Times of Oman - August 7, 2016

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August 7, 2016 3 Dhul Qa’ada 1437 AH

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

On the occasion of the 10th National Day, 1980

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

MORNING MINUTE

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CABLE

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HM sends greetings to Côte d’Ivoire MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Dr. Alassane Dramane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire on the occasion of the anniversary of his country’s National Day. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes for the president and his country’s people. -ONA

The Sultanate participated in the official inauguration ceremony of the 31st Olympic Games Tournament at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on August 5. Sheikh Khalid Mohammed Al Zubair, president of the Oman Olympic Committee and head of the Sultanate’s delegation at the Olympic Games said that the participation of the Sultanate has been widely welcomed by the countrymen in view of the great importance of this sporting event. International shooter Hamed Al Khatri is carrying the Sultanate’s flag. Four athletes from Oman are taking part in the event. More than 18,000 athletes representing 206 countries are competing in various competitions. >C1, 4

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HM’s website in five more languages

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His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s personal website management announced that the website will now be available in five new languages.

The website highlights His Majesty’s achievements during the past four decades. >A3

Delay in resolving labour disputes hurts employees is the time period to settle the dispute at the Ministry of Manpower’s Labour Dispute Departments

deep in trouble,” Shaji Sebastin, an Indian social worker and resident of Oman for the last 30 years, told Times of Oman.

In Oman, three employee-employer meetings are held over a 45-day period to help settle disputes at the Ministry of Manpower’s labour dispute departments.

convened to resolve the labour dispute. So, most often they don’t turn up. Eventually, the case is forwarded to court and the stranded worker who will be struggling for daily food and shelter will be neck

Consensus If the employer fails to turn up for the meetings and even if they appear and fail to reach a consensus over the dispute, then the dispute will be forwarded to court for ruling.

According to Shaji, since the

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Employers drag labour disputes to courts where employees are forced into a long legal battle causing more miseries to them in a foreign land

MUSCAT: Some workers in Oman are living on the street without food for up to two years because employers are delaying or failing to turn up to dispute hearings.

Employers failing to attend settlement meetings at labour dispute departments and the cases moving to court is leaving employees in the lurch, say trade union leaders, social workers and embassy officials.

“In the current mechanism, employers are not bound to attend the settlement meetings

introduction of the two year visa ban and related regulations the dispute cases are on the rise and those who dare to question the employer’s decisions are left alone to struggle in Oman for years.

“Pravesh Sha, an Indian tailor, had to fight without shelter and food for two years because he approached the labour dispute system and later on the court to get his unpaid salaries,” Shaji added.

“Parvesh has won the case in his favour a few months back. He is waiting for the judgment to be executed,” Shaji said, adding that Parvesh’s case is not an isolated one. >A5

DROWNING INCIDENT

Man’s body recovered from Raysut

Advice Following the incident, PACDA has urged all visitors to the Governorate of Dhofar to adhere to safety instructions and not to risk swimming in prohibited places for their own safety.

Last Monday, an eight-yearold boy died after he drowned in a farm pond. The tragic accident happened on Monday evening, at a farm in the Dot area of Dhank, around 312km from Muscat.>A6

Yemen’s Houthi-led bloc sets up council

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Yemen’s two dominant political movements announced a 10-member governing council, pushing ahead with plans to run the country as UN-sponsored talks to end a 16-month-old war drew to a close without a deal. >A7

MARKET

Oman’s inflation under control

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Oman’s inflation is well under control, despite the deregulation of prices of petroleum products earlier this year. The country’s inflation rate edged up by 1.1 per cent in May 2016, from the same month in 2015. >B1

B E LT B R E A K D O W N

Muscat airport flights getting back to normal

Omanis set up private tour companies to promote marine tourism

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reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Despite a baggage belt breakdown at Muscat airport and delays at Dubai Airport forcing airlines to reschedule and cancel flights from Muscat yesterday morning, Oman Airport’s departure status by Saturday evening revealed that operations are getting back to normal.

All flights to Dubai on Saturday afternoon departed on time and other flights scheduled for today evening are ready to fly according to normal schedules.

However, Oman Air tweeted that due to Dubai Airport restrictions, the airline was forced to cancel WY605/606 and WY623/624 on Saturday.

A travel agent in Muscat said that flights to Muscat are still suffering disruptions.

Staff Reporter MUSCAT: Rescue teams from the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) have found the body of a man near Raysut on Saturday, the authority tweeted.

The victim, identified as a Jordanian national, had been missing in a spring in Raysut since Friday.

The rescue team rushed to the spot on Friday evening but poor visibility hampered their search.

The PACDA divers resumed their search operations on Saturday.

REGION

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“There are delays. Passengers are stuck and are forced to change their travel plans. It may take more time to return to normalcy,” Raji Demonte, general manager at Universal Travel and Tourism in Oman, said.

Meanwhile, flights from Muscat were delayed as a baggage belt broke down for a few minutes, the Oman Airport Management Company (OAMC) said in a tweet. >A6

STUDY

Parents of autistic children suffer from depression Staff Reporter MUSCAT: Almost half of all parents of autistic children in Oman suffer from depression, according to a recent report published by the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).

The report revealed that 46 per cent of the caregivers of CASD (Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder) were noted to have depression.

According to the report, all in-

dices of stress, depression, and anxiety were higher in CASD, compared with other caregivers in the control group and it added that, therefore, there are strong grounds to contemplate a mechanism to help such a vulnerable group of family caregivers.

Previous studies carried out in Euro-American populations have also unequivocally indicated that psychological disorders for caregivers of CASD

are marked with high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

Intellectual disabilities The study aimed to examine whether there is variation in the performance of indices of stress, depression, and anxiety explored via depression, anxiety and the Stress Scale 21 among caregivers of CASD, caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities, and caregivers of typi-

cally developing children.

Omani researchers had three aims. The first aim of the study was to compare the socio-demographic indices between CASD and parents of non-ASD children.

The second aim was to explore the performance of indices of stress, depression, and anxiety among CASD and parents of nonASD children.

The third aim was to delineate the relationship between ASD and

indices of stress, depression, and anxiety after adjusting for potential confounders.

The case–control study was designed to examine stress, anxiety, and depression among parents of children, with and without diagnosed ASD. In conclusion, the study indicated that caregivers of ASD are noted to have adverse psychological states that manifest as stress, depression, and anxiety. >A6

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We have catered to more than 100 visitors from Oman and most of them are happy with the facilities available in our hotel Rausak Mulsap, CEO of Al Meroz Hotel

Thailand’s first halal hotel a hit with Omanis

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Red-tapism hinders course correction of school dropouts SUNDAY BEAT

So far more than 100

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guests from Oman

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xcessive red tape is proving to be a hill too steep to climb for school dropouts, who want to continue with their education in their mature years, with some of them left on the sidelines, and struggling to get a meaningful job.

What is even more baffling is that there is no uniform standard that all government ministries follow and different official agencies have their own rules and regulations about school dropouts looking to get back to education.

have visited the halal-certified hotel

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mobinmathew@timesofoman.com BANGKOK: Thailand’s first halal hotel welcomed more than 100 Omani tourists during its first six months of operation, according to the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Al Meroz Hotel.

“We have catered to more than 100 visitors from Oman and most of them are happy with the facilities available in our hotel,” CEO Rausak Mulsap said.

The Al Meroz Hotel was opened at the beginning of 2016.

“Omani tourists, who visited here, share their living experience in our hotel with their friends back in Oman, who are planning to visit Thailand and many have booked their rooms because of this word of mouth publicity,” he added.

They are expecting more Omani tourists at their hotel in the near future as Thailand is considered one of the major destinations for Omani tourists, he added.

Non-Muslim tourists are also welcome at the hotel, he asserted.

Most of the tourists visit Thailand for healthcare and leisure, according to Mulsap. “Our hotel provides all convenient things to our customers, such as a bus service to go to downtown Bangkok,” he said.

Hotel accommodations, din-

PRIME LOCATION: Hotel Al Meroz is located with an easy access to the Suvarnabhumi Airport and downtown Bangkok. – Supplied photo

ing and leisure facilities have been specially created to ensure the comfort and well-being of the Muslim and non-Muslim guests.

“All meals in our restaurants are halal certified and the hotel is nonalcoholic,” Mulsap said.

The property features 242 rooms and suites, three restaurants, a large outdoor swimming pool, gymnasium and meeting rooms.

Certification Speaking about the reason to open such a hotel in Thailand, he said “There isn’t any halal-friendly hotel to cater to Muslim travellers in Thailand, so we do not want to miss out on a huge opportunity in the halal tourism market.”

The hotel has been certified by the Dubai-based Gulf Halal organisation, ensuring that halal

standards are maintained.

“We are targeting high-end Muslim markets and non-Muslim markets in Asia, Middle East and Europe,” Mulsap said.

The 100 per cent halal hotel concept at Al Meroz means more than offering food and gaining a halal certification; it also provides a Muslim-friendly environment, catering to the community’s religious needs, safety, trustworthiness and hygiene, he added.

“We hope this new concept will attract tourists, who looking for new experiences in their vacation too,” Mulsap stated. The hotel is located with an easy access to the Suvarnabhumi Airport and downtown Bangkok. A choice of luxurious rooms and suites are offered, with one floor reserved exclusively for female guests.

Allowed For example, the Ministry of Education allows an 11th Grade dropout to study for a vocational course to acquire a qualification equivalent to a secondary diploma. Then they can move on to the degree courses.

To get an equivalent qualification from a foreign institution, the Ministry of Higher Education does not recognise if an 11th Grade dropout has acquired a certain number of degree years after leaving school. The consideration of equivalency will be based on the 9th Grade qualification, not counting the 10th and 11th Grades.

The ministry also requires the candidate to have work experience immediately after school (at the tender age of 15) and additional experience after acquiring the degree. Moreo-

ver, these regulations are not communicated to employers.

The Ministry of Manpower is also left powerless to intervene and solve the employment problems of those affected.

Dilemma Dropouts are left in a dilemma because of the inconsistency of the governing bodies. The Ministry of Education does not provide statistics on the number of dropouts, but there are probably thousands out there standing at the crossroad of uncertainty when they could have done something to better their lives.

Access to higher education is important for all. Young people in their early teenage years make mistakes, but they should not be punished for the rest of their lives for one slip-up.

Willingness What many do not understand is that such young people start life as dropouts, but many of them show the willingness to make corrections later on. If the bureaucracy is not eased to get them back on track, then the system is failing them.

It is also important for Oman to follow international norms or established standards practiced by other countries.

Strict rules and unbending regulations do not necessarily ensure quality, but mostly get in the way of people, who want to improve their careers and have already shown the willingness to put their mistakes behind them.

Prevention But if the problem persists, and there is a likelihood that it will, Oman must have a National School Dropout Prevention Centre. It will investigate the cause of dropping out and how to find a remedy for it. But

statistics are important for understanding the dropout rate. Students do not leave schools prematurely for the joy of it. There must be a common ground, including missing too many classes, falling grades, could not get along with teachers or peers and other reasons behind it.

Beacon of light Moreover, this Centre will act as a beacon of light for the dropouts and would provide them with a helpline on how to quickly get back to education.

It will also serve as a pedestal for those, who are already dangling on the line, and who cannot get recognition for the degrees awarded from foreign institutions just because the red tape was too thick to cut.

The Centre will need to be managed independently and not be affiliated to the Ministry of Education for it to work properly. It will provide feedback, not only to the Ministry, but to both higher education institutions and employers.

Treating dropouts as a terminal case has severe consequences in the long run at the national level. Helping them to get back on track has many advantages. When young people with ambitions feel they have no one to turn to or see that the path to the future is blocked, they can turn to mischief.

Hence, it is important for the bureaucracy to find a quicker solution that would satisfy both quality in qualification and the welfare of the candidates for the sake of the nation’s well being and the economy.

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Fund plea for mosque in Amerat Residents are seeking help from the community to build a prayer hall until the new mosque being built is ready

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reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Residents in Amerat Heights are looking for support from sympathetic people, as they seek to build a temporary mosque after a fire damaged their neighbourhood mosque last Thursday.

“On Thursday after the Maghrib prayer, the mosque was damaged in a fire caused by an electrical short-circuit. Now, we have to travel to nearby areas to pray. Men

can manage. But it’s a hassle for women. So, we are seeking help from the community to build a prayer hall for women and men till a new mosque is built,” Saud Salmi, a resident in the area, told Times of Oman.

New mosque With the support of some residents, a new mosque is being built.

Construction started three years ago and is progressing. Residents plan to build the new prayer hall adjacent to the new mosque.

“Since the new mosque is being built with support from the community, a shortage of funds is hindering the process. We have not received any government funds.

So, the work is lagging. Now, the temporary mosque where we used to pray has also been damaged in a fire,” Salmi added.

Temporary mosque There are some 200 homes located in the area that depend on the temporary mosque to pray.

“A few thousand is needed to build a temporary prayer hall for

women. If the community comes forward, it would be a blessing for us. We want to build the temporary prayer hall, and also use the support to speed up the work of the mosque under construction,” Salmi added.

Major cause of fire According to a report by the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA), electrical faults accounted for one-third of all fires in 2015.

The highest number of cases last year was recorded in Muscat Governorate, officials reported. The Muscat Governorate saw the highest number of fires, at 1,036, while North Al Batinah Governorate recorded 960 fires, making these the two regions with the highest number of fires in the Sultanate.

Those seeking to contribute to construction of the temporary prayer hall, and speed the work of the new mosque under construction, can contact Abdullah Al Humaidi at 99365678 or Saud Salmi at 99335530, who is a local resident and trade union leader in the oil and gas sector.

NEW MOSQUE: The new mosque being built with support from some residents, left, and the mosque damaged on Thursday in a fire caused by an electrical short-circuit. -Supplied photo

VISIONARY LEADER

HM’s personal website to be made available in five more languages Times News Service MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s personal website management announced that the website will now be available in five new languages.

The website highlights His Majesty’s achievements during the past four decades, and his contributions as a visionary leader in shaping policies, both at the regional and global levels.

The website also has excerpts from some of his important speeches.

Expressing happiness with the development, Hamoud Al Azri, general supervisor of His Majesty’s personal website, said, “With the continued collaboration with different embassies that are accredited to the Sultanate, we are going to launch five more new languages in the project and it will be launched officially to coincide with the celebration of the National Day MINISRTY CALL

‘Renew expired commercial registrations’ MUSCAT: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, represented by the one stop station “Invest Easy” portal, urged owners of companies and establishments to renew their expired commercial registrations (CRs) as they may face difficulty in renewal if their businesses are stopped.

The Ministry said that failure to renew the expired CRs will result in stopping the businesses of the establishments and transferring them to inactive establishment. This will in turn result in stopping businesses with them by all public and private organisations connected to the system.

The Ministry published a list of the expired CRs at the Invest Easy portal. Those interested to review the status of their CRs may search by entering the CR number or the company name.

Businessmen, investors and owners of SMEs may renew their expired CRs’ data and all their transactions through Invest Easy portal website without the need to visit the HQs or branches of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry at the different governorates.

MOCI

Licences issued MUSCAT: Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued 5,126 licences for certificates of origin for products exported to GCC this year until May 31. It includes 1,890 for GCC industrial units, 1,625 for certificates of origin for GCC agricultural firms and 1,100 licenses for Arab certificates of origin for GCC natural wealth units. -ONA

HAPPY OCCASION: With the celebration of the National Day in November, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s personal website (screen shot on left) will be launched in Polish, Greek, Danish, Vietnamese, and Romanian with the collaboration of the respective countries’ embassies. – Supplied photo

in November.”

“The languages being introduced are Polish, Greek, Danish, Vietnamese, and Romanian. It’s a great honour to have the website translated this year into 30 international languages as the first

project among heads of states.”

Al Azri added, “We are currently preparing to launch the initiative ‘Our Glorious November...

Around the World’ to celebrate the Sultanate’s 46th National Day. This initiative has received wide

support from accredited embassies in Oman and from the Sultanate’s embassies abroad. Also, we are re-developing the ideas into GCC initiatives such as ‘GCC Leaders’ that we will achieve in the fourth year.”

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One of the oldest settlements in Oman, today in ruins, is located in Izki, a town in north-eastern Oman; situated about 50 kilometres from Nizwa in the Ad Dakhiliyah region.

New houses were constructed years ago for people living in the ruins so that they could resettle themselves, so no one lives in the ruins today.

Inside the ruins, one can find worn out buildings, wadis and caves from a bygone era.

A souq, which was part of the old city, also lies completely abandoned just like the houses in the ruins. Today these old settlements lie deserted and forgotten, with many stories about their past remaining untold. -Photo courtesy Syed Anisuddin

Faces behind stellar show of Sultanate’s National Museum Get to know some of the amazing

Belarussian parentage, he enjoys reading, travelling and exploring new cultures, and cooking.

Sayyida Nada Fakhri Al Said

and most talented Omanis who were involved in making the Oman National Museum dream project a reality DEEBA HASAN

deeba@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Muscat’s newest cultural attraction, the National Museum opened its doors only last week and registered over 1,700 visitors in the first four days.

We bring you some of the amazing and talented Omanis, who were involved in making this dream project a reality.

Jamal Al Moosawi Al Moosawi has been the acting director general of the National Museum since late 2015; he had earlier held the role of the National Museum Project Director since January 2010.

He is a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art and holds a Masters Degree in Visual Communication and Cultural Studies.

He was previously appointed as the Arts Project Manager Oman by the British Council in January 2005 and was later promoted to the position of Regional Arts Projects Manager for the Middle East at the British Council and also held the position of a museum curator of the Modern Arab Art Museum of the Qatar Foundation in Doha.

Born in Moscow and of Omani-

Al Said is a culture and heritage specialist at the National Museum and plays the multiple roles of museum development, design and external relations. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Design from the University of West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom and later worked as a freelance graphic designer in Australia and Oman before joining the National Museum team two and a half years ago as an exhibition designer.

She currently advises on the design progress of the museum and is also the head of the External Relations Unit, where she enjoys creating strong relationships with other organisations, building capacity for the museum team, engaging in community outreach and creating awareness about the museum’s achievements in culture and heritage preservation, both nationally and internationally.

Waleed bin Omar bin Saud Al Nadabi

Al Nadabi joined the National Museum in 2011 and currently serves as the head of registration unit. His role is to inventory the collections and document all its text and non-text information in a digital database. He also takes care of the objects’ movement inside the museum and manages deliveries of artefacts.

He graduated from the Sultan Qaboos University with Bachelor’s degree in History and Archaeology and later worked as a research assistant with the Oman Encyclopaedia Project before moving on to become the incharge of collections and research at the Bait Al Zubair Museum.

He wants the museum to not only link this generation to their past, but also to inspire them by looking at the most important artefacts of Oman.

Zahra Hassan Abdul Khaliq Al Lawati Al Lawati heads the Learning Centre at the National Museum.

Her responsibilities include supervising the learning team and designing a learning policy and detailed activity programme for the museum’s Learning Centre.

She is also responsible for the smooth running and upkeep of the centre, including booking of rooms and visits, allocation of digital equipment, and maintaining art and teaching materials.

With a background in Art Education, she worked as an Arts teacher (grade 11 and 12) for six years, which was followed by completing a Masters degree in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Al Lawati is proud of being part of a very talented and motivated team at the museum and said the learning programmes will support the mission of the Museum by raising public awareness about the importance of Oman’s cultural

heritage and will encourage young generations to take an interest in Oman’s history.

Moza Sulaiman Al Wardi Al Wardi is the head of Study and Research at the museum and joined in 2009, her responsibilities include collection interpretation and selecting objects for display, acquisitions (local and international), working with the exhibition designer, publication team, education department and the conservation team.

She holds a Bachelors degree on Heritage and Culture Studies from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia.

According to Al Wardi, being part of this project for six years, she has seen the development of the project and calls the museum her second home.

Khoulabint Saif Al Wahabi Al Wahabi is currently the head of the Conservation Unit, whose responsibility is to carefully observe the showcases and make decisions with respect to conservation and preservation, acquisitions and maintenance by overseeing the development of the scientific database, supervision of laboratories, among other tasks.

She graduated from the Sultan Qaboos University with a Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and worked for the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in 2004 for the following projects—the Omani Heritage Museum, the Sayyid Faisal Bin Ali Museum and the National Museum. She is happy because her current job gives her the opportunity to deal directly with very rare and valuable artefacts.

Shurooq Mohammed Jawad Najwani Najwani currently heads the Publication Unit at the National Museum and is also a translator.

She established the annual programme of the unit and organises the Museography delivery process in terms of translation, editing, preparing a guideline for all specific terminology used in the museum among other tasks.

She has a Bachelors’ degree in Translation from the Sultan Qaboos University and has been working at the museum for four and a half years. She previously worked with the Omani Encyclopaedia Project for three years as a translator. She wants the next generation to be proud of being an Omani, their ancestry, history, culture, heritage and tradition.

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Sultanate’s marine tourism flourishing despite challenges MUSCAT: Muscat is famous for its quiet sea and beautiful golden beaches.

The best of these beaches are in the small villages surrounding Muscat, including Al Jissah, Al Khairan, Al Sifah and Yeti. They are characterised by their quiet and breathtaking atmosphere that attracts tourists from within and outside the Sultanate for camping, recreation and diving, which has encouraged many young Omanis to set up private tour companies to promote marine tourism.

Among those companies is the Najmat Al Bahr (Sea Star) Company for marine tourism. It is classified as a small business, and was established in 2011, as a project in the field of marine tourism. An ambitious dream turned into reality at the hands of its owner Said bin Habib Al Rahbi from Yeti in the Governorate of Muscat.

The Sea Star Company is a tour operator for attendees of the sea.

It owns a traditional wooden ship, 40-foot tour boat, tourist camp in the Al Khairan Island and five staff members, including the owner and four of his family members, who work as captains, in addition to undertaking the management, financial and marketing tasks of the company.

Steady progress The company is steadily progressing and successfully marketing and attracting more tourists in a world that is not without significant challenges, such as competition, seasonal customers and the complexities of procedures, as well as the high cost allocated to ships’ berths.

Said Al Rahbi told the Oman News Agency (ONA) that the idea of setting up a tourist company was in his mind for a period of time, after his retirement from the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO).

He joined as a captain in several tourist companies where he came very close to the field of tourism.

After a thorough study, he gath-

ered the courage to establish a marine tourism company despite weak liquidity. However, with the concerted efforts of the family, he bought a ship, followed by a boat.

He added that his ambition is still strong in the field of marine tourism, even though he is still at the beginning of the road. He said the company benefited in 2015 from the Al Rafd Fund, which offered him financial support as an asset for the new-born company against any obstacles in the future that are repayable in instalments.

He explained that the Sea Star Company operates various cruises, including morning dolphin-seeing, and swimming, lunch and fishing, birthdays and afternoon tours for sunset seeing, boarding, dinners, customised tours and many others.

Al Rahbi said these tours vary depending on the time of the year, and are active in the winter due to warm weather and decrease in the summer because of high temperature and humidity. -ONA

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FREE SERVICE: The passengers are carried to their destination in a Ministry of Defence 4x4 vehicle and between 20 and 30 passengers use this service daily. – Supplied photo

A daily free ride to Jabal Akhdar top The service is provided by the Ministry of Defence which carries area residents from the bottom to the top of the Jabal Akhdar mountains

SYED HAITHAM HASAN

haitham@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: A free ride from Birkat Al Mouz, at the base of the towering Jabal Akhdar mountains to the top, is a service provided to local residents by the

Ministry of Defence.

Everyday, Ministry of Defence vehicles run a free taxi service, which carries area residents from the bottom to the top of the

Jabal Akhdar mountains. Most of these people include local residents who live there, or teachers and nurses who work in the handful of schools in the mounA L S U WA I Q

ACADEMIC ACCREDITATION

College of Arts and Social Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University received the Institutional Academic Accreditation from German Establishment for Quality Assurance through the Academic Accreditation for the Academic Programmes (AQAS) for six years with effect from July 2016 up to September 2022 The certificate was received

by Dr. Abdullah Khamis Al Kindy, the Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at SQU in Colin. -ONA

Property destroyed in blaze MUSCAT: Property was destroyed in a fire at a furniture warehouse in the Wilayat of Al Suwaiq in the Governorate of North Al Batinah yesterday.

However, no loss of life was reported in the incident. The Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulance teams were able to control the fire with much effort. The officials received an information about a fire in a furniture factory and the fire personnel were immediately rushed to the place.

The public authority represented by the Fire Hazards Protection Department has stressed on the need of complying with safety requirements. -ONA

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settle labour disputes’

Mohammed Khaldi, a trade union activist in Oman, said that they face such situations regularly and undoubtedly we can say that employees, the vulnerable ones, suffer.

“In many cases, to get a dispute settled it may take at least two years. Those who don’t want to get tangled in the fight will have to accept injustice,” the trade union leader said, while adding that the current mechanism should be revisited by the government and setting up of labour court should considered seriously.

Saud Salmi, chairman of the Oil and Gas Trade Union in Oman, said that it is vital to find a mechanism to resolve the issue.

“Employers not turning up for meetings and time taken in courts will hurt the employees a lot who are already in trouble. Government should consider this issue seriously and find a solution,” Saud added.

Mohammed Farji, another trade union leader in Oman, said that they have urged the ministry in the past to look into the issue seriously. “If an employee wins a case in the court where the employer had failed to turn up in the labour dispute department, then the employer should be penalized,” Farji added.

A senior embassy official from one of the migrant sending countries said that they have raised this issue with ministry officials earlier and have requested a solution.

“When employers fail to not turn up at the labour dispute department, the dispute goes to court causing trouble to the stranded worker. We have discussed the issue with ministry and they are planning to set up a tribunal where the cases can be settled before going to court if the employer fails to turn at the labour dispute department. We are hopeful that this may happen

soon,” the official added.

Meanwhile, a senior official at the Ministry of Manpower said that currently there is no such system to take action against the employer who fails to attend the dispute settlement meetings at the labour department.

“However, the employer failing to turn will be noted while the case is heard in the court,” Said Salem Al Saadi, the advisor to the Minister of Manpower, told Times of Oman.

In April, the advisor had said that a special court dedicated to settling labour disputes in Oman is to be created.

“The process is underway.

The ministry is keen on protecting workers’ rights and it always works for the welfare of workers,” the advisor added.

At present, Oman doesn’t have a dedicated court to deal with labour disputes, which are currently handled in the general courts.

tainous region.

Although the roads are paved and there are specially built safety measures, the roads still remain steep and the route is

complicated for drivers unfamiliar with the terrain.

Moreover, most people making use of these services do not drive, including women and older

adults, who have to make their way up and down the mountains for work.

“The driving is safe and professional”, said Syed Anisuddin, a government employee who has used this taxi service for tourism work. “It is, simply put, a free taxi service which picks up people from the foothills of the mountains, drops them to their destination and returns. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the magnificent view” he added. The passengers are carried to their destination in a Ministry 4x4 vehicle, dropped at their destination and the service is also used by people to travel from one area to another on top of the mountains. “Everyday we carry around 20-30 people up and down the mountain in our 4x4s,” explains Khalid, who is in-charge at the base camp. “The service is twice a day, once in the morning and once at sunset, and it is free for everyone.”

Such measures have shown the concern of the government in Oman in helping local populations.

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OMAN 22% surge in Oman’s ferry passenger traffic Shanna-Masirah route recorded the highest proportion of passenger traffic until the end of July

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regrets delay

At around 11:30am, in a tweet, Oman Air regretted the delay of flights out of Muscat airport as a result of breakdown of the baggage belt.

However, a few minutes later, OAMC tweeted that the problem had been rectified.

On Friday morning, Dubai Airports confirmed that the runway at Dubai International that was closed following the incident inRESCUE

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of passengers, who

carried out

travelled on this route were 92,445

volving flight EK 521 on Wednesday was brought back into operation at 1745 hours UAE local time on Thursday.

“While two runway operations have since begun at Dubai, the airport will continue to operate in recovery mode and clear backlogged flights for the next 48 hours before normal operations are restored,” the airport’s Friday tweet added.

BOOMING TRAFFIC: NFC statistics showed that January 2016 saw the highest number of passengers

at 23,544, followed by July, with 22,828 passengers. –File picture

MUSCAT: Data released by the National Ferries Company (NFC) showed an increase in the number of passengers on board the ferries to 122,699 passengers until the end of July 2016, constituting an increase of 22 per cent, up from 100,591 passengers in the same period of 2015.

NFC statistics showed that January 2016 saw the highest number of passengers at 23,544, followed

by July, with 22,828 passengers, May with 18,638 passengers, while the number of transported passengers during April stood at 17,118, in March they reached 14,258 passengers, whereas in February it was 14,022 passengers and June recorded 12,291 passengers.

The statistics also indicated a surge in the total number of vehicles shipped onboard ferries until

the end of July 2016, which was pegged at 29,849 vehicles, reflecting a 14 per cent jump, compared with 26,188 vehicles in the same period in 2015.

January 2016 also witnessed the highest number of shipped vehicles at 5,420 vehicles, followed by July with 5,206 vehicles, May by 4,759 vehicles, while the number of shipped vehicles during April reached 4,445, in March it was 3,485 vehicles. In February, shipped vehicles stood at 3,478 and in June they stood at 3,056.

The statistical bulletin showed that the (Shanna-Masirah) route recorded the highest proportion of passenger traffic until the end of July 2016 as the number of passengers, who travelled on this route were 92,445, with an occupancy rate of 45 per cent, compris-

ing 75 per cent of the total passengers and recording a growth of 11 per cent, compared with a year ago.

As many as 26,820 vehicles were shipped onboard this route, with a 55 per cent occupancy rate, comprising 90 per cent of the total shipped vehicles on the route and recording a growth of 18 per cent when compared with the same period in 2015. The Diba-Lima route came in second, and recorded 12,129 passengers, with a 76 per cent occupancy rate.

The number of passengers on the Muscat—Khasab route reached 4,471, with a 53 per cent occupancy rate. The route also transported 1,198 vehicles, with an occupancy rate of 70 per cent, followed by the Khasab—Shinas route, which transported 5,394 passengers, with a 41 per cent

occupancy rate.

The route transported 1,363 vehicles, with a 51 per cent occupancy rate. The Shinas—Diba— Khasab route transported 4,719 passengers and 451 vehicles.

The total number of passengers transported by the Khasab— Lima route reached 2,417 and the Lima—Shinas route recorded 733 passengers.

At the regional level of Omani ferry voyages to Iranian ports, which were launched at the end of July 2016, the number of passengers on the first regional voyage Khasab—Qeshm route transported 120 passengers, in addition to transporting 202 passengers of the Iranian delegation that participated in the Omani-Iranian Exhibition held in the Wilayat of Khasab last January 2016. -ONA

According to PACDA data, 113 cases of drowning were recorded in 2015, down from 150 in 2014 and 292 in 2013.

Last year, 55 rescue operations

were carried out in wadis, 26 at sea, two in pools, two in swamps and 11 in wells; two at dams and seven where waste water had accumulated.

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“The finding is consistent with previous studies from different populations. If the present finding will fare further scrutiny, effort should not be spared to re-address some of the psycho-social needs of caregivers of children with ASD,” the study added.

The study was conducted by Omar A Al Farsi, Yahya M Al Farsi, Marwan M Al Sharbati and Samir H Al Adawi from SQU and the School of Public Health in the United States.

The study was conducted over the period of November 2013 to June 2014.

GOIC

Study on maximising employment opportunities for nationals in Oman MUSCAT: A study was conducted to devise investment policies that enhance the employment of Omanis in the labour market.

As delegated by the Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), represented by the Directorate General of Industry, “Planning and Industrial Studies Department,” conducted a study on the policies and opportunities for the employment of national manpower in the Sultanate.

The study also aims at proposing efficient economic projects and investment policies.

The study comes within the efforts made by the Sultanate to enable Omanis to join labour market especially economic activities carried out by them to maximise their benefit from the fruit of economic growth in general and the industrial sector growth in particular.

The study cast light on the labour market legislations and provides analysis of the indicators and the institutional framework for the training and employment of national manpower. The study also highlighted the available job opportunities, represented in professions for the national manpower and the role of public and private sectors in operation.

The study also pointed out that the labour market of the private sector faces many challenges that restrict citizens’ access to it or setting up individual projects in most economic sectors

DEVISING SOLUTIONS: The situation calls for urges devising solutions that enable and rehabilitate citizens and provide them with the healthy environment. – Supplied picture

especially industry.

This situation urges devising solutions that enable, rehabilitate citizens and provide them with the healthy environment that encourages them to take up the available job opportunities and promote entrepreneurship in all private sector’s activities.

In a bid to study the labour market indicators and employment policy at the industrial sector, the study did not limit itself to the industry sector only, but rather presented the analysis reached during the research period.

The study aims at achieving three main objectives namely

identifying the status of the economic sectors especially industry, identifying new investment opportunities that enable them to attract national manpower and identifying the academic and professional needs, how far the national manpower can meet such needs and the Omanisation levels at the various economic activities especially industry.

Labour market The study discussed several facts at the Omani labour market, such as low percentage of Omanis at the labour market especially at the private sector activities and

the dire need to enable Omanis and job-seekers to overcome the challenges before their access at the labour market.

It also discussed the need to reconsider the Omanisation levels approved by the Sultanate to enhance nationalisation of jobs at the private sector.

The study provided a set of recommendations related to policies and procedures that may contribute to creating new job opportunities for job-seekers at all economic sectors including industry and to limit the challenges that hamper access of the national manpower to labour market. -ONA

OCCI

Forum to promote women entrepreneurship SALALAH: Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) in the Governorate of Dhofar will host the first Arab Women Entrepreneurs Forum on August 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The forum, which will last several days, is being organised by the Women Entrepreneurs Committee at the OCCI Branch in Dhofar.

It will include numerous events, including the Arab Women Conference and Economy, dialogue sessions, workshops and a fashion show entitled “Arabian Night,” Salalah sight-seeing tours, artistic nights to learn about Omani folklore and heritage, in addition to

tours to archaeological and heritage sites, as well as free tours.

The forum aims to promote the role of women in adding value to entrepreneurship and the business system.

The conference will focus on the participation of female entrepreneurs and business systems in adding value to the ecosystem and economic development by supporting and developing start-ups through the promotion and consolidation of the participation of women and their role in entrepreneurship and innovation.

It will also discuss opportunities and challenges in the devel-

The conference will focus on the participation of female entrepreneurs opment of entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

It will provide a wide field for the participation of financial in-

stitutions, government agencies, universities, research institutions, private sector and chambers of commerce, in addition to discussing developments on political decisions, strategies and future opportunities for the development of entrepreneurship in Oman and the Arab world.

A group of female entrepreneurs, innovators and investors and government policy makers involved in the formulation of policies related to innovation and entrepreneurship, investment, SMEs and private financing business incubators for SMEs, will also take part in the forum. -ONA

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Intense fighting erupts as Syrian rebels try to break Aleppo siege BEIRUT: Beirut: Rebel fighters pressed on with an intense offensive against a major military complex in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, following gains on Friday, to try to end a siege of opposition-held areas in the city’s east.

The rebels are trying to break through a thin strip of government-controlled territory to reconnect insurgent areas in the west of Syria with their encircled sector of eastern Aleppo, in effect breaking a government siege begun last month.

Taking control of the Ramousah complex, which contains a number of military colleges, would isolate government-held western Aleppo by cutting the southern route out towards the capital Damascus.

Access to armaments It would also give rebels access to armaments stored in the base, which has been used by the Syrian army in the country’s five-year conflict as a centre from which to shell opposition targets.

Two rebel groups said on Satur-

MAJOR OFFENSIVE: Rebel fighters ride a tank in an artillery

academy of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. – Reuters

day they had broken the siege, but a monitoring group and pro-government online media outlets denied the claim.

Jabhat Fatah Al Sham, formerly the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, said in an online statement: “Fighters from outside the city met their brother fighters from inside the city, and work is under way to

establish control over remaining positions to break the siege.”

A commander from another, more moderate rebel group also told Reuters the siege had been broken but said it was early days and matters were “not easy”.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the siege had not been broken but

fighting was intense. The Observatory, which monitors the fighting, said rebels on Friday took control of the Weaponry College and part of the Artillery College. But the Syrian army said it had repelled the attack.

Rebels are now fighting to establish full control of the Artillery College, the Air Force Technical College and to make a firm link up with rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

A live Syrian state TV report from the outskirts of the artillery base in Ramousah, southwest Aleppo, broadcast the sound of gunfire, explosions and warplanes flying over.

The state television reporter said the Syrian army had closed the Ramousah road to protect civilians from a rebel advance, and a large number of army reinforcements had arrived. Videos released by rebel groups claim to show gun battles as insurgents move into buildings in the complex.

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad wants to take full control of Aleppo, pre-war Syria’s most populous city, which has been divided

Houthis-led bloc sets up governing council The Houthi-run Saba news agency published the names of 10 officials who would comprise the political committee which would run the country

DUBAI: Two dominant political movements in Yemen on Saturday announced a 10-member governing council, against the wishes of the United Nations, as UN-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait ended without an agreement.

The announcement of the council by the armed Houthi movement and the party of Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh came as supporters of the internationally-recognised president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, battled to try to capture the capital Sanaa from the Houthis.

The Houthis and Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC), hold most of Yemen’s northern half, while forces loyal to Hadi, who is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, share control of the rest of the country with local tribes.

Fighting in which more than 6,400 people have been killed, half of them civilians, has created a

FORMING OF POLITICAL COMMITTEE: Officials from Yemen’s Houthi movement and the General People’s Congress party attend a ceremony during which a political council to unilaterally rule the country by both groups was announced in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday. – Reuters

humanitarian crisis in the country. Al Qaeda and its militant rival IS have exploited the war to try to recruit more followers and establish roots in the country, which controls major shipping lanes overlooking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

In a brief statement issued in Sanaa, the Houthi-run Saba news agency published the names of 10 officials who comprise the political committee to run the country.

The parties would rotate the position of president and vice president, who will be chosen from within the committee.

The Houthis and the GPC last month cited a need to bring in all parties to share in running Yemen

in view of what they called the “continuing aggression”. But they insisted they would continue the peace talks in Kuwait.

The UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has slammed the proposal saying it gravely violated UN Security Council resolutions and warned the warring parties against any “unilateral actions”.

Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Saturday officially brought down the curtain on the talks, held in Kuwait since April, but said the parties had agreed to resume negotiations within a month at a yet undecided venue. “We will leave Kuwait today (on Saturday), but peace consultations will continue. We will let the

NO INJURIES REPORTED

Dubai firefighters tackle blaze at under-construction building DUBAI: Firefighters fought for hours to control a blaze at a multi-storey building under construction in Dubai’s Jumeirah Village Circle on Saturday, the latest in a series of fires in the business and tourism hub of the United Arab Emirates.

An English-language daily said there were no injuries in the fire, which broke out at mid-day.

The newspaper published pictures and a video of the building showing flames and clouds of black smoke.

A spokesman said the fire was brought under control some five hours after it started, it reported.

It was not immediately clear if the building was being developed for residential or commercial purposes.

Last month a fire broke out at the residential 75-storey Sulafa Tower in the upscale Marina District, on New Year’s Eve a blaze hit a downtown hotel and in February last year there was a fire at a 79-storey residential tower.

In November 2012, a 34-storey Dubai residential building

CLOUDS OF SMOKE: Smoke billows from an under-construction building near Dubai’s Jumeirah Village Circle on Saturday. – AFP

was badly damaged by fire. In some of those cases, experts said the flames may have been encouraged to spread by exterior cladding, used for decoration or insulation.

The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 metres (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant, but older buildings are exempt. — Reuters

parties consult their leaders,” he told a news conference.

The talks have centred on a UN Security Council resolution calling for the Houthis to withdraw from areas they have seized since 2014 and to allow the government to resume its duties from Sanaa. The Houthis say any withdrawal must be part of a wider deal on a broad government to run the country.

As the talks wound down, Hadi’s supporters resumed an offensive to capture Sanaa and dislodge the Houthis from other parts of the country. Residents reported heavy fighting in Nehem, east of Sanaa, and in the north-eastern Al Jouf province, next to the Houthi home province of Saada. — Reuters

between rebel and governmentheld areas. Such a victory would be a crushing blow to the insurgents.

A quarter of a million civilians are thought to still live in Aleppo’s opposition-controlled eastern neighbourhoods, effectively under siege since the army and allied militia cut off the last road into rebel districts in early July.

Sufferings Residents on both side of the city are suffering. Government areas regularly come under attack from rebel shelling, and rebel-held areas are routinely shelled and come under air attack from Syrian and allied Russian forces. Humanitarian groups say the situation in eastern Aleppo is very concerning.

Medical charity the Syrian American Medical Society said already depleted medical facilities were targeted by strikes 15 times in July. Only 35 doctors remain in the city and over 100 people are in need of medical evacuation, SAMS Aleppo Coordinator Dr Abo El Ezz said in a statement.

The complex, multi-sided civil

war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in regional and global powers, caused the world’s worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to militancy from around the world.

Fight for Manjib Meanwhile, US-backed forces trying to oust IS militants from the Syrian city of Manbij took “almost complete control” of the city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia and Arab fighters, launched its campaign two months ago with the backing of US special forces to drive IS from a last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier. The official spokesman of the SDF-allied Manbij military council, Sharfan Darwish, told Reuters that battles were continuing but that around 90 per cent of the city had now been cleared of the ultra hardline militants . Pockets of militants are still present in the centre of the city, the Britainbased Observatory said. — Reuters

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INDIA Flight operations to Dubai to return to normal from today Air operations from India to Dubai were affected after an Emirates flight crash landed at Dubai International Airport

ALL SET: While budget carrier Spice Jet said it is operating all nine flight to Dubai from Saturday, Air India, Jet Airways

and IndiGo said they will resume full flight schedule from Sunday. - File photo

with seven flights, of the total 11, to and fro Dubai,” IndiGo said in a statement.

IndiGo will resume full flight schedule of all 11 flights to and from Dubai effective August 7, it said. “All our flights to and from Dubai (except from Mangalore) will operate as per schedule from Sunday,” Jet Airways said, adding,

“The Dubai-Mangalore flight (9W 531) will depart from Sharjah.”.

Re-routing Air India also said the airline will resume its full flight schedule to Dubai from Sunday.

“On August 4 and 5, 2016, Jet Airways operated wide-body aircraft to Dubai and re-routed its

narrow body aircraft to Sharjah to facilitate the travel of its guests ensuring minimum disruption, given the limited operating slots at Dubai,” a spokesperson for the airline said.

“On these two days, Jet Airways operated a total of two A330 and four Boeing 777 flights to and from Dubai with 1,786 guests and

16 flights on Boeing 737 aircraft to and from Sharjah with 2,237 guests.” - Agencies

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UNREST

Fresh violence leaves dozens hurt in Kashmir

Massive combing operation on in Assam’s Kokrajhar KOKRAJHAR (Assam): An National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Saturday scoured the site and spoke to eyewitnesses of Friday’s terror attack here in which 14 people were killed while a massive combing operation was on to nab the militants of Bodo separatist outfit NDFB (S) suspected to be involved in the strike.

Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who visited the attack site, told reporters that the militant who was neutralised on Friday has been identified as Manjay Islari.

Father-daughter drown in pit

on Wednesday

NEW DELHI: Air operations from India to Dubai, which were affected after an Emirates flight crash landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, are expected to return to normal from Sunday.

While budget carrier Spice Jet said it is operating all nine flight to Dubai from Saturday, Air India, Jet Airways and IndiGo said they will resume full flight schedule from Sunday.

“Spice Jet’s Dubai operations are normal from today (Saturday).

All nine flights from India will fly as per schedule,” Spice Jet tweeted.

Indian carriers had curtailed their services to the Gulf’s trade hub following the limited availability of runway due to the crash landing of the Emirates’ flight from Thiruvananthapuram at Dubai airport on August 3.

“Due to partial slot availability at Dubai on August 6, IndiGo is operating a curtailed schedule

BRIEFS

IMPRESSIVE FLORAL DISPLAY

Parliament house made with flowers during a flower show to mark upcoming Independence Day in Bengaluru on Saturday.

India’s Independence Day falls on August 15. In recent years, Bengaluru city and its surrounding areas have emerged as ideal locations for the production of export quality flowers, fruits and vegetables. — PTI

BARABANKI (UP): A father-daughter duo drowned when their motorcycle overturned into a rainwater pit near Baisanpurwa village here, police said on Saturday.

Santosh Kumar Patel (35) was going with his daughter Saumya (5) last night when he lost balance over his motorcycle which overturned into a roadside rainwater pit, they said. The locals rushed them to a nearby hospital but they were declared brought dead, police said, adding the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination.

‘Half Girlfriend’ to release on May 19 MUMBAI: Filmmaker Mohit Suri’s next directorial venture Half Girlfriend is scheduled to release on May 19, 2017. Starring Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles, the movie is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name. The release date was announced on the official Twitter handle of Balaji Motion Pictures.

While Arjun, 31, retweeted the post, Shraddha, 27, also took to the micro-blogging site to share the release date.

Speeding car mows down three COIMBATORE: Three persons were killed and two others injured when a speeding car mowed them down in neighbouring Tirupur district on Saturday, police said.

The victims were standing on the road side consuming liquor purchased from a nearby TASMAC outlet, when the car hit them at Mettukkatuvaluku, about 20 km from Kangeyam, police said. The driver reportedly lost control of the car while negotiating a curve, resulting in the mishap, they said.

SRINAGAR: Dozens of civilian protesters were injured in fresh violence across the restive Kashmir Valley on Saturday, a day after three more persons, including a student, were killed in clashes with security forces, taking the toll to nearly 55 in the current unrest.

According to police, at least two dozen persons were wounded in a clash with security forces in south Kashmir’s Chee village of Anantnag. Civilian witnesses said at least 40 people were injured.

Witnesses said the protesters had installed a tent in the village and were planning a sit-in when security forces ransacked the marquee. As people resisted, forces fired tear gas shells and pellets to disperse the protesters.

A police spokesman said that security forces used batons and tear gas to disperse the stonepelting mob in Heepora, Shopian, also in the south of the valley. At least eight people were reported wounded there.

In another incident in north Kashmir Pattan area, four persons were injured when security forces fired pellets at an angry mob, the spokesman said. The injured included a teenage girl, Muzamila Bano.

The spokesman added that protesters assembled at the main crossing of Pattan to demonstrate against the killing spree in Kashmir. - IANS

Fish production increases in Goa PANAJI: Fish production in Goa was recorded at 1,07,069 tonnes in 2015-16 against 86,205 tonnes in 2011-12, thanks to effective implementation of the marine fish ban period of 61 days, State Legislative Assembly was told. State Fisheries Minister Avertano Furtado furnished the information in a written reply tabled in the House on Friday. The ban on fishing is imposed in the state between June 1 to July 30, during which all the (fishing) jetties are closed and trawlers are parked on shore. - Agencies

T R AV E L & T O U R I S M

Dubai taxis to promote Kerala tourism THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the onset of the outbound tourism season in the Middle East, Kerala Tourism has rolled out a promotional campaign in Dubai targeting Arab travellers and showcasing the state’s backwaters and waterfalls on taxis plying in the bustling metropolis.

As many as 200 Kerala-branded taxis will ferry the message of ‘A Faraway Land Four Hours Away’ with eye-catching visuals featuring hill stations, backwaters, waterfalls and also Ayurvedic therapies — through the streets of Dubai, the throbbing heart of the UAE, an official release said here on Saturday.

The campaign will see the cabs take to the streets sporting wrappings aimed to promote the state’s Monsoon getaways, offering respite from hot Arabian summer.

“Apart from the favourable climate, the relative proximity and excellent air connectivity between Kerala and the cities of Middle East make it easier to attract holiday makers to the state,” Tourism Principal Secretary V. Venu said.

“Dubai, being the hub for air travel in the region, was the logical choice of location for the mar-

keting campaign.

The exposure and footfalls gained by Kerala will bear this out,” he said.

The campaign, inspired by the previous highly successful branding efforts on London taxis and the Mumbai metro, will run till August 15.

Besides serving to augment Kerala’s destination pull, it was an

acknowledgment of the growing importance of the Middle East outbound tourist market, the world’s fastest-growing segment with a nine per cent rise in outbound trips in 2015, the release said.

Arab tourists are also the biggest spenders. Kerala received more than 100,000 visitors from the region in 2015, with some 20,506 tourists from UAE alone. The majority came from Saudi Arabia with 51,149 Saudi nationals visiting last year, while Oman accounted for 18,763 footfalls, it said.

“As the holiday season in the Middle East coincides with the Monsoon season here, Kerala is well-positioned to benefit from the influx of travellers looking to trade in the sizzle and dust for cooler climes and greener pastures, Kerala Tourism Director U. V. Jose said. - IANS

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PAKISTAN

KARACHI

At least 10 killed as rain wreaks havoc

OLYMPICS CONTINGENT IN RIO

Flagbearer Ghulam Mustafa Bashir of Pakistan leads his contingent during the opening ceremony of Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday. Pakistan’s seven athletes began their journey with shooter Ghulam Mustafa Bashir carrying the country’s flag. — Reuters

KARACHI: At least 10 people were killed on Saturday after heavy rain lashed Karachi triggering a power breakdown in most parts, it has been reported.

Over 400 feeders of K-Electric — Karachi’s power utility company — tripped, plunging major parts of the metropolis into darkness as the city received the second spell of the year’s monsoon rain. At least 10 people lost their lives as a result of electrocution and when roofs collapsed due to constant rainfall.

According to the power supply company, the suspension of electricity was caused by the tripping of extra high tension wire.

The rain, which began on Friday, resulted in massive traffic jams and gridlocks in various parts of the city, including Shahrae Faisal, Karsaz, Hassan Square, University Road, Defence, Clifton, North Nazimabad, Qayyumabad Chowrangi, Landhi and Korangi, among others.

Meanwhile, several districts of Sindh, including Sukkur and Badin, also received heavy downpour that continued for hours. Earlier on Wednesday, the Meteorological Office had forecast rain in lower parts of Sindh, including Thatta, Badin and Mithi.

The weather forecast indicated the temperature will remain between 32 and 34 degrees Celsius for Karachi. - Express Tribune

Proposal to cut in customs duty on 35% of tariff lines The plan has been shared with the Turkish authorities during the third round of FTA talks, held late last month in Ankara

ADVANTAGE: Under the fast track category, tariffs may be brought down to zero on 35 per cent of the tariff lines. – Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has proposed a tariff reduction plan under the Turkey-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that calls about immediate elimination of custom duties on 35 per cent of tariff lines amid steady progress in talks for early finalisation of the deal.

The plan has been shared with the Turkish authorities during the third round of FTA talks, held late last month in Ankara, according to officials of Ministry of Commerce.

It is a flexible plan that is subject to further negotiations that will take place by the end of this month in Islamabad. The plan talks about 85 per cent liberalisation of trade.

According to the proposal, un-

der the fast track category, tariffs may be brought down to zero on 35 per cent of the tariff lines. The international trade experts argue that the first phase of trade liberalisation should be crafted by keeping in mind factors like mutual advantages and impact on local industries.

Under the normal track, the tariffs are proposed to be lowered to zero in five years on 20 per cent tariff lines. It mentions duty elimination in ten years under the sensitive category while for highly sensitive category, the Pakistani authorities have proposed to eliminate duties in ten years. It has protected 15 per cent of the tariff

lines from the reduction plan.

Turkey will give its views on the proposed plan in the upcoming meeting. The officials said that Turkey’s initial reaction to the plan was that 35 per cent immediate liberalisation after the enforcement of the FTA was lower than its expectation.

FTA details The decision to initiate negotiations for a comprehensive bilateral FTA covering trade in goods, services and investment was taken at the 4th Session of the High Level Strategic Cooperation Council (HLSCC) meeting, held in Islamabad in February last year.

GOLD

Yellow metal outshines stock market, other assets KARACHI: With its price surging more than 26 per cent in the international market since January 1, gold has outperformed nearly all asset classes in the first seven months of 2016.

The price of gold on Friday in the international market hovered around $1,340 per ounce, up over 26 per cent from the beginning of the year when it stood at $1,060 per ounce. Earlier in the day it was close to $1,360 per ounce before dipping intra-day over United States job figures.

According to the World Gold Council (WGC), this has been the largest continuous gain in the price of the yellow metal since the European sovereign debt crisis in 2010 and 2011. “Gold has been one of the best-performing assets so far this year, outpacing all major benchmark indices and with comparable volatility to stocks,” it said in its latest market update.

KASB Securities commodities analyst Talha Mahmood said par-

ticipants bought gold in the last 24 hours following an interest rate cut by the Bank of England.

“Gains were, however, limited as investors turned their attention to the all-important jobs data,” he said in a research note issued on Friday afternoon.

Local perspective Given the small size of the Pakistani gold market, local prices are determined largely in line with global trends. As a result of the bullish trend in the international bullion market, the price of the precious metal in the local saraf bazaar also rose accordingly.

Gold traded at Rs53,700 per tola (11.6gm) on Friday, according to All Sindh Saraf and Jewellers Association (ASSJA) president Haroon Rasheed Chand. This was up 21.2 per cent from the beginning of 2016 when its per-tola price was Rs44,300.

However, it is expected to be lower on Saturday given the dip in

the international rate.

Over the same period, the benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange rose 20 per cent. This shows that gold has finally staged a comeback following a four-year bearish trend in the local market. Gold prices had remained almost flat in 2012-15, data compiled by ASSJA shows.

Chand said the yellow metal is gaining strength on the back of poor economic indicators emerging from Europe and a slowerthan-expected GDP growth in the United States. “I foresee the gold price to hover around $1,400 per ounce by the end of the current year,” he said.

Unlike traditional buying and selling of gold biscuits in the saraf bazaar, gold-based mutual funds offer investors a standardised platform for regulated gold investing that is in sync with the international gold market.

International gold prices had dropped 11 per cent. - Express Tribune

After holding the inaugural session of FTA negotiations in Ankara in October 2015, the two sides signed the Framework Agreement for the FTA in Islamabad in March 2016 and are trying to complete the negotiations by end of this year.

During his visit to Islamabad, the Turkish prime minister said the goal of signing an FTA was to increase bilateral trade to $5 billion in the next three years and then to $10 billion.

The Turkish premier had termed the $650 million bilateral trade volume of 2015 ‘painful’.

Pakistan is not happy with current level of its exports to Turkey, which were adversely affected when Ankara decided to impose 42.2 per cent additional duties on Pakistani products by triggering trade safeguard measures. Resultantly, Pakistan’s exports to Turkey halved within no time -a trend that Islamabad is keen to reverse.

Opposing perspectives Both sides have difference of opinion over what constitute custom duties, as Turkey wants to include custom duties and all other duties on imported goods in the definition. However, Pakistan wants to exclude regulatory duties from the definition.

The PML-N government has imposed regulatory duties on

hundreds of items aimed at boosting its declining revenues. Due to their ‘temporary nature’, Pakistan is reluctant to include the regulatory duties in the tariff reduction plan, said the officials. Turkey also wants to bring para-tariffs under the ambit of the FTA. Regulatory duties The Ministry of Commerce and Federal Board of Revenue will formulate a joint position on the regulatory duties issue, said Dr Robina Ather, the additional secretary of the commerce ministry.

Dr Ather led Pakistani delegation in the third round of talks.

She said during the last round of negotiations most of the issues on the fronts of trade in goods and services have been settled.

There is also a difference of opinion on including an enabling clause to withdraw concessions given under the FTA, which Turkey is not agreeing to on the ground that it will make the FTA unpredictable. This issue will be taken up again for discussion during the fourth round out talks.

During the third round of talks, both sides also agreed to the definition of origination of the goods.

One of the outstanding issues was the provincial levies, as Turkey was also keen to bring them under the ambit of the FTA. - Express Tribune

MINORITY COMMUNITY

Doctor shot dead outside Karachi clinic KARACHI: A 56-year-old doctor from the Hindu community was shot dead outside his clinic by unidentified men in Pak Colony at around 11:00pm on Thursday. The police have yet to determine the motive behind the incident.

The deceased, identified as Dr Pritam Lakhwani, was a general physician who ran a clinic near Bara Board in Pak Colony for the last 15 years. “He was returning home after shutting down his clinic as per routine when he came under attack,” Lakhwani’s young son, Rakesh Kumar said.

“Someone called me from my father’s cellphone and informed me that he had been killed,” said Rakesh.

The victim’s son said that his father had no personal enmity nor had he received any threats.

Lakhwani, a resident of Garden East, was shot once in his chest.

He was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical treatment from where his family took him to Aga Khan University Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday.

The doctor’s clinic was located in a residential area and the incident occurred when there was a power failure in the area, however, it has yet to be ascertained who was behind the incident, said the police, who believe it was a targeted attack. - Express Tribune

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China rejects US criticism of crackdown on activists

POKEWALK

Participants take a selfie with their smartphone during a ‘PokeWalk’ as they play the gaming app Pokemon Go in Hong Kong on Saturday. Hundreds gathered in Hong Kong to live out their childhood dream of catching Pokemon in what was billed as the city’s first Pokemon Go walk. — AFP

BEIJING: China rebuked the United States on Saturday for criticising it over the convictions of rights activists, with a Chinese court this week sentencing three rights advocates and a lawyer to up to seven and half years jail for subversion.

Dozens of people linked to the Beijing Fengrui law firm have been swept up in a crackdown on dissent since last July, as President Xi Jinping’s administration has tightened control, citing a need to boost national security and stability.

On Thursday, a State Department spokesman said the United States was concerned about the convictions made on “apparently politically motivated charges”, and called for the release the lawyers and activists.

Groundless Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the “US accusations are groundless” and urged Washington to “respect the facts”.

“Chinese judicial authorities deal with related cases in accordance with law so that the legitimate rights and interests of defendants could be effectively protected,” state news agency Xinhua on Saturday cited Hua as saying. — Reuters

Singapore calls for vigilance after rocket attack plot foiled Indonesian police find bomb-making materials; detained men alleged to have links to IS militant

BATAM (INDONESIA): Indonesian police found only a stash of bomb-making materials after arresting six men suspected of planning a rocket attack on Singapore from a nearby island, a senior officer said on Saturday.

But police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said a search was on for more members of a gang now believed to be part of a wider network taking instructions from a Syria-based IS militant to launch attacks across Southeast Asia.

Singapore called for heightened vigilance a day after the suspected militants were rounded up. It said their plot to target Marina Bay, a glittering downtown waterfront, showed the city-state needed to defend its multiple points of entry.

The six suspected militants were detained on Friday in dawn raids on Batam island, about 15km (10 miles) south of Singapore, where police believe the men planned to fire the rockets from.

“There were no sophisticated arms confiscated, only bombmaking materials,” Amar told Reuters. Asked whether the ini-

SUCCESSFUL RAID: Indonesian anti-terror police are seen entering a building during a raid in Batam,

Riau Islands, Indonesia, on Friday. – Antara Foto/M N Kanwa/via Reuters

tial investigation indicated other groups were planning similar attacks, he said “Yes, there still are”.

Singapore’s home affairs minister, K Shanmugam, said the men had plans to hit Marina Bay, a popular entertainment area with a waterfront promenade, a giant ferris wheel and a swanky casino resort. The Singapore Formula One Grand Prix is held annually on the streets of the Marina Bay neighbourhood. “This shows how our enemies are thinking of different ways of attacking us,” Shanmugam said in a Facebook posting.

“Terrorists... will seek to come in through our checkpoints; they will also try to launch attacks from just outside. And this is in addition to lone wolf attacks from radicalised individuals/groups.

We have to be extra vigilant.”

Batam is linked to Singapore by frequent ferries and its beach resorts and golf courses are a popular weekend getaway destination for Singaporeans, who will celebrate their National Day holiday on Tuesday.

Authorities identified the leader of the group arrested on Batam as Gigih Rahmat Dewa, who local media said was a 31-year-old factory worker from the Javanese city of Solo. Solo has been linked to several previous attacks by militants in Indonesia.

Direct links The group was suspected of having direct links to Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian who had lived in Solo but is now believed to be fighting with IS in Syria.

“The six people led by GRD had

planned to launch attacks,” National Police Chief Tito Karnavian told reporters, referring to Dewa by his initials. “They were in direct contact with Bahrun Naim in Syria and he had ordered them to attack Singapore and Batam.”

Indonesian investigators believe that Naim was one of the masterminds behind an attack in January in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, in which eight people were killed, including the four attackers.

In a blog post after the coordinated shootings and suicide bombings across Paris last November, Naim urged his Indonesian audience to study the planning, targeting, timing and courage of the militants who killed 130 people in the French capital.

Police said they had not yet dis-

covered any physical evidence of preparations for a rocket attack.

“We are currently studying what materials they had and I cannot say that a rocket was found,” Batam District Police Chief Helmi Santika told Reuters. “Among other things, several weapons were seized including arrows, longrang firearms and pistols.”

Multi-ethnic Singapore, a major commercial, banking and travel hub that is home to many Western expatriates, has never seen a successful attack by militants.

However, authorities did break up a plot to bomb several embassies soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

A Singaporean militant was accused of plotting to crash a hijacked plane into the city’s airport in 2002.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this week Singapore was a target for IS because it is “a rational, open, cosmopolitan country” even though it is not involved in the US-led campaign against the group in the Middle East.

If the plan for a rocket launch on Singapore is confirmed, it would suggest that militants in Southeast Asia are preparing far more sophisticated attacks than those of recent months.

Indonesia has itself seen attacks by militants before. The bombing of two nightclubs on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people was among a spate of attacks during the 2000s. Police were largely successful in destroying domestic militant cells after that, but they now worry the influence of IS will bring a resurgence of militant violence. — Reuters

JO I N T O P E R AT I O N

Four arrested for trafficking migrants MILAN: Police in Italy, Hungary and Slovenia on Saturday arrested four people in a coordinated operation targeting a group suspected of smuggling illegal migrants into Italy from the Balkans, Italian police said.

Two of the suspects were arrested in northern Italy, one in Budapest and one in the Slovenian city of Maribor, they said. The four are all charged with criminal conspiracy and aiding and abetting clandestine migration.

Suspects The suspects are part of a transnational criminal group of Pakistani origin that is based in Milan, the Italian Carabinieri police said in a statement.

The organisation transported Pakistani, Bengali and Afghan migrants from Hungary into Italy and northern European countries, packing them into delivery vans and using fake documents, the statement said.

Preferred route The police said the business generated returns close to 500,000 euros a year. More than one million migrants, many fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have poured into Europe through Greece since last year, with the Balkans being the preferred route to Western Europe.

The number of migrants has fallen sharply in recent months, however, due to much tighter policing, the erection of walls on some stretches of border and a deal between the European Union and Turkey which involves returning illegal migrants arriving in Greece back to Turkey. — Reuters

MEMORIAL CEREMONY

Japan marks Hiroshima anniversary, urges world to follow Obama TOKYO: Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in US President Barack Obama’s footsteps and visit, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear arms.

A peace bell tolled at 8:15am (2315 GMT on Friday), the time a US warplane dropped the bomb.

About 50,000 participants including aging survivors and dignitaries held a moment of silence at a memorial ceremony in the western Japanese city. Obama this year became the first incumbent US president to visit Hiroshima, and he urged nuclear powers, including his own, to have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.

“The president’s words showed he was touched by the spirit of Hi-

roshima, which refuses to accept the ‘absolute evil’,” the mayor, Kazumi Matsui, told the crowd, referring to the weapons.

The United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year. US forces dropped another atomic bomb on the southern city of Nagasaki on August 9.

Japan surrendered six days later.

“I once again urge the leaders of all nations to visit the A-bombed cities,” Matsui said as cicadas buzzed away under the mid-summer sun.

“As President Obama confirmed in Hiroshima, such visits will surely etch the reality of the atomic bombings in each heart.”

At the ceremony, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged his determination to work toward a world free of nuclear arms.

“We must not have the tragic experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 71 years ago repeat itself,” Abe said. “It is the responsibility of those of us who live in the present to keep on working without cease toward that aim.”

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would consider letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons, rather than rely on the United States for protection against North Korea and China.

But Tomomi Inada, Japan’s new defence minister and an Abe ally, said on Wednesday she did not believe Japan should consider possessing nuclear weapons.

North Korea has conducted four nuclear tests, the latest one in January. It has also conducted a string of tests of various missiles this year. — Reuters

TRIBUTES: People pray in front of the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing at Peace

Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Saturday. – Kyodo/via Reuters

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ONE-OF-A-KIND FIGURES

South Koreans capture moments with 3D figures in new trend SEOUL: Shooting photographs and storing them digitally has become old school for South Koreans taking imagery to the next level with three-dimensional (3D) figures of themselves, as well as their babies and pets.

“I really wanted a 3D figure of my son to show him when he’s older what I can’t capture in photos right now,” said 31-year-old Lim Su-jung, who was with her two-year-old at a studio in Seoul run by Ioys, a 3D figure printing firm launched in 2014 and due to open its fifth South Korean location on Saturday.

“He’s at that time in his life where he’s doing so many cute things,” she said.

To make the figure, Lim placed her toddler in a columnO R O M I YA R E G I O N

Ethiopian forces use tear gas to disperse protesters ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian security forces used tear gas and blocked roads in the capital Addis Ababa and other major towns on Saturday to try to quell protests against alleged rights abuses, a Reuters witness and residents said.

The Horn of Africa country’s Oromiya region has seen months of demonstrations over plans to incorporate some of its territory into the capital as part of an expansion scheme. The plans were scrapped after intense resistance from residents, but protesters are continuing to demonstrate against alleged abuses and for the release of people arrested during the campaign.

In Addis Ababa hundreds of people holding placards gathered at Meskel Square in the centre of the city before police dispersed them, a witness said. Protests also took place in the towns of Ambo and Woliso in Oromiya, where large crowds gathered early on Saturday before soldiers blockaded roads and began to shoot in the air, witnesses said.

“We have rights but they are consistently violated by this government,” one protester told Reuters by phone from Ambo. “They jail everyone who opposes them.

All prisoners should be released.” A witness said that one demonstrator was shot in Ambo as police tried to quell the unrest.

A student at Ambo University said hundreds of people marched to the town’s centre, before police and soldiers dispersed the crowd by firing in the air and using tear gas. — Reuters

shaped booth where more than 100 cameras simultaneously snapped two-dimensional photos from all angles.

Digital blueprint The printing is done at a plant in Seoul where the photos form a digital blueprint for a machine that builds figures ranging from 5cm (2 inches) to 30cm (12 inches) in height using more than 1,000 layers of gypsum powder.

The one-of-a-kind figures start at 110,000 won ($100) and can cost three times that or more.

“We have couples, families, babies and animals who visit our studios,” said Lee Si-cheon, an assistant manager at Ioys.

“And some people who are in love with themselves.” — Reuters

PRESERVING MEMORIES: (Left) A man prepares for 3D photoscanning for his 3D-printed figure and(Right) 3D-printed figures at a 3D printing company in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. - Reuters

China carries out ‘combat patrols’ over disputed isles Japan rebukes China

The air force sent several H-6 bombers and Su-30 fighter jets to inspect the airspace around the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, said Senior Colonel Shen Jinke of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force

BEIJING: China’s air force sent bombers and fighter jets on “combat patrols” near contested islands in the South China Sea, in a move a senior colonel said was part of an effort to normalise such drills and respond to security threats.

The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the disputed waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled last month that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea. The air force sent several H-6 bombers and Su-30 fighter jets to inspect the airspace around the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, Senior Colonel Shen Jinke of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force said, according to state news agency Xinhua.

ANGRY REACTION: Filipino and Vietnamese protesters display anti-China placards and Vietnamese national flags during a call on China to respect their rights in the disputed South China Sea, in front of the Chinese consular office in Manila on Saturday. — AFP

The patrols included surveillance and refuelling aircraft, Xinhua said, although it did not say when they occurred.

“The Air Force is organising normalised South China Sea combat patrols, practising tactics... increasing response capabilities to all kinds of security threats and safeguarding national sovereignty, security and maritime interests,” Shen said.

China has refused to recognise the ruling by an arbitration court in The Hague that invalidated its vast territorial claims in the South

China Sea and did not take part in the proceedings brought by the Philippines.

A dispute over the shoal, 124 nautical miles northwest of the Philippines mainland, was one of Manila’s main reasons for bringing international legal action against China in 2013.

Beijing has reacted angrily to calls by Western countries and Japan for the decision to be adhered to and has released pictures of aircraft flying over the shoal since the ruling.

China has repeatedly blamed

U S E L E C T I O N C A M PA I G N

FRANCE

Trump endorses Ryan, McCain in effort to right campaign ship GREEN BAY./WASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump acted to steer his White House campaign back into favour with his party’s establishment on Friday by endorsing US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and two Republican senators seeking re-election, after expressing coolness toward them earlier this week.

“I need a Republican Senate and a House to accomplish all of the changes that we have to make,” Trump said during a rally in Green Bay, in northern Wisconsin, Ryan’s home state.

He also endorsed Senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, calling Ayotte a “rising star.” “We will have disagreements, but we will disagree as friends,” Trump said.

Trump earlier this week refused to endorse Ryan, telling The Washington Post he was “not quite there yet” - nearly the same phrase Ryan had used about Trump before finally endorsing him. Trump said in the same interview that McCain had not done enough for veterans and criticised Ayotte for distancing herself from him during the campaign.

Ryan, the top US elected Republican, had no plans to attend the Wisconsin event, a sign of lingering frictions

the United States for stoking tension through its military patrols in the South China Sea, a strategic waterway through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually.

China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all have rival claims in the South China Sea. The United States has conducted freedom of navigation patrols close to Chinese-held islands, to Beijing’s anger, while China has been bolstering its military presence there. — Reuters

TOKYO: Japan issued a new protest to Beijing on Saturday after Chinese coastguard ships and about 230 fishing vessels sailed close to what Tokyo considers its territorial waters around disputed islets in the East China Sea, Japan’s foreign ministry said.

The latest incident comes amid heightened tensions in Asia, less than a month after an arbitration court in the Hague invalidated China’s sweeping claims in the disputed South China Sea, in a case brought by the Philippines.

China has refused to recognise the ruling.

Japan called on China to adhere to the verdict, which it said was binding, prompting warnings from Beijing to Tokyo not to interfere.

Three of the six Chinese coastguard ships that were in the so-called contiguous waters on Saturday appeared to be armed, Japan’s Coast Guard said. — Reuters

ed a “big tent” party with multiple viewpoints welcome.

He said he was endorsing the Republican lawmakers due to their “shared mission to make America great again.” Trump also announced a new advisory team to help guide him on economic policy. The group relies heavily on hedge fund managers and investment bankers, a group Trump has railed against. There are no women on the team.

UNDER PRESSURE: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Friday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. — Darren Hauck/Getty Images/AFP

between the pair, even though Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, did endorse him.

Ryan’s Republican primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, did attend, according to a spokesman.

Ryan is expected to win the challenge for his House seat in next week’s Republican primary, and he is viewed by many Republicans as a possible presidential candidate in the future.

The tension between Ryan and Trump caused deep frustration

among party leaders and lawmakers. Trump’s endorsement came as one of several steps to get his campaign back on track after days of controversy and falling poll numbers that have given Democrat Hillary Clinton the advantage in the race to the November 8 election.

In the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, Clinton’s lead over Trump narrowed to less than 3 percentage points, down from nearly 8 points on Monday.

Trump said on Friday he want-

Economic policy Trump plans to release his economic policy framework in a speech in Detroit on Monday, an event that will offer him a chance to avoid theatrics and detail how he would handle economic issues if elected.

Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore told Reuters that the candidate’s plan would focus on four areas: tax, deregulation, energy policy and trade.

“It’s going to be an all-encompassing look at how we reform the economy,” Moore said.

At events in Des Moines, Iowa, and Green Bay, Trump showed discipline that is unusual at his often free-wheeling rallies, calling Clinton the “queen of corruption” and defending himself against her charge that he is temperamentally unfit for the White House. — Reuters

Fire kills 13 after cake falls to floor in cafe ROUEN (FRANCE): A fire swept through a cafe in the northern French city of Rouen overnight, killing 13 people and injuring six, after a birthday cake with candles and sparklers fell to the floor and set the carpet ablaze, police said.

The fire broke out in the basement of the popular Cuba Libre outlet and quickly engulfed the room where some 20 people were celebrating, filling it with thick black smoke and poisonous fumes, a Rouen police officer told Reuters.

“A large number of those who died were killed by the fire, oth-

ers were overcome by the toxic fumes,” the officer said.

One of the injured suffered burns to nearly 90 percent of the body and was in a critical condition, the officer added.

France’s interior ministry said a judicial investigation was under way into the fire, which Rouen Mayor Yvon Robert described as “totally accidental”. That allayed initial public concerns that it could have been a terrorist attack in a city that this week buried a priest who was knifed to death by extremists in his church. — Reuters

TRAGEDY: View of the bar in Rouen, France, on Saturday where a

fire killed 13 people and injured another six, the interior ministry said in a statement. - Reuters

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Iran gas pipeline fire brought under control

SPAIN FOREST FIRE

A group of Forest Fire Brigades work during a forest fire approaching few metres from the village of Fuencaliente, on the Spanish Canary island of La Palma, on Saturday. Three aircraft and eight helicopters battled against a blaze caused by a man who had set fire to toilet paper in the Spanish Canary Islands, ravaging 3,500 hectares and forcing the evacuation of 2,500. - AFP

ANKARA/DUBAI: A fire from a gas pipeline explosion in Iran early on Saturday near the town of Gonaveh in the southern province of Bushehr, has been brought under control and did not cause any fatalities, the news agency of the country’s oil ministry said on Saturday.

“The fire started at 00:45... and was fully contained at 05:00,” the head of the Health, Safety & Environment department at Gachsaran Oil and Gas Company, Mohammad Mohseni was quoted as saying by the oil ministry’s news agency SHANA. No fatality “There has been no fatality. In total four people are injured,” he said.

Mohseni said the polyethylene facilities and the sour gas pipelines in vicinity of the 42-inch gas pipeline were not damaged.

He said the fire and blast had happened during maintenance operations and a committee had been set up to investigate it further.

A local official told state TV that the explosion was not an act of sabotage and “nearby villages have been evacuated as a safety measure.” — Reuters

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ANC loses key towns in polls as discontent boosts rivals sign with the backing of his allies who control its national executive committee.

The ANC has itself to blame for its decline because it became mired in infighting and neglected its supporters, according to Somadoda Fikeni, a political analyst at the University of South Africa.

“The ANC is at a crossroads of either renewing itself through deep introspection or literally speeding the process of its decline,” he said in an interview in Pretoria.

The winners in the election were the DA, whose share of the national vote rose to 27.1 per cent, from 22.2 per cent in 2014 national elections, and the Economic Freedom Fighters, which won 8.2 per cent support, up from 6.3 per cent. Including voting for ward councilors, the ANC had 53.8 per cent support and the DA 27 per cent.

With 99.9 per cent of the vote in on Saturday, the ANC secured 54.4 per cent support in an August 3 local government election, slipping below the 60 per cent mark for the first time since it took power in 1994

CAPE TOWN: The African National Congress lost its stranglehold on South African politics as voter discontent over the struggling economy, a scarcity of jobs and scandals surrounding President Jacob Zuma cost it control of key cities and buoyed the two main opposition parties.

With 99.9 per cent of the vote in on Saturday, the ANC secured 54.4 per cent support in an August 3 local government election, slipping below the 60 per cent mark for the first time since it took power in 1994.

IN SHOCK: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, seated, and African National Congress party members discuss municipal election results at the results centre in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday. — AP/PTI

It relinquished an outright majority in the capital, Pretoria, the industrial hub Ekurhuleni and the southern city of Port Elizabeth, final results for these areas showed.

It’s also set to win less than half the votes in the economic center Johannesburg, according to preliminary results.

With the Democratic Alliance strengthening its hold on Cape Town, the ruling party now controls only three of the country’s

eight metropolitan areas. “South Africa’s municipal election results bring a new dawn of coalitions at the local level that will alter the shape of politics in the long term,” Augustine Booth-Clibborn, an analyst at Africa Risk Consulting, said by e-mail. The ANC “now looks a rural, small-town party and could lose an election if it cedes much more urban ground.”

Zuma, 74, has been widely criticised since his decision to fire

BELGIUM

a respected finance minister in December caused a sell-off in the rand and nation’s bonds.

The highest court ruled in March that he violated the constitution by refusing to repay taxpayer funds used to upgrade his private home.

The ANC’s former head of intelligence, who has led Africa’s most-industrialized economy since May 2009, has fended off calls from within the party to re-

Poles apart While the DA’s pro-business policies are poles apart from those of the EFF, which wants to nationalise mines and banks, the two parties may pair up to control hung councils if they follow through on their pledge not to partner with the ANC. “The leadership of the ANC is running around like headless chickens; they do not know whether they are coming or going,” EFF leader Julius Malema told reporters in Pretoria on Friday. — Bloomberg

T E R R O R T H R E AT

Kuwait arrests Filipina over IS allegiance DUBAI: Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a Filipina accused of pledging allegiance to IS group and planning to launch an attack in the Gulf country, the official news agency KUNA reported on Friday.

The woman, born in 1984, entered Kuwait in June as a housemaid and has been in contact with IS’ affiliate in Libya, the interior ministry said in a statement published by KUNA. Security forces monitored one of the email accounts run by the woman and found messages in which she had contacted the Libyan militant group and had been using “fake name and nickname to evade monitoring,” the ministry said.

“The accused confessed... that she was ready to carry out any terrorist attack once circumstances and means were available to target a specific section of the society in order to undermine security and stability in Kuwait, as well as ignite sedition,” KUNA said.

The news agency also published pictures of a veiled, middle-aged women, dressed in an abaya and identifying her as the accused.

Last month, Kuwait foiled three planned IS attacks on the country, including a plot to blow up a mosque, after launching raids that resulted in the arrest of militants.

A year ago, Kuwait suffered its deadliest militant attack in decades when a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up inside a packed mosque, killing 27 people. IS claimed responsibility. — Reuters

T H E P L AY B O O K

US releases redacted version of drone policy after lawsuit

MACHETE ATTACK ON POLICE: Police stand as they secure the area around a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following a machete attack on Saturday. Two policewomen were wounded in Charleroi by a machete-wielding man who shouted slogans, local police said.

The attacker, who was shot and injured, later died of wounds. - AFP/BELGA/VIRGINIE LEFOUR

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has released a redacted version of President Barack Obama’s policy on drone strikes abroad following a freedom of information lawsuit filed last year, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Saturday.

The release of the Presidential Policy Guidance document, as well as other Department of Defence papers, follows an order by US. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon in February requiring the Justice Department to produce the document, also known as “the Playbook.”

The document sets out the law and rules the government must follow when it carries out tar-

geted attacks. Obama pledged in 2013 to provide greater transparency about counter-terrorism operations, including drone strikes overseas, amid calls by some US lawmakers and rights groups for more openness.

“We welcome the release of these documents, and particularly the release of the Presidential Policy Guidance that has supplied the policy framework for the drone campaign since May 2013,” the ACLU’s deputy legal director, Jameel Jaffer, said in a statement.

“Its release now will inform an ongoing debate about the lawfulness and wisdom of the government’s counter terrorism policies,” Jaffer added.

The ACLU’s lawsuit sought information, among other things, on the law and policies used to justify lethal force and how the government picks targets.

The administration has defended its use of drones as essential in the fight against Al Qaeda and other militants in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. Drone strikes have at times killed civilians who were not targets, igniting local anger.

Obama said in April that procedures covering drone strikes targeting suspected terrorists are constantly reviewed, acknowledging there had been “legitimate criticism” of the legal framework for drone strikes. — Reuters

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ith the land of the two rivers, Iraq and Syria, now a wasteland of human suffering and rubble, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, commonly known as the Chilcot report (after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot), has aimed to help explain how we got here. Now that it has detailed the extent of British culpability in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, those implicated in the report’s findings are using two arguments to refute it.

The first, offered by former prime minister Tony Blair, that the world would be much worse today had Iraqi president Saddam Hussein been left in power. The second is that invading Iraq would have succeeded but for a lack of post-invasion planning, which allowed for the mayhem that followed.

The second argument has some truth to it. But the first argument is surely false – a desperate attempt at reputation management by those responsible for a disastrous decision.

To academic observers and others who reported from Iraq at the time, as I did, Saddam was a prototypical regional bully. Domestically, he was a murderous tyrant; but his primary security concern was Iran, with which he waged, with Western support, a pointless war of nearly ten years that cost a million lives and ended in stalemate.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990, he assumed it was purely a regional squabble about oil and territorial claims. He mistakenly believed that the West had given him a green light.

The Kuwait invasion was reversed by Operation Desert Storm and other events that led the United States, the United Kingdom, and France to impose crippling sanctions and no-fly zones across large swaths of Iraq. With these measures in place, Saddam’s Iraq was weakened almost to breaking point.

In his newly diminished state, Saddam continued to obsess over Iran and hint at his own weapons of mass destruction. Iraq, however, had abandoned its nuclear project in 1991, had no biological weapons, and had only limited chemical-weapons capability. At no stage after being expelled from Kuwait did Saddam’s regime pose a serious threat to the region or the West. He was contained.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush’s administration understandably retaliated, by invading Afghanistan, where the Taliban government hosted Al Qaeda training camps. By December 2001, the Bush administration was considering attacking Iraq, too.

The biggest obstacle for the Bush administration was the absence of an established connection between Saddam’s regime and extremism, though an effort was made to concoct a meeting between representatives of the two in Prague.

Quite the contrary: Saddam’s regime and militant extremism were mortal enemies.

Still, leading administration figures were determined to wage war on Iraq, so they manufactured a justification: The threat of WMDs. In reality, there was no new Iraqi threat or indication that Iraq was in a position to deploy such weapons. And even when Saddam had used chemical weapons years earlier – against Iranian forces in 1988, at the turning point in the war in the Faw Peninsula, and against Iraqi Kurds in 1991 – the international response had entailed, at most, a no-fly zone, not an invasion. (The 1988 incident drew no response at all.)

Moreover, in the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait, Western countries threatened to respond with tactical nuclear weapons if Saddam deployed chemical weapons. He didn’t; and during United Nations inspections before the March 2003 invasion, there was no evidence of any additional WMD programme.

The plain purpose of the 2003 invasion was regime change. Indeed, Blair has all but admitted as much. Earlier this year, he explained to Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that he had doubts about Western intervention in Libya for fear of repeating events in Iraq.

The damage from regime change in Iraq has been substantial. According to the Chilcot report, at least 150,000 Iraqis (and possibly four times that number) have been killed in the years since the invasion, and an estimated three million people have been displaced from their homes. The security situation is far worse than under Saddam, and the economy is no better. - Project Syndicate

CLIPPINGS FROM OUR ARCHIVES AUGUST 2001 Rise in Pasi registrations MUSCAT: A total of 57,138 Omani employees are registered with the Public Authority for Social Insurance (Pasi) until the end of May, showing an increase of 3 per cent over that of last year. The statistical reports issued by the Ministry of National Economy stated that a 2.2 per cent increase is registered in the number of expatriate workforce with 505,633 employees compared to the last year’s 494,699 employees. Most of the sectors in private sector registered increase in their workforce, other than money brokerage sector, which recorded a 2.9 per cent decrease.

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MEALS THAT HEAL From high blood pressure and diabetes to depression and cancer, food could be the answer for many of our illnesses. After all,

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having the right diet is the first step to regain control over our health and wellness.

High Blood Pressure Once diagnosed of having hypertension, a person undergoes several treatments including intake of anti-hypertensive medications.

While it’s mandatory to have the medicines prescribed by the doctor, maintaining a proper diet is equally important and one of the best ways to keep blood pressure under control. Several studies have proved that when a person having high pressure consumes food that is high in calcium, potassium, magnesium, and fibre, blood pressure is controlled to a large extent provided these essential nutrients are part of one’s diet. Cutting down the intake of processed foods, cold cuts, red meat, and salt also help to reduce blood pressure to a large extent. Foods containing anti-oxidants, whole grains and fatty acids could lower blood pressure. Include spinach, bananas, whole grain cereal and nuts in your diet as they are rich in potassium and magnesium and can reduce high BP. Also try to include vegetables like celery, gourd, cucumber, garlic, green coriander, and parsley for their diuretic effect. Go for green and herbal teas. Eating flax seed is also an excellent way to reduce your levels. Add 3tbsp of it every day to your salad and lower blood pressure naturally.

Should Eat: Leafy green vegetables, berries, beetroot, bananas, kiwi, broccoli, quinoa, and avocado.

Diabetes Blame it on your genes, on your lifestyle or diet but it is true that diabetes is perpetually on the rise and once detected while you start with your medications you must know that eating right can successfully manage your diabetes. A healthy diabetic diet is about having more plant foods and cutting back on refined carbohydrates and sugars. A diet rich in vegetables and fruits, whole grain products and low in refined sugars and carbohydrates is a great way to control your blood sugars. Avoid white rice or white flour, white bread, French fries, canned vegetables and fruits, jams and jellies, sauces, and sugary syrups. In short go for high-nutrient, low glycemic load (GL) foods to prevent diabetes. Consult a dietician for a meal plan that suits your schedule and the medicines because apart from knowing about the right foods to eat, it is also essential to know when to eat and the portion sizes. Moderation is the key and anything in excess can have harmful effect on one’s health.

Should Eat: Fresh fruits and vegetables, broccoli, beans, lettuce, walnuts, dark chocolates, asparagus, artichoke, mushroom, eggplant, and pepper.

Depression Anyone can get into depression when the experiences of sadness, grief, anguish, and hopelessness becomes overwhelming and one finds it extremely difficult to deal with it. A person undergoing depression has chronic tiredness, insomnia or excessive sleeping, poor energy, weight loss or weight gain, and loss of appetite or heavy eating. While there are many ways to beat depression which includes strictly following all that’s prescribed by the doctor, eating the right food too can help in many ways. While it is convenient to grab some comfort foods when one is feeling low it doesn’t help in the long run. Wise food choices help in dealing with depression in a better way. It is very important to cut out processed foods. People who eat fresh foods have much lower rates of depression.

Should Eat: Brown rice, cabbage, nuts, fish oil, and those rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, dark leafy vegetables, walnut, apricots, meat, fish, eggs, lentils, asparagus, chamomile tea, and green tea.

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<< Continued from page 14 Cancer According to the World Cancer Research Fund more than one-third of the most common cancers can be preventable through simple lifestyle changes and changing our diet.

While food just cannot prevent its onset, the essential nutrients certainly protect us from the disease.

According to Richard Béliveau, PhD, chair in the prevention and treatment of cancer at the University of Québec at Montreal and author of Foods to Fight Cancer, “All the studies on cancer and nutrition point to eating plant-based foods for their phytonutrients and other special compounds.” So one should aim for five to nine daily servings

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of all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Also one should be wary of the cancer-causing foods especially the ones with food additives and chemicals. Avoid eating sugary snacks or ingredients such as, high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, sucrose, and bleached flour. Processed meats, hot dogs, and any other meat that are preserved with edible chemicals are harmful in the long run.

According to The Cancer Prevention Coalition, an organisation based in Chicago that seeks to increase people’s knowledge of the wide range of avoidable causes of cancer, states that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of

ith recent reports in the media showing the dangers people face when having hair transplantation or any other form of cosmetic surgery, experts at Dubai Cosmetic Surgery clinic, which is the leading hair transplant centre in the Gulf, sought to clarify on what one should consider before going ahead with any procedure.

In recent years, hair transplantation has become quite popular among men and women facing hair loss and hair thinning, both in the UAE and beyond. Recent statistics show that the number of people looking to treat hair loss also increased drastically in 2015 compared with previous years.

The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) statistics show that Hair Transplant increased by 28% in 2014, compared to a previous survey published in 2012.

With this worldwide popularity, there has also been an increase in the number of unqualified hair transplant technicians who claim to be medically qualified and offer to perform such procedures at less than half the market price.

One of such cases was the death of a medical student in India who sought to have a hair transplant procedure. According to media reports, the procedure was done at a salon by people who were not medical professionals, and after-

wards the student had an allergic reaction to anaesthesia.

In response to this particular case, Anisa Vrabac, spokesperson and Head of Hair Transplant Department at Dubai Cosmetic Surgery clinic notes that it is a very rare and isolated case. “For starters, the procedure was not done in a clinic or hospital, and it was done by unqualified people. This should be a red flag for anyone planning to have hair transplantation.”

At Dubai Cosmetic Surgery clinic, and any other clinic with high operational standards, hair transplant procedures are performed by experienced and board certified plastic surgeons.

“First of all we usually take strict measures and preliminary blood tests and more, to make sure the patient is healthy and fit before undergoing any procedures, including hair transplant which is considered minor,” explains Anisa. In addition, a history of any allergic reactions that the patient might have had is put on record.

“But if a patient is not aware of his or her history of any allergic reaction to anaesthesia, there is always a team of medical professions on standby to give the necessary treatment if he or she has an allergic reaction to it,” says Anisa.

According to Dr Adnan Tahir, a Consultant Plastic and Recon-

structive surgeon at the clinic, just like any other cosmetic procedure, minor or major, there are risks involved and that's why it should be done by qualified physicians.

After every hair transplant procedure, expounds Dr Adnan, there has to be very important follow-up sessions with your doctor, which you cannot do if you are having your hair loss treatment done by people who are not qualified to perform it.

“Like Anisa mentioned, hair transplant might be classified as a minor and less invasive procedure but it is still a surgery, and needs to be done by medical professionals.”

How hair transplantation works The latest technique in hair transplantation is known as the micro-grafting stem-cell FUE which is classified as a non-surgical or minimally invasive form of hair transplant. Says Dr Adnan: “This requires it to be done under local anaesthesia whereby some follicles from a donor area, which is typically the back portion of the head where most people tend to have surplus hair follicles. These extra hair follicles are harvested and shifted to the areas where the hair thinning is more prominent and where the person has lost the hair.”

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cancer. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition few years back showed a correlation between increased intake in foods with a high glycemic index and breast cancer. Similarly artificial sweetener and high animal fat should be avoided as much as possible. Chia seeds, turmeric, red cabbage, Shiitake mushrooms are some of the foods that are in particular helpful for breast cancer prevention.

Should Eat: Tomatoes, beans, onions, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, berries, walnuts, dark green leafy vegetables, and whole grains.

—swati@timesofoman.com

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re you a multi-tasking mom forever balancing your household chores, attending to children’s never ending needs and demands and most likely even going to work? If you are one of them then for sure you have not been able to fit in any exercise plans in you 24x7 busy schedules. Being a mother has never been easy but if you make an effort and re-organise your life then for sure you can find some time to exercise which will not only make you super fit but also boost your energy level. Here’s how you can make it happen:

few days try to introduce something new in your exercise plans and don’t repeat the same workout over and over again. It’s also a more effective way to workout.

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Stick to your schedule Like every other thing that you maintain in your daily life, it is important that you stick to your daily schedules. So if you have allocated 20 minutes in a day for your workout then never compromise on that. Schedule your workout time and try to maintain that.

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Choose interesting workouts Most of the people choose exercises that are monotonous and hence they quit after few days because of boredom. After every

Schedule your workout time and never compromise on that

Make it exciting If you exercise to music or do some dance steps you would realise that you are working out in a much better way. Listening to one’s favourite music sets the mood.

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Workout with someone Be it your children or a friend, if you have a partner to give you company while you are working out it is very motivating.

If you don’t have anyone then join an online fitness group and share your thoughts and apprehension.

That way you stay connected and you get inspiration too.

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Sleep well A good night’s sleep for a busy mother is easier said than done, but if you’re looking to stay fit you must have 7-8 hours of undisturbed sleep before you hit the gym or do exercises at home.

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Remember the driving force To achieve something we all need motivation. From the simple desire to look stunning for a party, to fit into old jeans, or to stay healthy find a reason that will help you reach your goal.

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Positive influence on children If you are a fit mother you will set positive example for your kids. In fact you can also encourage them to get active thus making it easier for you to fit exercise in your day.

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Be optimistic When exercising set goals for yourself and keep all the negativity at bay. You might be having some friends who would discourage you from working out but don’t ever fall for their words and sabotage your exercise plans. Always tell yourself that you are doing it fine and your efforts will give the results.

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Oman’s inf lation under control despite fuel price deregulation The country’s inflation rate, calculated based on the change in the consumer price index (CPI), edged up by 1.1 per cent in May 2016, from the same month in 2015.

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businesseditor@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Oman’s inflation is well under control, despite the deregulation of prices of petroleum products earlier this year.

The country’s inflation rate, calculated based on the change in the consumer price index (CPI), edged up by 1.1 per cent in May 2016, from the same month in 2015.

However, the average growth in inflation for the first five months of

2016 ending May was lower at 0.6 per cent, compared with the same five-month period last year.

The Sultanate’s government had deregulated prices of petroleum products in mid-January, resulting in a 38.3 per cent rise in the price of Super grade petrol to 166 baisas per litre in August (against 120 baisas before mid-January), a 36.8 per cent growth in regular grade petrol prices to 156 baisas per litre (against 114 baisas before mid-January), and a 21.9 per

SLACK CRUDE PRICES: Although the transportation cost of commodities increased in the domestic market due to the rise in diesel prices, the shipment cost in international markets have come down in view of slackness in crude oil prices. - Times file picture

cent jump in diesel prices to 178 baisas (against 146 baisas prior to mid-January).

“There are restrictions imposed on retailers to increase prices. Government is controlling price rise, which is clearly reflected in the inflation rate,” said Kannan Rajago-

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Omantel discontinues talks to sell its stake in Worldcall Times News Service MUSCAT: Majority state-owned Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) said that its board has decided to end a discussion to sell its stake in Pakistanbased Worldcall Telecom Limited. “We would like to announce that the deal could not be reached favourably,” Omantel said in a disclosure statement posted on MSM website.

Omantel said that a Pakistani investor was earlier interested in acquiring Omantel’s stake in Worldcall Telecom Limited and accordingly, there was an approval to conduct a due diligence study.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: Omantel said in a disclosure statement posted on MSM website that the deal could not be reached favourably. — Times file picture

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Oman’s annual fishing output exceeds 63 tonnes per boat MUSCAT: Oman’s annual fish landings by way of traditional fishing methods stands at an average 63.37 tonnes of fish per boat, according to data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

The number of fishermen issued fishing licenses in the coastal governorates of the Sultanate stood at 4,020 by the end of 2015, while the total quantity of fish caught using traditional methods last year had reached 254,767 tonnes.

Further, the Sultanate has as many as 2,655 licensed fishing boats. Last year, under the fishermen support programme, 20 cranes, 208 engines and 175 boats were provided to traditional fishermen.

The total value of fish landings by the end of last year had increased by 3.4 per cent to touch OMR172.25 million, compared with OMR167.55 million reported in 2014.

Considering the governorates, South A’Sharqiyah recorded as many as 988 licensed fishermen and 600 fishing boats, while the

ROBUST DEMAND: Total value of fish landings by the end of last year had increased by 3.4 per cent to touch OMR172.25 million, compared with OMR167.55 million reported in 2014. - Times file picture

aggregate fish landings achieved using traditional methods stood at 62,642 tonnes in 2015. Al Wusta recorded 76,736 tonnes of fish landings, even as the number of fishing licenses reached 491. The number of licensed boats stood at 415. In Dhofar, the fishing licenses numbered 412, while 225 boats were issued fishing licenses. The quantity of fish landings stood at 34,756 tonnes.

The North and South Al Batinah Governorates together re-

ported 40,813 tonnes of fish landings. Fishing licenses reached 1,378, while licensed fishing boats were numbered at 753.

In Musandam, the number of fishing licenses stood at 50, while boat permits were pegged at 277.

As much as 20,312 tonnes of fish landings were reported in 2015. Muscat recorded 19,508 tonnes of fish catch, while fishing licenses were 701. The governorate had 385 licensed fishing boats, data indicated. — ONA

pal, general manager of the Global Omani Investment Company.

Further, the ‘demand pull’ inflation phenomenon (which is normally seen during an economic boom) is not an issue, in view of the overall slowdown in economic activity.

Although the transportation

cost of commodities increased in the domestic market due to the rise in diesel prices, the shipment cost in international markets have come down in view of slackness in crude oil prices. The transport sub-segment in the basket of consumer price index rose by 4.8 per cent in May 2016, compared with the same period last year, according to the monthly statistics released by the Central Bank of Oman. “Approximately, 20 per cent of the costs of international commodities are incurred for transportation. So the slackness in oil prices has helped reduce transportation costs, especially for food grains,” added Rajagopal.

The Sultanate relies on foreign countries for a major chunk of its commodity imports.

Barring cement, the domestic transportation cost of commodities is not a major factor that can jack up prices.

Among the different sub-groups

in the consumer price index basket, food and beverages (non-alcoholic)—the largest item accounting for 30.4 per cent of the index—edged down by 0.7 per cent in May, over the same month of 2015. Among food sub-groups, prices of bread and cereals and fish and seafood items declined by 2.2 per cent and 2.3 per cent, respectively. However, the cost of education, health and restaurants edged up in May. Oman was pegged lowest in terms of monthly inflation at 1.1 per cent in May among six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, while the maximum inflation was witnessed in Saudi Arabia at 4.1 per cent, according to earlier reports. In terms of subgroups in consumer price index basket, the highest group-level inflation in the GCC was in the tobacco group at 14.6 per cent, while prices in the group of restaurants and hotels it declined in May 2016 to an average of 0.7 per cent.

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MARKET MACHINE LEARNING

Apple acquires artificial intelligence start-up for $200m

STRATEGIC BUY: Turi’s technology could feed into Apple’s Siri digital assistant and help define new ways computers interact with people. — Bloomberg file picture

MANAGEMENT CHANGE

Google executive quits self-driving car project SAN FRANCISCO: Chris Urmson, who was instrumental in building Google’s self-driving car project, said on Friday he is leaving the team after seven and a half years.

Alphabet’s Google had named Urmson chief technical officer of the project after it hired former Hyundai executive John Krafcik to be chief executive of the project.

Urmson, who joined the project when it was launched and has been a public face of Google’s autonomous vehicle efforts, testified before a US Senate panel on autonomous cars in March.

Krafcik confirmed Urmson’s departure in a tweet on Friday afternoon. Urmson, in a blog post late on Friday, said he was “ready for a fresh challenge.” He said he wasn’t sure what he would do next. “Going to take some time and get some perspective from outside of Google,” he wrote in a text message.

Google self-driving car project spokesman Johnny Luu confirmed Urmson’s departure and praised him.

“Seven years ago, the idea that a car could drive itself wasn’t much more than an idea. Chris has been a vital force for the project, helping the team move from a research phase to a point where this lifesaving technology will soon become a reality,” Luu said.

Google’s self-driving car project is expected to become a standalone company this year.

In July, the project appointed its first general counsel.

Google has logged more than 1.8 million miles of autonomous driving in testing in Texas, California, Arizona and Washington state.

It has said it has no timetable for making self-driving vehicles available to the public.

Officials have said Google is preparing to make its self-driving car unit a separate company. The program is now part of its X research laboratory unit.

“The self-driving car project is in the middle of graduating from X and this is sort of a gradual pro-

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple acquired artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Turi for about $200 million, according to people familiar with the situation, in the latest deal by the iPhone maker to accumulate advanced computing capabilities for its products and services.

Turi helps developers create and manage software and services that use a form of AI called machine learning. It also has systems that let companies to build recommendation engines, detect fraud, analyse customer usage patterns and better target potential users, according to the Seattle-based startup’s website. Apple could use this to more rapidly integrate the technology with future products.

Apple’s move on Friday is part of a broader battle among Google, Facebook and Amazon.com to gain

an edge in AI, particularly in the field known as pervasive computing, where software tries to automatically infer what people want, one of the people said. Turi’s technology could feed into Apple’s Siri digital assistant, the person added, and help define new ways computers interact with people.

Smaller technology firms “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” Apple said in a statement. GeekWire earlier reported the acquisition.

Apple sees its Turi acquisition as a way to better tap into the growing community of AI researchers, said a person familiar with the deal. Apple has been criticised by researchers for being too secretive

about its AI work. In contrast, Turi held a two-day machine-learning conference in July in San Francisco for data scientists and academics. Formerly known as Dato, Turi raised more than $25 million from venture capital investors including New Enterprise Associates and Madrona Venture Group, according to CrunchBase. Turi couldn’t be reached for comment on the deal.

The Turi team will remain in Seattle, one of the people familiar with the situation said.

Apple has purchased multiple firms over the past couple of years that specialise in artificial intelligence. The company has also begun to integrate these technologies into products such as its iPhone software and Siri.

In January, Apple acquired

Emotient, a startup that uses AI to recognise and act upon facial expressions. Last year, Apple acquired a pair of voice-centric AI startups, VocalIQ and Perceptio, to bolster Siri. VocalIQ specialised in using machine learning to allow voice assistants to engage in more realistic conversation. Perceptio focused on helping AI systems run on devices while sharing limited amounts of personal user data.

Machine learning and AI help computers automatically understand images, videos, and spoken words. The technologies also allow systems to take actions or make recommendations on such data.

Apple has already begun to show the fruits of its AI investments via better keyword recognition by Siri across multiple product lines.

— Bloomberg News

Prices of commodities rose in second quarter Food and Agriculture Organisation average price index stood at 169 points during the second half of 2016; an increase of 8 per cent, compared to

Going to take some time and get some perspective from outside of Google

the first quarter.

Chris Urmson

Chief technical officer for self-driving cars at Google

cess,” Astro Teller, who heads the X program, told NBC News in April.

In May, Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said they had agreed to work together to build a fleet of nearly 100 self-driving minivans, the first time a Silicon Valley firm had teamed up with a traditional carmaker to develop an autonomous vehicle.

In March, Reuters reported Google’s self-driving car team was expanding and hiring more people with automotive industry expertise, underscoring the company’s determination to move the division past the experimental stage.

— Reuters

MUSCAT: Average price of some basic commodities continued rising during the second quarter of 2016. Prices increased by 13 per cent, compared to the first quarter of 2016, following the slump in world prices during the first quarter of 2016, according to data collected by the Public Authority for Stores and Food Reserve (PASFR), based upon information published by international organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), International Grains Council and International Sugar Organisation.

FAO average price index stood at 169 points during the second half of 2016; an increase of 8 per cent, compared to first quarter.

The index includes prices for the basic commodity group, including sugar, which surged 21 per cent, veg oil, which was up 9 per cent, meat, up 3 per cent, and dairy products, which fell 6 per cent.

As per the International Sugar Organisation, average raw and white sugar prices stood at $376 per tonne during the second half of 2016, an increase of 24 per cent,

ON THE RISE: As per the International Sugar Organisation, average raw and white sugar prices

stood at $376 per tonne during the second half of 2016, an increase of 24 per cent, compared to the first quarter. — Bloomberg file picture

compared to the first quarter. The average price of white sugar stood at $476 per tonne during the second quarter of 2016.

As per data released by the International Grains Council, the average cereal price was $269 per tonne during the second quarter 2016, a growth of 8 per cent compared to the first quarter 2016. Meanwhile, wheat prices declined 5 per cent.

The price of most of basic cereals rose during the period, including beans (20 per cent), rice (9 per cent) and wheat (6 per cent), while parley prices remained stable at $165 per tonne.

FAO forecasts indicate that after two years of weak world production of rice, the supply will recover due to stable weather conditions in north Asia.

Rice production is expected to increase by 1 per cent during the 2016-2017 season.

As per the estimates of the International Grains Council, the data points out that world reserves of rice during the 20152016 season will continue to decline by 11 million tonnes, compared to the 2014-2015 season.

Forecasts also indicate that rice reserves will continue to fall by 2 million tonnes during the 20162017 season, compared to the 2015-2016 season.

Meanwhile, world stocks of corn declined by 3 million tonnes during the 2015-2016 season.

Forecasts also point to world supplies growing by 1 million tonnes during the 2016-2017 season, compared to the 2015-2016 season. Further, FAO noted that

world production of yellow corn will grow by 1 per cent during the 2016-2017 season due to the abundant crop in EU countries and the expansion of farms in the USA. Additionally, world stocks of beans declined by 5 million tonnes in the 2015-2016 season, compared to the 2014-2015 season. Production is also expected to decline at the same rate next season.

As for world stocks of wheat, estimates point out that the supply will grow by 17 million tonnes during the 2015-2016 season, compared to the 2014-2015 season. Forecasts about wheat stocks during the 2016-2017 season expect to see growth of 9 million tonnes,compared to the current 2015-2016 season,which would be the highest in 15 years. — ONA

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MARKET Middle Eastern carriers’ traffic in June increased by 7.5%: IATA Middle Eastern airlines freight volumes rise by 8%

June international passenger demand rose 5.0 per cent,

Times News Service

compared with June 2015. All regions recorded growth, led by airlines in Latin America, IATA’s latest report shows

Times News Service MUSCAT: Middle Eastern carriers posted a 7.5 per cent traffic increase in June, which was lower than the double-digit growth recorded earlier in the year, according to IATA’s global passenger traffic data for June.

In part, this could be owing to the timing of Ramadan, which tends to depress traffic growth.

Also, capacity rose by 14.3 per cent, which caused the load factor to dive 4.4 percentage points to 69.9 per cent of global passenger traffic data for June, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), announced in its latest report.

The June data showed that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) rose by 5.2 per cent, compared with the year-ago period. This was up slightly from the 4.8 per cent increase recorded in May (revised).

However, the upward trend in seasonally-adjusted traffic has moderated since January. June capacity (available seat kilometres or ASKs) increased by 5.6 per cent, and load factor slipped 0.3 percentage points to 80.7 per cent.

“The demand for travel continues to increase, but at a slower pace. The fragile and uncertain economic backdrop, political shocks and a wave of terrorist attacks are all contributing to a softer demand environment,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general and chief executive officer.

ROBUST GROWTH: Capacity rose by 14.3 per cent, which caused the load factor to dive 4.4 percentage

points to 69.9 per cent of global passenger traffic data for June. - Bloomberg file picture

International markets June international passenger demand rose 5.0 per cent, compared with June 2015. All regions recorded growth, led by airlines in Latin America. Capacity climbed 6.4 per cent, causing the load factor to slide 1.1 percentage points to 79.4 per cent.

Asia-Pacific airlines’ June traffic rose 8.2 per cent, compared with the year-ago period. However, most of the growth relates to the strong upward trend in traffic seen in the final months of 2015 and into 2016, with June demand barely higher than in February.

This could be a natural pause, but possibly also a sign of Asian passengers being put off travel by terrorism in Europe.

Capacity rose 7.3 per cent and load factor inched up 0.6 percentage points to 78.2 per cent.

European carriers saw demand rise 2.1 per cent, the smallest in-

crease among regions, reflecting the negative impact of recent terrorism. While demand tends to recover reasonably quickly after such events, the repeated nature of the attacks may have a more lasting impact.

Capacity climbed 3.4 per cent and load factor slipped 1.1 percentage points to 83.3 per cent.

North American airlines’ demand rose 4.0 per cent, compared with June a year ago, which was well up on the 0.5 per cent yearover-year growth recorded in May. Capacity climbed4.7 per cent, causing load factor to dip 0.6 percentage points to 84.3 per cent, still the highest among regions.

Latin American airlines experienced an 8.8 per cent rise in demand, compared with the same month last year, suggesting that carriers there have flown out of the soft patch seen in the first quarter.

Capacity increased by 5.2 per cent

SECOND-QUARTER

Berkshire profit rises 25 per cent NEW YORK: Berkshire Hathaway on Friday said its secondquarter profit rose 25 per cent, helped by improvement in insurance underwriting, investment gains and the purchase of Precision Castparts, Warren Buffett’s largest acquisition.

But operating results fell short of analyst forecasts, as depressed oil prices and coal demand weighed on volume at the con-

glomerate’s BNSF railroad unit, while units serving the oil, gas and heavy equipment industries struggled. Other businesses, including the Geico auto insurer, fared better.

Net income for Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire rose to $5 billion, or $3,042 per Class A share, from $4.01 billion, or $2,442, a year earlier.

Operating profit rose 18 per

cent to $4.61 billion, or $2,803 per Class A share, from $3.89 billion, or $2,367. Analysts on average expected operating profit of about $2,911 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Revenue rose 6 per cent to $54.46 billion. Book value per share, Buffett’s preferred measure of growth, rose 1.7 per cent from the end of March to $160,009.

— Reuters

and load factor rose 2.7 percentage points to 82.4 per cent.

African airlines’ traffic climbed 4.7 per cent in June, an indication that the strong upward trend in demand that began in the second half of 2015 has paused. Capacity rose 7.4 per cent, with the result that load factor slipped 1.7 percentage points to 64.4 per cent, lowest among regions.

“The latest figures show that aviation and aviation-related tourism delivered a $2.7 trillion in economic impact and supported some 62.7 million jobs worldwide.

It is a powerful force for good in our world. It is too soon to know whether recent terrorist attacks will have a long-term negative influence on demand, nor what will be the impact of Brexit and the events in Turkey. But it is vital that governments recognise and support aviation’s ability to contribute to global economic well-being and better understanding across cultural and political borders,” said IATA’s Tyler.

Domestic passenger markets

For domestic travel climbed 5.7 per cent in June, up from June 2015, while capacity rose 4.3 per cent, causing load factor to rise 1.1 percentage points to 83.2 per cent. All markets reported demand

MUSCAT: Middle Eastern carriers posted the largest increase in freight volumes of all regions for the 16th consecutive month in June — eight per cent year on year with capacity increasing by 8.7 per cent, IATA data released for global air freight demand in June 2016, show.

Although the leader in market growth, the Middle East’s international freight growth rate (6.5 per cent) for the first six months of 2016 is less than half the 14.3 per cent average growth for the same period in 2015, the IATA data state.

The report says that global air freight demand in June 2016 rose in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) of 4.3 per cent year-on-year. This was the fastest pace of growth in 14 months. Freight capacity measured in available freight tonne kilometres (AFTKs) increased by 4.9 per cent year-on-year, keeping yields under downward pressure.

Freight demand increased year-on-year in June across all regions with the exception of Latin America which recorded a 9.8 per cent decrease, compared to the same period last year. The Middle East and Europe posted the fastest demand growth in June with year-on-year increases of 8.0 per cent and 5.1 per cent respectively.

“June saw an improvement

increases with the exception of Brazil. India continued to lead all markets with a 23.3 per cent rise in domestic traffic, propelled by strong growth in real consumer spending, as well as by the fact that airlines are adding airport pairs and frequencies.

in demand for air freight.

That’s good news. However, we cannot read too much into one month’s performance.

Air cargo markets have been in the doldrums for several years during which there were several false starts on indications for improvement.

We will continue watching developments closely, keeping in mind that the air freight business environment isfragile. Global economic growth remains sluggish, world trade volumes continue to trend downwards and the industry facesheightened uncertainty in the aftermath of the Brexit vote,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO. Asia-Pacific airlines reported a 3.5 per cent increase in demand for air cargo in June compared to last year. Capacity expanded 3.6 per cent. The Asia-Pacific air freight market has been improving in recent months, most notably the large ‘within Asia’ market. Nonetheless freight volumes from ‘emerging Asia’ continue to face headwinds from weak trade in the region and globally.

North American carriers saw freight volumes rise 4.3 per cent in June 2016 compared to the same period last year. International freight volumes continue to suffer from the strength of the US dollar which has kept the US export market under pressure.

Australia’s airlines have operating fewer frequencies and downgauging aircraft in recent months, contributing to a 3.6 per cent decline in capacity. The result is that load factor surged 4.9 percentage points to 79.4 per cent on a 2.8 per cent increase in traffic.

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FEATURE

HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO BUY IN BITCOINS FOR JUST MICHAEL P. REGAN

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ook, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the youngest or hippest writer on the Internet. So perhaps it’s no surprise that I don’t quite “get” bitcoin. I mean, I “get it” to some degree.

The blockchain technology underlying it is an amazing innovation in cryptology, with a lot of potential disruptive implications for the financial industry, yada, yada, yada. There are bitcoin enthusiasts’ “visions of liberation and revolution,” and cheaper retail-payment solutions to boot. For a while, you could buy drugs online with bitcoin, so if that’s your thing, I guess that’s pretty cool.

And, perhaps most important, you simply cannot ignore the fact that a bitcoin that cost five cents in 2010 is now fetching about $574 and went for more than $1,100 in 2013.

Still, when you start talking about the “fundamental value” of bitcoin, I feel like you might as well start talking about the fundamental value of an Articuno. But as Clint Eastwood once said (in more lucid days before he started talking to empty chairs): “A man’s got to know his limitations.” And one of my

limitations is wrapping my head around what’s a fair valuation for a bitcoin, or even how to go about determining one.

I assume I’m not the only one with that limitation, considering the value of bitcoin has jumped around like this: This is not to say people should stay away from bitcoin. It could be a good speculative bet, or hedge, or just a lucrative trading instrument for those who want to go down the rabbit hole of “mining” and “halving” and bitcoin exchange arbitrage and whatnot. One thing I do know is that if I wanted to buy $100 worth of bitcoins, I know what price I’d like to pay: $100. Maybe a little bit more. But you know what price I would not like to pay? $180. Or $200. However, that is what investors who buy shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust fund have been doing consistently. The fund’s premium to net-asset value has averaged about 40 per cent over its lifetime. It was as high as 100 per cent in June, and 77 per cent as of Wednesday. That means investing in the fund bought you $100 of bitcoin for $177.The premium, or discount, to an open-ended fund’s net asset value should be microscopic. It’s only when something weird is going on that it looks like this:

Despite all of the trumpeted promise that the digital currency is safe and secure and free of fraud, scandalous robberies of bitcoin seem to keep happening over and over and over and over again.

The latest caper was a $65 million heist from the Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex that led to a swoon in bitcoin value this week.

So what’s the weird thing going on in this instance? I had a few theories. First, remember all those people who bought narcotics with bitcoin on the dark web?

Maybe they consumed those drugs and then proceeded to buy shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust? I kid, I kid.

There had to be a better explanation, and maybe it’s explained by the weird news flow of bitcoin itself. Despite all of the trumpeted promise that the digital currency is safe and secure and free of fraud, scandalous robberies of bitcoin seem to keep happening over and over and over and over again. The latest caper was a $65 million heist from the Hong Kongbased exchange Bitfinex that led to a swoon in bitcoin value this week. With bitcoin accounts appearing to be about as secure as Democrats’ e-mail, maybe the jargon-laden pitch from Grayscale Investments, the firm that manages the fund, has resonated: The Bitcoin Investment Trust’s assets are stored with Xapo, as Custodian, in deep cold storage vaults. Bitcoin stored in the Xapo Vaults reside on multisignature addresses, the private keys for which are protected by intense cryptographic, physical and process security. Xapo maintains third-party in-

surance to cover losses due to employee dishonesty or on-premises theft of bitcoin stored in the Vaults.

That’s Custodian with a capital C, fella. The added security amid concern about counterparty risk in a nascent technology-based asset is definitely part of the premium, according to Michael Sonnenshein, Grayscale’s director of sales and business development. And the fund is sold in private placements to accredited investors with restrictions that only allow them to be resold after they’ve been owned for 12 months, he pointed out, so non-accredited investors have to wait for shares to show up on OTC Markets. (Grayscale got a bit of a slap on the wrist from the SEC a few weeks ago for how it handles liquidity in the fund. Here, Izabella Kaminska can explain that better than me.) Also, Sonnenshein said, some investors want to hold bitcoin in their regular brokerage or retirement portfolios, so this fund allows them to do that. I can’t quite wrap my head around what sort of allocation someone should have for bitcoin in their retirement account, especially at these premiums. But hey, a man’s got to know his limitations.

— Bloomberg News

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Mazda’s new turbocharged model to increase fuel efficiency, performance enhances the safety and response of the transmission to give more Zoom-Zoom.

In Oman, while V-6 engines are still preferred for traditional reasons, there is a gradual shift towards the smarter turbo technology to reduce costs especially because of the rising fuel prices.

Ever since the 1960s, automobile manufacturers have been pushing the automotive industry to make their cars more fuel efficient, without reducing the overall power output. Automobile manufacturers have learned that the best way to solve this problem has been to use smaller engines with turbochargers, which can deliver high power and efficiency.

The biggest advantage of utilising a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine is the ability to generate more power with the efficiency of a 4-cylinder. Turbo-4 engines operate much like their naturally

In Oman, while V-6 engines are still preferred for traditional reasons, there is a gradual shift towards the smarter turbo technology to reduce costs especially because of the rising fuel prices

MUSCAT: Automotive technologies are changing and in fact getting smarter. One of these technologies is the use of turbocharged engines to increase fuel efficiency and environmental performance without compromising on the much needed power when you need it.

Mazda represented by Towell Auto Centre (TAC) in Oman will be bringing a new turbocharged

model in the market soon, says a press release.

Mazda has been a pioneer in coming out with new efficient smarter technologies that can be used in mass production in the past like the rotary engines and quite recently the SKYACTIV technology that not only makes the engine more efficient without compromising on power, it also

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aspirated 4-cylinder counterparts.

While displacement remains the same, turbocharged engines have the ability to get a boost in power when it is needed. So when you need to get your car up to highway speeds, the turbocharger pushes compressed air to the cylinders, making more room for fuel. That increase in fuel creates larger explosions in each cylinder, allowing you to access more power and more torque for effortless acceleration and overtaking, even when towing and carrying loads.

Hence, turbocharged engines deliver breakthrough performance and bring new levels of driving pleasure and more and more leading automotive brands globally are now applying this new technology in their vehicles.

TAC is among the pioneers in the automobile business in the country since 1972 and has a long association with the Japanese automaker.

LUXURY DRIVE

Renault conducts final raffle All-new Maserati Levante now draw of Ramadan promotion available for test drive in Oman MUSCAT: Renault Oman, from the house of Suhail Bahwan Automobiles, conducted its last Ramadan promotion-related raffle draw at Renault showroom in Qurum recently. In all the five draws and raffle draws held as part of the Ramadan promotion saw winners drive home Renault Symbols.

As part of the Ramadan promotion, customers purchasing any of the Renault models were eligible to participate in a raffle draw that got them a chance to win five Renault Symbols throughout the offer period, says a press release.

A senior official for SBA said, “We thank our customers for their interest and participation in the raffle draws.

We extend our congratulations to the winners. Through the Ramadan promotion we provide buyers with unmatchable offers to underscore our gratefulness to our customers’ loyalty. We are overjoyed to announce the success of the raffle draw. The Ramadan offer was

our way of rewarding our valued customers for their love and trust in the brand.”

Promising to ensure a secondto-none ownership experience, Renault Oman had put together unlimited Ramadan offers for the customers of Renault.

“We are delighted with the great response we received for our Ramadan promotion. We were driven

with the singular objective of offering the best for our customers,” the official added.

Renault Oman’s unique Ramadan offer boasted of a host of benefits for customers purchasing their top selling models as well as their latest models. As part of Ramadan promotion, Renault Oman had worked out a lot of special offers which the customers could avail during the period.

MUSCAT: Alfardan Motors, the official importer of Maserati in the Sultanate, announced the arrival of the first Maserati Levante in Muscat for client test drives.

The Levante offers the ultimate luxury drive for Oman, from unique on-road drivability for the streets of Muscat to competitive off-road capability for the mountainous terrain of Al Hajar, says a press release.

Following the first reveal at Geneva Motor Show in March, the Levante made its first official appearance in Oman just weeks later with a static pilot car. In order to achieve the high quality standards and maintain its traditional ‘Made in Italy’ credentials, Maserati strategically invested in a new production line at the historic Mirafiori plant in Turin. As production ramps up, the first cars are being delivered around the world.

“We’ve had a lot of interest and even orders since the first reveal of the Levante in Oman, but now finally our customers will be able

to test drive it. It’s a beautiful car, no doubt, but only those who have experienced it on-road and offroad can really appreciate it. Maserati has found a way to achieve amazing functionality and offroad capability while maintaining the style and performance of a real Maserati, as we have come to love them,” commented Mohamed Mostafa Elzawawy, general manager of Maserati Oman.

The Levante is available in two variants, the Levante and the Levante S, both featuring latest evolution of the Maserati 3-litre V6 engine with twin turbo. The top of the range Levante S with 430hp makes it to 100km/h in just 5.2” and has a top speed of 264 km/h. The 350hp Levante achieves the 0-100 km/h sprint in 6.0” and a 251km/h top speed. Both versions adopt an eight-speed automatic ZF gearbox with a choice of drive modes: ‘Normal’, I.C.E., ‘Sport’ or ‘Off-road’.

The Levante is here to excite any sports car driver counting on performance-oriented features, such

as the extensive use of lightweight materials, ideal 50-50% weight distribution, the lowest centre of gravity and the best aerodynamic efficiency in its segment. On a par with this, the off-road equipment, including the standard air springs, electronically controlled skyhook shock absorbers and the intelligent Q4 All-Wheel-Drive system, completes a product made to surprise avid travellers and adventure lovers as well.

The Levante also comes with a wide range of new options and content, including: Adaptive cruise control with stop & go function, forward collision warning and brake assist system, lane departure warning, surround view camera, a 8.4” touch screen display and a high level of customisation that includes two cutting-edge packages: Luxury and Sport. With the Levante a new wind is blowing through the SUV segment, guaranteeing the passion, flair and exclusivity that have distinguished all Maserati models for over a century.

CALEDONIAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

CCE begins 6th annual summer school MUSCAT: Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE) launched its four-week annual summer school recently attracting 94 students.

Summer School is one of Caledonian’s major corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives being held every year offering a free programme to senior school students who are interested in science and hoping to pursue a career in a STEM-related subject, says a press release.

At the opening ceremony Dr Ahmed, dean of CCE, welcomed the school-leavers and invited them to use the time and college environment to reflect on their future career choices after testing driftnet engineering filed. Jenny Walker, associate dean – Professional Development, added that the participants are to be congratulated for using their time over the summer holidays wisely and hoped that they would find summer school a useful platform for their future.

Some of the objectives of summer school are to allow time and opportunity to the participants to explore in the field of engineering, practice English language skills,

make friends, work in teams and have some fun.

This year a one-day session on soft skill development was delivered free of charge by Outward Bound, as part of its commitment to challenge younger people to make them aware about their personal responsibility to the society and the environment they live in.

These sessions which underpin the summer school programme as a whole, are part of the building blocks of a future degree in engineering; indeed, CCE’s stated mission and vision is to train impactful, innovative and professional engineers – the change agents and global citizens of the future.

The Caledonian summer school

has been successful over six years in empowering hundreds of young adults to think positively about their choice of career and to reflect on their interests and skills so that they make the right decision. While the programme includes exposure to maths, science and lab work, it is not all work and no play. As the facilitators are aware that the programme needs to be engaging, the young participants are given opportunities to be hands-on in the labs and in team projects for which they compete for prizes. Each week is themed and includes a field trip to interesting sites that showcase engineering at its best – behind the scenes at the Royal Opera

House, for example, or a visit to PDO museum.

In the feedback conducted after each summer school, students opined that they have learnt many new skills, have a better understanding about campus life, have improved their English and are now more inclined to study engineering at the college.

CCE thanked Khimji Ramdas for providing a unique opportunity to visit a paint factory and supporting the cost of transport on the field trips. It also thanked Oman Refreshment Company for providing refreshments and to Karthik Ramanathan for his personal generosity in funding student prizes.

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VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME

Female focused tourism has been hitting the spotlight lately with many women opting to

Nama Group starts Wiyakum events

explore activities and attractions, and showcase that female specific tourism has a perfect place in the Sultanate fact, 16 different nationalities were present in the last event and we hope to bring in more people this year.”

MUSCAT: The Sultanate has been a beacon for women’s empowerment around the region, and that light shines just as bright in tourism.

Female focused tourism has been hitting the spotlight lately with many women opting to explore activities and attractions, and showcase that female bound tourism has a perfect place in the Sultanate. Here are a few things that have been attracting women to explore tourism in the Sultanate.

Hiking and trekking Hiking and trekking has been very popular in the world of women’s tourism, with influential and inspirational women from the GCC climbing the highest and most challenging peaks in the world, the Sultanate has gained popularity in attracting upcoming inspirations to climb its peaks.

Safaris Desert crossings and safaris are a brilliant way to strengthen the bond between friends, the per-

severing nature and comradery needed to get to your goal has set many people to join together and cross the deserts of the Sultanate.

Tour guides created a spectacular ladies desert crossing, giving beginners and experts alike the chance to take the driver’s seat and embark on an exciting adventure.

Rebecca Mayston, a manager for a leading tourism company, said: “Our first female only event showed us that women are pas-

sionate about driving and are exceptional drivers, the participants end up learning quickly and the bond between the team grows through learning. The event has been particularly attracting Omani women, who have showcased their excellent skills and quick ability to learn and adapt.

“Our last event brought in many Omanis and residents, as well as some tourists that are spread across different nationalities. In

Golf The Middle East has been one of the most trending locations for golf enthusiasts around the world, and the Sultanate’s newest additions to the golfing world have made waves in the community of golfers.

The popularity of golf has swept the country and Almouj Golf has embraced this with open arms, the ladies coffee morning golf programme launched by Almouj Golf is a social and fun way for women to envelop themselves into the world of golfing, whether they are swinging their golf clubs for the first time or seasoned golfers, the golf program has an activity for everyone.

There are also women’s tournaments across the different golf courses, and the first two ladies open tournaments in 2016 saw Omanis, residents and international golfers competing across Ghala Golf Club and Al Mouj Golf.

MUSCAT: The first event of Wiyakum Volunteer Programme for Nama Group employees commenced recently in Dhofar and Dakhilyah governorates with the participation of employees from Dhofar Power Company and Mazoon Electricity Company, says a press release.

The first day started with activities in Dhofar governorate in cooperation with Omani Women’s Association in Salalah, where employees were trained in voluntary work. In addition, volunteers participated in an awareness campaign, for visitors and residents of the governorate, about preserving green spaces and tourist destinations during Khareef.

On the second day of the event, employees underwent training about voluntary work in cooperation with the Omani Association for Elderly Friends (Dhofar Branch) under the auspices of Dr Ahmad bin Salim Ra’feet, member of the State Council.

Wiyakum events in Dakhiliyah governorate were held in cooperation with the Cancer Society in the Wilayat of Bahla. A number of Nama Group employees, and Cancer Society volunteers participated in various voluntary works, such as logistics, painting and reorganising the Cancer Society facilities.

The signing of the agreement between Nama Group and Oman Network of Volunteers (Taawon) held recently came as result of the programme’s success in its first edition, last year, where more than 540 Nama Group employees completed training in the field of voluntary work. The employees were given Wiyakum Card to further encourage employees to continue participating in voluntary work. Moreover, many voluntary programmes were implemented with the cooperation of several organisations in Muscat.

This year the project aims to include Nama Group employees across the Sultanate. An average of two voluntary events are planned to take place in each governorate, in addition to a workshop on voluntary works and field activities in cooperation with different voluntary organisations and NGOs. Nama Group continues to support sustainable projects since the launch of its sustainability policy in September 2014. The group’s sustainability policy is based on three pillars, namely social, environmental, and economic. The group supports different initiatives that are aligned with these pillars, which aim to nurture society, support the economy and preserve the environment.

R E N A I S S A N C E D AY C E L E B R AT I O N

Al Mouj crafts exhibition promotes Oman’s culture, heritage MUSCAT: In celebration of the Renaissance Day and to promote Oman’s unique culture and heritage, Al Mouj Muscat, Oman’s lifestyle destination, organised an exhibition at The Walk in association with the Public Authority for Craft Industries (PACI).

The exhibition showcased the spectacular works of Omani crafts, artists representing the different governorates of Oman, highlighting the creativity and cultural prosperity of the country.

The Renaissance Day exhibition highlighted Omani workmanship and celebrated the artistic visions of Omani craftsperson in field of textiles, shipbuilding, palm weaving, pottery and silverware, says a press release.

A band of Oud musicians from the Oud Hobbyists Association performed at the venue of the exhibition Nasser Masoud Al Sheibani, acting CEO, said: “We are delighted to have organised this exhibition that mirrors Oman’s unique culture and genuine heritage. We decided the best way to celebrate this national occasion would be to provide a platform for the Omani artisans to promote Oman’s different cultural and traditional aspects to

Al Mouj residents and visitors who witnessed the ingenuity and creativity of Omani craftsperson.”

He added, “We thank the Public Authority for Craft Industries for their support in organising this exhibition. PACI has been promoting Oman’s heritage and playing an important role in attracting new generations of artisans. At Al Mouj Muscat, we recognise that there is an incredible range of craft skills in Oman and some of the best crafts persons in the world and it is our intention to host more and more of such events.”

Additionally, a band of Oud musicians from the Oud Hobbyists Association performed at the venue of the exhibition to set the ambience.

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Orpic concludes third road safety campaign in Salalah SALALAH: Orpic recently concluded its annual Road Safety Awareness Campaign in cooperation with Royal Oman Police (ROP) in Salalah.

This annual awareness campaign was held to further boost traffic safety awareness across the Sultanate and particularly in the Governorate of Dhofar; which is currently witnessing a huge traffic because of Khareef Festival, says a press release.

The campaign was held under the patronage of Sheikh Salim Aufeet Abdullah Al Shanfari, president, Dhofar Municipality, with senior officials from Dhofar Municipality and ROP along with Dr Hilal bin Abdullah Al Hinai, gen-

eral manager - Corporate Support Services and other officials from Orpic in attendance.

Dr Hilal bin Abdullah Al Hinai, general manager -Corporate Support Services, Orpic, stated, “At Orpic, we always put safety and

the environment first – of our people, plant, operations and the communities we operate in. Through this event, we are keen to establish a mutual cooperation with the government entities as well as local organisations and individuals to

stand against the increasing numbers of car accidents.”

The launch included many activities that targeted different age groups. In addition to spreading safety awareness, flyers were distributed to motorists, coupled with

Muzn Islamic launches new charity initiative Each time a customer opens a Muzn savings or Flexi Wakala account with Muzn and deposits money in the account, the bank will donate a proportionate amount on their behalf to a charity at the end of the campaign period

MUSCAT: Muzn Islamic Banking launched a new charitable initiative designed to encourage customers to give back in line with the principles of Islam.

Each time a customer opens a Muzn savings or Flexi Wakala account with Muzn and deposits money in the account, the bank will donate a proportionate amount on their behalf to a charity at the end of the campaign period. To provide initial funding and momentum to the campaign, Muzn is making an upfront donation of OMR5,000 to the charity fund, says a press release.

Yuzly Yusof, head of Muzn Islamic Banking, said: “Muzn strives to make meaningful con-

tributions to the society.

“This campaign is built around the idea of donating and spreading smiles across the Sultanate by encouraging people to give back to their communities.

“We look forward to engaging our customers in this important new campaign over the comings weeks and months.”

Muzn’s latest charitable campaign builds on National Bank of Oman’s recent Iftar Sa’im initiative to support families with essential provisions ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

A team of NBO volunteers including the bank’s senior management team delivered more than 1,200 food hampers to low income

families across the Sultanate to ensure they have all the essential food staples.

In addition to the food parcels

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Alizz organises blood donation campaign

MUSCAT: Alizz Islamic Bank recently organised a blood donation campaign in cooperation with the Ministry of Health’s Department of Blood Services to boost the current rate of blood donation in the Sultanate.

The campaign, aligned to Alizz’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy, aimed to help maintain a sufficient supply of blood in the country’s blood banks and bolster the Ministry of Health’s efforts to raise the daily donation rate from 50 units to 100 units all over the Sultanate, says a press release.

Through the campaign, Alizz also aimed to increase public awareness about the urgent need to donate blood as Omani blood banks constantly face shortage of blood amid the rising number of road injuries.

“Maintaining a robust and efficient CSR programme and organising major social events is one of our top priorities. As part of our CSR policy we have run numerous campaigns such as Ramadan Iftars, Oman Diabetes Society campaigns and blood donation drives,” said Moosa Al Jadidi, deputy general manager and head of Retail

Through the campaign, Alizz aimed to increase public awareness about the urgent need to donate blood as Omani blood banks constantly face shortage of blood amid the rising number of road injuries

Banking at Alizz Islamic Bank.

On the occasion, Al Jadidi thanked the bank employees who participated in the blood donation campaign for displaying keen interest in the bank’s corporate social responsibility programme.

donated by NBO, the bank’s employees also made personal donations of essential items to help families ahead of the holy month.

a variety of educational competitions, including a competition for the most beautiful road painting for children. The campaign also showcased a number of films and awareness programmes on road safety behaviour.

Orpic firmly endorses the sentiment echoed by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, in his speech in Seih Al Makarem in 2009, in which he emphasised the need to join forces to put an end to the car accidents across the Sultanate. “We are continuing our efforts through various campaigns and awareness sessions targeting schools students, individuals and society in general,” he said.

It is worth mentioning that this is the third consecutive year in which Orpic has participated and organised its road safety campaign to support national efforts to educate the community about the causes of road safety, their hazards and effects, and ways to avoid them.

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Bank Muscat najahi set to host Open Day for micro and small businesses The 3-day event organised by the Retail Enterprises department begins tomorrow at the najahi Service Centre in Ghala industrial area branch

MUSCAT: Giving a major thrust for micro and small businesses to play an important role in diversifying the Sultanate’s economy and creating job opportunities for Omani youth, Bank Muscat is hosting an Open Day to benefit micro and small business in Ghala industrial area.

The 3-day event organised by the Retail Enterprises department begins tomorrow at the najahi Service Centre in Ghala industrial area branch, says a press release.

Facilitating financial inclusion, Bank Muscat najahi products and services have created a benchmark, helping micro and small businesses to overcome hurdles and chart successful ventures with proper planning, financial discipline and prudent management.

Offering special discount on najahi business credit facilities, the Open Day reiterates the bank’s commitment to extending the helping hand to micro and small businesses to fulfil their financial needs. In step with responsible banking, the focus of Bank Muscat is clear – create a sustainable financial platform for the nation and people and thereby contribute to the country’s progress and development.

Early on, Bank Muscat identified the opportunities and challenges faced by this vital segment

to develop a relevant suite of products and services. Securing credit without collaterals and accessing innovative banking services have been hurdles faced by micro and small businesses.

The specially designed najahi products mainly include credit facilities without collaterals to develop and grow micro and small businesses. With najahi, Bank Muscat fulfils the primary need of finance for the micro and small business segment.

The najahi suite of products include the value added najahi Current Account, najahi Flexi Loan to support working capital, busi-

ness expansion and other business needs; najahi Business Credit Card; najahi Contractors Loan to help complete contracted jobs; najahi Contractors Bill Discounting to get immediate funds after completing contracted jobs and Najahi PoS Receivables financing for customers who use PoS machines for their sales.

The value added najahi Current Account offers differentiated services, including Business Debit Card, branded cheque book, priority queuing at branches, free access to Maktabi Business Centres and online banking services.

The najahi Business Debit Card

PROMOTION

Passengers travelling from Muscat will now get free baggage allowance of 2 pieces weighing 23kg each total of 46kg to all destinations. With immediate effect, the free baggage offer is extended to all destinations both onward and return for attracting more passengers during forthcoming winter including families who wish to avail more free baggage allowance on their return too

turn for attracting more passengers during forthcoming winter including families who wish to avail more free baggage allowance on their return too.

Further, business class passengers will be permitted 2 pieces each weighing 32kg total 64kg instead of the regular baggage allowance of 2 pieces each weighing

23kg total 46kg.

As a part of baggage policy change, the cost of excess baggage rate is also cut by allowing more weight at less cost for passengers wishing to carry more than two pieces and any excess baggage will be charged on extra piece basis.

Now the first excess bag with 23 kilo will be charged OMR80 and

the second excess bag with 23 kilo will be charged OMR130.

The new excess baggage charges per bag up to 23kg will be greater beneficial to customers carrying excess bags as the cost of buying an additional 23 kilo piece of baggage to many sectors cut by 60 per cent and above.

For example, the current excess baggage rate per kilo from Muscat to Manila charged is OMR7.300 per kilo and the cost to carry 23 kilo of baggage will be OMR167.900.

Whereas, under the new piece concept policy, the excess baggage charges will be OMR80 only for the first excess bag of 23kg.

Kuwait Airways now operating five flights a week to Muscat on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with its brand new aircraft A320 having 16 business and 114 economy class configuration, giving good connections beyond Kuwait to various destinations in India, Sub-continent, Far East, Middle-East and Europe. Further, fares to India and other destinations were also now slashed over 25 per cent to attract more passengers.

J.D. POWER 2016 US IQS

Kia Soul, Sportage lead all industry brands in 2016 Initial Quality Study MUSCAT: According to a special report released by J.D. Power 2016 US Initial Quality StudySM (IQS), Kia Soul and Sportage received Initial Quality Awards. This leads to Kia being ranked the highest among all automotive industry nameplates in United States.

This significant milestone comes just one year after Kia was ranked second overall in the 2015 IQS. It also represents the first time in 27 years that a non-luxury brand has led the industry in the US Initial Quality Study, says a press release.

In addition to its industry-leading performance this year, Kia produces two award-recognised models: the 2016 Soul in the Compact MPV segment (second consecutive year) and the 2016 Sportage in the Small SUV segment.

The US Initial Quality Study, now in its 30th year, examines problems experienced by newvehicle owners during the first 90 days of ownership. Initial quality is determined by the number of problems experienced per 100 vehicles (PP100), with a lower score reflecting higher quality. The study is also an early indicator of long-term vehicle quality.

For a second consecutive year, the Soul, Kia’s unique multi-purpose vehicle, is the brand’s highestperforming model in the Initial Quality Study. With a score of 72 PP100 (problems per 100 vehicles)—an improvement of 5 PP100 from last year—the 2016 Kia Soul

term finance facilitates the working capital requirements of small businesses and helps maintain the cash flow.

The najahi suite of products and services has become a big hit with micro and small businesses, encouraging Omani business owners to employ the power of financial leverage with entrepreneurial skills to achieve maximum effectiveness, and thereby make vital contributions to the economy.

Serving micro and small business customers across the Sultanate, the network of najahi centres are also located in Salalah Corporate branch, Buraimi branch, Nizwa Firq branch, Sohar Main branch and Sur branch, in addition to centres in Muscat.

Bank Muscat has launched a series of initiatives to strengthen the SME sector in Oman. Serving as building blocks for entrepreneurs, these initiatives assume importance in the backdrop of the priority accorded by the government to develop the SME sector in Oman.

QUALITY PRODUCT

Kuwait Airways extends its free baggage allowance until March 31 MUSCAT: Kuwait Airways has extended more free baggage allowance to passengers travelling from Muscat to Kuwait and all its connecting destinations beyond Kuwait to India, Sub-continent, Far East, Middle East and Europe.

Accordingly, passengers travelling from Muscat will now get free baggage allowance of 2 pieces weighing 23kg each, a total of 46kg to all destinations. This promotional free baggage offer is now extended until March 31, 2017, says a press release.

Kuwait Airways has introduced lately a new baggage policy ‘Baggage made simple’ under which all its routes are now operating on a piece concept basis and the customers travelling in economy class are entitled to one bag with maximum of 23kg as free baggage allowance.

Further, the promotional offer of two piece 23kg each total of 46kg was offered only to select destinations earlier and the validity was until October 31, 2016.

With immediate effect, the free baggage offer is extended to all destinations both onward and re-

offers a daily withdrawal limit of OMR1,000. The higher withdrawal limit helps customers to meet day-to-day cash requirements. najahi customers can also avail multiple debit cards on the same account allowing authorised persons to make transactions on behalf of the company.

Priority queuing facility is available for najahi customers at branches as also free access once a month to Maktabi Business Centres in Muscat.

Maintaining cash flow is a challenge faced by small businesses.

Addressing this critical need, Bank Muscat launched the first-of-itskind najahi Flexi Loan facility.

This facility gives the customer the power to choose when to avail the loan and for what period. Customers pay interest only when they actually avail the loan and not when the facility is granted.

For very short term financing, the bank has launched najahi point of sale (PoS) receivables financing. The specially designed short-

Firestone TZ 700: The high performance tyres MUSCAT: The Firestone TZ700 offers perfect balance between comfort, safety and affordability.

With excellent stability and safe handling in wet and dry conditions, it offers a smooth quiet ride and is the ideal touring tyre for passenger cars.

It is an all-weather performance tyre, providing a comfortable ride and long wear life with reduced road noise. Some salient features are - improved handling response through centre rib, resistance to irregular wear through sipe in centre rib, improved resistance to irregular wear by uniform stiffness of tread blocks. The long life tyres come in various sizes to fit passenger cars, says a press release.

The technology and research behind the Firestone TZ700 offers drivers the optimal handling performance and reliability. Everything from tread placement to grove positioning has been optimally studied and realised to deliver low-noise performance and minimise irregular tread wear.

Firestone is the only tyre brand known in the world to have appeared in every Indy Racing League contest in the US. Such exclusivity gave Firestone excellent showcases to demonstrate technology, along with the stateof-the-art laboratory for testing and evaluating new materials and

construction processes for street and highway tires.

Firestone has been a tire industry leader since 1900, providing high quality, performance tires for all vehicles.

It is credited with making numerous advances in tyre and rubber technology including the first non skid tread synthetic latex, and the first American produced steel belted radial.

Firestone tyres continue to be a preferred choice in Oman and the range includes bus tyres, light truck van, passenger car, sports utility vehicle and trucks.

Firestone tyres are available at Al Hashar outlets and dealers across the Sultanate.

INTERACTION

New season of Caribou Chats on August 10 ranks highest in the Compact MPV segment and is among the 10 highest-scoring models industry-wide.

The Soul has both the fewest number of design-related problems and defect/malfunction problems in the Compact MPV segment.

The Soul has also received an IQS segment award four times since 2012, and for a second consecutive year in 2016. Additionally, the Soul outperforms the Compact MPV average (81 PP100) by 9 PP100. The Soul also has both the fewest number of design-related problems and defect/malfunction problems in the Compact MPV segment.

Furthermore, the Soul improves significantly year over year in the Audio/Communication/Entertainment/Navigation category, with a 6.1 PP100 improvement.

The Sportage, Kia’s 5-passenger small crossover SUV, has steadily improved its performance in the Initial Quality Study. With a score of 85 PP100 in the 2016 IQS—outperforming segment average by 33 PP100—the 2016 Kia Sportage ranks highest in its segment and receives an award for the third time in four years. Further, the Sportage has the fewest number of designrelated problems in its segment.

Additionally, the Sportage im-

proves significantly year over year in the Audio/Communication/Entertainment/Navigation category, with an 8.4 PP100 improvement.

The 2016 US Initial Quality Study is based on responses from more than 80,000 purchasers and lessees of new 2016 model-year vehicles surveyed after 90 days of ownership. The study is based on a 233-question battery organised into eight problem categories designed to provide manufacturers with information to facilitate the identification of problems and drive product improvement. The study was fielded from February through May 2016.

MUSCAT: Startup Oman, the Sultanate’s only platform created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and the ‘home of entrepreneurship’ in Oman, is launching the new season of the Caribou Chats - monthly talks for local startups and entrepreneurs.

Caribou Chats is scheduled for August 10 at 6.30pm at Caribou Coffee outlet in Bareeq Al Shatti.

It will feature Saif Al Manji, director of Engineering for Kids, bringing maths, science, technology and engineering to youngsters in a fun environment, and Nabila Al Abri, owner and manager of Cake Heaven, a cake decoration shop, both Omani startups, says a press release.

Even though of very diverse backgrounds, these two entre-

preneurs share the joint path to building a successful business and navigating daily challenges as entrepreneurs.

“We believe it takes a tribe of likeminded individuals to create an entrepreneurial movement and raise a level of the ecosystem as a whole. Caribou Chats is our contribution to the ecosystem, a way to celebrate entrepreneurship and learn from cross industry startups and courageous entrepreneurs,” said Ali Kamal Daud, Startup Oman’s Founder and CEO of the Daud Group of Companies.

Modelled after the famous Kauffman Foundation’s 1 Million Cups Programme, Caribou Chats aims to fully promote the entrepreneurial lifestyle, with all of its daily hurdles and learnings.

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four athletes, two sprinters and two shooters, will be representing Oman at the Games. Wadha will be competing in two shooting events, will start her campaign in the preliminary rounds DREAM PARTICIPATION: Members of the Omani delegation pose for a group in Rio de Janeiro. – Supplied photo

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RIO DE JANEIRO: Omani shooter Wadha Al Balushi will launch the Sultanate’s campaign in the Rio Olympic Games on Sunday.

Wadha is the among the four athletes, two sprinters and two shooters, will be representing Oman at the Games.

Wadha will be competing in two shooting events, 10m air pistol and 25m pistol, and she will start her campaign in the preliminary rounds of the 10m air pistol on Sunday.

“Undoubtedly the participation in Olympic Games is a dream of any athlete in the world in view of the great competition. Here we get to meet the best athletes from around the world,” she said.

“On Sunday, I will start my participation in the 10m air pistol competition and taking on the best shooters of the world,: she added.

Meanwhile, Oman swimming referee Abdulmunim Al Alawi will be officiating in the open water swimming competition which will be a new achievement for Omani sports.

On Friday night, the Sultanate delegation enjoyed their participation in the simple but impressive inaugural ceremony with the shooting ace Hamed Al Khatri carrying the Omani flag and leading the contingent into the famous Maracana Stadium.

The Sultanate’s delegation, headed by Oman Olympic Committee chief Sheikh Khalid Mohammed Al Zubair, includes OOC Secretary-General Taha bin Sulaiman Al Kishry and Kadhim Mohammed Al Balushi (director) and other officials.

Oman will be represented by

Van Avermaet wins men’s road race, Peaty breaks own world RIO DE JANEIRO: Belgium’s Greg van Avermaet won the men’s cycling road race on the first day of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, after a crash on a high-speed descent by leader Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali in the race’s final minutes.

Denmark’s Jakob Fuglsang and Poland’s Rafal Majka took second and third in the 237.5 km course, which featured some 5,000 metres of climbing along the hilly Copacabana coast.

Britain’s Adam Peaty set a world record of 57.55 seconds in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke heats on Saturday, beating his own mark of 57.92 set in London last year.

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American teenager Thrasher wins first gold RIO DE JANEIRO: Unflappable American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women’s 10m air rifle event.

The 19-year-old U.S. college champion edged out China’s Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record score of 208 in the sport’s new finals format.

Defending Olympic champion Yi Siling, also of China, took the bronze medal.

Competing in her first Olympics, Thrasher, as the first champion of the 2016 Games, was awarded her medal by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and said the achievement

two sprinters Barakat Al Harthi and Mazoon Al Alawi and shooters Hamed Said Al Khatri and Wadha Nasseer Al Balushi. The athletes are accompanied by their coaches including Mohammed Al Hooti and shooting team Lieutenant Colonel Rashid Salim Al Balushi, director of shooting team, and Lieutenant Sulaiman Hamed Al Hinaai, shooting team administrator, and Lieutenant Hilal Sultan Al Rasheedi, rifle team coach.

Olympic virtues OOC chief Sheikh Khalid Al

Virginia Thrasher

was beyond her wildest dreams.

The youngest of the eight finalists by several years, Thrasher established an early lead after battling with the Russian shooter Daria Vdovina, who stumbled midway through the competition and finished fifth.

Zubair, after the official inaugural ceremony, said that ‘the participation of the Sultanate in the Olympic Games finds a great support from all in Oman in view of the great importance of the Games’.

Al Zubair pointed to the necessity of Oman’s participation in the Games which prove the keenness of the Sultanate to establish Olympic principles and virtues.

“The Olympic Games and Oman’s participation are a great opportunity for Oman to establish the Sultanate’s position on the world sports map,” he said.

“About halfway through when I took the lead it kind of became clear to me that I was in contention for a medal, but I quickly pushed that thought away and focused on breathing and taking one shot at a time,” Thrasher said.

Thrasher learned to love

He emphasised that ‘Rio Games is considered as a great opportunity to enhance the attendance of the Sultanate in the Olympic Games in view of the development and progress in Oman sport and to achieve this objective, the Sultanate participated with high qualified athletes’.

Wise policies Meanwhile, OOC Secretary-General Taha Al Kishry expressed his ‘trust in the capability of athletes in representing the Sultanate in an honorable way and their eager-

shooting while hunting deer with her grandfather when she was in eighth grade.

“I got my first deer and I liked the adrenaline of pulling the trigger,” she said.

She then joined her high school air rifle team and was recruited by West Virginia University, where she became a national collegiate champion as a freshman this year.

With her non-nonsense style, Thrasher seemed unfazed by her seasoned field and consistently scored in the 10 points target area over the 20 rounds.

Afterwards, she noted that she had not attended the Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday night and had instead gone to bed early for her Olympic debut. - Reuters

ness to raise its flag at the Olympic Games’.

“We are fortunate to have the wise policies of the government which show great interest and give support to youth and sports in Oman,” he said.

Emphasising the importance of Oman’s participation in the Olympic Games, he said: “We hope that this participation will to be distinctive with strong performances and honorable results.”

Taha also urged the Omani participants to endeavour to achieve good results.

Backpack detonated Meanwhile, a loud blast shook the media seats near the finishing line of the men’s cycling road race when Brazil’s bomb squad detonated an unattended backpack on Saturday, amid tight security at South America’s first Games.

A witness reported seeing bomb squad agents in protective clothing operating near the area where media were seated on the boulevard of Copacabana beach. That followed the detonation of another unattended bag near the same spot on Friday evening during the opening ceremony for the Games.

A spokeswoman for the public security department said that officials believe the bag may have belonged to a homeless man, but protocol requires any unattended objects to be destroyed.

The controlled blast occurred at 1:45 p.m. (1645 GMT), the spokeswoman said.

Lorie Schmetterling, who traveled from Moorestown, New Jersey with her husband Eric to cheer on their daughter Laura, who is rowing for the U.S. Olympic team, had not heard the blast but was disturbed to learn it had occurred just a few hundred meters from where she was staying.

“You hear all these terrible things about how it is going to be and then you get here and it seems fine,” she said. “Then this happens and you feel it, you go on high alert again.”

A source said that officials were particularly concerned about this bag because it was close to the Russian hospitality site for the Games. In recent days, bomb squad members have detonated several unattended bags in controlled explosions around Rio amid high security. - Reuters

SIMPLE AND LOW-TECH

Brazil casts aside crisis in rousing Rio Games opening RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.

Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer declared open the first Games ever in South America.

But in a display of the deep political divisions plaguing Brazil, he was jeered by some in the crowd at the famed Maracana soccer stadium.

The opening ceremony was decidedly simple and low-tech, a reflection of Brazil’s tough economic times. In one of the world’s most unequal societies, the spectacle celebrated the culture of the favelas, the slums that hang vertiginously above the renowned beaches of Rio and ring the Maracana.

There was no glossing over history either: from the arrival of the Portuguese and their conquest of the indigenous populations to the use of African slave labour for 400 years. The clash of cultures, as the ceremony showed, is what makes Brazil the complex mosaic that it is.

Home to the Amazon, the

world’s largest rainforest, Brazil used the ceremony to call on the three billion people watching the opening of the world’s premiere sporting event to take care of the planet, plant seeds and protect the verdant land that Europeans found here five centuries ago.

Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, a bronze medallist in Athens in 2004, lit the Olympic cauldron, a small and low-emission model befitting the environmental theme of these Games.

The ‘analogue’ show Unlike the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, a financially constrained Brazil had little choice but to put on a more “analogue” show, with minimal high-tech and a heavy dependence on the vast talent of Brazil and its Carnival party traditions. In the nearly four-hour event, nothing appeared to go awry.

While the Rio 2016 organising committee has not said how much the ceremony cost, it is believed to be about half of the $42 million spent by London in 2012.

The show drew homegrown stars,

The opening ceremony was decidedly simple and low-tech, a reflection of Brazil’s tough economic times. In one of the world’s most unequal societies, the spectacle celebrated the culture of the favelas, the slums that hang vertiginously above the renowned beaches of Rio and ring the Maracana

like supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who walked across the stadium to the sound of bossa nova hit “Girl from Ipanema” and tropicalia legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Everyone performed for free.

Loud cheering erupted when two of the last teams entered the stadium: the first Refugee team in Olympic history and finally a samba-dancing Brazil contingent.

The joyful opening contrasted with months of turmoil and chaos, not only in the organisation of the Olympics but across Brazil as it endures its worst economic reces-

sion in decades and a deep political crisis. Temer, flanked by dozens of heads of state, played a minor role in the ceremony, speaking just a few words.

The leader who was supposed to preside over the Games, President Dilma Rousseff, was suspended last May to face an impeachment trial and tweeted that she was “sad to not be at the party.”

The $12 billion price tag to organise the Games has aggrieved many in the nation of 200 million and in Rio, where few can see the benefits of the spectacle or even

afford to attend the Games. Due to Brazil’s most intense security operation ever, some among the 50,000 attendees faced two-hour-long lines as Brazil staged its most intense security operation ever.

People on the periphery The creative minds behind the opening ceremony were determined to put on a show that would not offend a country in dire economic straits but would showcase the famously upbeat nature of Brazilians.

It started with the beginning of life itself in Brazil, and the population that formed in the vast forests and built their communal huts, the ocas. The Portuguese bobbed to shore in boats, the African slaves rolled in on wheels and together they ploughed through the forests and planted the seeds of modern Brazil.

“They’re talking about slavery?

Wow,” said Bryan Hossy, a black Brazilian who watched the ceremony in a bar in Copacabana.

“They have to talk about that. It’s our story.”

The mega-cities of Brazil formed in a dizzying video display as acrobats jumped from roof to roof of

emerging buildings and then on to the steep favela that served as the front stage for the ceremony.

From the favela came Brazilian funk, a contemporary mash-up of 20th century rhythms, sung by stars Karol Conka and 12-year-old rapper MC Soffia.

“This is a conquest. The people on the periphery are having an influence, it’s a recognition of their art,” said Eduardo Alves, director of social watchdog Observatorio de Favelas.

Before the entry of a few thousand of the 11,000 athletes that will be competing in the Games, the playful rhythms of the ceremony gave way to a sober message about climate change and rampant deforestation of the Amazon.

Each athlete will be asked to plant seeds that will eventually grow into trees and be planted in Rio in a few years.

The party wrapped up with a rousing parade of the city’s samba schools that compete in Carnival.

Hundreds of drummers donned their colours and played out Brazil’s trademark beat, as athletes from over 200 countries tried out their first steps of samba. - Reuters

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New Zealand 1st innings M. Guptill lbw Tiripano 87 T. Latham c&b Williams 136 K. Williamson not out 95 Extras (b-4, nb-7) 11 Total (2 wkts, 89.5 overs) 329 Fall of wickets: 1-169, 2-329. o bat: R. Taylor, H. Nicholls, M. Santner, B. Watling, I. Sodhi, T. Southee, N. Wagner, T. Boult Bowling: D. Tiripano 14-3-58-1 (nb-5); M. Chinouya 15-5-43-0; C. Chibhabha 9-2-300 (nb-1); G. Cremer 25-1-108-0 (nb-1); J. Nyumbu 22-1-63-0; S. Williams 2.5-0-15-1; S. Raza 2-0-8-0.

Latham, who made 105 in the first Test, scored 136 before being caught and bowled in the last over of the day by part-timer spinner Sean Williams

BULAWAYO: Tom Latham scored a century for a second successive match as New Zealand pulverised the home bowling to finish on 329 for two on the first day of the second Test against Zimbabwe on Saturday.

Latham, who made 105 in the first Test, scored 136 before being caught and bowled in the last over of the day by part-timer spinner Sean Williams.

Captain Kane Williamson, playing his 50th Test, will start on Sunday five runs short of his century and

TWO IN A ROW: New Zealand’s Tom Latham celebrates after com-

pleting his century during the first day of their second Test against Zimbabwe at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Saturday. – AFP

completing a record of tons against each of the Test playing nations.

Martin Guptill was the first man out, trapped lbw to a full delivery from Donald Tiripano. Guptill went for 87 after sharing an aggressive opening partnership of

167 with Latham on a slow wicket after Williamson won the toss.

Latham’s century came up off 190 balls and he continued to look comfortable until the penultimate delivery of the day when he spooned the ball back to Williams.

The partnership for the second wicket was worth 160 runs.

Zimbabwe’s bowlers proved wayward, allowing the visitors to set up a consistent scoring rate and dominate proceedings.

Spinner Graeme Cremer took the most punishment as he went for 108 runs in his 25 overs as the track failed to provide any turn.

New Zealand won the first Test at the same venue by an innings and 117 runs inside four days, scoring 576 for six. The series is being played over two matches and marks a first Test in 20 months for the Zimbabweans. - Reuters

FOOTBALL

‘Real cannot afford Pogba’ MADRID: French star midfielder Paul Pogba’s impending move to Manchester United is likely to mean Real Madrid cannot afford to sign him, according to the Spanish football club’s former president Ramon Calderon.

The Juventus footballer, 23, is reportedly on the brink of rejoining United — who he left in 2012.

Real Madrid was believed to be the other candidate for Pogba’s

signature and Calderon claimed they have either been priced out or rejected by the France star.

“It looks like he will end up at Manchester United. If we bear in mind how Real’s president usually does things and the fact Zinedine Zidane wanted this player in his squad — well, either Real don’t have enough money to pay or the player doesn’t want to go there and prefers United.” - IANS

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t the end of play on the fifth day of the second Test at Sabina Park, Roston Chase walked back to the dressing room with a stump in hand as Jason Holder galloped behind the hero applauding, leaving Virat Kohli feeling the urge to switch himself from chirping at Chase to doffing his hat to the West Indian fighters.

That was nothing like what Neil Armstrong felt on July 20, 1969, walking on the moon, but it was, under the circumstances, a giant step taken by the beleaguered West Indies.

And a humbling step back in the wrong, old, ill-trodden direction by the Indian squad even before Kohli’s now-isour-time-to-dominate hyperbole after the victory at Antigua had barely died down.

What went wrong for the Indians? Of course, “if five bowlers have given their best, and the opposition have done well, you just doff your hat to them”, but the question is not about whether the bowlers gave their best, but about the collective Indian failure to convert the morethan-a-half chance.

Obviously and unfortunately, the Indian plan revolved around a ridiculous belief that the West Indians were going to gift their wickets. They didn’t get the message even when Mohammed Shami was treated with contempt by Jermaine Blackwood.

Ishat Sharma got stuck on the wide outside off stump line. He landed every ball in his first over of the fifth day morning wide outside off stump, and the West Indians were

happily watching the balls going past them innocently. You cannot expect a team batting for survival to reach out to balls beyond the sixth stump and nick them to slips.

It was not about giving their best, but about going completely brainless when the normal ways failed to unsettle Blackwood and Chase.

Almost all the balls bowled

by Umesh Yadav in his first over were short of a length, and Chase ducked and dodged, safe and elegant. Still, Yadav kept on bowling short, wasting the precious time on hand to get the batsmen to play and commit mistakes.

By the time Ravichandran Ashwin was brought into the attack, Chase and Blackwood were a transformed lot.

The hunted became the hunters. The curious, conspicuous image of Ashwin, in his first over of the day, holding out his left hand spontaneously and withdrawing it reflexively as a Blackwood straight hit came at him like a bullet, summed up the West Indian mood and the Indian mindset.

Right before the start of the second Test weather forecasts hinted at chances of rains for five days, but the Indian team didn’t have a plan in place even when rainclouds gathered ominously over Sabina Park.

On the other hand, Holder seemed to have looked up to the sky as soon as they were bundled out on day one.

Anil Kumble says “you can’t really look at weather forecasts and take decisions”. Well, that’s what the West Indies did to put the sunshine back on their lips.

The writer is a freelance contributor based in India. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of Times of Oman

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Messi tops Bauza’s agenda BUENOS AIRES: New Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza believes a softy, softly approach is the way to try to bring talisman Lionel Messi back into the national team.

Bauza, officially unveiled as Gerardo Martino’s successor at Argentine FA headquarters on Friday, said he would seek to speak with retired captain Messi in Barcelona next week. “My sole intention is to see if I can talk about football with Messi... and from that chat will come the possibility of him being called up to play Argentina’s next games,” Bauza said.

Less than a month after Bauza took charge, Argentina face 2018 World Cup qualifiers at home to Uruguay and away to Venezuela in the first week of September.

“I want to tell him my idea and for him to tell me how things are with him and then we’ll see what comes out of it,” Bauza said.

Messi quit the team after his fourth major final defeat with Argentina, and third as their captain, at the Copa America in the United States in June.

There is a widespread belief that the 29-year-old will revise a decision he took in the heat of the moment and look to try and take part in a fourth World Cup in Russia in 2018.

Bauza, a lanky former central defender who has won the Copa Libertadores twice as a coach, said he understood Messi’s reaction to a second successive Copa America final defeat on penalties against Chile. - Reuters

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SPORTS Perera wrecks Australia as Sri Lanka seal series claimed six for 70 as the world’s topranked Test team folded for 183 in their pursuit of an improbable 413-run victory target EMPHATIC WIN: Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath, left, Dilruwan Perera, centre, and team members

acknowledge the crowd as they celebrate their victory in their second Test match against Australia at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle on Saturday. – AFP SCOREBOARD

Sri Lanka 1st innings: 281 Australia 1st innings: 106 Sri Lanka 2nd innings: 237 Australia 2nd innings D. Warner lbw D. Perera J. Burns c D. de Silva b Herath N. Lyon c K. Silva b D. Perera U. Khawaja b D. Perera S. Smith c K. Mendis b D. Perera A. Voges b D. Perera M. Marsh lbw Sandakan

41 2 0 0 30 28 18

tumble on the first two days.

“After winning the toss, we had to put a decent score on the board and once again it was a special effort by Kusal Mendis and what a performance Dilruwan came up with,” he said.

Resuming day three on 25 for three, Australia captain Steve Smith (30) and deputy David

P. Nevill run out 24 M. Starc b Herath 26 J. Hazlewood cb D. Perera 7 J. Holland (not out) 0 Extras (lb-7) 7 Total (all out, 50.1 overs) 183 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-10, 3-10, 4-61, 5-80, 6-119, 7-123, 8-164, 9-181.

Bowling: R. Herath 19.1-1-74-2; D. Perera 23-5-70-6; L. Sandakan 6-1-30-1; D. de Silva 2-0-2-0.

Warner (41) showed positive intent, frequently using their feet against the spinners even though they were merely delaying a defeat that looked inevitable.

Perera separated them when he trapped Warner leg-before with a straight delivery. The batsman reviewed the decision but could not get it overturned.

FOOTBALL

Ibrahimovic wants winning start to Man United career LONDON: Zlatan Ibrahimovic has predicted that he will begin his Manchester United career with a trophy when the team meet Leicester City in the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday.

“I’m used to winning trophies; I didn’t come here to waste time,” said Ibrahimovic, who is in line to make his competitive debut for United after joining them on a free transfer from Paris StGermain in July, having enjoyed a trophy-laden career to date.

The 34-year-old Swede plans to set the tone for what he hopes will be a successful spell at Old Trafford and help the FA Cup holders to get Jose Mourinho’s reign off to a winning start against the Premier League champions.

“That is the first trophy we will bring home,” he said. “For me, every trophy is very serious. I have collected 30 trophies and I want to collect more of them. I’m not satisfied until I collect everything.

“I didn’t come here to lose time,”

City announce Moreno signing LONDON: Manchester City have completed the signing of 19-year-old Colombia international Marlos Moreno from Atletico Nacional, the Premier League side said on Saturday.

Moreno, who has signed a five-year contract with City, now moves to La Liga side Deportivo La Coruna on loan until the end of the current season.

No fee was disclosed although local media reports said City had agreed a deal of some £4.75 million ($6.21 million).

“Marlos is an excellent prospect who has already broken into

The 34-year-old

GALLE: Dilruwan Perera laid bare Australia’s spin frailties again on Saturday to spin Sri Lanka to a series-clinching 229-run victory inside three days of the second Test in Galle.

The 34-year-old claimed six for 70 as the world’s top-ranked Test team folded for 183 in their pursuit of an improbable 413-run victory target.

The off-spinner became the first Sri Lankan player to score a 50 and claim 10 wickets in the same match as the hosts clinched their first Test series victory over Australia since 1999. Perera also became the fastest Sri Lankan to claim 50 Test wickets, achieving the feat in his 11th match, and won the man-of-the-match award for his all-round brilliance.

“Not too many teams do this to the number one team,” home captain Angelo Mathews said after his team prevailed in the bowler-dominated contest that saw 33 wickets

FOOTBALL

USED TO WINNING: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

the former AC Milan striker continued. “I came here to win. I believe the philosophy is the same for the club, especially a club like this. They are made to win.”

Last season, Ibrahimovic helped PSG to win a second successive domestic treble, winning Ligue 1, the French Cup and the French League Cup. - Reuters

Tremendous reflexes The spinner then returned to induce Smith into giving a bat-pad catch to Kausal Silva at forward short leg and went on to complete his five-wicket haul when Adam Voges (28) attempted a reverse sweep only to have his leg stump pegged back.

Mendis displayed tremendous reflexes as he stopped a Peter Nevill shot at forward short leg and flicked it back on the stumps to run out the batsman and trigger wild celebrations at the Galle International Stadium.

Sri Lankan spinners claimed 18 wickets of the 20 Australian wickets to fall in the contest, underlying the touristing team’s struggle on turning tracks.

The teams now move to Colombo for the third and final Test from next Saturday. - Reuters

his national team,” Manchester City Director of Football Txiki Begiristain told the club website.

Versatile player “He’s a versatile player, still learning, but we believe he has a fantastic future in the game and with City.

“He makes and scores goals and is an intelligent footballer, we’re delighted to have signed him.”

Moreno shone in Atletico Nacional’s Copa Liberatadores-winning campaign last season and made his international debut for Colombia in March 2015. - Reuters

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Paes-Bopanna ousted, legend’s second medal dream shattered

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Playing in his record

Youngest U.S. Olympian Kanak Jha fails to clear first hurdle

seventh and probably his last Olympics, Paes — a bronze medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games, saw his campaign get over in only 84 minutes

RIO DE JANEIRO: Leander Paes’s dreams of winning a second Olympic medal went up in smoke as he and Rohan Bopanna made an inglorious exit in the opening round of the men’s doubles competition, losing in straight sets to the Polish pair of Marcin Matkowski and Lukasz Kubot 4-6, 6-7 (6-8) on Saturday.

Playing in his record seventh and probably his last Olympics, Paes — a bronze medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games, saw his campaign get over in only 84 minutes as not for once did the Indian pair look like having forged a winning combination.

The controversies leading up to the first round match also did not do any good to the pair as there was a distinct lack of on-court chemistry between them.

Ironically, at 43 Paes has possibly played his last Olympic match and too bad that it ended in whimper within two days of his arrival in the Brazilian city despite the bang that it created due to the offcourt events in the lead up to the quadrennial extravaganza.

Questions being raised about Paes’ delay in joining the squad after playing World Team Tennis and subsequent reports of not getting a bed in the earmarked apartment in the Games Village only made the matters worse.

To top it, there was one practice session where the duo were hardly seen talking to each other.

The duo were broken thrice in the first set even after being a break up. Up 4-3, after having broken Matkowski-Kubot twice, Paes’s serve was broken as they made it 4-4.

It was the first serve that did

EARLY EXIT: India’s Leander Paes, left, speaks to teammate Rohan Bopanna during their men’s first round doubles tennis match at the Olympic Tennis Centre of the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. – AFP

Indina hockey team win on mixed day for the country RIO DE JANEIRO: India had a mixed day at the Rio Olympics on Saturday with the men’s hockey team and rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal tasting success while the women shooters and paddlers and the tennis duo of Leander Paes and Bopanna proved to be a disappointment.

India began their men’s hockey campaign with a morale boosting 3-2 win against Ireland in their opening pool encounter.

Rupinder Pal Singh (27th and 49th minutes) scored a brace while V.R. Raghunath (15th) opened the scoring for the eight time gold medallists.

dump the Indian pair as their success percentage was a mere 48 during the 32 minutes of the first set. Kubot then held his serve making it 5-4 before Bopanna failed to hold his serve, thereby conceding the first set 6-4.

John Jermyn (45th) and Conor Harte (55th) reduced the margin for the Irishmen in the Pool B match. India’s next match is against two-time defending champions Germany on Monday.

Earlier in the day, Bhokanal produced a pleasant surprise in the men’s single sculls event as he reached the quarter-finals after finishing third in his heat.

In the first heat of the day, the 25-year-old from the Indian Army finished the 2000-metre race in seven minutes and 21.67 seconds at the Lagoa Stadium.

The Maharashtra lad is the sole Indian to have qualified for the rowing events. He was

Paes-Bopanna fought well for the initial period in the second set as each pair held serve till the 10th game. In the 11th game, the Indian pair broke the opponents’ serve to make it 6-5 only for Bopanna to lose his serve in the very next game

in second place for the first 500 metres of the race, but started to lag behind once Juan Carlos of Mexico in the second lane picked up pace around the 700m mark. Cuba’s Angel Fournier Rodriguez finished first clocking 7:06.89 followed

by Carlos (7:08.27).

At the shooting ranges, Apurvi Chandela and Ayonika Paul crashed out after losing in the quarterfinals of the women’s 10 metre air rifle event.

Apurvi was placed in the 34th position with a combined score of 411.6 while Ayonika was 43rd with 407.0 among 51 shooters at the Olympic Shooting Centre.

making it 6-6 and taking the set to the tie-breaker.

In the tie-breaker, the Polish pair managed a mini-break as they took a 4-1 lead. The Indians then held onto their next two service points to make it 3-4 before getting

China’s Du Li entered the quarterfinals, bagging the top spot with a score of 420.7, setting a new Olympic record at the event. Germany’s Barbara Engleder took the second spot with 420.3 while Iran’s Elaheh Ahmadi was third with 417.8.

Apart from the top three, a Russian, two Americans, a Croatian and another Chinese shooter completed the top eight line-up.

In table tennis, Mouma Das crashed out in the first round of the women’s singles after a rather one-sided 2-11, 7-11, 7-11, 3-11 loss to Daniela Monteiro Dodean of Romania. - IANS

a mini-break, making it 4-4.

The match was on even keel as another mini-break got the Indian pair at 6-5 before the Polish duo reeled off three straight points, including the match-point on the opponent’s serve. - PTI

RIO DE JANEIRO: The United States’ youngest Olympian Kanak Jha was knocked out of the men’s table tennis on the opening day, after losing his singles clash with Iran’s Nima Alamian on Saturday.

The quick-footed 16-year-old, the first member of the United States’ Olympic team to be born in the 2000s, put up a fight against his world No. 111 ranked opponent in the last three games but eventually succumbed 4-1 in the preliminary round.

“The last three games were all very close games, I had chances in all of them, (but)...especially when it’s close like 9-9, 10-10, I’m a little more nervous, and then he was attacking more in those moments,” he told reporters.

Jha has become a poster boy of a new generation of table tennis players in the United States, which has struggled to develop competitive talent in the sport.

Massimo Costantini, the U.S. table tennis team’s coach, said Jha had become nervous after his match was delayed, and his lack of experience had caused him to make some “naive choices” and mistakes that cost him the game.

“We are confident that being 16 years old and having played his first Olympics, he will build hopes for the future,” he said of Jha, who currently ranks 275.

Jha will still compete in the men’s team event which begins on August 13.

Crowds in the half-filled table tennis venue waved Brazilian flags, with the loudest cheers saved for Latin American competitors and the home team.

In the women’s singles category, Melissa Tapper, who is first Australian to compete in the Olympics and Paralympics, was knocked out in the preliminary round after losing 4-2 to Brazil’s Caroline Kumahara. - Reuters

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Bairstow and Moeen put England in control BIRMINGHAM: Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali shared an unbroken partnership of 132 to lift England to 414 for five and a lead of 311 runs over Pakistan on the fourth day of the third Test at Edgbaston on Saturday.

Bairstow was unbeaten on 82 and Moeen 60 not out at the close with England in a good position to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series if they can bowl out the touring side on the final day.

After resuming on 120 for no wicket, England lost captain Alastair Cook for 66, driving a wide ball from Sohail Khan to point where Yasir Shah took a fine diving catch.

Alex Hales, on 54, then edged Mohammed Amir to Younis Khan at second slip and with the Pakistan seamers bowling wide of off stump to restrict the scoring rate,

SCOREBOARD

England 1st innings: 297 Pakistan 1st innings: 400 England 2nd innings A. Cook c Shah b S. Khan A. Hales c Y. Khan b Amir J. Root c Hafeez b Shah J. Vince c Y. Khan b Amir G. Ballance c Shafiq b Shah J. Bairstow (not out)

66 54 62 42 28 82

Joe Root and James Vince cautiously took the total to 183 for two at lunch. Root, struggling with a back problem and dropped on 25, made 62 before he top-edged Shah to short fine leg.

Vince was eight runs short of his first Test half century when he hung his bat out to a wide ball from Amir and Younis took another neat slip catch.

M. Ali (not out) 60 Extras (b-4, lb-7, nb-8, w-1) 20 Total (5 wkts, 125 overs) 414 Fall of wickets: 1-126, 2-126, 3-221, 4-257, 5-282.

Bowling: M. Amir 30-8-73-2 (w-1); S. Khan 27-3-102-1 (nb-8); R. Ali 21-8-54-0; Y. Shah 42-4-152-2; A. Ali 5-0-22-0.

Gary Ballance made a patient 28 before he turned a ball from Shah to Asad Shafiq at leg slip but the arrival of Moeen at the crease changed the tempo of the game.

Bairstow went on the attack and reached his eighth Test fifty, off 83 balls, while Moeen displayed his full repertoire of wristy strokes and hit eight fours in a sparkling knock. - Reuters

SPLENDID PARTNERSHIP: England’s Jonny Bairstow, right, and Moeen Ali shake hands during the fourth day of their third Test against Pakistan at Edgbaston on Saturday. – Reuters

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Flats in Al Wadi Al Kabeer near to Al Kuwaiti Mosque.

Contact : 99428958

3 bedroom flat in Wadi Kabeer, 2 bed room villa in Sidab.

Contact : 95755953 / 95555162 30 New Deluxe Flats & Shops in Al Khoud. Contact 99738881 Room for rent near Al Daser Rex road Ruwi. Contact: 92099367 /99797645 2BHK spacious room available in Al Khuwair behind Zawawi Mosque/Rotana Hotel.

Contact 99590942 Furnished room in CBD for Executive bachelors WIFI free, advance deposit. Contact: 90631572 2 BHK Flat in Darsait, Near ISM. Contact 99792181

1 room with A/C, big hall and toilet and one kitchen in Wada Adai. Contact: 96348654 Flats in Al Khuwair, Al Bustan, Azaiba, Wadi Kabeer, Darsait, Hamirya, Al Hail & Seeb.

Contact: 24182000 / 95250300 / 99110600 4 BHK villa Qurum 550/-.

Contact: 92230462 / 92144645 1,2,3 BHK Flats & villas.

Contact: 92230462 / 92144645 Single flat for rent in Darsait near Indian School. Contact: 95453813 / 95806611

3 bedroom well maintained flat (villa Type - only 2 flats in one bldg) in Al Khuwair, behind Al Akhtam Restaurant Villa No1839, Way No 3922, Block No 239.

Contact: 99253125 Commercial space for rent 90 Sq. meter office space in Ghala, fully furnished with A/C, gents & ladies toilet, pantry and car park available for immediate rent.

Contact: 24502820 Email: omsc@omzest.com 2BHK near CBD and Star Cinema.

Contact: 99233116 3BHK Al Khuwair. Contact : 99024730

1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense) Contact: 93202733 / 94771769

2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir, behind Pioneer Hotel Apartment.

Contact 99261522 / 99857332

Spacious 4 BHK with split A/Cs 4 Bathrooms and storeroom near Church roundabout Mumtaz area rent R.O 550. Contact: 99349672

Spacious 3 BHK apartment + store room with split A/C Al Seeb, Mabelah South near Goat market, near Expressway R.O 320 negotiable. Contact: 96920789 / 98309890

Flats for rent near Indian School in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122 Studio Al Khuwair R.O 175/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 Room Al Khuwair free 4.5, R.O 110/-. Contact: 97799175 / 99138696 1BHK Ghubra 240/-. Contact: 921144045 / 92230462 2 BHK Ghubra R.O 300/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 Flat for rent in Darsait nr Indian School with 2 room & kitchen.

Contact: 92245110 / 98191919 3 BHK Al Khuwair R.O 350/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 3 BHK flat in Azaiba, opp. Sultan Centre. Contact 99261522 / 99857332 I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O. 175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/ Very big sitting area/ kitchen - Villa 1st floor with A/C at Al Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.

R.O 360/-For families. Contact: 94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm. Email – forrentksd@gmail.com

Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm show rooms for rent 400/- R.O. Contact: 99879939 Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room, hall. Contact: 90991079 Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM muscat Indian Scoole Darsate Tel : 00 968 95158570 Flat with 2 room + kitchen +hall, 3 toilets in al Quram Breeiq Al Shatti RO 650. Contact 99738881 / 99314314 Two bedrooms flat behind German Embassy near to Al Nahda Hospital. Contact: 99209354 Open land farm of around 40 thousand sq m2 at a good location near to Rusayl for rent or waiver at a very attractive rate. Good for farm or camp. Fr more info pls contact 93692228 / 91155779

Flats, shops & store for rent in MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127 Flats for rent in Mumtaz, 2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352 building no. 3447 & 3668.

Contact: 90991079 1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100, 2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331 Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall 4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3 floor 400. Contact 99420346 2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK. 97826454, 24815012.

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah 3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580 Furnished office (61M2) for sale / rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi Mosque. Contact: 95611569 Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid. Contact 97007934 / 92629232 Warehouse at Wadikabir - total area 3500 sqm - covered warehouse (500sqm), office, accommodation (1000sqm), open area (2000sqm) please contact: 99273774 - 99202278 Flats for rent South Al Mabela.

Contact: 95233117 / 95230355

BUYING

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly & 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly new building good location Barka Market. contact 99342661

Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms & hall. Contact: 91763665

Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

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Required urgently

Factory Shed For Reputed Manufacturing Company Measuring 10,000 Sq. Meters Within Rusayl to Barka Interested Parties may contact

FOR SALE SHUTTERING PLYWOOD SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM

(+968)92730736

GSM: 92835445,93205253,93205423

ACC. AVAILABLE

FOR SALE Coffee shop near Al Sarooj “Turkish Shawarma & Grill “ at the prime location for sale. Contact: 94034778 / 94034731

Dental chairs for sale sparingly used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284

Restaurant sale: at prime location in Sohar. Newly built with sitting capacity of 80+ persons. Ready with visas. Contact : 94400478

Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 / What`s up No 97290565

Ice cream shop. Prime location, Ruwi for sale. Contact: 92150455 Ladies beauty parlour for sale near ROP Building Honda road Ruwi. Contact: 98746259 / 96713752 / 92486412 Coffee shop for sale at Al Khuwair 33. Contact: 92994415 Building in Al Khuwair for sale, also we have in Ghala, Al Hail, Al Khoudh 6, Mabella.

Contact: 91155779 Mabellah industrial land 6000 sqm for sale. Contact: 91155779 Farm in Barka for sale.

Contact: 91155779 Hotel apartment in Mawaleh for sale. Contact: 91155779 Economical villa consist of 16 room in Al Hail North suitable for School or Staff accommodation.

Contact: 91155779 5 BHK villa at AL Khuwair 17/1 R.O 135/- thousands.

Contact: 98802280 3BHK flat Qurum R.O 75/- thousands. Contact: 98802280

Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale.Contact 99273774/ 99202278 Restaurant for sale heart of Ruwi.

Contact 93687466

Furnished room in ruwi and azaiba for rent for executive bachelors. Gsm 99058344 One very spacious 1 BHK Flat available for rent @R.O. 275/- at Ruwi (Grand Hypermarket Building), near Sultan Qaboos Mosque, from 1st Sep 2016.

Contact: 97237595 Furnished apartment for rent, two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

One single furnished room with attached bathroom required for a Indian decent Executive bachelor non cooking, in MBD, CBD, Rex road, Ruwi, Hamriya Area.

Contact 96328687

Almost new beach/ garden lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Ex bachelor or couple room in Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99014325 / 91165580

Shop for sale near Oman House, Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Furnished room available with attached bath & balcony near MBD area. Contact: 95031132

2010 Pajero KMS 59,000, excellent condition fully automatic sun roof. Contact: 99354340

A big room available near Hamriya round about for Muslim couple / small family / Executive bachelor rent 125/- per month including W+E. Contac: 99495131

Sportage model 2012, Corolla 1.6, 2013, Mazda 6 2012, Mitsubishi pick up diesel 2011 4WD. Contact: 96565082 / 99839898

WANTED Urgently required looking to immediately buy used Grit blasting & airless spray equipment 1 No each. Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772 / 93203773 / 93203778 IELTS Coaching (academic) required nearby wadi Kabir area. Please call on mobile or msg on Whats up. Contact 92927880/99012165

ACC. AVAILABLE

Furnished unfurnished room for rent at Mumtaz area.

Contact: 95212017 Large room, furnished sep/ entrance, Wadi Kabir Executives.

Contact: 99336206 Spacious semi furnished room with separate bathroom for Executive bachelor Opp. O.C. Centre Ruwi . Call : 90611670 Room with attached bathroom for a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 97167857

1No brand new containerized package type STP 100 m3/ day with blower equipments (suitable for camps). Serious Buyers may.

Contact: 99445367

Furnish bedroom with attach bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

1 BHK appartment for rent in Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque for rent (next to alkhoud medical center and squ) MOB: 93913224

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

ACC. WANTED

Space for printing press available at wadikabir with or without machinery. Contact 99328430

Furnished room attached bath for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near Mars hypermarket. Contact: 96202458/96761960

Beauty Saloon for sale, next to Wedding hall, Amerat. #99609265

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

Sharing accommodation available for an Executive Bachelor in Al Khuwair (near Zawawi Mosque).

Contact 92138451.

10000 meter land commercial in Ghala, opposite Turkey Block factory. Contact: 95621079

Kids & women cloth, shoes accessory shop in Al Khoud.

Contact: 91121277

AVAILABLE

Room available for Executive bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708 Room, bath room for executives in Wadi kabir.

Contact 99336206 Room with attached bathroom and sharing kitchen available for Executive bachelor or small family at wadikabir.

Contact 93049849 Sharing accommodation near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Sharing Accommodation available for working ladies opposite Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably Indians. Room with seperate toilet and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact: 96524717 Furnished room with bathroom at Darsait. Contact: 93289652 Room available in Mumtaz area 1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room, common bathroom. Interested please contact 92680041 Mr. Altaf

MV SALE

2013 Lexus GS 350, Single Owner, No Accident,45 000km,Black.

Contact 98960915 Kia Sportage, 2008 4 CYL, excelent condition. Contact 99378397 Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive insurance UAE / Oman. Contact: 96995430

GOOD NEWS Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis, massage, steam bath, obesity, Spondylitis. Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic, 18 November Street, Ghubra.

Contact: 99639695 / 97397320 Car care - care for your car.

Stop worrying about your car.

Enjoy your vacation peacefully.

Here is a solution for safe parking and cleaning your car when you are away on vacation. Taking very good care of your car, trust us.

Contact: 96964767

TRANSPORTATION

Pure VEG coffee shop open 3/8/16 Dabeli, VADA PAV, PAV Bhaji many more at Al Khuwair near Rawasco behind NBO. Contact 99066469 / 96951587 Ayurvedic treatments & massage – Ayurvedic Clinic Al Khuwair.

Contact 97263637 / 93309131 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact: 24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com

CHANGE OF NAME

Transport. Contact: 99542393 Azaiba, Al Khuwair, Qurum, Ghala & Ruwi. Contact: 97424997 Transportation. Contact: 98522914

2015 Chrysler 300 S ,Special Edition, Hard to find,19000 km, single owner, No Accident, beautiful Red, Full option. Contact 98960915

Transportation Engage.

Contact: 92711421

Lexus 350. Model 2014, single Expat driving,180,000 km. agency full service. Light blue. Interested parties may contact : 24790420 / 99057290 / 99854899 / 99245434. Sealed offer should be submitted on or before 11th August, Ruwi, Office.

Transportation. Contact: 91310107

2012 Camry GL, 56000 km.

Contact: 98054940

Transportation available Ruwi to Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation. Contact: 98657739

Transportation. Contact: 94510847 Transportation available Al Khuwair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al Khoud. Drop & pick.

Contact 95250161

2015 Toyota Camry SE, single Owner, No Accident 27000 km, All power. Contact 98960915

Transportation. Contact 99508282

2015 Mazda 3i Sport, Single owner, No Accident, 22000 km,2.0 Engine. Contact 98960915

Transportation required from Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Toyota Corolla 2012 Automatic Reg. upto 2017, R.O 2900/- negotiable. Contact: 92703319

Transportation. Contact 92015894 Transportation. Contact 94510847

We RAKESH RANJAN (Name of father as per the passport, holder of Indian Passport No. Z2676965) and ANURANJANA (Name of mother as per the passport, holder of Indian Passport No. M9594441) having permanent address in B/25, Phase-2, TCL Township, Tata Chemicals Ltd., Babrala, UP. (complete postal address in India) and presently residing at the following address in Sohar, Al Falaj, P.B. No. 404, P.C. No. 322 Sultanate of Oman, hereby solemnly affirm and declare to change the name of our child Master ARYAN (Name as per passport) holder of Indian Passport No. M9594366 date of issue 17/02/2016 issued at MUSCAT. The name of our child will be henceforth known as ARYAN RANJAN (New name) for all purpose. Any objection towards change of name of our minor child may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P.Box No. 1727, Postal Code 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

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SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT

REQUIRED AN AUDITOR With 6 years of experience.

The candidates should be a commerce graduate experienced in auditing.

Interested candidates may mail their CV’s to: auditbureau2016@gmail.com

SITUATION VACANT Leading MEP contracting company looking for following experienced hands DCRP licensed Electricians DCRP licnesed Cable Jointers

Minimum 4 years in Oman is preferred.

Kindly send your CV to hr.green.mct@gmail.com

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Required Urgently Female

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With well versed experience in retail business/inventory control preferably in the cosmetic and beauty SPA and saloon industry.

for a fast growing Aluminium & Glass Workshop ŝŶ DƵƐĐĂƚ͘ Send CV to ĚLJŶĂŵŝĐŝĐŽŵΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ

ACCOUNTANT

Required male, female GP, Dentist, Administrator, Nurses, Pharmacist, Lab Technician for a Polyclinic at Ibra.

Contact 71100596, joharaajmail2016@gmail.com

WANTED Female Gynaecologist, Female GP- Two Female Staff Nurse (From India or Pilipino)and One Female Dental Assist and Female Lab Technician.

With MOH Licence and Data Flow for Al Saadi Specilised Medical Centre, Musanna.

Contact # 92025033, Email : dr.srininvas76@gmail.com

Please send your C.V to saadest@omantel.net.om

MARKETING EXECUTIVE REQUIRED Wanted Executive for Marketing lights & lighting control system.

Candidate must have minimum 5 years experience in similar field & valid GCC license.

Contact 71108232, Email : lightingvaccancy@gmail.com

MARKETING MANAGER With minimum 5 years experience in Stainless Steel & Aluminum Fabrication Industry.

Mail resume to:

alarzaqunited@gmail.com ACCOUNTS A construction company requires Accountant, minimum 5 years experience in construction field of accounts and who can independently will be plus point with release letter .

Apply with bio data to Email: tec_oman@hotmail.com Contact: 99339661

Require Candidates with excellent accounting skills. Candidates may send their resume at hanifbaig1@gmail.com or Contact: 90938452 An Omani Audit firm is seeking audit partner to join the firm, the candidate should be completed any certificate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC, and 4 years’ experience, interested candidates to submit their CVs to : auditbureau2016@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELPER Housemaid wanted to care for children and home. Accommodation provided. Call 95123244 House maid for Omani family.

Contact: 99773100

DRIVER Wanted Driver for heavy (sewage vehicle) and light vehicle with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 97991654 / 97991652 Kindly send CV at Email: construction@remasalseeb. com / remaschandran2020@ gmail.com Required Omani Driver for a restaurant. Contact 95929911

IT ENGINEER REQUIRED

with 3-5 years experience preferably in &D ' ŝŶĚƵƐƚƌLJ ƐŚŽƵůĚ ďĞ ƉƌŽĮ ĐŝĞŶƚ ŝŶ dĂůůLJ͘ ĂŶĚŝĚĂƚĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƌĞůĞĂƐĞ ͬ EK ŵĂLJ ĂƉƉůLJ͘ Please send CVs to

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Send CV to hr@unitedsystemsit.com Required Electrical B.Tech with 5 years of Oman experience & D/L. Electrical with ITI -Industrial & MEDC license. Contact: 99454425 Ducted A/C Mechanic & duct fabricator. Visa available package depends on skill. Contact: 99050954

IT Require experienced Customer Service (Omani – Pilipino lady), IT Executive and Graphic designer. Send CV to Email: eacmd@omanmcc.com Required Shop Sales man + Hardware Technician for IT Company with minimum 2 years experience.

Contact: 98825806 / 98825806, Email: info@rns-group.com

MISCELLANEOUS

Required English, computer and science female Teachers up to grad 4. Contact 95054916, Email:aa77345@gmail.com.time after 5PM

MEDICAL Immediately required an Indian Medical Practitioner with license for a well established clinic in Barka. Contact : 99474954 Urgently required Internist, male Nurse, Orthodontist for a reputed Medical Center in Salalah .

Email: hrmdimc2010@gmail.com Looking for Indian female marketing lady with journalistic, advertising & media background.

Contact 93946622 Email: ali.matani2@gmail.com Wanted Staff Nurses (female) with or without MOH license for a polyclinic near Sohar. Excellent salary & accommodation.

Contact 99006915, Email : alhinaee.clinic@yahoo.com

Part time work as Survey Interviewers: College Students, Omanis male / female, read & write in English part time work only.

Call or SMS: 97984307

Urgently required GP, Staff Nurse (male) X- Ray Technician, Lab technician. Contact: 94562008/ 99030773 Email: halamedicalgroup@gmail.com

C.C.T.V Technician, building material Salesman, Electrician cum plumber with D/L & maintenance Supervisor with D/L. Contact: 99383044

Wanted Staff Nurse for a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC. Attractive salary offered. Email: clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

Required candidates for following posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers.

Candidates with Omani driving license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for a clinic in Suwaiq. # 95081010 Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Full time work, the candidates with D/L has added advantage.

Send your CV to albasmaunitedllc@gmail.com

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DESIGNER Interior designer needed urgently.

Email: batrading2014@gmail.com

Civil Engineer with experience in interior and finishing works Experience of minimum 5 years Administrative officer (female, Filipino or Indian with minimum 3 years experience in the same field to join in September

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CATERING Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970

PRO with minimum experience of 4 years.

A leading perfumes and &D ' ŝƐƚƌŝďƵƟ ŽŶ ĐŽŵƉĂŶLJ ƌĞƋƵŝƌĞ

ENG./TECHNICIAN Required experienced Accountant for a restaurant in Muscat.

Contact: 93500992

Grade excellent contracting and interior designing company urgently requires experienced professionals for the following positions :

Catering Co. requires Procurement Manager (7 years with Gulf experience) & Pest Control Supervisor (5 years with Gulf experience). Omani Heavy Truck (freezer) driver, 5 yrs experience with PDO license will be preferred. Send CV : info@rcsoman. com, contact 95892831 / 99040032

A medical centre is looking to hire immediately a talented Nurse to join our successful team, required 3 years of experience, Oman prometric, data flow. Send your CV to- issalibi@gmail.com or Whatsapp - 91254820

SKILLED / UNSKILLED Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experience in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127 Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

MEDICAL SALES / MARKETING

ENG./TECHNICIAN Wanted Civil Engineer with minimum 3 years experience with valid GCC / Oman driving license.

Contact: 97991654 / 97991652 Kindly send CV at Email: construction@remasalseeb.com / remaschandran2020@gmail.com

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to: sarita_h23@yahoo.com GP doctor needed for reputed clinic. Preferably with MOH license or with Dataflow & Paramatics pass Contact: 95388934

Required marketing / PR manager for a modern restaurant group in Oman , proficient in illustrator & Photoshop charismatic , proactive , creative & flexible excellent writing / Editing skills degree in relevant area fluent in English. Send CV to marketingpr2016@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Required experienced Sales Executive with a valid Oman D/L for an Office stationery company in Muscat contact to info@centraltrading-oman.com Required building material Salesman with Arabic and English language. Contact 97004186 Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experience for a reputed manufacturing company in Oman, having its Head Office in Ruwi. Experience in building materials is an added advantage. Omani Driving License and NOC is a must. Attractive remuneration package.

Apply with photograph to E-mail: salesjobds@gmail.com Required building material sales Man with Arabic and English language tel 97004186 Furniture & décor co. require Outdoor sales team, immediate joining.

Email: batrading2014@gmail.com Urgent requirement Salesman / showroom in charge required for a Reputed Automotive service showroom with 3 years experience, Having Driving license is a plus point.

Salary will be best as per Industry Standards and Depending on qualification and experience. Interested please contact @ 00968- 91411657.

Or send email to vyasan.united@gmail.com.

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ADMIN Indian male, rich oman experience as – personal assistant / office manager / executive secretary / administration / business development asst., omani license with valid visa / release available – 99168054 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.#90196235 Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817

SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNTS Male 36 MBA finance 7 yrs GCC exp in accounts & admin knowledge of quickbooks tally n office suite, Oman D/L and NOC available.

Contact 96763275. Fazee1980@ gmail.com Indian (M) / B. Com, MBA in Finance in GCC for 26 years, well experienced in Accounts & Finance, 4 years in L&T, speaks Arabic, having Driving License & NOC. Contact: 95588565 Indian female, senior Accountant /ast.Finance manager having 15 years oman experience with d/l and noc looking for a suitable placement . Contact : 94838231 Indian (M) / B. Com, MBA in Finance, in GCC for 26 years, well experienced in Accounts & Finance, 4 years in L&T , Speaks Arabic, having Driving License & NOC. Contact: 95588565 Indian male, MBA 2 yrs of experience in accounting looking for suitable placement in finance joining immediately. Contact: 93972065 Indian (M) Qualified CA seeking suitable placement in accounts, finance, or audit with Oman driving license NOC available.

Contact: 96357827 Email: ubaiskeeran@gmail.com Accountant Indian male B.Com with 8 years experience in Oman, knowledge in tally ERP, SAP AX, MIS up to finalization, NOC available. Contact: 96989872, Email: radhakrishnank2007@rediffmail. com Indian female / MBA / 4+ years experience in India and Oman looking for a suitable job. Priority location in Barka region. Contact: 96140588 / 99214913 Email: ramya2007mba@gmail.com Graduate from Alexandria University in Accounting has freelance Interior designing experience in different design programs & recorded projects achievements, willing to join suitable job for his qualifications & talents.

Contact: + 201003966769 in Oman 99602608 Email: shadyhenaawy@gmail.com 24 years, Indian Lady -Married , Educational Qualification, ICWA (FOUNDATION), M.Com (COSTING), MBA (FINANCE), PGD IN TAXATION AND LAW, India and looking for a job in Oman to gain experience in the field of Accounting / Finance / Management. Contact -rakhipatil509@gmail.com or +968 94959636 / +968-94288177 Senior Accountant, B Com, Indian, 10 yrs of Finance and Accounts experience (7 yrs Oman and 4 yrs Dubai) , NOC Available.

Contact: 99776450; Email:mobinmum1@gmail.com Indian female, B.Com, Materials management 9 yrs exp in purchase & accounts seeks suitable placement NOC Available.

Contact: 92695946 B.Com 2 years Oman experience (Auditing & Accounting), seeking suitable placement. Contact: 98546543 Email: sadakpnu@gmail.com Indian male 26 yrs, B.Com, 2 years experience Accountant & 2 years Salesman in Oman.

Contact: 90922545

Part Time Accounting, Audit Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly Reports, Accounting set up for new companies, GSM : 96975454, email: ibfc.gcc@gmail.com Indian male, B.Com, MBA in Finance, 4 yrs in Larsen & Tourbo, 26 yrs in Oman, English/ Arabic speaking with driving license. NOC available. Contact 95588565 Fresher 25, ACCA Affiliate, Advanced diploma in Accounting and Business seeking suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or Audit with oman driving license.

Contact - 92430152 , Email - raju.rd619@gmail.com Indian male age 26, Accountant one year experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.

Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415 Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/ finance field. On visit visa. Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 / muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experience, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting, ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing with auditors. NOC available.

Contact: 92254691/97826674 email: khader2305@gmail.com Accountant B.com Indian male 12 yrs exp seeks suitable job.NOC available . Contact : 91212471 Email: rennyj6@gmail.com Indian Female,33 Years MBA,MCOM & CA Inter , 3 Years’ experience in Accounts and Auditing ,seeking suitable position .Knowledge in MS Excel, Tally and having good communication skills.

NOC Available. Mob:90146233, E-mail: priyamerinjoy@rediffmail.com Accountant B.Com Indian male B.Com Tally experienced 3 years in Muscat with NOC looking suitable job. Contact: 97151457 Senior Accountant /Ast. Finance Manager-M. Com Finance-Indian with 7 years experience in Finance & Accounts Dpt and Banking & Facilitation. Having D/L & NOC. Mob: 98278801, Email: cammk13@gmail.com Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman.

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Contact 98263394 24 M, MBA, B.Tech, 2 yrs HVAC - fire fighting experience seeking placement. Contact: 90924711 Email: prasith.k.aniyan@gmail.com ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in finance.

Contact 99284193 Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin.

Contact :94743790 Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria University Graduate bachelor of commerce Diploma of Marketing professional photographer worked in PR and social media for 2 years looking for a job in public relations media, social media or marketing.

Contact: 96976240

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Finance & Marketing 26 yrs having 1.9 years of experience in Finance & Marketing Contact: 95206140/ 96992013

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Contact 93953613, Emailallen.mathew83@gmail.com

Interior Designer with 5 years of experience in Dubai & Sudan.Professional in 3DMax, ArchiCAD & Auto CAD Looking for good opportunity . Tel.: 90690460 whats-app: 00971565594324

Gulf & Embassy driver more than 15 years experience seeks suitable placement. Contact: 92191698

Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com

Heavy duty driver / operator (GCC plant valid license (overseas).

Contact 95175192

Accountant & sales & marketing.

Contact: 99730968 / 90696269 An Audit & finance professional with 4+ years of diversified GCC experience, available for a suitable position. Contact: 91206192 or Email: ahsun.nadeem@live.com for further details.

Accountant 8Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084 Indian female 26 yrs MBA in finance 2 yrs exp in MNC, (RR Donnelly) .Contact: 90551366 Indian female CA Inter, M.Com, 3 years experience in Audit, seeking suitable jobs. Contact: 94863876 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 28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement.

Contact 90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com Young Pakistani BBA finance professional is looking for entry level job salesman etc. Contact: 95589058 Indian Keralite, B.Com, male 25 yrs, 1.5 yrs exp.,looking for suitable job in Muscat currently on visiting visa. Contact: 90931930 Email: shijin.p450@gmail.com 7 Years experience as Financial Analyst, MBA in finance. Responsibilities- research contributor, financial statement analysis, generating MIS & efficiency report, managing TAT, business & clients.

On visit visa in Muscat.

Contact- 90191628 / 96175780 Accounts part time services available to handle all accounts up to finalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295 Finance Manager 16 years experienced chartered accountant (Sri Lankan) looking for a suitable post.

NOC available.Contact: 92194926 Email: manomuscat@gmail.com

BEAUTY Indian, Bangalore Female 25 yrs, Looking Job as a Beauty Adviser.

6 yrs experience in Bangalore (Nivea, Olay & Loreal). Visit Visa, Contact 93122338, Email: vijuss1100@gmail.com

CATERING Chinese cook looking for job only in hotel apartment.

Contact 98224709

DESIGNER/ DRAUGHTSMAN Iraqi 18 years experience in management, computer preparation of studies programs and designs expertise in the field of computer software. Contact: 96951450 Freelance ARCH 2D / 3D rendering / graphic design bldg PH : 97103168 email: mass.m@hotmail.com AutoCAD Draughtsman Indian male 8 years experience in Oman well knowledge in Civil, Interior, pre casting having GCC driving license (NOC Available) Contact: 92188496 Email: vimalg.kannur@gmail.com 3D Draughtsman 5 years experience seeks suitable job software experience, 3D max, Rivet AutoCAD. Contact: 93746877 Architectural Interior Draftsman seeking job. Contact: 95516807 Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR PH :92279784 Interior Designer 3 years experience, visit visa. Contact: 94957404 Email: midunmv@gmail.com Architectural Draftsmen diploma in construction technology with 6 years experience in drafting and detailing as per British standard in Oman with valid Omani license looking for suitable opportunity Noc available. Call 94375897.

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman.

Please Contact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE, Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for a suitable job in Accounts, Store Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to join as early as possible. Contact 96988923 email:- sajith3969@gmail.com

Looking for light driver, 5 yrs exp. Contact: 96246074

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Light driver with car. Contact: 99716938

Sudanese Architect with 3 years of experience one and half in Oman have valid driving license looking for suitable position with consultancy office or interior designer firm.

Contact: 94673937 ARCHITECT, Postgraduate in Environmental Planning from School of Planning & Architecture, Indian (Female), Looking for suitable placement. Tel. 94969570/ 92103206, Email: sowmiaphilip@gmail.com Freelance Sr. Architect / Interior 2D / 3D, walkthrough Contact- 95047231 , Email: mycadvision@gmail.com Junior Architect, female from NIT, looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 92705130

DRIVER

Driver with car. Contact: 95892363 Driver looking for job.

Contact: 95892363 Looking for light driving job 3 years exp. Contact: 91625977 Looking for driving, 4 years exp know Eng, Arabic, Hindi, Education - B.A. Contact: 98522914 Car available with driver and without driver model 2008 Honda City black full automatic – if & one need. Contact: 97784828 Experience driver available.

Contact: 94744004 Looking for driving job.

Contact: 94706179

House driver/ company, valid Gulf D/L (overseas). Contact 95175192

Light duty driver 3 yrs experience seeks placement. Knows Hindi, Arabic & Urdu.

Contact: 97762303 Looking for driver job having 5 years experience in Oman.

Contact: 98779907 Looking for light driving job.

Contact: 91209086 4 years experience D/L (driver) seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 96251983 Driver with car. Contact: 93346085 Looking for light driver, 6 yrs exp.

Contact: 97098018

DOMESTIC HELPER Indian lady (House maid) looking for a part time job, 20 years experience in mother & baby massage after delivery. Contact: 92072866 House boy / Tea boy (overseas).

Contact 95175192

EDUCATION/TRAINING Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualified, distinction holder with 7 yrs teaching experience in colleges.

Contact: 91360147.

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement.# 99739415 / 92091528 Graduate from Tanta University license of Education and Diploma of studies in French language from Ministry of Education in France courses in Picardie University Julesverne & Mont Lambert School from France, has experience in teaching French in Egypt Ministry of Education, seeking job as teacher of French language or translator for French, English & Arabic. Contact: 99602608 Email: abodody44abohomos@gmail.com Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualified, distinction holder with 6 yrs teaching experience in colleges.

Contact: 91360147.

Indian female, 29 yrs M.A English with B.Ed (Teaching) Graduate and having computer knowledge seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 95845208 Teacher Female , Phd in Chemistry having 3.5 yrs of Experience in India. Staying here on Family Visa & seeking for a suitable placement. Contact – 99675828, Email - Anupam.tiwari67@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Construction Machinery repairs Engineer, 5 years, driving license, Contact - 94001961 Diploma in Refrigeration & Air conditioning, male 16 yrs exp. 5 yrs exp in Oman on Supervising building maintenance & workshop (civil, electric & plumbing) staying here on family visa, seeking for a suitable job with valid D/L. Contact : 99851277 Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.) on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350 mail: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com

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ENGG. / TECH./MECH. BE in Mechanical Engineering with MBA in operations Mgt, with 4 yrs of experience in oil & gas field seeking job as a mechanical/planning Engineer in Oman, Contact: 94683501 e-mail: shakir.zabiulla@ hotmail.com Sri Lankan male, 38 yrs Sr. Quantity surveyor / Estimator, with 13 yrs experiences, seeking for suitable job immediately. Presently working in Oman NOC available.

Contact: 91161924 Email: mimrusfan@gmail.com Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.), on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350, Email: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com 27 yrs, Indian male Civil Engineer (B.Tech) with 5 yrs India exp as Site Engineer in residential, commercial, industrial projects looking for job opportunity presently in Oman on visit visa ready to join immediately.

Contact: 968 94965278 Email: mdulings@gmail.com Electrical Engineer having 16 years experience in Switchgear / transformer / over head lines & lines & trading for sales / procurement & project execution, valid Oman D/L. Contact: +968- 95994727, Email : qurm340@gmail.com Civil Draughtsman seeking job.

Contact: 93136850 Indian Male, Graduate 28 years, 3 years experience in Automotive Co. as customer relation Executive ,looking suitable job in Muscat currently on visit visa.

Contact No.968-96349191 Indian male 26 BE Mechanical 2 years experience in HVAC seeking suitable placement now on visit visa. Contact: 90810193 Email: asifismail222@gmail.com Iraqi Civil Engineer (Road) 4 years experience, 1 year in Oman with driving license & NOC. Contact: 91142290 Electronics and Communication Engineer with 2 years experience in Telecom Sector as RF Engineer (drive test, RF & LOS survey).

Contact: 93919943 Email: agndjerin@yahoo.com Electrical Engineer: Indian male 30 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation & utility maintenance in India, holding valid Oman D/L. Contact: 92789995 Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com Project Management and Supervision, expert professional Civil Engineer, 26 years experience in Contractor and consultancy companies with N.O.C & driving license.

Contact : 92668679 Graduate from Alexandria University Mechanical Power Engineering and certified international Procurement Manager CIPM basics of supply chain management B SCM, APICS, seeking suitable job for his qualifications.

Contact: +2001222399139 Oman 99602608 C/O Email: samer_henawy@hotmail.com Mechanical Production Engineer 1 year experience in Automobile Industry B.Tech in Production Engg, also did QA/ QC Engg & NDT level looking for suitable job.

Contact: 98462210 Email: vvysakhtv@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B.Tech, M.E) 8 yrs experienced (6 yrs in Oman) holding valid Oman driving license seeking suitable position.

Contact: 968 95487843 Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93101283

Sri Lankan male 25 yrs, having 5 yrs experience in Quantity Surveying in Civil & MEP, is looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 92032632 Email: haseebmursaleen@gmail.com Quantity Surveyor 14 years exp. seeking suitable placement, NOC & D/L available. Contact: 90936370 mail: muhammedjahan@gmail.com Civil Engineer Indian (B.Tech, M.Tech) 8 years experience, having Oman D/L, NOC available. Contact: 94195397 Indian male Civil Engineer 1.6 yrs exp, having Omani D/L, looking for suitable position. NOC available.

Contact – 92157694 / mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com Quick Solution in Civil construction field planning, Estimation on primavera P6 / MS Project & prepare BOQ/ MAS List. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Indian male Civil Engineer 12 years experience looking for suitable placement having DL / NOC. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication site work with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 94696192 Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrs exp seeks suitable position in a reputed company. NOC available.

Contact 96789711 Biotechnology Engineer with valid Oman D/L job suitable placement. Contact: 92839983 Civil diploma 5 years experience available on contract.

Contact: 97982812 Email: projects@vibrantunited.com Sudanese Civil Engineer 3 years experience have valid Oman residency looking for suitable position.

Contact: 94284030 Diploma Civil Engineer 3 years work experience (2 years in Oman) with Oman with D/L & N.O.C seeking suitable position.

Contact: 97424853 Email: sreeboss666@gmail.com BSc Software Engineer 2 years in ASPN, NET, C#, SQL Server, Mysql, Crystal report, visual studio capable of Java, Php, HTML, Android looking for suitable vacancy.

Contact: 968 90696220 Email: sszpirit@gmail.com An IT Engineer with 1.5 yrs experience in software development with proficient skills in PHP CSS , HTML, CSS jquery C# .

Contact: 97751959 , Email : ritesh_chitrakar@hotmail.com Civil Engineer having professional grade 14 years experience in project management tendering Fidic Contract Management well reused with Oman’s regulations EPC projects, PMP EMBA all round experience from initiation to closing. Release available. Contact: 98826815 Email: suraj968@gmail.com Syrian Civil Engineer experience in Supervision & implementation.

Contact: 96649016 B.TECH (EEE) knowledge in AUTOMATION , PLC , SCADA currently on VISIT SEEKING job contact NO : 90793431 17 years MEP Engineer exp in Oman U.A.E with transferable visa looking for suitable job in same field. Contact : 91758258 Email: upahoia@gmail.com B.Tech (Electronics and Communication),MBA(Banking and Finance) with 7 years of experience, Oman driving license and NOC looking for suitable jobs.

Contact:96563721, Email: nigil.marokey@gmail.com

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24 with almost 1 year experience as Production Shift Engineer, has achieved training on HVAC Engineering design and has good hands on software like AutoCAD and HAP.Currently in Oman on a visit visa, looking for a suitable placement.Contact: 95065955 email: mjs.jazeb@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. Contact 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.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 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 92157694. E-mail: mohammedamair.bin@gmail.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 Indian male, Mechanical Engineer having 1year experience, on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact:97416564, Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 years experience in Oman as a project engineer for governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912 Young Indian, Engineering in Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and Chemical, looking for a challenging placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email: sivasankarjayakumar@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 Indian male B-tech 8 years experience as senior electrical project engineer / QC engineer on visit visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94094543 Email: anwar425@gmail.com Mechanical Engineer, Graduate, Indian male, 21 yrs from Symbiosis Pune 6 months work experience at SKF India looking for Engineering on technical services on visit visa. Contact 97945161, Email : iancardoz11@gmail.com Iraqi Civil Engineer Oman D/L, 15 yrs experience in construction works and sites management including 8 yrs in Dubai.

Contact: 99186930 Email: basher-1974@yahoo.com Male, Diploma in Civil Engineering, 5 yrs experience, 6 months PDO Oman experience seeks suitable job. Contact 92726423/97879383 Email : engr.rabiul@gmail.com Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) graduate with 3 years of experience in the fields of BMS and Low current systems and has good knowledge about Electronic Security Systems, currently working in Oman, NOC Available.

Contact:- 94737033/ mohdmuhafez45@gmail.com B.Sc Civil Engineer, 7 yrs Gulf experience having GCC D/L seeking for suitable replacement, local release available. Contact 99534085, email: alhamyabi786@gmail.com

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SITUATION WANTED ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Civil Engineer (B.Sc) with 5 years experienced (more than 4 years in Oman) in construction & project management and seeking suitable position (NOC available). #99604563, Email: saiful.hasjv@gmail.com Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784 Iraqi Civil Engineer 25 years experience in governments building and construction projects resident in Oman. speak And write English Contact: 98930502.

Email: aminaloraiby@gmail.com Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male with 1 year experience on visit visa looking for job, Qualifications in QA, QC, Piping & HVAC. Contact: 90510800 Email: muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022 Indian male, Structural Engineer looking for job in structural design field. Having 6 years of experience in design field. Residing in Muscat. Contact: 91176187 Email: syam036@gmail.com Electrical Engineer (B.SC) with 1 year experience currently seeking job on 3 month visit. # 91791568 Civil Engineer, young Indian having almost 2 years experience looking for a challenging position seeks suitable position in Oman/ GCC. Please contact 92718490, Email ID: uvais.pk82@gmail.com Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit.

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HOSPITALITY Indian male Diploma in Hotel Management with 16 years of experience (F & B Service) in GCC & India, expert in Crafting new outlet, having Omani D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact: 92100141 /92221956 Young, female, diploma in aviation, hospitality, travel management, with family visit visa, seeks suitable placement with employment visa in airlines / hospitality / administration & in any company. Gsm 9092-1438 Housekeeping Supervisor, Hotel Industry seeks placement.

Contact 96152305

IT Computer hardware maintenance & CCTV Technician Indian male, 8 years experience in Computer hardware & 2 years experience in CCTV, presently on visiting visa seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92164971 / 94638875 Pakistani male, having 25 yrs experience of IT in Oman & have release. Have own car & ready to join any IT company, ready to work for company outdoor work also.

Contact 99008870 Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area. #98660672 Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement. #93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com

IT IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759 IT field 3 years of experience, female seeking suitable job in Oman.

Contact: 96350234 Email: greeshmavkannan@gmail.com Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com Indian male 3 years experience in IT as Linux Administrator & 1 year experience in Amazon EC2 CLOUD at Wipro Bangalore seeking suitable placement. Contact: 92889678 Email: amalpathikal@gmail.com Indian Male, B.Tech IT, 4 years Oman Experience in IT & NETWORKING, holding Oman D/L, seeks suitable placement. NOC available. Contact: 92462578 Indian male 25 years, BCA Graduate and MCITP, CCNA certified with 2 years experience looking for suitable job having Oman driving license. Contact: 94170892

MISCELLANEOUS Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Customer Care Executive / Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/ good computer and communication skill.

GSM: 97761075

MEDICAL Indian male with 14 Years Oman Experience as Assistant Pharmacist with Valid MOH License and Oman D/L is looking for a Suitable Job in Muscat Area. NOC Available. Please Contact: 92121414 / 92879050 Indian female GNM Nurse 10 years experience Oman prometric & dataflow passed. Contact: 94413100 / 00918281710464, Email: jobysmily@gmail.com Experienced Dentist with MOH license looking for suitable position in Muscat preferably.

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Contact: 90611395

Indian female IT Post Graduate (MCA) with 3 yrs experience in teaching, seeking job in IT firms ad knowledge in MS Office & other basic software. Contact: 98454159

Iraqi Dentist female, MOH license seeks suitable job in clinic in Muscat. Contact 97891219

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 96906534 / 99014885, Email: monishmajeed@gmail.com

Indian, 15+ years experience In Purchase looking for suitable jobs in Oman (NOC available). Contact 96388496,ranju.uma@gmail.com Territory manager MBA in marketing ICFA (Mumbai) Indian, 2 years experience in field of sales and marketing on visit visa.

Contact: 94955908 Email: vivian24coelho@gmail.com Indian male, Country Manager, 48 years, M.Tech MBA, 25 years experience seeks suitable placement valid, D/L & NOC. Contact: 92279972 Email: iamjohnpv@yahoo.co.in

MISCELLANEOUS GYM Instructor 12 years experience single. Contact: 96700192 Indian male 10 years experience jobs in automobile, logistics & cargo, store keeping & catering.

Contact: 91798685 Email: thottathiroy@gmail.com Indian male looking for a suitable post with 30 yrs experience in showroom project hotel handling on visit visa. Contact : 95213689 Email: imusilking@yahoo.co.in Filipino Graphic Designer / I.T. looking for a suitable job with 10 years experience. Very good in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Photography, Knowledge in CCTV & Access Controls. Pls. Call 95098512.

Indian male, 28, post graduate, 6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back office) & credit control with valid Oman D/L looking for suitable lacements. NOC available.

Contact 92066 523 Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation.

Contact 92956848 BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761 Indian female Software Engineer (B-TECH IT) working in Infosys Ltd for the past 6 years, on visit visa looking for any administrative , secretary or software jobs .contact 96246205 steffyraphel@gmail.com Executive Secretary / HR & Admin with 22 years of experience (13 years in Oman) with NOC & Oman Driving License. Contact 93769921 or lsf_1972@yahoo.com Looking for part time job Secretarial / Data Entry / Documentation available every day after 5:00 pm Friday / Saturday full day area preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD / Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

SALES / MARKETING Indian male Diploma having 6 yrs experience in Sales & Marketing (FMCG) with Saudi, valid driving license currently on visit visa looking for suitable position.

Contact: 92720013 Executive purchase logistics with 10 years experience, NOC available.

Contact: 91432512 Indian male age 24, B.Com. having 2 year experience and currently in visit visa. Looking for suitable placement in Sales, Marketing & finance.

Contact: 90766307 Email: shhaazz.007@gmail.com Oil & gas experienced Indian lady with 6 years in sales & marketing to PDO and having valid Omani driving license. Contact 96143430 / 99875919 Indian male, 4 years experience, looking job in call centres/infocom.

Contact No.968-96349191.

SALES / MARKETING Looking for job Office Secretary Store Incharge sales & purchase coordinator, 50 yrs, Indian on visit visa 23 years gulf experience .

Contact: 91968378 Graduate degree 4 years experience as marketing & merchandising in Oman with D/L & NOC, local change available looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 98281478 Email: omerali1478@gmail.com Female PhD in biotechnology with 3 years teaching and bio fertilizer company experience seeking suitable placement. Interested to work as teacher, lecturer, microbiologist in food pharma, desalination industries currently at Muscat on family visa. Contact: 91751142 / 92955851 Indian lady MCA 28 years, 3 years experience in Office Assistance Oman looking for suitable, NOC available. Contact: 98874227 Whatsapp : 93108040 Indian male Graduate with 18 years of Marketing experience presently in Oman on family visit visa, looking for best opportunity.

Contact: 96168687 Email: dhibupaul@gmail.com Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG sector, looking for best opportunity.

NOC available. Contact: 96001877 Young male having Omani driving license with excellent computer skills knows English, Arabic and Hindi seeking job opportunity.

Visa transferable. Contact: 92957251 Indian Male, 26 M.Com with 4 yrs of Experience in Accounting & Administration in a Financial Company in India, seeks suitable job, Currently in India.

Contact India:-+918907212253 Akhil:-93626288, Email: Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com Resident in Oman 18 years, 10 years experience in setup marketing plans and strategies, sales, import & logistics, procurement, Omani government tenders, organizing projects & events, import fireworks for festivals, NOC available, have car. Contact 94123939.

Email: 002015r@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Indian Male 23 Photographer searching for suitable job.

Contact: 90801420 WhatsApp: +917411062397 for my sample shots, Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com 28 years, Indian (Kerala )lady seeking job as a primary teacher .

Qualifications : +2 , TTC and Graduation in Sociology. She has 4 years experience in the Teaching field.

Contact +968 94743882 4 years experience in IT Executive and also ticketing staff, seeking placement contact 94948622.

Email Jarar.haider@yahoo.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact # 94618504, Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com B.E Engineer Indian male with total 7+ years experience in the field of telecom projects, operations and sales, 3 years experience in Oman, with license and NOC seeks suitable placement. GSM- 92961033 E MAIL -joalappa77@gmail.com Female, 25yrs old with 4 yrs experience in admin, HR and Secretary position looking for a job.

Contact neslinmoras@gmail.com 99265759.

Indian male 23 Diploma in Automobile engineering Experienced restaurant manager/supervisor and Marketing knowledge searching for suitable position in your company currently on a visit visa.

Contact: 90801420, Email:anwaar223969@gmail.com Pakistani Male having 7 years Experience Valid Omani Driving license working as a Transport Manager looking for a suitable position. Salary is negotiable. Email: mohdnaveed043@gmail.com, Mob: +96893363316 / 94202746 Indian male 32 years (MBA) Having 7 years experience in Oman, Seeking for Business Development/ Business Support job, having Valid Oman Driving License.

Mobile No : 00968 98403599

Indian male 26 years of experience of sales & marketing in surgical and laboratory equipments.

Looking for good replacement.

Contact – 92015894 / 95774854

Indian Female, 28 Years - MSc Microbiology, Quality checking food industry, Looking for suitable job. Contact 98170510 Email: lasyapriyaprasanth@gmail.com

Indian male 37 years MBA graduate in marketing with 9yrs of experience in UAE in field of brand promotions & marketing with UAE D/L on a visit seeking suitable position. Conatct 95792820

Indian senior Mechanical Engineer experienced in EPC projects in crushing, construction chemical, concrete products etc. # 9109 6940 E: kpopragmatic@gmail.com

MBA 6 year Multi fields Experience, Marketing, Strategic planning, Administration skills. Having Driving Licenses, NOC Available Seeking for Job, fouzang@hotmail. com Contact 97468157, 92521080.

Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Customer Care Executive / Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/ good computer and communication skill.

GSM: 97761075 Filipino female 33 years, 8 years experience in retail sales, local release available looking for suitable job. Contact: 96974183 Email: sherylcureg30@gmail.com Indian female, BBA Graduate, pursuing MBA, seeking for placement in any corporate firm, job profile related to marketing, advertising, retail & branding, valid D/L. Contact 97907311 Indian male 1 yr exp in sales automotive (TBL) looking for best opportunity , NOC available.

Contact: 97793879 Email: shyampkn@gmail.com Indian female 29 years Post Graduate with computer Knowledge 2 years of Oman experience in coordinator & 5 years of experience in customer service, client relation officer with excellent communication skill seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 95337665

SKILLED / UNSKILLED SH/carpenter, Mason, steel fitter, helper, electrician, Plumber, (Overseas). Contact 95175192, Email: oman.manpower@yahoo.com

Electrical Engineer, 24 yrs, Indian Male Fresher, Training Undertaken in Electrical Draughtsman, Fire Alarm and Fire Fighting. Salary expected negotiable. #94989767, Email: Junaiz987@gmail.com Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in Accounts looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786 E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com Indian male Executive Secretary having vast experience in admin, logistics & procurement well versed with computer seek suitable placement. Contact : 99514286 email: azimmohd@yahoo.co.in IT professional, BE. in IT, CCNA, MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in it, valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in it/network/server support/ retail sales. Contact 91496939.

Indian male, 26 years, 3 years’ experience in projects of tanks, boilers and steel structures, aware of int. standards, b tech in Mech engg. contact-rahulkunnath23@ gmail.com, mob-00917350860889 Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant, doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available.

Contact 98803439 Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects, Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures.

Mail;snu057@gmail.com Ph-00974 66772193 Civil Engineer (B-tech) Indian male 1+ years experience in high rise building (G+21) site Engineer, experience in QC ,QS, and surveying looking for a job (NOC) available. #90924737 / 97470742 Email: kannanknply92@gmail.com

4 years experience in IT Executive and also ticketing staff, seeking placement contact 94948622.

Email Jarar.haider@yahoo.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact # 94618504, Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified. Contact arn9895@gmail. com, Mob 00919895233155 Indian female, IT seeking position. Contact: 94133849 Indian Female 23 Years, B.Sc Nursing , Seeking for Nursing Jobs , Good Communication Skill Contact 96723359, 97470727 E-mail : anaswara271@gmail.com Experienced Restaurant Manager/ supervisor, direct sales searching for suitable position Indian male 23 Diploma in Automobile engineering. Contact: 90801420, Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com Indian Male 23, BE. Mechanical Engineer currently on visit visa Seeking for suitable Job. Software Proficiency AUTOCAD, CATIA, ANSYS, SOLIDWORKS. Contact No: 90924672 / 98859557, tsprakash01@gmail.com Indian male Accountant.

Completed MBA with 1 year experience, good working knowledge in Tally & Excel. Searching for suitable job. Contact : 919715874548 , 918015907437, Email : jovin8910@gmail.com B. Tech Comp Science 3+ yrs, looking for administration or IT / Management or other profile with flexible timings. Contact 95761562 Graduate (C.M.A & B.Com) having 4 yrs experience in U.A.E & Pakistan in accounts/ Audit now in Oman immediate available.

Cell # 94973273 (call & Whatsaap) Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193, Mail: snu057@gmail.com 2 years experience looking for a job accounts / logistics field on visit visa. Contact: 93884951 Indian male, 11 years exp. in accounting, knowledge in tally also. looking for a part time job.

Contact . 98983122 Looking for Land surveyor job 5 years experience in Oman fully know autocad GPS and latest total station instruments NOC available:+96894144052 wasifnaz313@Yahoo.com Filipina, 33yrs old, with Bachelors Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management, with experience as Senior Housekeeping Supervisor in famous hotels and resorts looking for suitable job in Muscat. Please contact 97943735/96489798.

Well-qualified Indian Female with 8 years Oman experience in Procurement Supply Chain from reputed Companies in Oman seeks placement, contact – 95423692 MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified, Contact arn9895@gmail.com, Mob 00919895233155 B.E Mining Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience looking for job. Available to join respective firm. #94618504 B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact 94618504 Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. Contact- 00917350860889 rahulkunnath23@gmail.com MBA in HR & Finance with 2 years experience in HR seeking for a suitable post, presently in family joining visa. Contact : 9058 7631

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SIT.WANTED Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 4 years of experience in Office Administration (admin) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com INDIAN FEMALE 28 yrs, M.Sc B.ed Science, Experience 2Years In Teaching In India, seeking suitable Job. Contact 0091 9676814123, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B-tech) Indian male 1+ years experience in high rise building (G+21) site Engineer, experience in QC ,QS, and surveying looking for a job(NOC) available contact :90924737 / 97470742 Email:kannanknply92@gmail.com Chief Accountant , 7 years experienced (out of 25 years experience in accounts) worked in reputed group companies. Currently procuring MBA finance and having Omani Driving License seeks suitable openings from reputed companies.

Contact 98803439 / 97413784 B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact number# 94618504, Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com Electrical Engineer, Indian male 4 years of experience in India / Oman. NOC available Looking for job in electrical field, Having good academic records and good communication skill. GSM: 94579857 Email: zahirpb@gmail.com Iraqi Civil Engineer 25 years experience in governments building and construction projects resident in Oman. speak And write English Contact: 98930502.

Email: aminaloraiby@gmail.com Airfreight/logistics Manager, male 35, MBA, Indian, 5 years experience in Oman seeks job. Contact- 00919526166169 / 99630159, E mail - bijoabyjohns@yahoo.co.in B.E(Mechanical) 12years industrial sales one year Muscat experience, presently in India , Immediately ready to join ,Mobile no :917338899372 , email id : ganesh2008sep@gmail.com Driver with car available.

Contact : 90139903 Airfreight/logistics Manager, male 35, MBA, Indian, 5 years experience in Oman seeks job. Contact0091-9526166169 / 99630159 , e mail - bijoabyjohns@yahoo.co.in Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in purchase (supply chain management) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com Building foreman, Experience : More than 20 years with 12 years in Saudi Arabia 4 years in Oman and 4 years in Pakistan with D/L. Contact : 968 94153911, Email : iqbalsaleem10777@gmail.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

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Diploma in Civil Engineering, B. Tech in Civil engineering from Kurukshetra university, persuing M. Tech Structural Engineering distance mode from Kurukshetra University, more than 07 years experience. Contact+96891431483 email mohsinyousuf86@rediffmail.com Civil Engineer, B.E 26 years, 4 yrs experience GCC, 6 years Singapore in roads, buildings, infrastructure have employment visa, release available. Contact: 94786687 Email: shasha9292@gmail.com / asad3248@gmail.com MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified, Contact Mob 00919895233155 mail: arn9895@gmail.com 4 years experience in officer coordinator & Sales Executive looking for suitable placement, NOC and Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98215753 / 92392646, thankansam@gmail.com Civil Engineer 5 years experience in Oman / India as Quantity Surveyor for mosque & building (N.O.C) Contact: 97826597 Email: sai.praba.777@gmail.com Indian P.G , DCA need job.

Contact: 94829545 Search job as light driver, experience 3 years language Hindi, English, Arabic. Contact: 97941771 Indian male need part time job.

Contact : 90169048 3 years experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified. Contact arn9895@gmail. com, Mob 00919895233155 Purchase & store experienced 8 years in Oman Construction company Indian male 47 years looking for suitable job, NOC release, Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98456535 / 93996983 Indian male 6 years exp as Sales Executive with valid Oman driving license, languages known Hindi and English, looking for any good job. Contact 95642297 Indian male, 28 YEARS Msc Bed Chemistry 2 years, experience In Teaching In India seeking suitable Job. Mob No-00919505671750, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com Indian Female 10 years exp as cook in Oman, South Indian & Gujarati special .looking for job, Contact 95795971 Male, Electrical Engineer, 4 years of experience in India /Oman. NOC available. Contact Mob: 94579857, Email: zahirpb@gmail.com, Indian male part time Accountant looking for a job. Contact 96761026 Email: mehreenraiz@gmail.com Electrical Foreman, 25 years’ experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 96718013, Email : manikandan1196@gmail.com INDIAN male, 33 yrs, BSC Chemistry 8years, experience as Medical Representative In Zydus company in India, seeking suitable Job. Contact -00919505671750, Email; bbroshini53@gmail.com

Regin accountant, male Indian, 2 years of experience doing accounts in tally and excel searching for suitable job. GSM no: 7373387282 E mail: regin1690@gmail.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact number# 94618504Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com

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Indian female 23 Oracle ERP technical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf, forms & reports, bipublisher email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail. com, Contact: 91156571 Indian Male, 22, Diploma in Automobile Engineering (DC), Experience In Restaurant Management and in sales looking for suitable position.

Contact: 90801420, Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com Heavy Driver available with Oman Driving License.Contact: 94190541 Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail;snu057@gmail.comIndian Male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in Sales & Marketing looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact: 97939084 / 97351786, mailmohammednsr126@gmail.com Mathematics Lecturer Indian Female, M. Phil in Mathematics with 5 years of experience in school and colleges. Now in Oman on Visit Visa. Contact- 92119428, 96714746 4 Years experience as Electronics Service Engineer. Knowledge in all type of Electronics items, looking for suitable placement.

GSM- 99105043 Indian male, 24 yrs Civil Engineering Graduate, on visit visa looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 92724814 Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail: snu057@gmail.com.

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP specification for monthly rent & small car with driver. Contact 99839898

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Indian male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. Contactrahulkunnath23@gmail.com, Mob-00917350860889 MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int.

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Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail. com, Mob-00917350860889

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MATRIMONIAL Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat. Seeks suitable alliance from widow/ divorcee/ single. Contact 96059801.

MATRIMONIAL Ezhava fair girl, 31, B.Tech, Infosys Thiruvananthapuram, Pooradam seeks suitable alliance.

Contact: 99190303 Wanted a suitable veg Tamil groom for bride- age 32 (DOB 14/11/1983. 6.10- AM, Trichy, Tamil Nadu), Ht 170 cm, Wt 72 Kgs, wheatish, ME qualified, working in college, Oman, Expected : Age difference 3 yrs max, “Rich in honesty”; please contact: E.Ramesh Baabu-92040174 Parents of Pune based girl, BE Computers, 24 yrs/5ft, seeks alliance from Indian Sunni Muslim family boys; Engineers/CA/MBA Finance/Accounts, well employed & settled in Pune/Mumbai or Oman/UAE with family status.

Contact +96894102122/ aneesan2011@gmail.com Kerala girl (Dilna TK),based Hindu, Viswakarma aged 32 divorced, slim, working as financial controller in Muscat seeking suitable alliance from any caste.Contact-99706434

Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy from Mumbai, ISWK student, ACCA, BSC honours, working as a senior accountant in Muscat, seeks suitable alliance for an Indian Sunni Muslim family. Contact no.(parent): 96408642, email address: khaledaoman@gmail.com Sunni Muslim URDU girl 26 yrs, B.E, M.B.A invites alliance from Tamil Nadu Benglauru Mysore.

Contact: 99502581 Looking bride for boy, 35 yrs, BE(MS) working in London as a Software Engineer, Christian, height 5’5, reference : Reg. no. M 2194, www.muscatmatrimonial.com, mail : matrimonialmuscat@gmail.com Parent of Thrissur based Hindu Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham star, Studying for B. Pharm seeking alliance from well employed Graduates, preferably in Engineering Contact :96425102 NAIR GIRL,B.Tech. , 25/163cm , Uthradam, working in MNC in india, ISG student, seeks suitable alliances from parents of boys working abroad and having M.S.in Engg. Parent contact: 98584850

SIT.WANTED Female Architect on visiting visa, two years’ experience, graduated from School of Planning and Architecture (under MHRD). Proficient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and creative visualization. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com.

Contact 00968-94057427.

Indian male 33 yrs, MBA-HR, worked on Recruitments, Training, OD, PMS, Site-HR, Omanisation and development plans of nationals ,10.yrs exp. seeking a job.NOC avl.

Contact 94179499 saiprasad_18@yahoo.com Electrical Foreman, 25 years experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 96718013 Email: manikandan1196@gmail.com Master in Aeronautical Engineering (PhD) having 4 years experience. Seeking job in universities, colleges, schools and industries.

Contact 98259462 binoaero87@gmail.com Indian Male, 22, Experienced, Looking for job in sales (no DL).

Contact: 90801420; Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com Electronic Systems Engineer (UK Graduate) with skills in Robotics, Programming Languages, IC, PCB Design seeking suitable position.

Indian female on Visit Visa.

Contact: 97848075