Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Ronaldo met women’s team of Al Nassr, wished them success

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Cristiano Ronaldo met the women’s team of Al Nassr on Thursday. He wished them success in their last two Saudi Women’s Premier League. Ronaldo signed a rich contract with the team in December of last year. Cristiano Ronaldo, a famous football player, met with the women’s team of Al Nassr on Thursday to give them … Read more

Women’s camel beauty contest makes debut in Saudi Arabia

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RUMAH: Saudi women, in a first for the kingdom, have paraded their camels in a beauty pageant for the prized “ships of the desert”. “I hope today to reach a certain social standing, InshaAllah (God willing),” said Lamia Al-Rashidi, 27, who participated at the weekend contest in the Rumah desert northeast of the capital Riyadh. … Read more

Women comprise 50% of flyadeal’s staff

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JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s budget airline flyadeal aims at nurturing and promoting local women talent, as it is doubling its fleet by the end of the next year, its chief commercial officer told Arab News. Ahmed Albrahim said the low-cost airline’s fleet contains 15 A320 narrow-bodies, and it will continue to receive more aircraft of the A320 … Read more

Saudi women seize startup culture with both hands

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Saudi Arabia is making the transition to a more diversified economy, after being reliant upon oil for much of the past century, a trend sparked by Vision 2030 as well as commitments made at the COP26 Summit last month, Arab News reported. While corporate giants such as Aramco and Sabic continue to dominate the economy, a culture … Read more

Saudi-govt Kafalah grants $115 million in loans to women-led enterprises

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RIYADH: The Small and Medium Enterprises Loan Guarantee Programme (Kafalah), a government initiative to finance small and medium enterprises, granted SR432 million ($115 million) of loans to 456 businesses led by women in the first-half of 2021, Arab News reported. Businesses in the central region of Riyadh got the lion’s share, as they received the highest Kafalah … Read more

4 Saudi women changed their driver’s luck by marrying him

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After a Saudi billionaire woman married a Pakistani driver, it seems like drivers have great luck in the kingdom.

The world got shocked after the news of Saudi billionaire businesswoman Sahoo Bint Abdullah Al-Mahboub, whose wealth is valued at 8 billion$ got married to her Pakistani driver spread like a fire on social media.

Following Sahoo’s footsteps, 4 other Saudi women married their driver and changed his luck in just a few minutes.

According to the details, four Saudi women teaching in a remote village school married their driver so they can live closer to work and avoid the daily hectic commute.

As per the sources, the Saudi women fell in love with the man’s ‘good morals’ and decided to marry him and live together in the village where they teach.

They tied knot in a short ceremony, and have agreed to pay the driver a share of their monthly salaries.

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Saudi to recruit 20,000 drivers to replace expatriates

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Saudi Arabia: Chiefs of Saudi transport have have launched a campaign to recruit 20,000 Saudi drivers to replace expatriates working for Uber, Careem and the Kingdom’s other taxi-app services, BOL News learnt. Majed Al-Zahrani of the Public Transport Authority (PTA) said, The number of Saudis driving taxis had risen from 100,000 to more than 600,000 … Read more