Viper Networks (VPER) Announces 49% LOI for Saudi Arabian Construction ...
MSN Money
Viper Networks (VPER) Announces 49% LOI for Saudi Arabian Construction Company October 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET ... signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a 49% interest of a privately held, profitable construction company based in Saudi Arabia .....
Coming off the Benchmark
FXStreet.com
From January, Saudi Arabia will base the price of oil for its US customers on a new index developed by Argus, the London-based oil pricing company. The Argus Sour Crude Index will track the price in the physical market of a basket of US Gul...
Life and Health Insurance Products Demand Rising in Saudi Arabia
PR Inside
2009-10-29 13:16:05 - Despite the financial crisis, the Saudi Arabian insurance market will continue to record robust growth owing to largely fast growing array of life and health insurance products. As per our recently released research re...
NYMEX plans two new sour crude futures contracts
Reuters
Top OPEC exporter Saudi Arabia, whose pricing mechanisms are closely watched by oil markets, had used West Texas Intermediate crude prices published by Platts, a unit of McGraw Hill (MHP.N), as its benchmark for U.S. crude sales. Aramco's n...
Muslim pilgrims at risk for swine flu asked to stay away from Mecca ...
San Jose Mercury News
Fearing a massive outbreak of fever and germs, the World Health Organization and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are asking people who are at higher risk for getting the H1N1 virus to stay home from one of the holiest rituals known to Muslims: ...
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Computerworld
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Health Experts Say Haj Pilgrims Risk H1N1 Flu Wave
ABC News
"No region can be considered free from risk," said the U.S. and Arab experts, including Saudi Arabia's deputy minister for preventative medicine, in a study in the journal Science. The pilgrimage itself, in the last week of November, provid...
Al Qaeda sleeper agent sentenced to eight years in prison
Christian Science Monitor
An admitted Al Qaeda sleeper agent who arrived in the US one day before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison on Thursday. Ali Saleh Al-Marri of Qatar and Saudi Arabia...
Saudis Try to Head Off Swine Flu Fears Before Hajj
New York Times
Every year, the single largest gathering on the planet is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca: 2.5 million people from 160 countries packed into a small city in Saudi Arabia for five days. This year, some will be bringing swine flu . The Saudi a...
Strong US Growth Boosted Market Sentiment, Risky Assets Rebounded ...
FXStreet.com
Saudi Arabia announced that it will move its term contracts in the US from WTI basis to ASCI basis (Argus Sour Crude Index) near year. However, this should not be viewed as a rejection of WTI as a benchmark. Rather, the switch provides a mo...
Al-Qaida agent sentenced to 8 years in prison
WXOW TV-19
Al-Marri's relatives heard the news at about 11:20 p.m. in Saudi Arabia. They had been hoping al-Marri would receive probation. "I don't know what to say," Naji al-Marri, al-Marri's brother, said by telephone. "Did they count the years he s...
Female cartoonist's provocative work challenges Saudi society
CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) -- For Saudi Arabia's lone female cartoonist drawing is more than just satire, it's "a duty." "I think men have put women in an unfavorable position in this part of the world. They've put women in an oppressive situati...
Mecca-bound pilgrims prompt swine flu precautions
San Francisco Gate
Some of the millions who travel to Saudi Arabia next month for the annual hajj will be greeted with face masks, hand sanitizer and fever checks as health officials strive to stem the spread of swine flu during the world's largest pilgrimage...
