RIYADH: The Swiss Embassy in Riyadh — in cooperation with the French Embassy and Alliance Francaise — is hosting a music concert on April 18 at the Cultural Palace in Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter. It aims to showcase French-language Swiss music through performances by Swiss artists Marc Aymon and Milla Besson.
CAIRO: The Middle East and North Africa region saw sizable startup activity from its top three regional ecosystems of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt as January came to end. The Kingdom led this weeks’ movement with two startups raising significant funding sums. Saudi Arabia’s peer-to-peer car rental platform Ejaro secured SR12.3 million ($3.27 million) in … Read more
RIYADH: Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has undergone an “astonishing” transformation, helped along by internal reforms and geopolitical shifts that have raised the Kingdom’s global profile and relevance, according to Federico Rampini, an award-winning Italian journalist, writer and lecturer. Speaking on Sunday at a roundtable in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on “the new relevance … Read more
LONDON: The World Economic Forum on Monday highlighted a dip in global cooperation when it unveiled a report ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from Jan. 15 to 19. The organization’s Global Cooperation Barometer 2024 revealed an overall decrease of 2 percent from 2020 to 2022, a downturn attributed to the escalating conflicts … Read more