RIYADH: Recruitment companies must carry the cost of insuring the contracts of domestic workers they bring into the country for the first two years, the Saudi Council of Ministers has decreed. After the initial two years, the insurance is optional for the employer upon renewing the residency of the worker, the ministers decided at a session on Tuesday headed by King Salman,
LONDON: WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said. The case, described to Reuters by people familiar with it, asks the Delhi High Court to declare that one of the new rules is a
RIYADH: Saudi non-oil exports increased 23.1 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2021 to SR59.9 billion ($15.9 billion), according to data issued today by the Saudi General Authority for Statistics. The Kingdom’s imports increased 4 percent to SR137.7 billion, for an overall trade surplus, including oil exports, of SR74.7 billion, the third consecutive quarter of