The conservative Islamic kingdom’s approach to social policy change is often silence and ambiguity. Legalizing alcohol has ...

Non-Muslim foreign residents will be able to purchase alcohol in Saudi Arabia — but only if they make more than 50,000 riyals ...

Saudi Arabia’s decades-long alcohol ban faces a quiet test, as an unmarked Riyadh store reportedly begins selling alcohol to ...

Saudi Arabia eases alcohol access for high-earning foreign residents as part of broader social and economic reforms.

Saudi Arabia has taken further steps to relax rules around the sale of alcohol by allowing non-Muslim foreign residents with ...

Saudi Arabia is allowing non-Muslim foreign residents to purchase alcohol, but only those earning over 50,000 riyals monthly ...

Branded alcohol had been entering the country’s informal market through embassies. But the government ended that system in ...

A Riyadh bar is serving alcohol to wealthy patrons, with reports of other exceptions to the Kingdom’s strict religious bans.

The move comes nearly two years after the kingdom quietly opened an alcohol shop for foreign diplomats in Riyadh’s Diplomatic ...

Non-Muslim foreign residents who have a monthly earning of 50,000 riyals ($13,300) will reportedly be allowed to make ...

The store, previously open only to diplomats, has begun selling to non-Muslim foreigners holding “premium residency” permits, five customers told the newspaper.

For decades, only diplomats were allowed to buy alcohol in Saudi Arabia legally. This followed the country’s strict alcohol ...