Times of Oman - April 2, 2016

SATURDAY April 2, 2016 24 Jumada Al Thani 1437 AH

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

On the occasion of the Graduation of the 1st group of students from the Sultan Qaboos University, 1990

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ Our dear country has witnessed a number of mighty achievements, but we still have a long, hard road ahead of us which will require much sincere and disinterested effort, determination and self-sacrifice. Our target is not personal reward, but the progress and welfare of our country and the raising of its status among the nations.

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Drivers advised caution as data shows June-July accident spike ACCIDENTS: WHAT NUMBERS REVEAL

Fasting drivers should try to reduce

June-July 2014

they undertake by

979

planning their work

838

the amount of driving

June-July 2015 Total

868

Injuries

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day with clients and customers

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MUSCAT: With a little more than two months to go until the start of Holy Month of Ramadan, drivers must be cautious while driving on Oman’s highways where data from the Royal Oman Police (ROP) indicated that most fatalities occur ed during the Holy Month in 2014 and 2015.

According to ROP’s statistics, a total of 1,257 accidents took place between June and July 2015 leaving a total of 751 injured and 117 dead;

Source Royal Oman Police

reflecting an increase of 139, compared with the same period in 2014.

However, during June and July 2014, the number of injuries was significantly more than in 2015, where 838 were injured, while 141 died.

Ramadan falls during both these months and since it is a month of fasting, many people drive back

home after work feeling fatigued and speed to get back to their families for iftar, which are the most likely causes for accidents.

“Driving during any month of the year requires the full and focused attention of all drivers and this ability to focus is severely reduced when a driver is observing the fast during

Ramadan,” said safety expert Mark Pudwell. “Fatigue, low blood sugar and reduced fluid mineral levels impact hugely upon a fasting driver’s ability to focus and react appropriately to the traffic environment; an additional threat to driver and passenger safety is the speed at which a vehicle is being driven; often due

to trying to get home to family and friends in time for iftar. This is the time when many tragic incidents occur,” he added.

According to a 2015 study by Professor Ron Maughan from the Loughborough University, driving while dehydrated has the same effect on road safety as drunk driving,

reported The Telegraph.

“There is no question that driving while incapable because of drink or drugs increases the risk of accidents, but our findings highlight an unrecognised danger and suggest that drivers should be encouraged to make sure they are properly hydrated,” said Maughan.

“In other words, drivers who are not properly hydrated make the same number of errors as people who have drunk over the driving limit,” he added. The Times of Oman spoke to the ROP during the GCC Traffic Week and an officer said that there usually is a rise in police patrolling during Ramadan.

Speaking words of advice ahead of the Holy Month, Pudwell said, “Fasting drivers should try to reduce the amount of driving they undertake by planning their work day with clients and customers around their reduced working hours. Those people who need to make longer journeys home should plan their journey leaving more time for travel and reduce the need for excessive speed.”

“Companies could also consider staggered working hours to reduce the numbers of drivers on the road at any given time thus mitigating the potential for heavy traffic and road traffic incidents,” he added.

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MUSCAT: More Omani students should opt for part-time jobs to gain the necessary experience, Dr. Omar Al Jabri, co-founder of job vacancy platform Oman Careers, said. He noted that this is because of the lack of skills evident in Omani students, because of which they are not well prepared for the job market.

Based on his experience with job announcements, Al Jabri said there are hardly any companies that want to employ a fresh graduate. “Many companies ask for two or three years of experience. We need to give fresh graduates the chance to be appointed and gain skills. So the only thing to do here: go for a part-time job!” he said.

‘Internships to students’ Al Jabri further stated that companies should not only offer internships to students, but also offer them the opportunity to work part-time while they are studying.

He added that students should sacrifice their free time to start a part-time job.

“The culture and mentality have to change. If you want to gain experience and skills, you have to sacrifice something,” he said.

“My nephew is working as a part-timer at McDonalds. He’s still studying in college, and he is a manager now. I’m proud of that,” he said.

FRESH GRADUATES: Students should sacrifice their free time to start a part-time job. — Picture by Erik Prins/ Times of Oman

Al Jabri said the lack of skills and experience were caused by a lack of preparation schools on offer for young Omanis before they enrol into universities.

“There is a big gap between high school and university. They spend lots of time in foundation courses in English, which I believe that this should already be covered by school time,” he said.

Al Jabri said study programmes should also cover more than just education.

“We need to think not only of education, but we need to think also of providing skills to the students.

It’s very important for students to improve their soft skills, such as business writing, presentations,

self-confidence, and leadership,” he said.

Tonia Gray, general manager at Competence HR, told the Times of Oman (TOO) that part-time jobs are very valuable as a preparation for a career. “Undertaking parttime work, alongside your studies is invaluable in terms of understanding how different the workplace is to your place of study and working part time may go some way in instilling a work ethic in advance of undertaking full-time work,” she said.

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MUSCAT: Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs received in his office here on Thursday Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Brunei Darussalam.

The two sides discussed aspects of cooperation between the two friendly countries and means of enhancing them. They also exchanged viewpoints on several regional and international issues of common concern and discussed the latest developments in the region.

The meeting was attended by Sayyid Badr bin Hamd Al Busaidi, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry and officials in the Foreign Ministry from the Omani side and Mohammad Yasmin Umar, Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr Dato Hajj Abu Bakr, ambassador of Brunei Darussalam to the Sultanate and the delegation accompanying the guest from the Buneian side. — ONA

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I’d love to have a part-time job, but I can’t afford it. Here, we have to attend all classes and prepare for exams. It’s hard to combine that with work Nasser Bashir, Nasser Bashir, a student

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“That’s why I am helping my father in his construction business, for two to three hours a day,” he said.

Khalid Hilal Al Fahdi, who studies Business Administration Information Systems, said he too plans to get a part-time job. “I’m young and I do not want to waste time. I’ll get experience together with my degree,” he said.

Al Fahdi, who wants to work at a telecommunication company, said he is willing to start working in a call centre to gain more experience and get a better job later on.

Many others said they cannot combine study with part-time work, although they see the advantages of gaining experience.

Also, their expectations from their first job are quite high.

Very hard to focus both Muna Haikal, a Business and Accounting student, said, “It is very hard to focus both on study and work at the same time.” That is why she is not planning to find

Many others said they cannot combine study with part-time work, although they see the advantages of gaining experience

a part-time job. However, given that she wants to be a manager, she said she needs more experience and training.

Mohammed Al Balushi, who also studies Finance, said having some experience before applying for the first job is crucial.

“They will probably take you straight away when they see you already have some experience,” he said. However, he said he does

not have a part-time job, as he does not have the time.

He said that only a few students within his college do parttime work in supermarkets or restaurants.

Nasser Bashir, a student in Business Administration and Marketing, said he cannot afford to have a part-time job.

“I’d love to have a part-time job, but I can’t afford it. Here, we have to attend all classes and prepare for exams. It’s hard to combine that with work,” he said. He said he hopes that he will be a manager in his first job, but eventually, he wants to be a “big businessman.”

Khulood Al Zadjali, who studies General Business, said she does not plan to get a part-time job, since after classes, she needs to study and on the weekends, she needs to spend time with her family.

“In Oman, you’re obliged to spend time with your family on the weekends. Thus, I do not have the time to work,” she said.

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erik@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Social entrepreneurship has huge potential in Oman, as the country is seeking to boost the role of the private sector in the economy, speakers at the meeting “Business for Social Change” organised by the British Council on Wednesday said.

The meeting hosted British, as well as Omani social entrepre-

neurs, and was aimed at exchanging ideas about how to start a social business and the challenges faced in the process.

Khalid Al Haribi, deputy chief executive officer of Operations at Riyada, said social entrepreneurship is the answer to today’s economic situation. “This is exactly the right time for social entrepreneurship to flourish. There is great potential in social entrepreneurship for bridging the gap by mak-

MAJLIS AL SHURA

Subsidy for water and electricity in Oman reviewed MUSCAT: A presentation on the government’s subsidy for electricity and water was organised by the Majlis Al Shura’s Secretariat General on Thursday in coordination with the Oman Power and Water Procurement (OPWP).

The aim of the presentation was to acquaint members and staff of Majlis Al Shura of the services provided by the government in the areas of electricity, water and the extent of its contribution to the national economy.

This presentation comes within the framework of its association with the studies carried out

by Majlis Al Shura’s committees in this area, which deals with all the economic and social dimensions and their impact on society.

The presentation was attended by Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmed Al Shamsi, Deputy Chairman of Majlis Al Shura, a number of Majlis Al Shura’s members, Sheikh Ali bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi, Majlis A’Shura’s Secretary-General, and some of the staff of the Secretariat General.

The presentation, which was made by Eng. Ahmed bin Saleh Al Jahdhami, CEO of OPWP, included a range of themes, including the increase in demand for electricity and water, future plans to meet that demand, in addition to the contribution of the private sector in this context, the total cost of supply, and the strategic projects and future challenges for the electricity and water sector in the Sultanate. — ONA

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INTERNATIONAL FORUM: The conference, organised by the Oman Dental Society in collaboration with the Medical Services of the Armed Forces and the Royal Oman Police. — Supplied picture

Dental issues focus of major conference Times News Service MUSCAT: Oman’s Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al Saidi, inaugurated the 18th Omani International Dental Conference at the Grand Hayyat Hotel on Thursday.

The conference, organised by the Oman Dental Society in collaboration with the Medical Services of the Armed Forces and the Royal Oman Police (ROP), was held under the theme “Towards shaping the future of Dental Profession.” Dr Al Saidi in his remarks had pointed out that dental and oral health is fundamental to the Sultanate’s health system and that spreading awareness about it is essential.

The two-day conference witnessed the participation of more than 400 doctors and specialists from the Sultanate and abroad, where more than 50 speakers from 16 countries will present lectures.

The scientific sessions of the conference will highlight the latest techniques and research related to oral and dental health in its different disciplines, such as Paediatric Dentistry, Maxillofacial Surgery, Endodontics, and Primary and Conservative Dentistry. They also asserted the principle of dental and oral primary health care.

Professional ethics Furthermore, the sessions introduced the participants to the code of professional ethics in dental treatments, medical imaging controls, and the use of CAD/ CAM in diagnosis and treatment.

In addition, an international exhibition is being held simultaneously with the scientific conference. The exclusive dental exhibition will display the latest technology related to the various fields of dentistry by more than 30 local and international companies.

ing sure that we are encouraging enterprises to think about sustainability,” he stated.

“I totally believe that the answer to today’s economic situation is to look into the past, how our forefathers faced economic difficulties.

A step forward is sometimes taking a step back,” he said.

Al Haribi said he hopes that social entrepreneurship in Oman will flourish also in regions outside Muscat, by using knowledge of how Omanis in the past used Omani heritage to create economic diversity. He explained that old techniques, such as the construction of falaj (irrigation) systems, making clothes out of recycled materials and creating community lending facilities can now inspire social businesses to make sustainable products and services.

“We need to bridge our historic knowledge by creating solutions for issues today,” he said.

An example of such an initiative is students in Dakhiliya and Dhahira regions coming up with a way to protect their communities from flooding. He said the students are studying what the forefathers said about using wadis (valleys).

Nasra Al Adawi, partner at Tawasul/Global Connection Centre, agreed that social entrepreneurship is growing in Oman. She said there are already social enterprises active in Oman and more are coming up.

“There are a lot of opportunities in Oman, for example in the environmental field, such as can and paper recycling. There is an opportunity to create recycling facilities here, instead of taking it abroad,” she said.

Maryam Al Aamri, founder of Youth Vision, an organisation which designs youth empowerment programmes, said Omani youth are showing an increasing

interest in starting a social business. “The youth want to make a change. They want to help people and solve problems,” she said.

However, the challenge is to shift these ideas to a viable business. “A lot of youth have many ideas but they cannot modify them to become a business,” she said.

She added that there is a need for models that helps them do so.

Role models are important to make Omani youth aware of the benefits of social businesses.

Creating a good story is essential for ‘selling’ an idea and making a viable business.

Al Adawi said the concept of a social business is very new to Oman. “Not a lot of people are aware, so you really have to build credibility.” She said role models are very important for Omani youth in encouraging them to start a social enterprise, instead of going for a conventional job. She added

that it is very important for social entrepreneurs to be clear about their aims and business model.

Students in schools and universities are already taught about the benefits of social businesses, according to Al Adawi.

Al Haribi told the audience that the first thing that social entrepreneurs should do is to create a good story, instead of simply creating a service.

“People are buying into stories.

You’re not [simply] recycling, but you’re saving the environmental areas in Oman. The way we shape our stories, is what makes or breaks the next generation of social entrepreneurs,” he said.

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Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over surveillance SAN FRANCISCO: Egypt blocked Facebook Inc’s Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year after the US company refused to give the Egyptian government the ability to spy on users, two people familiar with the matter said.

Free Basics, launched in Egypt in October, is aimed at low-income customers, allowing anyone with a cheap computer or smartphone to create a Facebook account and access a limited set of Internet services at no charge.

The Egyptian government suspended the service on December 30 and said at the time that the mobile carrier Etisalat had only been granted a temporary permit to offer the service for two months.

Declined Two sources with direct knowledge of discussions between Facebook and the Egyptian government said Free Basics was blocked because the company would not allow the government to circumvent the service’s security to conduct surveillance. They declined to say exactly what type of access the government had demanded or what practices it wanted Facebook to change.

A spokesman for Facebook declined to comment. Etisalat did not respond to a request for comment. Mohamed Hanafi, a spokesman for Egypt’s Ministry of Com-

munication, declined to comment specifically on the allegation about surveillance demands but cited other reasons for Free Basics to be blocked. “The service was offered free of charge to the consumer, and the national telecommunication regulator saw the service as harmful to companies and their competitors,” he said.

Free Basics, which is available in 37 countries that have large populations without reliable Internet service, is central to Facebook’s global strategy.

The company does not sell ads on the Free Basics version of its website and app, but it aims to reach a large group of potential users who otherwise would not be able to create Facebook accounts.

Facebook said more than 3 million Egyptians used the service before it was suspended, and 1 million of them had never had Internet access. The main Facebook site and app are still available in Egypt, which has a population of about 90 million.

Conflict The conflict over Free Basics highlights the delicate balancing act that global Internet companies face in responding to the demands of governments while protecting the privacy of their customers, especially at a time of heightened concerns about Internet surveillance and censorship worldwide.

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UN urges parties in Yemen peace talks to engage constructively UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations special envoy to Yemen on Friday welcomed a recent prisoner swap between the parties to the Yemen conflict and urged them to “engage constructively” in a new round of peace talks set to begin on April 18.

Earlier this week, a Saudi-led military coalition said it had completed a prisoner swap in Yemen, exchanging nine Saudi prisoners for 109 Yemeni nationals ahead of a planned truce and peace talks aimed at ending the year-long war with Houthi rebels.

“These initiatives reinforced the spirit of the confidence building measures recommended at the previous round of talks and there is no doubt that they can provide an important drive to the political process,” UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement.

“I am looking forward to the ac-

tive participation of relevant parties in the talks,” he added. “Yemeni delegations should seize this opportunity to provide a mechanism for a return to a peaceful and orderly transition.”

Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the two sides have confirmed a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 ahead of the peace talks set to begin in Kuwait a week later. “We are planning and preparing at full speed,” Ould Cheikh Ahmed said about the upcoming peace talks.

“UN political experts have already been deployed to Sanaa and Riyadh in order to work with the delegations gearing up for the resumption of talks,” he added. “Another team is on its way to Kuwait to finalise the preparations.”

The UN says more than 6,000 people, half of them civilians, have been killed since the start of the military intervention. — Reuters

BLOCKED: A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo in this December 16, 2015, file photo. The Egyptian government suspended the service on December 30 and said at the time that the mobile carrier Etisalat had only been granted a temporary permit to offer the service for two months. – Reuters Files

It represents one of the few known cases in which a global Internet company has received and rejected a government demand for special access to its network and been forced to shut down a service, Internet privacy experts say.

Free Basics has come under fire from Internet activists across the globe, most notably in India, for violating net neutrality by allowing free access to a select group of websites and businesses, thus put-

ting others at a disadvantage.

Indian regulators issued new rules in February that effectively barred Free Basics after a twomonth public consultation process. Hanafi cited the India example in explaining Egypt’s move, but there has been no public debate or regulatory proceeding over net neutrality or the competitive impact of Free Basics in Egypt.

Facebook in September strengthened the security protec-

tions for Free Basics after criticism from privacy advocates that it did not do enough to prevent spying. In part, the problem was that users could not seamlessly connect over encrypted channels to the secure websites marked by addresses beginning HTTPS. That meant that customers using web-based email might have their messages exposed. Authorities might also be able to watch who was visiting particular websites. Now, those using the Free Basics mobile app can connect directly with encryption to secure sites. Those connecting via the Free Basics website can connect securely to Facebook, which decrypts and then re-encrypts user traffic before sending it along to partner sites.

Security measures It is not known whether the new security measures were a factor in Egypt’s decision to block Free Basics. It is also not known if the government has asked other social media companies or Internet service providers for security back doors.

When Free Basics launched in Egypt, there was no mention of a temporary permit or concerns about competition or net neutrality, according to people who were involved in the discussions.

At the time of the suspension, Facebook said it was “disappoint-

ed” and hoped to “resolve (the) situation soon.”

Some former Facebook employees said the company has reason to be especially vigilant in defending its customers in Egypt.

A Facebook page started in 2010 by a Google employee in Dubai about the death of an Alexandria man at the hands of police played a direct role in fomenting the protests that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

In January this year, amid a crackdown on dissent in the runup to the fifth anniversary of the uprising, Egyptian security forces arrested two people for managing Facebook pages that they said were used to support the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and encourage protest.

The two are still in jail pending investigations on charges of inciting violence and disseminating and publishing false news.

Any move to shut down Facebook completely in Egypt would likely bring a harsh popular backlash, said Ramy Raoof, a digital security researcher and consultant. But blocking Free Basics can crimp Facebook’s growth among lower income people, without alienating middle-class Internet users and businesses.

“Shutting down Facebook completely is an idea that is far-fetched and would lead to great consequences,” Raoof said. — Reuters

EU enforces sanctions against Libyan leaders Unity government rival says won’t cling to power in Tripoli

BRUSSELS/TRIPOLI: Three Libyan political leaders opposing the UN-backed unity government are from Friday subject to European Union’s economic sanctions, the EU official journal said.

Fearful of derailing peace efforts, EU governments hesitated for months before agreeing in March to move on with restrictive measures.

The asset-freeze measures were formally adopted on Thursday and took effect on Friday, two days after the members of the Libya’s unity government reached Tripoli

by ship, defying attempts to keep them out of the city.

The three men hit by the EU measures are Nouri Abusahmain, president of Libya’s General National Congress in Tripoli, one of two rival parliaments; Khalifa Al Ghwell, prime minister of the selfproclaimed Tripoli government; and Aguila Saleh, the president of Libya’s internationally recognised parliament. The EU official journal said they played a central role in obstructing the establishment of a unity government in Libya.

Meanwhile, Tripoli’s self-declared government has said it will not cling to power but will peacefully oppose a UN-backed unity government that arrived in the capital this week from Tunisia.

Western powers hope the unity government will seek foreign support to confront the IS militant group, deal with migrant flows from Libya towards Europe and restore oil production to shore up

its economy. But the new government, which held its first meetings in Tripoli on Thursday at a heavily guarded naval base, has failed to win backing from Libya’s two rival pairs of governments and parliaments, one based in Tripoli and one in the east.

Vehemently opposed The head of the Tripoli-based National Salvation government, Khalifa Ghwell, has vehemently opposed any transfer of power. But a statement posted late on Thursday on the government’s website struck a milder tone, saying opposition would be “by peaceful and legal means without use of force or incitement to violence”.

“We will not cling to power,” the statement said. “I demand that the revolutionaries, civil society and the senior clerics be given the opportunity to take the necessary decisions to avoid bloodshed and find a solution to the Libyan crisis.”

In a boost for the new unity government and its leadership, or Presidential Council, 10 western Libyan towns and cities said they welcomed and supported its arrival. “The municipalities of the western coast are conscious that this is a critical stage,” they said. “We call on all Libyans to be unified in their support for the Government of National Accord.”

The new government’s sevenmember Presidential Council is trying to take control of institutions in Tripoli and to secure the backing of the capital’s many armed groups.

An official at the foreign ministry in Tripoli said security forces loyal to the Presidential Council had secured the ministry building and that the minister previously appointed by the National Salvation government had left peacefully. Tripoli has been mostly calm since the Council members arrived on Wednesday. — Reuters

SUDDEN MOVE

Al Arabiya TV closes offices in Lebanon BEIRUT: The Saudi-owned television news channel Al Arabiya has shut its offices in Lebanon and dismissed 27 employees, two of its journalists said on Friday, in a sudden move.

Aid cut Saudi Arabia has already cut $3 billion in military aid to Lebanon.

“We were informed that the offices have been shut and that 27 employees have been fired,” one Al Arabiya journalist said.

Restructuring A statement from the channel confirmed that its Beirut office had been shut, describing the move as a restructuring brought about by “challenges on the ground” and citing its concern for

SHUT DOWN: Security staff members stand guard at the entrance of the offices of Saudi-owned AlArabiya news channel on Friday in the Lebanese capital Beirut. – AFP

the safety of its employees.

Lebanon’s Minister of Information Ramzi Greige dismissed the suggestion of security concerns, however. “Of course there are no

security grounds for closing the Al Arabiya office in Beirut. There may be political reasons for taking this step, but I don’t know until I seek clarification from them,” Greige

told Reuters. Al Arabiya, one of the main Arabic language broadcasters in the Middle East, is part of the Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC). — Reuters

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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016 Nuclear security must remain an abiding national priority. All States must completely abide by their international obligations Narendra Modi, Prime minister

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Stop thinking ‘his terrorist is not my terrorist’, says Modi Dwelling at length on the threat posed by terrorism to the world, Modi noted that terror has evolved and that terrorists are using 21st century technology, ‘but our responses are rooted in the past’ BOOSTING TIES: Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a bilateral meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit, in Washington Friday. - PTI

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said state actors working with nuclear traffickers and terrorists present the greatest risk to nuclear security as he called for dropping the notion that “his terrorist is not my terrorist”.

Referring to the recent terror attacks in Brussels, Modi said they show how real and immediate is the threat to nuclear security from terrorism as he pointed out that all countries must completely adhere to their international obligations in this regard.

Outlining three contemporary features of terror that the world should focus on, Modi said today’s

terrorism uses extreme violence as ‘theatre’.

“Second, we are no longer looking for a man in a cave, but we are hunting for a terrorist in a city with a computer or a smart phone.

“Third, state actors working with nuclear traffickers and terrorists present the greatest risk,” he said, in an apparent reference to Pakistan.

Dwelling at length on the threat posed by terrorism to the world, Modi noted that terror has evolved and that terrorists are using 21st century technology, “but our responses are rooted in

the past”. The reach and supply chains of terrorism are global, but genuine cooperation between nation states is not, Modi said in his intervention during a White House dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama that formally kicked off the two-day Nuclear Security Summit here.

“Drop the notion that terrorism is someone else’s problem and that ‘his’ terrorist is not ‘my’ terrorist. Terrorism is globally networked. But, we still act only nationally to counter this threat,” he told the international community.

Modi was seated next to Obama

during the White House dinner which was attended by heads of States of more than 20 countries in the US capital for the fourth edition of the Nuclear Security Summit.

“Nuclear security must remain an abiding national priority. All States must completely abide by their international obligations,” Modi said. Praising the US President for his initiative on nuclear security, Modi said Obama’s legacy must endure.

“By putting spotlight on nuclear security, Obama has done great service to global security,” he said.

Meanwhile, Modi on Friday met his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and discussed bilateral ties, their first meeting after the latter swept to power last year.

Modi and Trudeau met here on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit.

“Engagements on Day 2 begin with a bilateral with PM Justin Trudeau,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted.

“Canadian connect... today’s meetings commence with an interaction with Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau. Both PMs discuss India-Canada relations,” a PMO tweet said.

Last year, Modi had visited Canada when he held extensive talks with the then Canadian premier Stephen Harper.

Canada had agreed to supply 3,000 metric tonnes of uranium to energy-hungry India under a $254 million five-year deal to power Indian reactors.

The agreement for uranium supply, which came two years after protracted negotiations following the 2013 civil nuclear deal between India and Canada, was signed after comprehensive talks Modi had with Harper in April last year.

Forty-four-year-old Trudeau carries one of the most famous names in Canadian political history.His late father was prime minister for the better part of 16 years, between 1968 and 1984.

Trudeau assumed office in November last year and surprised one and all by including four SikhCanadians in his Cabinet. - PTI

C E N T R E ’ S N O T I F I C AT I O N

85% pictorial warning norm for tobacco products comes in force NEW DELHI: Tobacco products manufactured from Friday onwards will carry larger pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the display area on the packet as the Centre’s notification in this regard went into force.

The Health Ministry’s notification of September 24, 2015, for implementation of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2014, prescribing larger pictorial warnings on tobacco products came into force on Friday.

Notwithstanding a parliamentary panel’s recommendation which had described the government’s proposal as “too harsh” and wanted a drastic reduction in the size of the visual warning, the Centre went ahead with the larger pictorial warnings.

The Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation had recommended that the message occupy 50 per cent of the space.

“The committee is of the view that in order to have a balanced approach, the warning on cigarette packets should be 50 per cent on both sides of the principal display area instead of 85 per cent of the principal display area as it will be too harsh and result in the flooding of illicit cigarettes in the country,” the committee said in the report.

Health Ministry had also told the Rajasthan High Court that its legislative authority is examining the observations/recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation. - PTI

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Police file case of homicide after Kolkata flyover collapse kills 24 KOLKATA: Police on Friday opened a case of culpable homicide against the company that had been building a flyover which collapsed in Kolkata, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens.

Rescuers with cranes and jackhammers struggled on Friday to clear shattered concrete slabs and twisted girders from the 100-metre (110-yard) length of the flyover that on Thursday crashed down on pedestrians and vehicles in a road below.

Over 100 people have been rescued, many with serious injuries, but chances of finding more survivors dwindled after authorities removed crushed cars and a bus from the rubble in a teeming commercial district near the city’s Girish Park.

“It is being ensured that there are no more dead bodies under the debris,” S.S. Guleria, deputy inspector general of the National Disaster Response Force, told Reuters Television.

Television channels broadcast images of autorickshaws and a crowd of people suddenly obliterated by a mass of falling concrete.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose centre-left party is seeking re-election soon in the state of West Bengal, said those responsible would not be spared and blamed the previous state government, which awarded the flyover contract in 2007.

But she herself faces questions about the project. The Telegraph newspaper reported in November that Mamata had wanted the flyover — already five years overdue — to be completed by February.

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concerns over whether this would be possible, the Telegraph said at the time. The disaster could play a role in the election in West Bengal, whose capital is Kolkata. It is one of five approaching polls that will give an interim verdict on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nearly two years in power.

Indian company IVRCL had been building the 2-km (1.2-mile) Vivekananda Road flyover, according to its website.

Its shares closed down 11.7 per cent in Mumbai trading on Friday as police announced they had opened a case of culpable homicide. Police detained seven employees of the company, interviewed bosses at its headquarters in the southern city of Hyderabad and sealed its offices, police said.

A senior IVRCL manager drew national condemnation for calling the disaster “an act of God”.

“We did not use any inferior quality material and we will cooperate with the investigators,” the company’s director of operations A.G.K. Murthy told reporters on Thursday.

“We are in a state of shock.”

Years of delays may have led to corrosion to metal elements of the flyover, according to rescuers. Locals said concrete had been poured on the stretch that collapsed the night before the disaster. Crowds of residents tried to help trapped people.

Three cranes worked overnight to clear wreckage and gain access to vehicles in which people were believed to be trapped.

Harrowing news images showed the limbs of a dead man protruding from under a steel girder. Ambulances struggled to reach the scene, hemmed in by buildings.

“Every night, hundreds of labourers would build the flyover and they would cook and sleep near the site by day,” said Ravindra Kumar Gupta, a grocer who pulled out six bodies, together with his friends. “The government wanted to complete the flyover before the elections and the labourers were working on a tight deadline.

Maybe the hasty construction led to the collapse.”

Meanwhile, the government of of West Bengal has intimated Election Commission about its announcement of giving compensation to victims of the flyover collapse as the model code of conduct is on in view of the coming state Assembly election.

“We have received a letter from the chief secretary and sent it to the Election Commission (Delhi),” Additional Chief Electoral Officer Dibyendu Sarkar said.

The state government has announced ex-gratia relief of Rs500,000 to the kin of dead, Rs200,000 to those seriously injured and Rs 100,000 to those who sustained minor injuries. It has also announced that all medical expenses due to the collapse will be borne or reimbursed by the state government.

On whether the decision violates the model code of conduct, the EC official said in such cases of emergency, rules can be relaxed to “some extent”. - Agencies

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Government extends tax amnesty scheme deadline Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has extended the last date for filing tax returns by the traders under the Voluntary Tax Compliance Scheme to April 30 SHORT OF TARGET: In July-March 2015-16, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) could collect Rs2,088 billion of Rs2,105-billion target. - AFP file photo

ISLAMABAD: An apparently dejected government gave a third extension on Thursday in the tax amnesty scheme as the number of filers could not cross 7,700 while authorities struggled to reach close to the nine-month revenue collection target of Rs2,105 billion.

In July-March 2015-16, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) could collect Rs2,088 billion till Thursday night. “The figure is expected to rise further as field formations of the FBR were in the process of reconciling the data,”

said Dr Mohammad Iqbal, the FBR spokesman.

“We expect to cross Rs2,100 billion, which itself is a big achievement,” said Haroon Akhtar Khan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Revenue.

In case, the FBR misses the Rs2,105-billion target, Pakistan will have to seek a waiver from the IMF executive board.

The FBR had also fallen short of the Rs1,390-billion target for the

first half of the fiscal year, though only with a thin margin.

The provisional collection in nine months was Rs314 billion or 17.7 per cent higher than the comparative period of previous fiscal year. For the entire current year, the revenue collection target was set at Rs3,104 billion.

Owing to the poor performance in the first five months, the government had introduced a minibudget in December last year.

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This gave a major push to the revenue flow as the government heavily taxed imports of goods, making raw material expensive and causing an increase in inflation. The government has also recovered an extra Rs92 billion during the July-February period from consumers of petroleum products by increasing the sales tax up to 108.7 per cent of the ex-refinery price of high-speed diesel.

The FBR’s audit function remains weak, allowing taxpayers to escape the law despite underdeclaring their earnings. It also could not make progress in cases of 44 politicians that were selected for audit including Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has extended the last date for filing tax returns by the traders under the Voluntary Tax Compliance Scheme by one month to April 30, announced the Ministry of Finance. He also extended the application of the concessionary 0.4 per cent withholding tax to banking transactions by nonfilers of income tax returns by one more month.

It was the third extension in the scheme after the government badly failed to achieve the target of bringing one million people

into the tax net. So far, 7,695 traders have filed income tax returns and paid Rs731 million in taxes, said Dr Iqbal.

The government’s decision to keep the withholding tax rate unchanged at 0.4 per cent instead of increasing it to 0.6 per cent indicated the lack of will to go after the non-filers who are considered traditional voters of the ruling party.

The standard withholding tax enforced from July was 0.6 per cent that the government halved to appease the traders.

Despite claims of expanding the tax base, the income tax return filers, both individuals and companies, dropped to 925,000, about 120,000 less than the previous year.

Protected by an Act of parliament, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had offered the ninth amnesty scheme, second of his government, to both non-filers of income tax returns and to those who were already in the net but concealed their actual income.

The All Pakistan Anjuman-eTajiraan, a splinter group of traders, had claimed that the scheme would help bring in one million traders in the tax net out of 2.8 million who remain outside the net. - Express Tribune

R E N E W E D R E S O LV E

Park bombing culprits will be brought to book: Shahbaz LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday those behind Sunday’s suicide attack at Lahore’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park would be brought to justice.

“Those who have shed the blood of innocent people will not escape punishment,” the chief minister said during his visit to Chak 86/6R in Sahiwal where he met two victims of the Sunday bombing.

“The incident has left the nation grieving… but the tragedy has also strengthened our resolve to fight terrorism. These sacrifices will not go to waste,” Sharif said.

He said that Pakistan would be made a haven of peace. He said no efforts would be spared to win the country’s war against terrorism.

Sakina Bibi, a 55-year-old resident of Chak 86/6-R, and Javeria, 2, had died in the bombing. The chief minister announced a government job for Moazma, Sakina’s daughter. He also handed a cheque for Rs2 million to her family. A cheque for Rs1 million was handed over to Javeria’s family. As many as 30 members of the family were injured in the bomb blast. Sharif said the Punjab government would leave no stoned unturned to make the province safe and secure for its residents. - Express Tribune

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ombating antimicrobial resistance will require groundbreaking technological solutions. To prevent superbugs from claiming an estimated ten million lives a year by 2050, we will need to invent new types of antimicrobial drugs and develop rapid diagnostic tests to avoid unnecessary treatment and cut our massive overuse of antibiotics. And yet, as important as these high-tech contributions may be, they are only partial fixes. To tackle the problem permanently, the only option is to prevent infections from occurring in the first place – with improved hygiene, sanitation, and disease surveillance. Indeed, only by focusing on these areas will we lower the demand for new drugs over the long term.

Indeed, in the nineteenth century, long before modern drugs were available, major Western cities tackled diseases by seeking to prevent infections.

And this approach remains the best solution for large cities with growing populations.

Consider London in the 1850s: Living conditions for the poor were grim. Male life expectancy was 40 years. Diseases like cholera and tuberculosis were rife, and there was no way to treat them.

In September 1854, a cholera outbreak devastated the city’s impoverished, central Soho district, killing 500 people in just ten days.

Enter John Snow, a pioneering physician who had intuited that cholera was spread not through the air, as conventional wisdom held, but through water. Snow monitored the progress of the Soho outbreak in unprecedented detail, mapping each case. His research convinced him that the source of the outbreak was a shared water pump in the heart of the district. And once the pump’s handle was removed, the pace of the outbreak slowed dramatically.

Several of Snow’s methods are directly applicable to the modern problem of antimicrobial resistance. For starters, his effort demonstrated the efficacy of using data to understand a public health crisis. His mapping and statistical analysis helped identify the epicenter of the outbreak and thus its root cause. Snow’s emphasis on using data to guide his intervention is a principle that institutions like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation insist upon today.

The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa demonstrated, in tragic fashion, the importance of

good data. The epidemic spread most dramatically in areas where basic infrastructure and surveillance systems had broken down. As a result, even after Ebola had been declared a public health emergency and funding had been made available, it remained difficult for many weeks to direct resources where they were most needed.

Worryingly, as the latest paper from my Review on Antimicrobial Resistance warns, there is no globally coordinated system of surveillance to monitor the emergence and spread of superbugs around the world. Fundamental gaps remain in how data are gathered and shared, even in the world’s richest countries. The result is a series of enormous blind spots that deprive us of the key insights and early warnings that we need to mount an effective response.

Snow’s other major contribution was to identify the central role that water plays in spreading diseases like cholera, leading authorities in Europe to invest in the development of sewage and sanitation systems. Decades before the discovery of cures like penicillin, there was no alternative but to invest in prevention to beat infectious diseases and protect growing urban populations.

This infrastructure-building was spectacularly successful: The last urban cholera outbreak in Western Europe occurred in 1892, and by the time World War I broke out, communicable diseases had ceased to be the leading cause of death across much of the continent. As antimicrobial drugs became more widely available, however, the focus moved away from preventive measures. This has not only had dire implications for urban dwellers forced to live in unsanitary conditions; it has also contributed to rising drug resistance. Today, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation is one of the leading causes of diarrhoeal illness – a major killer and the reason that hundreds of millions of people take antibiotic treatments each year. Most of this consumption is unnecessary, however, as the cause of diarrhoea is usually viral; taking antibiotics in these cases only contributes to the development of resistant bacteria. Estimates provided to my team suggest that in India, Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia alone, nearly a half-billion cases of diarrhoea are treated each year with antibiotics.

Were these four countries to provide their citizens with universal access to clean water and sanitation, this consumption could be reduced by at least 60 per cent. - Project Syndicate

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Ruling party hands Suu Kyi a role army sought to deny Myanmar’s upper house approved a bill creates the post of state counsellor and would allow the Nobel laureate to coordinate ministers and influence the executive

NAYPYITAW/YANGON: Myanmar’s upper house of parliament approved a bill on Friday that gives Aung San Suu Kyi a powerful government role, despite opposition from the military on the second day of her party’s new administration.

The bill creates the post of state counsellor and would allow the Nobel laureate to coordinate ministers and influence the executive.

It would help Suu Kyi circumvent a constitution written under the former junta that prevents her leading the country because her two sons are not Myanmar citizens. Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest because of her push for democracy, has described those constitutional provisions as “silly” and said she would rule regardless after she led her National

WIELDING POWER: Myanmar’s new Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, centre, leaves the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyidaw on Friday. – AFP

League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election victory in November. Members of parliament from the military - who under the constitution hold a quarter of seats - opposed the NLD bill, describing it as unconstitutional.

They said the state counsellor position concentrated too much power in the hands of one person and lacked checks and balances.

“The provisions in the bill are

tantamount to meaning the state counsellor is equal to the president, which is contrary to the constitution,” said Colonel Myint Swe, a military member of the upper house. Some lawmakers suggested the Constitutional Tribunal should decide on the bill.

Despite military resistance, the bill passed and moved to the lower house for debate on Monday. The NLD has a majority in both houses

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so does not need military approval to pass bills. Suu Kyi’s party would need military approval to change the constitution: amendments require support of more than 75 per cent of lawmakers.

The constitution is the main bone of contention between Suu Kyi and the military, whose commander-in-chief, Min Aung Hlaing, on Sunday stressed the need for the armed forces to remain

a force in politics and warned against amending the charter quickly. Some NLD lawmakers said the tussle over the state counsellor post would be the first of many between the military members of parliament and the government that took office on Wednesday. “There will be confrontations between the NLD and military MPs in future,” said Thiri Yadana, an upper house NLD lawmaker.

“They have to agree to amend the constitution.”

The role of state counsellor will add to the list of Suu Kyi’s jobs she is already foreign minister, education minister, energy minister, and minister of the president’s office - and has renewed questions about her willingness to delegate power. “It will be extremely hard to carry out these roles,” said Richard Horsey, an independent political analyst in Yangon.

“The sheer number of people that will want to meet with her will be difficult to manage.”

She has a thin bench of experienced politicians. Her party fought for democracy for more than quarter of a century, but its members are novices in government. NLD official Win Htein said Suu Kyi’s roles would not be a burden and the counsellor position would allow her to “work more effectively”.

The energy portfolio gives Suu Kyi oversight of oil and gas production, as well as responsibility for a decision on the $3.6 billion Myitsone Dam project, suspended in 2011. China has invested heavily in it and is keen to see it proceed. - Reuters

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Germany’s ex-foreign minister dies BERLIN: Germany’s longestserving foreign minister HansDietrich Genscher, a one-time refugee from the Communist East who helped unite his divided homeland, has died at the age of 89.

Genscher died of heart failure at home surrounded by his family on Thursday night, his office said in a statement on Friday.

Genscher, a lawyer who joined the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) party after fleeing East Germany, reached the height of his power as reunified Germany’s first foreign minister.

FDP leader Christian Lindner said on Twitter that Genscher had made history, calling him “the architect of unity (and) one of the founders of the EU”.

Compared by some commentators to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Napoleon’s foreign minister Talleyrand, Genscher employed his diplomatic skills to win support for reunification among doubting allies and former enemies.

With then chancellor Helmut Kohl, Genscher persuaded Moscow to give up its staunchest Cold War ally and let it join the former “enemy”.

And by stressing the then Bonn government’s total commitment to the West and the European integration he championed, Genscher helped reassure Western allies wary of the rebirth of a strong Germany. His persistence was rewarded on October 3, 1990, when West and East Germany were reunified after signing a treaty with the four victorious World War Two powers to restore German sovereignty after 45 years. — Reuters

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Once an abandoned baby, now Philippines presidential hopeful MANILA: A woman abandoned in a central Philippine church when a baby has topped an opinion poll barely two months ahead of elections to succeed President Benigno Aquino, an independent pollster said on Friday.

The May 9 election will be closely watched by investors, who fear the political succession in one of Asia’s fastest growing economies could derail gains made dur-

ing Aquino’s six-year single term.

Grace Poe, 47, was the top-ranked candidate among 28 per cent of 4,000 respondents in the March 15 to 20 survey commissioned by broadcaster ABS-CBN, a week after the Supreme Court ruled she was eligible to run for president.

The result cements Poe’s position as front-runner to become the third woman leader of the poor Southeast Asian state.

“Nearly three in 10 Filipino registered voters would elect Senator Grace Poe as the country’s next president if the May 2016 elections took place during the survey period,” said Ronald Holmes, president of independent pollster Pulse Asia. The survey was the first after the court dispelled doubts over her candidacy with its ruling in her favour. A week earlier the same pollster had said Poe was

in a statistical tie with a southern mayor as top contender with 26 per cent. The poll result would inspire the senator to work harder, her campaign spokesman said.

Trust and confidence “The trust and confidence of the Filipino voting public fuels Senator Poe to intensify her drive to drum up interest in her platform of governance,” said Rex Gatchalian.

Poe had faced questions over whether she met legal requirements to run for the country’s highest office, such as being a natural-born citizen with 10 years of residency, but the Supreme Court ruled in her favour on March 8.

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was in second place with 24 per cent, dropping one percentage point from a week earlier to reach a statistical tie with Vice Presi-

dent Jejomar Binay, who improved a point to 23 per cent. Aquino’s handpicked candidate, Manuel Roxas, remained in fourth place with 19 per cent, losing a point from an earlier poll. Another senator, Miriam Santiago, only has 2 per cent. About 4 per cent of registered voters are still undecided.

In power since 2010, Aquino is barred by the constitution from seeking a second term. — Reuters

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PARIS GAS EXPLOSION Flames erupt from an apartment building following an explosion that took place in Rue de Berite on Friday in Paris. A gas explosion occurred in a building, causing minor injuries to five people, according to police sources. — AFP

Pressure on Trump to get more serious WASHINGTON: Republican front-runner Donald Trump is facing pressure from supporters and other admirers to take a more serious approach to his US presidential campaign, worried that a string of missteps may do lasting damage.

Those who have marvelled at Trump’s ability to soar to the top are cautioning the New York billionaire just as weaknesses have been exposed in his shoot-fromthe-lip approach to campaigning for the party’s nomination to the November 8 election. Tuesday could be a turning point when Republican voters hold their primary contest in Wisconsin.

Magic number Trump’s leading rival, US Senator Ted Cruz, leads in opinion polls in the state. A Cruz win would make it harder for Trump to reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the Republican national convention in July. “If he continues to fumble the ball, he risks everything,” said David Bossie, who as president of the conservative group Citizens United has helped to introduce Trump to grassroots conservative activists. “These types of ham-handed mistakes give his opponents even greater opportunity.” — Reuters

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North Korea to continue nuclear missile programme GENEVA: North Korea will pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile programme in defiance of the United States and its allies, a top Pyongyang envoy told Reuters on Friday, saying there is now a state of “semiwar” on the divided peninsula.

So Se Pyong, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, denounced huge joint US-South Korean military exercises taking place which he said were aimed at “decapitation of the supreme leadership of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)”. North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket in February. The South Korean military said on Friday that North Korea had fired a missile into the sea off its east coast.

“If the United States continues, then we have to make the countermeasures also. So we have to develop, and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence,” So, who is also North Korea’s envoy to the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, said in an interview. US President Barack Obama joined South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday in vowing to ramp up pressure on North Korea in response to its recent nuclear and missile tests. The three leaders recommitted their countries to each others’ defence and warned they could take further steps to counter threats from Pyongyang. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday also called for dialogue to resolve the “predicament” on the Korean peninsula during a meeting with Park in Washington,. — Reuters

Smugglers use Facebook to advertise boat trips to Italy northern Aegean region to which Chios belongs said about 300 people had left the centre.

Clashes broke out at the site late on Thursday, during which windows were smashed and 10 people were injured lightly, another police official said.

The advert appeared after Turkey agreed with the EU this month to return migrants and refugees who cross illegally to Greece in exchange for financial aid

LONDON/ATHENS: Smugglers based in Turkey are offering to take migrants to Italy instead of Greece where they are likely to be deported under a deal between the Ankara government and European Union, according to a newspaper report.

The Guardian said on Thursday that smugglers had used Facebook to advertise a boat trip to Italy from the Turkish port of Mersin at a cost of $4,000 per person, four times the price of a journey from Turkey to Greece.

“The trip is on Saturday, from Mersin to Italy, on a merchant ship 110 metres long, equipped with food, water, life jackets and medicine,” The Guardian quoted the post as saying. The advert, which was no longer visible on Facebook on Friday, appeared after Turkey agreed with the EU

DETERIORATING CONDITIONS: Migrants and refugees go about their daily life on the rail tracks in the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni on Friday, where thousands of people are stranded by the Balkan border blockade. – AFP

this month to return migrants and refugees who cross illegally to Greece in exchange for financial aid, faster visa-free travel for Turks and slightly accelerated EU membership talks.

Returns The returns are supposed to begin on April 4 under the plan, which aims to close the main route by which a million migrants and refugees poured across the Aegean Sea to Greece in the last year before heading north mainly to Germany and Sweden.

A Facebook official told the Thomson Reuters Foundation the

company was investigating the origins of advertisement. In the past two years scores of wouldbe migrants seeking to escape conflict in the Middle East have used Facebook as their compass for finding the people smugglers they hope will lead them to a better life in Europe. However, many of these migrants end up being tricked by people posing as smugglers, the Guardian said. The United Nations called on Friday for legal safeguards to be in place before refugees are returned to Turkey under the agreement with the EU, while warning that conditions in Greece are deteriorating.

Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Chios tore down part of the razor wire fence surrounding their holding centre on Friday and began walking to the port in protest, police officials said.

About 1,500 migrants and refugees who arrived on Chios since March 20 were being held at the facility.

Video clips on Greek websites showed dozens of migrants and refugees, many of them women and children, carrying their belongings and walking along the tree-lined road to the port.

A police spokesman for the

New auxiliary force Austria and its neighbours in central Europe and the Balkans will press the European Union to create a new auxiliary force to help countries deal with any influx of migrants, Austria’s defence minister said on Friday.

Austria has suggested setting up a “bridging mission” that would help EU border agency Frontex process and deport migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey until Frontex is fully staffed there, which Vienna has said could take months. Meeting defence and other officials from the region in Vienna on Thursday, Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said those present backed a modified version of that concept, which could be sent to Greece or elsewhere. “It is... a mixed civil-police-military mission that should be deployed where necessary,” Doskozil said, adding the aim was to help secure the European Union’s external borders and deport migrants not entitled to stay in the bloc.

Doskozil said those present including EU members Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Croatia - would send a letter detailing the proposal to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini ahead of an EU defence ministers’ meeting on April 19. — Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reuters

WORLD’S FIRST

Europe gives green light to first gene therapy for children LONDON: World’s first life-saving gene therapy for children, developed by Italian scientists and GlaxoSmithKline, has been recommended for approval in Europe, boosting the pioneering technology to fix faulty genes.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday it had endorsed the therapy, called Strimvelis, for a tiny number of children with ADA Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (ADA-SCID) for whom no matching bone marrow donor is available.

Disorder Around 15 children a year are born in Europe with the ultra-rare genetic disorder, which leaves them unable to make a type of white blood cell. They rarely survive beyond two years unless their im-

mune function is restored with a suitable bone marrow transplant.

SCID is sometimes known as “bubble baby” disease, since children born with it have immune systems so weak they must live in germ-free environments.

Strimvelis is expected to secure formal marketing authorisation from the European Commission in a couple of months, making it the second gene therapy to be approved in Europe, after UniQure’s Glybera, which treats a rare adult blood disorder.

The US Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any gene therapies but a growing number of US biotech companies, such as Bluebird Bio, have products in development.

Other large pharmaceutical companies are also eyeing the field,

Now, though, optimism is building, helped by the discovery of better ways to carry replacement genes into cells.

Martin Andrews, head of GlaxoSmithKline’s rare diseases unit, believes the technology is proving itself, although it remains at an early stage of development.

“We’re on page one of chapter one of a new medicine text book,” he told Reuters.

APPROVED: A vector, which is used to transport the healthy gene into the patient’s cells, is seen in this undated handout image provided by GlaxoSmithKline on Friday. – Reuters/Grant Thompson/GSK/Handout

including Bristol-Myers Squibb, which has a tie-up with UniQure.

Research into gene therapy goes back a quarter of a century but the field has experienced many set-

backs, including the high-profile death of an American patient in 1999 and some disastrous clinical trial results in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Challenges A host of challenges still need to be overcome, including the complexity of delivering a product like GSK’s new treatment, which requires bone marrow cells to be taken from the patient, processed and injected back.

Trickiest of all may be pricing, given the tiny market for a therapy

like Strimvelis. UniQure’s Glybera made history in 2014 as the first drug to carry a $1 million price tag.

GSK is not putting a price on its product but a source close to the company said that, if approved, Strimvelis would cost “very significantly less than $1 million”.

GSK has several other gene therapies under development with researchers at Fondazione Telethon and Ospedale San Raffaele in Italy, including treatments for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome that could be submitted for regulatory approval in the next couple of years. Its Strimvelis treatment for ADA-SCID is also being lined up for submission to US regulators, although Andrews said this would not happen before the end of next year. — Reuters

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Kohli’s golden run stopped abruptly by the Caribbeans For the umpteenth time in the World Twenty20, the 27-year-old had papered over the cracks in India’s top order, his unbeaten 89 accounting for almost half of his country’s 192 in the semifinal against West Indies

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NEW DELHI: As the full toss left Andre Russell’s blade and settled deep into the stands, dropping a deathly silence across the Wankhede Stadium, Virat Kohli stood dazed, gazing at the trajectory of the ball and perhaps wondering what else he could have done.

For the umpteenth time in the World Twenty20, the 27-yearold had papered over the cracks in India’s top order, his unbeaten 89 accounting for almost half of his country’s 192 in the semifinal against West Indies.

In between the 11 boundaries and single six that flowed from his bat, the supreme athlete ran himself ragged, regularly converting singles into twos and occasionally two into threes.

Kohli the bowler also resurfaced when it mattered.

The evening dew had effectively defanged the Indian spinners, while their pacers bled boundaries, leaving Mahendra Singh Dhoni in an unenviable position.

The India captain, as is his wont, sprang a surprise by tossing the ball to Kohli and the part-time dibbly-dobbler struck immediately, dismissing the dangerous Johnson Charles (52) with his first delivery and ending a 97-run partnership.

Kohli was in the thick of things again in the 18th over, collaborating with Ravindra Jadeja to almost send back West Indies hero Lendl Simmons.

Jadeja took a running catch but as momentum was taking him over the ropes, he lobbed the ball inside

for Kohli to grab. TV replays, however, confirmed Jadeja’s foot had touched the boundary and it was declared a six.

Simmons and Russell set alight a hot and humid night with batting pyrotechnics that left the 2012 champions needing only eight runs off the last over.

Once again, Dhoni handed the

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We’re not just drummers in the Windies band: Simmons MUMBAI: Aggressive opening batsman Chris Gayle usually hogs the headlines but West Indies’ advance to the World Twenty20 final against England has shown they are by no means a one-man band, according to batsman Lendl Simmons.

Gayle scored an unbeaten century in the Caribbean side’s first pool match against England, which set up their successful run chase of 183, reaching the target with 11 balls to spare in Mumbai.

Since then, he has scored nine further runs.

He was dismissed for five in the semifinal against India before Simmons smashed 82 from 51 balls, while Andre Russell scored 43 from 20 to guide their side into Sunday’s showdown with Eoin Morgan’s team in Kolkata on Sunday. “I think England will certainly be aware that it’s not a one-man show in this team,” Simmons told reporters.

“Chris Gayle didn’t get off but we still managed to get over the line and it was a big total.

“Even when he didn’t perform, we were still able to get up and fight and that shows a lot of character from our players.”

The team have needed to rely on their character and collective will after a turbulent few months in which they have been pilloried for

ball to Kohli, hoping the golden arm of the man who could do no wrong would pull off a miracle. It was not to be. Kohli conceded a single off the first delivery and followed it up with a dot ball to raise Indian hopes of an improbable victory.

Russell hit the following ball for four, though, and deposited the next over deep mid-wicket and

into the stands to break 1.2 billion Indian hearts.

As Russell and Simmons were mobbed by their team mates, Kohli stood alone with his thoughts.

India’s Test captain finished the World Twenty20 with 273 runs from five innings with a staggering 136-plus average and a strike rate of almost 147.

Only Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal (295) scored more and he had the advantage of playing extra matches in the qualifying stage of the tournament.

His prodigious scoring means Kohli will remain in the mix for the player-of-the-tournament award but for a proud team man, it would probably mean very little. - Reuters

SPECIAL KNOCK: West Indies’s Lendl Simmons, centre, is held aloft by teammates as they celebrate after victory. – AFP

their performances in test matches and one day internationals.

They have also been galvanised by yet another bitter pay dispute with their board, who less than two months ago threatened to send a second string side to the tournament in India unless the

squad accepted their offer.

Since Gayle’s blistering start to the tournament, others have assumed the mantle of trying to chase down the totals they have been set in all five games.

Andre Fletcher scored 84 not out in their seven-wicket win over

Sri Lanka, while Johnson Charles (32) and Marlon Samuels (43) saw them to a three-wicket win over South Africa.

“Every one of our players are match winners in our team,” Simmons added. “We have a lot of batting power and I think we can chase any run total, we always back ourselves to chase totals.”

That confidence has also been evident in Morgan’s side after they comfortably accounted for New Zealand in the other semifinal, with man of the match Jason Roy epitomising the aggressive attitude that has filtered through the team. That aggression, and confidence, made them a better outfit than the England team that won the World Twenty20 in 2010, according to the captain of that side, Paul Collingwood. “In the past our line-up probably had one or two players that were real match-winners, this team is full of match-winners,” Collingwood told the ECB website. “These guys are mentally different to what we used to be. ‘Who dares wins’ is pretty much the motto.

“We probably would think, ‘this is a big game’ and pull back a little bit. It seems to be the other way round for these guys, they seem to thrive on the excitement of the big stage.” - Reuters

Dhoni far from shy and retiring when quizzed over future MUMBAI: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has mostly played retirement questions with a straight bat in the past, but the 34-year-old opted to go on a playful attack when asked about his future following the hosts’ World Twenty20 semifinal defeat.

Undoubtedly India’s most successful ever captain, Dhoni stunned all when he announced his decision to quit Test cricket in the middle of an Australian tour in 2014, handing over the mantle to Virat Kohli.

So it was not unusual for a journalist to ask Dhoni if he was keen to continue playing after India’s seven wicket defeat by West Indies knocked them out of their home tournament on Thursday.

The Indian Twenty20 captain, though, took the surprising step of asking the inquirer to come and sit next to him on stage and discuss the matter. “You want me to retire?” a grinning Dhoni asked with his arm draped around the nervous-looking journalist. “No, I don’t. I was just asking,” the Australian reporter answered. “Do you

think I am unfit, looking at me running?” Dhoni said. The journalist responded: “No, very fast.”

“Do you think I can survive until the 2019 World Cup?” Dhoni asked, referring to the 50-over tournament in England and Wales.

“Sure, yes, sure,” came the reply.

“Then you have answered the question,” Dhoni said with a big smile while giving the journalist a pat on his back as he quickly left the stage amid laughter from the room.

Dhoni has led India to the World T20, the 50-over World Cup, the Champions Trophy and also the top of the world test rankings.

He said he would have preferred one of his compatriots from the cricket-crazed country to have probed. “I would have asked whether he has a son who is old enough to play and is a wicketkeeper to play,” he said. “He would have said ‘no’ then I would have said maybe a brother who can play and who is a wicketkeeper.”

“You fired the wrong ammunition at the wrong time,” he told the journalist, with another smile on his face. - Reuters

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SPORTS Rosberg sets the pace in Bahrain Australia, and could also miss the following race in China on April 17.

The German, who is chasing his fifth victory in a row after winning Formula One’s season-opener in Australia and the last three races of 2015, led both sessions with his triple champion team mate Lewis Hamilton second

MANAMA: Championship leader Nico Rosberg lapped more than a second quicker than last year’s pole position time as Mercedes dominated Bahrain Grand Prix practice on Friday.

The German, who is chasing his fifth victory in a row after winning Formula One’s season-opener in

FASTEST IN PRACTICE: Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s German driver Nico Rosberg drives during the first practice session at the Sakhir circuit in Manama ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. – AFP

Australia and the last three races of 2015, led both sessions with his triple champion team mate Lewis Hamilton second.

Rosberg’s best lap of one minute 31.001 seconds, in the floodlit evening session at the Sakhir circuit compared to Hamilton’s 2015 pole of 1.32.671.

Hamilton, winner for the past two years in Bahrain, was the only other driver to lap below the 1:32 mark with a best effort of 1:31.242.

McLaren’s Jenson Button produced a third best time of 1:32.281 on the super-soft tyres.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen had been third fastest in the afternoon practice, a hefty 1.834 off Rosberg’s pace on the same soft tyres as the Mercedes pair.

The Red Bulls of Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Russian Daniil Kvyat were fourth and fifth in that same session but Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen and Raikkonen

filled those places in the evening.

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, third in Australia, was sixth but pulled off the track and stopped late in the second session with a loose wheel.

“The rear-left corner (wheel) is not tight. The nut is not on, that was the problem,” the fourtimes world champion said over the team radio. Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne got to grips with the McLaren ahead of his Formula One race debut as stand-in for the

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Klopp lifts spirits but not Liverpool fortunes LONDON: As Liverpool prepare to face Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, a glance at the table might suggest that not much has changed at Anfield in nearly six months since Juergen Klopp took charge of his first Premier League game against the north London club.

Before Klopp’s arrival in October, Liverpool, under the increasingly forlorn stewardship of Brendan Rodgers, were 10th in the table averaging 1.5 points a game.

Fast forward and the Liverpool fans are still enthused by the nearboundless optimism of their German coach, but results have stubbornly remained mixed.

If you created a Premier League table for the 22 games since Klopp made his bow at White Hart Lane on Oct. 17, then Liverpool would be ninth, averaging 1.5 points a match.

As the German pointed out on his arrival, he has no magic wand to revive Liverpool’s flagging fortunes and so it has proved.

Their home form is just as inconsistent as it always was -- they still have not recorded back-toback league wins at Anfield this season -- while an error-prone defence that dogged Rodgers’s time in charge, remains an issue.

injured Fernando Alonso and was 18th on the 22-driver timesheet in the first session.

The rookie moved up to 11th after another 30 laps in the second practice. Vandoorne, who flew in from Japan where he is racing in the Super Formula series this season, had not previously driven the 2016 McLaren.

Spaniard Alonso was ruled out on Thursday, after failing to pass a medical following his big crash in

Las Vegas on line Las Vegas could host a second U.S. race on the Formula One calendar in a few years’ time but a deal has yet to be agreed, the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Friday.

“I am going to be talking to them (Las Vegas promoters) in another 10 minutes’ (time),” Ecclestone told reporters during practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix, when asked about negotiations.

“It’s possible that there could be an event there,” added the 85-yearold Briton. Asked when the race in the desert resort might happen, he replied: “In a couple of years I suppose. We’d keep Austin and have another race.”

The Formula One calendar currently has a record 21 races, with Azerbaijan’s Baku street circuit due to debut in June, and Ecclestone has said that is probably the limit. Las Vegas hosted two Formula One grands prix in 1981 and 1982, with the track laid out in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel and casino. The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, is the only U.S. race on the current calendar that includes Montreal and Mexico City as the two other venues in North America. - Reuters

CAN HE DO IT NOW: Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp.

Liverpool have kept just two clean sheets in their last 10 league matches dating back to the beginning of 2016 and one of those came against rock-bottom Aston Villa.

Their home form in general remains a problem as they have taken just 20 points from 13 league matches at Anfield, which ranks

12th in the top flight.

Liverpool fans may point to facets that are more inscrutable to statisticians, such as playing style and attitude, but ultimately it seems the optimism at Anfield stems solely from the coach and his potential to get the most out of his players.

Certain individuals such as playmaker Adam Lallana and centre back Dejan Lovren, who had both become symbols of a supposedly failed transfer policy under Rodgers, seem to have been revived.

Perhaps more than any other player, Lallana has shone under Klopp and was handed the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for March on Friday, an award his manager said was richly deserved.

“I’m really, really happy that a few more people recognise what a great player he is,” Klopp told reporters on Friday as he previewed the game against Tottenham.

When the two sides played out a 0-0 draw in October, Tottenham were one point ahead of Liverpool in the table, but are now battling for the title and hoping to reel in leaders Leicester City at the summit.

Being an unfancied team fighting for the title is a familiar story for Klopp, who twice beat Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund -- a tale he hopes to repeat with Liverpool.

“I like stories like Spurs... if I wasn’t manager of Liverpool then maybe I could enjoy it more,” Klopp said.

“Hopefully, in future we can be more a part of it.” - Reuters

Staying true to our character is key to success, says Root KOLKATA: England batsman Joe Root believes if they stay true to their character, it will not be a problem to beat West Indies in the ICC World T20 summit clash on Sunday. “I don’t think there’s been an attitude swing or the way we approach practice or anything like that. We went into the tournament and stayed true to what we believe in as a side and the way we play our cricket. I think that’s probably been the most important thing,” Root said.

The promising youngster struck a match-winning 83 from 44 balls to script their famous win against South Africa chasing a huge 230 as they have not looked back since then.

“It’s about making sure that we did not go away how we wanted to play and the way we wanted to approach our cricket. Having that self-belief in each other and we could get and win against South Africa and build our confidence from that point onwards.

Everyone contributed in some

way, shape or form which is always nice getting into the final,” Root said. He however credited the captain and coach duo of Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss for this turnaround, especially after their ignominous exit in ODI World Cup in Australia last year where they had failed to get past any team apart from minnows Scotland and Afghanistan.

“Morgan’s captaincy has been fantastic across ODI and T20Is. We’ve chosen this way and approach probably has been a little bit shift for us and we stuck to our guns and when we went wrong we have not taken a step back.

“We still have got a very inexperienced side but a keen bunch of players who are willing to learn and improve. It will only make us better in the long run. That’s a massive factor how we got to here. Obviously, the management has been calm and positive. Guys have stuck to their gameplans.

Everyone has gone about their businesses.” - PTI FOOTBALLL

Wilshere can win England spot for Euro 2016: Wenger LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has backed Jack Wilshere to win a spot in England’s Euro 2016 squad despite the midfielder not playing a single game this season through injury.

Wilshere, who has 28 England caps but has endured a stop-start career punctuated by a number of injury problems, has been out since suffering a leg fracture in the close season.

He has returned to Arsenal training but with only eight games of their season remaining, faces a race against time to prove his fitness.

Wenger, however, said it would not be a gamble for England manager Roy Hodgson to include him in his squad for the European championships in June and July.

“It’s very important for his confidence that he can go to the Euros and he can play. It’s also important to have a player of his quality available,” Wenger told reporters.

“If he’s completely fit, no (it’s not a gamble). When you’re a national team coach, you can take a gamble on one player but certainly not on five. Roy Hodgson has to consider the whole situation.

You can certainly take a chance on just one player. — Reuters

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UK HOUSE PRICES RISE British house prices rose at their fastest annual pace in just over a year in March in the latest sign that buyers of properties to rent and second homes were rushing to beat the introduction of a new tax, a survey showed. House prices were 5.7 per cent higher in March. - Reuters

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Saudi Arabia to freeze oil output only if Iran joins

MICROSOFT DEMONSTRATES AUGMENTED REALITY VIEWER A Microsoft employee demonstrating HoloLens augmented reality viewer at the Microsoft Developers Build Conference in California, United States. HoloLens is essentially a holographic computer built into a headset that lets you see, hear, and interact with holograms within an environment such as a living room or an office space. Microsoft said it is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software. - Bloomberg News

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will only freeze its oil output if Iran and other major producers do so, the kingdom’s deputy crown prince said, challenging the country’s main regional rival to take an active role in stabilising the over-supplied global crude market.

The warning by Mohammed bin Salman, who’s emerged as Saudi Arabia’s leading political force, leaves the outcome of a meeting between Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and other big oil producers this month in question. Iran has already said it plans to boost its production after the lifting of sanctions following a deal to curb the country’s nuclear programme.

“If all countries agree to freeze production, we’re ready,” bin Salman said in an interview. “If there is anyone that decides to raise their production, then we will not reject any opportunity that knocks on our door.”

Brent crude below $40 In London, Brent crude oil fell below $40 a barrel after his comments, declining as much as 2.1 per cent to $39.50 a barrel. In New York, West Texas Intermediate crude fell as low as $37.42 a barrel, almost erasing all its gains for the year.

After the Opec abandoned its efforts to boost oil prices in November 2014, focusing instead on protecting its market share, Saudi Arabia increased production to an all-time high of more than 10.5 million barrels a day, claiming that customers were asking for more oil.

The meeting of oil producers in Qatar on April 17 follows a gathering in February between Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia and Venezuela in which the quartet tentatively agreed to cap their production at January’s level.

The deal, which helped to lift the price of benchmark Brent crude above $40 a barrel from a 12-year low of $27.10 a barrel in January, was contingent on other countries joining it.

Doha discussions Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh will attend the Doha discussions but won’t join a production freeze, according to a person familiar with the nation’s policy. Tehran will maintain its policy of regaining market share lost during years of sanctions, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the talks are private.

The International Energy Agency said that Iran, in its first full month freed of nuclear sanctions in February, lifted its oil production to a four-year high of 3.22 million barrels a day. Energy Aspects, a London-based consultant, said Iran boosted oil exports by another 100,000 barrels a day in March.

Traders and analysts have speculated that Riyadh could be ready to voluntarily cap its output at the current level of about 10.2 million barrels a day even if Iran doesn’t join.

“But asked whether Iran needed to take part, bin Salman said, “without a doubt.” - Bloomberg News

Saudi Arabia plans to sell 5% Aramco stake by 2018 By committing to sell shares in the parent, the Saudi Prince will give investors a stake in the world’s biggest oil fields

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia plans to sell a stake ‘of less than 5 per cent’ in the parent of its state-owned oil company, the Saudi kingdom’s deputy crown prince said, revealing details of a listing that could make it the world’s biggest publicly traded company.

In an interview, Prince Mohammed bin Salman said his advisers were working on a plan to offer shares in all of Saudi Arabian Oil Company rather than just some of its refining subsidiaries. Saudi Aramco, as the world’s biggest oil exporter is known, would be listed on the domestic stock exchange as early as 2017 and no later than 2018, said the prince.

“The mother company will be offered to the public as well as a number of its subsidiaries,” the prince, who heads Aramco’s Supreme Council, said in a five-hour conversation.

Global oil glut By committing to sell shares in the parent bin Salman will give investors a stake in the world’s biggest oil fields and expose the assets that underpin the kingdom’s entire economy to unprecedented scrutiny. Aramco controls about 10 times the oil reserves held by Exxon Mobil and based on a conservative valuation of $10 a barrel, the company could be worth more than $2.5 trillion.

Saudi Aramco’s listing is the centerpiece of a broader economic transformation that the kingdom is planning in response to a global oil glut that has driven down crude prices and slashed revenue from its most valuable export. Aramco pumps more than 10 million barrels a day of crude, exceeding the domestic output of all United States oil firms combined.

The prince’s plans also call for Aramco to become the world’s largest oil refiner, overtaking Exxon, mainly by adding capacity in Asia, as well as pushing further

$2.5t could be the worth of the company based on a conservative valuation of $10 a barrel. Saudi Aramco controls about 10 times the oil reserves held by Exxon Mobil

into petrochemical production.

“We will also announce Aramco’s new strategy and will transform it from an oil and gas company to an energy-industrial company,” he said.

Bourse listing The plan calls for listing a small stake on the Tadawul, as the Arab world’s largest bourse is known, the prince said. The size of the stake hasn’t yet been decided, but he said: “We’re talking about less than 5 per cent.”

The rest of Aramco would still be owned by the government but controlled through a sovereign wealth fund, which as a result of the share sale would become the world’s richest.

The Public Investment Fund, which holds stakes in local companies including petrochemical giant Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, would eclipse sovereign wealth funds in Norway and UAE emirate of Abu Dhabi.

IPO options In January, Aramco said officials were studying two main routes for an initial public offering: an IPO of its parent and the listing of a bundle of its oil-refining subsidiaries.

The sale of shares in the parent company — the route now signaled by the kingdom’s deputy crown prince — would open the door for private investors to own a piece of the world’s largest oil fields.

Saudi Aramco traces its origins back to the oil shortages of World War I, when United States companies explored the Middle East for hydrocarbons.

The company, which was owned by what today are Exxon and Chevron until its full nationalisation in 1980, is closely linked with the emergence of one of the most powerful geopolitical forces of the past half century: the modern petro-state.

The IPO, together with the relaunch of the sovereign wealth fund, are the cornerstones of a

plan put forward by the young deputy crown prince that could become one of the biggest economic transformations since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.

“Aramco is now the biggest company in the world and it has the capability of controlling the shape of energy in the future, and we want to venture into that from today,” the prince said.

Valuing Reserves Despite the prince’s bullishness, foreign investors rarely value state-owned oil companies as dispassionately as their crudereserve numbers suggest — or as government officials might hope.

State-controlled Rosneft, for example, is the largest oil producer in Russia and one of the world’s largest. It pumps 5 million barrels a day — far more than Chevron — yet its market capitalization is just $50 billion, a fraction of Chevron’s $180 billion. - Bloomberg News

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Top global banks in cross-hairs over dealings with 1MDB KUALA LUMPUR: United States Department of Justice officials have asked Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase to provide details on their dealings with 1MDB, as global investigations into the troubled Malaysian state fund widen.

US Department of Justice officials also travelled to Kuala Lumpur to speak to senior bankers and other people with close links to the state fund, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. They said JPMorgan and Deutsche were not the target of investigations at this stage, but had only been asked to provide details.

Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan declined to comment.

The Department of Justice also declined to comment. The US move marks the latest devel-

opment in a wide-ranging global investigation across three continents into possible corruption and money-laundering at 1MDB, whose advisory board is chaired by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Najib has denied any wrongdoing and said he has not taken any funds for personal gain, but opposition leaders and government critics have stepped up calls for him to resign.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media. It was unclear how long the United States officials were in Kuala Lumpur, or whether they had completed their visit.

A team of lawyers for Deutsche Bank are in Kuala Lumpur preparing the report they intend to sub-

mit to the Department of Justice, one of the sources said. Malaysia’s Attorney General, who was handpicked by Najib, cleared him of all criminal offences in January.

The ‘Wall Street Journal’ reported in March that more than $1 billion was deposited in Najib’s

account and global investigators believe much of it originated from 1MDB. The fund has consistently denied these claims and repeated again on Thursday that no 1MDB funds went into the prime minister’s personal accounts.

Deutsche Bank is one of the many global lenders who had dealings with 1MDB, as the energy-toreal estate group expanded rapidly after its inception in 2009. The bank provided a $975 million loan for 1MDB in late 2014, which was repaid last year.

The German bank was also advising the fund on a proposed $3 billion initial public offering of its energy assets, which never took place. JPMorgan normally acts as a US clearing bank for lenders operating in Malaysia. Its dealings if

any with 1MDB were not immediately clear.

Goldman, others probed The US government is already reviewing Goldman Sachs’ relationship with the Malaysian fund. A Federal Bureau of Investigation team specialising in ‘international kleptocracy’ is leading the bureau’s inquiries, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters last year.

Goldman came under fire for the fees it charged for helping 1MDB raise funds through bond offerings.

The fund racked up borrowings of about 42 billion ringgit ($11.5 billion), before selling off assets in 2015 to pay down debt.

Goldman has declined to comment. Other international banks that have dealt with the fund are

also facing questions. Singapore’s central bank said it had asked financial institutions to provide details of any transactions linked to 1MDB, without identifying any lenders by name.

The burgeoning 1MDB scandal has rocked Najib’s government as public outrage over the alleged mismanagement and corruption grows. The scandal has fuelled a sense of crisis in a country under economic strain from slumping oil prices and a prolonged slide in its currency last year.

Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s longest-serving leader and once Najib’s patron, has become his fiercest critic and is leading a campaign to oust the prime minister with the support of some opposition leaders. - Reuters

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AirAsia to raise $257m in share sale to founders

TESLA UNVEILS $35,000-MODEL 3 SEDAN Tesla Motor gave a sneak preview of its Model 3 sedan, the first mass-production electric car, on Thursday. The $35,000 Model 3 seats five and gets at least 346 kilometers (215 miles) per charge and the company said it is ‘fairly confident’ deliveries will begin in 2017. Tesla received more than 115,000 reservations in 24 hours. – Bloomberg News

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia is raising 1 billion ringgit ($257 million) selling stock to a company controlled by its founders as the continent’s biggest budget airline raises cash to finance aircraft purchase and pare down debt.

The airline will issue 559 million new shares at 1.84 ringgit apiece to Tune Live Sdn, equally owned by chief executive officer Tony Fernandes and chairman Kamarudin Meranun, AirAsia said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange on Friday.

The sale represents 16.7 per cent of the enlarged capital of the Sepang, Malaysia-based carrier.

Tune Air Fernandes and Kamarudin control another company Tune Air, which is the largest shareholder of the airline at 18.9 per cent. That holding company’s stake in AirAsia will decline to 15.7 per cent after the new share sale.

AirAsia is the second-best performing stock on the MSCI Asia Pacific Index this year amid speculation that its key shareholders could step in to strengthen its finances or take the company private. Mounting competition from Malaysia Airlines and low-cost carriers led to a drop in ticket prices in the region and the carrier’s stock dropped to its lowest in August last year.

Asian airlines, particularly budget carriers, have suffered from a price war. – Bloomberg News MONEY SPINNER

London to lose on euro trade if UK leaves European Union FRANKFURT/LONDON: If Britons vote to leave the European Union, London’s financial centre faces losing one of its top money spinners — the trade in trillions of euros in derivatives — and the European Central Bank (ECB) will be pushing hard for the business to move onto its patch.

According to eurozone central bank officials, the ECB is determined to tackle an anomaly dating from 1999 when Britain opted out of the euro’s launch: a dominant share of trading in the currency it issues goes on outside its jurisdiction in London.

Eurozone officials are reluctant to discuss publicly such a sensitive issue — and the risk that London could lose out to rivals Frankfurt and Paris — before the June 23 referendum on a British exit from the European Union.

But Christian Noyer, a former ECB vice president and Bank of France governor, is free to make the case as he no longer holds a high office in the eurozone.

“If Britain left the EU, the euro area authorities could no longer tolerate such a high proportion of

financial activities involving their currency taking place abroad,” he said.

“It is already very difficult for euro members to accept that our currency is largely traded outside the currency area, beyond the control of the ECB,” Noyer wrote in an article for economic think tank OMFIF. Two eurozone central bank officials, requesting anonymity, made the same points.

Trillions of euros The trading of euro-based securities spans trillions of euros of derivatives deals as well as the ‘repo’ market providing shortterm funding for banks — €2 trillion of which experts say is based in London. On top of this, there is foreign exchange trading in the currency itself.

The Frankfurt-based ECB wants oversight of this business for a practical reason: if any disaster were to hit these markets like the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers bank in the United States, it would be responsible for dealing with the crisis. The ECB

declined to comment on the derivatives oversight issue.

Outlier status Supporters of a British exit from the EU say predictions of London’s demise as a financial centre when it failed to adopt the common currency proved wrong, and the same would be true in the event of a ‘Brexit’.

So far, campaigning has focused on issues ranging from immigration to the Brussels bureaucracy, with Brexit supporters arguing that the EU has moved far from the bloc’s original aim of merely boosting trade within Europe.

However, the City of London remains a major employer and accounts for 12 per cent of the British economy, generating roughly £66 billion ($93 billion) in tax revenue a year for a cash strapped exchequer. The ECB has already tried to insist that clearing houses that process euro derivative trades should be based in the 19-nation currency bloc. Britain mounted a legal challenge to defend its financial sector and won at the EU’s second-highest court last year. - Reuters

Japan business mood sours to three-year low Business sentiment among Japan’s big manufacturers is expected to worsen in the coming quarter, a closely watched central bank survey showed on Friday

TOKYO: Business sentiment among Japan’s big manufacturers deteriorated to the lowest in nearly three years and is expected to worsen in the coming quarter, a closely watched central bank survey showed on Friday, heightening pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to do more to shore up the ailing economy.

Big firms also plan to cut capital expenditure plans in the current fiscal year, underscoring the challenges the Bank of Japan faces in aggressively printing money to nudge risk-shy companies into boosting spending.

To keep the economy afloat, Abe may have to delay yet again a sales tax hike scheduled for next year. The weak reading will also keep the BoJ under pressure to loosen monetary policy further when it reviews its quarterly forecasts later this month, some analysts say.

“This data confirmed the very cautious stance of Japanese firms reflecting the market volatility since January. There’s no signs of corporate sentiment bottom-

ing in coming months,” said Mari Iwashita, chief market economist at SMBC Friend Securities.

Easing policy “There’s more than a 50 per cent chance the BoJ will consider easing policy further this month.”

The headline index gauging big manufacturers’ sentiment stood at plus 6 in March, half the level seen three months ago and worse than a median market forecast of plus 8, the survey showed.

It was the lowest reading since June 2013, as exporters felt the pinch from sluggish emerging market demand and yen rises that erode their competitive advantage overseas. Big non-manufacturers’ sentiment dropped to plus

22 from plus 25 three months ago, deteriorating for the first time in six quarters, as spending by overseas visitors moderated.

Sentiment soured for manufacturers and non-manufacturers big and small for the first time since June 2014, when Japan was reeling from the blow of a sales tax hike in April of that year.

Both big manufacturers and nonmanufacturers expect sentiment to worsen in the coming three months, underscoring companies’ concern over the murky global economic outlook.

“The slowdown in emerging economies, particularly that of China, has affected business sentiment. The impact was big for big manufacturers with direct exposure to global economic conditions,” a BOJ official told reporters in a briefing. The yen’s rise is also expected to hurt profits.

Big manufacturers based their business plans on the assumption the dollar would average ¥117.46 in the current fiscal year, higher than recent levels around ¥112, suggesting that corporate profits could be revised down ahead.

In a sign uncertainty over the global outlook is hurting companies’ spending plans, big firms plan to cut capital expenditure by 0.9 per cent for the current fiscal year from year-before levels. - Reuters

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MARKET ACQUISITION

Chinese group abandons $14b bid for Starwood Hotels BEIJING: China’s Anbang Insurance Group has said it has abandoned its $14 billion bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, paving the way for Marriott International to buy the Sheraton and Westin hotels operator.

The surprise withdrawal marks an anticlimactic end to a bidding war that had pitted Marriott’s ambitions to create the world’s largest lodging company, with about 5,700 hotels, against Anbang’s drive to create a vast portfolio of United States real estate assets.

It also represents a blow to corporate China’s growing ambitions to acquire US assets. Anbang’s acquisition of Starwood would have been the largest takeover of a US company by a Chinese buyer.

“We were attracted to the opportunity presented by Starwood because of its high-quality, leading global hotel brands, which met many of our acquisition criteria,

including the ability to generate consistent, long-term returns over time,” Anbang said in a statement.

“However, due to various market considerations, the consortium has determined not to proceed further,” Anbang added, referring to the joint bid it had put together with private equity firms J.C. Flowers and Primavera Capital.

Anbang did not offer Starwood a reason for not following through on its raised offer of March 26, according to people familiar with the matter. They asked not to be identified disclosing confidential discussions. “The reason of withdrawal is simple — Anbang isn’t interested in a protracted bidding war,” Fred Hu, chairman of Primavera, said.

It was not immediately clear if Marriott had been planning a counterbid to Anbang’s March 26 offer. Anbang has previously bowed out of smaller deals, but this

Anbang had withdrawn its offer “as a result of market considerations,” which it did not specify.

Marriott declined to provide immediate comment. The move fueled speculation on what drove Anbang to change course, especially given that many Chinese overseas acquisitions have been encouraged by the country’s authorities.

SURPRISE WITHDRAWAL: The consortium led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group had offered $82.75 per share in cash. – Bloomberg News

is the most high-profile deal it has abandoned, people familiar with the matter said.

Starwood said on Monday that Anbang had raised its offer to almost $14 billion. Anbang had been expected to firm up that nonbinding offer, so that Starwood would formally declare it superior

to Marriott’s. Anbang had already made a $13.2 billion binding and fully financed offer earlier this month, which Starwood accepted as superior. Had Marriott not counterbid on March 21, Starwood would have proceeded with the earlier Anbang offer.

Starwood said on Thursday that

Overseas investments Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported earlier this month that China’s insurance regulator would likely reject a bid by Anbang to buy Starwood, since it would put the insurer’s offshore assets above a 15 per cent threshold for overseas investments.

Should Anbang have clinched an agreement with Starwood, it would have been scrutinised by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an

interagency panel that reviews deals to ensure they do not harm national security. However, sources had said that both Starwood and Anbang believed the deal would have received CFIUS clearance.

“My guess is that Starwood wanted either a higher break-up fee, maybe a billion dollars, or a higher price from Anbang to offset the risk,” said Ryan Meliker, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity. In its latest offer, Anbang’s consortium had offered $82.75 per share in cash. Marriott’s latest cash-andstock offer, which was announced on March 21, is worth around $75 per share.

Starwood shareholders will also receive stock in Interval Leisure Group Inc, worth $6.13 per Starwood share. This is the result of a deal last year to spin off Starwood’s timeshare business and combine it with Interval Leisure Group.

- Bloomberg News

BANKING

Barclays can still compete in Gulf after job cuts: CEO DUBAI: Barclays still has ‘critical mass’ to compete in the Middle East and will aim to help local companies raise capital even as it scales back lending, chief executive officer Jes Staley said.

The UK lender has more than 200 employees in the United Arab Emirates after job cuts in the country this year and will continue to operate its corporate, investment banking and wealth management businesses in the region, Staley, 59, said in an interview in Dubai. Barclays’s UAE business is “very profitable,” Staley said, without elaborating on the profitability.

Global investors Staley is joining other banking chiefs in trying to prove that a global lender doesn’t need expansive operations in every country where it wants to earn fees. Barclays has exited seven countries in Asia as part of a restructuring, and Staley said the bank will use its presence in the UAE to bring international investors and companies there and to nearby nations such as Qatar.

“If you then have a very strong presence in New York and London in terms of your ability to distribute securities to the major providers of capital, you are, in effect, a global bank,” Staley said. “I feel very comfortable that the footprint that we have now defined enables Barclays to be very competitive.”

Barclays was cutting about 150 jobs in Dubai as the UK lender restructures its Middle East corporate banking business, a person with knowledge of the matter said in February, joining rival lenders HSBC and Standard Chartered in reducing headcount in the region.

First visit Staley said the Middle East was the first region he’s visited outside of New York and London, even as the bank’s headcount in the UAE makes up a tiny portion of its 129,400 total. Part of the firm’s efforts in the region will be helping companies find alternative sources of capital, as bank lending becomes more expensive, he said.

“Commerce around the world has to adjust to the new reality that bank balance sheets are very expensive to use these days,” Staley said. “Regulators around the world want the largest banks to reduce the use of their balance sheets for funding economic growth and instead focus on the capital markets to match the borrowers with the lenders of capital.” - Reuters

GOING PLACES: Huawei, which debuted its first Android device in 2009 to complement its main networking business, is now pushing into markets from the United States

to Europe to help offset a decelerating home market. - Bloomberg News

Huawei’s net profit jumps as it expands beyond China Huawei, which debuted its first Android device in 2009 to complement its main networking business, is now pushing into markets from the United States to Europe

Times News Service MUSCAT: Huawei Technologies’ net profit surged 33 per cent in 2015 at $5.7 billion after the China’s largest maker of telecommunications gear grabbed market share with premium smartphones and mobile carriers expanded their high-speed networks globally.

The company said that its Carrier, Enterprise, and Consumer Business Groups (BGs) all achieved strong year-on-year growth. The three BGs generated

60.8 billion in annual revenue worldwide, an increase of 37 per cent year-on-year.

Huawei, which debuted its first Android device in 2009 to complement its main networking business, is now pushing into markets from the United States to Europe to help offset a decelerating home market. That helped its consumer-products arm expand revenue by 73 per cent, its fastestgrowing division.

Guo Ping, Huawei’s deputy chairman and chief executive of-

ficer, said, “In part, Huawei owes its long-term growth to the sheer size of the ICT market, which is the driving force of digital economies around the world. However, our growth is also a direct result of strategic focus and heavy investment in our core businesses.”

“Over the next three to five years, we will concentrate on enhancing connectivity, enabling the development of vertical industries, and redefining network capabilities. With an open and collaborative approach, and a commitment to shared success, we will work closely with our customers and partners to maximize industry development opportunities. Together, we will build a Better Connected World,” he added.

In 2015, Huawei’s three business segments experienced significant growth: The Carrier BG generated $35.8 billion in annual revenue, up 21 per cent year-onyear. Widespread rollout of 4G networks accounted for a large

portion of this growth.

The Enterprise BG generated $4.3 billion in annual revenue, an increase of 44 per cent yearon-yaer. In particular, Huawei’s enterprise business experienced rapid growth in the public safety, finance, transportation, and energy sectors.

Annual revenue soars A major highlight of the company’s performance in 2015, Huawei’s Consumer BG reported $19.9 billion in annual revenue, up 73 per cent year-on-year. This increase was a direct result of increased demand for high-quality products that deliver a premium user experience, as well as Huawei’s growing influence as a consumer brand.

Over the past 20-plus years, Huawei has remained focused on ICT infrastructure, steadily investing in R&D. In 2015 alone, Huawei invested 15% of its annual revenue – CNY 59.6 billion

(US$9.2 billion) – in research and development. Huawei’s total R&D investment over the past decade exceeds CNY 240 billion (approximately US$37 billion).

Sabrina Meng, Huawei’s chief financial officer, noted: “We wrapped up 2015 in a robust financial position, with stable cash flow from operating activities, increased cash availability, and effective risk control. In 2016, we will continue to focus on our pipe strategy, staying customercentric in all we do. We will press ahead with management transformation projects to better prepare ourselves for the future, and continue boosting the efficiency of our operations to ensure sustainable growth.”

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FEATURE

Citibank, part of the world’s largest currency trader Citigroup, sees the rupee holding in a range as investor appetite for developing-nation securities is pressured by US Federal Reserve’s policy tightening and yuan weakness

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itibank is predicting India’s rupee will hold much of the gains from what looks set to be its best month in two years.

The resolve shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in seeking to narrow the fiscal deficit to a nine-year low has boosted investor confidence and will probably support capital inflows, said Bhanu Vohra, Mumbai-based head of foreign exchange for South Asia at the United States bank.

Citibank, part of the world’s largest currency trader Citigroup, sees the rupee holding in a range as investor appetite for developing-nation securities is pressured by the Federal Reserve’s policy tightening and yuan weakness. “We expect this strength in the rupee to be range bound, with our medium term view of weak emerging-market currencies intact,” said Vohra, who sees a range of between 66-69 per dollar in the “medium term.” The rupee “can be an outperformer in Asia should the government execute the budget plans,” he said.

Developing-nation currencies are rebounding as a recovery in crude oil prices and the willingness of global central banks to support growth spurs risk appetite. The rupee has jumped 2.4 per cent this month to head for its biggest gain since March 2014, after weakening last month to the brink of a record low.

Foreign funds have pumped a net $2.4 billion into Indian stocks in March, after two months of outflows.

The rupee is still Asia’s worst-performing currency this year, having lost 1 per cent to 66.8450 a

We expect this strength in the rupee to be range bound, with our medium term view of weak emerging-market currencies intact.

The rupee can be an outperformer in Asia should the government execute the budget plans

Bhanu Vohra Head, foreign exchange (South Asia) at United States bank

dollar in Mumbai on Wednesday. It fell to 68.7875 on February 26, near a record low of 68.845 seen in August 2013. Morgan Stanley this month slashed its year-end rupee forecast to 73 from 70.

The Indian currency “is likely to underperform in a risk-averse environment that we expect will continue to dominate fundamentals over the next few quarters,” Morgan Stanley strategists led by Londonbased Hans Redeker wrote in a March 13 report. Rupee “longs are crowded, and weakening risk appetite suggests that the equity-dominated capital inflows may ease from here.”

Two Federal Reserve officials on Monday said interest-rate increases may be warranted as soon as next month, citing solid readings on the US economy.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) next meets April 26-27. It held off from raising borrowing costs last week and halved projections for how many times it would hike rates this year to two.

Debt holdings The rupee’s “current rally is on the back of the FOMC turning more dovish than expected and a general risk-on sentiment returning to Asia, also led by the yuan appreciating,” Vohra said.

“The rupee will remain between 66-69 to a dollar in the medium term. We don’t see it appreciating below 66 and or going to 72 either.”

Foreign holdings of rupee-denominated government and corporate bonds have climbed 44.8 billion

rupees in the last five days, data from National Securities Depository Ltd. show. That’s helped take net inflows to Rs17.2 billion for this month, after withdrawals of 87.6 billion rupees in February, which were the biggest since April 2014.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 29 retained a target of narrowing the fiscal deficit to 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product in the year starting April 1. He boosted spending on a rural jobs programme, while budgeting for higher wages and military pensions.

No different UBS Group sees the rupee weakening to 70 a dollar by the year end, Bhanu Baweja, London-based head of emerging-market cross-asset strategy, predicted earlier in the month, citing the slump in India’s exports and risks the budget will reignite inflation.

Shipments from Asia’s third-largest economy fell 5.7 per cent in February, a 15th straight month of contraction. The current-account deficit in the quarter through December was $7.1 billion, wider than the median $3 billion in a Bloomberg survey of economists, as overseas earnings from services slowed.

“The benefits of a weak currency on the exports of a country are obvious, but also at times overstated,” said Vohra of Citibank. “A very weak currency has other associated issues like being inflationary to start with.

It also puts long-term investors at bay as their capital returns decline. India is no different.” – Bloomberg News

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Create the Bedroom of your Dreams As life gets busier, a bedroom becomes more than a sleeping space — it’s an escape to a calmer, more serene world that rests the mind as well as the body. To create your own in-house getaway, use these easy tips to ‘calm-ify’ your bedroom and transform it into a more beautiful and restful retreat.

Sink into some silence Create white noise to block out sounds that disturb the solitude.

Install a stylish ceiling fan with gently whirring blades to give the room a languid, tropical ambiance that will help you relax.

Paint the room green Studies show green has a calming effect when used as a main colour for decorating. A recent homeowner study conducted by Sherwin-Williams found that more than 60 per cent of homeowners would consider adding shades of green into their home, with more than half saying they would use it to paint an entire room.

Fluff up your bedding Give your bed a fresh new look and feel. Buy yourself some soft, cool white sheets. Add a featherlike, comfortable bedspread or quilt, and top it with multiple pillows of all shapes and sizes for a well-rested night’s sleep.

Simplify for serenity’s sake Eliminate clutter to keep it out of sight — and out of mind. Add cabinets with built-in organisation features like drawer inserts. Add more shelving in the closet. Use baskets and pottery to keep small items contained. Having everything in its place will help you feel free to relax in your beautiful new bedroom.

Lower the lighting Adjusting the lighting can completely alter the atmosphere in a bedroom. Install a light dimmer or add a programmable timer that turns lights off and on automatically, to help lull you to sleep, yet brighten the room when it’s time to get up. –BPT

Shopping for a New Sofa?

Keep These Design Tips in Mind

Add fresh houseplants Living things, like leafy or flowering plants, make a bedroom feel more down to earth. Visit your local garden centre and purchase a variety of houseplants, large or small, to freshen the air.

Looking for a quick and easy way to freshen up your living room?

Look no further than your sofa. A change of upholstery, especially a custom design, can change the look and feel of your room. Today’s sofa styles range from sleek and modern to traditional and timeless with a range of details like tufting and nailheads, shown in ready-toship fabrics, or you can pick from an expanded collection of fabric or leather to suit your style and budget. When picking out your new sofa and giving it your own personal touch with a range of custom options, keep these design tips in mind: Fabric: There are so many pattern and texture options.

How do you decide between a menswear stripe, graphic floral, luxe leather or solid chenille? Look in your closet for guidance. “What colour do you wear more? What’s your favourite pattern? Your home is like your wardrobe and you need to look good in it.”

• Tufting: It’s trending so much so that entire sofas are tufted.

But it does come in various degrees. The deeper the tuft, the more dramatic and glamorous the sofa, while a more subtle tuft with simple button detail is more conservative, and contemporary.

• Frame: Rather than concealing the frame in the construction process, designers are exposing it, giving the wood timeworn details and a beautiful finish.

Adding an architectural element to the piece, an exposed frame brings another level of style to your space particularly if it’s an open floor plan.

• Finish: The finish of the sofa frame, if exposed, and legs comprise another opportunity to showcase your individual style.

You have your choice of many finishes, ranging from a rich walnut to weathered barnwood.

• Finale: If an option, don’t overlook the nailhead detail-the finale to your sofa design. Use nailheads to accent a unique feature of the sofa such as a rolled arm or seat back. But be sure to browse the range of sizes and finishes, including old gold, stainless steel, pewter and gunmetal.

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FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (ROUTE 36)

TEMPERATURE

05:30 05:30 05:30

Maximum

Daily Daily Daily

Sur Quriyat Ruwi

06:45 08:30 10:00

TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)

TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)

06:30 06:30 08:00 13:00 13:00 16.00 16.00

07:00 07:00 13:30 13:00 13:00 13:00 17:00

Sohar Buraimi Buraimi Sohar Buraimi Sohar Buraimi

08:50 Daily 11:00 Daily 14:30 Daily via Ibri 15:45 Daily 17:40 Daily 18.35 Daily 20:20 Daily

TO SINAW (ROUTE 52) 17:30

Sinaw

Nizwa Yanqul

20:50

Daily

16:50 19:30

Daily Daily

Nizwa Al Araqi

33 25

Daily Daily

07:00

Ruwi

10:25

Daily

06:00 06:00

Nizwa Ruwi

08:40 11:00

Daily Daily

15:40 15:40

Nizwa Ruwi

17:55 20:20

Daily Daily

TO SUR (ROUTE 55) 12:00 18:45

Daily Daily

TO FAHUD - YIBAL (ROUTE 62) 06:30 06:30

Fahud Yibal

Salalah Marmul Salalah Salalah

20:00 20:30 23:30 07:40

Daily Daily

Marmul

Dubai

16:50

Daily

Sohar Dubai Sohar Dubai Sohar Dubai

Daily Daily

12:30 12:30

Fahud Ruwi

13:15 17:30

Daily Daily

07:00 10:00 10:00 19:00

Ruwi Marmul Ruwi Ruwi

19:50 13:15 22:30 07:30

06:00

Marmul

16:30

Daily

Daily

08:30 11:30 15:30 18:30 17:35 20:55

Daily Daily Wed,Thur Wed,Thur Daily Daily

15:00

Salalah

07:00

Daily

10:50 13:40 16:15 19:10 18:45 21:35

Daily Daily Thur-Fri Thur-Fri Daily Daily

TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201) 07:30 07:30 13:00 13:00 15:30 15:30

Sohar Ruwi Sohar Ruwi Sohar Ruwi

TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)

FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH/SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)

07:00 07:00 07:00

16:00 16.00 16.00

Fujairah Sharjah Dubai

Oopiri (Telugu) (Comedy & Drama) Cast: Nagarjuna, Karthi & Tamanna 3:00 PM Cinema Main\ 6:45 & 9:45 PM Cinema-3 Vettah (Mal) (Thriller) Cast: Kunchacko Boban, Manju Warrier 3:45PM Cinema -3 \ 6:30 PM Cinema-2 \ 10: 00 PM Cinema Main Thozha (Tamil) (Comedy \ Drama) Cast: Karthi, Nagarjuna & Tamanna 3:30 & 9:30 PM Cinema-2 \ 6:30 PM Cinema Main Action Hero Biju (Mal) (act\ comedy) Cast: Nivin Pauly & Anu Emmanuel 3:45 & 9:45 PM Cinema - 4 Maheshinte Prathikaram (Mal) ( Comedy & Drama) Cast: Fahad Faasil & Anusree 6:45 PM Cinema-4 Next Change: Sardaar Gabbar Singh (Telugu) Programmes are subject to change

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RELATIVE HUMIDITY

75-35% Send us a colour photograph of the child (below 17 years) whose birthday you are celebrating, along with his/her full name, date of birth, address, telephone number and parents’/your name to Times of Oman, With Love, PO Box 770, PC 112, Ruwi or through e-mail to lifestyle@timesofoman.com

LISTINGS

11.45 13.30 14.00

Daily Daily Daily

Sharjah Fujairah Ruwi

16:30 18.15 23.00

Emergencies and inquiries: 9999 General Directorate of Passport and Residence 24569603 Directorate General of Customs 24521109 Traffic violations inquiries 24510228 Public Relations Admin 24560099 EMBASSIES IN OMAN

Daily Daily Daily Daily

DUBAI TO SALALAH (ROUTE 102)

07:00

TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201) 06:00 06:00 13:00 13:00 15:00 15:00

10:45 19:00

TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)

SALALAH TO DUBAI (ROUTE 102) 15:00

Ruwi Ruwi

TO SALALAH -MARMUL (ROUTE 100) Daily Daily Daily Daily

TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101) 06:00

06:00 14:30

TO YIBAL - FAHUD (ROUTE 62)

10:30 11:15

TO MARMUL-SALALAH (ROUTE 100) 07:00 10:00 10:00 19:00

Film information 24791641 / 24786776 Website: www.isurf.co.om

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)

10:20 12:30

TO SUR (ROUTE 55) Sur Sur

STAR CINEMA

Minimum

ROYAL OMAN POLICE 07:30 14:30

Degrade: (Arabic) (Drama) Cast: Hiam Abbas, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Huda Al Imam 2.00 & 6.00 PM CP No: 407 (PG)

0

TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54) 08:00 08:00

08:55 Daily 11:40 Daily 20:20 Daily via Ibri 14:55 Daily 17:40 Daily 19:20 Daily 22:15 Daily

10 Cloverfield Lane (Horror / Drama) Cast: John Goodman, Mary Eliozabeth, John Gallgher Jr. 4.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.45 PM. CP No: 406 (12+)

TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)

TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54) 14:30 14:30

Sohar Ruwi Ruwi Sohar Ruwi Sohar Ruwi

Daily Daily Daily

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: (Action / Adventure / Fantasy) Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams 12.45, 3.30, 6.15, 9.00 & 11.45 PM. CP No: 375 (PG12)

WEATHER

15:00 15:00 15:00

16:30 18:00 19:30

Film information 24540856 / Advance Booking 24540855 Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com

WITH LOVE

QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (ROUTE 36) Quriyat Sur Jaalan

BAHJA CINEMA

SALALAH Batman Vs Superman (3D) (PG12) (Action) Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams 11:30AM, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30, 11:30PM Kung Fu Panda 3 (3D) (PG) (Animation) Voice Overs: Jack Black, Bryan Cranston 4:45PM Eddie the Eagle (2D) (PG) (Biograph) Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman 11:00AM, 3:00, 11:45PM 10 Cloverfield Lane (2D) (12+) (Drama) Cast: John Goodman, ohn Gallagher Jr. 1:05,5:00PM Queen of the Desert (2D) (12+) (Biography) Cast: James Franco, Nicole Kidman 2:15, 7:05PM Misconduct (2D) (12+) (Drama / Thriller) Cast: Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins 12:15, 6:35PM Ki & Ka (2D) (PG12) (Romance | Comedy) Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor 8:45PM Rocky Handsome (2D) (12+) (Action | Thriller) Cast: John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Nishikant Kamath 11:15PM Vettah (2D) (PG12) (Mal) (Comedy / Drama) Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Soubin Shahir, Aparna Balamurali 9:25PM

LONG DISTANCE BUS TIMINGS (OMAN NATIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANY SAOC) *SUBJECT TO CHANGE

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI) Destination

12.15pm 3.43pm 6.28pm 7.39pm 4.41am

CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 3 YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CINEMA | BOX-OFFICE COUNTER OPENS 30-MINUTES PRIOR TO THE SCREENING OF THE FIRST SHOW

CINEMA SCHEDULE

Dept time

Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Isha Fajr (Tomorrow)

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PHARMACIES (ROUND THE CLOCK) Al Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi 24783334 Apollo Medical Centre,

Hamriya Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi Salalah Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra Muscat Region Apollo, Al Hamriya Muscat, A Seeb Market Muscat, Al Khuwair Muscat, Al Hail South Dhofar Region Muscat, Al Nahdha Road, Salalah

24782666 24702542 23291635; 24503585 24787766 24421691 24485740 24537080

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HOSPITALS Al Amal Medical & Health Care Centre 24485052 Atlas Hospital Ruwi 24811743/ Ghubra 24504000 Al Musafir Specialised Medical Clinic 24706453 Hatat Polyclinic LLC, Ruwi 24563641 Azaiba 24499269 Sohar 2683006 Al Raffah Hospital 24618900/1/2 Al Massaraat Clinic & Laboratory 24566435 Al Makook Medical Coordinance Centre 24499434 Apollo Medical Centre, Hamriya 24787766, 24787780

Capital Polyclinic 24707549 Badr Al Samaa Polyclinic, Ruwi 24799760/1/2 Capital Clinic, Seeb 24420740 Ceregem National Raak 24485633 Dr Harub’s Clinic 24563217 Elixir Health Centre 24565802 Emirates Medical Centre 24604540 1st Chiropractic Centre 24472274 Lifeline Hospital Salalah 23212340 International Medical Centre LLC 24794501/2/3/4/5 Kims Oman Hospital 24760100 24 Hrs Emergency 24760123 Lama Polyclinic, Sohar 26751128 MBD 24799077 Al Khuwair 24478818 Magrabi Eye and Ear Hospital 24568870 Muscat Private Hospital 24583600 Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Al Khuwair 24477666 Al Hayat International Hospital, Al Ghubra 22004000, 94267068/97049520 Al Hayat Clinic, Al Hail 22009455

AIRLINE OFFICES Muscat Airport Flight information (24 hours) 24519456/24519223 Aeroflot 24704455 Air Arabia 24700828 Air France 24562153 Air India 24799801

Air New Zealand 24700732 Biman Bangladesh Airlines 24701128 British Airways 24568777 Cathay Pacific 24789818 Egypt Air 24794113 Emirates Air 24404400 Ethiopian Airlines 24660313 Gulf Air 80072424 Indian 24791914 Iran Air 24787423 Japan Airlines 24704455 Jazeera Airways 23294848 Jet Airways 24787248 Kenya Airways 24660300 KML Royal Dutch Airlines 24566737 Kuwait Airways 24701262 LOT Polish Airlines 24796387 Lufthansa 24796692 Malaysian Airlines 24560796 Middle East Airlines 24796680 Oman Air 24531111 Pakistan International Airlines 24792471 Qatar Airways 24771900 Qantas 24559941 Royal Jordanian 24796693 Saudi Arabian Airlines 24789485 Singapore Airlines 24791233 Shaheen Air 24816565 SriLankan Airlines 24784545 Swiss International Airlines 24796692 Thai Airways 24705934

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016

LIFESTYLE

FACT FILE

Cows

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(Exploring History, Science, and Nature)

T

hese ruminants or cud chewing mammals are called cows for females, and males are called bulls.

Their offspring are called calves.

Domesticated by early Neolithic people, cattle have been raised for their strength, their hides, their meat and their milk. Cows are also called the foster mothers of the human race because they produce most of the milk that people drink.

Dairy cows Dairy cows tend to have angular bodies. Most of their energy goes toward milk production.

Beef cattle Cattle raised for meat are called beef cattle (they are also used to produce leather and other products). Beef cattle are larger than dairy cows.

Hereford cattle They originated in Herefordshire, England. A staple in the beef cattle industry‚ it may one day rival the Angus for its high-quality meat.

Charolais cattle They originated in the Charolles region of France. They produce excellent beef and are often used to improve herds of other cattle breeds.

The Aberdeen Angus It was originally from Scotland, but the modern, larger Angus has been developed in North America.

Ayrshire cattle originated in Scotland The Brown Swiss cow can trace its heritage back to Switzerland around 4000 B.C. The Guernsey originated on the small Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel just off the coast of France.

Making milk A cow is able to make milk when she is 2 years old and has given birth. The milk is food for her newborn. Cows produce more milk than calf needs, so humans use the extra milk. Today, most farmers use milking machines because they are quick and clean.

Milk leaving the farm must be unaltered and uncontaminated.

Art, custom, and religion Because cattle have long played a vital role for the survival of people, they have often been depicted in the art and religion of many cultures through the centuries.

Bull-leaping In the Bronze Age, the Minoans of Crete held bull leaping competitions, but this acrobatic ritual or sport also took place in the Indus Valley, the Hittite Empire and other ancient cultures.

Other important facts • Milking machines were invented in 1894. Earlier one person would take one hour to milk six cows by hand.

• A cow has 32 teeth and would

chew approximately 50 times in a minute and can • A cow can drink 30-50 gallons of water.

• The most amazing feature of a cow is that it can sleep while standing, have great senses.

–lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016

LIFESTYLE

Hi Weekly recently had run a contest called “Colour the Hi Weekly logo’. While the winning entries have been announced we have decided to publish some of the other eye-catching work of art made by our young readers.

Art for the Ages

Children’s Poetry

This Rainy Day M. Kavya Grade XI Indian School Sohar

Ananthu S. Nair, ISD

Disha Devanand Anin, ISWK

The Earth, wet with a quaint Smell of rain.

The Sun hidden in the faint Shadow of those sombre clouds.

The chirrups of birds heard from A nearby palm tree, Along with the breeze, cool and joyful.

Showing this world of hurry, A way to make themselves peaceful.

This is just the weather The children would like To brandish their shoes made of leather, On jumping into pools of puddles And pumping with muddled, But endless enthusiasm.

I just wonder if this moment would last forever and ever.

Mohd Millat, Muscat Intl School

Lubna Kabir, Bangladesh School

Sudoku How to play Fill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.

SOLUTION Answer to previous puzzle

Teleword All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

D E T O P K C A J B O N U S A

R T E O C T N N U V O O NW N E A L O S N S S G I E M P T A

S E U A E A D O L L A R U E S

CLUE: ‘WHEEL OF FORTUNE’

D T L N C I N S E Z I R P M L

E E N E D I D N D C K A J A S

T P P A V S D U A N B G N N N

S O L U T I O N A U A I O T T

O L A E S S S B Y M F L O T S

H E Y A T P E I E S O K N E E

T V E R O T E T O V E U L A E

R N R N E C E E N N A Z N M R

O E S O L V E R D O Z L I T F

W O R D S R A C S U C T U R N

R E V E A L S S P S P A C E S

SOLUTION: 9 LETTERS

American, Amount, Announcer, Audience, Bankrupt, Bonus, Buy, Cars, Contestants, Dollar, Earn, Envelope, Final, Free, Game, Hosted, Jackpot, Lands, Letters, Name, Pegs, Players, Prizes, Puzzles, Reveals, Rounds, Sajak, Save, Solution, Solve, Spaces, Speedup, Spin, Sponsor, Syndicated, Team, Television, Time, Token, Turn, Value, Vanna, Vowels, Words, Worth.

Answer: Consonant

C

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RO.300/-Contact – 91776665 Flats available for rent 1 BHK & 2

Store with cold store in Wadi kabir. Contact: 99374977 For rent and investment Land industrial shops in Rusayl.

Contact: 99323957 / 95490842 2 B/R Luxury Fully Furnished @ Al Khuwair 33 1 B/R Luxury Fully Furnished @ Al Khuwair 5 B/R Fully Furnished villa @ Madinat Al Ilam 5 B/R Fully Furnished villa @ Madinat Al Ilam. For Daily, Weekly, monthly or Yearly contract.

Please Contact: Atlas Real Estate & Rent a Car LLC 99249069 / 994617563/92888376 / 24834888E mail: info@alshahiintl.com Dental chair and mobile dental X Ray for sale. Contact: 92737149 Commercial flats of 3 & 2 BHK in Al Ghobra North 18 Nov street RO.650/- & 450/- contact 91776665 Four bedroom two floors luxurious and spacious residential villa in Al Hail North, near to the sea and Oman oil. Each room has its own bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and shaded car park. OMR 750 monthly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or 97509955

BHK good condition with split AC Al Khuwair near Muscat Holiday.

Contact: 94227178 1BHK at Al-Hamriya, B-2397,

Way-5935 near Muscat Pharmacy.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297 2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank

Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK. 97826454, 24815012.

Flat for rent 3 bedrooms + hall with split units air conditioning at Al Amerat near Aledl Mosque Ibn Sina road Al Mahaj house No. 105.

Contact: 99312628 / 95098277 1BHK new bldg with A/C, Curtains near Khimji Mart MBD. Contact: 99061409 / 99024039

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Apartment for sale location Bowshar apartment 105M has one sitting room, Kitchen, Balcony, 2 rooms with cupboards and 3 toilets.

Contact: 99822260

Big room with separate bathroom, couples family working lady at Badr Al Sama Clinic Al Khuwair.

Contact 99796500 / 97318878

For sale.25 year old well running clinic for sale in Amerat..Someone interested to invest and run the clinic also may contact Tel 99874336 Window A/Cs & other house hold items. Contact 92622506 Ice Cream Juice shop prime location Ruwi for sale suitable for beauty parlour. Contact: 92150455

Separate room available Al Khuwair near Blue Radisson sharing kitchen, toilet rent R.O 120/-. Contact: 96930219 Furnished Bedroom with attached bath and kitchen separate entrance for Executive bachelor for R.O 150/- per month all inclusive in a villa, opp. Star Cinema.contact 99314807 2 bedrooms flat near Kuwait Masjid Wadi Kabir. Contact: 97608564 / 98498823

Furniture and other treatment items for Ayurvedic clinic. Contact: 97986525

Single room B/K sharing Mumtaz area. Contact : 95212017

Shop for sale at Ruwi center.

Contact: 98787853

Small old house for rent in Al Ghoubra. Contact : 97165972

600 sq mtrs residential land in Maabela Phase 4 Block 3 OMR 65 Thousand.CONTACT 99333479 or 95215360

Room available for Executive bachelor at Al Hail. #96234708

600 sq mtrs residential land in Maabela Phase 4 Block 4 OMR 65 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or 97509955 Zanzibari coffee shop for rent or sale in Barka Souq road, at Prime location. Contact: 99814411 2 storey villa, 5 rooms with attached bath,1 hall & kitchen at Madinat Sultan Qaboos under finishing. Contact 99778773 Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale at Al Khuwair.CONTACT 92881849 /What`s up No 97290565 Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale # 99273774/ 99202278 Almost new beach/ garden lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter. Photos can be sent 95865457 400 sq mtrs Commercial/Residential land in Mabela Phase 5 Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

CONTACT 99333479 or 95215360 or 97509955 A well running pharmacy for sale at prime location. Contact99627621, 93240949 Space for printing press available at wadikabir with or without machinery. Contact 99328430 Shop for sale near Oman House, Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Urgent sale of steel scrap only serious buyers kindly contact +968 96725423 for viewing the items.

HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift), Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine, Steel Fabrication Machinery (Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding) including tools for immediate sale: Contact 99273774/ 99202278

LOST Mohmmed Saraj has lost Bangladeshi Passport No. AC 9706592 .

Finder please handover to ROP

GOOD NEWS Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis, massage, steambath, obesity, spondylitis. Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic, 18 November Street, Azaiba.

Contact: 99639695 / 97397320 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam).

Contact:24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know more about Islam, please call: 99425598, 99250777, 99353988, 99253818, 99341395, and 99379133. For ladies: 99415818, 99321360, 99730723 Orvisit:www.islamfact.com

DRIVING

Furnished apartment for rent, two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen. Near Carrefour al-mawalah. Contact 99336776 Room with attached bathroom for a family in Wadi Kabir. CONTACT 97167857 Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan village. contact 93687466 Furnished room attached bath for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near Mars hypermarket. CONTACT 96202458/96761960 Furnish bedroom with attach bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794 Room with attached bathroom and sharing kitchen available for Executive bachelor or small family at wadikabir Contact 93049849 Room available in Mumtaz area 1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room, common bathroom. Interested please contact 92680041 Mr. Altaf

AVAILABLE Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting.

Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

MATRIMONIAL KERALA-NAMBIAR BOY28yr/175cm from Kannur. Working as Pharmacist in Muscat, seeks suitable alliance 92042355.

Graduate Syrian Orthodox girl 26 years working in Oman MOH as Staff Nurse seeks proposals from parents of suitable boy, preferably those working in Oman. Contact: 95907146 / +91 8904329166 Nair boy 31 /175 cms working in Muscat Pooram star wants suitable bride. Contact : 95501263 Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites parents/nurses working in Oman. #968 98267338, 0091 9287215726 Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from widow/ divorcee/ single.#96059801.

TRANSPORTATION Pick and Drop Al Khuwair to Rusayl# 96733572 / 91287470 Picking and dropping any time.

Contact: 97403088 Transportation pick and drop with Nissan Sunny 2012 model A/C. Contact: 97224035 Transportation. contact 91703829

BUYING

Transportation. Contact 99508282 Transportation. contact 92015894

Bobcat available for rent. CONTACT 97623299 Buying cars for cash. #90202090

FOR HIRE Grader, roller, bobcat, JCB 3CX, JCB 4CX with breaker & water tanker for rent. contact 93218705 / 24478450

Transportation available Ruwi to Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

WANTED IELTS Coaching (academic) required nearby wadi Kabir area. Please call on mobile or msg on Whats up. Mobile no: 92927880/99012165

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT Babylon Medical Services L.L.C, a leading medical services company in Oman is looking for the following staff for its newly opening branch

1. Gynecologist 3. Physician 5. General Practitioners 7. Male Nurse 9. Lab Technician 11. Insurance Coordinator

2. Pediatrician 4. Dentist 6. Female Nurse 8. X Ray Technician 10. Pharmacist 12. Accountant

Interested candidates kindly send CV to athira@babylon-om.com, info@babylon-om.com, Fax: 24486147

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM WISHES TO RECRUIT HIGHLY QUALIFIED ENGINEERS HOLDING BE DEGREE CERTIFICATES FOR ELECTRICAL PROJECT (400 KV REACTORS) IN SULTANATE OF OMAN: 1) Project Manager (Minimum Exp. 20 years) 2) Grid Station Protection and Commissioning Engineers (Minimum Exp. 15 years) 3) Electrical Engineers (Minimum Exp. 10 years) (Reactor, Grid Station & OHL/UG cable works) 4) Civil Engineer (Minimum Exp. 10 years) 5) SCS & Telecom Engineer (Minimum Exp. 5 years)

An Excellent Grade Contracting Company has the following positions.

A Leading chain of International Franchise Restaurant Requires:

1. Mechanical Draughtsman with MEP 5 yrs min. Exp. 2. Electrical Draughtsman with MEP 5 yrs min. Exp. 3. MEP Site engineer (Electrical) min. 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 yrs exp.

4. MEP Site engineer (plumbing) min. 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5 yrs exp.

5. HVAC Senior engineer with 5 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10 yrs exp. in chiller execution.

6. Senior MEP engineer min. 10 yrs exp.

7. HVAC design engineer 5 yrs exp.

8. Senior civil engineer min. 10 yrs exp. in building construction. GCC experience mandatory.

Operation Manager: An Operations Manager will oversee all aspects of operations including but not limited to managing, staffing, planning, budgeting, procuring & training, responsible for revenue, proďŹ tability & maintaining quality goals laid down by the company.

Kindly forward your CV to the email : mep.jobsoman@gmail.com

Store Keeper: Store keeper keeps track of food stock, food rotation & ingredients checklist with expiry monitoring, follow up with suppliers for supply, accounting knowledge will be an added advantage.

All positions require 5 to 7 years of experience in F& B, has valid Oman D/L, good ERP knowledge, MS Office, good communication skills & transferable visa are mandatory.

CANADIAN CO.- FREE CONSULTANCY FOR LEGAL JOB - For Hotel Staff, Construction Staff, Medical, Gas & Oil Staff.

- Free recruitment - free tickets, accommodation, work visa, contract for 2 (two) years.

Contact : 93392630 Send CV on muslimatservices@gmail.com

6) HSE Engineer (Minimum Exp. 5 years) The candidates to send their CVs immediately conďŹ rming joining date and NOC if in Oman CVs mentioning Oman tel. No. to be submitted to:omanengineco@yahoo.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

Looking for a young dynamic Accountant with knowledge of AX Package for a multinational shipping company. Email your CV to: shippingseas@yahoo.com

Constructions Jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s , Diploma Engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s . All Kinds of Constructions staff required. towershr70@gmail.com , Office Tel NO. 24548382

Required experienced Accountant preferably Indian Nationality.

Send your resume : admin@aljazeeraglobal.com Tel: 968 24494748

Decoration Company looking for Interior Design Engineer with experience in 3D and Supervision.

Send your CV with the design which you have done and after the implementation. Email: alrih16@ hotmail.com

DOMESTIC HELP

Required Temporary

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Clinic Manager / Clinic Administrator needed immediate vacancy - Well experienced - Speaks and writes English & Arabic - Likes to work in a team - Respectful, caring & friendly - Takes criticism well - Has good professional attitude

For further details kindly contact Mr.babu 99380374 or fax 24593277

hds_accounts@yahoo.com

SALES / MARKETING

IT

A Construction Chemicals Manufacturing company is looking for Stores Cum Purchase Assistant for Sharjah factory. Candidates with Min. Bachelor degree with 2 years working experience with tally knowledge can send CVs on: sharjahgic@gmail.com

Required for a software development ďŹ rm (1) Software Developers - experience in ASP. NET and / or VB. NET (2) Software Support Executive - experience in software / hardware, support knowledge of ASP. Net will be an advantage. Email: CV to softwarejobsman@gmail.com

DRIVER Wanted temporary driver with Valid Omani License & good English knowledge. Kindly send your resumes to abcon@omantel.net.om or Fax us at +968-24792175 or call us at 24792173/74.

Required Graduate with light driving license, present in Oman contrast basis. Contact: 99454425 Wanted driver. Contact : 91025698

DRAFTSMAN Required Draftsman for Consultancy office. 3-5 years experience in Architectural Structural Drafting. Email careerssabla@gmail.com

ENGINEER/MECHANIC. Required Bachelor of Civil Engineering for Supervision for Consultancy office. 5 years experience in Supervision PMC duties in Oman preferred.

Email : careerssabla@gmail.com Required urgently for Mechanical Engineer, B.E / Diploma having good experience in Automobile & Engineering workshop. Contact: 98919238 Email: nnoel1977@gmail. com I.T.I Electrician experienced in Industrial L.T & H.T category work preferably in Oman with NOC. contact 99454425 A well reputed building material & contracting Company in Oman is looking for staff: Project Manager (more than 10 yrs experience), Engineer (more than 5 years of experience), Purchase Manager (more than 10 yrs of experience). Contact: 99808868 Email: amtcbarka@gmail. com Diploma in Automobile Engineering / Mechanical Engineering with 10 years of relevant experience preferably Gulf returned.

Only preferable for possessing NOC / Release letter. Candidate should have good controlling / leadership / good communication skills. Interested candidates send resume to hr@aljood-oman.com Fax: 24437007

Nurse required for a dental clinic in Al Khuwair. Contact 95114616 Required following Medical Staff for a clinic in Muscat female GP Doctor male, female Nurse (preference for Philippines). Contact: 24595956 / 95189584 Email: medicare@fusionlogicoman.com Lab Technician, Omani Female PRO cum Receptionist, Male Receptionist cum Insurance Coordinator, Specialist Doctor Radiologist, General Practitioners, Cont.95220350, bmdcsg@yahoo. com Doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Nurses, Pharmacist, Lab Tech, any Nationalities. For Dreams Clinic : Towershr70@ gmail.com , Tel No. 24548382 Required for a reputed Medical Center in Al Khuwair, Medical Marketing Executive with experience.

Please send CV : absmc2013@ gmail.com FAX: 24488660 Wanted Staff Nurse for a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC. Attractive salary offered. Email: clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for a clinic in Suwaiq. #95081010 Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com GP doctor needed for reputed clinic. Preferably with MOH license or with DataďŹ&#x201A;ow & Paramatics pass Contact: 95388934

MANAGER Required an experienced Store keeper for a leading building material trading & fabrication company in Ghala. Send CV to Email: admin@areenoverseas.net

An Interior ďŹ t out company is looking for Sales Executive with 5 years experience, diving license & local release. contact 94619086 Required Sales Executive : 2-3 years of outdoor sales experience in spare part., Indian, Male 25 to 35 year age. Diploma holder in any discipline â&#x20AC;&#x153; mechanical engineer preferredâ&#x20AC;?. Email: mohammad.jwabreh@bearingcitysc. com Tel: 24509477 Fax: 24509312 Proactive Sales & Marketing professionals with Oman D/L, own car required for leading IT & Media Solutions enterprise. Fresh MBAs also can apply: jobs@interacoman.com Urgent required Salesman with minimum 2 years of experience in Sales & marketing for gift articles shop. Contact: 96917952 Email: swapneelbhatt@gmail.com Urgently Required a Self motivated sales person for a leading Printing & advertisement Co. Minimum 5 Yrs exp with valid Omani/GCC Driving License. #99412020, 95728453, Email: Baharalsuwaihara@gmail.com A reputed organization requires an experienced expatriate lady Sales Executive with valid Oman D/L for marketing luxury products. Contact: 24212307 or send CV with a current passport size photo to Email: awadiest@omantel.net.om Note: Only candidates who have NOC can apply.

Required Salesman, tailor and barber.

Contact: 91114884 Urgent required Salesman with minimum 3 years of experience in building materials (tiles & sanitary wares) with valid GCC license. #96917952, swapneelbhatt@ gmail.com Urgent required Salesman with minimum 3 years of experience in printing line with valid GCC license. Contact: 96917952 Email: swapneelbhatt@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Required candidates for following posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving license preferred. #99273774/99202278

SALES / MARKETING Wanted a Salesman & Sales lady for a new lifestyle store opening shortly in MGM mall. Send CV : lifestylemct@gmail.com

To apply, please send your CV to email â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rawaďŹ dllc@gmail.com

Urgently required A leading Electro Mechanical & Civil Contracting Company in Oman urgently required an Assistant General Manager with minimum 8 to 10 years experience.

Send CV : recruitmentmuscat2015@gmail.com

SKILLED LABOUR Required A/C Technicians, Carpenters, Electricians, Plumbers, Painters, General Helpers. Contact 94147874 / 24504281. Email : globalaccessunited@gmail.com Electrician cum Plumber, Maintenance Supervisor with D/L, Building Material Salesman, C.C.T.V Technician. #99383044.

E mail: helplinellc123@yahoo.com

SITUATION WANTED SIT.WANTED

Please send CV to:

MEDICAL Wanted house boy for an Indian doctor family. Interested may contact 94765020.

Accountant cum Admin: A qualiďŹ ed accountant has experience in accounts, cost controls, inventory, procurement & ďŹ nance upto ďŹ nalization and general administrations. Excellent knowledge of Tally ERP-9.

SITUATION WANTSIT.WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Indian male good experienced in Accounts, ERP Tally 9 & Admin in India & Oman, presently on visit visa, looking for suitable placement.

Contact 94834687 Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/ ďŹ nance ďŹ eld. On visit visa. Immediately available. CONTACT 92836216 / muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com 28/male/MBA - ďŹ nance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement. #90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com Indian male, 24 yrs, Graduated with specialization in Accounting 2 years experienced C.A.CPT completed. #94628086 / 97315091 Indian, Executive with 5+ years experience in HSBC etc, done with MBA, M.Com, DMM, M. Phil seeks a suitable position. Contact: 90369540 Email: abilashraji@gmail.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Indian male:25 Yrs. MBA HR ,BBA with 6 Months Exp seeking for suitable placement. Now on visit visa Contact 90653362 Accounting ďŹ xed asset inventory reconciliation software installation support service. Contact: 97703143 24 years, male Indian MBA completed seeking job opportunities for suitable placement. #95061789 Indian Female recently pass out BBA+MBA (Dual degree) International Business and Finance, looking for suitable opportunities, presently in Muscat on family Visa.

Contact no. +968-95907828. Email : stuti28sinha@gmail.com Male 36 MBA 7 yrs GCC exp.

Quickbooks tally ERP, looking for accounts and admin post. Valid driving license. Contact 96763275/ 91992367 fazee1980@gmail.com Asst. Finance Manager (Indian male) MBA Finance, CIMA with 9 yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman experience. Seeks placement with NOC. call:97694976 Mail:muhammedsadikmba@gmail. com Indian female,26 MA Economics on family visa seeking suitable position in Accounts/Finance, HR/ Admin Contact: 91473174 Indian male 27, MBA, B. Com with 6 years experience in Finance and Accounting upto ďŹ nalization seeking suitable position. Contact 98035831

Indian male 29 M.Com, MBA, SAP B1, Tally, MS Office, Sage 5 years experience in Oman, India currently working in Oman, NOC available. Contact: 92840519

Data entry, MS Word, Excel, Accounting Installing software and windows, also know repairing system 1 year and 6 months work in sports in Pakistan language, Urdu, English, Spanish, bachelor of arts BA. Contact 94879732

Female ACCA affiliate B.Com fresher with Oman driving license seeks placement in auditing / accounts and ďŹ nance. #92264638 / 93108343 Email: mira.somya@gmail.com

10 yrs of Oman experience capable of handling large accounts, looking for suitable placement in senior sales / business development position. Contact : 98987654

Indian female 32, MBA Finance, 7 yrs of experience in one of the leading bank in India in Treasury(in FX, derivatives and money market), Risk and Asset Liability Management , with valid Oman D/L seeking suitable placement contact 92206513

Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman. Ready to join immediately. #98263394

Post Graduate with experience in accounts Upto Finalization, Valid GCC Driving License, Immediate Joining Possible. Mob.92432748

Required Sales and Marketing Manager must possess excellent communication skills. Fluent English speaking, Arabic speaking is preferred. Minimum of 2 years of professional experience. Candidates are requested to send their CVS to polyplas@omantel.net.om

Male/25-ACCA & B.com ďŹ nalist, advance diploma in accounting with 5 years experience in audit and accounts. Good command in Tally, peach tree and SAP, looking for suitable placement. #97190575,email mairaj_hasan@msn.com

A leading company in the sale of heavy machines in the Sultanate of Oman looking for job promoter commercial and salesperson to conduction.

Send your CV to Email: 184059738@ qq.com #+968 96329918

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA Finance and marketing with IT skills, 7+ yrs of experience, Looking for suitable placement. contact 94879615,Emailsajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Male Accountant M.Com Accounts & ďŹ nance, 3 yrs exp in accounts looking for suitable job on visit visa.

Contact: 94648575 Fresher 24, ACCA Affiliate, Advanced diploma in Accounting and Business seeking suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or Audit with Oman driving license. #- 92430152 Email - raju.rd619@gmail.com B.Com Graduate, Indian male 24 yrs, 3 yrs exp in Oman looking for Accounting, Sales, suitable jobs.

NOC Available. Contact:90615814.

Mail : adhilrahman.a@gmail.com ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in ďŹ nance. contact 99284193

Indian male 28 yrs MBA ďŹ nance/ marketing and graduate in computer experience 3 yrs seeking suitable job, now family visit visa.

Contact: 93195378 Email: faisalme.beg677@gmail.com

ADMIN Indian male with 26 yrs exp 1.5 yrs in Oman in HR / Office / Administration/ Sales/ seeking for suitable placement. contact : 93112346, Email: sibyambadan70@gmail.com Teacher female 27 yrs, MCA 5 yrs experience in teaching in India currently on visit visa seeking for a suitable placement. Contact: 96709509 Email: viyannifd@gmail.com Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817 Omani National looking for a suitable placement in Sales or Administration. Contact: 94700691 Male BBA 25 administration ofďŹ cer, accounts, purchaser with valid NOC. Contact 91329571 Indian male 26 yrs MCA, 2 yrs experienced in System Admin & data base controller. Contact: 92835125 Indian Male â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MBA (HR) & Engineering graduation with total 9 years of experience in HR & Admin ( 3 yrs of Oman Exp.) along with hands on experience in technical bid submission for all Government & PDO tenders ready to join immediately with NOC. #@ 91240251/ Email; kvaradhan@hotmail.com Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+ experience in Administration/HR, Customer Support, Office Coordinator with good Computer skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for suitable position. Contact: 90196235 Young Omani male have experience 12 years as P.R.O, CLERK Helper Supervisor Admin Supervisor, H.R Manager have diploma in H.S.E, IT and P.D.O license, looking for H.R position or P.R.O part time or full time. Contact: 95933288 B.Com 3 years business process outsourcing. Contact: 94657273 Indian, 26 yrs , female , 5 yrs exp in HR/ Admin with valid Oman D/L seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98236033 Indian male, MBA with 3 years GCC experience seeks job in Muscat.

Posses Valid Oman D/L. Currently under visit visa and can join immediately. E mail : tssavad@gmail.com contact: 00968 98896847 Filipino male with 13 years HR and Administration managerial experience. MBA & CIPD holder. Currently looking for job in Oman. Interested employer Contact - 97728418.

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Indian male, MCA

Office cum shop cleaner available on contract basis. Contact: 94262954

Revit, Autocad, 3d Max , Diploma Civil Engg, certificate attested, salary exp : 250 OMR. Contact : 92279784

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Please contact 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

Contact 92319677, Email : ismabsc@gmail.com

Contact - 92789995

Contact-93361624, Email-

Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

dheerachpadikkala@gmail.com

Indian male, Mechanical Engineer having 1year experience, on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact:97416564, Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com

Indian female, 25 yrs M.Tech Structural Engineer 3 yrs experienced in Analysis design & RCC structures seeking for suitable placement. # 97163040 / 96357196

Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp seeks suitable position ina reputed company. NOC available. #96789711

Job Site Supervisor 11 yrs experience 7 years of Oman Education Diploma in Civil Engineering driving license of Oman (LTV) Oman experience building and road structure.

Contact : 96972527

Civil Engineer 8 years experience in Oman as a project engineer for governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

2D autocad Drafting (free lancer / part time) arch, MEP, Shopdrawing.

Contact : 97103168

CAD Technician Looking for Job Diploma holder. experience: 5.5 oman+Total12 years. #96534071

Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR PH :92279784 Interior Designer Seeking suitable job. On visit visa in Oman.

Contact - 92166130

DRIVER Driver light vehicle from Bangladeshi 5 years experience in Oman, 24 years, Omani driving license looking for job. Contact: 98591812

Family driver available. Contac: 92943094

Light duty driver seeks job. Contact: 94182497 Looking job for light driver. Contact: 94435912 / 94802988

Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian male 24 years with 1+years Indian experience,(Certified in Staad Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).Looking for a Suitable position. Available In Sultanate of Oman (Muscat) on Visit Visa.

Contact: 92835952. E-mail: mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in designing, assembling, commissioning execution etc having valid GCC license too looking for a suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942 Email: azamjeelani78@gmail.com

BE Mechanical Engineer having 6 years exp in piping and structural work in India and Oman. Release available. Contact: 96115463 Email: jijoraju085@yahoo.com Sudanese Civil Engineer holding bachelor with 2 years of experience in Oman have valid driving license and residency with NOC looking for job. Contact: 94393880 Associate Engineer with 5 years on EHT, HT, LT underground cable testing, good communication skills, NOC available. Contact: 92342124

Electrical Engineer, 7 years exp, NOC, GCC driving license looking for suitable jobs in MEP services, O & M of high voltage systems, FMS. Contact: 96137008 Civil Engineer 6 years experience, 4 years in Oman, with driving license available. Contact 92553263

A Young Mechanical Engineer with PGDM in Marketing and Operations (Rajagiri Business School) looking for suitable job placement in a reputed company, currently working in a startup (food- tech industry in India) handing diverse roles of the business (visit visa). Contact 96961635 Email: rohanmg@live.com Indian male M.SC in Structural Engineering (U.K) B.Tech in Civil Engineering (India), currently in Oman on visit looking for a suitable job. Contact : 93699710 Email: faisal0814@gmail.com

Looking for light driver. #99753474 Light car driving. contactc 99578213

Looking for light driving job 2

Electrical Engineer, 8 years experience GCC with driving license, seeking jobs, can join immediately, have knowledge of all kind of MEP projects. Contact 96535204

years exp. Contact: 91625977

Driver. Contact : 94087276 Pakistani male light Vehicle Driver

Indian female Quantity Surveyor Civil 11 years experience, local release available NOC. #95719108 Email: jishashibunair@gmail.com

with car looking for job. #99630504

EDUCATION/TRAINING Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. Contact : 99739415 / 92091528 BA in English, BCA exp. 3 yrs including Oman, having valid Oman driving license. Contact 96330962, uneyism@gmail.com Indian female 29 yrs MSc, MED science on family visa 2 yrs experience in teaching field looking for a suitable placement. Contact : 93717403 Email: sharipanidcer08@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Civil Engineer, 6 yrs experience with Omani driving license, local release available. Contact: 91693008 Civil Engineer with 9 years experience 7 years in Gulf with oil and gas field experience valid Oman D/L. NOC available seeks suitable placement. Contact: 91195257 Email: mjanoyon@gmail.com Indian male, Post Graduate (Instrumentation) seeks suitable placement. Contact 0091 – 9633718099/ Email : rajithmr@yahoo.com An Iraqi civil with more than 30 years experience in (Iraq and G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C) available.

Contact: 96561306 Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com Civil Engineer 11 yrs exp in construction field having Oman driving license & NOC. Contact – 94194399 / shiblyrock@gmail.com Engineer has 10 years local & international experience in ready mix concrete also in Oil & Gas field also in marketing & sales field , has Omani driving license. contact 92534098

BE CS, 23 yrs male, Indian looking for suitable job. Contact 90658834 Network Engineer CCNA-MCSA exp computer science with NOC. Contact : 92346191 Male, NDT, QA/QC Supervision Mechanical 10 yrs experience seeks suitable placement.

Contact 96954202, Email : nasirarain86@yahoo.com

IT Sudanese Network Engineer holding IT Bachelor with 1 year experience CCNA, CCNP, MCSA certified have valid driving license. contact 92394485 Male, 31 years, M.I.T, CCNA, 9 years exp in Qatar as assistant IT manager, network administrator, server management and knowledge of developing website. Qatar D/L and available in Oman on visit visa. Contact:00968-98179462.

0097477237607, Email: mohsin2022@gmail.com INDIAN FEMALE COMPLETED M.C.A seeking for suitable jobs. Contact: 91409481 / 97308719

MANAGER HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over 10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter (NOC) available), seeking suitable placement, Mob:97061817, Email:jayanammu1977@gmail.com

Pakistani male light vehicle driver with 5 years experience looking for job. Contact: 92171166

Indian male (23), completed B.E Electrical and Electronics Engineering have no experience and studied MEP, E-CAD AutoCAD P6 now on family visa looking for a desirable job. Contact: 98209070 Email: panivinlal@gmail.com

Syrian Civil Engineer Graduate 2012 with Oman experience with license. Contact : 92967785 16 years exp Engg document controller, material controller HR related job with D/L. Contact: 96028635 / 92386043 An Electrical engineer with 4+ yrs of experience in Electrical network (MT, LT) with professional computer skills seeking for work.

Contact: 99841736 / 93955381/ +149922698343 Email: e.kmmh@ hotmail.com Sudanese Mechanical Engineer 2 years experience, fire fighting HVAC on visiting visa. Contact : 95630047 Electrical Engineer fresh Graduate NOC available, can speak Arabic & English with driving license. #: 94879092 Mechanical Engineer 7 years experience and 4 years experience in pipeline projects. NOC available.

Contact: 91117089 Electrical Engineer 4.5 years experience sub stations, water projects, oil & gas, fluency in Arabic & English with driving license. #: 99525856 Civil Engineer male 26 years, experience 3 years. Contact: 96319928 Electrical & electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit. PH:93837973 Indian B.E Civil Engineer, 25 years experience in Gulf looking for a suitable job. N.O.C & driving license available. Contact: 94867039 Site Engineer Education BSc Civil Engineer experience 1 year AutoCAD primavera P8.1, MS Excel Google sketch up can use having Engr visa to Oman having 2 yrs validity.

Contact : 94561195 BE Mechanical & Diploma with 4 yrs experience in India looking for suitable job. Contact 90542737

Indian male, 29 yrs, B.Tech (EEE) with 5+ yrs of experience from reputed firms in the field of Electrical Site Execution & Project Coordination in HL, LT for various EPC Projects, now on visit, seeks suitable placement in related industries.#92310762, email : write2man@gmail.com B.Tech Mechanical Engineer, on visit visa looking for job, who has done certification courses in quality control, basic pipeline engineering, ASNT NDT level II, also good knowledge in HVAC.Contact:94743373 email:akasharavind1@gmail.com Male QC Inspector Mechanical, NDT 20 years experience valid Oman D/L, NOC available. #91001104 B.Sc Civil Engineer 27 yrs Oman exp as project manager, structural engineer looking for suitable placement. NOC/local transfer available. Contact: 99349578.

Email:farooqatm@hotmail.com Indian male, 27 yrs, Electronics Engineer (B.Tech) & MBA, Project Management with 5 years experience in electronic security system, optical fiber, project planning installation. Contact 94819139, usamahaq@gmail.com B.Sc in Civil Engineer having 10 yrs experience in structural designer in RCC structure & steel structure in Dubai having Municipality approval & Dubai driving license looking for suitable position. Email : engr.masud.civil@gmail.com Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. contact:98921022 Procurement Engineer (27 years single male with Oman Driving License) having 7 years experience (UAE 2, Oman 3) with expertise in MEP, Water, Electromechanical, Instrumentation seeking suitable placements. Contact 95852033, mail: hemal1988@gmail.com Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs of exceptional exp in spear heading strategic planning and project management initiatives & executing various high rise residential & commercial building as well as roads and highway project with proficiency in installation, seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization. contact 96570891

An experienced Chartered Accountant

TOURS & TRAVEL

with over 25 years in varied industries, presently working with a reputed group in Muscat, looking out for a suitable change.

Indian female BA IATA, 7 yrs exp in travel industry knows SABRE AMADEUS GALILEO on family visa seeks opportunity in Oman. Contact 93531170. E mail: claudiatresa17@gmail.com

96491030 MEDICAL

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

AutoCAD Civil Draughtsman looking for job (12 yrs Oman experience). Contact: 99830785

Indian History graduate with diploma in Safety with valid Oman Driving licence seeks suitable placement.

Indian male 30 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation and utility maintenance in India (MRF Tyres), holding valid Oman D/L.

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN 3D & Multimedia Designer looking for job, currently using family visa. Contact : 95844940 Email: chrisrimas@yahoo.com

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

seeking suitable placement anywhere in Oman, now on visit visa.

(Post Graduate) fresher

Qualified and experienced Indian female Manager, 28 yrs with 12 years experience in B.P.O Insurance and banking looking for a suitable placement. Contact : 95166496 Male Manager Resource planning Oman experience 11 years in Purchase Accounts, HR local release available. Contact: 98895039 Email: binulukechacko@gmail.com Egyptian male 36 years Warehouse Manager, 7 years in Sultanate of Oman, 1 year in UAE, and 3 years in Egypt. Contact: +968 97200468 Email: ayman_mano1979@yahoo. com General/Divisional Manager MEP & Civil, MBA Operation, BE Electrical, 10 years experience in Oman & 10 years in India. Valid DL, release available. GSM. 92447102 Indian MBA having 12 years experience looking for job Property Manager with Oman driving license, NOC available. Contact : 93714141 Purchase/Planning & Logistics Manager MBA (Finance), 14yrs.

Oman Exp. with D/L, NOC available, looking for suitable position.#93826090, jskanchan01@ gmail.com Building Site Supervisor with Oman D/L working in Oman since 2010 looking for suitable placement. Contact: 91507828 15 years Oman experienced procurement manager with good knowledge of material and market.

Contact 96549399 Operations & Accounts Manager Indian 18 years experience in Oman finance, purchase, sales, HR, Admin looking for Senior position.

Contact : 99044724 Production Manager 9 years experience in Oman manufacture and development factories .GRB. GRC. GRG rubber molds and false ceilings, fiberglass and executive at site emadadly2000@yahoo. com 96149081

MEDICAL 5 years of Experience in Digital Sales/Research Engines and Patient Experience Executive at Reliance Hospitals India, Pvt. Ltd. Looking for any suitable vacancy, currently on a visit . #90503494 email : lasradomelwyn@gmail.com

Indian Bsc Female Nurse with 6.5 years exp, 4 years in KSA. Passed Oman Pro Metric with 69%, completed data flow. Presently in Muscat in visit visa looking for a suitable placement. Contact 94744900, 94742834, jincyalphonese@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Indian Male more than 10 years gulf experience in Office / Sales Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and purchase with good computer skills. Holding Oman Driving license. Looking for suitable placement. #99709336 Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment. Call: 95244761

SALES / MARKETING 10 yrs exp in procurement, tenders, importing, marketing and sales, organizing events. Have car NOC available. #94123939 Young Indian male, 24 yrs, having 03 yrs marketing experience in Oman, looking for suitable placement. Holding valid D/L. NOC available. Contact: 93172979 Indian male Graduated in Business Management having 4 yrs exp in marketing & trading, dealt with international companies and product also having good knowledge in logistic & Admin looking forward to join immediately, having GCC driving license and car NOC available. Contact : 93639385 Email: faizenqidwai@gmail.com Indian male, 5 yrs exp in marketing & trading (Oman), dealt with International companies & product also having good knowledge in logistic and Admin with D/L & car, NOC available. Contact 93639385 Email: faizenqidwai@gmail.com Male, 26 yrs, B.Com with Valid GCC D/L, 5 years Experience in Sales, Good(Arabic/English) on Visit Visa 96970027 Indian male 40 yrs SSLC, PDC knows MS Office & Tally 1 year Oman experience in Accounts & 2 yrs marketing experience valid Oman D.L. NOC available seeks suitable placements in marketing. #92409891 Email: danomon@yahoo.co.in Indian male 45 years with 10 years software IT Marketing GCC experience Oman license, NOC visa transfer facility require urgent placement. Contact: 91719892 E mail: mmjoman@gmail.com Indian male, looking for sales & marketing job with Qatar experience & driving license. Contact 0091 8297578893, Email : mohdsaif459@gmail.com M.B.A (Marketing) With experience in FMCG & Other Sales, Valid GCC Driving License. Immediate Joining Possible Mob.92432748 Indian male 33 yrs, 11 yrs exp of Oman in Sales and hospitality looking for suitable with NOC. Contact: 91607889 MBA, Executive Post, Omani Driving Licence,14 years Experience in Multinational Groups in Sales & Marketing. M.Z. 91685048 Indian male 30 years, Gulf exp.

GCC license looking for job sales Administration. contact 94423288 Email: ferozhussain70007@gmail. com Indian male, 45 yrs, 15 years Saudi experience, 1 year Qatar experience as driver / salesman with valid Qatar D/ License, currently in Oman on visit visa, looking for suitable placement. Contact : 90653714 / 99881264

Indian female (MSC – Microbiologist) seeking suitable job. Contact: 96791162 / 90618567

B.Com, specialized in marketing, SAP - FICO, Tally ERP 9 2 yrs exp in sales and accounting ph : 90226336

Indian female dentist with MOH license having 3 years experience seeking immediate placement.NOC available Contact: 96678476/90343750, Email: jayakrishnak8@gmail.com

Indian male MBA having 12 years of Sales experience in Oman seeking suitable position, good in Arabic and having valid D/L. NOC can be obtained (as per new rule).

Contact : 98908634

Filipina lady having exp in ticketing and preservation, call center, secretarial and real estate is now looking for job please call.94054080

MISCELLANEOUS Indian Female on a visit visa having master degree seeking suitable placement in any field, 1 ,5 year experience in HR .Contact : +968 91467576.

MBA Marketing, 10 years in marketing, consulting strategy, corporate communications, content management, UX , Product launch, digital marketing. Indian female on visit. Contact : 95431357 Indian 32 years passed M.A. English , M.Sc Psychology and B.Ed in English having 4 years experience in teaching searching suitable job.

Contact: 99869535 Email: sahadkeyi33@gmail.com Indian male,16 years Oil & Gas experience ( Down Hole Tools ), 3 years in Oman, Dip. Mechanical Engineer, Having D/L and NOC. Email – jajisuni@yahoo.com, Mob : 965 956 18.

Bangladeshi Male, University MA, Working as Store In-charge cum Logistic Manager in Muscat; searching better job.

Phone:91997605. email: mohamednazrulislam2@gmail.com 8 plus years of experience in Events /Marketing Communication /conferences / Trainings / Media representation. Having UAE D/L. seeking Suitable Placement: Contact: 95792820. suheal.ma@ outlook.com Physiotherapist with MOH license looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 92617235 Software Engineer Indian, 31 yrs, 8.5 years experience (IBM, Emphasis, cognizant), Oman driving license looking suitable placement. Contact: 93221395 Indian male, 19 years Oman exp in purchase, Material control in building construction & factory production have good computer skills & D/L & with NOC, looking for suitable placement. contact 99008101 Email: mr.victor2015@ hotmail.com Engg/ Tech/ Mech, ME. Mechanical Engineer Indian male, 24 years looking for suitable job, area of interest Unconventional machining process, transmission system used in automobile quality control. Contact: 90444038 / 96736912, ilango2507@gmail.com Indian Male,Kerala,B.COM & B.PE having 13Years of Physical Education Teacher experience. Currently on visit visa Looking for a suitable job. Contact:- 968 94106834. email:-akhilrajkj@ gmail.com.

25 year old male B.Com and insurance graduate with 6 year experience looking for an opening in accounts, finance or operations related only. Driving license and NOC available. Contact-lilommca@gmail.com and 95236312.

14 year experience in 5 star hotel as sales manager in UAE & INDIA on tourist visa looking for suitable opportunity please contact mobile # 91305978 Admin Assistant. Having 5 years experience in admin department in reputed companies, presently working in Muscat (NOC Available). GSM. 00968-98404122, Email - panduru.jeevankumar@ gmail.com BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail. com Filipino Male, 24 Years Old.. looking for job, have experience in Cargo & Logistics/ Rent a Car/ Real Estate/ Finance & Accounts/ customer service and as Travel Agent. Hard working and with good computer and communication skills. GSM: 95370052

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Karate and self defense classes at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM. CONTACT 98294551

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English class for Malayalam Speakers

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Any time available transportation solution for house office shifting, TV fixing, carpenter all type of maintenance.#Indian person : 95194801 / 96594592 Whatsapp

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SITUATION WANTED SIT. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Indian Female on a visit visa having master degree seeking suitable placement in any field, 1 and half year experience in HR .Contact : +968 91467576 .

Experienced B.Com graduate + IATA Diploma holder looking for Accounts/Admin/Travels related job. Mob. 91142997. NOC available.

Indian Female, 24 MA Eng. Litr with 2 yrs experience in teaching & 14 months in Administration cum Secretary, Currently on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact: 92613704/99260702, Email:rohinis2010@gmail.com

6 YEARS EXPERIENCE HR/Finance Indian female[29Years] MBA. On family visa, Seeking suitable placement-93908191, email:aswathi.wnd@gmail.com 32year Indian Male MSC,MBAHR having 8yrs Exp(HR / Payroll / Admin) with Oman valid DL. Seeking suitable opening in Human Resource, Payroll & Admin/ backend jobs. Contact:00968-99322978 Sudanese male, 5 years experience in warehouse management and logistics servicescontact 90644186

Sri Lankan Male 34 BSc. (Physics) 5 years experience as a site manager and administration supervisor in Oman with valid D/L looking for a suitable position. Contact 99153061 or v.chandramohan@ yahoo.co.uk

Electrical Engineer Indian male 23 yrs, 2 yrs experience HV/LV Design experience in Oman based projects experience in HV testing (220/110/11kv) presently on visit visa. Contact : 99729860 Email: vivekcet888@gmail.com

Female Junior Architect Graduated from School of Planning & Architecture, Vijayawada. Excellence in Autocad, Sketching & Modelling. Internship - KHAM Designs, Bangalore. Presently with Atulya Architects & Associates. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com #00968-94057427.

Indian female B.C.A, B.E.D, IELTS experience in Oman teaching primary & secondary looking for job. Contact : 97384206 Email: rani_sweet786@live.com

2 years experienced male seeking job related to safety. M. Tech in HSE, MSc in Environmental Science and IOSH certified. Contact : 94653264 Indian male 37 YEARS, BSC COMPUTER SCIENCE having More than 8yrs of experience with well exposure in PDO, DALEEL & OXY as IT SUPPORT / DESKTOP SUPPORT ENGINEER. Seeking suitable placement. Contact rangaraj_vck@ yahoo.co.in / 968-99758320 Indian Female Electronics System Eng. UK Graduate. Programmer Micro Controller Robot, Eng. Analysis, Instrumentation & Control, Eng. Projects, Integrated Circuit Eng., Electrical and Fluid Drives, Analogue Electronics, Wireless Systems. Seeking suitable post. Contact: 97848075, s.dinesh1508@ gmail.com

Indian female, having 10 years experience in logistics and sales coordination, exp in SAP, MS Office valid D/L currently on visit visa looking for suitable placement. Contact : 95251911 Accountant 31 years Indian male, 6 years experience in Dubai & Bahrain with driving license good computer skills seeking for suitable position. Contact : 92791218 Email: vmp2485@gmail.com Sr Material controller, having 13 years experience in material controlling in reputed companies.

Presently working in Muscat (NOC Available). contact 00968-92944026, Email charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in Indian/male (25)/ MBA/2 years experience in channel sales and distribution management. on visit visa. available for immediate joining. Contact: 96914068, E mail: mailanasap@ gmail.com

Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning tiles / Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.

Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C

SERVICES We Provide Cleaners, Office boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.

Al Mudakhir National Est. LLC Contact : 94277020

SITUATION WANTED SIT. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Indian, BE Mechanical Engineering with 1 yr exp as service Engineer, looking for suitable positions. Contact-90637918, E mail: aquasharath@gmail.com Senior Accountant, 5 yrs Oman, 10 yrs UAE experience in manufacturing & construction valid D/L immediately available. Email: irfan_syed2000@hotmail.com, call: 95389018 MCA, Indian female, experience in IT & Administration. #94133849 Email: abpraveena16@gmail.com Indian male with 1 yr exp looking for job in I.T as Web developer, presently in Muscat on visit visa. #92312978 Indian Male ,MBA Finance & Marketing 28 yrs,6+ Exp, with oman D/L & NOC, Hospital ,Pharma ,Herbal ,FMCG, F&B Markeing ,construction A/c & sales , 93379044 HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4 plus years experience in oil & gas, working in shclumberger Nebosh, ISOH & NDT certified, M. Tech in HSE. contact-krish.569@gmail. com mobile- +91 9867016808 BE Mechanical Engineering with one year experience now on visit visa, looking for suitable positions. #90637918 / 99335742,email: aquasharath@gmail.com

Indian/male (25)/ MBA /2 years experience in channel sales and distribution management. on visit visa. available for immediate joining. Contact: 96914068, email: mailanasap@gmail.com Indian male, 8.5 yrs experience, B.Com Graduate with GCC exp & valid driving license looking for better job opening in Muscat.

Contact: 92609935 / 94771365

CHANGE OF NAME I Srinivasan Shyama Sunder (holder of Indian passport No. F6650596) son of S. Srinivasan having permanent residence in India, 11-11-1154, Giri Nivas, Mukhyaprana Temple Road, Managalore – 575001, Karnataka (complete postal address in India) and presently residing in Muscat, P.O. Box 3305, Postal Code 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman (complete postal address in Oman) intend to change my name from Srinivasan Shyama Sunder (old name) to Shyam Sunder (new name) for all practical purpose. Any objection towards my name change may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box No, 1727 Postal Code 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

House shifting. Contact: 99708138

Window & split unit A.C servicing & repairing. Contact: 99557080

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing. Ocean center LLC.contact 99344723

Split & window unit A.C servicing & maintenance. Contact: 96236476

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont Maintenance services electric, plumbing and A/C. Contact: 96524904 /94285064 Split A/C servicing R.O 10 only.

Contact: 94217681 / 99210141 Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & anti-termite treatment, general cleaning painting,Plumbing, Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. Contact: 24810137, 99450130

Split & widow unit A.C servicing & maintenance.contact 93769089 / 95323517 Split & window A/c servicing & maintenance. contact 93769089 / 95323517 GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998 A/C maintenance & servicing, fridge, washing machine & dish washer repairing, painting & cleaning services, electrical & plumbing. #99447257 / 97014234 / 24504281

Fixed asset verification inventory control software installation support services. Contact: 97703143

A/C Technician, cold store, freezer, chiller all kinds of A/C & refrigeration installation & service.

Contact: 92279370 / 92459357

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles polishing, carpet shampooing, maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS- 99320217 /24788722

Water proofing ABUQABASContact 99320217/24788722

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC contact 99344723

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED Indian male network cabling technician (19 years Gulf experience), seeking for suitable placement.

Contact : 0091-8089909265 (India), Email: mohithavp@gmail.com

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422 Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC CONTACT 99344723 MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. contact 24793614/ 99314807 House shifting packing.

Contact: 99657644 / 98518013

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Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine Tours contact 98029602, 92808636 We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898

SITUATION WANTED BUSINESS Investment Required Minimum OMR 500,000 to transfer 5 Excavators big + 5 Tippers 2015 Astra, working on good profitable Excavation projects. Assured income 36 %.

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RENT A CAR

RENT A CAR 25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP specification for monthly rent & small car with driver. Contact 99839898

MV SALE Expat selling Toyota Corolla, Silver, 1.6, Automatic 2009, with new tyres and manual window, excellent condition, 110,000 KM for RO 2900. Contact – 92769735 Toyota Prado 3 nos. for sale. Contact: 99454425

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Housing in a well developed area for sale in Mangalore 100 meters from Main road at: Malaraya Temple Road, Chilimbi Near Urva stores, Mangalore -Karnataka, India Land: 181.60 Sq.mts, House built in the year 1986 consisting of ground floor and first floor. Total build up area around 2000 Sq.ft with car parking. Separate water and electricity connections. Contact: Anil Kumar: +91 97418 85128 (between 12 noon till 10 pm).

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ACC WANTED Looking for a villa in Amerat area.

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