Times of Oman - June 25, 2016

SATURDAY

June 25, 2016 19 Ramadan 1437 AH

RAMADAN PRAYER TIMINGS

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

IFTAR

Dhuhr

12.15pm

7.02PM

Asr

3.32pm

Maghrib

7.02pm

FAJR

Isha

8.25pm

3.54AM

Fajr (Tomorrow)

3.54am

On the occasion of the 8th National Day, 1978

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CABLES

DO WE NEED A 3-DAY EID? Experts in Oman say shorter holidays are used by people for staycation boosting domestic tourism

Staff Reporters MUSCAT: Though the Sultanate has yet to announce the date of the upcoming Eid-Al-Fitr holidays, tourism and business experts are calling for advance announcements regarding the dates and asking if the number of days could be restricted to the same every year.

Most Muslims around the world will celebrate the festival on July 6 or July 7 this year to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan 2016. “It will help people to plan early and will boost the tourism of Oman,” experts say.

HM sends greetings MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar on the anniversary of his ascension to the throne in Qatar. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health, happiness and a long life to the Emir, praying to the Almighty Allah to return this and similar occasions on him and the Qatari people further progress and prosperity.

His Majesty the Sultan has sent a cable of greetings to President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique on his country’s Independence Day anniversary. In his cable His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and his country’s people.

His Majesty the Sultan has sent a cable of greetings to President Borut Pahor of Slovenia on his country’s Independence Day anniversary. In his cable His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and his country’s people.

His Majesty the Sultan has also sent a cable of greetings to President Kolinda Kitarovic of Croatia on her country’s National Day. In his cable His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and her country’s people.—ONA

Vijay Handa, general manager of Ras Al Jinz turtle reserve, however, said that to boost Oman tourism, the government should ensure that the holidays are not more than four days at a stretch. “If it is more than four days at a stretch, then everyone will fly away from the country and Oman’s domestic tourism will suffer,” he said.

Economists also suggest that reasonable holidays will benefit any economy and productivity. “The holidays shouldn’t be too long,” Jose Chacko, a Muscatbased economist, told Times of Oman.

“After a long holiday, a warming up period is one or two days,” he explained.

In Arabic, Eid-Al-Fitr means “festival of breaking the Ramadan fast”. Over the past five years, the length of the Eid-Al-Fitr holiday period has varied.

In 2011, Eid-Al-Fitr holidays for government departments was set from August 29 - September 5 for eight days. Yet, for the private sector it was scheduled from August 30 to September 3, becoming a five-day holiday. >A3

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MUSCAT: Goods worth thousands of rials were gutted when fire engulfed a residential street opposite the City Cinema near Ruwi on Thursday afternoon.

An injured person was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) officials tweeted on its official handle.

One resident, who declined to be named, told the Times of Oman: “The reason for the fire is said to be a short circuit in the room where the injured man was asleep. We were all clueless about what had happened. It was a scary situation.”

“The flames were huge and made it scarier, making us run out of our rooms with some goods which we could manage to carry,” he added.

“Fire broke out at around 3.30pm and continued until

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10.30pm,” another resident said.

The fire damaged at least 10 rooms in the street, where most of the residents are Bangladeshis.

“From that room the fire spread to other nearby rooms and destroyed many household items,” the resident said. “The residents in the street are daily wage workers, such as masons, tile workers, electricians, and cleaners,” another resident said.

Goods, such as ACs, televisions,

refrigerators, dresses and beds were destroyed in the fire, according to those who escaped.

Around five to 10 people are living in small rooms and they are not built sturdily, according to a worker at the incident site.

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Britain votes to leave EU, Cameron to quit

LEAKAGE: Salalah witnessed heavy rain on Wednesday night which saw some parts of the city flooded. – Supplied photo

Times News Service SALALAH: Amid heavy rain last night in the Wilayat of Salalah in Dhofar region, the Ministry of Transport and Communication has confirmed that rainwater breached Salalah Airport.

Salalah witnessed heavy rain on Wednesday night which saw some parts of the city flooded.

Salalah Airport was among the facilities affected where rain seeped through the ceiling and flooded the terminal.

Videos of the incident went viral on social media.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications released a statement confirming the leakage at the airport.

“The Ministry of Transport and Communications confirms

what was circulating on social media regarding the leakage at the new Salalah Airport.

The ministry immediately formed a team to fix the true cause of the leakage as well as launch an investigation in the issue,” read the statement.

“According to the contractor’s initial report, the gutters on the roof were clogged and are being cleaned,” it added.

A team formed by the ministry will start an investigation into the incident in co-operation with the experts of the field.

The ministry assured that the project is under the guarantee of the contractor and advisor who are on the site and will be held responsible should there be anything wrong in all components of the airport.

LONDON: Britain has voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow since World War II to the European project of forging greater unity.

Global financial markets plunged as results from a referendum defied bookmakers’ odds to show a 52-48 per cent victory for the campaign to leave a bloc Britain joined more than 40 years ago.

The United Kingdom itself could now break apart, with the leader of Scotland - where nearly two-thirds of voters wanted to stay in the EU - saying a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain was “highly likely”.

An emotional Cameron, who led the “Remain” campaign to defeat, losing the gamble he took when he promised the referendum in 2013, said he would leave office by October.

“The British people have made the very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction,” he said in a televised address outside his residence.

with its biggest financial centre, a UN Security Council veto, a powerful army and nuclear weapons.

The world’s biggest trading bloc -- which rose out of the ashes of two world wars, fascist and communist totalitarianism to unite a continent of prosperous democracies -- will lose around a sixth of its economic output.

“It’s an explosive shock. At stake is the break up pure and simple of the union,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. “Now is the time to invent another Europe.”

BIG BLOW: Newspapers pictured in London on June 24, as an illustration, shows the front page of the ‘London Evening Standard’ reporting the resignation of British Prime Minister David Cameron following the result of the UK’s vote to leave the EU. -AFP

“I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,” he added, choking back tears before walking back through 10 Downing Street’s black door with his arm around his wife Samantha.

Quitting the EU could cost Britain access to the EU’s trade barri-

er-free single market and means it must seek new trade accords with countries around the world. A poll of economists by Reuters predicted Britain was likelier than not to fall into recession within a year.

The EU for its part will be economically and politically damaged, facing the departure of a member

Eurosceptics The result emboldened eurosceptics in other member states, with French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders demanding their countries also hold referendums. Le Pen changed her Twitter profile picture to a Union Jack and declared “Victory for freedom!”

The vote will trigger at least two years of divorce proceedings with the EU, the first exit by any member state. Cameron, in office since 2010, said it would be up to his successor to formally start the exit process. -Reuters See also >A10, B1

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Report reckless driving of airport taxi drivers, OAMC urges people Some airport taxi drivers have earned the reputation of being quite reckless while transporting passengers from the airport to their destination, or vice versa

SAFETY ADVICE: Some taxi drivers unfortunately do not have any

customer service experience and some passengers are intimidated and shocked after such treatment. -Supplied picture

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI

tariqh@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Oman Airport Management Company (OAMC) is encouraging people to report negative behaviour by airport taxi drivers after several accounts emerged of reckless driving and bad customer service.

Speeding, overtaking, not using signals and tailgating are all signs of someone who is reckless or trying to get somewhere in record time,

which is the most common recipe for disaster on Oman’s roads.

Safety experts have repeatedly advised driving safely, and civil service authorities have also issued a guidance about traffic safety.

Some airport taxi drivers have earned the reputation of being quite reckless while transporting passengers from the airport to their destination, or returning to the airport after they have been paid their fare.

“The taxis, whether from the airport or not, are reckless. Grant-

ed some follow the law, but most don’t. It seems their motto is ‘more rides, more cash’ so they have to speed, overtake and drive recklessly,” said Khalid, an Omani national.

Some people become anxious when they see an airport taxi in close proximity to their vehicle.

An Omani national, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I always get nervous when I see an airport taxi. My attention tends to focus on the airport taxi because they sometimes drive unpredictably.”

“Once I saw a taxi crossing from

Hand-in-Hand to organise works of NGOs on June 30 DEEBA HASAN

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MAJOR PLATFORM: The Hand-in-Hand initiative was started by the Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort to give back to the local community, which is in need of support. -Supplied photo

dents can be. This year the Minister of Environment and several VIPs came to see and encourage them,” Al Madani added.

Charity According to Al Madani, the support comes from both companies and individuals because the larger purpose of the initiative is charity.

Hand-in-Hand also organised a Qaranqasho night for children, along with Dar Al Atta’a. Children could enter for OMR1, which entitled them for entry and a goody bag filled with toys and candy. All proceeds from the event went to Dar Al Atta’a.

“We get support from lots of

Negative behaviour The Times of Oman contacted OAMC to get a comment on the issue, following which the management said, “We would like to request the public to inform us of any negative behaviour one may notice from one of our airport taxi drivers.”

The statement added, “We take complaints from the public just as seriously as those that we get from our customers and we will take any

Customer service Some taxi drivers unfortunately do not have any customer service experience and some passengers are intimidated and shocked after such treatment.

An expatriate shared his experience: “The last time I used the airport taxi, we were a group of three.

I was going to be dropped off on the side of the highway near the Grand Mosque, while the other two passengers were going on to MQ. We got in an argument with our driver about the high prices, and so he was angry with us. He then refused to let me out of the car, saying that he would take us all to MQ. I told him to stop several times, and he refused and kept driving further past my stop. So I raised my voice, demanding that he stop the car,” said Tyler Shaneaman.

“He shook his fist in my face saying that he would punch me if I raised my voice again. I told him that if he punched me, I’d call the police, but he laughed at me saying the police were his friends and they won’t help me (I’m American). So I lowered my voice and told him again to stop, and he finally did, far past my stop.

“I got out and walked home in the middle of the night with my luggage. He dropped off my friends at MQ and they paid the price he demanded as they were afraid of him by that point. Ever since then, when I want a ride home from the airport, I ask friends to come and get me, or I walk my luggage to the highway and get a taxi there.

The last taxi driver I came in contact with from the highway across from the airport was so nice that he refused to let me pay because he liked that I spoke Arabic. What a world of difference,” he added.

OAMC responded by saying, “The safety of our customers has and will always be a top priority for OAMC. Considering that we manage the Airport Taxi Service, we carry over this ideology with the aim of providing a safe and secure transport service to all our passengers.”

“As a safety measure we include key contact information on all receipts issued to customers when they avail of the service. This information includes the Airport Taxi counter telephone number (24341297), and the Airport Taxi e-mail address (taxi@omanairports.com),” OAMC added.

Members of the public are encouraged to send their feedback and complaints to OAMC in order for them to serve their customers better in the future.

companies and individuals for this initiative, and this year too we were supported by Majlis al Henna, For You events, Pixel production, Saif Design studio and Dar Al Atta’a.

Obviously, all this wouldn’t have been possible without the support and determination of the ShangriLa team,” Al Madani stated.

Joy of Eid On June 23, another event called ‘Bahjat al Eid’ or Joy of Eid will be organised by Hand-in-Hand “where families can buy everything they need for their Eid right from clothes, shoes, to accessories and beauty products, it’s for everyone,” Al Madani said.

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boost to the retail sector

The post-Ramadan holidays for employees of ministries, public authorities and other government employees continued from August 18 to August 22 in 2012, but work resumed on August 25, stretching it to seven days. For the private sector, the holidays lasted for four days from August 18 to August 21.

The following year, in 2013, there was a six-day holiday for both the government and private sectors, beginning August 9.

In 2014, Eid-Al-Fitr holidays lasted seven days for ministries and federal authorities. The private sector only enjoyed a twoday break.

Last year, both the government and private sector in Oman celebrated a five-day holiday from July 16 to July 20.

It was noted that longer holidays could be a boon for the retail sector in a country where most revenues come from the oil sector. “When it comes to our sales, holidays boost it. I’ve been observing it for the past four years.

More holidays means more time for shopping in Oman. And our sales go down if the holidays are curtailed by even a few days,” said Syed Tawheed, FMCG senior supervisor of Muscat-based Swiss Arabian Perfumes.

Tawheed added that he thought there would be a week-long holiday, saying the month of Ramadan exhausts people and they should receive time to relax or travel home for longer periods.

“Muslims usually plan for Eid holidays. Expats go home or travel abroad. Shorter holidays restrict these activities,” he noted.

INDIAN EMBASSY

Others say overall productivity in the country is “slightly affected positively” by the break.

“Everybody appreciates a long break, so many will no doubt be disappointed if only a short Eid break is announced,” Tonia Gray, general manager of Competence HR, told Times of Oman.

“Personally, I feel productivity is only slightly improved when a shorter break is given, since with all holidays employees start to slow down before, and take a while to get back to work routine afterwards,” she said.

“Short holidays are very good for people to refresh and rejuvenate themselves. Once people are refreshed, their productivity will also increase. But I think it would be excellent, for all concerned, if such holidays were declared at the beginning of the year, so people could plan their trips in advance,” Deepak Nair, Chief Executive of InteracOman Solutions, a web hosting company, said.

“This would also mean more people travelling and travel agencies developing attractive and competitive packages, all of which will surely benefit the economy.

Of course, the exact day of Eid can be known only after the sighting of the moon, but holidays can be announced in advance, based on the indicative dates, if possible,” Nair said.

Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) member Ahmed Al Hooti noted, “I believe there should be a balance. Also, one day could be taken off from Eid holidays and a day added to the Eid Al Adha holiday later. This should be studied.”

He further said all companies should have the same days off for their employees, to assure that holiday schedules do not divide families.

“Imagine if there are three or four brothers and a sister, and two of them are enjoying the holiday and two are working in some company. It doesn’t look good.

You can’t do that,” he added.

Al Hooti noted, however, that companies and establishments will not want to schedule long holidays, especially in the current situation.

The fall in Oman’s oil prices continues to be a major concern for the government, which has adopted several measures on generating revenues, as well as seeking cutbacks in spending.

Yet, for expat workers such as Azeem (original name withheld), who bakes doughnuts for a merchandizing company, the longer Eid holidays are a boon for labourers such as himself.

“Longer holidays means workers such as me could receive more overtime. My salary is OMR 200.

If I have seven days of extra work, it will increase my salary by OMR 57. I am for longer holidays, and I am sure many labourers would like to extend the Eid holidays,” he told Times of Oman.

Meanwhile, Smruti Sasidharan, a senior executive for a top holiday resort in Oman, supported Eid holidays being scheduled for at least five days, “like it used to be some time back”. “It makes it more convenient for locals to spend time away from home with families in hotels, boosting the tourism sector,” she said.

RUWI FIRE

International Yoga Day observed in Oman REJIMON K

reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Around 3,000 people took part in a yoga session in Muscat, organised by the Indian Embassy as part of the 2nd International Day of Yoga, the Indian ambassador posted on his official Facebook account.

“It was a great success. For the first time in Oman, so many people practised yoga together under one roof. Events organised in Salalah, Sohar and Sur were also a great success.”

“A large number of yoga events were held in various cities of Oman, including Indian schools, in which thousands participated,” Indra Mani Pandey, the Indian Ambassador to Oman, said in the post, thanking the Oman government

corrective measures necessary.”

They also said that all complaints should include the number plate of the airport taxi in question in order for any action to take place.

E I D VA C AT I O N

S H A N G R I - L A’ S B A R R A L J I S S A H R E S O R T A N D S PA

MUSCAT: Those running NGOs in Oman can now exhibit their work on a major platform: the Hand-in-Hand initiative of the Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa, which is organising a free exhibition for such organisations on June 30 at the Mazar souk.

A lot of such NGOs have already registered but there are still spots left and the Shangri-La Resort is welcoming more organisations to participate.

“We have NGOs which distribute food and water, some go paint houses for people and other teach Holy Quran to children—we welcome all such initiatives to our event where they can showcase what they do. It brings everyone under one roof,” said Rasha Al Madani, restaurants marketing manager, who also founded the initiative.

Started in 2012, the Hand-inHand initiative was started by the Shangri-La Resort to give back to the local community, which is in need of support and through this programme the project has helped lots of home businesses, students and NGOs. Hand-in-Hand has been taking place during Ramadan for the last four years and usually starts from the second weekend of the holy month.

“This year, we had a series of events taking place; the first week is always dedicated for Injaz Oman, where college students showcase their products, creativity and innovation. It’s a very interesting day to see how smart and creative stu-

the far right lane to the far left lane without using signals and it was also speeding. I usually drive around 130km per hour on the highway from Athaiba heading to Seeb, but somehow even then I’m too slow for the airport taxis,” he added.

Some drivers use strange driving methods.

“I feared for my life. The driver had his seat inclined far back, had one hand on the wheel and the other leaning on the middle arm rest like he was resting in a lounge chair. He could hardly see over the dashboard,” said Katrina Gifford Studd, a resident.

“From the second we left the airport he did not use his indicator once, he used excessive speed and darted in and out of traffic and tailgated. I was so glad to arrive at the other end in one piece,” she added.

STAY FIT: Around 3,000 people took part in the yoga session in

Muscat organised by the Indian Embassy.

and the Indian community for making the event a grand success.

Reaffirming the support of the government and the people of

Oman, the Minister of Sports Affairs of Oman, Sheikh Saad bin Mohammed Al Mardouf Al Saadi, joined the celebrations as the Chief

Guest. He conveyed Oman’s abiding support for all efforts aimed at promoting Yoga in Oman.

Also present on this occasion were the Guest of Honour, Mohammed bin Yousef Al Zarafi, undersecretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other senior officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Formula 1 racer Ahmed Al Harthi was also present at the event.

Further, Yoga sessions to commemorate the 2nd International Day of Yoga were also organised in Salalah, by the Indian Social Club, along with the Art of Living group at their Club premises, two sessions were held at Sur by the Sanskrit Yoga Group and Sur Yoga Samithi, and one Session in Sohar was held at Jindal Hall. Over 500 persons participated in all of these events.

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“Most of the buildings in the area are too old and the municipality should do a regular check to avoid this kind of incident,” he added.

He added that more than 10 units of fire fighters from the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA) reached the spot to put out the blaze.

The narrow pathway to the rooms also made the job of fire fighters more difficult, some witnesses said.

According to eyewitnesses, who live near the street, residents were seen running out of their rooms with some of their valuable belongings and some wisely brought the cooking cylinders out from their rooms to avoid a bigger blast.

The tough blaze, however, created fear among the people in the nearby shops. According to a report by the National Centre for Statistics and Information, a fire incident is reported every three hours in Oman, and 23 per cent of them are reported from residential areas.

Recently, Colonel Said Al Asmi, assistant general manager for Operations at the Royal Oman Police (ROP) said fire threats remain a major challenge for establishments in Oman, especially in the summer.

“Unorganised and poorly marked storage of cables and flammable materials in buildings raises the risk of damage,” he noted.

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PLACE OF WORSH IP This Ramadan is a great opportunity to go pray in beautiful houses of worship that you might not otherwise take the time to see. Whether for Taraweeh prayers or Dhuhr, pay a visit to one of Muscat’s architectural monuments of faith.

{ Al Sayyid Hamed Bin Hamood Mosque} M I ND F ULN ESS T I P Charity and generosity are essential to the spirit of Ramadan. The deprivation of fasting should make us sympathetic to the suffering of others, while reminding us of the many blessings we normally take for granted, and inspiring us to give back some of these blessings to those without.

TODAY’ S VERSE

On the main Sultan Qaboos Road in South Al Hail sits Masjid Al Sayyid Hamed Bin Hamood, one of the oldest and most famous mosques in the Seeb area. Named after the special advisor of His Majesty, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, this 35-year-old mosque is designed in a circular fashion, like an oversized dome.

Its exterior wall is decked-out with river stones set in concrete, giving it a unique, rustic feel, which is quite a contrast to the lush, bright red carpeted interior. The area around the mosque is like a small garden, with beautiful trees filling the lawn between the prayer hall and the detached events hall, perhaps one of the reasons it is a favourite in the area for both weddings and funerals.

And Allah is the best of providers.

(Al Jumu’ah, 62: 11)

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W HE RE TO S P E ND YOU R Z A K AT The literal meaning of Zakat is ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’. In the Islamic faith, Zakat means purifying your wealth for the will of Allah; to acknowledge that everything we own belongs to Allah and to work towards the betterment of the Muslim Ummah. According to Islamic regulations, Zakat is 2.5% of one year’s total cumulative wealth. Zakat is not always financial, and can include everything from volunteering your time to giving an encouraging word, but when it comes to financial donations to the less fortunate, it can be difficult to decide which causes speak most to your heart. Here we will highlight worthy causes to help you decide.

{ Zakat and Sadaqat Fund Al Musana } WHAT THEY DO

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Gently fry the onion in olive oil over medium heat until soft. Add the garlic and cook for another two minutes. Add cayenne and paprika; cook for another minute.

Add the stock and tomato puree and bring to a boil. Add the Frik and simmer covered for 30 minutes or until Frik is soft.

Add the chickpeas and herbs and cook for a few minutes until chickpeas are heated. Serve hot with a squeeze of lemon.

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Syria opposition claims Russia using banned bombs in conflict diately available to comment on the request for an investigation.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the United States was not in a position to confirm the allegations by the Syrian opposition, but that the claims were taken very seriously.

“Regardless of what weapons they’re using, (the Russians) shouldn’t be striking groups that are committed to the counterISIL (IS) fight or civilians,” he added.”Russia and the Assad regime need to be more careful about distinguishing between terrorists, civilians and parties to the cessation of hostilities.”

They have violated the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and breached international humanitarian law, Riad Hijab, coordinator of the opposition HNC, wrote to UN’s Ban Ki-moon

ALLEGATIONS: A video grab made on October 15, 2015, shows an image taken from a footage made

UNITED NATIONS: The Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to launch an investigation into its accusations that Russia has repeatedly used air-delivered incendiary weapons in Syria.

Russia deployed warplanes to Syria last year to support President Bashar Al Assad against rebels seeking to end his rule.

A crackdown by Assad on prodemocracy protesters five years ago sparked a civil war and IS mili-

available on the Russian Defence Ministry’s official website, purporting to show an explosion after airstrikes carried out by Russian air force on what Russia says was an IS facility in the Syrian province of Idlib. — AFP/RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY

tants have used the chaos to seize territory in Syria and Iraq.

“Russian air forces have repeatedly deployed incendiary weapons and cluster munitions to kill, main and terrorise Syrian civilians, including in at least 10 documented incidents,” Riad Hijab, coordinator of the opposition HNC, wrote to Ban. “They have violated the Con-

vention on Certain Conventional Weapons and breached international humanitarian law,” he wrote.

Hijab alleged that “thermite, which ignites while falling, has been likened to ‘mini nuclear bombs’ and was deployed repeatedly by Russian forces in residential areas.” He also accused Russian forces of using cluster munitions.

Incendiary weapons use sub-

TICKET TO OLYMPICS DENIED

Taekwondo Masters Garang Garang, right, and Emmanuel Malang demonstrate during their daily taekwondo training session at the Juba Jebel on Friday. The South Sudan Taekwon-do Federation, currently has around 30 practitioners with black belt, trains around 200 boys and girls, with the support of the South Korean government. The Federation, born in 2012, was the first sport affiliated to the South Sudan National Olympic Committee. However, due to financial reasons, the Federation can’t compete in the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP

LINKS WITH IS

Morocco arrests 10 militants RABAT: Morocco said on Thursday that it had dismantled a suspected militant cell inspired by the radical group IS and that it had arrested 10 men who were planning attacks in the North African kingdom.

The interior ministry said in a statement that the cell was operating in the eastern city of Oujda, and the town of Tendrara in the

same region bordering Algeria.

This was the latest in a series of radical groups that Morocco has said it has broken up.

Meeting in safe house It said 10 members of the group were meeting in a safe house and planning to rob a mall in the city of Oujda to fund their attacks across the kingdom. The group in-

cludes an Algerian national living in Morocco illegally, according to the statement carried by state news agency MAP said.

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), the judicial part of the Moroccan domestic intelligence service, has actively tracked suspected militants since IS seized large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014-15. — Reuters

stances that are designed to set fire to objects or burn people, and cluster munitions are containers that explode in the air to distribute smaller bombs over a large area. Both are banned under the convention.

The Russian mission to the United Nations was not immediately available to comment on the accusations.

Ban’s office was also not imme-

US criticism The United States has sharply criticised Moscow over strikes last week against US-backed forces in Syria, saying Russia failed to heed US warnings to stop its attack, which killed and injured Syrian fighters battling IS. US-backed forces in Syria have reported that Russia fired at their garrison with cluster munitions in that attack, a senior British general in the US-led coalition said on Thursday.

“Definitely, the people we advise on the ground reported cluster munitions,” British Army Major General Doug Chalmers told a Pentagon news conference. — Reuters

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Hezbollah to increase presence in Aleppo BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday it would increase its military presence in Syria’s Aleppo, saying the battle for the northern city was a fight to defend the entire country.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that as fighting in Syria intensified, 26 of the group’s fighters had been killed in the Aleppo region since the beginning of June, a rare acknowledgment of the toll the battle is taking.

Hezbollah is fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016 We would represent 40 per cent of humanity and over a billion youth. To this group, India brings principles that are in tune with the philosophies of the SCO. India has always enjoyed good relations with the Eurasian land mass Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

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Process of accession to Shanghai Cooperation Organisation begins Modi said India would significantly benefit from the grouping’s strengths in energy and natural resources and in turn India’s strong economy and vast market could drive economic growth in the SCO region TASHKENT: As the final process for India’s accession as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation began, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the partnership will help protect the region from threats of radicalisation, violence and terror and drive its economic growth.

ENGROSSED: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of

State Council meeting in Tashkent on Friday. - PTI

In his address at the SCO summit, Modi said India would significantly benefit from the grouping’s strengths in energy and natural resources and in turn India’s strong economy and vast market could drive economic growth in the SCO region.

“India’s membership of SCO would contribute to region’s prosperity. It would also strengthen its

security. Our partnership will protect our societies from the threats of radical ideologies of hate, violence and terror. “India will unite with SCO countries to work towards this goal. And, we will adopt zero tolerance and a comprehensive approach in fighting terrorism at all levels,” said Modi.

At the summit, India signed the SCO’s Memorandum of Obliga-

tions, kick-starting the process of its accession into the group as a full member. India will have to sign around 30 other documents in the course of the year to complete the process for membership. Pakistan is also being inducted into SCO as a full member.

“We are indeed grateful to the SCO member states and its leaders for their overwhelming sup-

port for India’s membership of the SCO. I also welcome Pakistan as the new member of the SCO,” said the prime minister.

Seeking deeper economic engagement, Modi said India’s capacities in trade, investments, information and communication technology, space, agriculture, health care, small and medium scale industry can bring wide spread economic benefit to the SCO countries - Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

“We would represent 40 per cent of humanity and over a billion youth. To this group, India brings principles that are in tune with the philosophies of the SCO. India has always enjoyed good relations with the Eurasian land mass,” he said.

The prime minister said India will be a productive partner in the SCO in promoting trade, energy cooperation and developing transport links in the region besides people-to-people contacts. “Our decision to join the international North South Transport Corridor, the Chabahar Agreement, and Ashgabat Agreement reflects this desire and intent,” Modi said.

Talking about Afghanistan, the prime minister said, a stable, inde-

pendent and peaceful Afghanistan is not just a “sincere desire” of each Afghan but it is also necessary for greater security and stability in the SCO region.

He exuded confidence that India’s engagement with all SCO members will help in build a region which is an engine of economic growth for the world and is more stable and secure internally and strongly connected with other geographies.

The prime minister had said at the Ufa Summit of the SCO last year, “the SCO leaders had accepted India as its full member. It was a landmark in India’s engagement with SCO,” adding “as a logical extension India’s age old ties with the region, one-sixth of humanity will join the family of SCO.” Observing that India has historic linkages with SCO countries, he said the connection was not just geographic as “our societies have been enriched by links of culture, cusine and commerce. They form the bed rock of our modern day relationships with Russia, China and the countries of Central Asia.”

He said with India as full member of the SCO, the group’s boundaries would stretch from the Pacific to Europe and from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. - PTI

PROCEDURAL HURDLES

Membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group remains elusive for India SEOUL: India on Friday failed in its determined bid to clinch membership of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in the face of strong China-led opposition after which it gave vent to its unhappiness over the hurdles created by Beijing.

In a clear setback to its efforts to join the 48-nation grouping, a two-day NSG plenary ended here after deciding against accepting India’s membership application.

China, which had made no secret of its opposition, succeeded in scuttling India’s bid despite a significant majority backing the Indian case.

Thirty-eight countries supported India, according to Indian officials.

Beijing was unrelenting in thwarting India despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Tashkent on Thursday to support India’s case on its merits.

An upset India later accused “one country”, a clear reference to China, of persistently creating procedural hurdles during the discussions on its application.

“We understand that despite procedural hurdles persistently raised by one country, a threehour-long discussion took place last night on the issue of future participation in the NSG,” Exter-

CHINESE CHECKER: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese

President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Tashkent on Thursday on the sidelines of SCO Summit. - PTI

nal Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.

“The NSG plenary in Seoul earlier in the day decided against granting India membership of the grouping immediately and said it will continue to have discussions on participation of countries which have not signed the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

“An overwhelming number of those who took the floor supported India’s membership and appraised India’s application positively. We thank each and every

one of them. It is also our understanding that the broad sentiment was to take this matter forward,” he said.

Besides China, countries like Brazil, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand were also opposed to India’s entry because it is not a signatory to Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In its statement, at the conclusion of the plenary, NSG declared its “firm support” for the “full, complete and effective” implementation of the NPT as the

cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime.

However, it said it had discussions on the issue of ‘Technical, Legal and Political Aspects of the Participation of non-NPT States in the NSG’ and decided to continue its discussion.

Confirming that the India’s application was discussed during the two-day deliberations, the statement, under a sub-heading ‘Outreach’, said it shared information on all aspects of the 2008 statement on Civil Nuclear Cooperation with India and discussed the NSG relationship with India.

Defending its opposition to entry of non-NPT countries like India into NSG, Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was guided by the rules of the 48-nation grouping which were not directed against any specific country.

It also advocated an “out of the box” thinking to arrive at a consensus over the issue of entry of non-NPT countries into NSG. “China wants two things; we must abide by the rules of Nuclear Suppliers Group because these kind of rules are not directed against any specific country.

We must strive for consensus by thinking out of the box,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said at a briefing in Beijing. - PTI

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Country’s firewalls strong, will withstand Brexit jitters: Jaitley BEIJING: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said India is well prepared to deal with short and medium term consequences of Britain exiting the European Union and has solid immediate and medium-term firewalls in form of healthy forex reserves.

Stating that the verdict of the referendum will add to the volatility in the global markets, he said all countries around the world will have to brace themselves for a period of possible turbulence while being watchful about, and alert to, its medium term impacts.

“As regards the Indian economy, we are well prepared to deal with short and medium term consequences of Brexit,” he said in a statement. India, he said, is strongly committed to macroeconomic framework with its focus on maintaining stability. “Our macroeconomic fundamentals are sound with a very comfortable external position, a rock-solid commitment to fiscal discipline, and declining inflation,” he said.

“Our immediate and mediumterm firewalls are solid too in the

WELL PREPARED: Finance Min-

ister Arun Jaitley addresses the Invest in India Business Forum in Beijing on Friday. - PTI

form of a healthy reserve position.” Jaitley, who is here to attend the first meeting of the Board of Governors of the $100-billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said the government, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as well as other regulators are “well prepared, and working closely together, to deal with any short term volatility.”

“Our aim will be to smooth this volatility and minimise its impact on the economy in the short term,” he said. He said the government in the medium term

will “steadfastly” pursue ambitious reform agenda including early passage of the Goods and Services Tax bill that will help realise medium term growth potential of 8-9 per cent.

“As investors look around the world for safe havens in these turbulent times, India stands out both in terms of stability and growth,” he said.

India, he said, is among the fastest growing major economies in the world today. “Our growth and inflation prospects are further improving in the wake of the good monsoons that are now moving well across India.”

Stating that India respects the referendum’s verdict, the minister said, “We are also aware of its significance in the days ahead and also for the medium term.”

“As I have often said, in this globalised world volatility and uncertainty are the new norms. This verdict will obviously further contribute to such volatility not least because its full implications for the UK, Europe and the rest of the world are still uncertain.” - PTi

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Three killed, 20 injured in Quetta blast QUETTA: At least three people were killed and more than 20 injured in a blast near Quetta’s Almo Chowk on Friday.

The remote-controlled blast occurred near a shop on Airport Road, spreading panic in the area.

Security officials confirmed the deaths in the incident, saying the explosives weighing eight to 10 kilogram were installed on a motorcycle parked outside a nearby shop.

Police and rescue officials rushed to the site of the blast soon after the blast and cordoned the area.

Travel advisory On Thursday, the United States advised its citizens to avoid travelling to Quetta due to a heightened threat in the near term affecting government and military installations, hotels, and western interests in and around the city.

The statement maintained the US government personnel may be under additional movement restrictions in coming weeks, including hotels, restaurants, and large shopping centres. -Express Tribune

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Main opposition parties seek disqualification of Nawaz Dr Yasmeen Rashid, who contested the 2013 general elections against Nawaz Sharif from NA-120 Lahore on a PTI ticket, has filed the reference against the prime minister with secretary ECP on concealing assets

BRIEFING: PTI chairman Imran Khan addresses media in Islamabad on Friday. - Express Tribune

ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) hinted at leaving the dialogue process and instead filed graft cases against the Sharif family for keeping offshore holdings as revealed in Panama leaks, the Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (PTI) too filed on Friday a reference with the Election Com-

mission of Pakistan( ECP), seeking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification.

Dr Yasmeen Rashid, who contested the 2013 general elections against the prime minister from NA-120 Lahore on a PTI ticket, has filed the reference against the PM with secretary ECP on concealing assets.

“We have enough evidence to disqualify the prime minister,” Dr Yasmeen said while speaking to media persons outside the ECP’s office in Islamabad.

“PTI has been left with only one option to take the matter of Panama Papers to court as any development on terms of reference (TOR) could not be made,” added party

spokesperson Naeemul Haq. Haq demanded that members of the top electoral body should be appointed at the earliest such that pending cases could be settled without delay. Meanwhile, talking to media at his residence in Bani Gala, party chairman Imran Khan said the petition filed against the prime minister by his party was

“a legal position that democracies follow”. Despite filing the reference for PM’s disqualification in the ECP, the PTI chief cast doubts about the credibility of the electoral body, saying “This election commission is N-league’s election commission”.

“Judicial commission has given 40 findings regarding rigging in 2013 general elections but no action has been taken so far (by the ECP),” he said while addressing media men.

Imran rejected the government’s claim his party was trying to destabilise democracy. “We are rather strengthening it,” he said.

“Democracy began with magna carta in the UK when industrialists demanded to bring the king under the rule of law. And in Pakistan we are also trying to bring King Nawaz Sharif under the law.”

The cricketer-turned-politician warned his party will go to the Supreme Court in case the ECP refused to hear the reference and will eventually go for street protests.

The PTI chairman, however, denied any possibility of an electoral alliance with any party. “It is a one-point agenda and we are all united on anti-corruption agenda, accountability should begin from Nawaz Sharif.” -Express Tribune

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Pakistan awards $2b LNG pipeline contract to sanction-hit Russian firm ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law has given the go-ahead for the award of $2 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline contract to the energy firm designated by Russia, though the US has slapped sanctions on the company, officials say.

The approval comes after the Russian government signed a deal with Pakistan last year for laying a pipeline from Karachi to Lahore, called the North-South pipeline,

to transport imported LNG. It nominated RT Global Resources for executing the project.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to visit Pakistan to perform the ground-breaking of the project, but the signing of a commercial contract between RT Global Resources and Interstate Gas Systems was delayed due to US curbs on the company.

At the time of signing the deal in

October 2015, Russia had agreed to lend $2 billion for the project.

In return, Pakistan would award the contract of laying the pipeline to RT Global Resources without inviting bids. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources had tabled a plan for building the LNG pipeline with the help of the Russian firm in a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) in April this year.

RESCUE EFFORT

Pop icon Cher aims to free lonely, chained elephant in Pakistan

IN CAPTIVITY: Kavaan, a 29-year-old male elephant, is seen inside its enclosure at a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 21, 2016. - Reuters

ISLAMABAD: The plight of a lonely elephant in a Pakistani zoo has inspired help from pop icon Cher, who has sent a representative to oversee improvements in his living conditions.

Cher first became aware of 29-year-old Kavaan’s plight when pictures of the elephant in chains with only a dilapidated shed for shelter and a small, dirty pond to play in spread on social media.

Cher sent her representative, Mark Cowne, to Islamabad to check up on Kavaan, who has been kept chained for 27 of his 29 years at the Maraghazar Zoo in Islamabad. “Mark got Kaavan Water, Shade & Unchained. Mark is trying everything to free him,” Cher tweeted after Cowne visited

the zoo. Cowne told Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper that Cher would soon launch an international campaign to help elephants in captivity. Kavaan’s caretakers last week said they had never heard of Cher or her music but were grateful for her help.

“We hope this will change things for him,” said Kavaan’s caretaker, Muhammad Jalal, as another caretaker sprayed the animal with a high-pressure hose while he bathed in a pond of muddy water. Zoo management did not respond to calls seeking comment but told reporters last month that they were trying to get a new mate for Kavaan from Sri Lanka.

Kavaan was given to Pakistan by Sri Lanka in the 1980s. - Reuters

However, the ECC referred the matter to the Law Division for its opinion on whether the US sanctions could cause problems for the project. According to officials familiar with the development, the Russian government had suggested that a special purpose vehicle (SPV) could be set up in Pakistan to implement the project in order to avoid the impact of US restrictions.

In its legal opinion, the Ministry of Law agreed that the Russian proposal was workable and would help execute the pipeline project.

There was no legal bar on awarding commercial contract to the Russian firm that would set up an SPV in Pakistan, it said.

Officials said the SPV would also be listed on the Pakistan stock market to float its shares for generating funds. Washington has imposed

only some restrictions on the Russian firm, barring it from doing business with US companies.

However, the company would be registered in Pakistan to implement the project, they said.

The pipeline that will be built by RT Global Resources, a Russian state corporation, will be 1,100km long and will have the capacity to carry 12.4 billion cubic metres of LNG per annum. - Express Tribune

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he old idea of recasting the welfare state by instituting an unconditional universal basic income has lately been capturing imaginations across the political spectrum. On the left, it is regarded as a simple and potentially comprehensive antidote to poverty. On the right, it is viewed as a means to demolish complex welfare bureaucracies while recognising the need for some social transfer obligations in a way that doesn’t weaken incentives significantly. It also provides some assurance for the dreaded future when robots may replace workers in many sectors. But could it actually work?

So far, the question has been addressed primarily in advanced countries – and the figures do not look promising. Though Canada, Finland, and the Netherlands are reportedly now considering the idea of a basic income, some prominent advanced-country economists warn that it is blatantly unaffordable. In the US, for example, an annual handout of $10,000 to every adult – less than the official poverty threshold for a single person – would exhaust almost all federal tax revenue, under the current system.

Perhaps it was that kind of arithmetic that spurred Swiss voters to reject the idea overwhelmingly in a referendum earlier this month.

But what about low- or middle-income countries? In fact, a basic income may very well be fiscally feasible – not to mention socially desirable – in places where the poverty threshold is low and existing social safety nets are both threadbare and expensive to administer.

Consider India, where about one-fifth of the population lives below the official poverty line, which is itself very low. While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief, surveys show that about half of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.

Many other developing countries face similar problems, with benefits intended for the poor accruing to better-off people, while many of the intended recipients miss out, owing to a combination of political and administrative collusion and genuine structural challenges. Means-testing can be very difficult in an environment where jobs are concentrated in the informal sector, primarily in selfemployment, without any formal account-keeping or income data. Under those circumstances, iden-

tifying the poor can be costly, corrupt, complicated, and controversial. An unconditional basic income could eliminate much of this mess. The question is whether governments can afford it, without increasing the burden on taxpayers and undermining economic incentives.

In India, the answer could be yes. If each of India’s 1.25 billion citizens received an annual basic income of Rs10,000 ($149) – about three-quarters of the official poverty line – the total payout would come to about 10 per cent of GDP. The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy in Delhi estimates that every year the Indian government doles out significantly more than that in implicit or explicit subsidies to better-off sections of the population, not to mention tax exemptions to the corporate sector. By discontinuing some or all of these subsidies – which, of course, do not include expenditures in areas like health, education, nutrition, rural and urban development programs, and environmental protection – the government could secure the funds to offer everyone, rich and poor, a reasonable basic income.

If the government lacks the political courage to eliminate enough subsidies, two options remain.

Either it could take steps to boost tax revenues, such as by improving property-tax collections (currently extremely low), or it could reduce the level of any basic income it introduces.

What governments should not do is fund a basicincome scheme with the money from other key social-welfare programmes. While a basic income can replace some egregiously dysfunctional welfare spending, it cannot substitute for, say, public education and health care, preschool nutrition programs, or employment guarantees in public works. After all, the basic income would still be severely limited, and there is no way to ensure that individuals would allocate enough of it to achieve socially desirable education, health, or nutrition levels. If these limitations are taken into account, there is little reason to think that a basic-income programme could not work in developing countries. Indeed, the most frequently heard arguments against such schemes are far from convincing. - Project Syndicate

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WORLD Britons in shock after Brexit vote In Manchester in northern England, retiree Janet Hartley, who voted to leave the EU, said the campaign leading up to the referendum had been confusing, with politicians talking “rubbish”, but that Britain would now be better off.

“We should have our independence instead of being ruled by a lot of bureaucrats sitting earning lots of money doing sod-all,” she said, using a slang term for nothing.

The vote, after a bitter campaign, split the country along several faultlines, old versus young, England and Wales versus Scotland and Northern Ireland and people in northern England suffering economic hardship versus richer city dwellers in the south

LONDON/EDINBURGH: Britons reacted with shock on Friday to their country’s decision to leave the European Union, whether they welcomed “independence” day or were horrified by the outcome.

The vote, after a bitter campaign, split the country along several faultlines, old versus young, England and Wales versus Scotland and Northern Ireland and

RESULT: A woman holds a sign in Westminster, in central London, Britain, on Friday. — Reuters

people in northern England suffering economic hardship versus richer city dwellers in the south.

It went down to the wire before ending in a 52-48 per cent win for Brexit in the early hours of Friday, prompting celebrations by “Leave”

campaigners and their supporters for a move they said would make Britain stronger.

In London, where residents voted overwhelmingly to remain in the bloc Britain joined more than 40 years ago, the morning com-

mute into the financial district was grim for many City workers worried their jobs would be at risk.

“What now?” commuter Steve Jones said.

“That is the big unknown and right now it is looking pretty bleak.”

Frustration She was one of many older voters who chose Brexit; the young mostly favoured staying in and many took to social media to vent their frustration, with #whathavewedone trending on Twitter.

“It’s us who will have to suffer the consequences,” said Twitter user @Kean_Smith.

Most people in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain while England and Wales opted to leave, raising questions over the future of the United Kingdom they all belong to.

“It’s a bit shocking, it’s put a lot of uncertainty into Scotland over the next couple of years.

This has split us right down the middle,” said Catherine, 41, from the Scottish city of Aberdeen.

The pro-Brexit side drew support from millions of voters who felt left behind by globalisation and blamed EU immigration for low wages and stretched public services.

“I think it’s tremendous, its a good thing,” Duncan, a 70-year-

old part-time chauffeur, said as he buffed up the seats of his car in Edinburgh, adding that he thought it would help the economy and allow limits on who comes to Britain.

“Britain is sinking under the weight of population.”

Brexit campaigners played down the financial turmoil unleashed by the result as global markets plunged and the pound fell against the dollar to levels last seen in 1985 on fears for the future of the world’s fifth-largest economy.

It will take at least two years of messy negotiations with the EU before the process of separation is complete.

Serious discontent Laura Clarke, a city worker, said she was devastated and called it economic insanity.

Other voters welcomed the chance to voice their disenchantment with the European Union.

“I just think the EU has gone on longer than it needs to be,” Londoner Steve Kennedy said.”It’s just gone on too long, it’s become something it’s not meant to be and I think in the end it’s better for us to be out.”

Michael Elborn, who works in the tech sector with start ups, was on his way to a meeting with CEOs in London, said the referendum should never have been called.

“There’s serious discontent in the country, politicians aren’t listening to the general public.

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Making India better tourists is coach Kumble’s top priority The Indian Test team will have a camp in Bengaluru before heading to the Caribbean for a fourTest series against West Indies, which will be Kumble’s first assignment

MUMBAI: A force to be reckoned with at home, India’s test side have struggled away from the subcontinent in recent years and new skipper Anil Kumble has put top priority on building a team that can travel with confidence.

Kumble, India’s most successful bowler, was given a one-year term as head coach on Thursday with the country’s cricket board (BCCI) putting their faith in the 45-yearold despite his lack of coaching experience.

The BCCI received 57 applications for the job, which were then made available to an advisory panel that included former captains Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly and former batsman VVS Laxman -- all of whom have played with Kumble.

Kumble’s coaching experience has been limited to being a men-

Anil Kumble.

tor to the Mumbai and Bangalore teams in the Indian Premier League T20 tournament, and he said his first job interview was a “nerve-racking” experience.

“It was very different because this was the first (job) interview that I was attending,” Kumble said.

“My colleagues who I have played with throughout my career were on the other side of the table.

“It was very strange. It was quite nerve-racking.”

While the Indian team under Virat Kohli won test series in Sri Lanka and beat South Africa 3-0 at home, their record outside the subcontinent in the longest format has been poor.

They have lost test series in

RAMADAN CRICKET

Ton-up Irfan hogs limelight MUSCAT: Irfan of Bisya Lion stole the thunder by blasting the first century of the Omantel Ramadhan Tape Ball Cricket 2016 Tournament organised by Pakistan Social Club at the Pakistan School Muscat ground.

Irfan his 25 sixes as he remained unbeaten on 146 to swamp Al Asam Travel by 134 runs. Meanwhile, in the MRI ball trournamen, Rajasthan Royals beat Omar Al Khayyam by 9 wickets and DHL edged out Agha XI by 13 runs.

Brief scores: Bisya Lion 208 for 2 in 8 overs (Irfan 146 not out , Amir 31) beat Al Asam Travel 74 for 8 in 8 overs (Bilal Khan 2 for 3) by 134 runs. Man of the match: Irfan of Bisya Lion.

Omar Al Khayyam 48 for 8 in

8 overs lost to Rajasthan Royals 49 for 1 in 7 overs (Safeer 26) by 9 wickets. Man of the match: Safeer of Rajasthan Royals

DHL 65 for 6 in 8 overs (Hassan 25) beat Agha XI 52 for 8 in 8 overs (Arshad 3 for 12) by 13 runs. Man of the match: Hassan of DHL.

South Africa, New Zealand, England and Australia on tours since late 2013, something Kumble wants to rectify.

“The focus will be on our overseas record,” Kumble told the board’s website (www.bcci.tv).

“The mindset ... I believe we need to start looking to address that from home itself.

“So when we sit down we will look to make a plan and ensure that we train towards achieving those goals.”

The Indian Test team will have a camp in Bengaluru before heading to the Caribbean for a four-Test series against West Indies, which will be Kumble’s first assignment.

“It’s nice to have a camp in Bengaluru. We will sit down and iron out our plans and be ready for West Indies,” said the former legspinner, who took 619 wickets in 132 tests and 337 from 271 one-day internationals.

“Getting 20 wickets in test cricket will win you matches and that will be the focus,” he said, adding that he wanted to work in the background and take the pressure off his captain’s shoulders, both on an off the field.

“I believe this team has the potential. It’s a young team and it’s driven by a young leader and it will be nice to work with Virat (Kohli).”

India are set for a bumper season at home with 13 test matches, eight ODIs and three T20 internationals.

They start with three Tests against New Zealand in October while England and Australia will play five and four matches respectively. Bangladesh will play a oneoff Test. - Reuters

BCCI to host mini IPL overseas in September DHARAMSALA: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is set to introduce a new Twenty20 event, to be branded as mini IPL, outside India in September.

“In the month of September, the BCCI is willing to host a mini IPL or IPL overseas with all the eight teams participating,” BCCI president Anurag Thakur said at the conclusion of the Board’s Working Committee meeting here. “It will be a shorter format, not home and away matches but a lesser number of matches. In a twoweek window we should be able to complete it,” he said.

The BCCI move was on the cards with the scrapping of the Champions League T20 last year. The details of the shortened version of IPL are yet to be chalked out and pos-

sible venues are US and UAE, which has already hosted part of the IPL in 2014.

The full-fledged IPL lasts about for almost two months.

The ninth edition of the tournament was held in India from April 9 to May 29.

Minutes after Thakur’s statement, the BCCI issued a release stating that “BCCI will explore the option of hosting Mini IPL overseas in September”. Going overseas is not new to IPL as the entire 2009 edition was held in South Africa due to the general election in India.

The release also stated that BCCI will start annual awards for state associations in categories like best website, best Facebook page, best Twitter handle, best Instagram, best media facility and best media operations. - PTI

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SPORTS EURO 2016 PREVIEW

Lewandowski and Shaqiri still to shine TOULOUSE: Poland forward Robert Lewandowski and Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri, who have yet to shine at Euro 2016, will have another chance to brighten up the tournament when their teams clash in St Etienne in the last 16 on Saturday.

Although neither player has had an especially bad tournament, they have yet to produce performances that match their billing as their teams’ most creative players, and get on the scoresheet for the first time.

Lewandowski made it six international matches without scoring when he missed an early chance in their 1-0 win over Ukraine.

However, he still worked hard in attack and was always getting in position to receive the ball so there are no real concerns about his form.

“He has a lot of influence on the way we play,” said coach Adam Nawalka. “He is an incredibly important player for us. He is our engine, like a locomotive and he provides us with power.”

Similarly, Switzerland coach Vladimir Petkovic is unconcerned that Shaqiri, who scored a hat-trick against Honduras in the World Cup two years ago, has not shown off his dribbling or long-range shooting skills.

“Individualists are having a tough time at his tournament,” said Petkovic, “I’m satisfied that Xherdan is not an individualist at the moment, but a team player.

“He gives everything for the team and that’s what he should keep doing. When the team goes well, everyone profits.”

There are no clear favourites between two technically gifted sides who have both progressed beyond the group stage of the competition for the first time.

Both have struggled for goals, however, scoring only twice each in three matches. — Reuters T O D AY ’ S E U R O M AT C H E S

Round of 16 5pm: Switzerland vs Poland 8pm: Wales vs Nothern Ireland 11pm: Portugal vs Croatia (All Oman time)

Portugal ‘braced’ for series of finals C O M M E N TA RY

Santos was confident

The towering Round of 16 match will be Spain vs Italy

that Ronaldo, who became the first player to score

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in four European championships, would thrive as Portugal aim to win “a

BACK IN FORM: Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo plays with the ball during a training session at Marcoussis. – AFP

series of finals” on the road to what would be their maiden title

LYON: Having squeezed into the Euro 2016 knockout stages after three contrasting group stage draws, Portugal are ready to move up a gear when they face Croatia in their mouth-watering last-16 clash in Lens on Saturday, coach Fernando Santos said.

While the Croatians romped into the tournament’s business end with a 2-1 win over holders Spain, the Portuguese came from behind three times in Wednesday’s rip-roaring 3-3 draw against Hungary at Parc OL. Their talismanic forward Cristiano Ronaldo, subdued in the 1-1 tie with Iceland and a goalless stalemate against Austria, rediscovered his scoring touch with two fine second-half goals which saved Portugal from an early exit.

Santos was confident that Ronaldo, who became the first player to score in four European championships, would thrive as Portugal aim to win “a series of finals” on the road to what would be their maiden title.

“Ronaldo is a scorer and a winner, he plays up front and feeds on goals,” Santos said after the Real Madrid hitman was voted man of the match against the Hungarians.

“I am sure this performance will boost his confidence in our bid to win the competition.

“Everything is different now because every game that follows is like a final, there is no room for er-

Expensive Bale faces free agent in all-British affair PARIS: The world’s most expensive player, Gareth Bale of Wales, will face an ageing goalkeeper looking for a club in Saturday’s intriguing allBritish showdown against fellow debutants Northern Ireland for a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2016.

Bale, who has scored a goal in each game so far to help Wales top their group ahead of England, was expected to shine on the pitches of France.

It is a different story for Michael McGovern, whose heroics in the Northern Ireland goal have earned him a comparison to the great Pat Jennings by coach Martin O’Neill.

While Bale, 26, features promi-

ror. We want to come out on top in all of them and go all the way.”

“We have to strike the right balance between defence and attack because when we come forward we leave too many gaps at the back, as our group stage results show.”

The Croatians, who came from behind to beat Spain with a makeshift team, left their coach Ante Cacic spoilt for choice after reserve striker Nikola Kalinic and several other fringe players shone.

Kalinic enjoyed a rare start in-

nently in the star-studded Real Madrid outfit, the 31-yearold McGovern is a free agent whose contract with struggling Scottish side Hamilton Academical has just expired.

The two now hold the key to Saturday’s battle of the European championship firsttimers at Parc des Princes, which Wales will start with an advantage after their convincing displays in the group stages showcased Bale’s pace, skills and set-piece expertise.

Wales are likely to take the initiative in Saturday’s game with Northern Ireland shutting up shop at the back to rely on their trademark, counterattacking tactics. — Reuters

stead of the towering Mario Mandzukic and repaid the faith with a sublime equaliser before Ivan Perisic netted a late winner.

“We could have done with easier opposition than Portugal in the last 16 but if we play like we did in the group stage, we have a great chance of progressing,” Kalinic told a news conference at Croatia’s Deauville base. We are one of the best teams here and if our midfield wins the battle in the centre of the pitch, we should win.” — Reuters

SAILING

Oman Air dazzle on opening day in Cardiff MUSCAT: Oman Air turned the focus in Cardiff from tough test to tough team after launching their Welsh campaign with a string of successes to end the opening day at the top of the Extreme Sailing Series leaderboard. A fresh but shifting breeze that held its strength throughout the eight races made for some eye catching action as the GC32s flew across the water at full tilt on their foils.

The conditions were ideally suited to Morgan Larson’s powerful crew on Oman Air, who are well-known to excel in big breeze.

The result was a stunning victory in the opening race followed by four further outright wins and an additional podium place bringing their score to 85 points, two points ahead of second placed Red Bull with Alinghi in third trailing by six points. Consistent breeze has been forecast for the rest of the week and that came as good news for Pete Greenhalgh and other crewmembers Nasser Al Mashari, Ed Smyth and James Wierzbowski.

“We would love it if it is the same again for the rest of the week because we really like this venue,”

GOOD DAY: Oman Air did well on the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series in Cardiff. – Supplied photo

said Greenhalgh, who has gathered family and friends from his home in Hampshire to lend Oman Air some special support.

“It’s renowned for nice breeze, it is a very boat handling oriented course and very changeable in terms of direction and strength.

It’s exciting and we are just trying

to sail to our full potential. Today we got into our stride and sailed round the course pretty tidily.

“These GC32 boats are very physical especially in these winds so we are always out of breath.

Every time we tack and gybe, we have to drop and hoist these great big boards and that is really

hard work because they have all the weight of the boat and crew on them.

“They require a serious bit of handling so on a small course like this, timing is everything, which is fine if you have the time but in these winds, you rarely do. But it’s brilliant.”

The close contest between the top three boats makes the remaining three days a thrilling prospect, added Nasser, Oman Air’s bowman. “Red Bull and Alinghi are both very strong competitors but we have learned to concentrate on our own performances and not look out for anyone else so we will focus on our starts, boat-handling and teamwork and hopefully the results will come,” he said.

“Today was tough but we sailed well. Our teamwork was great. So far so good.”

Oman Air, who also lead the 2016 overall leaderboard by two points, continue racing on till Sunday June 26. Fans can watch the racing live on the official YouTube channel on 25-26 June, 1530-1700 BST daily. In the UK, they can also watch it live on BT Sport on the final day.

he late winning goal

by Ireland against Italy on Wednesday evening suddenly triggered a carnival-like atmosphere in what till then had been a somewhat restrained atmosphere in France, the host country. The Irish spread so much joy - they sing, they drink, but they’re not violent.

That is tremendous.

However, one must caution that the goal by Ireland’s new national saint, Robbie Brady, only came about because their opponents, already qualified for the Round of 16 as Group E winners, entered the match with eight or nine substitute players. They didn’t even field veteran star goalie Gianluigi Buffon.

Okay, this isn’t forbidden.

But you could talk about a bit of a distortion of the competition because the Turks, who after all had beaten the Czechs 2-0 to finish 3rd in Group D, were virtually already through to the Round of 16. Now Turkey has to go home.

Looking to the Round of 16, the match towering over everything else is between Spain and Italy. That was the pairing of the 2012 final, which Spain won, 4-0. That Spain must face Italy in this stage is due to their having let slip a lead on a goal by Álvaro Morata against Croatia and wound up losing, 2-1.

All the same, the Croatian victory against the defending champions came as no surprise to me. Before the tournament I had them on my list of title contenders, simply because they are strong. And so when a strong team like Spain permits itself to slip up, then the result is that you get a finals-like matchup such as Spain-Italy so early into the knockout stages.

The Spaniards will go into the match as favorites, among others thanks to the outstanding form of Andrés Iniesta. They continue to emphasize ball control, while the Italian game is one of waiting to launch a counterattack. So two footballing cultures are clashing.

Better opponent I am hoping for Spain, because then they would have to face the Germans provided that Germany gets past Slovakia.

I believe that Spain is the better opponent for the Germans than Italy, who are tough to play against with virtually the entire defense comprised of Juventus Turin players. I guess I’m a patriot.

On paper, Germany against Slovakia looks clearcut. But in this European Championships nothing is clear. The group play has seen a lot of tentativeness.

So far in France, the Germans have not been convincing, even though, slowly, a team appears to be forming, one that may even be worthy of a world champion.

The passion and quality of the German players is there.

It is the Croatians who have been the most convincing. They were the only ones

who already in their opening matches against Turkey and the Czechs demonstrated some good football. With Luka Modric, Ivan Perisic, Ivan Rakitic, and Mario Mandzukic they are the favorites against Portugal.

Cristiano Ronaldo did score twice in Portugal’s 3-3 draw against Hungary, but I have been a bit disappointed by the Portuguese.

Simply waiting for a stroke of genius from Ronaldo is simply not enough, even if an outcome in this crazy tournament cannot be predicted.

France had a hard time of it in winning their opening matches against Albania and Romania, both of which were eliminated.

Against the Swiss the French managed only a draw because this relatively inexperienced team is still trying to learn how to cope with the pressure of being the hosts.

Despite the outstanding passing combination style of play they showed in their preparatory matches, the French still haven’t loosened up. But their opponents Ireland, despite all the euphoria, will be the rank outsiders.

In Hungary versus Belgium, you have one of the major surprise teams against many peoples’ secret favourites.

It’s a miracle how Hungary, my chosen home, has played so well. Nobody foresaw them reaching the Round of 16.

The team was together for five weeks, and you can see it. But Belgium has the better roster, something that is not too overly significant, despite such players as Kevinde Bruyne and Eden Hazard.

England has a side of fast, young, hungry players who still lack single-mindedness.

But they are naturally the clear favorites against Iceland, even though the Icelanders with their great physical robustness made it to the second round without a defeat.

Switzerland against Poland looks to be a balanced match with no clear favorite.

Both sides are well-staffed.

In Robert Lewandowski and Arkadiusz Milik, Poland has two outstanding strikers.

The Swiss are good at dominating the play, and even had more control of the ball than France in their match. Finally, there is Wales against Northern Ireland, both of whom can scarcely believe their success.

But when, as is the case of Wales, you have Real Madrid striker Gareth Bale, who has already scored three goals, then your team is the slight favorite. I expect a really physical, British-style duel.

I hope that we won’t be seeing too much football that is based on limiting the damage. - DPA

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OIL MARKETS TO BALANCE AT $50 THIS YEAR

Rising petroleum demand in China, North America and Europe will help bring global oil markets into balance this year, BP CEO Bob Dudley said. As stockpiles are drawn down, oil prices will probably reach $50 per barrel by the end of the year and $50 to $60 next year, Dudley added. >B3

Markets routed by Brexit as stocks, pound plummet FTSE 100 Index slides as much as 8.7 per cent, most since 2008 S&P 500 Index futures slump as much as 5.1 per cent, triggering a trading curb Gold surges as much as 8.1 per cent to $1,358.54

HIT HARD: People work as screens display news and trading rates at the Euronext Stock Exchange

services in Paris’ financial district of La Defense on Friday, as Britain votes to leave the European Union, fuelling a wave of global uncertainty. - AFP

an ounce Yield on 10-year Treasuries drops 25 basis points to 1.50 per cent New York crude oil retreats as much as 6.8 per cent to $46.70 a barrel

LONDON: Global markets buckled as Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) drove the pound to the lowest in more than 30 years and European banks to their steepest losses on record.

“It’s scary, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said James Butterfill, 41, head of research and investments at ETF Securities in London. “A lot of people were caught out, and many investors will lose a lot of money.”

Sterling slid by the most on record and European stocks headed for the biggest drop since 2008 as trading soared. The yen strengthened past 100 per dollar for the first time since 2013, gold rose the most in more than seven years and benchmark Treasury yields had their biggest drop since 2009.

The victory for the “Leave” campaign prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to resign, while Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second

referendum on independence was back “on the table.” The outcome stunned many investors who’d put wagers on riskier assets over the past week as bookmakers’ odds suggested the chance of a socalled Brexit was less than one in four.

The final tally, announced just after 7am London time, showed voters had backed “Leave” by 52 per cent to 48 per cent. JPMorgan Chase and HSBC Holdings said the result may prompt them to move thousands of jobs out of London. S&P Global Ratings said the UK will lose its AAA credit rating.

Some equity benchmarks and currencies pared losses after Governor Mark Carney said the Bank of England (BoE) was ready to pump billions of pounds into the financial system to support markets and wouldn’t hesitate to take additional measures if needed.

These are among the most notable moves in global financial markets.

British pound falls as much as 11 per cent to $1.3229, weakest since 1985. Yen strengthens 3.2 per cent to 102.85 per dollar, after reaching 99.02. FTSE 100 Index slides as much as 8.7 per cent, most since 2008. S&P 500 Index futures slump as much as 5.1 per cent, triggering a trading curb. Gold surges as much as 8.1 per cent to $1,358.54 an ounce.

Yield on 10-year Treasuries drops 25 basis points to 1.50 per cent.

New York crude oil retreats as

B R I TA I N ’ S E U E X I T

fixed income at T. Rowe Price in e-mailed comments. “The vote to leave could result in a global recession.” The UK’s vote to quit the EU after more than four decades has sent shock waves throughout global markets and caused the pound to plunge to the lowest level since 1985. Just after 6am London time, as most votes were counted, the BBC said there was no way back for the pro-EU side, with voters having backed “Leave” by 52 per cent to 48 per cent. — Bloomberg News

LONDON: The risk of a global recession is now more than 50 per cent after Britain voted to leave the European Union, according to asset manager T. Rowe Price Group, which oversees more than $765 billion in assets.

“Those who believe Brexit is a UK problem are misunderstanding the impact it will have globally. They’re forgetting the impact that Greece had — and Greece is much smaller than the UK and not a financial centre,” said Arif Husain, head of international

much as 6.8 per cent to $46.70 a barrel. South Africa’s rand drop more than 4 per cent per dollar, lead emerging-market currencies lower.

The pound was down 8 per cent to $1.3694 as of 7:15am in New York. Its biggest one-day loss prior to that was a move of 4.1 per cent recorded in 1992, when the currency was forced out of Europe’s exchange-rate mechanism.

“Market liquidity and overall liquidity in the UK is drying up as we speak in a very rapid way,” said John Woods, chief investment officer for Asia-Pacific at Credit Sui-

sse Private Banking, told Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong. “It’s highly likely that we see monetary easing in a coordinated response” from central banks across the world, he said.

Stocks The Stoxx Europe 600 Index tumbled 7.5 per cent, with trading volumes more than five times the 30day average. A gauge of banks led the selloff, declining 14 per cent.

The FTSE 100 Index slid 4.4 per cent. Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group both lost one-fifth of more than 15 per cent.

Commodities The Bloomberg Commodity Index fell 1.7 per cent, the biggest loss in more than a month. Brent crude traded 5.3 per cent lower at $47.48 a barrel, the most since February.

Copper slid 2.1 per cent.

Gold posted its biggest one-day gain since the financial crisis, dropping 5.1 per cent fo $1,321.05 an ounce. Silver rallied the most in 18 months.

“Gold has delivered what it promised: doing extremely well in adverse times,” said Dominic Schnider, head of commodities and Asia-Pacific foreign exchange at the wealth-management unit at UBS Group in Hong Kong. “Energy and industrial metals, where demand is tied to expectations for global economic growth, were hardest hit by Brexit.

Borrowing costs A gauge of where bank borrowing costs will be in the months ahead, known as the FRA/OIS spread, hit the most extreme level since 2012. The three-month FRA/OIS spread widened to 0.32 percentage point, compared with 0.27 on Thursday. The cost of insuring investment-grade corporate debt against default surged the most since 2008. The Markit iTraxx Europe Index of credit-default swaps jumped 17 basis points to 92 basis points, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg.

A gauge of swaps on sub-investment grade companies climbed the most since October 2014.

— Bloomberg News

Egypt rejects another wheat cargo from US CAIRO: Egypt has rejected another wheat cargo, just as the government looked set to end confusion over how much of the fungus known as ergot would be allowed in imports.

The biggest wheat buyer turned away a 33,000-metric-tonne cargo of US wheat from Venus International on June 13 after finding ergot, the company’s Chairman Mohamed Abdel Fadil said by phone.

Egypt made similar rejections earlier this year of French, Canadian and Polish cargoes containing the naturally occurring fungus.

That, and conflicting statements from different parts of the government over what would be permitted, roiled the wheat market and led many traders to withdraw their offers or charge higher prices. While the Cabinet this week said it backed allowing shipments containing 0.05 per cent ergot — the international standard — a spokesman for the Agriculture Ministry on Friday said it will apply a zero-tolerance policy until a new decree is issued. “We were hoping the shipment would be allowed in after the Prime Minister’s decree, but that didn’t help,” Fadil said. The cargo contained 0.002 per cent ergot, Fadil said, citing health ministry documents.

Ministry comments Agriculture Ministry spokesman Eid Hawash on Thursday said he wasn’t aware that a shipment had been rejected. On Thursday, he said an official decree ordering the quarantine office to accept a level of 0.05 per cent ergot was expected.

Ministers of supply, agriculture, trade and health met with Prime Minister Sherif Ismail the day before to discuss wheat policy. The decree still hasn’t been issued, Hawash said. Egypt buys massive amounts of wheat every year, both through international tenders and from local farmers, to provide subsidised bread for citizens.

“We won’t allow any shipment with the slightest trace of ergot before we receive a decree from the Cabinet instructing the ministry to apply a 0.05 per cent policy,” Hawash said on Friday. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is engaging with Egyptian authorities to encourage them to apply international standards on ergot levels, a spokeswoman for the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said by e-mail. — Bloomberg News

CRUDE SUPPLIES

Central banks move to calm ‘jittery’ markets LONDON/ZURICH: Some of the world’s biggest central banks offered financial backstops to soothe plunging markets on Friday after Britain voted to leave the EU with some even intervening in currency markets on worries that volatility could hit growth.

The Bank of England (BoE) offered to provide more than 250 billion pounds ($347 billion) plus “substantial” foreign currency liquidity and it was ready to take additional measures if needed, Governor Mark Carney said after markets went into a tailspin.

The European Central Bank (ECB) said it was ready to provide additional liquidity and would protect euro zone financial stability. The People’s Bank of China pledged to keep the yuan basically stable and said it would maintain ample liquidity.

As the vote raised far-reaching questions about Britain’s future economic growth prospects, the pound fell by as much as 10 per cent to a 31-year low against the dollar in early trade and European shares were down close to 10 per cent before recovering some ground. Central banks, with the memories of the 200709 financial crisis still fresh, are concerned that market liquidity could quickly up dry from extreme swings, depriving the real economy of access to cash and financial instruments.

Global recession risk above 50%

UK construction firms Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes Group sank at least 20 per cent. EasyJet, the low-cost carrier which gets about half its revenue from European markets excluding the UK, tumbled 17 per cent. Julius Baer Group dropped 8.5 per cent after saying market turbulence triggered by Brexit could temporarily hit gross margins at wealth-management firms.

“It’s already been a long day today,” said William Hobbs, head of investment strategy at the wealthmanagement unit of Barclays in London. “Risk appetite is going to evaporate in the coming days.

How long that risk-off will go remains the question. What we would urge clients to remember is that the impact of the UK is unhelpful but digestible.”

W H E AT M A R K E T

“The Bank (of England) will not hesitate to take additional measures as required as those markets adjust and the UK economy moves forward,” Carney said, warning that economic volatility can be expected as the UK adjusts.

Britain’s economy was already slowing ahead of the referendum and Carney earlier warned that the economy could go into recession in the event of a vote to leave the EU. Indeed, ratings agency Fitch warned on Friday that the UK now faces weaker growth and investment prospects while its status as a major international banking hub could be damaged as some businesses shift to the EU. ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said that markets were already stabilising after the initial surprise and panic was not justified. Indeed, 10-year yields in Spain and Italy, up around 40 basis points in early trade, recovered most of their losses by midday.

Deputy finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich economies were due hold a conference call at 1130GMT to discuss the situation, a source familiar with the matter said.

In a rare move for a major central bank, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) openly intervened in currency markets to weaken the safehaven franc, promising to do even more if needed. — Reuters

Hints of fading oil glut fom Saudi LONDON: Saudi Arabia, a country nearly synonymous with plentiful crude supplies, is offering one of the strongest signs yet that the glut that has plagued the oil market since 2014 is coming to an end.

Despite near record production, the kingdom’s oil inventories have declined for six consecutive months, the longest stretch since the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) started tracking Saudi supply levels nearly 15 years ago.

“The drop in Saudi crude stocks signals the rebalancing has started,” said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at consulting firm energy Aspects in london. “Crude stocks are coming off in places where either the data is opaque or the market isn’t paying as much attention.”

With oil traders focusing on supply changes in the US and to a lesser extent in Europe and Japan, the drop in Saudi inventories has gone largely unnoticed. Since October, when Saudi supplies reached a record high, stocks have fallen by 38.6 million barrels as the kingdom provided more crude to the market than it pumped from its oilfields. Over the same period, us crude stocks increased by nearly 61 million barrels.

“Saudi Arabia cannot continue to draw down stocks forever,” said Olivier Jakob at consulting firm Petromatrix in Switzerland. With inventories down, Riyadh “will contribute to the rebalancing” of

ries, with stocks down another 5.6 million barrels.

SMOOTH SAILING: Since October, when Saudi supplies reached

a record high, stocks have fallen by 38.6 million barrels as the kingdom provided more crude to the market than it pumped from its oilfields. — Bloomberg file picture

the oil market in the second half of the year and in 2017, he said.

Saudi Arabia’s new energy minister has offered his own opinion that the market is emerging from the global glut.

“The worst is clearly behind us,” Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih told Bloomberg television when Opec met in Vienna on June 2.

“We see a balanced market, we see supply and demand converging.

We may have started inventory draw-downs that will continue for the foreseeable future.”

The amount of Saudi crude in domestic and overseas storage facilities stood at 290.9 million barrels at the end of April, the lowest level since August 2014,

according to JODI data. In addition to tanks within the kingdom, Saudi Arabia keeps crude in large storage facilities in Sidi Kerir in Egypt, Okinawa in Japan, and Rotterdam.

At current trends, Saudi crude stocks are set to fall further, analysts and traders said. In April, the kingdom supplied the market — a mix of crude exports, domestic refinery consumption and direct burn at power plants — with roughly 10.5 million barrels a day, compared with production of just 10.2 million, leading to a drop in stocks, according to JODI data.

Preliminary data for May point to the seventh consecutive monthly drop in crude invento-

Summer demand Unless the kingdom increases production or reduces exports, the stock draw will deepen as Saudi Arabia uses significantly more crude between June and September to produce electricity for cooling during the sweltering summer months. Within the last year, Saudi Arabia has increased its refining capacity, too, further adding to crude demand.

“The seasonal increase in crude burn from april and the higher base of refinery runs imply further sharp stock draws or higher production to maintain exports,” said Seth Kleinman, an oil analyst at Citigroup in London.

The kingdom burned 500,000 barrels a day at its power stations in April, the most for the month since at least 2009. Traditionally Saudi crude burn reaches a peak in July to August at around double the rate of April. Even if Riyadh raises its oil production this summer to the all-time high of 10.56 million barrels a day set in June 2015, stocks may fall further, depending on whether current export levels and refinery intakes are maintained. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said earlier this month that Saudi Arabia could increase production beginning in June to cover increased power needs during the summer.

— Bloomberg News

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MARKET US jobs, factory data point to firming up of economy points to a lower pace of firings in June. Our June payrolls forecast is 180,000,” said Ted Wieseman, an economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. Labour market optimism, which is also being spurred by near record high job openings, was bolstered further by a second report on Thursday showing a jump in manufacturing activity and factory employment early this month.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 259,000 for the week ended June 18, the Labor Department said. Manufacturing activity rose to a

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 18,000 to a season-

ally adjusted 259,000 for the week ended June 18, the Labor Department said. — Bloomberg file picture

three-month high in early June. Although new single-family home sales dropped last month from a more than eight-year high in April

WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell last week to near a 43-year low, suggesting labor market resilience even though hiring slowed sharply in May. Other data on Thursday also gave a fairly upbeat assessment of the economy after it stumbled

in the first quarter. Manufacturing activity rose to a three-month high in early June. Although new single-family home sales dropped last month from a more than eight-year high in April, the trend remained consistent with a firming housing market. “Today’s data suggest that growth has bounced back in the second quarter,” said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody’s Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 259,000 for the week ended June 18, the Labor Department said. The drop was the largest since February and left claims not too far from 253,000, a 43-year low touched in March. Claims have now been below 300,000, a threshold asso-

ciated with a strong job market, for 68 straight weeks, the longest streak since 1973. The four-week moving average of claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 2,250 to 267,000 last week.

The drop in jobless claims could give Federal Reserve officials more confidence that job growth will pick up. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers on Tuesday that the US central bank believed the slowdown in nonfarm payroll gains was “transitory,” noting that “several other timely indicators of labor market conditions still look favourable.”

“Overall labour market conditions are not as bad as one might assume based on May’s nonfarm payroll print alone,” said Jim

Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

US financial markets were little moved by the data ahead of the results of Britain’s referendum on European Union membership late on Thursday. The dollar was trading lower against a basket of currencies, while US stocks rose.

Prices for US government debt fell.

Payrolls rebound expected The claims report covered the survey period for June nonfarm payrolls. The four-week average of claims declined 8,750 between the May and June survey periods, suggesting an improvement in job growth after payrolls increased only 38,000 in May - the smallest increase since September 2010.

“The May to June improvement

Production surge Data firm Markit said its flash US manufacturing PMI increased to 51.4 from a reading of 50.7 in May. The rise was driven by a surge in production, which encouraged manufacturers to hire more workers. The gain in the Markit PMI suggests that the worst of the manufacturing rout is probably over.

While a third report from the Commerce Department showed single-family home sales fell 6.0 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 551,000 units last month, the drop followed a 12.3 per cent surge in April, which had propelled sales to their highest level since February 2008.

New home sales were up 8.7 per cent from a year ago and the threemonth moving average was the highest since April 2008.

“Consumers have not retrenched. The spring selling season was solid... builders indicate they are supply constrained, not demand constrained,” said Michelle Girard, chief economist at RBS in Stamford, Connecticut.

“This suggests the strength seen in new home sales this spring may well be sustained throughout the summer.” — Reuters

HOUSING PROGRAMME

Fears of poor rise as Brazil cuts social housing plan RIO DE JANEIRO: Government cutbacks to Brazil’s pioneering social housing programme, which has provided homes for several million people, will undermine property rights and increase inequality in South America’s largest economy, analysts warn.

Hailed by the United Nations as a “success” in reducing Brazil’s housing shortage, the multi-billion dollar “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” (My House, My Life) programme has become a target for spending cuts as the country’s interim government grapples with a budget deficit and recession.

More than 4.2 million new houses are under contract to be built as part of the programme, according to government figures.

However, analysts fear that cuts worth tens of millions of reais will disrupt construction. “Six million Brazilian families are homeless or living in precarious housing,” said Maria Luisa Mendonca, a University of Rio de Janeiro professor, who studies land conflicts.

The Ministry of Cities announced last month spending on the program would be reduced by 1.5 per cent without providing a time frame for the cuts, without specifying how much this would mean. Under the former government of President Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from office last month for allegedly breaking budget laws, spending on the programme was expected to be $210.6 billion reais ($67 billion) over the next three years, according to data released in March.

“We are at a moment of transition,” the cities minister, Bruno Araujo, said in a statement. — Reuters

LABOUR MARKET

Are fears of mass unemployment in China overblown?

WENXI, (China): Despite its sputtering economy — or perhaps because of it — China’s labour market may be able to provide more jobs for laid off workers than many think.

The working age population is shrinking by several million each year and the number of workers willing to migrate beyond their home province is falling, leaving jobs available for those willing to travel. This suggests concerns about mass unemployment as China cuts down its industrial capacity and the risk that this could lead to social unrest may be overdone.

Not for long Take Li Xi, 34, for instance. After losing his job of 15 years at Highsee Iron and Steel in the slow-growing northern province of Shanxi, Li was not out of work for long.

Encouraged by friends to join them at an electronics factory 1,000 km (620 miles) to the south, he made the journey to Suzhou near Shanghai. The rest was easy.

often ones that paid a similar salary, or less. They went to other factories and construction sites, or worked in small family-run stores.

One delivered ice cream. Some migrated far from home to find work.

“On the first day I did a health check, and on the second day I was working,” Li said. China’s economic growth slowed to a 25-year-low in 2015 of less than 7 per cent and Beijing has flagged layoffs as it reduces massive surplus industrial capacity and gears the economy more to services and consumption. rust-belt Sources said in March that China was expecting to lay off 5-6 million state workers in the next two to three years as it curbs production capacity and pollution in rust-belt provinces. While there is scant official data to build an accurate picture of Chinese unemployment, Chang Chun Hua, China economist at Nomura, said the jobs market can handle the unemployment pressures for now.

The working age population has been shrinking since 2012. Last year, the number of people between the ages of 16 and 59 shrank by 4.87 million, government statistics show. In 2014, the age group

GROWTH SLOWS: China’s economic growth slowed to a 25-year-

low in 2015 of less than 7 per cent and Beijing has flagged layoffs as it reduces massive surplus industrial capacity and gears the economy more to services and consumption. — Bloomberg file picture

contracted by 3.71 million.

At the same time, the government says a higher-than-expected 5.77 million jobs were created between January and May this year.

“In general, the current unemployment pressure is still man-

ageable for the Chinese government,” Hua said. On a recent visit to Shanxi, several laid-off workers including Li said they were able to find work quickly and relatively easily.

To be sure, their new jobs were

Economic slowdown Hua said the northeast rust-belt provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin are reeling from China’s economic slowdown. Workers are fleeing to the economically stronger regions like Tianjin and Beijing nearby to find jobs.

Further down the coast in the Yangtze River Delta, powerhouse provinces such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu are providing labour jobs “at a decent pace”, Hua said.

A municipal government survey in 2014 in Suzhou, where Li found a job, showed that 62 per cent of 500 manufacturers in different sectors faced a labour crunch. Half said they had a hard time recruiting. In the south, the manufacturing hub of Guangdong — known as the factory of the world for its out-

put of everything from garments to shoes and toys — is providing work for migrants from nearby Guangxi and Hunan and the inland provinces of Henan and Hubei, among others. Some Guangdong factories are relying more on day workers to help them cope with unpredictable demand. Still, migration is slowing down nationally, government data shows.

Migrant workers The number of migrant workers in China stayed basically flat in 2015 after years of growth. The oncebulging army of labourers who sought jobs outside of their home province dropped by 1.5 per cent — the first decline in six years.

“Given the wage pressures and declining working age population, the negotiating power of rural workers that are willing to migrate is getting better,” said Trinh Nguyen, senior emerging Asia economist at investment and financial services firm Natixis in Hong Kong. — Reuters

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YouTube embarks on overhauling its customer service LOS ANGELES: With the number of people who make their living from Internet videos multiplying each day and competitors pursuing the biggest talent, Google’s YouTube is overhauling customer service to make the world’s largest Internet video site a little less robotic and a little more human.

At a video convention on Thursday in Anaheim, California, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki will introduce services that creators can use to line up production facilities and learn how to make more money from their channels.

YouTube, owned by Alphabet’s Google, is also offering one-onone support for tens of millions of creators who upload videos to the

site, promising e-mailed answers to questions within 24 hours.

Social-media companies Social-media companies like Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter have begun encroaching on YouTube’s territory, paying people to make videos for them.

The pioneer in user-generated clips, YouTube is betting it can stay ahead by offering best-in-class service and support, with levels of help increasing based on the popularity of the contributor.

“Creators are the lifeblood of YouTube, and we want to offer them the best support,” Wojcicki said in an interview.

YouTube became the most popular online video destination in the

AUTOMOTIVE

world by making it easy for anyone to upload and share videos, reducing the barriers to stardom for a generation of aspiring writers, actors and reality TV personalities. Yet as advertisers and talent scouts flocked to the site, offering millions of dollars and new promotional opportunities, video creators began to clamor for help.

Wojcicki’s new effort Wojcicki’s new effort is the latest in a long line of initiatives to please its partners. YouTube has built production facilities around the world to give its creators sound stages, editing rooms and other tools to use free of charge.

It is also funding original programming from creators who

have grown popular enough to make shows for traditional media outlets. Rather than watch Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, one of its most popular online personalities, defect to a cable outlet, Original series YouTube paid him to make one of its first original series. The YouTube star has about 46 million subscribers, according to his page on the website.

“Since the beginning, we said YouTube would only succeed if creators succeed,” said Sebastien Missoffe, YouTube’s vice president of online content and operations.

“We opened up the spaces, increased support with account management.” Missoffe, who moved to

YouTube from Google last year, is the architect of the latest changes.

He tested out the new customerservice operation this week, fielding questions from creators eager to get their channels verified and get paid efficiently.

Previously, creators had to visit or use seven different websites and apps to get questions answered, perusing a help centre without ever talking to a human. Missoffe noticed a growing number of turning to social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter for help.

“Lots of creators can’t reach or speak with a human; they just deal with robots and an algorithm,” he said. “Humanising us is a major part of what we’re doing.”

— Bloomberg News

Oil markets to balance at $50 by this year-end to the state’s economic and energy future. BP is working with Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips to advance a liquefied natural gas export project in Alaska.

Global supply and demand recently have moved toward ECO FRIENDLY: The division of Volkswagen that traces its roots

a better balance,

back to 1885 said the expertise of German carmakers will make “exponential” increases in range for electric cars by 2020, making the vehicles more attractive to a wider swath of consumers. — Bloomb-

and we expect this

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trend to continue into

Audi challenges Tesla in race to extend power of electric cars

the second half of 2016 and probably reaching a balance by the end of the year on a daily basis, BP CEO said

VIENNA: Audi is preparing to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors in making electric cars, betting that its decades of experience in designing traditional automobiles will help it trump the Silicon Valley start-up.

The division of Volkswagen that traces its roots back to 1885 said the expertise of German carmakers will make “exponential” increases in range for electric cars by 2020, making the vehicles more attractive to a wider swath of consumers.

“For over 100 years, automobiles have always gotten better,” Stefan Niemand, the German engineer who is the architect of Audi’s electric-car strategy, said on Thursday in Vienna. “Drivers won’t adopt electric cars if they’re seen as smaller, uglier and more expensive.”

Luxury-car maker The luxury-car manufacturer is the largest earnings contributor to Volkswagen and plans to start selling its first all-electric vehicle in 2018. With development costs in the range of some “billion-euros,” Niemand said Audi will leverage its experience with automotive mass production to push e-cars into a new era.

While Nissan Motor’s boxy and compact Leaf is the world’s best selling battery-powered car, the $70,000 Model S made by Tesla has dominated the market for high-performance and fashionable electric cars. Musk’s company has collected $1,000 deposits each from a list of 373,000 drivers waiting to buy its new Model 3.

To meet that demand, Tesla will have to ramp up production 10fold. It expects to produce 500,000 cars annually by 2018. Niemand

YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki. — Bloomberg file picture

is charged with preparing a challenge from Audi.

Tesla lacks experience “Tesla lacks experience with classical auto manufacturing,” according to Niemand, who said Audi uses higher safety and materialquality standards. “We have different experiences.”

The Volkswagen group, which sold almost 10 million cars last year, has so far merely dipped its toe into the electric-vehicle market with battery-powered versions of the Golf hatchback and Up! city car. To catch up, the company said earlier this month that it plans to introduce more than 30 electric cars by 2025 and forecasts sales of as many as 3 million of its battery-powered vehicles annually by then.

“Tesla definitely got the jump on the major car companies as demand for the Model S caught many of them by surprise, but by 2020 there will be a much larger number of long-range electric vehicles available,” Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Colin McKerracher said in a note.

Well positioned “Audi and the VW Group are well positioned here,” the analyst said.

“Groups like VW, Toyota and others know how to crank out vehicles day-in-day-out on a global scale.”

In Austria, where Niemand met with Wolfgang Anzengruber, the chief executive officer of the utility Verbund AG, electric car drivers can already tap into a nationwide network of charging stations within 60 kilometres (38 miles) of one another.

“We started early on this,” Anzengruber said. “But we’re still only beginning to start.” — Bloomberg News

BP Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley. —

WASHINGTON: Rising petroleum demand in China, North America and Europe will help bring global oil markets into balance this year, BP Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley said.

“Global supply and demand recently have moved toward a better balance, and we expect this trend to continue into the second half of 2016 and probably reaching a balance by the end of the year on a daily basis,” Dudley said in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, DC. As stockpiles are drawn down, oil prices will probably reach $50 per barrel by the end of the year and $50 to $60

next year, Dudley further added.

Crude prices Crude prices in New York have rebounded by about 90 per cent since hitting a 12-year low in February, hovering around $50 a barrel, as US output has declined and disruptions in Nigeria and Canada pared supplies. It’s still worth less than half its peak price in mid-2014 though, which has forced BP and other producers to slash spending and defer new projects. That approach should continue even as BP works to replenish naturally declining reserves.

“We’re not expecting the days

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of $100 oil to return anytime soon, so we must maintain our discipline and continue to improve our productivity or we won’t survive,” he said. “We’ve got about 40 projects that look economic between now and the early 2020s that we can see.”

BP, one of the largest producers in Alaska, is working to sweep more oil out of the aging Prudhoe Bay field, nearly four decades after production began. Dudley emphasised continued North Slope oil production is important to sustaining flows on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, but said natural gas could be even more important

Future of Alaska “The future of Alaska is probably its natural gas,” Dudley said.

“While the oil will continue,” he added, “natural gas has got a great future.”

BP has zealously protected dividends under Dudley’s watch, after a brief suspension following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Dudley described the experience as instructive. He said he met UK residents, who make up 40 per cent of the company’s shareholders, who were devastated by the decision at the time.

Dudley also emphasised the importance of “a price on carbon” to allow “a stable, orderly transition to a lower-carbon future,” since oil and gas will remain a significant part of the world’s energy mix for decades to come.

Other oil companies, including Exxon, have advocated a price on emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

“After investing $8 billion in low-carbon energies over the past decade, we’ve learned the hard way that carbon pricing is crucial to helping renewables compete on a global scale,” Dudley said. “But it must be done in a way that doesn’t favor particular ways to reduce emissions, doesn’t discourage the development of still-unknown technologies and doesn’t disadvantage the US in global competition.” — Bloomberg News

LICENSING FEES

Qualcomm to file patent suit in China SAN FRANCISCO: Qualcomm, the largest mobile phone chipmaker, is filing a lawsuit in Beijing against a Chinese phone manufacturer, the first major test of a hard-won agreement with the government there to allow it to enforce its right to charge fees for the use of technology.

Meizu Technology is refusing to pay the US company licensing fees that 100 other Chinese companies have already accepted and has also avoided negotiating in good faith, Qualcomm said in a statement.

By taking legal action of this type in China for the first time, Qualcomm is hoping that authorities will enforce the terms of a settlement it reached to end

an antitrust investigation and to allow it to charge for its intellectual property. The US company gets the majority of its profit from technology licensing. China is the world’s biggest mobile phone market.

Concerted effort “We’re asking the court to assist us and get them in compliance,” said Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm’s general counsel in a telephone interview. “China is really making a concerted effort, including having the special IP courts, to enforce intellectual property rights and to value intellectual property rights. We’re putting our faith in the court system there and we wouldn’t do that if we didn’t think

we were in capable hands.” In February 2015 Qualcomm announced it had paid $975 million to settle a case brought by China’s National Development and Reform Commission accusing it of abusing its dominant position.

The agreement also set the terms for licensing fees that many Chinese companies hadn’t been paying. That allowed Qualcomm, after what it described as often “tough” negotiations, to sign up most of China’s major phone makers.

In the first quarter, Meizu had 0.4 per cent of the world’s smartphone market ranking it 28th, according to IDC. The company is among the top 10 Chinese phone makers, according to Qualcomm.

Rosenberg said Qualcomm is taking legal action out of a sense of fairness to other companies that are paying what they owe.

2015 agreement The 2015 agreement put an end to an investigation that lasted more than a year and hurt Qualcomm’s ability to collect licensing revenue in China, where some handset makers delayed royalty payments or paid less than they owed. Qualcomm, whose chips run most of the world’s phones that can access the internet, gets the majority of its profit from patent-licensing fees related to its ownership of technology fundamental to cellular-phone systems.

— Bloomberg News

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FEATURE

F R E E

MEASURING R

ELIABLE economic statistics are a vital public good. They are essential to effective policymaking, business planning, and the electorate’s ability to hold decision-makers to account.

And yet the methods we use to measure our economies are becoming increasingly out of date. The statistical conventions on which we base our estimates were adopted a half-century ago, at a time when the economy was producing relatively similar physical goods. Today’s economy is radically different and changing rapidly – the result of technological innovation, the rising value of intangible, knowledge-based assets, and the internationalisation of economic activity.

In light of these challenges, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne asked me ten months ago to assess the United Kingdom’s current and future statistical needs. While my research focused on the UK, the challenges of producing relevant, high-quality economic statistics are the same in many countries.

Recent technological advances have radically altered the way people conduct their lives, both at work and at play. The advances in computing power underpinning the digital revolution have led not only to rapid quality improvements and product innovation, but also to new, connectivity-driven ways of exchanging and providing services.

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One particular challenge for economic measurement stems from the fact that an increasing share of consumption comprises digital products delivered at a zero price or funded through alternative means, such as advertising. While free virtual goods clearly have value to consumers, they are entirely excluded from GDP, in accordance with internationally accepted statistical standards. As a result, our measurements may not be capturing a growing share of economic activity.

Consider the music industry. Downloads and streaming services have now largely replaced CDs, the dominant medium in the 1990s. And yet the money has not followed; the industry’s revenues and margins have both plummeted.

As a result, its contribution to GDP (as we currently measure it) may be falling, even as the quantity and quality of services are increasing.

Two methods can give us a rough estimate how much digital economic activity we are failing to capture in our measurements. We can use average wages to estimate the value of the time people spend online using free digital products, or we can adjust telecommunication services output account for the rapid growth in Internet traffic. Both approaches suggest that accounting for these types of activities could add between one-third and two-thirds of a percentage point to the average annual growth rate of the UK economy over the past decade.

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The digital revolution is also disrupting traditional business models. The reduced search and matching costs offered by a range of online platforms are unlocking the market for skills (known as the “gig economy”) and the market for underutilised assets (known as the “sharing economy”).

This, too, causes conceptual and practical measurement challenges for established GDP calculus. The traditional statistical distinction between productive firms and consuming households leaves little room to account for households as value creators.

Measuring GDP, it turns out, is like trying to hit a moving target. The digital revolution is likely to be followed by yet another wave of disruptive technology, including advances in materials science, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering. As the economy evolves, so must the frame of reference for the statistics we use to measure it.

Consequently, internationally agreed statistical standards will almost always be somewhat out of date or incomplete, as they are bound to lag behind changes in the economy. National statistical offices should explore measurement issues that go beyond the prevailing standards, rather than use compliance as an excuse for their failure to innovate.

One solution would be to establish a continuing programme of research into the measurement implications of emerging economic trends, conducting one-off studies at first to gauge their potential quantitative importance. This could then guide the development of experimental statistics capturing the new phenomena.

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New techniques of collecting and analysing big data, such as web scraping, text-mining, and machine learning, provide an opportunity for statisticians. Governments already hold some administrative data, but their use for statistical purposes often requires legislative changes. Unlocking this trove of information would extend statistical samples to near-census size, increase their timeliness and accuracy, and reduce the respondent costs to businesses and households.

Ensuring that data accurately reflect a changing economy is one of the hardest tasks faced by national statistical institutes worldwide.

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Success requires not only understanding the limitations of traditional measurements, but also developing a curious and self-critical workforce that can collaborate with partners in academia, industry, the public sector, and other national statistical institutes to develop more appropriate methods.

The UK is by no means alone in facing these challenges. But we need to act quickly. Otherwise, the speed of economic change will render our statistics irrelevant to modern life. — Project Syndicate

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s anyone with small children will tell you, marks and stains are inevitable when there are little ones around, gleefully discovering the world on their toy cars or reaching for the colouring pens and paints. Mums and dads are used to finding chewing gum on the carpet, stickers on the furniture and works of art on the wallpaper.

The following cleaning tips will make removing stains and other drawing marks child’s play.

TIP 1 Children love to let their creativity run wild. Once the colouring pencils are out, the walls are no longer safe from budding young Picassos. Parents can remove the works of art without much effort using a wall eraser. Its special fibres rub the surface and erase the colours. And it is not just walls that they can clean: The black marks left on floors by the plastic wheels of toy cars can also be removed using the eraser. For larger marks, it is best to use a steam cleaner. This will also remove the remaining dirt on the floor.

TIP 2 There are some things that parents become accustomed to; chewing gum on the carpet or on

clothing is one of the less appealing prospects. But it can be removed quickly by applying something cold. If the tenacious mass lands on the carpet, put some ice cubes into a sealable freezer bag and place on the chewing gum.

When it has become frozen and brittle, break it up into individual pieces using a blunt knife and remove. Stubborn residue left in the fibres can be removed using a fine-toothed comb. Likewise, put trousers and jumpers straight into the freezer, then separate the chewing gum out.

TIP 3 With children in the house, glass surfaces have to be cleaned more often. Small children frequently leave handprints and fingerprints on the glass panes of terrace or balcony doors. Unsightly streaks and marks can be removed every so often from the glass doors using a window vac, without much effort or preparation. Simply spray on the detergent, remove the dirt using the microfibre cloth and suction the moisture with the window vac. Buckets and squeegees can be left in the cleaning cupboard.

TIP 4 Children love stickers, and love to stick them all over the house.

If they remain on surfaces for a long time, it may become difficult or even impossible to remove them by hand. When it comes to removing stickers, there are various household agents to choose from, in this order: Heat, water, cooking oil, alcohol. Every method should be tested in advance on a hidden patch to make sure that the material is not discoloured or damaged. Start with a hair dryer.

If a sticker does not come off by heating, try using hot water and a sponge. If a sticker does not come off, a few drops of light cooking oil and cotton cloth can help. White spirit or alcohol should be used only as a last resort, as they can attach surfaces.

TIP 5 The glitter fairy has been out and about during arts and crafts, leaving glitter not only on pictures but all over the room. If you do not manage to remove the stubborn particles in the first round of vacuuming, try using packing tape. Wrap the tape around the palm of your hand, with the sticky side facing outwards, move over the affected areas. If you have a lint roller at home, use this. Now that the carpet is clean, nothing stands in the way of the glitter fairy’s next visit.

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Albert (Animation) Voice Overs: Alfred Bjerra Larsen, Oscar Diets, Asta Norbdy 9.30 p.m.

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STAR CINEMA Film information 24791641 / 24786776 Website: www.isurf.co.om Kammati Paadam (Mal) (Act\Drama) Cast : Dulquer Salmaan & Vinayakan 10-00 Pm Cinema Main Udta Punjab (Hindi) (Act) Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor & Alia Bhatt 9-30 PM Cinema-2 Oka Manasu ( Telugu) ( Drama\ Comedy) ( From Friday ) Cast: Naga Shourya & Niharika 9-45 pm Cinema-3 Jacobinte Swargarajyam (Mal) (Drama) Cast: Nivin Pauly & Renji Panicker 9-45 pm Cinema-4 Programmes are subject to change

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Screen 2 Housefull 3 (2D) (Comedy / Drama) –PG12 Cast : Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri, Jacqueline Fernandez 10.00 PM

SUR The Crew ( Action | Adventure | Drama) Cast : Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudute, Sergey Shakurov 9:15, 11:45 PM The Asian Connection ( Action ) ( 15+ ) Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai Whaite 9:45 PM Udta Panjab ( Hindi | Crime | Thriller) (PG12) Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh 11:30 PM

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

BURAIMI The Crew TBC (Action | Adventure | Drama) Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Shakurov 9:15 & 11:45 PM The Call Up PG12 (Action | Sci-Fi) Cast: Morfydd Clark, Chris Obi, Parker Sawyers 9:30 PM Udta Punjab PG12 (Crime | Thriller) Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh 11:15 PM The Code of Cain 12+ (Action) Cast: Sally Kirkland, Natasha Alam, Eric Roberts 9:30 PM The Asian Connection 15+ (Action) Cast: Michael Jai White, Steven Seagal, Pim Bubear 11:30 PM

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BAHJA CINEMA

Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh 11:15PM The Call Up - (2D) (Action | Sci-Fi) (PG12) Cast: Morfydd Clark, Chris Obi, Parker Sawyers 9:30PM Kammatti Paadam - (2D) (Malayalam | Crime) (12+) Cast: Dulquer Salman, Shaun Romy 10:00PM Oka Manasu - Telugu (2D) (Romance | Comedy) (TBC) Cast: Niharika Konidela, Naga Shourya, Niharika Konidela 9:00 PM

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Strings and Beyond

(Exploring History, Science, and Nature)

MOST people have their personal favourites when it comes to the greatest guitarists of all time, and discussions can become heated when opinions differ. Today we take a look at some of our favourite guitarists and their instruments of choice.

Rolling Stone magazine listed Hendrix as the greatest guitarist of all time. Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was making history in the 1960s with his electric and experimental sound.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes Hendrix as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.”

One of Hendrix’s favourite guitars was his “Black Beauty,” a 1968 Fender Stratocaster.

B.B. King played a variety of Gibson guitars — all of them named “Lucille”.

Did you know?

Many guitarists have named their guitars. Willie Nelson named his “Trigger”, and Keith Richards, named his “Micawber”. Eric Clapton (1945- ) is a British rock and blues musician who is considered one of the most important guitarists ever. Clapton played his custom Fender Stratocaster “Blackie” from about 1970 to 1985. Clapton sold it at an auction in 2004 for $959,500.

Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana and his band, Santana, wowed audiences with their unique blend of Latin-infused rock, jazz, blues, salsa and African rhythms.

Jimmy Page (1944- ) achieved fame as the lead guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Among many guitars, Page often played a doublenecked 1971 Gibson EDS-1275.

—lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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The leftover word spells the Teleword.

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CLUE: ‘SPORTS ON TV’

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L L A B T O O F G N I L I A S

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Athletes, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bike, Boat, Bowling, Diving Fencing, Fishing, Football, Goal, Guide, Handball, Hockey, Hunting, Kayaking, Martial Arts, Nascar, Netball, Open, Passes, Play, Rogaining, Rugby, Sailing, Show, Skateboarding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Space, Tennis, Terms, Track, Volleyball, Walk, Water, Wins, Wrestling.

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Spacious 4BHK with split A/C’S, 4 bathrooms & storeroom, near Church roundabout, Mumtaz area.

Rent:R.O 575, Contact:99349672 Office for rent in Al Ansab near bank Muscat. Contact: 99466173 3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.

18 November Street. Near Mars Hypermarket and The Chedi.

Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or Residential use. OMR 295/- month.

Call 94477222 Room for rent one bed room with separate toilet Qurum, Mars hyper market building.

Content: 96570147 Shop / office at MBD behind spar for rent 325/-. Contact: 95818923 1 BHK near Oman house Muttrah.

Contact: 99233116 Shop for good location on main road behind whole sale Al Amerat Space 11 MT long, 4 MT wide. Contact: 92877449 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 Room with attached bathroom, sharing, kitchen for executive bachelor / lady or couple in Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid, Please Contact: 96510226/98404827 2 BHK flat at Darsait behind KIMS hospital. Contact: 92141514

1 BHK near medical Darsait, Muttrah house R.O 180/. Contact: 95076261 2 Bedroom villa with hall , 2 toilets , parking in Mawalah near City Center , 1 bedroom ,1 toilets , Kitchen & hall.

Contact: 93930352 2 bed rooms flat in Wattaya OMR 300/-. Contact: 99202602 1BHK new bldg with A/C curtains near Khimji mart MBD. Contact: 99061408/99024039 1000 Sqmtrs industrial land for rent in Ghala suitable for warehouse workshop etc.

Contact 24700120 /92584715 2 Bed rooms flat with hall, 2 bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120 Villa for rent at Azaiba, near al Meera hypermarket. 4 Bedrooms, 3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room and dining room. This will include curtains and air conditioners.

Sharing is allowed ro.500/-.

Please call 99469203 2 Bed room, 2 bath room, 1 hall and kitchen behind Bank Muscat for rent. Contact: 99313533 New flats for rent Muscat Al Zafarania, split units AC , all rooms & bed room R.O 200/-, 3 bedroom R.O 300/- negotiable.

Contact: 93393755 Running fabrication workshop with area of 3000 sq. mtrs in Barka Industrial Estate for rent.

Contact 99356748

Deluxe two bedroom flat at Mumtaz area, two bathrooms, good size living/dining room, modern kitchen and a guest bathroom.

Contact 99310375

Villa for rent in South Mabellah, 3 bedrooms, sitting room, family Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact 92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.

Rooms for rent single rooms with A/C & bath attached available at Rex Road Indian bachelor and family (couple) from 1st July 2016.

Contact: 99116286

New villa for rent Al Hail north neat to Ramez near to Main road open sitting room with washing area 3 family hall, dining room , kitchen with store , laundry 5 BR with bathrooms. Contact: 93387732 / 99259977

Large building with 14 rooms & big open shed in a compound in Ghobrah near Mars hypermarket. Good for staff accommodation and stores.

Please call 98048207 / 99261773

2 BHK at Mawalah north near Masjid Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748/99332297

1 BHK fully furnish flat in Hamriya for short terms. Contact – 99792181 1 BHK flat in Al Khuwair for 2 months. Contact – 99792181 1 Room for sharing accommodation in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181 3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommodation in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181 Flats for rent near Indian school in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122 House in Darsait, 3 rooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C. Contact: 95522405 2 BHK sea view flat Darsait.

Contact: 95311488 2 BHK 1 hall & seating room Athaibah. Contact: 99224748 / 99425665 Flats in Darsait.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

5 rooms 2 hall villa, 18th Nov. Road North Azaiba. Contact: 99224748 / 99332297 Single room flat near Jibroo roundabout on Road Muttrah: 99373290, 24815012 2 BHK specious flat behind Bank Muscat Wadi Kabir near Indian School: 99373290, 24815012 Double bedroom flats and shops available in Honda road, Ruwi and Mabela. Please contact24833972/24833974 99367448 Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room, hall. Contact: 90991079 Flat for rent in Al Qurum, 3 rooms & hall. Contact: 91763660 Flats in Muttrah. Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Flats for rent in Mumtaz, 2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352 building no. 3447 & 3668.

Contact: 90991079

Ruwi office space for rent, Saravana Bhava Building.

Contact: 95729549

2 BHK with Split A/C in MSQ, Bareeq Al Shatti, Al Ghobrah near Indian school. Content: 96708000

Two bedrooms flat behind German Embassy near to Al Nahda Hospital. Contact: 99209354

1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense) Contact: 93202733 / 94771769

Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm show rooms for rent 400/- R.O. Contact: 99879939

Flat for rent 2 BHK in Darsait North near Indian School about 200 mtrs, rent RO 300/-.

Contact: 94101134

Fully Furnished apartments in Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Offices and flats in Ghala.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Flats in Ghobrah. Contact 94051789 / 97201688 Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact 94051789-97201688 Flats in Al khuwair. Contact 94051789-97201688 Villa in Al Khuwair, 6 rooms, living room & hall.

Contact: 91153933 Flat for rent in Darsait 1BHK. Contact: 99357586 / 97500025 / 97500021 Villa for rent at Azaiba, near Al Meera hypermarket, 4 bedrooms, 3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room and dining room, this will include curtains and air conditioners.

RO 520/-. Contact 99469203

2000 sqft land with p/cabin, toilets at YETI. Contact 99221683 / 92830110 Flats, shops & store for rent in MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127 3 BHK flat at Azaiba, Opp. Sultan Centre. Contact 99261522 Shop for rent at Wadi Kabir Industrial area. Contact: 99888390 For rent New flats at Darsait Al Sahail. Contact: 99777351 Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah 3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580 Villa for rent in Al Khoud, 6 rooms, hall. Contact: 91763665 1 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 2 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 4 B/R Unfurnished Apartment with attached Split A/C @ Azaiba. For Short Term or Long Term lease.

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One flat in CBD 2 bedrooms + sitting room + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen

One flat in Qurum 29 – two rooms + AC split unit + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen

In Al Hail one office space – (Near Main Road) one room attach with bathroom and kitchen.

FOR SALE Villa for sale in Mabela 6 rooms, living room & hall. Contact: 91763665 Shop for sale at Ruwi high street.

Contact: 98787853 Urgent sale of steel scrap only serious buyers kindly contact +968 96725423 for viewing the items.

FOR SALE SHUTTERING PLYWOOD SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM GSM: 92835445,93205253,93205423

Dental chairs for sale sparingly used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284 Well running computer shop for sale in Al Seeb Souq near Ooredoo showroom 30Sqm, 2 shutters.

Contact: 92501276

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly & 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly new building good location Barka Market. contact 99342661

Dental chair for sale in Salalah.

Contact – 99082092

Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall 4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3 floor 400. Contact 99420346 2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir behind Pioneer Hotel apartment.

Contact: 99857332 /99261522 Rent flat near Ruwi Badar Al Sama, 2 bed rooms, attach bathroom, big hall, and big kitchen.

Contact - 99345137 Rent flat in Wada Adai, one bed room with toilet, big kitchen, hall with A/C. Contact 99345137 3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in Misfah. Contact 99792181 Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33.

Contact: 92277419 2 bed rooms flat with hall, 2 bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120 Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid. Contact: 97007934 / 92629232 2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK. 97826454, 24815012.

House in North Al Hail with 3 rooms, living room, hall, 4 toilets 300 RO. Contact 99738881 / 99439568 Plot at Barka next to Germany College & next to Aramex Company, next to Bahwan Warehouse, next to Omasco warehouse 37,074 SQM2 required 0.250 Baiza per SQM. Contact: 99888390 Villa for rent in Al Ghubrah, 5 rooms, hall. Contact: 91763665 Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms & hall. Contact: 917633665 2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232 Warehouse at Wadikabir - total area 3500 sqm - covered warehouse (500sqm), office, accommodation (1000sqm), open area (2000sqm) please contact: 99273774 - 99202278

New 1 & 3 BHK flat in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 99792181 1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297 1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100, 2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331 Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact 94051789 / 97201688 02 BHK residential flat opposite to Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241 Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate Tel : 00 968 95158570 Labor Camp available with all facilities near Sohar Port.

Contact: 98050654 / 99015826

Laundry / empty shop near Camellia Café, CBD, Ruwi.

Contact: 92868123 /92841089 Tender Board Construction Company for lease / Run. Contact: 92868123 / 92841089 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 Family restaurant for sale in Heart of Wadi Kabir party hall for 120 pp.

Contact: 99321792 3 BHK flats for sale/ rent at Greater Muttrah, Dar AL Maha.

Contact 99321792 Luxury Apartments in Boucher (35) / Ghala / Qurum. Contact 95056808 / 97201688

5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair, for Staff Accommodation. Contact 99792181

Shop for sale opp Towell Service Center, Wadi Kabir.

Contact 99221683

2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair & Ghubra. Contact 99792181

Shop for sale near Oman House, Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.

Contact 99792181

1No brand new containerized package type STP 100 m3/ day with blower equipments (suitable for camps). Serious Buyers may.

Contact: 99445367

4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.

Contact 99792181 Furnished office (61M2) for sale / rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi Mosque. Contact: 95611569

Book Shop in a busy shopping mall for sale, interested parties please contact 99851255

WANTED

Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 / What`s up No 97290565

Partner / investor 20% - 30% share transfer running building construction company. # 93163157

Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale. Contact: 99273774/ 99202278

Urgently required looking to immediately buy used Grit blasting & airless spray equipment 1 No each.

Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772 / 93203773 / 93203778

Space for printing press available at wadikabir with or without machinery. Contact 99328430

IELTS Coaching (academic) required nearby wadi Kabir area. Please call on mobile or msg on Whats up.

Mobile # 92927880/99012165

Furnished office at Ruwi near Sheraton Hotel. Contact: 93993897 Almost new beach/ garden lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

MV SALE Nissan Pathfinder 2013 No-2 lady driven KM 50.000 power sterns auto transmission power window R.O 6500/- Contact: 99157377 Mitsubishi Outlander 2008 model 4 cylinder, 2.4lt, Metallic grey , 135000km , excellent condition , expat driven , single owner Price R.O 3.500/- Neg. Contact: 99330486 Toyota Corolla 1.8xli Automatic 2007 July 113000Kms Expat driven excellent condition RO.2750 Contact: 98924106 Mazda 6, model 2005, company maintained excellent condition.

Price RO 1250/- Mazda 2, model 2014, 45,000km, for sale.

Price RO 2950/- Call: 95244761 Mazda6, 2.5L (classic model, 2014) expat driven, excellent condition , 80.000km , mulkiya till march 2017, RO 5.700 ( Negotiable). Contact: 99415861 Toyota Prado, 2009 model, 6 cylinder, single expat owner used, white pearl color, km 287k Contact- 99318152 2 No 40 feet flat trailers 50 Ton capacity with grill prime movers Volvo 97 & Mercedes 9.

Contact: 99454425 Mazda Cx 9 (2013 model) 89,000 KM and Geely Emgrad (2015 model) 24,000 KM. Both cars in excellent condition, single owner, company serviced. Please call 94194071 (Pradeep) for immediate sale Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive Insurance UAE / Oman.

Contact: 96995430

NRI Ready to occupy just completed 3 BHK in Chennai -Pallikkaranai :1600sqft ,builders lcs city makers ,high quality construction , woodwork done, part of 64 apts all 3bhk in 4 blocks gated community with swimming pool/gym/common hall/2 car parking. Genuine buyers call rag @99235815 or email: sairaj_2k@yahoo.com NRI Property for Sale: 774Sq .

2 BHK flat with OC ready at Palava City Casa Rio, Dombivili, Mumbai Contact : 97003326, 96791085

ACC. WANTED Urgently required Villa with 8 rooms near Bausher/Ghala/Al Ansab area for accommodation of Staff from a reputed company in Oman. Interested party may contact - Mr. Pramith 99694150 Accommodation Wanted for an Executive Bachelor, Single Flat / Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir. Pls call: 93883674 / 98103169

ACC. AVAILABLE Room for rent with sharing, kitchen in Al Khuwair behind Burger King. Contact: 92994415 2 BHK available Mumtaz area Ruwi. Contact: 99269751 Fully furnished room available for executive bachelors opp. Star Cinema. Contact 92886715 Independent room in Qurum / Hail.

Contact: 96229522 Room, bath room for executives in Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206 Separate entrance attach bath for exertive bachelor.

Contact: 93231403 /93324458 Sharing accommodation (furnished & with A/C) with kitchen facility available near Al Falaj hotel in Ruwi. Contact 92704439 Furnished apartment for rent, two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776 One room available in 2BHK in Al Falaj area for Executive bachelor only. Contact 99131742.

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

Contact: 97704794 1 BHK appartment for rent in Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque for rent (next to alkhoud medical center and squ) MOB: 93913224 Room with attached bathroom and sharing kitchen available for Executive bachelor or small family at wadikabir.

Contact 93049849 Sharing Accommodation available for working ladies opposite Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably Indians. Room with seperate toilet and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact 96524717 Sharing accommodation near ISD. Contact: 99657340 Room for rent in Qurum attached bathroom and kitchen.

Contact: 99664703 Room available in Mumtaz area 1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room, common bathroom.

Interested pleasecontact 92680041 Mr. Altaf Room with attached bathroom for a family in Wadi Kabir. Contact: 97167857 Room available for Executive bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

AVAILABLE Party & Wedding equipment rentals. Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

MATRIMONIAL Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy from Mumbai, ACCA working as a senior accountant in Muscat, seeks alliance from an Indian Sunni Muslim family. Contact(parent): 96408642 email id: khaledaoman@gmail.com Maternal uncle of Indian Sunni Muslim girl aged 21, beautiful, tall and pursuing M.Sc, Urdu speaking hailing from Chennai seeks suitable alliance. Contact: 97047811 Christian divorce, male 40.

Contact by Whatsapp: 91346321 Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy from Mumbai, ACCA working as a senior accountant in Muscat, seeks alliance from an Indian Sunni Muslim family. Contact no. (Parent): 96408642 email id: khaledaoman@gmail.com Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6, star Magham, B. Tech aeronautical, administrative professional, parents in Oman, native Aluva (ekm). Mob-99550870 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 Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6, Star Magham, B-Tech Aeronautical, administrative professional, parents in Oman, native Aluva (Ekm). Contact 99550870 Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact 968 98267338, 0091 9287215726

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SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT ACCOUNTANTPART TIME Qualified Person (Female/ Male) on a part time basis is required to audit, supervise and complete all accounts work up to finalization on a day- today basis. The location is near Oman House-Mutt rah.

Apply to

gm@alnoorprojects.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED Buildings construction qualified & experienced male

Projects Manager with Civil Engineering B.SC & quantity survey knowledge 10- 15 years experience. For a Muscat based well known construction company.

Email - alfayafy@outlook.com

Fax - 24479675

SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Indian male Accountant 2.5 years exp in Oman with valid D/L NOC available. Contact: 98870112 Accountant Having 5 Years experience in reputed companies.

Currently working in Muscat (NOC AVAILABLE) GSM.91367217 Email Shahid0717@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

ARCHITECT

URGENTLY REQUIRED

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

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Indian male 27 yrs, MBA finance with 4 years experience currently in Muscat on visit visa seeking suitable placement in finance / admin. Contact: 90921724

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ƐŬŵŝƐŬƌŝΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ Construction Company looking for Architect with experience in Oman. Contact 97192707

ACCOUNTS A leading cosmetic company in Muscat is looking for an Accountant – Email: us on vacancies@maryanagroup.com 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

BEAUTICIAN Urgently required a Gulf experienced professional hair dresser cum beautician (lady) for a reputed beauty salon.

Immediate appointment.

Contact: 99816262 / 98557585 Fax: 24796211 Email: skin.hair.makeup@gmail.com Beauty salon needs lady for henna. Contact: 93336061

CATERING Urgently required south Indian cooks with NOC, having suitable experienced. Contact: 94268319 /97408945 Email: ashok.k55@yahoo.com Shawarma / grill / Salad / Chinese, Cook. Contact: 96229522 Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970

DOMESTIC HELPER House maid cooking cleaning experienced with babies required immediately. Contact: 95584060 / 98920399 IMMEDIATE - Housemaid wanted for an Indian Family - husband, wife and 2 girls. Visa, accommodation and all other requirements will be provided. Please call me on 92725141.

House maid for Omani family.

Contact: 99773100

DESIGNER Urgently required a Graphic designer with 2 years experience in graphic designing, Photoshop, illustrator. Send CV to email: hr@cityvago.com Advertising and signboard making company required fresh or experience graphic designer send CV to info@agloenterprises.com

DRIVER Required Omani Driver for a restaurant. Contact 95929911 Looking for a full time driver with valid Omani license.

Contact: 95454033

Indian (Male) having 17+years Experience in Trading & Healthcare seeking senior Position in Accounts (11 years GCC Experience)currently on Resident Visa (NOC Available) and has a valid Omani Driving Licence. Contact: 91335026; skumartp@gmail.com

DRIVER Required urgently driver, experience Omani or expat drivers with P.D.O. license.

Contact: 98242478 Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.

Gsm : 942-888-63

ENGI./TECH./MECH. Urgently Require BE civil Engineer with 2+ years experience and Omani driving license must , Salary R.O300/- Send CV to nctp@nctp786oman.com or Contact: 24565337 Fabrication Engineer to run fabrication workshop on commission basis. Email: hrinfome@gmail.com Testing / Protection Engineer with minimum 05 years of experience and should have Oman DCRP license, Interested candidates send resume to krishivan@gmail.com Qualified and experience Technician required for the kitchen restaurant equipments. Who can repair hot and cold equipments will be preferred. Contact: Email: alsatrading14@gmail.com / Fax: 24727481 Electrician with qualification and experience. Contact: Fax: 24727481 Email: alsatrading14@gmail.com CCTV & Burglar alarm Technician. Urgently looking for an Expatriate with minimum 5 years experience with NOC. Email your CV with recent Photograph to: joyr@alasalaintl.com

IT Required Shop Sales man + Hardware Technician for IT Company with minimum 2 years experience.

Contact: 98825806 / 98825806, Email: info@rns-group.com

MEDICAL Wanted for Ibra clinic lab Technicians gynecologist physician lady medical officer MOH license and NOC needed or prometric with high score and dataflow.

Contact - 99373493 yahyakam@omantel.net.om GP doctor needed for reputed clinic. Preferably with MOH license or with Dataflow & Paramatics pass Contact: 95388934 Orthodontist for Dental Center in Muscat, Specialist Endodontist & General Dentist with MOH license from Oman. Nurses & Marketing female Executive. Contact: akdmuscat@hotmail.com Wanted Staff Nurse for a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC. Attractive salary offered. Email: clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

MEDICAL Urgently required Pharmacist for a Pharmacy in Barka.

Contact: 99452755 Wanted staff nurse with MOH license, immediate appointment, to work in a private clinic. Permanent post or locum. All Nationals can apply. Salary negotiable, free accommodation available.

Contact – 99048170/ 94870029 Care Medical Centre Al Seeb requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to: sarita_h23@yahoo.com Urgently required experienced female Lab Technician, with knowledge of histopathology & cytology, with MOH release, for a well-known laboratory in Al Khuwair.

Contact: 95271561/98893034 Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact 95081010 Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com Required GP Doctors, gynecology, X ray tech staff nurses.

Contact: 99681325 Email: altaqwamedicalcentre@gmail.com

MANAGER/ SUPERVIBranch Manger required to manage entire Business. ftt@futuretarget.net 99110080 Urgently required a Purchase Manager to handle all the procurements for a reputed Ready-mix concrete Company, having its branches all over Oman. The candidate should possess required experience, product knowledge and excellent communication skills. Interested candidates may send their CV to sndakshin@gmail. com / Contact: 99256757

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Advertising & interior company required Sales Executive with driving /L send CV to info@agloenterprises.com Urgent Required, Outdoor sales 3-5 years of experience in spare part. - Store Keeper 2 years experience. -Accountant 2-3 years experience.-4 Store labors.

All Candidates should be Indian, English speakers. NOC is a must.

Email: Muscat.supply13@gmail. com Fax: 24504723 Require Salesman with D/L for construction, Ind materials, hydraulic hoses & fittings.

Contact 99221683 / 92830110 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 female person to work at the retail shop/Marketing.

Please send your CV on e mail: zeyanaalharmaly@yahoo.com 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 A new Sanitary ware Company looking for a Salesman who has experience in Oman markets not than 5 years. Send C.V : alkunzite@yahoo.com

SKILLED / UNSKILLED MISCELLANEOUS Required candidates for following posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers.

Candidates with Omani driving license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experience in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127 Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED Indian male age 24, B.Com. Accountant having 2 year experience and currently in Salalah.

Looking for suitable placement in finance or Audit. Contact: 90766307 Email: shhaazz.007@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 Qualified and experienced MBA post graduate with proven work exposure in Middle East & India, having more than 5.5 years of rich experience in accounts , project coordination and administration in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil and gas projects is currently looking for suitable job. Contact 93953613, Email-allen.mathew83@gmail.com 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 male 31 chartered Accountant having 2 years Oman experience looking for suitable placement in finance and audit field NOC available.

Contact: 96357827 Email: ubaiskeeran@gmail.com

Part time Accountant available to handle all accounts up to finalization and audit work.

Contact: 95804210

28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement.

Contact 90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Indian male B.Com graduate looking for suitable placement in accounts, office Administration & marketing, 12 years experience, NOC available Oman D/L. Contact: 95804210

Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Part time Accountant up to finalization auditing available after 4 pm. Contact: 91126314 Sudanese GIS Analyst hold master in RS & GIS Resident have an experience in accounting & store management. Contact: 97943738 Indian 20 years well experienced accounts & finance professional looking for immediate placement NOC available. Contact: 94546455 Email: salahuddin8@gmail.com Young Indian male (25) with B.Com degree on visit visa with D/L and N.O.C for simple opportunities preferably in accounting.

Contact : 96324484 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 Part Time Accounting, Audit Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly Reports, Accounting set up for new companies, GSM: 96975454, email: ibfc.gcc@gmail.com

Well experienced Account M.Com available with NOC, Tally & ERP. Contact : 99035707 Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin.

Contact: 94743790 Indian male 34 yrs, M.Com – Finance with 5 yrs experience in Accounts in India, presently in visiting visa looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 93671785 Email: jeyan903@gmail.com 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 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 ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in finance. Contact: 99284193

Chief Accountant, well experienced available.

Contact: 95598477

Accountant 8Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084

Indian male 43 yrs accountant presently on tourist visa looking for suitable placement in a company 18yrs experience in managing finance in Indian and abroad.

Contact: 90190648

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

Part time accounting workers up to finalization, on monthly basis & yearly finalization works.

Contact : 96247295 ACCA qualified professional lady with 5 years experience in finance management accounts is looking for a suitable placement NOC can be Contact: 94521899 Accountant Indian male, 6 years experience up to finalization in tally with reporting knowledge & good knowledge of payroll, having Oman D/L, NOC. Contact: 92540313 Accountant , female , 1 &half years experience up to finalization in tally, good knowledge in reporting, pursuing ACCA, valid D/L. Contact: 95373751

ADMIN Indian/ 23yrs female/ 5yrs GCC experience with NOC looking for a suitable position in HR/Admin / Accounts/ BD. Contact +96890656997 Indian female with nearly 10 years of Oman experience in Administration & HR, seeking suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 99242841 Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman.

Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817

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9 years experience in Dubai/London/ Mumbai in Management Consulting, Sales & Marketing, Business Development for Real Estate/Banking seeks similar placement with D/L.

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Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+ experience in Administration/ HR, Customer Support, Office Coordinator with good Computer skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for suitable position. Contact: 90196235 Indian female MBA fin & HR now on visit visa looking for suitable placement. Contact: 92097764

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Indian female, 27, MCA, 2 yrs experience in Administration and HR in India & Oman. Currently in family visa seeking suitable jobs preferably in Muscat.

Contact.99417993

B.Sc Civil Engineer 7 years gulf experience total experience 9 years having GCC D/L seeking for suitable replacement local release available.

Contact: 98628515/ 98289234 Email: sofiq.sohel02@gmail.com

Indian female MBA / HR, 2.5 experience seeking suitable job.

Contact: 99257214

B.E Electrical Engineer, Age 28 yrs.

5.5 yrs experience. 2 yrs in OMAN as site supervisor/ site engineer, with valid GCC license. NOC available. Contact: 95527936 Email: pksg07@gmail.com

ARCHITECT Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com

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

Contact 96789711

Indian female diploma architect 6 years exp in Oman Engineering consultancy, valid Oman driving license. Contact: 96683293 / 97750870

Indian male 24 years dynamic & professional B.Tech (Mech. Engg) with 1 year experience working on BPCL project in India seeks opening for suitable post, currently in Oman. Contact: 93672286 / 97772272

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN 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.

Autocad works freelance, MEP, Civil works, Interior, 2d/3d, BOQ etc.

Contact 97103168 Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR PH :92279784 Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Please Contact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

DRIVER Driver light duty (house or company) valid Gulf D/L looking job.

Contact- 95175192

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 Mechanical Engineer with one year’s experience as Asst. Piping Engineer having good knowledge of PIPING DESIGNS, PDMS, SP3D, AUTOCAD, PRO-ENGINEER WILDFIRE, DS CATIA, JAVA SCRIPTS etc, looking for suitable opportunity. Contact: +968-99200724/24496072.

Quantity surveyor (B.E Civil) 5+ years experience in buildings and mosque N.O.C available ready to join immediately. Contact: +97826597 / +919171430681 Email: sai.praba.777@gmail.com

Pakistani driver with car Subaru 2004 model. Contact: 99667817

For preparing Civil / MEP Auto CAD drawings.

Contact -93480346.

Email: cadjobsoman@gmail.com

Driver with Electrician 4 years experience looking for job.

Contact: 97456062

Civil Engineer 7 years experience, Driving license, NOC available.

Contact- 98078095

Pakistani driver with 3 years experience, seeking for placement familiar with Batinah & Sharqiyah regions. Contact 99832706

Electrical Engineer B.Tech, Indian available in Oman, 2+ years Oman exp (MEP) Light D/L. Contact - 93832935

Looking for driver job.

Contact: 99035942 /97383016

Diploma Civil Engineering (certificate attested) 6 years Oman experience as interior work site in charge / quantity surveyor NOC/ Release available.Contact: 93120433

Looking for job driver.

Contact: 94158238 Six years experienced light duty vehicle driver looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 96362871 Driver with light duty license 10 yrs exp. Contact: 94566432 Driver with car. Contact: 93346085 13 years experience driver.

Contact 95068976 Search job for light driver, experience 3 years, language Hindi, English & Arabic. Contact: 92458526/ 97941771 Looking for driver job (private).

Contact: 98053733 Driver with car Subaru 2008 model. Contact: 99640986 Bangladeshi driver looking for job.

Contact: 97418036 Experience driver 12 years experience in GCC, seeks suitable placement. Contact: 93722881

DESIGNER Interior design supervisor 6 yrs experience valid Oman license NOC / release available. Contact: 92508926

Email:

Civil Engr. Diploma 8 yrs exp in construction & consultancy with auto cad. D/L.Contact: 93060770 Email: vinodpmani@gmail.com Civil Engineer, Indian male 4 Years experience in Oman & India.

Looking for Permanent Placement in Oman. NOC Available, Contact: +96895984661,+96891455949 Civil Quantity Surveyor with 3yr UAE experience seeking job.

UAE driving license holder.

Email: javad.ahamad@gmail.com +96895641991; +971557969671 Electrical Engineer 5 years experience substations oil & Gas water projects fluency in Arabic & English & English driving license available. Contact: 99525856 Mechanical Engineer 7 years experience plumbing firefighting water pipeline projects fluency in Arabic and English driving license available. Contact: 91117089 Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job 4 years experience currently working in Muscat, NOC available. Contact: 99823368 B.Tech Civil Engineer 2 years experience on visit seeks urgent placement. Contact: 98233199

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Agriculture Engineer 2 8rs, with 5 yrsexp in the field of agriculture, landscaping & irrigation. Since 2 yrs working in different projects.

Having valid UAE driving license.

Currently in Oman (Salalah) on visit visa. Contact – 94120190 / Muhammad.irfan3786@yahoo.com B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 33 with 6+ years experience in GCC in MEP building construction field (execution and design of HVAC,firefighting,plumbing), with D/L, NOC available Contact 96978380, Email: prajithks@gmail.com

Mechanical diploma, Indian male 26, 4 years experienced MEP supervisor seeks suitable openings NOC / Release available.

Contact: 97901559

An Iraqi civil with more than 30 years experience in (Iraq and G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C) available. Contact: 96561306 Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine.

Available NOC release.

Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com

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

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

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

Contact – 90164912

Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93101283

Young Indian, Engineering in Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and Chemical, looking for a challenging placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email: sivasankarjayakumar@gmail.com

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

Mech. Engineer 10 years GCC exp automobile / oil & gas / const project / plant, equip machinery in charge with driving license NOC. Contact: 95774585

Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784

HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over 10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter (NOC) available), seeking suitable placement, Mob:97061817, Email:jayanammu1977@gmail.com 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 Electronics & telecommunication BE Indian male having skills in electronics communication, networking , embedded having 2 years experience looking for suitable position available in Oman on family visit visa. Contact: 93051918 Email: sadatbtisekar25@gmail.com Civil Engineer (QS) 2 yrs exp seeking job UAE D/L. Contact: +96895641991 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 Indian mechanical supervisor (diploma) 17 yrs experience in petrochemical construction (fabrication erection) in all steel structural and mechanical jobs, on visit visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 90924467 Email: pnpraveen@yahoo.co.in 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 Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech (Post Graduate) looking for suitable placement. Contact: 99576846 mail: rajeevt@modern-irrigation.com Indian male Civil Engg. 11 years experience having Omani driving license, NOC available.

Contact: 95797286 Email: nasim.anzar@yahoo.com Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male with 1 year experience on visit visa looking for job, qualification in QA-QC, HVAC& piping engineering.

Contact: 90510800 Email: muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years experience marine mechanical fitter 2 yrs experience.

Contact 93674847

Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022 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 8 years experience electrical engineer have knowledge MEP project have driving license can join shortly. Contact: 96535204 Quantity Surveyor / Site Engineer 6 years experience in Omani have valid driving license release available looking for immediate placement. Contact: 96394948 Indian female 25years M.E (power electronics) 3years experience in teaching profession looking for suitable job. Contact no 97003267 & 94214909 Email: laliped106@gmail.com Chemical Engineer with MBA & experience looking for job.

Contact: 94908977 Sr. Quantity surveyor B.Tech (Civil Tech) above 8 years (7 years in Oman) having driving license NOC available. Contact: 92324791 Mechanical Engineer experience maintenance of pumping stations production line machinery turbine for power plant good communications skills, planning follow up Engineer projects HSE awareness trained multiple design software looking for job. Contact 949064473 / 96654019 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 Civil Engineer with 6+ years in Supervision designing & Q.C expert in much civil softwares, NOC available. Contact: 90719263 Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit. PH: 93837973

Mechanical Engineer 2 years experience as HVAC design & drafting, CAD, MEP Engg.

Contact: 90150913

Mechanical Engineer (Sudanese) 3 years experience : Fire fighting, HSE, Design, Production.

Contact: 93642704 Email: mohamedfdl87@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer with 16 years experience in switchgear / transformer / over head lines & trading, looking for sales / procurement & project planning & Execution with NOC & D/L. Contact: 95994727 Email: qurm340@gmail.com

Senior Land Surveyor 23 yrs Oman, UAE & Egypt GPS, T.S Construction roads infrastructure oil feed electric works OHL, UGC grid , primary substation processing data.

Contact: 95326927 / 92928981 Email: sdsda802@gmail.com

Construction Machinery repairs Engineer, 5 years, driving license, Contact - 94001961

EDUCATION/TRAINING Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. Contact 99739415 / 92091528 Indian male, M.Tech Graduate in Chemical Process Control Engineering looking for lecturing jobs, currently in Oman.

Contact : 98352288

HOSPITALITY Indian male 31yrs old with hotel management degree, 3 yrs experience in F&B services at 5 star hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06 star cruise liner has butler.

Has Oman driving license.

Contact- 99859150.

Indian male diploma in hotel management with 16 years of experience in Oman & Saudi , having Omani D/L seeking for suitable placement. Contact: 92100141 /92221956 Indian male 31yrs old with hotel management degree,03 yrs experience in F&B services at 5 star hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06 star cruiseliner has butler. Has oman driving licence. Contact 99859150.

IT SAP Business Objects / Data Warehousing professional. 10 years experience with top IT global companies (HP and Accenture) in team leading roles. Oman Family visa.

Looking for jobs in Muscat.

Contact: 91487199 Female, 31, B.Tech- ECE/CCNA/ GSM, 5 yrs Oman experience in IT support (AD, exchange, TMG, UNIS Server admin, In-house apps support, project placement, Transfer NOC available. Contact: 95742398 Indian female MCA having 3 yrs experience in teaching looking for any suitable job in reputed organic station on visit skilled in programming language VB, JAVA ,C,C,TT & also WEB development.

Contact 90595322 Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area. Contact 98660672 SAP Business Objects / Data Warehousing professional. 10 years experience with top 5 IT global companies (HP and Accenture) in team leading roles. Oman family visa. Looking for jobs in Muscat. Phone: 91487199

IT IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759 Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement.

Contact: 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com 3 years experience in IT Software field, seeking suitable jobs.

Contact: 96350234, Email : greeshmavkannan@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male B.com MBA 4 years in L &T total 26 years gulf experienced English & Arabic speaking driving license with NOC. Contact: 95588565 Sudanese 27 yrs BSC in IT having Omani driving in resident visa experience in Administration P.R.O general account and tourism language Arabic and English.

Contact: 94907717 Email: momazoon@gmail.com Indian looking for a job in the trade 27 years of age for a friendly college degree. Contact: 96424192 Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation. Contact: 92956848 Indian male 28yrs Bcom 3yrs exp. in warehouse operations (including pharmaceutical). Well knowledge in WMS & ERP, looking for suitable job. Ph. 95576686, E: sijofranz@gmail.com (UAE visa holder, currently in Oman) BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com 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 Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical Microbiology & 6 months working exp. in international crop reserch institute of semi arid crops (ICRISAT) Looking for suitable job.

Contact 92619048, Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

MEDICAL Indian Male with 13 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 Sri Lankan female qualified in UK with BSC (Hons) pharmacology and MSC pharmaceutical science with management studies having one year experience in Sir Lanka, looking suitable placement in regulatory affairs, clinical research / trials, Pharmacologist, pharmacovigilance and research. #99550318 Indian female dentist specialized Endodontist, looking for suitable placement. Parametric completed.

Contact: 96410448 Veterinary Doctor 7 years experience Indian male wife in MOH with family visa need job.# 98107162 Email: drnmpvet4u@yahoo.com

MANAGER/SUPER. Chief Accountant/Finance Manager – Indian male, CA Finalist, having 20 years’ experience in Finance, Accounts, Audit, Finalization of Accounts, preparation of Project Reports etc., looking for immediate placement.

12 yrs. in Oman in Construction and Consultancy co., have Omani D/L, knows Tally. Contact 94041048, email: jobmuscat49@gmail.com 8 Years experienced camp boss worked in SAOG CO. Looking for suitable position. NOC available.

Contact - 94298945

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SITUATION WANTED SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc Looking for suitable job.

Mobile: 92619048, Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com Indian, 20 years experience in Oman as personal assistant / office manager / executive secretary / administrator / business development asst. seeks job change. Release available. Contact 99168054.

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment. Call: 95244761 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 Indian female BE, 3 years office assistant experience, seeking placement.Contact-90655903

SALES / MARKETING Indian male 26 years of experience of sales & marketing in surgical and laboratory equipments. Looking for good replacement.

Contact – 92015894 / 95774854

Indian female, BSC, Bed, MBA (Marketing) 3years experience, seeks suitable in the marketing section.

Contact: 95041134 Email: divya.vini@gmail.com

Indian female, MBA Marketing with 4 years experience with 4 years experience with Oman experience, NOC and D/L looking for suitable opening with visa. Contact: 92460623

Indian Male, Experienced in FMCG & other kind of Sales, looking for suitable placement in Foodstuff/FMCG Industry with valid GCC license. Immediately available. Contact: 94625495.

Indian female having D/L with 12 years experience in corporate / retail sales & B/D. Looking for a suitable job in training / IT / Education companies. Contact: 91751077 Email: alamelusara@hotmail.com

Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG sector, looking for best opportunity.

NOC available. Contact: 96001877

Sales representative with 7 years experience and valid Oman driving license, NOC or release available-99695780

Indian male 33 having 6 yrs exp in Oman & 4 yes exp in Qatar having valid Oman D/L seeks opportunity in sales & business development.

Contact: 98260607 Email: amrish.sukumar@gmail.com

Sales 2 years B.Com male 24 yrs, Indian. Contact: 00968 94212636 naveed.ahmeed315@gmail.com

B. Com 2 years experience in Sales Marketing Logistics Accounts and Front office Contact 95506048

35 years male, Lebanese holding British passport, 10 years of experience in procurement, Omani Government tenders, setup marketing plans & strategies, importing, Organizing events, management, have car, NOC available. Contact 94123939 Email: 002015r@gmail.com Indian male 24 B.com, 2years of experience in sales & admin & proficient in M.S Office, Excel.

Contact: 98613373 Email: syedismailnoor@gmail.com Indian male MBA 5 yrs experience in Oman and India seeking suitable position in marketing & sales NOC available. Contact: 93059175 Email: pranodsathyan11@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 Male MBA, 5 years Building Materials Project Sales experience in Oman, NOC available, seeking for placement.

Contact - 90655903,99325544 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 Oil &gas experienced Indian lady with 6 years in sales & marketing to PDO and having valid Omani driving license. Contact 96143430/99875919 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.#India:-+918907212253 Akhil:-93626288, Email: Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com

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 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

SKILLED / UNSKILLED Electrician, plumber, helper, Indian & gulf exp looking job.

Contact - 95175192 Mason, sh/carpenter, steel fitter, with medical.

Contact- 95175192 or mail, oman.manpower@yahoo.com

SITUATION WANTED COMPUTER/WEB./ EDUCATION/CLASSES

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English class for Malayalam Speakers

in Azaiba and Ruwi

Karate and self defense classes at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM. Contact: 98294551

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Tel: 95244310

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Split unit A/C & window unit A.C servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476 Split unit & window unit A.C servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 93769089 / 95323517 Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont Maintenance services electric, plumbing and A/C. Contact: 96524904 /94285064

Window & split unit A.C servicing & repairing. Contact: 99557080 House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422 A/C Maintenance & Servicing, Fridge, Washing machine & Dish washer repairing, Painting & Cleaning services, Electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 / 24504281

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. Contact 24793614/ 99314807 Split & window A/C servicing, repairing, installation ducted, package etc. Contact Abbas : 98667326 Cleaning services sofa shampoo, carpet shampoo, new house, old house. Contact: 92179395

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GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998 Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC Contact: 99344723 Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC. Contact 99344723

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC Contact 99344723

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD – comply BIM. Contact: 91233975

All Maintenance and services electric, CCTV Camera, Plumbing A/C service and gas installation, painting tiles. Contact: 96524904 / 94285064

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles polishing, carpet shampooing, maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS99320217 /24788722

Pest control Gulfa international.

Contact: 92326955 House shifting. Contact 99708138 Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & anti-termite treatment, general cleaning painting,Plumbing, Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. Contact: 24810137, 99450130

Water proofing ABUQABASContact 99320217/24788722

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Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine Tours contact 98029602, 92808636 We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898

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SITUATION WANTED BUSINESS ONE STOP SHOP BUSINESS SERVICES Public Relation Service (PRO) Document Clearance, Business setup, Formation new Companies, LLC Companies, Investor Visa, Legal Services.

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96723485 Manpower available: cleaning male/female staff, loading unloading and helpers staff available on contract basis. Contact- 94636086

BUYING Used office house furniture & electronic items. Contact: 99834373 / 96642500 Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED

Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

For a successfully Catering Restaurant Investor cum Partner is required.

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate, fresher, no D/L, looking for a suitable job. Contact: 94032041; Email: azzamsiddique1@gmail.com 25, Indian female (BCA- Computer Application). 1yr experience as teacher and graphic designer.

Knowledge in Photoshop, illustrator, in design. Looking for suitable job in office administration, teaching and graphic designing.

Contact - 98426509 Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant, doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available.

Contact: 98803439

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FOR HIRE New Volvo Trailor available for rent to UAE every alternative days, 50 ton capacity with reasonable rent contact.99318152/ email- Ahastco @gmail.com

TRANSPORTATION

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP specification for monthly rent & small car with driver. Contact 99839898 Al Ibtisama rent & leasing.

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TRANSPORTATION

Transportation. available.

Contact 92430239

Transportation.

Contact: 91703829

Transportation required from Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Transportation available Ruwi to Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation available Al Khuwair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al Khoud. Drop & pick.

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