Times of Oman - July 30, 2016

SATURDAY July 30, 2016 25 Shawwal 1437 AH

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‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ We believe that the time has come when the poverty and distress that afflicts so many millions of the people of this world must be the subject of concerted action by all nations.

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HM receives thanks from Qatar Emir

HM sends greetings MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the occasion of the anniversary of Day of Throne.

In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the Moroccan King, praying to Allah Almighty to repeat this occasion and other occasions and further progress and prosperity for the people of Morocco. -ONA

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar in reply to His Majesty the Sultan’s congratulatory cable on the anniversary of taking reins of power in Qatar.

In his cable, Sheikh Tamim expressed his utmost thanks for His Majesty’s feelings and best wishes. He prayed to Allah the Almighty to grant His Majesty good health and wellbeing and the Omani people further progress and prosperity under the wise leadership of His Majesty, and the fraternal relations between the two countries further progress and growth. -ONA

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Temperature set to rise in Muscat

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Staff Reporter

Motorists asked to check speeding fines

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Police are advising drivers to carefully check their speeding fines after a number of cases where motorists were fined for speeding by mistake. The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has blamed this on human error. >A3

Caught begging twice, you’re out SPORTS

Top-eight start for Oman’s Harthy

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Podium finishing Pro-Am Blancpain Endurance Cup driver Ahmad Al Harthy and the Oman Racing Team will begin the biggest race of the year at Total 24 Hours of Spa, from eighth in class after a series of competitive sessions. >A12

MARKET

Ooredoo Oman net profit rises by 12%

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Ooredoo Oman net profit for the first half of 2016 increased to OMR24.9 million compared to OMR22.2 million in the same period of 2015, a rise of 12.2 per cent. The fixed service customer base increased by 28.7 per cent. >B1

Officials will help find work for those from war-torn regions and ask them to sign a pact promising to stop begging

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI

tariqh@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Expat beggars from conflict zones will not be sent back to their home countries unless they are caught a second time, authorities have said.

A clampdown on beggars during Ramadan had resulted in 31 children under the age of 12 being rounded up with their parents. Most of them were from outside Oman and from countries that are conflict-ridden.

Faced with the choice of

repatriating them to their war-torn countries, Omani authorities have instead chosen to ask them to sign an agreement promising to stop begging. The authorities will also help parents find work so that they can earn money legitimately. When a prison sentence is required, mothers and their children are kept together in special “mother and child” detention units in Oman.

Only after a second offence is committed do the authorities consider deportation, according to a spokesman

ENVIRONMENT

which the ministry takes action, based on the individual’s circumstances.

Beggars are assessed and if the study shows that the beggar is in fact in need of social help and is eligible for social welfare, the ministry guarantees that they receive welfare. If the study finds that the beggar is capable of working, but does not have a job, the MoSD will coordinate with the Ministry of Manpower to find a job opportunity for him.

Those who have a good social and economic situation must refrain from begging and the ministry will refer them to the appropriate authority to help them get involved in a commercial project to increase their income.

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D E R E G U L AT I O N

Call for clean-up as plastic from sunken vessel lands in Masirah Times News Service MUSCAT: Hundreds of plastic bottles have turned Masirah beaches blue and green.

Since last Sunday, plastic materials from a sunken vessel near the turtle nesting beaches have been washing ashore.

Environmentalists are now gathering for a massive clean-up on the Omani island.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA) confirmed the small ship was not carrying any hazardous materials.

The Environment Society of Oman (ESO) called via their twitter for an urgent cleanup campaign which started on Thursday morning and end Saturday to pick up the plastic trash.

In a post, ESO asked volunteers to arrange their own transportation and accommodation.

from the Social and Welfare Department.

‘Struggling with life’ and ‘poor’ are some of the reasons beggars cite in the Sultanate when they resort to asking for money from the public, said an official from the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD).

Last month, MoSD had arrested 330 beggars in different wilayats in Oman.

Most of them were men, but some were women with their children. When asked about the reasons for resorting to beggary, some said they were facing difficult circumstances and others said they were just poor.

A MoSD spokesman said: “They are mostly foreigners from war torn countries nearby. They said they are struggling and are poor.”

MoSD has a system in place, which assesses the beggar’s situation, after

MUSCAT: Lower temperatures experienced over the past few days in Muscat will rise during this week, meteorologists have predicted.

“There will be a slight increase in temperature from today until Wednesday. We are expecting the maximum temperature to touch around 37 degree Celsius. The internal areas will be hotter than coastal areas,” a senior meteorologist at Accuweather.com told the Times of Oman yesterday.

The Oman Meteorological Department had also said in a recent forecast that the mercury will rise again by three to five degree Celsius until Sunday.

The BBC’s Weather forecast stated the temperature level for next week will hover between 29 and 34 degrees Celsius.

Temperatures in Muscat had slipped since last week due to the heavy rainfall that was reported in many parts of the Sultanate. The temperature recorded in Muscat on Friday was 32 degree Celsius, according to meteorological websites.

As per the statistics of Accuweather.com, this is the first time that temperature levels have been recorded below 35 degrees during this summer.

“Weather is very pleasant now; we can easily enjoy the daytime under the sun without any harm,” Sunil Kumar said.“A few days back the weather was just opposite.”

“I was happy to see the weather is so good this weekend, which will help us plan an outing; last week planning an outing was not at all possible,” Aneesh Thomas said.

The Oman Meteorological Department also predicted that the skies over the coastal areas of the Dhofar governorate and adjoining mountains will also be cloudy.

Revised fuel prices expected from August 1 Times News Service

TRASH: Plastic materials from a sunken vessel. – CleanUp Oman twitter

“Volunteers should wear appropriate clothes and shoes,” the ESO poster said, adding that sunglasses, sun lotions and hats are also recommended.

The meeting point will be next to the national ferries company’s office and volunteers will provided with bags, gloves and water, according to ESO.

MUSCAT: Revised petrol and diesel prices effective from August 1, 2016, are expected to be announced on Sunday.

In July, the cost of super grade petrol was 180 baisas per litre. The price of regular grade petrol was 170 baisas per litre and diesel was 188 baisas per litre (compared to 185 baisas in June).

The Ministry of Oil and Gas had announced earlier that MOGAS 91 grade will be available at fuel stations from August 1.

Orpic and all other market players are taking necessary steps to ensure that the new grade will be available by then.

Muscat’s mosaic of flowers

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MUSCAT’S MOSAIC OF FLOWERS For the first-time visitor who visualises the entire Middle East as a vast desert, thanks to the geography lessons learnt at school, Muscat’s lush gardens come as a pleasant surprise. One look at the beautiful floral displays of the Sultanate’s capital city and the image is gone forever.

Purushothaman K captured these colourful pictures from some of these extremely wellmaintained gardens where entry is free and the scope of enjoying the nature unlimited

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ROP asks motorists to check speeding fines A number of people in the Sultanate have complained about getting fined wrongly

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shruthi@timesof oman.com MUSCAT: Police are advising drivers to carefully check their speeding fines after a number of cases where motorists were fined for speeding by mistake.

The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has blamed this on human error.

In one case, an expat who had just obtained his driving licence in Oman was told he owed fines when he went to buy his first new car.

A number of people in the Sultanate have complained about getting fined wrongly. Rohit Pilangad, a resident of Muscat, was recently charged OMR10 for speeding in Salalah.

“When I checked the ROP app for fines under my name, I was surprised to see a fine of OMR10 charged for speeding in Salalah. I never took my car to Salalah!”

HUMAN ERROR: The Royal Oman Police says that it is just a common human error that can be rectified easily. – Supplied picture

The Royal Oman Police is aware that this has been happening in Oman but says that it is just a common human error that can be rectified easily.

“If someone has been fined falsely then there might have been a mistake on the part of the official who is entering the data in the system. However, if you have a complaint and think that you are being charged a fine with no mistake of yours, then you can just go to the ROP traffic department and your complaint will be addressed. If it is a speeding fine then the traffic radar would’ve clicked the picture and hence it can be transparently proven if you are at fault or not.”

ing my car registration. Therefore, I paid the dues because it was better for me to pay the fine than driving all the way to Sur for OMR10 which was not worth it.”

In another instance, when Robin Varghese visited a Dhofar automobiles showroom after getting his licence, he was surprised to discover that a fine of OMR140 was pending against his name.

“Before buying a car, most automotive companies check if there are any fines pending under your name. Only if all the dues have been paid will you be eligible to buy a new car. I was shocked to find out about the fine as I just gotten my licence and had never driven in Oman before,” Varghese revealed.

“I went to the ROP office in Qurum and complained, after which I was given a detailed fine report stamped by the ROP which proved that I hadn’t committed any traffic violation,” he added.

“Last year, I got a speeding fine of OMR10. However, I was in India for my annual vacation at the time I received the fine and my car was safely parked in front of my house in Darsait.

“I was surprised to see the fine as no one had driven the car when I was away,” said Roja Sunil, who works with an insurance firm in Muscat.

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Function to mark Renaissance Day Times News Service MUSCAT: Glowing tributes will be paid to the Sultanate of Oman and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said at a grand celebration of Oman’s 46th Renaissance Day scheduled to be held on Saturday, July 30 at 8pm at Crystal Suites Hotel.

A select gathering of poets, writers and intellectuals from Pakistani and Omani communities will register their love for Oman and His Majesty the Sultan to mark the grand occasion.

A cake will also be cut to mark Oman, Pakistan friendship and the robust relations between the two brotherly countries.

Being organised by Alpha Events Oman, the celebration will be marked by national songs, recitation of poetry for Oman, colour-

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anyone in charge of taking care of the child is involved.

“If the beggar is a mother with a child, they will be sent to a child friendly facility so the mother isn’t separated from her child,” said the official.

“If the beggar is a man with a child, we would find the relatives and send the child there while the man serves times in jail,” he added.

Some members of the public recalled their experience with beggars.

“I was approached by an old man near a shopping centre, who literally stood behind my car so I couldn’t reverse out. I had only OMR1.5 with me at the time, out of which the OMR1 I had been used in the shopping centre. He refused to let me go until I gave him something and he didn’t accept food, so I gave him all I had at the time, which was the 500 baisas,” said Melanie Crasta, a resident.

She added, “He said, ‘You can’t give me OMR1 at least’ and not to mention the guy was reeking of smoke and actually did a whole hand gesture shooing me away.”

Others have also discovered false stories of beggars.

Hussein Al Lawati, a medical student, said, “A beggar of an Arab nationality asked me for money to help buy his son medicine. So I asked about the medicine type and the health problem the beggar’s son was suffering from. The beggar claimed that his son has asthma and needs an inhaler, so when I asked him to come along with me to the pharmacy to buy the inhaler, he panicked and said that his son needs many other medications too.”

“His acting in such a suspicious manner made it clear that he was lying about his son’s illness,” Al Lawati stated.

Oman Air flight delayed Staff Reporter MUSCAT: A medical emergency aboard an Oman Air flight prompted the aircraft to divert to Goa, India before continuing its route to Chennai.

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internally and externally, touching upon a number of topics ranging from the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Importance of tolerance It also stressed the importance of language in bridging the cultural gap among people.

It also talked about the importance of tolerance and its role in societies and how it reinforced the Sultanate’s principle through a variety of initiatives, such as peace and harmony for promot-

ing dialogue and understanding.

The paper also touched on the need to create channels of communication between young people and community groups.

He also spoke about the National Committee for Youth and its contribution in strengthening the role of young people and develop their skills and knowledge through programmes.

These initiatives contributed to the development of skills of young people and the dissemination of knowledge, he added. -ONA

S K I L L M I L LT M

Technogym brings latest fitness equipment to Oman Staff Reporter MUSCAT: Healthworld International and The Wellness Centre have introduced Technogym’s latest innovation, the SKILLMILLTM for fitness enthusiasts in Oman.

SKILLMILLTM is the first nonmotorised product that combines power, speed, stamina and agility training.

It is the ideal training solution for those new to exercise, fitness enthusiasts, sports professionals and anyone, who is dedicated to their fitness or improving their sporting performance.

This innovative and highly effective training style has been designed to improve performance in various ways to expand work capacity, enhance abilities and ensure full safety, according to an of-

ficial at The Wellness Centre.

“A critical aspect of the Athletic Performance Training methodology is the prevention of injury and the avoidance of health risks due to poor posture and incorrect form, which is solved by the ergonomic design of the SKILLMILLTM,” he added.

Users can access training programmes by scanning the SKILLMILLTM QR code or by downloading the Mywellness app.

They can also monitor training parameters in real time from the on-board console, which also displays vital health statistics.

In addition to this, the brand new Technogym solution for indoor cycling is now available for cycling enthusiasts at The Wellness Centre at The Walk in Al Mouj.

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uled from Muscat to Chennai, was diverted off route to Goa due to a medical emergency on board, tweeted the national flag carrier.

On arrival at Goa, the passenger disembarked from the aircraft which allowed the flight to continue to Chennai.

R A M A D A N I N I T I AT I V E

Oman takes part in Berlin meeting BERLIN: Shura Council participated in the International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the Arab world organised by the International Institute of the Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin.

A working paper on the cultural diplomacy and its role in the Sultanate was also presented by Mohammed bin Abu Bhacker Al Ghassani, Shura Council Deputy Chairman.

The paper reviewed some successful models that have contributed to enhancing understanding

ful tableaux and heart-warming speeches highlighting the fruits and glories of the blessed Renaissance under the exemplary leadership of His Majesty the Sultan.

Ali Javed, Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to Oman, will be the chief guest.

The keynote address will be delivered by senior journalist Shahzad Raza. Entry will be through invitation.

Pakistani community joins their Omani brethren every year to celebrate Oman’s Renaissance and National Day with traditional fervour.

The celebration also serves as Pakistani community’s show of solidarity with their Omani brothers and sisters as well as to register their gratitude to His Majesty the Sultan for providing a level playing field to all expatriate communities in Oman.

MEDICAL EMERGENCY

I N T E R N AT I O N A L S Y M P O S I U M O N C U LT U R A L D I P L O M A C Y

CONSEQUENCES

Deportation follows, but is based on a case-by-case investigation.

When asked about the consequences of foreigners begging in Oman, the official said, “They will be referred to the police and other authorities to carry out an investigation. They would inquire about how they came into the country and their visa will be checked, for example.”

“They would then be required to sign an agreement declaring that they won’t repeat the offence again. If they do, then legal procedures would be initiated against them,” he added.

The law also states that beggars are to be punished with imprisonment for a period of not less than two months and not more than a year, and a fine of not less than OMR50 and not more than OMR100 or either of these punishments if they are found begging in public or private streets, places or shops.

If the beggar is a repeat offender then the sentence shall be imprisonment for a period of not less than six months and not more than two years. Some beggars use children to gain some sympathy from their “victims,” which is quite often an effective way to make money.

However, using a child for beggary is also a criminal offence.

According to the Child Law, Article 44 states that it is forbidden to use or hand a child to others for beggary.

Punishment is stated as imprisonment for a period not less than three months and not more than three years and a fine of not less than OMR50 and not more than OMR100 or either of these punishments is imposed on those who use or hand a child to others for beggary. The penalty shall be doubled if a parent, guardian or

In a similar case that took place a few months back, Murali Jagdish was asked to pay an OMR10 fine.

“Initially I thought that I was being fined for jumping the signal and so I went to the Seeb ROP in order to enquire. When the ROP realised that it was its mistake, I was asked to go to Sur ROP and get the fine withdrawn.

“According to the system, I had committed a traffic violation there, or I could submit a letter to Seeb ROP which would be forwarded to the Sur branch. But since I was told that this would take some time and I needed to get all my fines cleared before renew-

ning Bikes are the world’s first, and only, indoor cycling bikes that track workout power, heart rate, cadence, calories and all the other key parameters.

Users are able to improve their performance and reach their goals thanks to the new console, which is connected to the Technogym Mywellness cloud-based platform.

The console is powered by the user’s motion thanks to an innovative battery-free system. The flywheel resistance system is equipped with the strongest type of permanent magnets made with a rare earth neodymium material, to assure the smoothest and most consistent ride.

Intuitive graphics and tactile clicks every 45 degrees on the resistance knob make adjustments between the 20 resistance levels incredibly easy and accurate.

Charity drive gets record support Times News Service MUSCAT: About 13,000 people donated more than 63,000 books, 46,500 toys, and 52,000 kilogrammes (kg) of clothes during Majid Al Futtaim’s annual ‘Make a Difference’ Ramadan initiative, which supports underprivileged families across the region.

The programme, now in its 10th year, encouraged people to donate books, toys, clothes and money via collection points across its destinations in Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The company also received $84,868 in cash donations from customers, who were also able to contribute through Najm, Majid Al Futtaim’s Visa credit card.

They partnered with charitable organisations throughout the region, such as the Islamic Association in Bahrain, Life Makers in Egypt, Bassma in Lebanon, Dar Al Atta’a in Oman, and the Red Crescent in the UAE. Working with these humanitarian aid partners, Majid Al Futtaim will distribute the donations to needy families across the region.

Alain Bejjani, chief executive officer, Majid Al Futtaim Holding, said: “We would like to thank our customers and the public at large for celebrating the spirit of giving with us during the Holy Month of Ramadan. Their generosity has been tremendous and will be felt by all.”

PRECIOUS GIFT

Indian expat’s ‘eggstraordinary’ find HASAN SHABAN AL LAWATI

hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Amjad Ibrahim bought a perfectly round egg at a shop near his home in Al Ghubra.

The 31-year-old Indian national said he found it on July 24 and was amazed by the egg’s almost golf ball-like shape.

While he could’ve mistakenly cracked it open to make a cake, Ibrahim googled the shape of the egg and found out that he had landed a very precious gift as a similar round-shaped egg was auctioned in Latchingdon, United Kingdom for OMR285 in 2015.

He told the Times of Oman that he is planning to sell it on eBay and use the money for charity.

Ibrahim shared this surprise with his friends through a Face-

SURPRISE SHAPE: The 31-year-old Indian national said he found the spherical egg on July 24. – Supplied photo

book post and promised to donate the collections from fund raisers to charity.

“I was searching for eggs at a local market near my place in Al

Ghubra when I saw this spherical egg in a small box,” Ibrahim said, adding that he wants to auction it at a starting price of around OMR250 and use the cash for “good cause.”

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While he has not offered it yet on eBay for sale, Ibrahim has created an email goldeneggofoman@ gmail.com so anyone interested can contact him to purchase the egg.

“If any fund raisers inside Oman can help me raise the money for charitable work, it would be great,” he stated.

Last year, the media reported that a hen called Ping Pong had laid a one-in-a-billion perfectly round egg, which was sold on eBay for around OMR280.

Owner Kim Broughton, 44, from Latchingdon in Essex, was shell-shocked after her hen laid the spherical egg on Pancake Day. Ibrahim works as a business development consultant for a private firm in the energy sector and has been in Oman for a year and a half.

SPARK THE LIGHT, IGNITE THE DREAMS ‘Empowerment – Spark the Light, Ignite the Dreams’ was the theme at the Conference held at Genesis Global School, Noida recently. Anirudh Govil, G V Vishwajit, Kanupria Mathur, Raya Sengupta, Sadiq M Dohadwalla, Yashasva Swapnak Bafna represented Indian School Al Ghubra at this prestigious event. Mrs Rakhi Das Singh escorted the team. —Supplied photo

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REGION RIOTS ERUPT AT MOROCCO YOUTH REHABILITATION CENTRE Relatives of boarder at a youth rehabilitation centre adjoining the civil prison of Oukacha shouts slogans after an attempted mass escape turned into riots in Casablanca on Thursday. Detainees at the centre in the northeast of Morocco’s biggest city set fire to beds in a bid to attract staff, attack them and try to escape. — AFP

Offensive to retake Mosul will displace 1m, says ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross seeks to pre-position supply stocks in northern Iraq as fighting intensifies

GENEVA: Up to 1 million people could be driven from their homes in northern Iraq soon as fighting intensifies in a government offensive to retake Mosul from IS, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday.

US-backed Iraqi forces have stepped up their campaign against IS militants in an expected push on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and the militants’ biggest bastion, later this year.

“Up to a million more people could be forced to flee their homes in Iraq in the coming weeks and months, posing a massive humanitarian problem for the country,” the Geneva-based ICRC said in an statement. It said 10 million Iraqis already require assistance, including more than 3 million internally displaced (IDPs) - about one-tenth of the population, and that their numbers could swell with fresh uprooting.

Robert Mardini, ICRC regional director for the Near and Mid-

FLEEING FOR SAFETY: Iraqi women and children who fled the towns of Al Shirqat and Qayyarah during reported fighting between Iraqi government forces and militants of the IS group, are transferred to a camp for displaced people. – AFP

dle East, said the aid agency had drawn up contingency plans to pre-position food, medicines and other supplies under several possible scenarios.

An estimated 3 million people live under IS rule in Iraq, he said. Mosul has 1.2-1.4 million, while another 825,000 live in the Nineveh plain and provinces of Kirkuk and Salahuddin, and 250,000 are in Anbar province, he said.

“Be it a massive influx of IDPs

out of Mosul city towards the south, or the civilian population being caught up in the fighting inside Mosul, we will try to develop a meaningful humanitarian response that will address needs wherever they are,” Mardini told reporters.

As Iraqi authorities screen people on the run, they must ensure civilians are well-treated, he said.

Those detained and investigated for possible links to IS must still be allowed to contact their fami-

lies. ICRC officials have visited 33,000 people held in Iraqi detention centres so far this year, but has no contact with Islamic State, Mardini said.

Suicide bombings in Baghdad, claimed by IS, and other cities in July have killed hundreds, overwhelming morgues, Mardini said.

“The management of the dead is pushing the country’s limited forensic capacity to the bring of collapse,” he said, speaking on return from a three-day trip to Iraq.

“The medical legal institute in Baghdad has a capacity to store 150 dead bodies; today they have within their premises 1,000 dead bodies. So you can imagine under temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) what the challenge looks like.” The ICRC is seeking a further 17.1 million Swiss francs for its programme in Iraq, its third largest worldwide, which would bring its budget for the country to 137 million Swiss francs ($140.28 million). — Reuters

SOUTH SUDAN

Deng Gai pours scorn on Machar JUBA: South Sudan’s new vice president, Taban Deng Gai, poured scorn on his predecessor Riek Machar and suggested he go into exile, deepening a rift at the heart of the political elite that has raised the risk of more turmoil after months of fighting.

“Something is wrong with comrade Riek,” Gai said in a speech broadcast on national television and radio, as he formally took office on Thursday. Machar, the previous vice president, and the SPLM-IO group he leads, have been caught up with more than two years of on-and-off, ethnically charged fighting with supporters of the country’s President Salva Kiir. Machar returned to the capital Juba in April after a shaky peace deal, but left again this month when new clashes broke out. Nothing has been heard from him since and Kiir replaced him as vice president last week with Gai, a former ally of Machar’s.

“I am advising him (Machar) to come back to Juba and stay peacefully or he can go anywhere; to Addis Ababa to Nairobi to Kampala or Khartoum to stay there peacefully and wait for elections (in 2018) so that you the people come and elect him to office or you say we don’t trust you,” Gai said.

Politics have long been plagued by splits and rivalries as leaders switch allegiances in contest for power in the nation, which only gained independence from Sudan five years ago. Members of the SPLM-IO loyal to Machar accused Kiir on Friday of stockpiling weaponry, including surface-to-air missile batteries, around Juba in “a serious and direct threat to the national security”. — Reuters

BESIEGED REBEL-HELD SECTOR

Russian humanitarian operation in Syria’s Aleppo worries US WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: The United States is trying to determine whether a Russian plan for a humanitarian operation in Syria is sincere, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday, adding that if it proves a “ruse” it could ruin cooperation between Moscow and Washington.

The 250,000 civilians trapped for weeks inside the besieged rebel-held sector of Aleppo have so far stayed away from “safe corridors” that Moscow and Damascus promised for those trying to escape the most important opposition stronghold in the country.

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s government and its Russian allies declared a joint humanitarian operation for the besieged area on Thursday, bombarding it with leaflets telling fighters to surrender and civilians to leave.

The United Nations has raised misgivings about the plan and US officials have suggested it may be an attempt to depopulate the city so that the army can seize it. The Syrian opposition called it a euphemism for forced displacement of the inhabitants, which it said would be a war crime. Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city before the war, has been divided since 2012 into government and rebel sectors.

Seizing control would be the biggest victory for Assad in five years of fighting, and demonstrate the dramatic shift of fortunes in his favour since Moscow joined the war on his side last year.

This would also be a humiliation for Kerry, who has led a diplomatic initiative with Moscow aiming to let the Cold War superpower foes cooperate against militants and restore a ceasefire for the wider civil

war which collapsed in May. Asked about the Russian operation, Kerry said Washington was still unsure of Moscow’s intent: “It has the risk, if it is a ruse, of completely breaking apart the level of cooperation.” “On the other hand, if we’re able to work it out today and have a complete understanding of what is happening and then agreement on the way forward, it could actually open up some possibilities,” he added.

Kerry said he had spoken with Moscow twice in the past 24 hours to try to clarify what the Russians were planning. The fate of Aleppo in the coming weeks has the potential to be a turning point in a seemingly endless, multi-sided civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, driven millions from their homes and drawn in most world and regional powers.

Pro-government forces with Russian backing have advanced in the three months since the ceasefire collapsed, and imposed a siege on the rebel-held sector of Aleppo since early July when they closed the main road out of the city.

The United Nations says food will run out within weeks for the people trapped inside, and has been trying to negotiate regular pauses in the fighting to allow humanitarian access. So far the safe zones have not been used. Syrian state television accused the rebels of preventing civilians from leaving which rebels deny. A state TV reporter in Aleppo said reception centres with health and food supplies had been set up around Aleppo to receive civilians, but so far few had come through because rebel fighters were threatening them.

The main opposition High Ne-

gotiations Committee (HNC) says it believes the aim is to cleanse the area so government forces can capture it. “The world must not allow Russia to get away with disguising its assault on Aleppo with deceitful talk about humanitarian ‘corridors’. Be clear - these ‘corridors’ are not for getting aid in, but driving people out. The brutal message to our people is - ‘leave or starve’,” HNC member Bassma Kodmani said. Washington has indicated that it shares that fear. State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday: “This would appear to be a demand for the surrender of opposition groups and the evacuation of Syrian civilians from Aleppo.” Privately, US officials fear the Russian proposal masks the real intent of its Syrian ally, to separate boys and men from the rest of the population, claim they

are terrorists and either imprison or execute them, “as Assad and his father have done repeatedly at least since 1982”, said one official, discussing Washington’s analysis on condition of anonymity.

Ghaith Yaqout Al Murjan, an activist in Aleppo told Reuters civilians were avoiding the corridors as they were still unsafe: “There are people who want to leave because they can no longer bear the shelling by helicopters, jets, barrel bombs... The rebels are not holding anyone if they want to leave.”

“You are talking about the need to walk a kilometre in a battle where you are at risk of being hit from two sides.”

The United Nations, which is hoping to resume peace talks in August, has been circumspect since Russia announced the humanitarian operation. — Reuters

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Thousands bid farewell to Mahasweta KOLKATA: Thousands of people from all walks of life on Friday filed past the body of Mahasweta Devi to pay their last respects before the eminent writer and social activist was cremated with full state honours. Thousands of her admirers, artists, writers, painters and political leaders including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gathered at the Rabindra Sadan auditorium where her body was kept.

The eminent writer-activist died on Thursday after a cardiac arrest following multi-organ failure at the age of 91.

After the tributes were paid, the body of Mahasweta Devi was then taken in a convoy to the Keoratala crematorium. Her grandson Tathagata Bhattacharya accompanied her in her last journey.

Recalling many fond memories of his childhood and youth with her grandmother, Tathagata said he always admired her dedication to fight for the cause of tribals and ensure their uplift. “Her most famous works were not her best ones. People know her for writing ‘Hajar Churashir Maa’ but not ‘Sri Sri Ganesh Mahima’,” he said.

Twitter was flooded with condolence messages saluting her indomitable spirit to fight for the rights of tribals, Dalits and other oppressed classes. — PTI

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Strike by bank employees hits nationwide operations The unions in the banking sector had given the strike call to protest the mergers in the sector, infusion of private capital in government banks and others STIR: A deserted bank in New Delhi as the public sector bank employees went on one-day strike on Friday. – PTI

NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: Banking operations across the country were hit on Friday as around one million employees in around 40 private and nationalised banks struck work for a day to protest against the central government’s policies for the sector.

“The strike has evoked a good response nationwide as around one million have participated in it. Most of the nationalised banks are closed,” CH Venkatachalam,

General Secretary of the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), said in Chennai.

Echoing this, K Thamaraiselvan, General Secretary of Andhra Bank Employees Union (Tamil Nadu unit) said: “The banking operations have been paralysed nationwide.”

The unions in the banking sector had given the strike call to protest the mergers in the sector,

infusion of private capital in government banks and others.

The strike call was given by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) an umbrella body of nine unions in the banking sector.

“The strike involved around one million employees and officers of public sector banks, old generation private banks and foreign banks totalling more than 80,000 branches,” Venkatachalam said.

According to Venkatachalam, unmindful of the adverse implications, the government was pursuing the reform measures in the banking sector like inadequate infusion of capital in public sector banks, which will result in reduction of government’s equity capital and create compulsion for higher extent of private capital leading to privatisation of banks.

“In the last 40 years, more than

40 private banks have collapsed.

We cannot allow to take that risk again. Banks must continue in public sector in national interest,” he said.

According to him, the total deposits in the banks today are more than Rs116 lakh crore and this cannot be placed at the doors of private players by privatising the banks. He said the government wants to consolidate and merge 27 public sector banks to make them into some five or six big banks for the sake of global competition.

“We need efficient banks and not necessarily big banks. Big banks do not automatically mean strong banks. In many countries big banks have failed and they are in trouble,” he added.

He said privatisation of banks will not help in recovering bad loans totalling over Rs13 lakh crore and may result in handing over the banks to a loan defaulter.

Criminal action against wilful loan defaulters should be taken instead of dealing with them with a velvet hand, he added.

Meanwhile, industry body Assocham on Friday urged UFBU to call off their strike as customer transactions worth about Rs12,000 crore-Rs 15,000 crore would be affected. — IANS

BLOCKADE, PROTESTS

Shortage of essential items, fuel cripples normal life in Tripura AGARTALA: The supply of essentials and fuel continues to be hit badly in Tripura for about two months now even as the state government has repeatedly sought the central government’s intervention to restore its lifeline - National Highway-8 - which has been badly damaged in adjacent Assam.

Due to heavy rains and poor maintenance, the NH-8, has turned into a muddy field with

knee-deep mud at Lowerpoah in southern Assam’s Karimganj district adjoining northern Tripura, thus almost cutting off Tripura by surface communication.

Opposition political parties and affected people have been organising road blockade and protests regularly to demand normal supply of fuel. Some protestors have also been burning vehicle tyres.

People were also facing severe

scarcity of cooking gas due to a major shortfall in the supply.

On Friday, 25 Trinmool Congress picketers were arrested by the police when they tried to enter the civil secretariat forcibly.

Tripura’s PWD Minister Badal Choudhury, Transport Minister Manik Dey and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha on Friday jointly addressed the media to explain the situation.

Choudhury later accused opposition parties of “exploiting” the situation arising due to the fuel crisis to “create violence and disturb peace in the state”.

At the press conference, he, releasing copies of all the state government’s letters to the central and Assam governments, said that the central government has not being showing its due responsibility toward the people of Tripura.

CHILDREN’S HOME

‘Orphans’ face abuse, neglect in Tamil Nadu CHENNAI: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children’s home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed.

But instead of receiving protection, the teenager was physically abused for months by staff in the home, according to a report by a committee set up by the local social welfare department to investigate the matter.

“Her story blew the lid off something we have known for a long time,” said Zaheeruddin Mohammad, a member of the committee that also fought for the rights of the girl to be protected.

“Inside unregistered homes, there is rampant abuse and little care for the needs of a child.”

State authorities have closed 500 homes since 2011, citing mismanagement, a lack of registration and misconduct but human rights groups say abuse is rife across the 1,500 government and state institutions in the state.

Rights groups have long complained that children’s homes in India are poorly regulated, not inspected often enough, and that many privately-run institutions are able to operate without a licence leaving thousands of children open to mistreatment.

The scope of the problem was outlined in a petition filed

State authorities have closed 500 homes since 2011, citing mismanagement, a lack of registration and misconduct but human rights groups say abuse is rife across the 1,500 institutions

in Chennai’s High Court by A Narayanan, the director of advocacy group CHANGEindia. “Not a week passes without news of neglect, physical violence such as torture and branding with iron, sexual abuse including rape, murder and suicides in child care homes in Tamil Nadu,” the affidavit said.

Child rights campaigners estimate that 200,000 children in Tamil Nadu are residents of private orphanages, state-supported care homes, madrassas, temples and hostels. Many children are not orphans but placed in institutional care by their parents too poor to feed, clothe and shelter them.

“An increasing number of these children are from marginalised families,” CHANGEindia’s Narayanan told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “The parents are lured by the pull of good education and promise of better care for their children. They are relying on institutional care.”

Various reports submitted to

the government in the past five years have warned of shoddy conditions in children’s homes - from poor lighting and cramped accommodation to violence.

In the majority of reported cases, the perpetrators of abuse have been wardens, watchmen, cooks and other staff.

Tamil Nadu government officials have said in court that they were looking at the recommendations made by campaigners, which include better monitoring of homes, individual child care plans, more counsellors and encouraging the idea of foster care.

In one of the latest closures, state authorities shut down after another privately-run institution housing 32 children near the port city of Chennai last month after complaints of mismanagement.

“These organisations have become organised rackets,” Narayanan said.

“There are many organisations which have a valid registration but no child care plan, no counsel-

lors and no expertise on how to fulfill a child’s emotional needs.”

Children rescued in a separate operation on June 30, from an institution in Tambaram, near Chennai, described being made to clean toilets and eat “unpalatable” food, according to R.N. Manikandan, chairman of a local child welfare committee. He also said the children shared the same space as residents of a nursing home run by the same organisation, which also caused concern.

Child welfare committee members also raised questions about the babies they found in the premises during an earlier inspection, who are now missing.

According to Narayanan’s affidavit, many children from poor families were shown as destitute orphans in the records and “paraded” before potential adoptive parents and donors funding these homes. In December, an unregistered home in Tiruchy was taken over by the social welfare department after a court directive. The home had 90 children in its custody but no records with any government agency. A wave of claims by people saying they were the children’s parents prompted a local court to rule that all the children should undergo DNA testing to establish their real families. “Not all children in these homes are in need of the care they promise,” said Andrew Sesuraj, a director at the Tamil Nadu Child Rights Observatory. — Thomson Reuters Foundation

“Central government can deploy military engineering service or Border Road Organisation or any of its agencies to urgently repair the damaged portion of the roads,” he said, adding that for the repair of only a 300 metre portion of the highway, they had been appealing to both Assam and central governments almost every week. Saha said that some trucks and fuel tankers passed through the dam-

aged areas but this was nothing.

Several hundred goods-laden trucks and oil tankers carrying fuel from Guwahati are stuck in Assam’s Karimganj, while the situation worsened as the train services between Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam and the rest of India became irregular for more then two months due to damage to the railway tracks in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. — IANS

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INDIA VIOLENCE

Protestors defy curfew, clash with security forces in Kashmir Valley SRINAGAR: Defying curfew and restrictions, protesters on Friday took to the streets at many places across Indian-administered Kashmir and clashed with security forces, after authorities thwarted a march to Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area by taking top separatist leaders into custody.

At least 20 people were injured in the clashes, which erupted after Friday prayers between the protesters and security forces across the Valley, a police official said.

In Rohama area of Baramulla district, a mob set ablaze a newlyconstructed police building while militants hurled a grenade towards security forces during stone pelting in Shopian town of south Kashmir, the official said.

The grenade failed to explode.

The official said three persons received bullet injuries after security forces opened firing to disperse a stone-pelting mob near Gushi Bridge in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.

He said the condition of all three injured persons was stated to be stable. The official said 17 others, including a few security personnel, were injured in the clashes reported from Shopian, Anantnag, Bijbehara, Bandipora, Baramulla, Sopore, Ganderbal and Kangan areas.

Clashes were also witnessed in several parts of the city. Curfew was on Friday reimposed in four districts of south Kashmir and Srinagar city, while authorities clamped restrictions in some other areas of the Valley to thwart a planned march by separatists.

“Curfew was imposed in entire south Kashmir and Srinagar, while restrictions have been imposed in north and central Kashmir,” the police official said.

He said all the four districts of south Kashmir -- Anantnag,

Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian -- were under curfew to maintain law and order. Restrictions were imposed in north Kashmir and some areas of central Kashmir to thwart the march announced by separatists to Jamia Masjid, he added. Hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate faction chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were taken into preventive custody by police as they tried to defy house arrest orders to march towards the historic Jamia Masjid.

Protests broke out across Kashmir Valley on July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces.

In the ensuing clashes between protesters and security forces, 47 persons, including two policemen, were killed and 5,500 were injured.

On Thursday, the authorities had lifted curfew and restrictions from across the Valley, except Anantnag town, after some improvement in the situation. Mobile internet services continued to remain snapped in the entire Valley, while postpaid mobile telephony services have been restored across all networks. The incoming facility on prepaid connections has also been restored, but the outgoing calls are barred on such numbers.

Meanwhile, normal life remained paralysed at several places in the Valley for the 21st consecutive day on Friday in view of the strike call given by the separatist camp. Schools, colleges and business establishments remained closed due to the strike while public transport remained off the roads. Attendance in government offices was very thin, the official said. The separatist camp has extended the shutdown call in Kashmir till July 31. — PTI

RELIEF OPERATIONS: Members of the fire forces and volunteers participate in relief operations in Bangalore on Friday.– AFP

Rains hit normal life, cause traffic chaos Tracts of the southern technology hub of Bengaluru, and the financial capital of Mumbai, were inundated by flood waters

NEW DELHI: Persistent heavy rains have caused widespread disruption in India’s major cities and severe floods in the rugged northeast have killed at least 12 people, the federal government said on Friday.

About 50,000 people from southern and eastern India had to be evacuated as storms pushed water levels to dangerous levels, damaging crops and causing more than 3,000 houses to collapse.

Gridlock Thousands vented their anger on social media after being stranded for up to 12 hours as traffic gridlock paralysed roads in the business hub of Gurgaon near New Delhi, the capital.

Schools were also ordered to be shut down for two days. Prohibitory orders were imposed near Hero Honda Chowk in a bid to ease the congestion caused by massive traffic jams.

Many motorists abandoned their vehicles and waded through knee-deep water which accumulated on both the carriageways of Delhi-Jaipur road, including Hero Honda Chowk, bringing traffic to a standstill with the tailback extending up to 15-20 km.

Gurgaon Police has issued an

BUMPER-TO-BUMPER: Heavy Traffic jam on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway due to heavy rains in

Gurgaon on Friday. – PTI

advisory asking people coming to Gurgaon from Delhi to avoid travelling. Trains were also delayed.

“It took me four hours to drive 6km (4 miles),” said Randeep Dev, a consultant at a private bank in New Delhi.”Our cities are a living hell in the monsoon.”

Tracts of the southern technology hub of Bengaluru, and the financial capital of Mumbai on the west coast, were inundated by flood waters and sewage swirled in the streets. Fire officials in Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, used boats to rescue people stranded near Electronics City, home to technology firms and multinationals such as Infosys, the business process outsourcing giant.

Forecasters warned of a new round of heavy rains and flooding, as the government opened shelters and stepped up emergency rescue operations.

In the northeastern state of Assam, troops pressed boats and helicopters into the effort to pull hundreds of people to safety from

floodwaters that had trapped them in their homes, senior military official Ajit Borah said.

In the state’s Kaziranga National Park, a sanctuary for the Indian one-horned rhinoceros, water levels were receding, four days after some of the young animals had to be rescued.

Others floundered through the water or strayed across roads, in video images captured by people living nearby.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced grand designs to build 100 futuristic ‘smart’ cities, but this week’s floods highlighted the need to improve living conditions in cities and rein in unplanned urban sprawl.

Incessant rains crippled normal life in several parts of Bengaluru, leaving in its wake waterlogged roads, flooded houses and severe traffic jams.

Low-lying areas, particularly Kodichikkanahalli and Bilekahalli, were the worst affected by the flooding as water entered houses following the breach of a lake.

The Fire department deployed boats in Kodichikkanahalli to evacuate stranded people from their buildings, officials said.

People were also seen fishing near the swelling lakes.

Overflowing lakes and drains coupled with uprooted trees compounded woes for commuters.

Adding to this was a traffic gridlock that left a long pile-up of vehicles on roads across the city, particularly on the routes leading to Electronics City, the IT hub.

As all the major arterial roads that connects to the city and ring roads witnessed traffic snarls, office goers had a harrowing time in reaching their destination on time.

Twenty-six people have died and about 2.2 million were affected so far in Bihar floods with many rivers, including Koshi, flowing above danger mark. While Kishanganj alone accounted eight flood-related deaths, seven others perished in Purnia district, the state Disaster Management Department said. — Agencies FAT H E R T O M U Z H U N NA L I L

Three held in Kerala priest abduction case in Yemen NEW DELHI: Three men allegedly involved in the abduction of Keralite priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil and carrying out an attack on a care home for the elderly killing an Indian and 15 others in Yemen’s port city of Aden, were arrested in the strife-torn country.

“Based on information that we have received from our Embassy in Djibouti, it appears that the information is correct,” official sources said when asked about reports that suspected terrorists involved in the two cases were captured. They said there was no information available yet on the whereabouts of Father Uzhunnalil, adding the Indian Mission continues to work with the local authorities to ascertain information on him.

The priest, who hails from Kerala, had gone missing after the IS militant group attacked the care home. — PTI

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PAKISTAN ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL’

Rangers ‘pick up MQM workers’

EXECUTION OF PAKISTANI HALTED BY INDONESIA

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Thursday accused the Sindh Rangers of arresting UC9 organiser Muhammad Samad, committee member Imran Sarmadi and Adnan in a raid on the party’s offices in Shah Faisal Colony and Surjani Town, respectively.

Calling the action “illegal and unconstitutional”, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Rabita Committee claimed that at present the Rangers “do not have policing powers and are thus not authorised to raid or arrest anyone in Karachi”.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said party chief Altaf Hussain was about to address workers when the party offices were surrounded. The party alleged that the Rangers men harassed and threatened them and raided the house of UC joint-organiser Muhammad Yasir.

MQM appealed to rights groups to take notice of this violation of human rights, and called for an end to such practices.— Express Tribune

Relatives of Pakistani national, Zulfiqar Ali, who was convicted to death in 2005 for heroin possession, hold his photograph as they share sweets in celebration after the Indonesian government halted his execution, in Lahore on Friday. Indonesia executed four drug convicts July 29, but 10 others due to face the firing squad were given an apparent reprieve in a confused process one lawyer condemned as a “complete mess”. The first reprieved was Pakistani Zulfiqar Ali, whom rights groups say was beaten into confessing to drugs possession, leading to his 2005 death sentence. — AFP

Will leave no stone unturned to complete CPEC on time: Raheel Army chief General Sharif made these remarks while speaking at the Chinese embassy in Islamabad to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the founding of China’s Peoples Liberation Army

ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday assured China that Pakistan will not leave any stone unturned to ensure the timely completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.

He made these remarks while speaking at the Chinese embassy in Islamabad to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the founding of China’s Peoples Liberation Army.

General Raheel said CPEC was a strategic game-changer not just for Pakistan but for the entire region. “It is destined to bring significant improvement in the lives of hundreds of millions of people, besides further promoting mutual

DETERMINED: General Raheel Sharif said on Thursday China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was a strategic game-changer not just for Pakistan but for the entire region. - File photo

interdependence among regional states,” he added.

“As chief of army staff, I assure you that security of CPEC is our national undertaking and we will not leave any stone unturned to ensure its timely completion and uninterrupted success,” General Raheel said.

On Pakistan-China ties, General Raheel said Pakistan Army and the people of Pakistan take pride in ‘our bonds of friendship’ with

China. He further said the affinity of views between China and Pakistan reflected ‘our common vision and shared destiny.’

“This convergence of our interests and commonality of purpose make us the most important strategic players in the region,” he maintained.

“Today, our mutually beneficial engagements include defence collaboration and joint production ventures. It also includes unified

diplomatic front at all international platforms including United Nations, Association of South East Asian Nations, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation; and the splendid China Pakistan Economic Corridor.”

He described China and Pakistan as partners in fight against the menace of terrorism for the common good of humanity.

“We seek enhanced regional cooperation to root out the men-

ace of extremism and terrorism for enduring peace and stability in the region.”

“As we consolidate the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb, we will continue to take action against terrorists of all hue and colour.

Our resolve to break the nexus between terrorists, criminality and corruption is unflinching,” he said He reiterated that Pakistan Army and PLA form the edifice of “our overall strategic relations.” “I am

This iconic relationship is sweeter than the honey, higher than the Himalayas and deeper than the oceans. It is a symbol of our time tested friendship and deep and impregnable relationship General Raheel Sharif Army chief

sure that the vast range of professional collaboration between PLA and Pakistan Army will continue to grow as a hallmark of the eternal friendship and common future of China and Pakistan.” — Express Tribune

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rom 2005 to 2014, the real income of two-thirds of households in 25 developed economies was flat or fell. Only after very aggressive government intervention in taxes and transfers have some countries been able to hold families at least even.

This experience holds lessons for countries like the United States, where inequality and income distribution loom large in the run-up to November’s presidential and congressional elections. What can the US learn from what works?

The US is a global outlier in tying much of its social safety net to employment. Social-welfare spending averages 23 per cent of GDP in Europe, but only 16 per cent in the US. And the US is an especially distant outlier when it comes to families: only three other countries – Tonga, Suriname, and Papua New Guinea – lack a national policy on paid family leave. There are, however, many successful policy initiatives in the US. For example, Pete Weber, a retired business executive from Fresno and a member of the California Republican Party’s executive committee, is at the forefront of a nationwide movement of efforts to think boldly about how to move families out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.

The Fresno Bridge Academy, founded by Weber in 2010, has received statewide and national acclaim for its results – not only its success with individuals in need, but also its cost effectiveness.

The programme is an 18-month employmenttraining programme that also provides support services for families – including computer-literacy classes, résumé assistance, parenting classes, and tutoring for children – through its non-profit umbrella agency, Reading and Beyond.

Located in the poorest postal code in California, the programme has helped 1,200 families who enrolled voluntarily and is funded to serve an additional 2,300 families over the next two years.

To date, 80 per cent of enrolled families have gained employment or significant wage growth, and 80% of those that do, retain these gains a year later. Thirty percent have achieved full self-reliance within just 18 months. The Fresno scheme, funded by an innovation grant from the SNAP (formerly food stamps) programme, is rigorously outcome-based and quantitatively assessed. It has generated $22 of benefit for every dollar in-

vested, with $16 going to the families and $5 going to taxpayers (mainly in the form of higher revenues and reduced outlays for food stamps). While the circumstances in Fresno are particular to the agricultural economy there, Weber believes the program is scalable and is already extending it to two other California counties (San Joaquin and Napa). Through a broader effort with California Forward’s Economic Summit, Weber is embedding the lessons from Fresno in an effort to move a million families out of poverty in the state by 2025. New approaches such as that taken by the Fresno Bridge Academy come at a time when both the left and the right are questioning current anti-poverty programs. By some estimates, since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his “War on Poverty” in 1964, total spending on the fight has exceeded $22 trillion. Yet the front isn’t moving. The official poverty rate in the US seems stuck at roughly 15 per cent .

On the right, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan’s Expanding Opportunity in America anchors the view that America already spends enough and just needs to spend it better.

Ryan’s plan focuses on integrating programmes into an “opportunity grant,” expanding the earned income tax credit (EITC), and criminal justice reform – all while encouraging economic growth, so that job creation does the heavy lifting.

On the left, organisations like the Opportunity Institute (full disclosure: we both sit on its board of directors) argue for targeted spending, particularly in early education; linking college to careers; and reducing criminal recidivism. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s policy platform proposes new programmes to address these issues, with a particular focus on family leave and early childhood and college education.

Many if not most scholars who have explored the topic, such as a joint effort by the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, include elements from the left and the right – particularly strategies aimed at strengthening families, improving the quality and quantity of work available, and breaking the cycle of recidivism. - Project Syndicate

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Rudd withdraws candidacy for UNSG SYDNEY: Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday withdrew his candidacy to be the next U.N. Secretary-General after current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared him unfit for the job and refused to back his candidacy.

Conservative leader Turnbull denied that politics played a part in his cabinet’s decision not to back the former Labor leader, who had asked the government to nominate him as Australia’s candidate.

“Does the government believe, do we believe, do I as prime minister believe that Mr Rudd is well suited for that role? My considered judgement is that he is not,” Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.

Rudd, prime minister twice during six years of Labor party strife from 2007 to 2013, is a polarising figure in Australia due to his rivalry with former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard, with the two toppling each other in party-room coups. He was always considered a long-shot for the top UN job as it usually rotates geographically and Eastern Europe is the only region not to have held it yet.

Kevin Rudd

Rudd’s office said he would not continue with his candidacy.

“A nomination by the government would not have granted Mr Rudd a position.

It would simply have enabled him to stand alongside the 12 other candidates from across the world, a compete on his merits,” the statement from his office said. “That is now not to be.” In contrast, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is making a full-throated appeal for former New Zealand premier Helen Clark to take over from Ban Ki-moon. — Reuters

Chinese relatives of missing plane victims ask for search to continue Last week, Malaysia, China and Australia said in a joint statement that the hunt for MH370 would be suspended if the aircraft was not found in an area now being searched

BEIJING/SYDNEY: Chinese relatives of those on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went missing two years ago on a flight to Beijing, made an emotional plea on Friday for the search to continue.

Last week, Malaysia, China and Australia said in a joint statement that the hunt for MH370 would

TRAUMATISED: A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing in 2014 reacts during a protest outside the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing, on Friday. — Reuters

be suspended if the aircraft was not found in an area now being searched.

The Boeing 777, with 239 aboard, disappeared in March

2014 while on a flight from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Almost A$180 million ($135 million) has been spent since then on an underwater search spanning

120,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean.

About 30 family members, some in tears, gathered at China’s foreign ministry to hand over the pe-

CONFLICT

‘Kabul loses control over 5% of territory’ WASHINGTON: The Afghan government lost control or influence of nearly 5 per cent of its territory between January and May, the US government’s top watchdog on Afghanistan said in a report on Friday, an indication of the challenges its forces are facing.

Fifteen years after the United States invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban rulers who had harboured Al Qaeda militants who attacked the United States, the Taliban have made major gains and are estimated to control more territory than at any time since 2001.

Washington has been training and equipping Afghan security forces in order to withdraw America troops from the country, but the Afghans remain short of personnel and hardware.

The report, published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said the area under Afghan government “control or influence” had decreased to 65.6 percent by the end of May from 70.5 percent near the end of January, based on data provided by US forces in Afghanistan.

That translates to a loss of 19 of the country’s approximately 400 governing districts.

Redeployed The report cited US forces in Afghanistan as saying the loss of control was because Afghan forces were redeployed from lower-priority areas to “conduct

The report, published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said the area under Afghan government ‘control or influence’ had decreased to 65.6 per cent by the end of May from 70.5 per cent near the end of January, based on data provided by US forces in Afghanistan

offensive operations, gain and maintain the initiative, exploit opportunities, and consolidate tactical gains.”

The commander of US Forces in Afghanistan, Army General John Nicholson, said most of the areas the Taliban control were rural.

“They believed they were going to be able to seize and hold terrain, and they failed to do so,” Nicholson told a Pentagon briefing via video link on Thursday.

The report, however, said insurgents had 10 additional districts under their control or influence in the same timeframe.

It was not possible to reach the Afghan government immediately for comment.

Acknowledging that security in Afghanistan remained precarious and Taliban forces had gained ground in some places, President Barack Obama shelved plans to cut the US force in Afghanistan nearly in half by year’s end, opting instead to keep 8,400 troops there through to the end of his presidency in January.

US air power Obama also approved US forces new authorities that enable them to accompany Afghan forces, while allowing greater use of US air power.

Previously, Nicholson — who commands both the NATO-led Resolute Support mission and a separate US counterterrorism

mission — was permitted to take action against the Taliban only “in extremis,” or when US assistance was necessary to prevent a significant Afghan military setback.

A report by the Center on International Cooperation commissioned by the United Nations and published earlier this year found that the government had access to 61 per cent of districts in 2015, down from 67 per cent in 2010.

“The deficiencies and incapacities of the Afghan security forces have really not been addressed enough to avert such a scenario (of losing territory) in the future,” said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia specialist at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington think-tank. — Reuters

tition, and a group were allowed in despite a brief stand-off with plainclothes security.

“We oppose their decision. We don’t recognise it at all. That decision has no reason behind it,” said Boa Lanfang, 65, whose son, daughter-in-law and grandson were on the flight.

Some family members held up placards reading “The three governments have an obligation to the world to fulfil their promise”.

The families of those on board, most of whom were from China, have pressed hard for answers ever since the plane went missing.

China’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Investigators believe the plane was deliberately flown thousands of kilometres (miles) off course before crashing into the southern Indian Ocean off Australia.

Malaysian investigators said in 2015 there was nothing suspicious in the financial, medical or personal histories of pilots or crew.

Several pieces of aircraft wreckage have washed up on beaches in Africa and been positively identified as coming from

MH370 but they shed little light on the mystery.

Meanwhile, an aircraft wing part found in Tanzania is “highly likely” to be part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, an Australian government minister said on Friday, in what would be the second confirmed piece of the jetliner.

Wing part found The wing part found in Tanzania is being examined in Australia.

“It is highly likely that the latest piece of debris being analysed is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,” Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said in a statement.

“The experts will continue to analyse this piece to assess what information can be determined from it.” Investigators have confirmed a piece of plane debris found on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 as being part of MH370.

They have said several other pieces of debris found in Mozambique, South Africa and Rodrigues Island, a territory of Mauritius, are likely to be parts of the missing plane. — Reuters

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WORLD HELD BY US TILL 1972

US military to return 17% of Okinawa land to Japan TOKYO: The United States military said on Friday it was preparing for the biggest land return in Okinawa since 1972, as it faces a surge in opposition to its presence following the arrest of one its civilian contractors for the murder of a local woman.

Okinawa is the US military’s key base in Asia where it faces an increasingly assertive China.

It hosts 30,000 military personnel on bases that cover a fifth of the island.

“We are respectful of the feelings of Okinawans that our footprint must be reduced,” Lieutenant General Lawrence D. Nicholson, the US commander on the island, said in a press release.

Once new helipads are completed, the US military will hand back 4,000 hectares (40 square kilometres) of land to the Japanese government, which is 17 per cent of the area it controls.

The tract is part of the US Marine Corp jungle training camp known as Camp Gonsalves in Northern Okinawa.

Okinawa was under US occupation until 1972.

The return of the land was agreed in 1996, but has been delayed by protesters blocking the construction of the helipads.

The Japanese government re-

IN FACE OF PROTESTS: An aerial view shows Yonaguni island,

Okinawa prefecture in this file picture. e are respectful of the feelings of Okinawans that our footprint must be reduced,” Lieutenant General Lawrence D. Nicholson, the US commander on the island on Friday. — Reuters/Kyodo

cently resumed work at the site.

Local resentment over the US military presence surged after an American civilian working at a US base, Kenneth Franklin, was arrested last month in connection with the murder of a local 20-yearold Japanese woman, Rina Shimabukuro.

Nicholson announced a 30-day mourning period after the murder and temporarily banned marines

from drinking off base.

Washington and Tokyo agreed to limit legal protections and benefits to some US civilians working for the military.

The murder and a subsequent arrest of a US Navy sailor for drunk driving spurred large scale demonstrations and calls, backed by Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, for Washington to move military personnel off the island. — Reuters

DAMAGE: Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan inspects a hole caused by a rocket, fired during a coup attempt at the Turkish police special forces base in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday, as he is flanked by officials. - Kayhan Ozer/Courtesy of Presidential Palace/Handout via Reuters

Turkey shakes up military, US decries purge The purges target supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15-16 coup

ANKARA/ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected Western criticism of purges under way in Turkey’s military and other state institutions after a failed coup, suggesting some in the United States were on the side of the plotters.

The purges target supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding the July 15-16 coup.

Turkey’s Western allies condemned the coup, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, but they have been rattled by the scale of the crackdown.

The director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, said on Thursday the purges were harming the fight against IS in Syria and Iraq by sweeping away Turkish officers who had worked closely with the United States.

The head of US Central Command, General Joseph Votel, said he believed some of the military figures whom the United States had worked with were in jail.

Badly damaged Speaking at a special forces headquarters in Ankara badly damaged by violence on the night of the coup, Erdogan on Friday condemned Votel’s remarks.

“Instead of thanking this country which repelled a coup attempt, you take the side of the coup plotters. The putschist is in your

DETERMINED: This handout picture released by the Turkish Presidential Press Service on July 29, 2016 shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left shaking hands with a guard during his visit to the Police Special Operation Department’s Headquarters in Golbasi district of Ankara. — AFP/TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/KAYHAN OZER

country already,” Erdogan said, referring to Gulen, who denies any involvement in the coup attempt. They (the critics) say...’we worry for (Turkey’s) future’.But what are these gentlemen worried about? Whether the numbers of detained and arrested will increase? If they are guilty, they will increase,” said Erdogan, who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup.

Extradite Gulen Ankara wants Washington to extradite Gulen, once a close ally of Erdogan and now an arch foe, to Turkey.

Asked about the U.S. comments on losing Turkish interlocutors, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim echoed Erdogan’s feisty tone: “This is a confession.

If the Gulenist generals are their friends, they are in the same class.”

Yildirim also said Turkey would shut down an air base near Ankara which served as a hub for the coup plotters as well as all military barracks used by them.

Turkey announced late on Thursday a major shake-up of its armed forces, NATO’s second

largest, with the promotion of 99 colonels to the rank of general or admiral and the dishonourable discharge of nearly 1,700 military personnel over their alleged roles in the coup.

About 40 per cent of all generals and admirals have been dismissed since the coup.

Defence Minister Fikri Isik told broadcaster NTV on Friday the shake-up in the military was not yet over, adding that military academies would now be a target of “cleansing”.

The purges have also hit government ministries, schools and universities, the police, civil service, media and business.

The number of public sector workers removed from their posts since the coup attempt now stands at more than 66,000, including some 43,000 people in education, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.

Interior Minister Efkan Ala said more than 18,000 people had been detained over the failed coup, and that 50,000 passports had been cancelled. The labour ministry said it was investigating 1,300 staff over their possible involvement. — Reuters

I N F L ATA B L E B O AT

Britons jailed over attempt to smuggle in 18 Albanians LONDON: Two British men who tried to smuggle 18 Albanians into England by inflatable boat in May and had to be rescued in choppy waters were each sentenced to over four years in prison on Friday, Britain’s state prosecution service said.

News of the rare attempt at a clandestine sea crossing was seized upon by media and some politicians who were campaigning at the time for Britain to leave the European Union as evidence of migratory pressures and the need for tighter border control.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have tried to illegally enter the country in recent years, mostly by stowing away on trucks

or trains bound for England from France, although the numbers are dwarfed by flows of people in the Mediterranean.

Life jackets The two smugglers, Robert Stilwell and Mark Stribling, were the only people on board the boat who were wearing life jackets.

Passengers had paid 6,000 euros ($6,700) each to make the trip, which British authorities said had nearly cost them their lives.

The boat’s battery failed shortly after it left France and water started flooding in, leaving those on board to frantically try to bail it out as fast as they could.

Local lifeboats were launched,

along with a Border Force vessel and a search-and-rescue helicopter. The rescue took around an hour and a half in rough waters with poor visibility.

One woman had to be treated for symptoms of hypothermia.

“We may well have seen a tragedy just off the British coastline,” said Kris Venkatasami, deputy chief prosecutor for the southeast of England.

Both smugglers had pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to conspiring to assist illegal immigration.

Stilwell was sentenced to four years and four months, while Stribling received four years and eight months. — Reuters

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S P O R S

Sri Lanka ahead as Aussies wobble in tricky run chase Skipper Steve Smith was batting on 26 with Adam Voges on nine when rain, which had delayed the start of play by an hour, washed out the final session for the third time in four days

PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka set Australia a stiff 268-run victory target before reducing them to 83 for three to gain upper hand after a rain-truncated penultimate day of the first Test in Pallekele on Friday.

Skipper Steve Smith was batting on 26 with Adam Voges on nine when rain, which had delayed the start of play by an hour, washed out the final session for the third time in four days.

It sets up an intriguing final day with Smith’s team needing 185 runs to go 1-0 up in the three-Test series while Sri Lanka require seven wickets to clinch the bowlerdominated contest.

Earlier in the morning, Kusal Mendis fell for a marathon 176 but the Sri Lankan tail wagged as the hosts, resuming on 282 for six, posted 353 all out in their second innings. Mendis added seven runs to his overnight before Mitchell Starc (4-84) dismissed him caught behind.

Rangana Herath (35) frustrated the Australians with his belligerent batting until substitute fielder

JUBILANT: Sri Lankan team members celebrate the dismissal of Australia’s Usman Khawaja with their bowler Dilruwan Perera, second right, on Day Four of the first Test cricket match in Pallekele. – AP/PTI

Moises Henriques took a stunning one-handed diving catch to send him back. Herath was soon back to torment the touring side again, this time with the ball, when the left-arm spinner bowled David Warner who ended the match with scores of one and zero.

Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera trapped Usman Khawaja (18) lbw and left-arm Chinaman bowler Lakshan Sandakan bowled Joe Burns (29) with a sharp-turning delivery to reduce Australia to 63-3.

Australia looked in further trouble when Voges was adjudged leg-before for a golden duck after being struck on his pad by a Perera delivery.

The batsman reviewed the decision and got it overturned after replays suggested the sharp-turning ball would have missed leg stump.

Australia are without their hamstrung left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe, who hobbled off the ground on Thursday and is set to miss the rest of the series. - Reuters

TEST SERIES

Sri Lanka 1st innings: 117 Australia 1st innings: 203 (R. Herath 4-49, L. Sandakan 4-58) Sri Lanka 2nd innings: 353 (K. Mendis 176; M. Starc 4-84) Australia 2nd innings (Target: 268 runs): J. Burns b Sandakan 29 D. Warner b Herath 1 U. Khawaja lbw b D. Perera 18 S. Smith not out 26

A. Voges not out 9 Total (for 3 wickets, 27 overs) 83 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-33, 3-63 To bat: M. Marsh, P. Nevill, S. O’Keefe, M. Starc, J. Hazlewood, N. Lyon Bowling: N. Pradeep 3-0-16-0, R. Herath 10-1-35-1, D. Perera 9-1-19-1, L. Sandakan 5-1-13-1 Umpires: R. Kettleborough & S. Ravi TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney Match referee: Chris Broad

CARIBBEAN SERIES

Latham century helps Kiwis to sizeable lead over Zimbabwe BULAWAYO: Tom Latham’s century and 91 from Kane Williamson put New Zealand firmly in the driving seat with a 151-run lead over Zimbabwe on the second day of the first Test on Friday.

New Zealand closed on 315 for four in reply to Zimbabwe’s firstinnings 164. Ross Taylor (38) and nightwatchman Ish Sodhi (5) were not out at the close.

Latham reached his fourth Test century soon after tea before being caught by stand-in wicketkeeper Brian Chairi off the part-time bowling of veteran Hamilton Masakadza for 105 from 209 balls.

Latham and Williamson compiled a second-wicket partnership of 156. Williamson fell nine runs short of his century after a sharp catch at slip by Masakadza off the leg-spin bowling of home skipper Graeme Cremer.

The New Zealand captain had benefited from a contentious decision from the television umpire when he looked to have been caught at first slip by Sikandar Raza off Cremer when he was on 72.

Williamson asked Raza to confirm he had taken the catch and despite a positive response he spoke to the umpires who opted to get

SCOREBOARD

SCOREBOARD

GOOD KNOCK: New Zealand’s Tom Latham celebrates scoring a

Zimbabwe 1st innings: 164 (N. Wagner 6-41) New Zealand 1st innings: M. Guptill c Ervine b Chibhabha 40 T. Latham c Chari b H. Masakadza 105 K. Williamson c Masakadza b Cremer 91 R. Taylor not out 38 H. Nicholls c Chari b Tiripano 18 I. Sodhi not out 5 Extras (b-6 nb-10 w-2) 18 Total (for 4 wickets, 100 overs) 315 Fall of wickets: 1-79, 2-235, 3-272, 4-299 To bat: B. Watling, M. Santner, T. Southee, N. Wagner, T. Boult Bowling: M. Chinouya 15-2-41-0 (w-1), D. Tiripano 17-2-51-1 (nb-6), P. Masvaure 5-0-20-0 (nb-3, w-1), G. Cremer 35-4-1131, S. Raza 9-3-37-0, C. Chibhabha 10-0-221 (nb-1), H. Masakadza 9-1-25-1 Umpire: M. Gough & Paul Reiffel TV umpire: Langton Rusere Match referee: David Boon

century. – AFP

television evidence which could not prove the dismissal.

Opener Martin Guptill was dismissed in the first session for 40, was caught in the gully to hand debutant Chamu Chibhabha a first Test wicket.

Henry Nicholls was the fourth wicket to fall, caught behind by Chairi from a full delivery by Donald Tiripano.

Chairi was deputising for Regis Chakabva who was confined to bed on Friday with a high temperature.

The New Zealanders will look to bat through the third day after Williamson said his side would seek time at the crease to prepare for tougher series in South Africa and India over the next two months. - Reuters

Upbeat India look to assert supremacy KINGSTON: Bolstered by the comprehensive win in the series opener, an upbeat India will look to assert their supremacy over an inexperienced West Indies with yet another commanding show in the second cricket Test, starting here on Saturday.

The ‘Men In Blue’ made a confident start to the 2016-17 season, recording India’s biggest win outside the sub-continent when they thrashed the hosts by an innings and 92 runs in the opening cricket Test.

India will look to continue in the same vein in the tour, which is Anil Kumble’s debut series as chief coach of the team.

But it would be easier said than done as a green pitch awaits the visitors at Sabina Parka, a stark contrast to the conditions on offer in Antigua, where the visitors had won the match in four days.

Going by past records, it was way back in 2008 when a Test lasted five days at Sabina Park which Australia won by 98 runs.

Since then, five Tests have taken place here and all of them have finished within four days, including India’s 63-run win in 2011.

West Indies’ last Test here was against Australia in the summer of 2015, and that match finished

past lunch on the fourth day.

Given the very evident gulf between the two teams at present, the grassy wicket should expedite matters in this forthcoming match as well.

While it is tough to say which team will be happier to see the green pitch, the hosts will surely feel that the equation will perhaps be more balanced.

The big win in Antigua doesn’t mean India will be complacent going into the second Test. The big difference in conditions on offer will obviously hinder any such thoughts, as will the fact that there are still three more Tests to go on this tour and their job has only just begun.

While India will find comfort in a settled line-up, there are some obvious points to ponder over like fitness of opener Murali Vijay. Uncertainity lies over Vijay’s availability in the seond Test as still there is no confirmation on where he is fit enough to play or not.

The opener has been missing action since being hit on his thumb by Shannon Gabriel on the first morning of the series, and didn’t field for a single minute in the West Indies’ two innings last week. — PTI

FORMULA ONE

Rosberg fastest in German GP practice HOCKENHEIM: Nico Rosberg, aiming to seize back the championship lead at his home German Formula One Grand Prix, got his weekend off to a strong start by topping the opening two practice sessions on Friday.

Rosberg set his fastest time of one minute 15.517 seconds in the opening 90-minute session, but

stayed at the top with a slightly slower lap in the afternoon.

“In general our car was working well out there today,” said Rosberg.

“Saying that, in Hungary we were very quick on Friday but then on Saturday and Sunday everyone was very close. “It’s a good start but we’ll see more tomorrow.”

Team mate and world champi-

onship leader Lewis Hamilton was second in both sessions on a dominant day for Mercedes.

Rosberg, however, seemed to have the measure of him and was comfortably faster in both sessions, although the champion was not perturbed. “It’s been a very chilled Friday,” said Hamilton.

“No real surprises and a good

first step for the weekend.”

Rosberg heads into Sunday’s race at the 4.5-km Hockenheim track trailing Hamilton by six points in the standings, having ceded the overall lead to the Briton at the last race in Hungary. Sebastian Vettel, making his first appearance on home soil in Ferrari colours, finished both sessions in third. _ Reuters

GOOD DAY: Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg during practice. – Reuters

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SPORTS Top-eight start for Ahmad Al Harthy’s Oman Racing Team at 24 hours of Spa No. 44 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 of Oman Racing Team posted a time of 2:21.684 seconds before Ahmad’s teammate Jonny Adam delivered a quickest time of 2:19.458 seconds early in the night qualifying period QUALIFYING SESSION: Oman Racing Team’s Ahmad Al Harthy during the qualifying session at the Spa-Francorchamps. – Supplied photo

MUSCAT: Podium finishing ProAm Blancpain Endurance Cup driver Ahmad Al Harthy and the Oman Racing Team will begin the biggest race of the year at Total 24 Hours of Spa, from eighth in class after a series of highly competitive qualifying sessions at the Belgian track on Thursday.

During the first of two grid-determining runs to set the starting order for the hugely prestigious twice-round-the-clock encounter, the No.44 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 posted a time of 2:21.684 seconds in the evening session before Ahmad’s team-mate Jonny Adam delivered a quickest time of 2:19.458 seconds early in the night qualifying period.

So ultra-competitive were the two track sessions, Adam’s best effort in the second qualifying pe-

We know how difficult the race will be but we are all extremely positive and will give it our best Ahmad Al Harthy Oman Racing Team

riod was within just a second of the outright pole position, and just 0.8 seconds shy of the Pro-Am pole, which translated into 24th on the overall grid and, most importantly, eighth in Pro-Am. “We worked on different elements during the qualifying periods, due to the track being wet in the first session, but overall P8 is a respectable place to start from”, said Ahmad, who is backed by

Oman Ministry of Sports Affairs, Oman Air, National Bank of Oman (NBO), Barr Al Jissah and Omantel, “We know how difficult the race will be but we are all extremely positive and will give it our best.”

During the opening Bronze test session on Tuesday, the Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase got the event off to a strong start with the eighth fastest time overall, seventh in Pro-Am.

Following a day of off-track activities on Wednesday, 27th July, including the annual parade of race cars into Spa town centre, the drivers returned to action on Thursday for all-important qualifying.

Adam delivered a fantastic lap of 2:19.458 seconds on only the Aston Martin’s fourth lap of the session which eventually secured the 13th fastest time overall in the night-time run and fourth

in Pro-Am. On combined times though from the two sessions, it resulted in eighth in Pro-Am. Joining Aston Martin Middle East and North Africa ambassador Ahmad in the line-up for the big race will be regular Blancpain Endurance Cup team-mates Adam and Devon Modell. The trio is joined for the 24 Hour contest by Aston Martin works driver Darren Turner.

Going into the race at Spa-Fran-

corchamps, Ahmad, Adam and Modell are fourth in the Pro-Am championship standings while the Oman Racing Team is fifth in the entrants’ battle.

2016 Blancpain Pro-Am Driver Standings (after Round 3): 4th Ahmad Al Harthy/Jonny Adam/Devon Modell, 30pts. Team Standings (after Round 3): 5th Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase, 30pts

TENNIS

Maaseik Open: Fatma Al Nabhani’s run ends in singles, doubles semis MUSCAT: Top seeded Omani international tennis star Fatma Al Nabhani crashed out of the $10,000 International Tennis Federations (ITF) Maaseik Surtegno Open 2016 in Belgium losing in semifinals of the women’s singles and doubles semifinals respectively.

Fatma Al Nabhani lost to Belgium’s sixth seeded Deborah Kerfs 1-6, 2-6 in the singles semifinals, while Deborah teamed up with Chiara Scholl of USA as the fourth seeds defeated top seeded pair of Fatma Al Nabhani and Netherlands’

Oman’s Fatma Al Nabhani.

Kelly Versteeg 7-6(5), 6-4.

Earlier in the Saint Gervais Open in France, Fatma partnering Estelle had lost in the doubles final before entering the Belgium tournament as top seeded player.

After getting a first round bye here, Fatma partnering Netherlands’ Kelly Versteeg defeated Eleonara Molinaro of Luxembourg and Eva Marie Voracek of Germany 7-6 (8), 7-6 (5) to enter doubles semifinals.

Meanwhile in the singles, Fatma had eased past Poland’s Katarzyna Kubicz 6-1, 6-3 and was stretched in the second round

by Colombia’s Maria Fernanda 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

In the semifinals, Fatma eased past Jade Suvrijn of France in the quarterfinals 6-1, 6-2, but her run was halted in the semifinals.

ROYAL CAVALRY HORSES EXCEL IN NEWBURY Royal Cavalry horses and also horses from the stable of Sheikh Mohammed Nasser Al Hashar excelled in the 35th Dubai International Arabian race day at Newbury Racetrack in the United Kingdom. The race was held under the patronage Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, deputy governor of Dubai and the Minister of Finance. The horse Shehaym ridden by Richard Molin and owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Nasser Al Hashar won the second spot in the Emirates Air race 1600m. Royal Cavalry’s Kasib achieved third place in the 2000m Dubai Emirates National Bank Race, while Sheikh Mohammed bin Nasser Al Hashar’s Kaw Kat was second in the Jabel Ali International. The other horses to do well were Muhanad (Royal Cavalry), Silvin Al Mouri (Royal Cavalry) and Sameema (Royal Cavalry). — Supplied photo

SAILING

Oman Air keep lead but wary of chasing pack at Hamburg

STAYING IN FRONT: Oman Air skippered by Morgan Larson in action on Day 2 at Hamburg. – Supplied photo

MUSCAT: Oman Sail’s crew on Oman Air came face to face with some of Hamburg’s infamous challenges on Friday but still came away with five podium positions, including three outright wins to maintain their overall lead in the Extreme Sailing Series in Germany.

All seven teams made it onto the podium at some stage during the seven race programme, reflecting the degree of difficulty in achieving any sort of consistency in a very shifty and unstable breeze that topped out at a bracing 14 knots when all the GC32s catamarans took off on their foils and flew around the race course.

Morgan Larson’s team opened the second day of racing with a runners-up place which was promptly followed by their first victory of the afternoon, a resounding 40 second win over SAP Extreme Sailing Team, their strongest rivals throughout the day.

Comfortable lead There were two more Oman Air firsts including a 61 second win, again over SAP Extreme Sailing Team to bring Day 2 to a close, by which time, their lead at the top of the table had extended to 12 points over Alinghi who posted two wins.

“It was very hard but very good out there today. On such a tight

race course, there is a lot of action,” said Omani bowman Nasser Al Mashari.

“It was quite breezy and shifty but for us so far so good! We are looking forward to tomorrow!”

Crew work and communication on Oman Air remained a ‘work in progress’ added mainsail trimmer and tactician Pete Greenhalgh who’s input on a day like Friday was a game changer and although they were winning, there was still a way to go before they could boast a flawless performance.

“We are still gelling as a team so there is still a lot of refining to do,” he said. “The secret to success on this race course is to get your head

out of the boat looking up the track and be flexible on your plan and if things don’t go to plan, seek out other opportunities very quickly because there always are plenty of opportunities.

“If you are at the front, things are definitely never comfortable and if you are at the back, things can open up for you. Even if you get 10 to 15 points ahead in this fleet, that lead can disappear instantly if you don’t come out firing on all cylinders.

“It is never comfortable until it is over so the plan is always to keep it simple and sail the boat nice and consistently,” Greenhalgh said.

Racing continues on Saturday and Sunday.

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SONY POSTS SURPRISE PROFIT Sony posted a surprise quarterly profit as strength in its PlayStation division outweighed a slowdown in sales of image sensors. The company reported net income of ¥21.2 billion ($205 million) in the quarter through June, compared to the average analysts’ expectation for a ¥39 billion loss. >B2

Ooredoo Oman net profit rises by 12% in first half Revenues grew by 8.9 per cent

We are pleased with our revenue growth in this first half of the year and this is confirmation of our continued focus on customer needs. Our growth is largely driven by a continued rise in data demand in the mobile and fixed markets, as well as a significant increase in fixed customer numbers

to OMR132.8m compared to OMR121.9m in 2015, driven by increases in both mobile and

Greg Young

fixed data revenue

Times News Service MUSCAT: Ooredoo Oman net profit for the first half of 2016 increased to OMR24.9 million compared to OMR 22.2 million in the same period of 2015, a rise of 12.2 per cent.

The unaudited financial results for the six months ended June shows revenues for the first half of grew by 8.9 per cent to OMR132.8 million compared to OMR 121.9 million in 2015. The growth is driven by increases in both mobile and fixed data revenue.

Ebitda (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for the first half of the year stood at OMR73.4 million compared to OMR68.4 million for the first six months of 2015. EbitCRUDE OIL

Asia’s June Iran oil imports rise TEHRAN: Imports of Iranian oil by four major buyers in Asia in June jumped 47.1 per cent from a year ago to the highest level in more than four years, evidence Tehran’s aggressive moves to recoup market share, lost under international sanctions, is paying off.

Iran is regaining market share at a faster pace than analysts had projected since sanctions were lifted in January, helped by securing more tankers through a temporary shipping insurance fix.

Opec producers Robust Iranian oil sales may continue as Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) producers cut prices for August crude sales to Asia, the Mediterranean and from the port of Sidi Kerir in Egypt, in a continuing effort to regain market share in these regions post-sanctions.

Tehran’s oil sales hit four-and-ahalf-year high in June, nearly doubling since December as sanctions were lifted on its oil exports in January. By discounting prices for its crude against Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Iran has attracted new customers in countries such as Poland and spurred higher demand from existing buyers in Asia. - Reuters

Chief executive officer, Ooredoo Oman

da growth for the year is driven by higher revenue.

Increase in net profit for the year is driven by higher Ebitda partially offset by higher depreciation cost due to investment in network modernisation.

Commenting on the results, chief executive officer of Ooredoo Oman, Greg Young, said: “We are pleased with our revenue growth in this first half of the year and this is confirmation of our continued focus on customer needs. Our growth is largely driven by a continued rise in data demand in the mobile and fixed markets, as well as a significant increase in fixed customer numbers.”

“The growth is also a result of our continued network investment, both to modernise and in-

crease coverage. On the back of this, we have developed a number of inspiring products, promotions and services, such as our superfast fibre home broadband packages, our popular daily Ooredoo surprises and attractive Shahry business pack offers, to meet the changing needs of customers and businesses in all sectors across the Sultanate,” he added.

Net profit, following adjustment relating to income tax for the second quarter ending June 2016, includes a reversal of tax amounting to OMR0.6 million on account of revising the tax provision for the year to be at 12 per cent instead of the 15 per cent provided for in first quarter of 2016.

Further, income tax for the second quarter of last year includes

an additional charge of OMR0.9 million on account of the tax years 2008 to 2013. Total number of customers grew by 3.2 per cent, to be 2,841,472 at the end of the first half of 2016 compared to 2,753,140 for the same period of 2015.

Fixed service customers The fixed service customer base increased by 28.7 per cent to 80,292 customers in the second quarter of 2016 compared to 62,410 for the similar period in 2015. The mobile post-paid customer base grew by 5.1 per cent to 212,352 customers compared to 202,026 customers in the second quarter of 2015.

The mobile pre-paid customer base for the second quarter of 2016 increased by 2.4 per cent to

2,548,828 compared to 2,488,704 for the same period last year.

“Customer service remains one of our primary business drivers and this is reflected in some significant awards we have won this quarter. We continue to innovate customer excellence across all of our touch-points,” said Greg.

“We will build on this strong first half with the input of the entire Ooredoo family and I would like to thank them for their continued contribution to our success and growth,” he added.

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GLOBAL GLUT

Exxon Mobil profit slumps CHICAGO: Exxon Mobil posted the smallest profit since 1999 as Canadian wildfires shut some production and a global glut of oil spread to motor fuels, dragging down refinery margins.

Exxon’s second-quarter pershare result of 41 cents was 23 cents lower than the average of 20 estimates from analysts in a survey, the biggest miss in at least a decade.

Exxon Mobil pumped the equivalent of 3.957 million barrels a day during the quarter, according to a statement on Friday, almost 3 per cent below the 4.069-million average of four analyst estimates.

Wildfires The world’s biggest oil explorer by market value said wildfires that ravaged the oil-sands region of western Canada as well as aging wells negatively impacted output.

Exxon’s US oil and natural gas wells lost an average of $5.6 million a day during the quarter.

Net income declined to $1.7 billion from $4.19 billion, or $1 a share, a year earlier.

“While our financial results reflect a volatile industry environment, ExxonMobil remains focused on business fundamentals, cost discipline and advancing selective new investments across the value chain to extend our competitive advantage,” Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer, said in the statement.

Crude and natural gas prices dropped during the quarter compared to the same period last year in markets overburdened with supplies. - Bloomberg News

LED TECHNOLOGY

GCC’s LED lighting market growth on track Times News Service MUSCAT: Increased demand for energy-efficient lighting solutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is spurring fresh growth for the LED market, as the sustainable and long-lasting luminaire looks to dominate the regional architectural and public lighting landscape.

Analysts Frost & Sullivan estimate that the GCC’s LED (lightemitting diode) market was worth $900 million in 2015, comprising 38 per cent of the region’s total $2.4 billion lighting fixtures market for the year.

As regional governments implement eco-friendly green building regulations along with public and street light retrofitting programmes, demand for LED technology is expected to grow by 1617 per cent annually over the next five years.

According to Frost & Sullivan, more than 60 per cent of all inquiries for lighting in the region are now for LED systems, indicating that smart and sustainable solutions are the way forward in place of traditional incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.

Smart and intelligent light-

ECO-FRIENDLY: As regional governments implement eco-friendly green building regulations, demand for LED technology is expected to grow by 16-17 per cent annually over the next five years. - Supplied photo

ing solutions will also be the key theme running throughout Light Middle East 2016, the region’s largest trade show dedicated to lighting design and technology.

The 11th edition of the threeday event will take place from October 31 to November 2 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and is expected to feature more than 425 exhibitors from 30 countries, all of which will eagerly showcase their

latest wares to a market which is facing a paradigm shift in new technology adoption.

“As the Middle East continues to switch to sustainable lighting solutions, the dynamics of the regional market is transforming rapidly,” said Ahmed Pauwels, chief executive officer of Messe Frankfurt Middle East, the organiser of Light Middle East.

“The Gulf region’s lighting fixtures market alone will be worth

US$3.5 billion by 2020, and with new trends such as connected lighting and LED’s convergence with information technology, we can expect to see some exciting new innovations at Light Middle East 2016. This year’s edition will shine the spotlight on smart lighting concepts, aligning with Dubai’s vision to be the smartest city in the world.”

The Smart Dubai mission, to embrace technology innovation – of which lighting is an integral component – is fully supported by the Emirate’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), one of its key strategic partners.

Smart lighting fixtures As part of the Dubai Water Canal project, the RTA recently opened its 800-metre Sheikh Zayed Bridge replete with smart lighting fixtures controlled via a dedicated app that’s supported by a database for tracking the lighting condition.

Meanwhile, the record exhibitor turnout at Light Middle East 2016 will be spearheaded by world-renowned brands such as Targetti, acdc, Linea Light, Osram, Martin, and Reggiani. These and many others will rub shoulders at the show’s Future Zone, of-

fering consultants, designers, contractors, and developers unique insights into the latest technologies that can take their projects to award-winning status.

Top manufacturers Huda Lighting, one of the Middle East’s leading lighting solution providers, is returning for the third straight year to Light Middle East 2016 with a brand portfolio of the world’s top lighting manufacturers.

Managing Director Khaled Alami, said the company has big regional growth plans as the lighting landscape continues to evolve: “The major development for Huda Lighting this year is that we’ve expanded our operations into Kuwait and Egypt,” said Alami.

“Kuwait came as a natural expansion because we already cover the rest of the GCC. And Egypt, with its more than 90 million population that is predominantly young and urban, is a market with huge potential.

“Smart lighting will be a game changer in the next few years, where lighting is used for purposes other than just illumination,” added Alami. “For example, we’re now able to connect to the internet through LED sources, or Li-Fi.

ENERGY MARKET

Oil set for huge monthly loss in a year amid retreat towards $40 NEW YORK: Oil was poised to enter bear market in New York with its biggest monthly decline in a year as brimming crude and fuel inventories forced a retreat towards $40 a barrel.

United States futures fell 1.1 per cent, bringing the monthly drop to 16 per cent. Prices settled on Thursday 19.7 per cent below their June peak, close to the common definition of a bear market. US crude inventories rose last week for the first time since May while gasoline stockpiles expanded, swelling a surplus that was already at the highest seasonal level in at least two decades.

Libya’s biggest oil ports are reopening after a dispute with guards at the facilities was settled, although other factions in the country have threatened to block shipments.

Oil has slipped about 20 per cent

since early June, ending a recovery that saw prices almost double from a 12-year low in February. Supply disruptions from Nigeria to Canada that trimmed a worldwide surplus have abated, while concerns about the strength of demand have increased. Producers including BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Total reported sharp declines in secondquarter earnings as lower prices continued to take their toll.

“This will be a bumpy ride,” Ed Morse, New York-based head of commodities research at Citigroup, said by e-mail. “There remains a crude oversupply, and for seasonal and other reasons a gasoline oversupply has emerged. It will take a good six months to work off the product oversupply.”

West Texas Intermediate for September delivery lost as much as 50 cents to $40.64 a barrel on

the New York Mercantile Exchange and was at $40.70. The contract fell 1.9 per cent to $41.14 on Thursday. Total volume traded was about 25 per cent below the 100-day average. The monthly drop is the biggest since July 2015, when prices also recorded their steepest loss of that year, with a 21 per cent decline.

US stockpiles Brent for September settlement, which expires Friday, slid 74 cents to $41.96 a barrel on the Londonbased ICE Futures Europe exchange. Prices are also down 16 per cent this month, the most since December. The more-active October contract lost 56 cents to $42.67. The global benchmark traded at a premium of $1.31 to WTI for September.

US crude stockpiles increased

by 1.67 million barrels last week to 521.1 million as output rose, the Energy Information Administration reported Wednesday.

Supplies remain more than 100 million barrels above the five-year average. Gasoline inventories expanded for a third week to 241.5 million barrels.

Libya’s internationally recognized government agreed to pay the salaries of Petroleum Facilities Guard members.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) basket, a price average for the crude grades exported by Opec members, fell below $40 a barrel for the first time since April, reaching $39.79, according to data from the group Eni posted a loss as a heavier tax burden added to the problems of low oil prices and a production shutdowny. – Bloomberg News

CRUDE SLIPS: Oil has slipped about 20 per cent since early June,

ending a recovery that saw prices almost double from a 12-year low in February. – File photo

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MARKET B R E X I T FA L L O U T

Pound set for decline as markets brace for rate cut LONDON: The British pound is heading for its third monthly decline as investors anticipate the Bank of England (BoE) will cut interest rates and add stimulus to stem a potential fallout from Britain’s EU exit (Brexit).

Sterling has weakened versus all of its 16 major peers in the past three months and remains under pressure as economic consequences begin to surface of Britain’s vote in June to exit the European Union. Swaps pricing show a 100 per cent chance the BoE will reduce its main interest rate from a record-low 0.5 per cent, where it’s been since March 2009.

Brexit has been the main driver for the pound, according to Ned Rumpletin, the London-based European head of currency strategy at Toronto Dominion Bank. He predicts “aggressive action from the BoE” which will “fuel extended declines in the pound.” Rumpletin forecasts sterling depreciating to $1.20 by the end of the year.

The pound was little changed at $1.3177. It has fallen 1 per cent in July, after depreciating almost 9 per cent in the previous two months. Sterling weakened 0.2 per cent to 84.33 pence per euro, putting it on course for a 1.1 per cent decline this month.

Mortgage approvals drop Data released on Friday showed a drop in mortgage approvals and that a measure of consumer confidence fell this month at its fastest pace in more than a quarter century. Earlier this month, a worsethan-expected purchasing managers index showed a contraction in manufacturing and services sectors, prompting once-hawkish BoE Monetary Policy Committee member Martin Weale to call for more stimulus.

Markets are pricing in a 98 per cent probability that the central bank will trim the rate to 0.25 per cent when it announces policy on August 4. – Bloomberg News

Japan expands stimulus by doubling purchases of ETFs A thorough assessment of the effects of negative interest rates and asset-buying programme will be conducted in September, the Bank of Japan said

TOKYO: Bank of Japan (BoJ) expanded stimulus on Friday by doubling purchases of exchangetraded funds (ETF), yielding to pressure from the government and financial markets for bolder action, but disappointing investors who had set their hearts on more audacious measures.

The central bank, however, said it will conduct a thorough assessment of the effects of negative interest rates and its massive assetbuying programme in September, suggesting an overhaul of its stimulus programme may be coming.

Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank was conducting the review not because its policy tools have been exhausted but to come up with better ways to achieve its 2 per cent target - keeping alive expectations of further monetary easing.

“I don’t think we’ve reached the limits both in terms of the possibility of more rate cuts and increased asset purchases,” Kuroda told reporters after the policy meeting. “We will of course consider what to do in terms of monetary policy steps, based on the outcome of the assessment.”

At the two-day rate review that

SEARCHING FOR BETTER WAYS: Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank was conducting the review not because its policy tools have been exhausted but to come up with better ways to achieve its 2 per cent target - keeping alive expectations of further monetary easing.. – Reuters file

ended Friday, the BoJ decided to increase ETF purchases so its total holdings increase at an annual pace of ¥6 trillion ($58 billion), up from the current ¥3.3 trillion. The decision was made by a 7-2 vote.

But the BoJ maintained its base money target at ¥80 trillion, as well as keeping to the existing pace of purchasing other assets including Japanese government bonds. It left unchanged the 0.1 per cent interest it charges on a portion of excess reserves that financial institutions park with the central bank.

Nikkei tumbles The dollar fell more than a full yen on Friday at one point to as low as 102.825 and the Nikkei average tumbled nearly 2 per cent,

after the BoJ’s decision fell short of expectations. The benchmark 10-year JGB yield rose briefly to minus 0.170 per cent, its highest since June 24, as the BoJ held off on expanding bond purchases.

“The BoJ did not live up to expectations,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior economist at Mizuho Securities. “Increasing ETF purchases makes no contribution to achieving 2 per cent inflation. The BoJ won’t admit it, but it has reached the limits of quantitative easing and negative rates.” By coordinating its action with the government’s promised $272 billion economic stimulus spending package, the BoJ likely aimed to maximise the effect of its measures on an economy that is struggling to escape decades of stagnation.

SECOND QUARTER

“Japan is conducting a powerful mix of flexible fiscal policy and quantitative easing,” Kuroda said. “The government’s stimulus package helps reinforce this drive and is timely in achieving sustainable growth with price stability.”

The BoJ maintained its rosy inflation forecasts for fiscal 2017 and 2018 in a quarterly review of its projections. It also left intact its timeframe for hitting its 2 per cent price growth target, but warned that heightening uncertainties could cause delays.

But analysts say pressure from the government and markets was largely behind the move. Japan’s economy minister lobbied for more BoJ action in the wake of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s announcement of a bigger-than-expected

¥28 trillion stimulus package.

Worried about their dwindling policy options, some Bank of Japan policymakers have expressed doubts over the feasibility of expanding stimulus programme that has failed to boost inflation.

Such concerns may be addressed when the BoJ conducts an assessment of the effect of its current policies at its next rate review on September 20-21, though Kuroda ruled out the chance of modifying the price target or the timeframe for hitting it. - Reuters

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ECONOMY

Sony posts surprise profit as games Inventory liquidation outweigh fall in image sensor sales weighs on US growth TOKYO: Sony posted a surprise quarterly profit as strength in its PlayStation division outweighed a slowdown in sales of image sensors.

The company reported net income of ¥21.2 billion ($205 million) in the quarter through June, compared to the average analysts’ expectation for a ¥39 billion loss.

The firm maintained its forecast for annual profit of ¥80 billion.

The strength in games is helping investors look past impact from the Kumamoto earthquakes, which shut the primary manufacturing site for image sensors that power digital cameras. Their focus is shifting to how the company manages a global slowdown in smartphone sales that is hitting component sales, and whether it can sustain user growth at its games division before launching a virtual reality platform and upgraded PlayStation consoles.

“Nothing short of fantastic, especially given that the market has been expecting a loss,” Amir Anvarzadeh, Singapore-based head of Japanese equity sales at BGC Partners, said in an e-mail.

“The big takeaway was the games business. Profit there more than doubled and that’s even before PlayStation VR launch in October, which will be a huge shot in the arm for hardware sales.”

GAME DIVISION: Game unit revenue rose 15 per cent ¥330.4 billion and profit more than doubled to ¥44 billion. - Bloomberg News

Estimates for operating losses from the earthquakes were lowered to ¥80 billion for this fiscal year, from ¥115 billion.

Currency impact Operating income for the quarter was ¥56.2 billion compared to estimates for a ¥3.1 billion loss. The company trimmed its full-year sales forecast to ¥7.4 trillion from ¥7.8 trillion, partly because of currency impacts on businesses including games.

Shares rose 2.8 per cent to ¥3,282 in Tokyo before the earn-

ings were released, extending this year’s gain to 9.3 per cent.

Game unit revenue rose 15 per cent ¥330.4 billion and profit more than doubled to ¥44 billion. Sony is looking to cement its lead over Microsoft and Nintendo by launching a virtual-reality headset in October in the United States, as well as a more-powerful version of the PS4 potentially before the end of the year.

Sony sold 3.5 million PS4 consoles in the quarter and kept its annual outlook for sales unchanged at 20 million units.

‘Angry Birds’ Last month, Sony raised revenue and margin targets for the PlayStation business next fiscal year, as it expects a push into music and video streaming on its gaming network to boost user growth.

“They’re releasing more software and the time is now to harvest profits,” said Hiroyasu Nishikawa, an analyst at Iwai Cosmo Securities Co. “The first year might be a bit tough for VR, but in the long run it will contribute to profits. And by prolonging the life of the PS4, profits should grow.”

Its TV and movie unit posted a 10.6 billion yen loss, narrowing from a year earlier, on higher sales after the release of summer hit The Angry Birds Movie.

Sony’s phone division posted a 400 million yen profit after the company slashed costs, reducing its range of models and retreating from markets where it struggled.

The unit has also benefited from a stronger yen, which has lowered the price of components, according to Mizuho Financial.

The firm reported a ¥43.5 billion quarterly loss in the division that makes image sensors used in smartphones. The smartphone industry is facing its worst year since Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. - Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON: The United States economy grew far less than expected in the second quarter as inventory investment fell for the first time in nearly five years, but a surge in consumer spending pointed to underlying strength.

Gross domestic product increased at a 1.2 per cent annual rate after rising by a downwardly revised 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

“Once the impact of a downward inventory adjustment is considered, the underlying pace of growth looks healthier than the headline number,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at IHS Markit in London.

The economy was previously reported to have expanded at a 1.1 percent pace in the first quarter.

Economists had forecast GDP growth rising at a 2.6 per cent rate in the last quarter.

While the inventory drawdown weighed on GDP growth, that is likely to provide a boost to output for the rest of the year. Excluding inventories, the economy grew at a 2.4 per cent rate. A measure of domestic demand grew at a 2.7 per cent pace.

The United States Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that near-term risks to the economic outlook had “diminished.”

With the second-quarter growth domestic product report, the government also published revisions to data going back to 2013 through the first quarter of 2016.

The revisions partially addressed measurement issues, which have tended to lower firstquarter GDP estimates. GDP growth in the first quarter of 2015 was revised sharply higher to a 2 per cent rate from the previously reported 0.6 per cent pace.

Prices for longer-dated US government bonds pared losses after the data, while the dollar fell against a basket of currencies. US stock futures extended losses.

Consumer spending Consumer spending, which makes up more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, increased at a 4.2 per cent rate - the fastest since the fourth quarter of 2014 and accounting for the rise in GDP growth in the second quarter.

Although that rate of growth is probably unsustainable, a tightening labor market, rising house prices and higher savings should underpin spending for the rest of 2016. In the second quarter, income at the disposal of households after adjusting for inflation increased to a $13.92 billion rate from a $13.81 billion pace early in the year. - Reuters

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2016

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MARKET FIRST QUARTER

Singapore Air warns of tough days even as profit triples

DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT EXPO Visitors trying out virtual reality devices from Nined during 2016 China Digital Entertainment Expo, known as ‘ChinaJoy’, in Shanghai. The four-day show, which showcases online games, console games, web games, hardware products related to digital entertainment commenced on Thursday at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. — AFP

SINGAPORE: Asia’s marquee airlines are warning tougher competition is squeezing them.

Singapore Airlines has said passenger yields — a key measure of profitability in the industry — remain under pressure amid ‘aggressive capacity injection’.

Yields declined to their lowest in more than six years in the first quarter. The stock fell 2 per cent in Singapore on Friday, the most in more than two months.

Singapore Air — the only Asian airline to have flown the Concorde and first in the world to fly the A380 superjumbo — on Thursday reported first-quarter profit almost tripled as lower oil prices reduced costs and the company benefited from the sale of a stake by its subsidiary. Net income jumped to S$256.6 million ($190 million) in the three months ended in June even as sales declined 2.1 per cent to S$3.6 billion.

Earlier this month, Ivan Chu, chief executive officer of Cathay Pacific Airways, which dominates the Hong Kong financial hub, said there is “intense pressure” on the metric.

The expansion of the Middle East’s ‘Big Three’ — Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways — and an unprecedented surge by budget airlines in the region is hurting the pricing power of Asian carriers. Singapore Air CEO Goh Choon Phong and his Cathay counterpart Chu have ordered some $20 billion in new aircraft to modernise their fleet and take on their competitors who are offering luxuries like on-board shower and butlers.

“Yields will continue to erode for many quarters to come,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation consulting firm Endau Analytics in Malaysia. “We are still in the downside of the cycle, especially for the premium sector. There is still some overcapacity in the market.”

Shares of Singapore Air dropped to S$10.98, while the city’s Straits Times Index fell 1.7 per cent.

- Bloomberg News

Amazon revenue jumps as cloud computing sales surge The cloud unit,

Bezos is now the third-richest in the world: Forbes

Amazon Web Services, is the company’s fastestgrowing business and is regarded by analysts as the next driver of growth for the company

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon. com has posted strong results across its older and newer businesses as global Web retail sales and cloud services topped Wall Street targets and the world’s largest online merchant forecast revenue would outpace expectations in the current quarter as well.

The Seattle-based company is riding a wave of retail sales moving to the internet, and its Netflixlike video streaming is bringing new customers to its subscription Prime service, which in turn drives customers to spend more on Amazon. The cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, is the company’s fastest-growing business and is regarded by analysts as the next driver of growth for the company.

“They crushed estimates,” said Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities, as shares rose 2 per cent after hours, in line to open on Friday at a record high. The expansion in so many areas requires substantial investment, though, and shares initially dipped after the earnings report. The company forecast relatively low operating income for the current quarter of $50 million to $650 million.

It earned $857 million in the second quarter, or $1.78 per share,

NEW YORK: Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, has become the world’s third-richest person as of the market close for the first time, ‘Forbes’ magazine said, passing Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

Bezos’ fortune was $65.3 billion as of 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) on Thursday, compared to Buffett’s $64.9 billion.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates remained the world’s richest person, at $77.7 billion, while Spain’s Amancio Ortega, who founded the Zara clothing chain’s owner Inditex, was second at $72.7 billion.

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was fifth, at $54 billion.

Bezos, 52, owns close to 18 per cent of Amazon. Its stock has risen by roughly 50 per cent since early February, as the world’s largest online retailer continued to upend retailing as more people took

compared to analysts’ average estimate of $1.11 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Holiday shopping “It was the largest June quarter profit in the company’s history, but we’re back to guiding barely any profitability,” BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis said of the September quarter guidance.

Lower September-quarter income is routine for Amazon as it ramps up for the end-of-year holiday shopping season, chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said on a call with media. “We’re adding

TOP THREE: From left, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos. Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has become the world’s third-richest person as of the market close for the first time, passing Warren Buffett, while Bill Gates remained the world’s richest person. – Reuters

to the Web rather than the mall to shop.

Buffett’s donation Buffett, 85, owns close to 18 per cent of Berkshire, but his donation this month of $2.86 billion of Berkshire stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and

warehouses. We’re adding workers,” he said, noting 18 new fulfillment centres for the third quarter, compared with six centres in the same period of 2015.

Amazon’s workforce expanded by 47 per cent in the second quarter year-over-year, including parttime employees.

Costs will also rise as Amazon doubles spending on video content in the second half of the year versus the same period a year ago, aiming to attract consumers to its Prime subscription packages, Olsavsky said. At the same time, Web Services profit margins im-

four family charities led to his drop to fourth place. He has donated more than $24.3 billion to the Gates Foundation and family charities since 2006.

Berkshire is based in Omaha, Nebraska, and has roughly 90 business units including Geico car insurance, the BNSF

proved due to greater efficiency, he said.

The investments will likely accelerate the retailer’s growth in coming quarters, Edward Jones Research analyst Josh Olson said.

Prime Day Amazon forecast current-quarter net sales of between $31.0 billion and $33.5 billion, factoring in sales from its Prime Day annual shopping festival. Wall Street on average had targeted $31.6 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Net sales in North America, its biggest market, jumped 28.1

railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream. In June, Buffett called Bezos a “classic example” of how a business owner could thrive, by having focused at Amazon on how to “delight” customers, and keep them coming back, rather than simply process their orders. - Reuters

per cent to $17.67 billion. Revenue from Amazon Web Services surged 58.2 per cent to $2.89 billion. This beat the average estimate of $2.83 billion, according to market research firm FactSet StreetAccount. Amazon stock rose to $766.50 in after-hours trade on Thursday compared with a close of $752.61. - Reuters

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SECOND QUARTER

Barclays profit drops on loss from asset disposals LONDON: Barclays said profit fell by more than half in the second quarter as the bank posted a £1.1 billion ($1.4 billion) pretax loss from the unit that houses the businesses and assets its trying to sell or wind down.

Pretax profit, excluding notable items, fell to £763 million from £1.62 billion a year ago, the lender said in a statement on Friday. That missed the £985 million average estimate of six analysts.

Chief executive officer Jes Staley in March cut the firm’s dividend in half to give the bank more capital to absorb losses from a quicker rundown of the non-core unit. He aims to close that division by the end of next year, allowing investors to focus more on the bank’s central businesses of UK retail banking, credit cards and a transatlantic investment bank.

“Non-core rundown — the key to unlocking the full earnings power of that core -- has good momentum, and we remain committed to closing the unit in 2017,” Staley, 59, said in the statement. Barclays shares climbed 4.2 per cent.

Core units’ performance The bank’s core units posted adjusted pretax profit of £1.85 billion. While that was down 7.5 per cent from a year earlier, it was 10 per cent higher than estimates, JPMorgan Chase analysts led by Raul Sinha wrote in a note to clients.

Revenue from those units was little changed.

The non-core loss of £1.1 billion exceeded estimates of £700 million, Sinha wrote. The bank said it expects costs at that unit to drop to a range of £400 million to £500 million next year. That’s down from about £1.6 billion the bank is expected to spend this year, having already booked 950 million of costs in the first half, Staley said in the Bloomberg Television interview. “Overall, management continues to make progress in its strategy, but outlook is uncertain,” Sinha said.

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FEATURE

ORANGE IS THE NEW POTATO The once lowly sweet potato is being reborn as a kind of hip, orange super food.

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one are the days when the only time Americans encountered the tuber was mashed up and topped with marshmallows alongside a Thanksgiving turkey. Today, sweet potatoes turn up everywhere, as healthier, nutrient-dense alternatives to French fries at burger joints or colourful side dishes for swanky restaurants. They have more fibre and fewer calories than white potatoes.

And the appeal isn’t just among Americans, who are eating twice as many sweet potatoes as they did in 2005. Demand also is surging in Europe. In the US, the world’s biggest exporter, farmers are planting their biggest crop in five decades after their shipments overseas doubled in five years to an all-time high.

Nutritionists say consumers who want to eat fewer grains and processed foods are choosing sweet potatoes.

“We’ve seen various different plants emerge as new superstars,” said Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services at Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. “From a diet perspective, people are so interested in really eating much closer to the farm. Sweet potatoes could be clumped in with beets and kale and some of these other things that are coming from the ground and not coming from a plant where people are wearing hairnets.”

While Americans still eat far more white potatoes — as French fries or just baked or mashed — demand has slowed.

Consumption was 113.7 pounds (51.6 kilograms) per person last year, down from 125.4 pounds a decade ago, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) es-

timates. Meanwhile, sweet potatoes are catching on and growers are marketing them as a year-round staple. In 2015, consumers ate 7.5 pounds, up from 4.5 pounds in 2005, USDA data show.

American root Sweet potatoes, which belong to a different plant family than white potatoes and yams, were already well-established as a root vegetable in Central America and South America by the time explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the late 1400s. They were a big part of the US diet almost a century ago, peaking in the 1930s, before falling out of favour over the next six decades. With demand and output now rebounding, the crop is marketed in everything from dog food to vodka.

“They’ve been phenomenally popular” at DMK Burger Bar in Chicago, where sweet-potato fries served with a lemonTabasco aioli have been on the menu since the first restaurant opened in the Lakeview neighbourhood in 2009, said David Morton, co-founder of DMK Restaurants, which operates three of the burger joints in the Chicago area, as well as locations in Soldier Field. “They have a very, very loyal following.”

Most of the US crop is grown in the Southeast, where land has traditionally been used for tobacco and cotton. More than half comes from North Carolina.

Total domestic output last year jumped 4.8 per cent to 31 billion pounds, the highest since 1946, USDA data show.

Planting more Seedings this year are forecast at the highest since 1965, the USDA estimates,

providing a profit boost to farmers at a time when global surpluses of grain and oilseeds have led to lower prices and losses on those crops. A farmer can generate $1,200 to $1,400 of operating income per acre growing sweet potatoes, up from $827 in 2012, according to an analysis by Elizabeth Canales, an assistant professor of agricultural economics at Mississippi State University. By comparison, US farm income is falling for many crops, and some Midwest corn growers may barely break even.

Sweet potatoes have a “really positive demand-side story,” said Roland Fumasi, a senior fresh-produce analyst with Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory in Fresno, California.

“While you’ve seen production really, really rapidly rise, price has also gone up over that time period. It gives those producers an incentive to spend more and drive yields.”

Packing sweet potatoes Kornegay Family Farms in Princeton, North Carolina, sowed 800 acres of sweet potatoes this year, up from 600 in 2015 and double the amount a decade ago, said Kim Kornegay-LeQuire, vice president of the company’s sweet-potato packing and marketing unit. The family, which began farming in 1953, also grows tobacco, soybeans, peanuts, wheat, watermelon and asparagus. It packages about 760,000 pounds of sweet potatoes a week, with three-quarters of that exported, she said.

“If you’re a commodities farmer just dealing with soybeans or wheat or corn, you’re very thankful to have sweet po-

While Americans still eat far more white potatoes — as French fries or just baked or mashed — demand has slowed.

Consumption was 113.7 pounds (51.6 kilograms) per person last year, down from 125.4 pounds a decade ago, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates. tatoes in your arsenal because, not only does everything help each other out with crop rotation, but you don’t have all your eggs in one basket when it comes to row crops,” said Kornegay-LeQuire, who is part of the family’s fourth generation of farmers.

Demand growth domestically is partly driven not by raw sweet potatoes but value-added products like pre-cut cubes or fries, said Jennifer Campuzano, a Chicago-based director at Nielsen’s Perishables Group, which tracks food consumption. While retail sales climbed 3.2 per cent by volume in the year ended April 30, outpacing a 2.6 per cent gain for all produce, value-added products rose 18 per cent, Nielsen data show.

Export strength China is by far the biggest consumer and produced 70.5 million metric tonnes in 2013, more than 20 times any other country, according to the latest United Nations data. But demand for US exports is being driven mostly by increased sales to Europe, including the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland. Exports last year of 179,881 tonnes were more than double those in 2010, and sales in the first five months of 2016 are running 24 per cent ahead of the prior year’s pace, according to USDA data.

“It has certainly got more popular than it used to before because maybe we finally worked it out how to cook it properly,” said Scott Hallsworth, owner of Kurobuta, a Japanese restaurant in London, where he serves sweet-potato fries.

“People don’t realise how versatile it is.”

At Habanera, a Mexican restaurant in London, owner Lorraine Cais said she’s using more sweet potato because it “marries very well with hot and spicy Mexican food and offers us a chance to challenge ourselves, innovate and get more flexibility in designing our dishes with it, unlike regular fries, which are boring.”

A 2015 USDA report said further domestic and foreign demand growth “looks promising,” given a continued focus on healthy eating and value-added products.

“This crop appears to be benefiting in some changes in taste and preferences,” said Jennifer Bond, an economist with USDA’s Economic Research Service in Washington. “They’re seen as a little more gourmet than the regular potato.”

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ight-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs have transformed home lighting since coming on the market. Despite proven benefits that far outweigh older lighting options, like incandescent and compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, many people remain hesitant to make the switch. It’s time to finally dispel some common LED myths and get the real facts about these light bulbs so you can choose the best lighting for.

Myth: LED light bulbs aren’t worth the cost.

Fact: LED light bulbs are now only a few dollars more than ordinary light bulbs; significant research and development from manufacturers like Philips Lighting has made LED light bulbs more affordable.

Although the initial cost of an LED may be slightly higher than an incandescent light bulb, making the switch to LED lighting provides significant longterm savings. For example, the Philips A19 LED with a warm glow dimming effect has an average lifetime of 25,000 hours. This means if you have a light bulb on for three hours per day, then it will be 20 years before you need to change it.

Plus, LEDs use up to 90 per cent less energy than ordinary light bulbs; replacing incandescent bulbs with LED lighting will reduce your energy bill.

Myth: LED light bulbs need time to warm up.

Fact: It’s a big misunderstanding that LED bulbs need time to warm up before they reach full brightness. While fluorescent or CFL bulbs come on slowly, LEDs are “instantly on” and immediately shine with their full light output.

Myth: LED light bulbs are not bright enough.

Fact: LEDs can emit the same amount of light as incandescent bulbs while using far less energy.

Many consumers look at the wattage of a light bulb to determine its level of brightness, but wattage only measures how much energy a bulb uses. Light levels are measured in lumens. When you compare lumens, a 9.5-watt Philips LED bulb with a warm glow effect is as bright as a 60-watt incandescent bulb - both emit approximately 800 lumens.

Myth: LED lighting can’t be controlled and dimmed.

Fact: Unlike many CFL bulbs, most LED light bulbs are designed to easily dim. Dimmable LEDs can provide the right lighting for any mood or room in your home. For instance, the warm glow dimmable light effect in the Philips A19 LED allows light levels to gradually go from everyday functional lighting to a cozy, relaxing warm glow, replicating the effect of an incandescent bulb when dimmed.

Armed with the facts, you should feel confident that switching to LED light bulbs will allow you to enjoy hassle-free lighting, see savings in your energy bill and create the right ambiance in your home. — BPT

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LIFESTYLE THE CITY OF LIGHT FACT FILE (Exploring History, Science, and Nature)

What’s in a name?

The name Paris can trace its roots to the 3rd century BC and the Celtic settlers of the area, who were known as the “Parisii.”

Today the people of Paris are called Parisians. Paris earned its nickname “The City of Light” when the city installed more than 50,000 gas lamps in the 1860s. Paris was also one of the first cities to have electricity. Paris is also sometimes referred to as “The City of Love,” probably because of its long history as a romantic tourist destination. The French language is understood and spoken by just about everyone in Paris.

Parisians The people of Paris love life and good living, but living in the city can be expensive, so many (about 10 million) live in the suburbs and commute into town for jobs and recreation. More than half of all city dwellers live in studio and two-room apartments.

requires 60 tons of paint every seven years.

The tower has been repainted 18 times.

There are 704 steps leading to the second floor of the tower, but the top is accessible only by elevator. The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet (324m) tall, with the top antenna. The tower was built to sway in the wind, but when the sun heats up, the top of the tower moves as much as 7 inches (18cm).

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Country Population Area

Tourists (annually)

France 2.34 million 40.7 sq. mi.

(105.4 sq. km) 15.6 million

The apartments are old, but cherished for their ornate fireplaces and historic charm.

Fashion and fine dining are very important to Parisians. Dressing down in public isn’t acceptable. Parisians are very fond of their pet dogs, and dogs can be seen everywhere.

French food and wine are considered some of the very best in the world, and cooking is considered an art in Paris.

Eiffel Tower Construction on the Eiffel Tower began in 1887 and was finished in 1889. This iconic landmark weighs about 10,000 tons and

Notre Dame Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris is French for “Our Lady of Paris.” It took almost 200 years to build this cathedral. Finished around 1345, it is one of the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress to distribute stress and weight. It has 10 bells, the largest weighing more than 13 tons. Hundreds of statues and gargoyles decorate the building, some serving as water spouts. The Musée du Louvre is one of the world’s largest art museums. Today the Louvre displays about 35,000 pieces of art and has more than 650,000 square feet (60,600 square metres) of gallery space. The Louvre pyramid was completed in 1989 and serves as an entrance to the museum.

—lifestyle@timesofoman.com

Crossword Puzzle ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

PARIS

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ome to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and many wonderful historic buildings, the capital city of France has a wealth of history, beauty, and romance.

ACROSS 1 5 8 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 20 22 23 27 29 30 33 34 35 DOWN 1 2

Long bone Lacking significance 3 Carry wearily 4 Peggy and Spike 5 Dominion 6 Polygraph flunkers 7 Jet route 8 Telegraph syllable 9 Luau strings 10 Bireme mover

11 Trattoria quaff 16 Discolour, as silver 19 Quarries 21 Cushioned footrest 24 Ms. Lupino of “High Sierra” 25 Penn. neighbour 26 Superman’s emblem 28 Constantly, to Poe 29 Jacket part 30 Mind reader’s gift 31 Philosopher — -tzu

32 Livy’s hello 33 Like redwoods 35 Came to a standstill 37 Chisel 39 Plains tribe 40 More agreeable 41 Mirth 43 Vote 44 Makes a decision 46 Tongues do it 47 Feel grateful 48 Aunt or bro.

50 Fair-hiring letters

36 37 38 42 45 46 49 51 52 53 54 55 56

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— Kong Moonshot mission Wire measure Bushed (2 wds.)

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Toothpaste choice Went first Glide like an eagle

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Art for the Ages

Pragya Gautam, Grade 7, ISM

Abel Mathew Abraham, Grade 7, ISM

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

SOLUTION Answer to previous puzzle

Ashika Manoj, Grade 2, Modern International School Oman

Alfred Benoy, Grade 3, ISM

Niya J. Thottungal, Grade 3, ISAS

Abhigyan Basant Kumar, Grade 3, ISM

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

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

E L I Z A B E T H I G E L O R

P R I P D R S C E N T U R Y E

B O I V U N H A I G C R M T K

CLUE: CLIVE OWEN

D N W H E O U N R H A A U D C

K E T D S R E O A A G T R S I

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

A O N I R R C O C A M J R O Y

G H A A A E E I O A N O A R H

U A D L R R A B W L M R O N Y

R N A A T N E O O R S B U R E

N N R A B N L D T O A C U T V

E A E P T L O R N A N W O S S

I H A E O H E A R T B E A T H

T K R I D N F G N A P I A N NM T O H S E A R R A A R P T D

SOLUTION: 14 LETTERS

Able, Alan, Ambush, Arthur, Award, Bent, Boon, Century, Chancer, Chosen, City, Darkening, Derailed, Drama, Elizabeth, Follow, Garry, Golden, Hannah, Heartbeat, Hostage, King, Liverpool, Lorna, Magician, Panther, Parasomnia, Park, Pink, Powder, Rada, Role, Sarah Jane, Scott, Star, Theatre, Ticker, Trust, Turnaround, Vroom, Warwickshire.

Answer: Bourne Identity

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FOR RENT Contact 96177505

In MSQ. Near ABA school one villa for rent 6 rooms, 4 bathrooms, house maid room, AC split unit, swimming pool One flat in CBD 2 bedrooms, sitting room, 2 bathrooms & Kitchen One flat in Qurum 29 – 1 & 2 rooms, AC split unit, 2 bathrooms, Kitchen In Al Hail one office space – (Near Main Road) one room attach with bathroom and kitchen.

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FOR RENT

1000 sqm Industrial plot compound wall & two room at Misfah I/A. Contact: 99342733

5 bedroom brand new villas for rent in Al Khoud, near Al Ruwad International School.

2BHK & 1BHK flats with split air conditioners are available for rent in new building in Al Qurum, near Rose Garden. Interested persons may contact on 95133331 / 97048091

Contact 99447002 / 98116480

2-3 B/ Room flats in Al Khuwair 2 B/ room flat, 3 B/room villa in Ruwi & Mumtaz. Contact: 99776071 / 99057348

Ruwi office space for rent, Saravana Bhava Building.

Contact: 95729549

Flats in Al Khuwair, Al Bustan, Azaiba, Wadi Kabeer, Darsait, Hamirya, Al Hail & Seeb.

Contact: 24182000 / 95250300 / 99110600

1 & 2 bedroom apartments available for rent at South Ghubra, close to Muscat Grand Mall, opposite Panorama Mall, fully maintained flats, Contact: 99833747 / 24562526

4 BHK villa Qurum 550/-.

Contact: 92230462 / 92144645

Single flat for rent in Darsait near Indian School. Contact: 95453813 / 95806611

1,2,3 BHK Flats & villas.

Contact: 92230462 / 92144645 Studio Al Khuwair R.O 175/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 Room Al Khuwair free 4.5, R.O 110/-. Contact: 97799175 / 99138696 1BHK Ghubra 240/-. Contact: 921144045 / 92230462 2 BHK Ghubra R.O 300/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 3 BHK Al Khuwair R.O 350/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 92230462 Flat for rent in Darsait nr Indian School with 2 room & kitchen.

Contact: 92245110 / 98191919 House for rent at Amerat near Sultan Center, 2 two bedrooms, 2 toilets, 2 sitting rooms, including curtains and air conditioners.

RO.250/-. Contact 99469203 Garage A Grade license with equipment for rent at Mabellah, Senaiyah good location.

Contact 92874923 3 BHK flat in Azaiba, opp. Sultan Centre. Contact 99261522 / 99857332 2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir, behind Pioneer Hotel Apartment.

Contact 99261522 / 99857332 2 bedroom centrally air conditioned flat in CBD near Central Bank. Contact 24714625 / 91173997

Flat for rent in Al Mawaleh South 3, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall, kitchen & store with air condition.

Contact 98575157

Open land farm of around 40 thousand sq m2 at a good location near to Rusayl for rent or waiver at a very attractive rate. Good for farm or camp. Fr more info pls contact 93692228 / 91155779 1 bedroom family / bachelors in Al Khuwair R.O 90/-.

Contact: 95154331

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

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

Flat in Darsait & Ruwi, Office CBD. Contact: 95345909 / 92820734

Spacious 4 BHK with split A/Cs 4 Bathrooms and storeroom near Church roundabout Mumtaz area rent R.O 550. Contact: 99349672

Office for rent 300 RO, Saravana Bhavan Restaurant Building.

Contact 95957938 - 96297031.

1,2 BHK available Mumtaz area Ruwi. Contact: 99269751 Office / showroom for rent, near Kims Hospital Darsait, main road facing RO 1200/-.

Contact 99756633 Flat with 2 room + kitchen +hall, 3 toilets in al Quram Breeiq Al Shatti RO 650. Contact 99738881 / 99314314 6 & 4 bedroom villas available for rent at North Al Hail, 5 mins from the Wave, fully maintained villas.

Contact: 99833747 / 24562526 Two bedrooms flat behind German Embassy near to Al Nahda Hospital. Contact: 99209354

Flat behind Mazoon Mosque with 3 room + 3 toilets, RO 230.

Contact 99738881 / 99420346 Flat in Al-Khoudh, Flats and shops in Fanja near Nizwa road.

Mobile: 99058646 2 bedrooms flats R.O 370/- & one bedroom flat R.O 325/- in South Ghubra, behind Asalah Bhawan building. Contact: 96202490 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 Flats for rent near Indian School in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122

STORE FOR RENT 750 sq mtrs near Al Felaj Plastic Co. Sanaya Wadi Kabir.

Contact : 99512633 1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense) Contact: 93202733 / 94771769 Flats, shops & store for rent in MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127 Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room, hall. Contact: 90991079 Flats for rent in Mumtaz, 2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352 building no. 3447 & 3668.

Contact: 90991079

Apartment for rent in qurum : 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, kitchen, hall, all with split unit a/cs.

Contact 99368347 1 & 2 BHK Flat for rent at MBD, Hall at Sana, opp. Al Nahdha Hospital, Al Khoudh Souq and Mabella Sanaya No.2 and shop Al Khoudh.

Contact: 24834644 / 93994401/ 02 /03 Flat for rent Wadi Al Kabir.

Contact: 99379950 / 92925173 Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah 3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580 House in Darsait, 3 rooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C. Contact: 95522405 Spacious 3 BHK apartment + store room with split A/C Al Seeb, Mabelah South near Goat market, near Expressway R.O 320 negotiable.

Contact: 96920789 / 98309890

2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir 2 bathrooms with split A/Cs near Indian Kindergarten School.

Contact: 99367627

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

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

2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232

Flats for rent South Al Mabela.

Contact: 95233117 / 95230355

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM muscat Indian Scoole Darsate Tel : 00 968 95158570

Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms & hall. Contact: 91763665 1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100, 2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331 Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall 4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3 floor 400. Contact 99420346 2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK. 97826454, 24815012.

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid. Contact 97007934 / 92629232 Warehouse at Wadikabir - total area 3500 sqm - covered warehouse (500sqm), office, accommodation (1000sqm), open area (2000sqm) please contact: 99273774 - 99202278

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

Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772 / 93203773 / 93203778 IELTS Coaching (academic) required nearby wadi Kabir area. Please call on mobile or msg on Whats up.

Contact 92927880/99012165

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 IELTS classes provided in Ruwi area. Those interested may contact 96769456

ACC. WANTED One single furnished room with attached bathroom required for a Indian decent Executive bachelor non cooking, in MBD, CBD, Rex road, Ruwi, Hamriya Area. #96328687 Indian working lady looking for single spacious room with separate room with separate toilet & sharing, kitchen near MBD South.

Contact 92183404

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

Restaurant for sale heart of Ruwi.

Contact 93687466

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FOR SALE A Building Material Shop at Duqm In prime location facing main road, Near Shell pump Contact :

FOR SALE SHUTTERING PLYWOOD SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM

95697401

GSM: 92835445,93205253,93205423

FOR SALE

ACC. AVAILABLE

Dental chairs for sale sparingly used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284

Furnished apartment for rent, two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Coffee shop near Al Sarooj “Turkish Shawarma & Grill “ at the prime location for sale. Contact: 94034778 / 94034731

Single room in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 98487311

10000 meter land commercial in Ghala, opposite Turkey Block factory. Contact: 95621079 New furniture office for sale in Darsait near labour card medical rent P/M 260/-. Contact: 91211117 A medical clinic located in Al Amerat is for sale. Interested parties can contact 92704439.

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

Contact: 99445367 FOR sale / lease running Sofa making unit at Barka Sanaya with 12 clearance for sale or lease.

Contact: 98196845 Kids & women cloth, shoes accessory shop in Al Khoud.

Contact: 91121277 Immediate sale well running ladies saloon for sale at Al Khoud near SQU. Serious buyers can call: 90807020 / 95251987 Beauty Saloon for sale, next to Wedding hall, Amerat. Contact 99609265 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

SITUATION WANTBUSINESS

RENT A CAR

Furnished room with bathroom at Darsait. Contact: 93289652 Big room attach bathroom with kitchen family for bachelor, near Muscat Palace RO 75/-.

Contact : 95094028 Spacious semi furnished room with separate bathroom for Executive bachelor Opp. O.C. Centre Ruwi . Call : 90611670 Furnished room available for Executive bachelor in Ruwi area.

Contact: 99054542 Room for Indian family or Executive bachelor at Ruwi with bathroom, 2 Kitchens R.O: 100/-.

Contact: 95187974 Furnished room available with attached bath & balcony, near MBD Area. Contact 95031132 Room with attached bathroom for a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 97167857 Furnished room attached bath for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near Mars hypermarket. Contact: 96202458/96761960 1 BHK appartment for rent in Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque for rent (next to alkhoud medical center and squ) MOB: 93913224

INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED For a successfully Catering Restaurant Investor cum Partner is required.

Investor with fixed returns also welcome.

Please contact – 95213273

Email: muscatcoffeeshop@gmail.com

TRANSPORTATION Transportation. Contact: 98522914 Transportation Engage.

Contact: 92711421 Driver with car required to pick & drop from Al Hail to Wadi Kabir School. Contact 95660278 Transportation. Contact: 98657739 Transportation. Contact: 91310107

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

Contact: 96524717

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

Furnish bedroom with attach bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale.Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Room, bath room for executives in Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206

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

Contact 99328430

Room available in Mumtaz area 1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room, common bathroom. Interested please contact 92680041 Mr. Altaf

Almost new beach/ garden lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Room available for Executive bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

Partner available, if you have an established business &looking for partner for expanding or open new branch. Contact: 92010247 WEB, ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) creation and management at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

ACC. AVAILABLE Room with attached bathroom and sharing kitchen available for Executive bachelor or small family at wadikabir.

Contact 93049849 Sharing accommodation near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Transportation. Contact: 94510847 Transportation available Al Khuwair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al Khoud. Drop & pick.

Contact 95250161 Transportation available Ruwi to Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909 Transportation. Contact 99508282 Transportation required from Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165 Transportation. Contact 92015894 Transportation. Contact 94510847

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP specification for monthly rent & small car with driver.

Contact: 99839898

MV SALE Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive nsurance UAE / Oman.

Contact: 96995430

BUYING Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299 Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

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Motor bike, Model 2014 (150 -CC) Price 450/- O.R. Contact: 98958944

Zafar Chabiullah has lost Bangladeshi Passport No. Z 0643932.

Finder please handover to ROP

Camry 2011 single owner Expat 104,000 km. Contact 99105283 / 92829562

Gudeta Legese Chaltu has lost Ethiopia Passport No. EP 3488100.

Finder please handover to ROP

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WANTED

ACCOUNTS A construction company requires Accountant, minimum 5 years experience in construction field of accounts and who can independently will be plus point with release letter .

Apply with bio data to Email: tec_oman@hotmail.com Contact: 99339661 A leading perfumes and FMCG Distribution company require Accountant (B.Com) with 3-5 years experience preferably in FMCG industry should be proficient in Tally. Candidates with release / NOC may apply. Please send CVs to careers@juriyaperfmes.com or Fax: 24487688

SITUATION WANTED

We are group of companies and need following Technical Staff for our Civil Projects in OMAN. • Project Manager - 6 no’s. 10 years’ experience (B.E) • Civil Engineer - 4 no’s. (B.E) 5 years’ experience • RCC Foreman - 5 no’s. (Civil Diploma) - 5 years’ experience • Earth work foreman - 5 no’s.(Civil Diploma) - 5 years’ experience • Material Inspector - 1 no’s– 5 years’ experience.(Civil Diploma) Send us your CV with confidence at

info.wastc@gmail.com

Chief / Senior Accountant, having 12 years Oman experience looking for a job NOC / Release with D/L available. Contact: 97385562 Indian male, 26 yrs, ACCA affiliated Graduated in MBA from London, 2 years experience in Accounting, & Auditing field, NOC available. Contact: 93008800 Email: shabadpattarkandy@gmail. com

CATERING Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970

Accountant B.Com Indian male B.Com Tally experienced 3 years in Muscat with NOC looking suitable job. Contact: 97151457

DOMESTIC HELPER Wanted a house boy for an apartment in Azaiba, full time or part time. Contact : 96103792 House maid for Omani family.

Contact: 99773100

Required Omani Driver for a restaurant. Contact 95929911

MEDICAL GP Doctor, Dentist and Staff nurse required for a reputed clinic in Sumail area. (MOH preferred). Contact : 95042101 Require a Male Staff for a travel agency having good knowledge of all work IATA certificate.

Contact: 92119395 / 90664410

DESIGNER Interior designer needed urgently.

Email: batrading2014@gmail.com

ENG./TECHNICIAN Urgently required Civil Draftsman & Junior Architect with minimum 1 yr oman experience in Engineering Consultancy. # 93514534 mail : wec.consult101@gmail.com Wanted 2 yrs experienced CCTV access control Technicians with ITI / Diploma qualified. Candidate locally available with driving license preferred. Send CV at Email : elvjobs2016@gmail.com Required Electrical Engineer (Preferably B.E. degree) having minimum 3 years experience in Estimation, Proposals, Business development and project coordination, required for Electrical EPC projects management. Oman /GCC experience is added advantage. Interested candidates to write to info@amtaeng.com. Contact 99855130.

Required Electrical B.Tech with 5 years of Oman experience & D/L. Electrical with ITI -Industrial & MEDC license. Contact: 99454425

EDUCATION/TRAINING Required English, computer and science female Teachers up to grad 4. Contact - 95054916, aa77345@gmail.com. contact time after 5PM

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

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

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

Candidates with Omani driving license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Urgently required GP, Staff Nurse (male) X- Ray Technician, Lab technician. Contact: 94562008/ 99030773 Email: halamedicalgroup@gmail.com Urgently required a lady GP, Staff Nurse & Asst Pharmacist for a well reputed clinic. Candidates with MOH license or prometric pass can apply. Contact 99048170 / 94870029, Email : murtafatmct@yahoo.com Wanted Staff Nurse for a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC. Attractive salary offered. Email: clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com GP Doctor (or) MD General Medicine with MOH license required for reputed clinic in Bidiya N. Sharqiya, running on his own or salary basis. Contact 99005452 Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact 95081010 Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com A medical centre is looking to hire immediately a talented Nurse to join our successful team, required 3 years of experience, Oman prometric, data flow. Send your CV to- issalibi@gmail.com or Whatsapp - 91254820 GP doctor needed for reputed clinic. Preferably with MOH license or with Dataflow & Paramatics pass Contact: 95388934 Care Medical Centre Al Seeb requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to: sarita_h23@yahoo.com

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR Catering Company requires: Procurement Managers (7 years with Gulf experience) & Pest Control Supervisor (5 years with Gulf experience), Omani heavy truck (freezer) driver, 5 years experience with PDO license will be preferred. Send CV to: Email: info@rcsoman.com Contact: 95892831 / 99040032

SALES / MARKETING MEDICAL Urgently required Doctor, Nurse for private clinic at Khaboura.

Contact: 92260496

Indian (M) B.Com, MBA in Finance, in GCC for 26 Years, well experienced in Accounts & Finance, 4years in L&T, Speaks Arabic, having Driving License & NOC. Contact 95588565

Indian male, B.Com, MBA in Finance, 4 yrs in Larsen & Tourbo, 26 yrs in Oman, English/ Arabic speaking with driving license.

NOC available. Contact 95588565

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

Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.

Gsm : 942-888-63

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

Qualified ACA, ACS, 10 years post Qualification Experience, working in bank, looking for openings in Banks and NBFC. Open to any GCC. Mbl: +968-90788509, Email: kartirevy@gmail.com

Require Candidates with excellent accounting skills. Candidates may send their resume at hanifbaig1@gmail.com or Contact: 90938452

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ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Furniture & décor co. require Outdoor sales team, immediate joining. Email: batrading2014@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Required building material Salesman with Arabic and English language. Contact 97004186 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 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

SKILLED / UNSKILLED Immediate requirement cast aluminum, Stainless steel, window glass, MS, Factory Site Engineer, Supervisor, Cast Aluminum fabricator, SS fabricator, (Cast Aluminum), Site Worker, Stainless Steel Tig Welder buffing & polisher, Site Supervisor, Cast Aluminum molders. Send CVs to tdnewgates@gmail.com or Wahtsapp 99197060 /98046537 Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experience in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127 Email: georgymv@yahoo.com Sign makers – LED, NEON, Metal, Acrylic, 3D signs & screen printer required urgently.

Contact 99350586

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ARCH./ INTERIOR DEC.

Architectural Cad Technician with 24 years experience in Oman + GCC looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 99728492 Junior Architect, female from NIT, looking for suitable placement.

Contact 92705130 Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com Pakistani male, with D/L Diploma in Architectural experience, 3 yrs in Pakistan. Contact 96364344 Architect female 5 years experience seeking job. Contact: 96146645 Email: anjuovil@gmail.com

Senior Accountant /Ast. Finance Manager-M. Com Finance-Indian with 7 years experience in Finance & Accounts Dpt and Banking & Facilitation. Having D/L & NOC. Mob: 98278801, cammk13@gmail.com Indian female 26 yrs MBA in finance 2 yrs exp in MNC, (RR Donnelly) .Contact: 90551366 24 M, MBA, B.Tech, 2 yrs HVAC - fire fighting experience seeking placement. Contact: 90924711 Email: prasith.k.aniyan@gmail.com Purchase & Materials Manager, MBA Finance Indian, 29, male 5+ yrs experienced GCC driving license, NOC ready to join as early as possible. Contact: 91325959 Email: msjacson@gmail.com Accountant / Store keeper B.Com, Tally experienced.

Contact 97049786 Sr. Accountant (NOC/ Release) available, Indian, 14+ yrs experience MBA/MSE PGDCA. Contact 96018303 / 93279110, shvkoorajklm@gmail.com An Audit & finance professional with 4+ years of diversified GCC experience, available for a suitable position. Contact: 91206192 or Email: ahsun.nadeem@live.com for further details.

Accountant B.Com Indian male, 7 years Dubai experience in MNC seeks suitable jobs.

Contact: 94966128 Indian female CA Inter, M.Com, 3 years experience in Audit, seeking suitable jobs. Contact: 94863876 M.B.A Qualified experienced upto finalization looking for suitable placement in accounts.

Contact 99002390 Fresher 25, ACCA Affiliate, Advanced diploma in Accounting and Business seeking suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or Audit with oman driving license.

Contact - 92430152 , Email - raju.rd619@gmail.com Indian male Accountant, 2.5 yrs exp in Oman, NOC available with valid D/L. Contact 98870112 Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experience, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting, ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing with auditors. NOC available.

Contact: 92254691/97826674 email: khader2305@gmail.com Accountant, B.Com, Indian male, 24 yrs, currently on visit visa, seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92406920 Indian female, Asst Manager- Finance having experience in Finance & Admin around 15 yrs in Oman seeks suitable position. NOC available. Contact 94953826 / 92824146 Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

IND female 12 years exp in Banking, insurance customer service secretarial skills analysis communication, client handling, coordination, Team handling, qualification, M.Com looking suitable position current visit visa.

Contact: 95166496 Indian male age 26, Accountant one year experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.

Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415 Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/ finance field. On visit visa. Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 / muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com 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, Emailallen.mathew83@gmail.com

ADMIN Omani lawyer & legal adviser experience in law, Administration, business management, public relations, education full / part time.

Contact: 97243393 Email: mwm3003@gmail.com Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+ experience in Administration/ HR, Customer Support, Office Coordinator with good Computer skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for suitable position. Contact: 90196235 With 15 years of gulf experience in HR- Admin logistics looking for suitable position fluent in Arabic & Eng NOC available. #95824598 Indian male, 20 years experience in Oman as personal assistant / Executive Office Manager / Executive Secretary / Administration/ business development asst with Omani driving license & valid visa. local release available.

Contact 99168054 Indian female with nearly 10 years of experience in Administration and HR , in an oil industry company , seeking for a suitable placement . NOC available.

Contact: 99242841

Young Pakistani BBA finance professional is looking for entry level job salesman etc. Contact: 95589058

7 yrs EXP Office Admin/HR MCA, BCA,MBA , Oman license NOC available PH : 97086686

Accountant B.Com Indian male 10 yrs experience in Oman with D/L & NOC, local change available specialized in tally ERP9 & Focus up to finalization. Contact: 99622639

Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817

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

Contact : 96247295 Accounts part time services available to handle all accounts up to finalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295 Finance Manager 16 years experienced chartered accountant (Sri Lankan) looking for a suitable post. NOC available.

Contact: 92194926 Email: manomuscat@gmail.com Accountant & sales & marketing.

Contact: 99730968 / 90696269 Accountant 8Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact: 97712084 ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in finance.

Contact 99284193 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 Indian female M.Com DCA having 10+ years experience in accountant & administration in Oman, with Oman driving license seeking suitable job.

Contact: 91609799 Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin.

Contact :94743790 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 Indian Keralite, B.Com, male 25 yrs, 1.5 yrs exp.,looking for suitable job in Muscat currently on visiting visa. Contact: 90931930 Email: shijin.p450@gmail.com Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA Finance and marketing with IT skills, 7+ yrs of experience, Looking for suitable placement.

Contact 94879615,Emailsajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com 28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement.

Contact 90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELPER Housemaid, Indian female looking for full time job. Contact: 95799643

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN AutoCAD draughtsman (ARCH/ STRUC.) with 7+ years experience in Oman with D/L & N.O.C. Contact: 98974396 Email: muhdamjadkan13@gmail.com Autocad works / Boq. freelance / part time, exp team in Civil, MEP, HVAC, 2d, 3d, interior. Contact : 97103168 AutoCAD Draughtsman on visit visa looking for suitable placement, 2 years experience in 2D & 3DS MAX designer (Civil Engineering). Contact: 95430420 Autocad D Man, diploma civil knows 2D ARCH, STRUCTURAL, 3D now in visit visa ph : 93837973 Interior Designer 3 years experience, visit visa. Contact: 94957404 Email: midunmv@gmail.com Architectural Interior Draftsman seeking job. Contact: 95516807 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.

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.

DESIGNER Indian male good experience in Graphic Designing. NOC/ Release available looking for suitable placements. Contact: 98461278 Freelance ARCH 2D / 3D rendering / graphic design bldg PH : 97103168 email: mass.m@hotmail.com Web/Graphic designer with 4 years experience currently on visit looking for a suitable placement .

98752347 / 95933878.

DRIVER Looking for driving, 4 years exp know Eng, Arabic, Hindi, Education - B.A. Contact: 98522914 Pakistani Light Driver, looking Job 97986787 Looking for driving job, 8 yrs exp in Oman. Contact: 92005819 Looking for driving job, 8 yrs exp in Oman. Contact: 99465319 Light duty driver looking for job.

Contact: 94291571 / 95576051

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Indian Male MBA (UK),

Indian male MBA

PROJECT MANAGER,

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

Finance & Marketing 26 yrs having 1.9 years of experience in Finance & Marketing Contact: 95206140/ 96992013

B.Tech, MBA, PRINCE-2, British Citizen now available with NOC in OMAN. 25 yrs. exp in EPC Project Management of Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Refineries & Power Plants. Seeking job immediately/

Contact -

having 7 yrs of Gulf experience, expertise in Project Management, planning, construction activities, testing & commissioning of electrical systems, presently on visit visa, seeks job in Muscat.

97281023 / 90631567

Contact 91228167

Contact: 95168205

bonnythomas007@gmail.com

Administrator, 30 yrs experience as Office Manager Project Executive Secretary, document Controller, Commercial Officer with driving license on release.

DRIVER Bangladeshi male, seeks driving job, have 15 years driving experience in Qatar, U.A.E & Oman, familiar of every place of Muscat, knowing Arabic & Hindi.

Contact: 92456754 Driving with car, 5 years experience English, Hindi & Arabic.

Contact: 95037759 Available light driver 1 year experience. Contact: 91209086 Indian light driver need job.

Contact: 91254539 One year exp. driver.

Contact: 97309141

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Syrian Architectural Engineer 10 years experience in the field of Engineering consulting firms & major contracting companies in Abu Dhabi, very good knowledge of AutoCAD, Max Photoshop & customers in interview experience in supervision & implementation.

Contact: 93705069 AutoCAD Draughtsman with 7 years experience in Oman in Civil & MEP with D/L & NOC. Contact: 97059394 Email: anilsunny1986@gmail.com Indian male Civil Engineer 1.6 yrs exp, having Omani D/L, looking for suitable position. NOC available.

Contact – 92157694 / mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com

Light driver. Contact: 96252524 Driver job needed.

Contact: 94435912 Male driver exp. 1 year.

Contact 96938315 / 91895932 Looking for driving job.

Contact: 94706179

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.), on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350, Email: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com Mining Engineer (B.E.) & PostGraduate in Business qualification +20 yrs exp. in Mine operations, Sales & Marketing, D&B project management, Feasibility study, Mining investment analysis, and Business development. NOC available. Seeking suitable opportunity.

Having Omani driving license.

Please contact: 91703755, Email: panditsanjit@yahoo.com 16 yrs Oman experienced HSE professional mainly in construction field is looking for a position in the post of Asst. HSE Manager / Snr. HSE Advisor. Contact 99886507, on Visit Visa, NOC available & ready to join immediately 25 yrs, male, B.Tech, EEE, 3 yrs experience on visit visa, seeking for a good opportunity.

Contact 91743987, kelvinsimon1991@gmail.com 30 years, Indian male Electrical Engineer having 7 years work experience & having UAE driving license seeks suitable position in projects. Contact: Ajay Haridas Mobile: +971528254782/ Seeking suitable job male 33 years Expat over 13 years experience with PDO as Project Services Engineer Omani driving license NOC Available. Contact: 92734174 Professional Civil Engineer, 26 yrs experienced in Contractor & Consultancy, Management & Supervision Gulf included with N.O.C & License. Contact: 92668679 + Syrian Civil Engineer experience in Supervision & implementation.

Contact: 96649016 Diploma in Refrigeration & Air conditioning, male 16 yrs exp. 5 yrs exp in Oman on Supervising building maintenance & workshop (civil, electric & plumbing) staying here on family visa, seeking for a suitable job with valid D/L. Contact : 99851277 BS – Tech Civil Engineer having 1.5 years experience.

Contact: 95802961 Sudanese Mechanic Engineer 7 years pipeline air cooling, metal formation with driving license.

Contact: 90933863

Quick Solution in Civil construction field planning, Estimation on primavera P6 / MS Project & prepare BOQ/ MAS List. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Indian male Civil Engineer 12 years experience looking for suitable placement having DL / NOC. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Experienced mechanical Engineer (B.Tech), looking for suitable placement. Contact: 99576846 Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication site work with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 94696192 Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrs exp seeks suitable position in a reputed company. NOC available.

Contact 96789711 Male, Diploma in Civil Engineering, 5 yrs experience, 6 months PDO Oman experience seeks suitable job. Contact 92726423/97879383 Email : engr.rabiul@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B. Tech), Indian female 23 years with experience in Architectural designing, interior & exterior designing, experience in AutoCAD, 2D, Revit position. Available in Sultanate of Oman.

Contact: 91316940 Email: nimishacherian24@gmail.com Electrical Engineer, Indian Male, 23yrs Gulf Exp in Oil&Gas,10yrs Chief Electrician on land rig in Oman, holding transferable Visa, Oman DL, GSM: 98284583, email:vjohnkaleekal@yahoo.com Iraqi Civil Engineer 25 years experience in governments building and construction projects resident in Oman. speak And write English Contact: 98930502.

Email: aminaloraiby@gmail.com Pakistani male, 29 yrs, DAE, Civil Engineer, 7 yrs experience with D/L seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97187214, Email : mohammadsaqlain227@gmail.com Fire safety officer, diploma fire & safety, nebosh, osha, iti, experienced PH :99278335 Indian male, B.Tech, MBA, 8+ yrs of experience in Project Management team handling requires job at manager level with driving license in Oman. Contact 91360621 B.Sc Civil Engineer, 7 yrs Gulf experience having GCC D/L seeking for suitable replacement, local release available.

Contact 99534085, email: alhamyabi786@gmail.com HSE officer 3 yrs Dubai well exp requires job in a well reputed company. Contact : 97995702 / 94532131.

Email: jaseerhse@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer (BSc) Having 3 years experience in transmission line 380 KV,110KV and Analog power Network simulator ,Grid Station Simulator.

Email: uetian_irfan79@yahoo.com

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male with 1 year experience on visit visa looking for job, Qualifications in QA, QC, Piping & HVAC. Contact: 90510800 Email: muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com

Civil Engineer, 1 year experience seeks job. Contact: 92241416

Electronics & instrumentation Engineer young Indian engineer looking for suitable opening in Oman. Contact : 97952346, Email: sarath24592@gmail.com

Sudanese Civil Engineer Diploma (3 years), 12 years experience, 7 years in Oman experience in tendering site works & QS & D/L with NOC looking for a suitable position.

Contact: 98921723

Email:

Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24 with almost 1 year experience as Production Shift Engineer, has achieved training on HVAC Engineering design and has good hands on software like AutoCAD and HAP.Currently in Oman on a visit visa, looking for a suitable placement.Contact: 95065955 email: mjs.jazeb@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. Contact 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in designing, assembling, commissioning execution etc having valid GCC license too looking for a suitable.

Contact: 00968-98052942 Email: azamjeelani78@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian male 24 years with 1+years Indian experience,(Certified in Staad Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).Looking for a Suitable position. Available In Sultanate of Oman (Muscat) on Visit Visa. CONTACT 92157694. E-mail: mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com An Iraqi civil with more than 30 years experience in (Iraq and G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C) available. Contact: 96561306 Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com Indian male, Mechanical Engineer having 1year experience, on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact:97416564, Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com Civil Engineer 6 years experience on supervising, Designing, QC, QS, planning and managing using Engineering software.

Contact 90719263 Mechanical Engineer have 3 years experience in air conditioning (HVAC), fire fighting system.

Contact: 94906447 / 96654019 A Sudanese Mechanical Engineer Graduate of Malaysia experienced in oil & gas as well as petro chemical projects. Fluent in both English & Arabic, valid Oman driving license. NOC is available.

Contact 95569340 Civil Engineer 8 years experience, Driving license, NOC, 98078095.

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

Contact – 90164912 Young Indian, Engineering in Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and Chemical, looking for a challenging placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email: sivasankarjayakumar@gmail.com Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs of exceptional exp in spear heading strategic planning and project management initiatives & executing various high rise residential & commercial building as well as roads and highway project with proficiency in installation, seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization. Contact 96570891 Indian male B-tech 8 years experience as senior electrical project engineer / QC engineer on visit visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94094543 Email: anwar425@gmail.com Electrical Engineer: Indian male 30 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation & utility maintenance in Indian, holding valid Oman D/L. Contact: 92789995 Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784 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 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 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

Constructions Engineer (Architect) 7 years experience in Oman, Projects Coordinator technical office & site Supervision, quantity surveying having Omani driving license. Contact: 97164819

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

Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022

Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualified, distinction holder with 7 yrs teaching experience in colleges.

Contact: 91360147.

Civil Engineer (B.Tech) with 10 years experience in Oman as a Project Engineer for public & private sector projects seeking suitable position, having valid driving license.

NOC available. # 95992820 Email: sumeshcsss@gmail.com Indian male, 25 yrs Mechanical Engineer 5 years experience in power & petro chemicals sector looking for suitable placement on visit visa. Contact: 90807760 Email: ramizshk@gmail.com B.Tech Engineer with 6 years experience & expert in AutoCAD, PDMS & other, 3D software’s (NOC Available) Contact: 93735166 Email: remisashraf@gmail.com Electrical Engineer (B.SC) with 1 year experience currently seeking job on 3 month visit.

Contact: 91791568 Degree Indian male FMCG working 2 yrs at Dubai, Mobile repairing, 2 yrs at India D/L. Contact: 95797971 / 90214432 Email: nihuaz888@gmail.com Electrical Engineer Indian with 4 years experience presently in Oman family visit visa.

Contact: +968 – 90921140 Email: zsebinz@gmail.com Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93101283

Contact- 00968-94731728/ josececy25@gmail.com

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. Contact 99739415 / 92091528 Teacher Female , Phd in Chemistry having 3.5 yrs of Experience in India. Staying here on Family Visa & seeking for a suitable placement. Contact – 99675828, Email - Anupam.tiwari67@gmail.com

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 cruiseliner has butler. Has Oman driving license. Contact 99859150.

Indian male Diploma in Hotel Management with 16 years of experience (F & B Service) in GCC & India, expert in Crafting new outlet, having Omani D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact: 92100141 /92221956 Young, female, diploma in aviation, hospitality, travel management, with family visit visa, seeks suitable placement with employment visa in airlines / hospitality / administration & in any company. Gsm 9092-1438 Housekeeping Supervisor, Hotel Industry seeks placement.

Contact 96152305

Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com Pakistani male, having 25 yrs experience of IT in Oman & have release. Have own car & ready to join any IT company, ready to work for company outdoor work also.

Contact 99008870 Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area.

Contact 98660672 Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement.

Contact: 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

MISCELLANEOUS Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Customer Care Executive / Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/ good computer and communication skill.

GSM: 97761075 Indian IT professional with dependent resident visa looking for work from Home job Contact : tejoman74@gmail.com Indian male 40 yrs BSc degree and diploma in logistics having good knowledge in computer MS, EXCEL , 16 yrs experience, 6 yrs in GCC seeking suitable placement, NOC available.

Contact: 98966849 / 96186573 Indian male looking for a suitable post with 30 yrs experience in showroom project hotel handling on visit visa. Contact : 95213689 Email: imusilking@yahoo.co.in Indian male, 23 years, Master in Computer Applications (MCA) Graduate from NMAMIT, NITTE, Indian, looking for suitable placement in Muscat, Oman. (Currently on a visit visa till Sep 20th 2016) Contact: 968 93035971, Email: vijaycorda@gmail.com Indian Female, 28 Years - MSc Microbiology, Quality checking food industry, Looking for suitable job. Contact 98170510 Email: lasyapriyaprasanth@gmail.com Filipino Graphic Designer / I.T. looking for a suitable job with 10 years experience. Very good in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Photography, Knowledge in CCTV & Access Controls. Pls. Call 95098512.

Indian male, 28, post graduate, 6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back office) & credit control with valid Oman D/L looking for suitable lacements. NOC available.

Contact 92066 523 Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation.

Contact: 92956848 BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR CEO, CEO Assistant looking for senior management position with more than 25 yrs Business developing experience marketing business planning U.S.A , Africa , Kazakhstan , Saudi & Qatar MBA , TEXU AYM University.

Contact: 92010247 Male -44 ,CIM (UK )/MBA, qualified business manager experience in setting up strategic business,3 experience in Oman FMCG sector and 10 years in GCC looking for a suitable managerial position .NOC and driving license available .

Contact -99160550

MEDICAL Indian female, 2 yrs experience in India with Oman prometric, got 64% seeking Staff Nurse job.

Contact 91451935 Iraqi Dentist, 9 yrs exp pass prometric and dataflow searching for suitable placement.

Contact: 90611395 Iraqi Dentist female, MOH license seeks suitable job in clinic in Muscat. Contact 97891219 Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 96906534 / 99014885, Email: monishmajeed@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Resident in Oman 18 years, 10 years experience in setup marketing plans and strategies, sales, import & logistics, procurement, Omani government tenders, organizing projects & events, import fireworks for festivals, NOC available, have car. Contact 94123939.

Email: 002015r@gmail.com U.S. National, 10 yrs experience in customer service, fluent in English, Bachelors degree in Business Admin, Management, MS Office, word, excel, typing with driving license seeks suitable placement.

Contact 98038438, Email: baloch86@gmail.com Indian male 26 years of experience of sales & marketing in surgical and laboratory equipments.

Looking for good replacement.

Contact – 92015894 / 95774854 Young male having Omani driving license with excellent computer skills knows English, Arabic and Hindi seeking job opportunity.

Visa transferable.

Contact: 92957251 Indian Keralite male 23 B.Com Graduate with 2 years (out of 1 year in Oman) of experience in Sales and Marketing, driving license attempting (road test).

Contact: 97863888 Email: sajidmu001@gmail.com MBA Sales marketing 4 years experience seeking suitable jobs.

Contact: 968 71101240 Email: adilshah.muscat@gmail.com Indian male, 8 years experience procurement and coordinator, NOC available having driving license.

Contact: 90978547 Indian male- sales representative with 15 years experience in Oman and Dubai and valid Oman driving license NOC or release available.

Contact 95396796 Indian Male, 26 M.Com with 4 yrs of Experience in Accounting & Administration in a Financial Company in India, seeks suitable job, Currently in India.

Contact India:-+918907212253 Akhil:-93626288, Email: Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com 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 MBA male, 14 yrs Oman experience in Sales Marketing with driving license looking for suitable position, release NOC available.

Contact 91437484, shahedbaig@outlook.com Indian female, 12 yrs experience in International Call Center & customer service, seeking suitable placement. Contact 90955157 Qualified & experienced MBA with 6 yrs of work experience in General trading import export & logistics in Oman & Indonesia presently on visit visa looking for suitable job in Muscat, preference FMCG. Contact 91544858, holding Oman driving license. Contact 91544858 Filipino female 33 years, 8 years experience in retail sales, local release available looking for suitable job. Contact: 96974183 Email: sherylcureg30@gmail.com Sudanese Business Development Manager 15 years experience in Oman market (Import / Export, tenders, developing business, marketing), good communication skills (bilingual) commercial relations inside and overseas.

Contact: 93695424 Email: mhdamin2003@gmail.com

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SITUATION WANTED SALES / MARKETING Indian female, BBA Graduate, pursuing MBA, seeking for placement in any corporate firm, job profile related to marketing, advertising, retail & branding, valid D/L. Contact 97907311 Indian male BHM from IRELAND with 7 years of experience, 5 years of experience in Europe in one of busiest as a Senior Asst Manager in QSR Industry (India) looking for the best opportunity. Contact no in Oman: 00968 – 99421031 Email: smithramesh813@gamil.com Indian male 1 yr exp in sales automotive (TBL) looking for best opportunity , NOC available.

Contact: 97793879 Email: shyampkn@gmail.com B.B.A Graduate/Sales & Marketing Executive/3years Exp./Valid Omani License/Available Immediate . Contact-94122944, Email: raashidjabirm@gmail.com Indian male Graduate with 18 years of Marketing experience presently in Oman on family visit visa, looking for best opportunity.

Contact: 96168687 Email: dhibupaul@gmail.com Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG sector, looking for best opportunity. NOC available.

Contact: 96001877 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 Sales Executive 5 years experience valid Oman license, MBA, local release available.

Contact: 96796590 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

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761 Executive Secretary / HR & Admin with 22 years of experience (13 years in Oman) with NOC & Oman Driving License. Contact 93769921 or lsf_1972@yahoo.com Looking for part time job Secretarial / Data Entry / Documentation available every day after 5:00 pm Friday / Saturday full day area preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD / Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

TOURS & TRAVELS Young, female, diploma in aviation, hospitality, travel management, with family visit visa, seeks suitable placement with employment visa in airlines / hospitality / administration & in any company.

Gsm 9092-1438

MISCELLANEOUS Indian female 23 ORACLE ERP Technical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf, forms reports and bipublisher.

Contact - 91156571 email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Indian Male 23, BE. Mechanical Engineer currently on visit visa Seeking for suitable Job. Software Proficiency AUTOCAD, CATIA, ANSYS, SOLIDWORKS. Contact No: 90924672 / 98859557, tsprakash01@gmail.com

Civil Engineer (B-tech) Indian male 1+ years experience in high rise building (G+21) site Engineer, experience in QC ,QS, and surveying looking for a job(NOC) available contact :90924737 / 97470742 Email:kannanknply92@gmail.com

Indian Female,33 Years MBA,MCOM & CA Inter , 3 Years’ experience in Accounts and Auditing ,seeking suitable position .Knowledge in MS Excel, Tally and having good communication skills.

NOC Available. Mob:90146233, E-mail: priyamerinjoy@rediffmail.com

Chief Accountant , 7 years experienced (out of 25 years experience in accounts) worked in reputed group companies. Currently procuring MBA finance and having Omani Driving License seeks suitable openings from reputed companies.

Contact 98803439 / 97413784

Indian male Accountant.

Completed MBA with 1 year experience, good working knowledge in Tally & Excel. Searching for suitable job. Contact : 919715874548 , 918015907437, Email : jovin8910@gmail.com B. Tech Comp Science 3+ yrs, looking for administration or IT / Management or other profile with flexible timings. Contact 95761562 Graduate (C.M.A & B.Com) having 4 yrs experience in U.A.E & Pakistan in accounts/ Audit now in Oman immediate available.

Cell # 94973273 (call & Whatsaap) Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193, Mail: snu057@gmail.com Driver with car available.

Contact : 90139903 Looking for Land surveyor job 5 years experience in Oman fully know autocad GPS and latest total station instruments NOC available:+96894144052 wasifnaz313@Yahoo.com Well-qualified Indian Female with 8 years Oman experience in Procurement Supply Chain from reputed Companies in Oman seeks placement, contact – 95423692 MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified, Contact arn9895@gmail.com, Mob 00919895233155 B.E Mining Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience looking for job. Available to join respective firm.

Contact 94618504 B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact 94618504 Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. Contact- 00917350860889 rahulkunnath23@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B-tech) Indian male 1+ years experience in high rise building (G+21) site Engineer, experience in QC ,QS, and surveying looking for a job (NOC) available. Contact : 90924737 / 97470742 Email: kannanknply92@gmail.com INDIAN FEMALE 28 yrs, M.Sc B.ed Science, Experience 2Years In Teaching In India, seeking suitable Job. Contact 0091 9676814123, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com

B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact number# 94618504, Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com Electrical Engineer, Indian male 4 years of experience in India / Oman. NOC available Looking for job in electrical field, Having good academic records and good communication skill. GSM: 94579857 Email: zahirpb@gmail.com MBA in HR & Finance with 2 years experience in HR seeking for a suitable post, presently in family joining visa. Contact : 9058 7631 Iraqi Civil Engineer 25 years experience in governments building and construction projects resident in Oman. speak And write English Contact: 98930502.

Email: aminaloraiby@gmail.com Airfreight/logistics Manager, male 35, MBA, Indian, 5 years experience in Oman seeks job.

Contact- 0091-9526166169 / 99630159, E mail - bijoabyjohns@yahoo.co.in B.E(Mechanical) 12years industrial sales one year Muscat experience, presently in India , Immediately ready to join ,Mobile no :917338899372 , email id : ganesh2008sep@gmail.com Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 4 years of experience in Office Administration (admin) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com 2 years experience looking for a job accounts / logistics field on visit visa. Contact: 93884951 Airfreight/logistics Manager, male 35, MBA, Indian, 5 years experience in Oman seeks job. Contact- 00919526166169 / 99630159 , e mail - bijoabyjohns@yahoo.co.in Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in purchase (supply chain management) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact # 94618504 , Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com Diploma in Civil Engineering, B. Tech in Civil engineering from Kurukshetra university, persuing M. Tech Structural Engineering distance mode from Kurukshetra University, more than 07 years experience. Contact+96891431483 email mohsinyousuf86@rediffmail.com

SITUATION WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Civil Engineer, B.E 26 years, 4 yrs experience GCC, 6 years Singapore in roads, buildings, infrastructure have employment visa, release available. Contact: 94786687 Email: shasha9292@gmail.com / asad3248@gmail.com 4 years experience in officer coordinator & Sales Executive looking for suitable placement, NOC and Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98215753 / 92392646, thankansam@gmail.com Civil Engineer 5 years experience in Oman / India as Quantity Surveyor for mosque & building (N.O.C) Contact: 97826597 Email: sai.praba.777@gmail.com Indian P.G , DCA need job.

Contact: 94829545 Indian male need part time job.

Contact : 90169048 3 years experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified. Contact arn9895@gmail. com, Mob 00919895233155 Purchase & store experienced 8 years in Oman Construction company Indian male 47 years looking for suitable job, NOC release, Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98456535 / 93996983 Building foreman, Experience : More than 20 years with 12 years in Saudi Arabia 4 years in Oman and 4 years in Pakistan with D/L. Contact : 968 94153911, Email : iqbalsaleem10777@gmail.com Indian male 6 years exp as Sales Executive with valid Oman driving license, languages known Hindi and English, looking for any good job. Contact 95642297 Indian male, 28 YEARS Msc Bed Chemistry 2 years, experience In Teaching In India seeking suitable Job. Mob No-00919505671750, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com Indian Female 10 years exp as cook in Oman, South Indian & Gujarati special .looking for job, Contact 95795971

Indian male part time Accountant looking for a job. Contact 96761026 Email: mehreenraiz@gmail.com Electrical Foreman, 25 years’ experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 96718013, Email : manikandan1196@gmail.com Regin accountant, male Indian, 2 years of experience doing accounts in tally and excel searching for suitable job. GSM no: 7373387282 E mail: regin1690@gmail.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact number# 94618504Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com Indian Male, 22, Diploma in Automobile Engineering (DC), Experience In Restaurant Management and in sales looking for suitable position. Contact: 90801420, Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com Heavy Driver available with Oman Driving License.

Contact: 94190541 Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail;snu057@gmail.comIndian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in Sales & Marketing looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact: 97939084 / 97351786, mailmohammednsr126@gmail.com Male, Electrical Engineer, 4 years of experience in India /Oman. NOC available. Contact Mob: 94579857, Email: zahirpb@gmail.com, MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified, Contact arn9895@gmail.com, Mob 00919895233155

Mathematics Lecturer Indian Female, M. Phil in Mathematics with 5 years of experience in school and colleges. Now in Oman on Visit Visa. Contact- 92119428, 96714746 Indian male, 24 yrs Civil Engineering Graduate, on visit visa looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 92724814 Indian female 23 Oracle ERP technical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf, forms & reports, bipublisher email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail. com, Contact: 91156571 Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail: snu057@gmail.com.

INDIAN male, 33 yrs, BSC Chemistry 8years, experience as Medical Representative In Zydus company in India, seeking suitable Job. Contact -00919505671750, Email; bbroshini53@gmail.com Indian male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. Contactrahulkunnath23@gmail.com, Mob-00917350860889 MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int.

Standards, B.Tech in Mech engg.

Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail. com, Mob-00917350860889 4 Years experience as Electronics Service Engineer. Knowledge in all type of Electronics items, looking for suitable placement.

GSM- 99105043 Female Architect on visiting visa, two years’ experience, graduated from School of Planning and Architecture (under MHRD). Proficient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and creative visualization. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com.

Contact 00968-94057427.

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We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898

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Light Duty Driver looking for driving job. Contact: 00968 97671459 Search job as light driver, experience 3 years language Hindi, English, Arabic. Contact: 97941771 MPA- MBA Master of professional Accounting - Master of Business Administration 26 years, Indian male looking for an accounting job & recently graduated from James Cook University Brisbane, Australia currently in Oman.

Contact 96038898 Indian male 33 yrs, MBA-HR, worked on Recruitments, Training, OD, PMS, Site-HR, Omanisation and development plans of nationals ,10.yrs exp. seeking a job.NOC avl.

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Indian male, Civil Engineer (Diploma) having 5Year exp. in oman both construction &Consultancy with valid oman D/L, seeking suitable job.

Contact: 96057857, Email Id: srsakku&gmail.Com

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Indian male, M.Com , 7 years oman experience in the field of accounts and valid oman driving license & NOC . Good knowledge in SAP,Tally, oracle , MS office and Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

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Contact: 99657644/98518013

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Qualified banking & Accounts management profesional seeking suitable job opportunities. Currently working in India with ICIC Bank.

Email: sheemoljohn@rediffmail.com Contact# 919755550181

Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy from Mumbai, ISWK student, ACCA, BSC honours, working as a senior accountant in Muscat, seeks suitable alliance for an Indian Sunni Muslim family. Contact no.(parent): 96408642, email address: khaledaoman@gmail.com)

Mechanical Engineer 3 years of experience in HVAC mechanical engineer one year experience in Auto Cad B.E (mechanical engineering) REVIT MEP, AUTO CAD, STCW, HUET. Mobile: +97430384909 email: kijomonc@gmail.com

Kerala Marthomite boy, 165 cm, 30 years with clean habits working in an Engineering Construction firm based in Muscat looking for a suitable alliance.

Contact: 98705017

Indian Driver, with Oman driving license having 10 years experience in Oman, looking for suitable positions. Contact-91519047

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

Electrical Foreman, 25 years experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

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Electronic Systems Engineer (UK Graduate) with skills in Robotics, Programming Languages, IC, PCB Design seeking suitable position.

Indian female on Visit Visa.

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Indian Male 30 year GCC driving license and past experience as project coordinator looking for a suitable position. Project coordination, Sales executive, marketing executive or any other suitable post. Contact -97070427

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Contact 968 98267338, 0091 9287215726 Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English class for Malayalam Speakers

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Contact: 00968- 99038518