Two-time America’s Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it’s along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status. Spithill is in his first season as skipper and CEO of the U.S. SailGP team, which on Thursday launched Foiling First, a development program designed to be the first professional pathway to foiling in the United States and a catalyst for meaningful change in sailing. Foiling has become all the rage in sailing during the last decade, in which boats fly above the waves at close to freeway speeds, supported only on hydrofoils that lift the hull out of the water to increase speed.
JEDDAH: Expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia sent SR13.28 billion ($3.54 billion) overseas in remittances in April, a year-on-year increase of 36 percent, according to the latest figures from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA).
The total amounts sent overseas by expats has increased year-on-year each month in 2021, with January up 12 percent, February up 4 percent and March up 15 percent.
Total remittances sent by the Kingdom’s expatriates reached SR50.7 billion in the first four months of 2021, compared to SR43.6 billion in the same period last year, a rise of 16.28 percent.
Expat workers make up three quarters of workers in the Kingdom, with most coming from countries such as Syria, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
EVROS: Greek police on Thursday said they plan to send out a high decibel message designed to deter would-be migrants after setting up two controversial “sound cannons” at the Evros border post with Turkey. A police official told AFP the cannon had been put in place along the river which separates the neighbors and is a favored crossing point from non-EU member Turkey into
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Miguel Moratinos in Riyadh on Thursday. During the talks, they reviewed Saudi Arabia’s international role in supporting dialogue between different civilizations and cultures, theKingdom’s foreign ministry said. It was a pleasure meeting
BEIJING: Normal discussions between China and the US on the trade and economic fronts have resumed and both sides will start to pragmatically solve some concrete issues for producers and consumers, China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday. The discussions aimed at solving various issues comes after a period of strained relations between the world’s two biggest economies,