Frozen Bucket is the perfect place for ice cream lovers, as it offers an experience unlike any other you are likely to find in Jeddah. Not only does it offer some incredible and unusual flavors, but its ice cream is made the way it was in the old days, hand-churned in a bucket. Each day’s…
Godolphin looking for Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow to prove class at Meydan LONDON: Godolphin are hopeful Thunder Snow can show his class when he returns to the track at Meydan for Super Saturday.The five-year-old memorably won the Dubai World Cup a year ago and goes in the Group 1 Al-Maktoum Challenge Round Three…
Unlikely twins and differing fortunes: Malaysia’s Petronas and Indonesia’s Pertamina JOHOR, Malaysia/JAKARTA: On the southernmost edge of the Asian landmass and on the shores of the busy shipping lanes of the Singapore Strait, Malaysia’s Petronas is starting up a state-of-the art petroleum processing hub, called RAPID.The huge complex in Malaysia’s Johor province is currently testing…
Unlikely twins and differing fortunes: Malaysia’s Petronas and Indonesia’s Pertamina JOHOR, Malaysia/JAKARTA: On the southernmost edge of the Asian landmass and on the shores of the busy shipping lanes of the Singapore Strait, Malaysia’s Petronas is starting up a state-of-the art petroleum processing hub, called RAPID.The huge complex in Malaysia’s Johor province is currently testing…
TUNIS: Tunisia’s state phosphate firm CPG pays Abdel-Basset Klifhi a salary of $280 a month, even though he spends most days in his favorite cafe in the southern town of Metlaoui. He is one of 21,000 people taken on by the Companie des Phosphates de Gafsa (CPG) since Tunisia’s autocrat president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali…
BEIRUT: Lebanon on Thursday warned its Mediterranean neighbors that a planned EastMed gas pipeline from Israel to the EU must not be allowed to violate its maritime borders.Beirut has an unresolved maritime border dispute with Israel — which it regards as an enemy country — over a sea area of about 860 sq. km extending…
CARACAS, Venezuela: A power outage left much of Venezuela in the dark early Thursday evening in what appeared to be one of the largest blackouts yet in a country where power failures have become increasingly common.Crowds of commuters in capital city Caracas were walking home after metro service ground to a halt and traffic snarled…
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Thursday by a US judge to less than four years in prison — far shy of federal sentencing guidelines — for financial crimes uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.US District Judge T.S. Ellis imposed…
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Thursday by a US judge to less than four years in prison — far shy of federal sentencing guidelines — for financial crimes uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.US District Judge T.S. Ellis imposed…
MANILA, Philippines: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday that China should define its “so-called ownership” in the disputed South China Sea so other claimant countries can start to gain benefits from the resource-rich waters.Mahathir stressed the importance of freedom of navigation in the busy waterway, saying in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel in…
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party has demanded an investigation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the multibillion-dollar purchase of Rafale jets from the French company, Dassault Aviation. It follows fresh revelations by The Hindu newspaper about the purchase. “It’s a blatant case of corruption,” Rahul Gandhi, Congress president, said in a press conference…
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first woman interior minister Raya Al-Hassan exclaimed as she recalled the sunny February Friday when she was sworn in at the Ministry of Interior in Beirut. It should…
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first woman interior minister Raya Al-Hassan exclaimed as she recalled the sunny February Friday when she was sworn in at the Ministry of Interior in Beirut. It should…
Wife of imprisoned Qatari royal tells of suffering of children at hands of regime JEDDAH: Asma Al-Rayyan, the wife of Sheikh Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Thani, an imprisoned member of the Qatari royal family, on Thursday told how their children have suffered and been deprived of their rights. She said her family was targeted for revenge…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s election board has approved far-right Jewish candidates accused by rivals of racism for next month’s election while disqualifying an Arab party that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said supported terrorism. The Central Elections Committee’s decisions, taken late on Wednesday, were unlikely to be implemented before court appeals, but stoked an already acrimonious race for…
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first woman interior minister Raya Al-Hassan exclaimed as she recalled the sunny February Friday when she was sworn in at the Ministry of Interior in Beirut. It should…
RIYADH: As part of its initiative to encourage financial institutions to invest in a greater number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the Kafalah program has signed an agreement with Saudi Finance Company. In its efforts to help achieve the Vision 2030 objective for SMEs to contribute 35 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product,…
RIYADH: As part of its initiative to encourage financial institutions to invest in a greater number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the Kafalah program has signed an agreement with Saudi Finance Company. In its efforts to help achieve the Vision 2030 objective for SMEs to contribute 35 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product,…
Saudi Ambassador to US Princess Reema hailed as ‘inspiring figure’ for female empowerment DUBAI: Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan made history last month, becoming the first Saudi woman to be made an ambassador. After she was named Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat in the US, Ridwaan Jadwat, Australia’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, called her appointment…
RIYADH: As part of its initiative to encourage financial institutions to invest in a greater number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the Kafalah program has signed an agreement with Saudi Finance Company. In its efforts to help achieve the Vision 2030 objective for SMEs to contribute 35 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product,…
