riyadh Gov. Prince Faisal bin Bandar has signed a contract with Azmeel Contracting & Construction Corporation for a groundwater level reduction project in three neighborhoods in the capital city. The neighborhoods include Al-Aridh, Laban-2 and Tuwaiq-9, according to Riyadh Development...

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Business & Money | Friday 7 April, 2017 4:00 pm

SABIC’s shares focus of Tadawul trading

Saudi stocks rose on Thursday amid investor bets that the Kingdom was making solid progress toward an inclusion into MSCI’s emerging markets index. “This is benefiting the market as a whole in terms of sentiment,” said Marwan Shurrab, head of high net worth and retail equities...

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Sports | Friday 7 April, 2017 3:56 pm

May and Princess Rima bint Bandar bin Sultan talk about sports

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday met with Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Vice-President of the General Authority for Sports Planning and Development. During the meeting at the headquarters of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee in Riyadh, they...

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Environment & Energy | Friday 7 April, 2017 3:53 pm

Kingdom signs MoU to set up Arab Common Market for Electricity

MINISTER of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid Al-Falih signed on Thursday in Cairo a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up an Arab Common Market for Electricity. This took place on the sidelines of the 12th session for the Arab Ministerial Council for Electricity at the...

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Business & Money | Friday 7 April, 2017 3:30 pm

Fitch: Saudi banks overcome liquidity crunch but profits falling

The worst effects of the liquidity crunch that hit the Saudi banking sector in 2016 have passed, following a drive by authorities to inject and support system liquidity, according to Fitch Ratings. “The banks came through the period largely unscathed, with liquidity coverage ratios...

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Business & Money | Friday 7 April, 2017 3:27 pm

Saudi Arabian Airlines launches direct flight to Port Sudan

Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) launched its first direct flight on Thursday from Jeddah to Port Sudan, making it the fifth direct international destination added by the air carrier since last year. In 2016, Saudia added Maldives, Ankara, Algeria and Munich to its direct flight...

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