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Movement towards economic reform (e.g., reducing subsidies) in Saudi Arabia remains uneven at best. In addition, the countryalso made only slow progress on another of its main domestic goals -- attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). In January 2004, the Saudi cabinet approved a reduction in taxes on foreign direct investment (to 20 percent in most sectors; 30 percent in the natural gas sector) as part of an effort to speed up the economic reform and privatization process in the country.
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August 11, 2001 – Filipino Christian Wilfredo Caliuag (see July 5, 2001 below) was deported from Saudi Arabia. Wilfredo had been taken to the Red Sea Abdul Aziz Hospital on August 1 due to a severe heat stroke, which he suffered due to being held in a stifling, un-air-conditioned cell. Other Christians ... reported that he had likely been beaten in prison because of bruises on his body. After spending two days in a coma at the hospital Wilfredo recovered. He has now arrived safely to his home in the Philippines.
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The inscription is located south of Qa'a al Muatadil in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The inscription is carved on a red sandstone block of rock, pecked and deeply engraved and is very well preserved. The rock is situated on the ancient Trade and Pilgrimage route connecting the early Islamic city of al-Mabiyat with Madain Saleh. Saudi Arabia signed the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, in 1978.
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James Wyllie of the University of Aberdeen suggested in 1992 that "Yemeni democracy presents a sharp and embarrassing contrast to Saudi Arabia's deep-seated political conservatism (Jane's Intelligence Review, June 1992). Yemen's 1993 elections, in which women were allowed to vote, were the first ever held on the Arabian peninsula.
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