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How to pay workers when oil runs out? A question troubling Gulf rulers

Government is the employer of first resort -- even when it has nothing much for its employees to do

Saudi to give bar codes to Air India, Jet crew, not retain their passports

For long, passports of Indian crew members arriving in the country were taken away and given back on return

Saudi Arabia, SoftBank to invest $200 bn in world's largest solar project

At 200 Gw, project would be 100 times larger than the next biggest proposed facility, and more than twice what global photovoltaic industry supplied last year

Saudi Arabia turns to nuclear power to reduce dependence on oil

The kingdom is struggling to meet fast-rising energy demand and crude prices remain far below their peaks reached before the 2014 market crash

Saudi king sacks military chief, reshuffles other posts in major shake up

Political appointments were announced, including the rare appointment of a female Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Development

OPEC, its allies may see oil output cuts easing in 2019: Saudi Arabia

The next step for global producers will be to phase out the reductions

From oil to solar: Saudi Arabia plots a shift to renewables

Reaching that goal is a big if. But the strategy is finally making progress after fits and starts

Saudi Arabia recovers $107 billion in corruption purge; 56 suspects held

Those caught up in the corruption crackdown were detained at the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh

Why some Saudi millenials won't dance to their young prince's tune

Many believe if the new Saudi Arabia won't police lifestyles like it used to, it won't provide cradle-to-grave welfare either

Saudi-led military coalition announces $1.5-bn humanitarian aid to Yemen

The coalition intervened in Yemeni conflict since March 2015 to roll back Houthi militants, support Prez Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi

Saudi to slash oil dependence to less than half of budget

In 2017, Riyadh posted an economic contraction for the first time in eight years due to severe austerity measures

Sale of the century? $300-billion Saudi state sell-off moves slowly

The main problems they cite are heavy bureaucracy, an inadequate legal framework, frequent changes of priority in government departments and fatigue among investors

Saudi Arabia calls on its citizens to leave Lebanon

Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri announced his resignation while visiting the kingdom

Investors worldwide size up palace intrigue in oil-rich kingdom

International investors and business executives are now trying to interpret the power play

Saudi Arabia to begin issuing tourist visas, may lift ban on cinemas

Although richly endowed with natural beauty, the kingdom is hardly seen as a tourism hotspot

In a first, Saudi Arabia to allow women into sports stadiums from 2018

Last month authorities allowed hundreds of women to throng a sports stadium in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia's grand plan to move beyond oil: Big goals, bigger hurdles

The message to bankers, businesspeople and high-rolling investors was clear: The once-insular kingdom is now open for business.

Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly so paranoid?

Saudi Arabia intervened militarily in Bahrain and Yemen. It helped finance the 2013 coup d'etat launched by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt

A woman to head sports federation for the first time in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia does not allow women to practise sports in the public sphere

Saudi Arabia foils terror attack against palace in Jeddah

The incident took place two days after the announced busting of a terror cell linked to IS terrorist group in Riyadh