52% of Saudi Female Students Obese According to A Study

The King Abdul Aziz National Guard Hospital in the Eastern Province organized an “obesity awareness day” in which students both males and females were tested.

The regional head of Health Affairs, Ahmed Al-Oraifij, said that the studies showed 20 percent of the Kingdom’s males to be obese compared to 52 percent of females.

"The rate is continually going up", He added.

“The study showed that obesity was predominantly caused by either hereditary conditions or poor lifestyles, which included a lack of exercise and poor eating habits,” Al-Oraifij said. – Okaz/SG

Camel Beauty Contest - 60 Million SR in Prizes

If you are camel, here is a grea t piece of news for you. 60 millions Saudi Riyals worth of prizes are waiting for you at the King Abdul Aziz camel beauty contest in Um Riqaiba near the northern town of Hafr Al-Batin. Aside from cash prizes, various cars will also be given to the winners. A camel race is also slated to take place according to the organizer.

That means, it will a beauty and strenght competetion for you camel out there.

SR60m sales at contest

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“The sponsorship system ... doesn’t work.."

In a Saudi Gazette article today, a executive of Manpower, a global employment services provider, emphasized the importance of Saudi Arabia overhauling its labor market.

“Saudi (Arabia) is developing a lot of individual bilateral treaties to bring the right kinds of skilled workers,” Arkless said. “But the 19th century labor construct in the country is doing the country no favors from a competitiveness point of view.”

“The sponsorship system ... doesn’t work, so we need to reform the labor policy,” Arkless said at Fourth Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh.

David Arkless is a speaker in the just concluded Fourth Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh.

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Graduates with foreign degrees have better openings in job market

Many companies complain that Saudi employees, especially those educated in the Kingdom, are not properly educated and have little work ethics. However, as far as recruiters and human resources developers are concerned, having a foreign degree is useful on a personal level rather than an educational one.

Graduates with foreign degrees have better openings in job market

$800 Billion Dollars Investment Abroad

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sultan, professor of economics at Imam Mohammad bin Sa'ud University in Saudi Arabia, has estimated Saudi investments abroad at $800 billion. He said that this amount would discourage foreign investors from coming to Saudi Arabia on the assumption that if the Saudis cannot find enough opportunities to invest in their own country there is no reason for a foreign investor to try.[Al-Sutan may have ignored the fact that at least part of the Saudi investments abroad is in the form of capital flight by senior officials, including members of the royal family. It is a form of an insurance policy.]Source: Al-Jazirah, Saudi Arabia, January 24, 2010The MEMRI Blog - Full Blog Entry
Source: Al-Jazirah, Saudi Arabia, January 24, 2010

Eating Time in Saudi Workforce!

From SaudiGazette
http://saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.Cartoons&cid=201001261384

Growing up with a mother of non-Saudi origin

In a study that appeared in the 2004 issue of the American Journal of Psychology and Aging, researchers said that bilingualism or multilingualism may counter the effects of aging and that it helps keeps the mind young. “People who are bilingual have an advantage over the rest of us, and not just in terms of communication skills. The bilingual brain develops more densely, giving it an advantage in various abilities and skills”, reported WebMD which provides health information. A slightly more tricky situation for children of non-Saudi mothers is when the mother comes from non-Islamic Western background.

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Rape cases, Domestic abuses and Drug addictions

The title may shock someone who have spent some times in Saudi Arabia and found it peaceful and free of heinous crime that are normal incidents in some countries. But an Arabnews article today says otherwise, just read it for yourself and be sure to have your breakfast first

“The father who lost all the means of parenting, wisdom and good judgment was sleeping with his daughter without the knowledge of her mother,” Dr. Rajab Brisali, head of the Psychological Health Department in Taif said about the case of a father who raped her 5 year old daughter.


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Jameel Prize on Tour at Riyadh Museum

Jameel Prize is the first award of this kind to be made for contemporary work inspired by Islamic traditions of art, craft and design.

Nine artists and designers were short-listed for the 2009 Jameel Prize, and on July 7, 2009 the judges selected New York-based Iranian-born artist Afruz Amighi as the winner.

To mark the award, the V&A presented an exhibition of work by the nine finalists (July 8-Sept. 13, 2009). It is this exhibition that will now tour.

The artworks exhibition is under the patronage of the Ministry of Information and Culture, in cooperation with Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Programs (ALJCSP).

Very Interesting, Read it here

Some of the winners personal site;

http://www.camillezakharia.com/
http://www.rezaabedini.com/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/59035-popup.html

Hoping for a cancellation of your marriage, then get tested

Some marriages are "made in heaven", as other people claimed, but others marriage are gateway to hellfire. If you are in a situation that does not want this gateway open, go to a “Healthy Marriage” program that is conducted in the Eastern Province.

According to their statistics, 65 percent of engaged couple they tested as "incompatible" has canceled their marriage plans. That means you are getting more than 50% chances of not getting tied up for the rest of your life. Make sure you fail the test though, otherwise your in for a bumpy rides. According to the report;

The “Healthy Marriage” program which conducts premarital medical tests for engaged couples has revealed that 65 percent of those classified as “incompatible” in 2008 cancelled their marriage plans.

The program, made obligatory for engaged couples since its introduction following Cabinet approval in 2004, provides tests for hereditary and contagious illnesses and couples are afterwards free to proceed with the union whatever the outcome, except in the case of HIV/AIDS patients who are only permitted to contract marriage with other persons with HIV/AIDS.

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Saudi Arabia gets approval for Arabic Web address

An announcement on Thursday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, paves the way for an entire domain name to appear in Cyrillic or Arabic by the middle of this year. Applications for strings in other languages are pending.That means Internet users with little or no knowledge of English would no longer have to type Latin characters to access Web pages targeting Russian or Arabic speakers.Although search engines can sometimes help users reach those sites, companies still need to include Latin characters on advertisements.Users may still need Latin characters for e-mail addresses, though, as Internet technicians finalize standards for e-mail applications that can understand domain names entirely in Cyrillic or Arabic.

Saudi Arabia gets approval for Arabic Web address

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