Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia

Monday, 20 March 2017 BEIJING: China and Saudi Arabia will increase their cooperation in the oil sector, including in Saudi oil exports to China, the 2 countries said in a joint communique at the end of Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud’s visit to Beijing. The world’s largest oil …

Saturday, 18 March 2017 Malé (Maldives) – The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to the politically-troubled atoll nation of the Maldives because of an outbreak of swine flu in its capital, the government in Male announced Friday. The Maldives was to be the final stop in the monarch’s …

Friday, 17 March 2017 WASHINGTON – The 2 leaders stated they looked forward to deepening the US-Saudi Arabian defense partnership and continuing to work closely together. Also on Thursday, bin Salman said that Riyadh is at the forefront of the fight against extremism, adding that Saudi Arabia is “ready to do anything” to defeat terrorists threatening his country. …

Friday, 3 March 2017   BOGOR: Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud has restored Indonesia’s Haj quota to the normal level at 211,000 pilgrims and granted an additional quota of 10,000 pilgrims in 2017, Indonesia’s Antara news agency reported. “Specially, President Jokowi (Joko Widodo) lauded the restoration of the …

Friday, 3 March 2017   Jakarta: Despite high hopes that the historic royal state visit of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to Indonesia would bring in at least US$25 billion in investments, it was revealed that Indonesia would receive much less, as the only investment deal the oil-rich kingdom agreed …

Thursday, 2 March 2017 Bogor: Cheering crowds welcomed King Salman as he began the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Indonesia for almost 50 years, seeking stronger economic ties with the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. The king who is accompanied by about 1,000 people travelling on several aircraft …

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 JAKARTA – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday landed at a military airbase in the capital of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, to kick off the longest leg of a month-long trip across Asia. The visit is the first by a Saudi monarch in nearly …

Thursday, 5 October 2017 :  Saudi authorities said on Wednesday they had arrested 22 people, including a Qatari national, for using social media to spread dissent. Another 24 people were detained in the northern Hail region for stirring tribal divisions, the state news agency SPA reported. Neither report went into …

Wednesday, 27 September 2017 :  Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom’s repression of women. The kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, has been widely criticised for being the only …

Wednesday, 20 September 2017 :  Saudi Arabia will lift its ban on internet calling applications on Wednesday, authorities said, easing restrictions online as the conservative kingdom faces new criticism over censorship. Voice and video calling apps such as WhatsApp and Skype will be “widely available to users”, a government statement …