Tag "Saudi Arabia"
Back to homepage
Saudi Arabia allows foreign men, women to share hotel rooms
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related, after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a new tourist visa regime to attract holidaymakers. Women, including Saudis, are also permitted to
Read More
Mohamaddin: E-visa for Malaysian tourists to Saudi Arabia
KUALA LUMPUR: The Saudi Arabia government is now offering a one-year e-visa (electronic visa) for Malaysians wishing to travel to the country beginning this month, according to Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapi. He said prior to this, the
Read More
MATTA: Saudi Arabia’s tourism sector a boon to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) sees Saudi Arabia’s plans to open its doors to foreign tourists as a move that will widen tourism business opportunity in Malaysia. MATTA deputy president Mohd Akil Yusof said
Read More
US sends troops to bolster Saudi defences after attack
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defences after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran. The Pentagon said the deployment would
Read More
Saudi-led coalition strikes north of Hodeidah in Yemen
DUBAI: The Saudi-led coalition today launched a military operation north of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah against what it described as “legitimate military targets”, an incident that could aggravate regional tensions after a weekend attack on Saudi oil installations. The
Read More
Attacks on Saudi oil facilities knock out half the kingdom’s supply
RIYADH/DUBAI/LONDON: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry yesterday, knocking out more than half of the Kingdom’s output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions
Read More
Saudi official behind 9/11 attack to be named
NEW YORK: The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to reveal the identity of a Saudi Arabian official who played an organisational role ahead of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist strikes on the United States, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting a local
Read More
UN: About 350,000 people displaced in Yemen
SANAA: Some 350,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen so far in 2019, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Thursday. “In 2019 alone, nearly 350,000 people have been displaced,” the
Read More
Saudi Arabia lifts travel restrictions on women, grants them more control
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record. A series
Read More
One killed, seven injured in Abha airport attack
ABHA: One person was killed and seven others injured on Sunday when Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked Abha airport in south-west Saudi Arabia, a Saudi-led alliance fighting the Iran-linked rebels said. The dead person was a Syrian man, alliance spokesman Colonel
Read More