Middle East

Riyadh, Sept 14: A Riyadh-based airlines will be recruiting Saudi women as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time. Carrier Flynas has opened this new career opportunity for women in Saudi, who were barred from driving cars a few months ago. "Flynas is keen to empower Saudi women to play an important role in the kingdom's transformation," Al Jazeera quoted the carrier as it opened its

New Delhi, Sept 13: Estimated to be over two million years old, the Al Hoota Cave is one of Oman's most popular natural tourist attractions. Located off route 21 between Nizwa and Bahla at the foot of Oman's epic mountain Jabal Shams, just two hours drive from Muscat, it is the first and only cave in the Arabian Peninsula which is open to visitors. With a total length of around 4.5 kilometres

Dubai, Sept 12: Ten colleagues working for a company in Dubai got lucky on Tuesday after they collectively won $1 million at the Dubai Duty Free raffle. Gurmeet Singh, a 38-year-old Indian national based in Dubai, bought his lucky ticket no. 1197 online in Series 280 on July 18. A participant in the promotion for a year now, Singh, a showroom manager, decided for the first time to share the cost

Sept 12: Obaid Salem Al Zaabi, Permanent Representative of the UAE at the United Nations, UN, in Geneva, delivered on Tuesday a statement on behalf of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, before the UN Human Rights Council, as part of the right of reply to the allegations stated in the Qatari statement during the 39th regular session of the council in regards to the debate of the oral

Sept 11: More than £700,000 of jewelry belonging to a Saudi princess has been stolen from her at the Ritz in Paris. The gems, worth an estimated £713,000, were not in a safe when they were taken and there was no sign of forced entry. The unnamed Saudi royal said the theft happened on Friday afternoon. It marks the second high-profile heist at the five-star hotel on Place Vendome this year. An

Riyadh, Sept 10: A third of middle-market Saudi businesses expect to grow by at least 10 percent this year and more than half will hire extra full-time staff, a new survey suggests. Saudi companies are significantly more optimistic about revenue growth than they were last year, according to the EY Growth Barometer, an annual survey of entrepreneurs’ and business leaders’ growth strategies produced

Dubai, Sept 9: As many as 20 products have been withdrawn from the local market during the last 8 months, announced the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology as reported by Emarat Al Youm on Sunday. The withdrawn items include electronics, baby toys, drinking water, and cosmetics and personal care products, said Yousuf Al Saadi, director of technical legislations department. He

Abu Dhabi, Sep 8: The Philippine government will soon make an announcement on the decision of lifting the ban for recruiting new domestic workers in the UAE, according to the Philippine Ambassador to the UAE. Speaking to Khaleej Times on the sidelines of the Filipino Community Leadership Summit 2018 in Abu Dhabi on Friday, Hjayceelyn M. Quintana, the Philippine Ambassador to the UAE, said a

Dubai, Sept 6: A non-resident Indian sales executive of a prominent jewellery group died after falling from the rooftop of his residential building in Muhaisnah when he went to get sunlight due to vitamin D deficiency, a manager of the company said. Shafeer Abdul Salam, 32, who hailed from the south Indian state of Kerala, died on Sunday afternoon and his body was flown home on Tuesday night after

Saudi Arabia will punish online satire that "disrupts public order" with up to five years in prison, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday. "Producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media ... will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three