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Bring back the Koreans!
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Back in the 1970’s when the price of a barrel of oil broke all records, the Kingdom’s treasury was brimming with petrodollars. The government embarked on building the infrastructure of a modern state on a massive scale. As ...
Bring back the Koreans!
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena   Back in the 1970’s when the price of a barrel of oil broke all records, the Kingdom’s treasury was brimming with petrodollars.  The government embarked on building the infrastructure of a modern state on a massive scale.  As ...
Bring back the Koreans!
    Tariq A. Al-Maeena Back in the 1970’s when the price of a barrel of oil broke all records, the Kingdom’s treasury was brimming with petrodollars.  The government embarked on building the infrastructure of a modern state on a massive scale.  As ...
A welcome long overdue
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     MY article last week on the plight of expatriate families in the Kingdom facing forced separation from their children because of bureaucratic stipulations prompted a reader to send me her points on the subject. What set her apart ...
Children of the soil
Tariq A. Al-Maeena   A dilemma currently facing expatriates living in this country for decades is the uncertain fate of their children who reach the age of maturity. These families face forced breakups as new sponsorship rules come into effect. The result ...
Fighting corruption the Chinese way
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     There have been frequent charges in the media about the spread of corruption in our public service sectors. Many incidents relating to such corruption became apparent following the tragic events of over two years ago when rainfall in ...
A mega taxi monopoly would not serve consumers well
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     The deputy chairman of the National Committee for Land Transport Saeed Al-Bassami was reported in a local daily as saying that there are plans in the offing to create a mega taxi service company. Al-Bassami elaborated that in ...
They take us for fools
Tariq A. Al-Maeena   The word “fool” as defined in most dictionaries suggests a label that applies to a weak-minded person.  A fool is also defined by a wide array of other descriptive words, among them a simpleton, a dunce, a blockhead, ...
Subjecting the young to abuse
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena   One aspect of the summer holidays is that it brings a lot of visitors to Jeddah. They come from various parts of the Kingdom with their families to spend some of their holidays. But residents and tourists alike ...
When in Rome
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     A Wire services earlier this month carried a story about three Saudi women who were barred from entering France after refusing to remove their face veils. According to French police statements, the women who had flown in from ...
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