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In 2015, Saudi Arabia introduced reforms in an attempt to fix its laws and protect foreign workers. [47] Saudi Arabia was exposed by The Sunday Telegraph for detaining African migrants in a drive to control COVID-19. The newspaper received graphic mobile phone images, showing the miserable condition of the detained migrants.
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Saudi Arabia’s primary air hubs are its two biggest cities – capital Riyadh and port city Jeddah. Regular connections are available via Doha, Dubai, London, and other major gateways.
Saudi Arabia has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. [29] The majority of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia come from South Asia. [29] Although migrants constitute 33% of the total population, they represent 56.5% of the total number of employees and 89% of the employees active in the private sector. [29]
Saudi Aramco (officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Co.) is Saudi Arabia's national oil, petroleum, and natural gas company headquartered in Dhahran. [ 169 ] [ 170 ] [ 171 ] Saudi Aramco was listed for public trading on 10 December 2019 and had a valuation as of US$2 trillion as of 12 December 2019.
Saudization (Arabic: السعودة), [1] officially the Saudi nationalization scheme and also known as Nitaqat (Arabic: النطاقات), is a policy that is implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which requires companies and enterprises to fill their workforce with Saudi nationals up to certain levels.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaking to a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers from Saudi Arabia in 2016. Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are "victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other labor malpractices," according to John Leonard Monterona, the Middle East coordinator of Migrante, a Manila-based OFW organization. [14]
Tafheet (تفحيط), or popularly hajwalah (هجولة), [a] (colloquially known as Arab drifting or Saudi drifting), is a type of street racing-like subculture believed to have started in the late 1970s in Saudi Arabia, that involves driving cars that are generally non-modified or factory-setup (sometimes stolen or rented cars) at very high speeds, around 160–260 km/h (100–160 mph ...