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Leaders
01-04-2025
- Business
- Leaders
Saudi Commerce Ministry: New Trade Laws Effective Thursday
Abdulrahman Al-Hussein, official spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, highlighted that next Thursday, Shawwal 5, marks a pivotal moment for Saudi Arabia's business sector as the Kingdom's new Commercial Register Law and Trade Names Law come into force. Al-Hussein outlined key reforms under the Commercial Register Law , including the elimination of subsidiary registers, consolidating all entries into a single, unified commercial register. The law also removes the need to specify a registration city, allowing one commercial registration to be valid nationwide. Additionally, the law abolishes expiration dates for commercial registrations, requiring only an annual data confirmation. The commercial registration number will now serve as the establishment's unified identifier, beginning with the digit (7). Existing subsidiary registries have a five-year grace period to comply with the new regulations. Regarding the Trade Names Law , Al-Hussein explained that businesses can now reserve and register trade names in English, including letters and numbers—a shift from the previous Arabic-only policy. The law also permits trade names to be managed separately from establishments, enabling ownership transfers while preventing duplicate or similar names across businesses, even if their activities differ. Further provisions allow family names to be reserved as trade names and establish clear criteria to prohibit misleading or inappropriate names. Related Topics: Saudi Commerce Ministry Recalls 28,806 Ford Explorer Vehicles The volume of trade exchange between Japan & the Kingdom over 5 years is $175.25 Bn: Saudi Commerce Ministry Saudi Commerce Ministry suspends 4000 accounts at 'MAROOF' App Saudi Theater Celebrates Joy, Togetherness During Eid Al-Fitr Short link : Post Views: 1
Arab News
01-04-2025
- Business
- Arab News
New law simplifying Saudi business registration to take effect
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is set to introduce significant changes to its business registration system when the new Law of Commercial Register and Law of Trade Names take effect on April 3. Abdulrahman Al-Hussein, the Ministry of Commerce's official spokesperson, highlighted that one of the major changes includes the abolition of subsidiary registers, making a single commercial register sufficient, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The laws, announced in September, also eliminate the requirement to specify the city of registration, meaning a single commercial registration will be valid across all regions of the Kingdom, Al-Hussein added. The changes comes as Saudi Arabia saw a 60 percent increase in commercial records in 2024, with 521,969 issued compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The moves also align with the Kingdom's economic diversification efforts, aimed at reducing reliance on oil and increasing the private sector's contribution to the gross domestic product from 40 percent to 65 percent by 2030. Al-Hussein said the Law of Commercial Register 'cancels the expiration date for the commercial register, requiring only an annual confirmation of the data.' He underlined that the commercial registration number will now serve as the establishment's unified number, starting with '7.' Existing subsidiary registers will have a five-year grace period to comply with the new regulations. Additionally, the updated Trade Names Law now permits the reservation and registration of trade names in English, including letters and numbers, a shift from the previous rule, which only allowed Arabic names without foreign characters or digits. The change also allows trade names to be managed separately from the establishment, enabling their ownership transfer. It prevents the registration of identical or similar names for different businesses, regardless of their activities. Al-Hussein added that this law includes provisions for reserving family names as trade names and sets standards for prohibited or misleading names. The Saudi Cabinet approved these changes on Sept. 17, with the government aiming to streamline business operations and improve the overall working environment. In a post on his X account at the time, Commerce Minister Majid bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi emphasized that the changes would streamline the procedures for reserving and registering trade names, thus protecting and enhancing their value, in line with the economic and technological advancements outlined in Vision 2030.
Al-Ahram Weekly
22-03-2025
- General
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Ramadan: Providing meals for all - Features - Al-Ahram Weekly
Class divides on food are hard to miss during the holy month of Ramadan even with growing charitable efforts to provide nutritious meals for all. It is past midnight in Old Cairo on the eve of 14 Ramadan (14 March), and the restaurants around Al-Muizz li-Din Allah Street are getting ready for Sohour. Various options are available, with some focused strictly on fuul, falafel, and eggs and others taking menus to a richer and more expensive level. 'It is really a matter of what one can afford and what one enjoys. Personally, I prefer to go basic and stay away from the pricey versions of Sohour because I think they strip the tradition of its unassuming feel,' said Tarek, an engineer at a multinational company. A Cairo resident in his late 50s, Tarek is accustomed to what he calls 'the standard Sohour routine at Al-Hussein: fuul and falafel followed by yoghurt or rice pudding and tea with mint.' This was the way things were prior to the introduction of fancy eating as a must-have experience for the well-to-do. In this respect, he added, his children's generation is different, as 'for them a Ramadan Sohour has to be trendy and chic.' 'I cannot blame them because it is part of the result of our class-segregated education system,' he said. If planning a Sohour out with the family, Tarek said he would bow to the choices of his three children. However, for one with his high-school and university friends, he always goes basic. 'We might try something new, but we don't go fancy,' he said. For their weekend Sohour last Thursday, they decided to try a new restaurant that is 'only slightly more expensive and that serves beef liver, sausage, and kofta sandwiches' on a street called Harat Bab Al-Zahouma in Old Cairo, he said. According to Abdel-Azim Fahmi, founder and chair of Sirat Al-Qahira, an initiative designed to document the history of Egypt's longest-surviving capital city, the venue of this new restaurant is a centuries-old building that has been reworked to fit its new function. It is one of two facing iwans, he said, explaining that an iwan is a rectangular space with walls on three sides. These two are part of the ruins of the Madrassa Al-Salaheiya, which was built in association with the 13th-century Ayoubid ruler Negmeddin Al-Saleh Ayoub. However, Fahmi said, what was really special about this new popular restaurant is that it offers a meat-based menu. The name Harat Bab Al-Zahouma is associated with an even older period of Cairo's history, that of the Fatimid Dynasty, he added. 'Bab al-Zahouma was one of nine gates to the Al-Qasr Al-Sharqi [the Eastern Palace] of the Fatimids, and its name is associated with the fact that it led to the kitchens of the palace,' Fahmi said. He added that it was through this gate that meat, chicken, and other ingredients would enter the building. Al-zahm, he explained, literally means the 'sizzling' sound made when high-protein meals are being cooked. He added that throughout the year and especially in the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, it was through this gate that the rulers of the time would send large trays of food for distribution to the poor. 'Despite the few details we have about their cuisine, it is an established fact that the Fatimids had one of the best cuisines in Egypt, with cooks being brought over from different parts of the Islamic world at the time,' Fahmi stated. He added that it is equally an established fact that the Fatimids were particularly generous with their food donations, especially during the month of Ramadan. Generous food donations, Fahmi said, were signs of the stability and wealth of the rulers of Egypt throughout the subsequent Islamic dynasties, especially during the fasting month of Ramadan that has always been associated 'both with food and charity'. Today, however, food charities are more about economic difficulties than about times of prosperity, he added. 'Charitable gifts of food always took place in Ramadan, because they are part of the Islamic creed, but during the past few decades we have been seeing many more such charities due to the economic difficulties that have been making it increasingly difficult for many to put sufficiently nourishing food on the table,' said Hoda, an upper-middle class housewife who is committed to several charities, both in fund-raising and distribution. FOOD AID: Like other members of independent small charities, or larger and government-supervised ones, Hoda argues that more and more people are in need of help to get their basic dietary needs, especially in the month of Ramadan where Iftar meals are part of the festivity of the month. 'Food prices have been increasing year on year, and a modest family that would have been able to provide chicken or meat for Iftar a few times a week a few years ago is now unlikely to be able to do this more than once or twice during the entire month,' she said. She added that the inflation the country has seen in food prices has also come at a cost for charities. The charities she is associated with have stopped giving out enough meat or chicken to cover all family members for every Ramadan Iftar, for example. 'It is not sustainable, not just because prices have been increasing and donors have been working with tighter budgets, but also because the number of people we need to help has increased,' she added. This has been the case despite the many government-operated markets that provide food items, including meat and poultry, at reasonable prices across the country. 'It is all relative because even though the prices in these outlets are cheaper than those at other supermarkets or butchers' shops, they remain too expensive for an increasing number of people,' Hoda said. 'What people do is go for the cheaper items that make them feel full but don't provide a sufficient intake of protein or vitamins,' she added. Critics of food-subsidy programmes in the country blame low-protein and low-vitamin and high-starch and high-sugar items for poor nutrition and obesity. According to hunger index figures for 2023, around 14 per cent of the population are at some risk of food insecurity. Meanwhile, malnutrition figures have been on the increase, especially among children, according to UN agencies. According to the statistics agency CAPMAS, family spending on food has declined significantly over the past few years. 'Even if people were still allocating the same percentage of their monthly budget to food, they would still be suffering from significant reductions in high-protein and high-vitamin elements given the huge increase in prices,' Hoda said. 'This is why this year we decided to focus only on providing meat, chicken, and fruit rather than the more diversified basket we had before. We also don't do the entire list of families on our lists on a daily basis, but we use an every-other-day scheme,' she added. Despite such cuts, Hoda said that Ramadan has become for many the only time when they get to eat meat and chicken several times during the same month. Meanwhile, the Ramadan culinary luxuries that every Iftar should have are off the table for many, including those not helped by charity. 'For the first day of Ramadan and when we have family relatives coming over for Iftar, I make sure to stick to rich meals. But to compensate I cook vegetarian meals on the other days,' said Hala, a civil servant. 'Different times have different norms, and what was possible a few years back is no longer possible,' she added. Hala is content that her family can still eat the traditional roasted duck and stuffed vegetables on the first day and the boiled-and-fried chicken with rice and vegetables for two days a week, which is above the increasingly once-a-week average of the past two years. Otherwise, she said, she makes use of recipes collected from magazines and cookery programmes on TV that she would ordinarily not look at. She is trying to learn how to cook new recipes, she said, and to get family members to enjoy them, 'even if they are not what they would have normally expected.' In his book Kohl and Habban (Kohl and Quadrumane) issued in 2019 after the first two devaluations of the Egyptian pound that ushered in severe food-price inflation, Omar Taher documents the taste for roasted and grilled meat and chicken that most Egyptians enjoy especially in Ramadan. The preferred dishes come from the heart of Egyptian cuisine, including meat stew or boiled-and-fried duck, he said. According to food historians, because Egypt was once part of a larger Islamic Dynasty, its cuisine, like that of other parts of the Muslim Caliphate, is inevitably eclectic. It was mostly during the 19th and 20th centuries, especially after the rule of the Khedive Ismail who was keen on embracing European norms, that European meals and eating habits were introduced among some sections of the population. The first cookery book of European recipes, especially French, appeared in Arabic in Egypt in 1906. However, given the fact that at the time Egypt was under British occupation, there was a mood to reject everything European in favour of everything Egyptian, and this led to a vogue for cookery books focusing on national recipes, including those from specific geographic zones including Upper Egypt and the coastal cities. 'It is unfortunate that we have nothing left from the recipes of the earlier Islamic dynasties, as this would have allowed us to examine the evolution of dishes, cooking methods, and festive meals,' Fahmi said. 'What we know for a fact is that there was always a passion for a good meal followed by an abundance of desserts, especially in the month of Ramadan. This much is established,' he concluded. * A version of this article appears in print in the 20 March, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Saudi Gazette
18-03-2025
- Business
- Saudi Gazette
Commerce ministry: Shoppers can refuse receiving shipment if product is defective
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Ministry of Commerce spokesman Abdulrahman Al-Hussein said that shoppers have the right to refuse receiving a shipment if the product is defective or does not conform to the agreed-upon specifications. He explained that the e-commerce shipment delivery code, given to the delivery company representative upon receipt of the consignment, is an acknowledgment from the shopper that the products were received in a proper and orderly manner. The spokesman emphasized the importance of verifying the shipment and its conformity to the order, as well as the safety and quality of the products before providing the representative with the delivery code. Al-Hussein urged shoppers to know their rights in e-commerce through the Consumer Rights and Duties Guide on the ministry's website in the following link:
Arab News
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Jordanian crown prince meets prince of Brunei in London
LONDON: Crown Prince of Jordan Hussein bin Abdullah and his wife, Princess Rajwa Al-Hussein, met with Prince of Brunei Abdul Mateen and his wife, Princess Yang Mulia Anisha Rosnah, in London on Tuesday. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @ Al-Hussein and Abdul Mateen trained at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst in south England. Al-Hussein posted a photo with Abdul Mateen from London on his Instagram account. In the image, Princess Rajwa wore a stylish all-black outfit, while Princess Anisha was dressed in a pale blue tweed blazer and black trousers. Mateen, 33, and Anisha Rosnah, 30, tied the knot in a lavish wedding in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, in January 2024. Mateen is the 10th child and fourth son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the world's longest-reigning monarch and once the richest man on the planet. Because of his position in the family, Mateen is unlikely to ever ascend to the throne. Al-Hussien, 30, and Rajwa, 30, married in June 2023. The royal couple welcomed a baby daughter, Princess Iman, last August. Prince Al-Hussein is the heir to the throne of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He is the eldest son of King Abdullah and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah. This week, he is visiting London, where he met with William, Prince of Wales, at Windsor Castle on Monday.
