Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 8 April, 2017 6:10 am

Saraya Bandar Jissah Reveals New Identity and Name Change to Muscat Bay

Omran and Saraya Holding Oman, developers of Saraya Bandar Jissah, Muscat’s Premier resort village announces a full rebrand and unveils a new brand name of the development, Muscat Bay. The branding marks a change of major proportion for the integrated tourism complex and is in line with their ...

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Business & Money | Saturday 8 April, 2017 5:35 am

IMA Publishes New Accounting Textbook to Prepare Aspiring Accountants for the Workforce

To address the longstanding talent gap in management accounting and finance, IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) published its first-ever textbook, “Management Accounting: An Integrative Approach.” Authored by C.J. McNair-Connolly, Ph.D., and Kenneth A. Merchant, Ph.D., the...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 8 April, 2017 5:11 am

PHILIPPINE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM PARTICIPATES IN THE NINTH RIYADH TRAVEL FAIR 2017

The Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) are currently visiting Riyadh to strengthen its initiative to proactively attract family and young travellers from the kingdom to visit the Philippines during its 2017 promotions. The visit coincides with the department’s participation at the Riyadh ...

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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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Culture & Education | Saturday 8 April, 2017 4:02 am

Kalimat Encourages Arab Children in Europe to Engage with their Mother Tongue

Kalimat - The UAE's leading publisher of high quality Arabic children’s books - has concluded its participation in the 54th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy, with its involvement strengthening the presence of Arabic children's literature in the...

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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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