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Malik Al-Arafat
To tip or not to tip?
TIPPING started a long time ago when masters gave their servants a few coins as an expression of their good will. There are no rules when it comes to giving tips, it mostly depends on if individuals are satisfied or happy with the quality of the services that were provided. However, nowadays tipping has become part of protocol and etiquette for some individuals, societies and businesses where tipping is considered a normal business trip expense.Tipping has become a very popular practice especially during holidays when traveling to countries where giving tips to some service staff, especially those connected with the tourism industry such as valets, bellboys and taxi drivers, has become a custom.On the other hand, tipping in some countries such as Japan and Hong Kong seems impolite, because...
February 13, 2019

To tip or not to tip?

Day of solidarity with the Kashmiri people
The Pakistan Repatriation Council (PRC) recently organized a symposium in Jeddah in solidarity with the Kashmiri people who have been living under Indian occupation since the partition of the subcontinent between India and Pakistan. The Kashmiris have been subjected to violations of human rights by the Indian occupation forces.Several leaders of the Pakistani community in Jeddah attended the symposium, which began with a recitation of a few verses from the Holy Qur’an. This was followed by a speech session. The speakers dealt with the persecution, killing and displacement of the Kashmiri people at the hands of Indian security forces. They called on the Pakistani government to exert efforts to pressure the United Nations to implement resolutions, adopted by it earlier, to hold a...
February 13, 2019

Day of solidarity with the Kashmiri people

The benefits of polygamy
OkazA Nigerian man in his 50s decided that it would be enough to marry three women in one night instead of six, because he did not have enough money to marry all of them. One might think that a young woman in any society would not accept polygamy, especially with a man who was much older than her, unless he was wealthy and she was searching for an easy life. But to agree to marry a poor man and be one of his three wives on the same night is really something strange.The news report about this marriage explained that the man was trying to break the Nigerian Guinness World Records, which was recorded two months earlier with regard to a man from the same village who married two wives in the same day.The man promised to work hard to secure money to carry out his plan and marry the three women...
February 13, 2019

The benefits of polygamy

Do unto others as you would do to yourself
A friend of mine told me how he had once checked his mother into a local hospital, and as all the private rooms were reserved, his mother had to occupy a shared room until such time as a private room became available. Once he got her settled in, he could not help but notice a frail heap of humanity occupying the adjoining bed. It was the near lifeless form of what seemed to be a young oriental woman.The woman lay there still, and her breathing was very shallow. A near semi-comatose state as far as my friend could tell, and her only visitors were the doctors and nurses who frequently entered the room to check on her and monitor her vital signs.Her face was badly bruised and adorned with red and blue welts, her hair was cropped short near to the scalp, and she looked very malnourished. Her...
February 13, 2019

Do unto others as you would do to yourself

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan gets it wrong
It seems perfectly possible that the Chinese leadership set a trap for Turkey’s president. Somebody told Recep Tayyip Erdogan that a prominent Uighur musician had perished in one of the huge camps Beijing has established in China’s western and supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region.Erdogan, anxious to demonstrate his standing with the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow sponsor Qatar, thundered against the death of the musician Abdurehim Heyit and went on to protest that China’s treatment of the Muslim Uighurs was “a great embarrassment for humanity”.While the Turkish president was absolutely right about Beijing’s deplorable treatment of the Uighurs, which has included incarcerating around a million suspects in “reeducation camps”, it appears he was plain wrong about the death...
February 13, 2019

Erdogan gets it wrong

The dangers of social media ads
Al-RiyadhTO what extent does an advertising company bear the responsibility for published promotion material? What if a newspaper or TV channel placed an advertisement that is harmful to the consumer or society in general?Who is responsible for the content of such advertisements, and whom the consumers can refer to?It is impossible for any advertisement platform, whether a newspaper or a TV channel, to authenticate the validity of the content in an advertisement, so the responsibility falls on more than one department.Newspapers, as a platform for publishing advertisements, follow the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Media. Since the advertiser is a businessman, he or she comes under the purview of the Ministry of Commerce. Since the consumer may be exposed to some danger by using...
February 13, 2019

The dangers of social media ads

The wage gap
OkazTHE social pressure increases whenever the topic of high salaries earned by company CEOs, bank managers, heads of public utilities and consultants of government departments is brought to light.Do their salaries match the pay scale in advanced countries? Do our salaries fall within the global average? Before we address these questions, we need to realize that high salaries are a worldwide phenomenon and they keep on increasing.However, what needs further elaboration is the gaping difference between the salaries of executives and ordinary workers.American researcher Sam Pizzigati pointed out that the salary gap between workers and executives in the United States widened five times since the 1980s.In his book “The Case for Maximum Wage,” which was released last May, Pizzigati pointed...
February 12, 2019

The wage gap

Ongoing interference in Saudi Arabia’s internal matters
Who has authorized the Western world to draw a line that separates acceptable and unacceptable cultural practices? And why does that line fail to acknowledge the advances Saudi Arabia has made in terms of women’s rights?The ongoing commentary on women’s rights in Saudi Arabia raises the question of how human rights fit into a world where cultural relativism is promoted.The dilemma of the international protection of human rights is part of the ideological conflict between universalism and cultural relativism.The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes the importance of being able to access all human rights regardless of gender, age, religion or race. A belief in universal human rights is necessary for our ability to feel connected to each other, as it inspires...
February 12, 2019

Ongoing interference in Saudi Arabia’s internal matters

Going back to the countryside
Al-JazirahHow good it feels to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and its pollution by going to the countryside for the peace of mind and body Perhaps you have heard about the government’s strategy for rural development. What is its importance and what will be its effect in the long run?We all know about the first, second and third growth plans up until the current developmental cycle that was focused on big cities. Rural areas and villages have received education services and reconstruction work, but they have not received sustainable development that makes use of available resources to benefit people socially and economically. In addition to the absence of this strategy, the decreasing of water resources during the last decades has resulted in the immigration of people...
February 12, 2019

Going back to the countryside

Nationality for mixed families
Rules and regulations are meant to make our life more smooth and orderly. Yet, they do have a way of rendering it more complex. Since laws are not meant to fit every person and particular case, some of us are doomed to be outcasts.Systems are manmade. Since they are not perfect, exceptions, regular reviews and occasional changes are among the ways to accommodate irregularities and compensate for imperfections. The Saudi Shoura Council and other government, judicial and regulatory departments routinely review and improve the laws of the land.The Citizenship Law has been changed from time to time to reflect new realities and to accommodate reviewers’ findings and recommendations. According to media reports, it is once more under comprehensive study. Expectations are high that good news is...
February 12, 2019

Nationality for mixed families

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