Saudi Arabia

Explosion in Demand of Filipino Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia

Via News Editorial Team5 years ago5 years ago02 mins

Riyadh (ViaNews) – The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Labor and Social Development has launched a new service to ease the recruitment of foreign domestic workers from the Philippines in Saudi Arabia, reducing the recruitment charges for Filipino domestic workers by 50%. Following this news, the demand for Filipino domestic workers in the Kingdom underwent an…

Activists in front of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul demanding to know the whereabouts of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Photo by: Dogan News Agency.

Saudi Journalist was Afraid of his Country Rulers Months Before Going Missing

Ozge Guzel6 years ago6 years ago03 mins

ISTANBUL (ViaNews) – People close to Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist and outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, described him as being very afraid of his country’s rulers in the months before he went missing in Turkey last week. The Turkish authorities started an investigation to understand what happened to the Washington Post columnist,…