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Founded 1975 . Volume 41 No. | Pages . Baisas 200 . Subscription OMR63 | ISO 9001:2008 Certifi ed Company | Chairman/Editor-in-Chief: Mohamed Issa Al Zadjali | Printed & Published by Muscat Media Group
085010 1200106May 25, 2016 18 Sha’aban 1437 AH
WEDNESDAY
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On the occasion of the 7th National Day, 1977
FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN
We are happy to tell you that the loyal and unselfi sh mutual co-operation which marks our relations with our brother states in the area has contributed signifi cantly to the progress of our peoples.
‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’
MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a ca-ble of congratulations to King Abdullah II of Jordan on the occasion of his country’s 70th Independence Anniversary.>A6
HM sends greetings
C A B L E S
REJIMON K FAHAD AL GADHANI [email protected]@timesofoman.com
MUSCAT: Government raids to catch expats work-ing with incorrect visas will be intensifi ed, with 500 people arrested for working illegally this month alone.
“Government is aware that the Labour Law viola-tions are a little high so the inspections are high.
The number of expats is growing. Similarly, the violations are growing. So, the inspections will also be increased.
“We want to stabilise the market with legal workers. We don’t want any labour law violators. This will ad-versely aff ect the opportu-nities in Oman,” Said Salem Al Saadi, advisor to Minis-ter of Manpower, said.
Anyone working in a dif-ferent fi eld or occupation
listed on the work permit is breaking Omani law and can be sent home. Those not working for their sponsor are also breaking the law.
Intensifi ed raids to fi nd expats who violate labour laws are being carried out in Oman, he said.
“Raids are carried out randomly and on tip-off s from the public to stream-line the labour market. The raids are always intense,” he added. >A6
OMAN‘Tap solar potential’
1Oman could exploit 320 days of regular sunshine to generate more solar
power energy. >A5
MARKETPDO to raise output
2PDO plans to produce 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day. >B1
SPORTSOman rout Vanuatu
3 Oman routed Vanuatu for a nine-wicket win in the WCL Division 5. >C1
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
A6More fl ights from Muscat to Asian cities
MORNING MINUTE
‘INTENSE’ VISA RAIDS TO INCREASE IN OMANAlready this month, almost 500 expatriates on the wrong visas have been arrested
Top 20 goal for new Oman airports chief
TARIQ ZIAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Oman Airports’ new chairman has been tasked with making the airport one of the best in the world.
Yahya bin Said bin Abdullah Al Jabri, chairman of the Spe-cial Economic Zone Author-ity Duqm (SEZAD), who also holds a minister’s title, will aim to take Oman Airports Man-agement Company (OAMC) to great heights in line with its strategy to become one of the top 20 airports in the world.
OAMC has 12 initiatives underpinning its strategic ob-jectives, including profi table growth, operational excellence, enabling assets and engaging stakeholders, to help it excel.
Developing customer experi-ence, a competency framework and assessments, updating the airport master plan for the Muscat International Airport and operating the readiness of Phase 2 for the new Muscat In-ternational Airport are some of the other goals. >A6
Oman Airports statistics >A2
I M P R O V E M E N T
A2 W E D N E S DAY, M AY 2 5, 2 0 1 6
OMAN
April
January - April
69.50M
12.85M
63.19M
11.28M
2015 2016
2015 2016
10%
OMAN AIRPORTS STATISTICS: April 2015-2016
I N STA G R A M . C O M / O M A N A I R P O RTS
Y O U T U B E . C O M / O M A N A I R P O RTS
T W I T T E R . C O M / O M A N A I R P O RTSFA C E B O O K . C O M / O M A N A I R P O RTS
O M A N A I R P O RTS . C O . O M O A M C I N F O @ O M A N A I R P O RTS . C O M+ 9 6 8 24 3 4 1 0 0 0 + 9 6 8 24 5 1 8 0 8 8
L I N K E D I N . C O M / C O M PA N Y/ O M A N - A I R P O RTS - M A N A G E M E N T- C O M PA N Y
Oman Airports Managment Company is a government-owned company, responsible for the management and operation of the civilian airports in the Sultanate of Oman. The infrastructure of the airports such as the terminal buildings, cargo buildings, runways, aprons, car parking and other facilities are directly under the OAMC’s management.
“Growing gatewaysto beauty andopportunity”
OUR PURPOSE“To be among the top 20
airports of the worldby 2020”
OUR VISION
2015Airport ExcellenceNew Salalah Airport(OAMC)
2012The best airportaward for staff serviceMiddle East region
Source: Airport Statistics 2014-2015, Oman Airports Managment Company Graphics
OAMC is managing and operating Muscat International and Salalah Airports, and the regional airports in Duqm and Sohar
Muscat International Airport Salalah Airport
Sohar Airport Duqm Airport
Total Number of Passengers
Civilian Aircraft Movements
Cargo & Mail (in Kilograms)
Key
April
January - April
5.78M
960,789
4.83M
818,528
2015 2016
2015 2016
April
January - April
49,219
8,281
44,330
7,656
2015 2016
2015 2016
12%
8%
20%
17% 14%
April
January - April
162
25
256
49
2015 2016
2015 2016
April
January - April
58
4
44
12
2015 2016
2015 2016
31%
-66%
-37%
-50%
April
January - April
618,061
108,187
811,685
150,560
2015 2016
2015 2016
-24%
January - April
511,041
80,433
434,662
71,046
2015 2016
April
January - April
4,444
718
4,926
810
2015 2016
2015 2016
17.5%
-28%
April2015 2016
13%
-10%
-11%
April
January - April
8,799
5,138
1,460
2,299
2015 2016
April
January - April
138
32
134
34
2015 2016
2015 2016
3%
-6%
71%
57%
2015 2016
Ensure proper disposal of garbage.
Don’t litter a beautiful country like OMAN.
A3
OMANW E D N E S DAY, M AY 2 5, 2 0 1 6
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world with us
on Instagram
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Ministry of Manpower contacts job seekersFAHAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Ministry of Man-power has contacted 1,100 job seekers for interviews, which will be conducted in two weeks.
The move comes under co-operation between the ministry and private sector companies in order to create job opportu-nities for job seekers in various sectors in the private sector.
Hamad bin Khamis Al Amri, undersecretary of the Ministry of Manpower for Labour Af-fairs, has inspected the process for conducting recruitment in-terviews for job seekers. The ministry has also contacted 550 male job seekers for em-ployment interviews, while an-other 550 female were contact-ed this week. Yosuf Al Mutawa, deputy director at the Ministry of Manpower, said the ministry is making extra eff orts to create work opportunities.
P R I V A T E S E C T O R J O B S
Special medical unit for children, teenagers opens
Times News Service
MUSCAT: A new specialised medical unit for children and teenagers aged between 10 and 18 years was launched by the Royal Hospital to promote healthcare in the Sultanate.
The fi rst-of-its kind medical unit aims to provide specialised medical treatment, guidance and counselling for the youth.
The unit will also create aware-ness in the community about dif-ferent illnesses associated with children of that age, as well as causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention.
Dr. Nahid Jaber, head of the De-partment, said, “This age group is
considered the most important age, which dictates the behav-ioural, medical and psychological qualities of children.”
“The international community must shift their focus to this age group and raise awareness about the correct way to deal with teen-age behaviour in addition to cre-ating a specialised ward in health institutions,” added Jaber.
The Royal Hospital is among the fi rst in the Middle East to open such a medical unit and Jaber said it will “benefi t a large portion of the Omani society.”
“The unit will provide medi-cal, specialised and counselling services to patients where we will welcome them as transfers
from health centres across the Sultanate. Then we will profi le the patient and determine the appropriate treatment for them,” said Jaber.
Jaber also explained that the creation of the unit is to raise teen-agers’ awareness, whether male or female, about bodily changes, as well as hormonal changes that are associated with puberty.
Teaching the children about certain diseases and illnesses they might contract and how to prevent them, as well as encouraging them to commit to a healthy diet for a healthier lifestyle and teaching them how to cope with illnesses and the importance of following the doctor’s instructions, are also part of the unit’s services.
“We will also raise awareness about the dangers of addiction to electronic devices and social media as it triggers psychologi-cal problems, such as anxiety, depression, violence and wrong behaviour, which could result in teenagers resorting to drinking and smoking, as well as taking drugs,” said Jaber.
The new Royal Hospital medical unit aims
to provide specialised medical treatment,
guidance and counselling for the youth
GRAND MUFTI TO OPEN SUPREME COURT PREMISESDelegated by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, His Eminence Sheikh Ahmed bin
Hamad Al Khalili, the Sultanate’s Grand Mufti will open today the Supreme Court prem-
ises located at Al Ghubrah, opposite the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. Within His Majesty
the Sultan’s direct and constant care of the judicial system and great keenness to give
it its due status, His Majesty the Sultan ordered the construction of a premises for the
Supreme Court. -ONA
Honour for ambassador
TUNIS: President Beji Caid Es-sebsi of the Tunisian Republic received Hussain bin Omar Al Ibrahim, Sultanate’s ambas-sador to the Tunisia, to bid him farewell at the end of his tour of duty. President Essebsi hon-oured the Sultanate’s ambas-sador by granting him the Re-public’s fi rst class order for his eff orts in supporting ties. -ONA
T U N I S I A
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OMAN
Additional safety advice for Haj pilgrims this year, says official
FAHAD AL GADHANIREJIMON [email protected]@timesofoman.com
MUSCAT: More safety advice will be given to Haj pilgrims by the Oman government, a senior offi -cial at the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Aff airs, said.
“The Haj mission usually car-ries out awareness programmes for pilgrims using all means of
communications, such as printed material. This time, there will be extra eff ort put in to urge Haj pilgrims to adopt safety meas-ures,” Dr Mohammed bin Said Al Mamari, scientifi c advisor at the Minister of Endowments and Re-ligious Aff airs Offi ce, said.
The offi cial added that the mis-sion considers the pilgrims’ safety as one of the most important as-pects of its responsibilities.
Last year, on September 24, a crane had collapse causing the death of at least 769, according to Saudi Arabia’s offi cial fi gures. The
Saudi government also said that 934 others were injured. However, the death count estimates varied in diff erent reports.
On September 11, a crawler crane had toppled over the Grand Mosque and 111 people were killed. Around 394 were also injured.
Recently, there were reports that one of the countries in the region has said that it will not send pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year for the annual Hajj, citing safety issues.
Hassan Bava, a Haj operator in Oman for the last three decades,
said they have plans to organ-ise special pre-departure classes where extra safety advice will be given to the pilgrims.
“Every year, we provide safety advice to the pilgrims. However, this year, we have put in extra ef-forts,” Bava added.
“We will follow the Oman Min-ister of Endowments and Reli-gious Aff air’s Offi ce’s instructions strictly,” Bava added.
GuidelinesAccording to the Haj operator, they will advise the pilgrims to be in group during the pilgrimage in Saudi, follow the Saudi authority’s guidelines and timings strictly, identity cards with them wherever they go and also have the hotel tel-ephone numbers with them.
Ahmed Maseedhuddin, man-ager of Haj and Umrah at Moon Travel in Oman, said they will fol-low whatever instructions are giv-en by the ministry and advise the pilgrims to follow it strictly.
A total of 9,081 people had re-ceived text messages last Monday informing them that their Hajj pil-grimage has been approved, even as more than half of the applica-tions were rejected.
The number of approved pil-grims for Haj this year was an-nounced by the Ministry of En-dorsement and Religious Aff airs. Almost half of those who had ap-plied received an approval, the Ministry of Endorsement and Re-ligious Aff airs’ offi cial social media account revealed.
The ministry announced that among the 18,587 who applied for this year’s Haj, only 9,081 wereapproved.
Last year, on
September 24, a
crane had collapsed
causing the death
of at least 769,
according to Saudi
Arabia’s offi cial
fi gures. The Saudi
government also said
that 934 others were
injured. However,
the death count
estimates varied in
diff erent reports
PRECAUTIONS: Hassan Bava, a Haj operator in Oman for the last three decades, said they have plans to organise special pre-departure
classes where extra safety advice will be given to the pilgrims.
ALI AL HABSI GIVES CLUB GOODIES TO PATIENTS
Oman National Football
team captain and UK-
based Reading Football
Club’s goalkeeper Ali
Al Habsi visited the
children’s ward of a
local hospital in Oman to hand out some
Reading goodies to the young patients. His
gesture brought smiles on the faces of the
little ones. The ace footballer spoke to the
children who were in awe of the Reading
Player of the Season. In the past too, Al
Habsi has visited children at hospitals.
Among his other philanthropic works, Ali
is also the co-founder of Safety First, a road
safety organisation in Oman. He recently
made history by becoming the fi rst Arab
player to captain a professional football
club in the UK.
Majlis Al Shura approves PASI investmentsMUSCAT: Majlis Al Shura’s Of-fi ce approved the request submit-ted to the Minister of Manpower, about the investment of the Pub-lic Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) in the investment funds at its ninth regular session of the 1st annual sitting (2015/2016) of the eighth term, under the chair of Khalid bin Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of Majlis A’Shura, .
The request included the ac-tions taken to identify PASI loss in 13 investment funds and the mechanisms followed in this re-gard. It also reviewed letters from international organisations and councils. — ONA
T H I R T E E N F U N D S
German, French language diploma holders honouredTHURAIYA AL HOSNI
MUSCAT: General diploma students of German and French languages were honoured by the Ministry of Education (MoE), re-cently.
The ceremony took place in the presence of Dr. Hamoud Al Harthi, undersecretary of the Ministry for teaching and curric-ulum, at the Ministry auditorium in Al Wattayyah.
It was attended by Hanz Chris-tian Vonerbibenz, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Sultanate, and Rolan Dob-betran, ambassador of France to the Sultanate, and Dr. Hamad Al Busaidi, director general of the Directorate General of Curricu-lum Development, and a number of Director Generals of Educa-tional provinces applying the teaching of French and German Languages, directors of depart-ments at the Ministry, members of the project, and parents of the honoured students.
It began with a visual presen-tation of stages of applying the teaching of German and French experience, and the challenges en-countered during the application.
After that, the honoured stu-dents gave a theatrical perfor-mance that tackled the impor-tance of learning languages in human life.
At the end of the ceremony,
the patron of the event honoured the successful students and dis-tributed the certifi cates to them. Students of the current academ-ic year (2015-2016) were hon-oured with the certifi cate (Fit in Deutsch) in the German language and in the French language the certifi cate (DELF).
The ambassadors also hon-oured the teachers of the two
subjects. The Ministry’s interest in the teaching of foreign lan-guages stems from the princi-ples of the philosophy of educa-tion in the Sultanate, and aims to build Oman’s human capa-bilities in light of the reality of contemporary life; to be able to interact positively with the cur-rent developments and those of the future.
E D U C A T I O N
EXCELLENCE: The ceremony began with a visual presentation on
stages of applying teaching of German and French experience,
and the challenges encountered during the application. After that,
the honoured students gave a theatrical performance that tackled
the importance of learning languages in human life. — Supplied photo
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MUSCAT: Replacing gas and other conventional energy, Oman could exploit 320 days of regular sunshine to generate more solar power than any European country.
“Solar energy is cheap and it could account for most of the en-ergy in Oman,” said Daniel Zywi-etz, vice chairman of the Clean Business Energy Council, who was speaking on the second day of the coveted energy conference on Tuesday.
Zywietz is also the chief execu-tive offi cer of Enerwhere, which claims to have built the world’s fi rst rental provider of modular solar-hybrid power plants for off grid power needs.
“If you take a look at the recent tender results from the Middle East, solar is not an expensive
form of power generation. It’s the cheapest cost of power generation. The tender results a few weeks ago from Dubai showed… basically last year there was a tender for a coal fi red power plant that came in for 4.8 cents per kilowatt hour. This year the same company put in a bid for 3.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for a solar power plant,” he explained.
He warned Oman against wast-ing time on other sources of en-ergy, adding: “Let me be a bit con-troversial here. Don’t waste your time on things that are second or third-class when you have a word-class resource. Oman is a desert country. What is scarce here is bio-mass,” he said.
He added, “How many volca-noes do you have? Not one. Just do a mass count on how many bio-mass plants or geo thermal plants can you build, or what you can get out of it. Don’t waste your time be-cause you will spend lots of money
on feasibility and consultancy. It’s pretty simple.”
“So for the same kilowatt per hour power, why would you pay fi ve times more for using other conventional power generation methods?” he argued.
Proper legislationsGurmeet Kaur of Eversheds, which advises public and private clients on infrastructure and energy pro-jects, said Oman must aggressively pursue solar energy production and that cost of solar power in Dubai has already reduced.
“There is no reason why Oman should decide to go forward with other programmes. You have sun, you have bidders, who are in the region, and there is funding avail-able for these projects,” she stated.
Calling for proper legislation, she added, “The proper legislation will give confi dence to the inves-tors. They need to know their in-
vestments are going to be secure. You need transparent evaluation and criteria. There needs to be protection from expropriation, changes in law, compensation and things like that in legislation for such investment.”
Dawood Al Qassabi, the head of New Technology Implementation, Petroleum Development Oman, said Oman is looking forward to the Miraah solar project, which will become operational in 2017.
The project—the biggest in the Middle East—will harness the sun’s rays to produce steam, which will be used to extract heavy and viscous oil.
“We are already using PV (pho-tovoltaic) cells to lighten some streets and accommodations in interior Oman and Al Qurum, but it all comes down to cost eff ective-ness and the maintenance of the cells. They need to be cleaned. It’s also about operability,” he said.
Energy experts
advise Oman to
exploit its immense
solar energy potential
now that the cost
of solar power has
fallen to make it
economically
very attractive
Inspections of food markets intensify ahead of RamadanFAHAD AL GHADANI [email protected]
MUSCAT: As the Holy Month of Ramadan is approaching, in-spection teams and food control departments at Muscat Munici-pality are intensifying their in-spection visits to establishments supplying food to the public.
The move comes to verify the integrity of the supply of food in terms of quality and suitability for human consumption under the framework of the prepara-tion taken for the Holy Month of Ramadan.
The inspection and food con-trol department at the Directo-rate General of Muscat Munici-pality in Bausher carried out an inspection campaign at a number of commercial complexes that provide Ramadan baskets and variety of food for consumers.
UrgedMuscat Municipality has also called upon consumers in gen-eral not to hesitate to commu-nicate with Muscat Municipal-ity to report any observations through the call centre or social media platforms.
D R I V E
Man impersonating
police offi cer arrested
Staff Reporter
MUSCAT: Offi cers from the Di-rectorate General of Inquiries and Investigations of the Salalah Royal Oman Police (ROP) have arrested an Omani national on charges of theft, compromising security and impersonating as a police offi cer.
Stealing moneyThe Salalah Police Station had been receiving reports about an unidentifi ed person allegedly intercepting Asian expatriates, claiming to be a police offi cer. He also used to ask for their wal-lets to verify their documents
and while doing so, he stole their money and escape from the scene in his vehicle.
Taking advantageA senior ROP offi cial said the suspect was reportedly taking ad-vantage of victims’ innocence by giving them a ride in his car while impersonating as an offi cer and asked them to produce their doc-uments for extorting money. The offi cial also added that the car he was using was a rental.
The offi cial said the suspect was identifi ed after an investigation and was arrested. The suspect has been referred to the public pros-ecution for a further probe.
C R I M E
Chinese acrobats perform at ROHM
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Honouring an Orien-tal art that is at least 25 centuries old, the amazing Golden Dragon Acrobats have brought China’s acrobatic traditions to thousands of people around the world over the past fi ve decades.
Now they are bringing it to Oman, at the Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM).
As China’s leading acrobatic touring company, the award-win-ning Golden Dragon Acrobats are renowned for their fl uid grace and the spell-binding beauty of their performance of powerful
and astonishing athletic feats while skilfully balancing and spinning objects.
With the Golden Acrobat per-formances, ROHM’s 2015 to 2016 World Class Quality Season is coming to an exciting conclusion, with a production that everyone can enjoy in equal measure, as a demonstration of the beauty and power of the performing arts.
ROHM is hosting two per-formances of the Golden Acro-bats, the second one being today at 7.30 pm.
For further information and bookings, consult ROHM web-site at - www.rohmuscat.org.om.
G O L D E N D R A G O N
FLUID GRACE: As China’s leading acrobatic touring company,
the award-winning Golden Dragon Acrobats are renowned for
their fl uid grace and the spell-binding beauty of their perfor-
mance. – Supplied photo
Platform to boost fi rms
of students announced
Times News Service
MUSCAT: A proactive platform to engage student companies and discuss the enhancement of their environmental projects was announced by Mohammed bin Salim Al Tubi from Injaz Oman and Ministry of Environment and Climate Aff airs (MECA) recently.
Khaula Al Harthi, executive director of Injaz Oman, and Dr Yassin Sharabi, director of Envi-ronmental Studies and Research at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) were present. Dr Yassin confi rmed SQU’s readiness to as-sist students’ endeavours in the measurement of products and re-search relating to conservation.
During the meeting, students
showcased the formation and tactical development of six fi rms; Eureka, Technophyll, Fanar, Im-pact, Revive and Econas. They also discussed challenges faced and various means of enhancing their work, in addition to their strategic planning and progress.
“At Injaz Oman, we deliver platforms to support students during our developmental initia-tives, such as the Company Pro-gramme; all of which are centred on delivering the knowledge and technical skills required to suc-ceed with start-up projects. Our recent meeting was one of those platforms, and the presence of MECA demonstrates the minis-try’s commitment towards sup-porting students,” Khaula said.
I N I T I A T I V E
‘Oman must use huge solar power potential’
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL: Solar is not an expensive form of power generation. It has the cheapest cost of
power generation. – Talib Al Wahaibi
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Oman, is the ‘place’ for adventure, making it perfect for Thai people, who are yet to go on a desert journey.
Nadda Buranasiri, chief executive offi cer of Thai AirAsia X
More flights from Muscat to Asian destinations soon
TARIQ ZIAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Muscat will be con-nected to more Asian destinations as Thai AirAsia X begins fl ying to Bangkok from June 28 and Oman Air spreads its wings to China from September 18, according to aviation experts.
Oman Air will start its debut fl ight to Guangzhou on Septem-ber 18 on one of Oman Air’s prized Airbus A330-200, according to Routesonline.com.
It also reported that Oman Air will make four fl ights per week.
According to reports, Oman Air’s maiden fl ight WY851 will take off at 9:40 am local time and is ex-pected to arrive in Guangzhou at 9:05 pm local time.
On the return, the Oman Air fl ight WY852 from Guangzhou,
will depart at 9:10 am local time and arrive in Muscat at 12:45 pm local time. Oman Air also con-fi rmed the fl ight schedule, but added that they have opened res-ervations pending the Chinese Government’s approval.
Meanwhile, Thai AirAsia X will also start its operations from next month. Confi rming this, Kritti-yawadee Pongpanich, Corporate Communications and Events’ executive at Thai AirAsia X Co. Ltd, said the airline will be fl ying thrice a week to Muscat (Tues-day, Thursday and Saturday) from June 28 onwards.
Important milestoneIn a statement, Nadda Burana-siri, chief executive offi cer of Thai AirAsia X, said the new Middle East routes, such as Tehran and Muscat, are an important mile-stone for the airline, making it the fi rst Thai low-fare carrier to fl y to the region.
“These additions off er great convenience by directly connect-ing Don Mueang to Tehran and Don Mueang to Muscat, with three fl ights a week for each des-tination. The airline is also confi -dent that the two cities, with their great travel and investment po-tential, will prove popular among Thai travellers,” said Nadda.
“The new destinations also fi t in with the Thai government and the Tourism Authority of Thai-land’s strategies, which call for
increased penetration of new markets, especially new SME markets. The airline will use its low fares to expand its customer base and has plans for even fur-ther market expansion,” he added.
Nadda also viewed the new Thai AirAsia X routes as an op-portunity to attract Middle East-ern travellers to Thailand via Iran and Oman, making them gateways to Bangkok.
He also noted that Thailand is already a popular destination for the Iranian and Omani people, es-pecially in terms of tourism, med-icine and health care, segments that spend an average THB6,500 per day per person while visiting.
Place for adventure“Oman, is the ‘place’ for adven-ture, making it perfect for Thai people, who are yet to go on a de-sert journey. We are sure tourist numbers from Thailand to both Iran and Oman will grow satisfy-ingly,” Nadda said.
Thai AirAsia X will operate its fl ights to Tehran and Muscat with Airbus A330-300s, off ering 12 Premium Flat Bed business class seats and 365 economy class seats on each aircraft.
Oman Air will start
its debut fl ight
to Guangzhou on
September 18 on one
of Oman Air’s prized
Airbus A330-200
INCREASED PENETRATION: New Thai AirAsia X routes are aimed
at attracting Middle East travellers to Thailand via Iran and Oman.
His Majesty
sends
greetings
In his cable, His Majesty the Sul-tan has expressed his sincere con-gratulations along with his best wishes of good health, happiness and a long life to King Abdallah, praying to the Almighty for the re-turn of this and similar occasions on him to achieve further progress and prosperity for the Jordanian people.
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has also sent a cable of con-gratulations to President Mauricio Macri of the Argentine Republic on the occasion of his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations along with his best wishes of good health and happiness to President Macri and his country’s people further pro-gress and prosperity.
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of congratu-lations to President Htin Kyaw of Myanmar on the occasion of electing him as a new president of his country.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sul-tan has expressed his sincere con-gratulations along with best wish-es of success to President Kyaw in leading the people of Myanmar towards further progress.-ONA
C A B L E S
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New services added to Muscat,
Salalah international airports
OAMC has also added new ser-vices in the updated phone appli-cation to make receiving live and updated information easier for its customers, such as live arrival and departure information for the Muscat and Salalah Airports, the ability to search for fl ights and bookmark results and board-ing alerts in addition to many other features and facilities.
In light of the recent develop-ment of OAMC, the Muscat In-ternational Airport saw a 17 per cent rise in the number of total passengers in April at 960,789 passengers, compared with the same month last year.
Between January and April, passenger traffi c jumped by 1 million to 5,783,289 compared
with the same period in 2015, when 4,826,662 passengers were recorded.
Aircraft movement at the Muscat International Airport also saw an increase of 8 per cent in April this year, with 8,281 aircraft while the period between January and April saw a 12 per cent rise, with total aircraft movement recorded at 49,219, compared with 44,330 during the same period last year.
Passenger movementMoreover, Salalah Airport re-corded a 13 per cent increase in passenger movement at 80,433 in April; compared with 71,046 during the same month in 2015, while aircraft movement de-
creased by 11 per cent. The decrease in the civil air-
craft movement goes back to the national carrier’s strategy of fl y-ing fewer fl ights to Salalah with larger aircraft carrying more passengers.
Meanwhile, the Duqm Airport saw a 57 per cent jump in passen-ger movement in April, at 2,299, up from 1,460 last year. However, aircraft movement decreased by 6 per cent, while the total be-tween January and April was up by 3 per cent to 138 from the same period last year.
The Sohar Airport also re-corded a 50 per cent drop in pas-senger traffi c in April, as well as a 66 per cent drop in aircraft movement.
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Winners of SAI Times of Oman Open contest awardedStaff reporter
MUSCAT: Winners of the 13th SAI Times of Oman Open Essay Writing and Poster Making Com-petition received their awards at a ceremony held on Monday.
More than 150 students from the Muscat governorate received awards for excellence in the fi eld of essay writing and poster making.
Four hundred and eight stu-dents fi gured on the prize win-ners’ list from among 4,517 stu-dents registered for the event, representing 353 schools from all over Oman.
Dr. Sana Sabeel Al Balushi, Di-rector General at the National Career Guidance Centre and Head of Specialised Centre for Profes-sional Training of Teachers, Min-istry of Education (MoE), was the Chief Guest at the award cer-
emony and she gave away prizes to the winners.
“It is so good to see the growth of the SAI competition; from when we started the competition in 2003, there were about 100 stu-
dents and it was conducted only in the Muscat governorate, but now it has gone to all the governorates of Sultanate,” Al Balushi said.
She also thanked all the spon-sors and the well wishers behind
the success of the SAI Times of Oman Open Essay Writing and Poster Making Competition.
According to the organisers, in the interior regions (other than Muscat), prizes will be handed
over to the schools through the Ministry of Education in the re-spective regions.
A competition was held in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and under the banner,
“Spreading the Light through Hu-man Values.”
“Every participant is a winner in this event as it has given an oppor-tunity to everyone to contemplate values, which itself is an enriching experience that is bound to remain with them during life’s journey,” an SAI coordinator said.
Judges praised the children, who displayed their writing and drawing skills in dealing with the topics, “How to be happy and make others happy” (Grades 1 to 3); “Be a good friend to get a good friend” (Grade 4 to 6); “Value of Time:” (Grade 7 to 9) and “Eff ects of Me-dia” (Grade 10 to 12).
Each entry was evaluated by three judges, drawn from amongst the professionals and experts in these areas of arts and literature, MoE offi cials as well as members of the SAI Group.
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PRIZE WINNERS: More than 150 students from the Muscat governorate received awards for excellence in the fi eld of essay writing and
poster making. – Shabin E
‘Employer, staff should follow rules’This month alone, 500 expatriates were caught in raids across Oman, according to the statistics upload-ed by the Ministry of Manpower on its offi cial twitter handle.
According to Oman Labour Law Article 114, a non-Omani employ-ee who works in Oman, without a licence from the concerned direc-torate, or works with any employ-er, other than the employer who obtained a licence to bring him to Oman, shall be punished.
The punishment for the violator is imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month and a fi ne not exceeding OMR100, either or both, in addition to the cancellation of the licence issued to the employer.
Additionally, any employer who wilfully allows any of his employ-
ees to work with another employer will also be punished.
The punishment is imprison-ment for a period not exceeding one month and fi ne not exceeding OMR200, for each employee or by one of these two punishments and the punishment will be multiplied by the number of the employees in respect of whom the breach has been committed.
Such employers may not be al-lowed to bring into Oman any non-Omani employee for a period not exceeding one year.
“Such actions should continue. If not, it will encourage others to violate the law,” Mohammed Al Busaidi, a Majlis Al Shura member, said. “Hiring ‘free visa’ workers is a risk. Employers who facilitate ‘free
visas’ should be questioned and ac-tion should be taken. Government should provide visa clearance only for those who need it,” the Shura member added.
Ahmed Al Hooti, an Oman Chamber of Commerce and In-dustry member, said that both em-ployer and worker should follow the rules set by the ministry.
“Workers violating the labour law are risking their future,” the OCCI member said.
“Due to the current economic problems if some companies are not in a position to accommodate the workers they have hired, they should not let them go to work with other sponsors illegally risk-ing their future. Instead of that, government should be informed
and a legal way should be found,” the OCCI member added.
Shahswar Al Balushi, the CEO of Oman Society of Contractors (OSC), added that the government should provide visas for those who have the capacity to hire them.
“Government should classify the companies and judge whether they require a visa or not. If the visas are provided on the basis of proper checking the ‘free visa’ won’t happen,” the CEO said.
Meanwhile, an industrialist in Muscat said that there are chal-lenges in getting visas on time when it is required.
“Government should be a little lenient, especially when the mar-ket condition is bad,” the industri-alist said.
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Al Saeedi elected to health body
Staff Reporter
MUSCAT: Minister of Health Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saeedi has been elected president of the 69th World Health Assembly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday.
The Health Minister also met with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, who con-gratulated him on his nomination for the post of President of the As-sembly during its current session.
She also commended the con-crete health development in the Sultanate and the attention by the Sultanate’s government to the is-sues of health of the individual and the community at the regional and international level.
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‘Omanisation is not an
obstacle for oil industry’
MUSCAT: Omanisation is not an obstacle in the oil and gas indus-try, a seminar on “Market Situ-ation, Cooperation Mechanisms and Drop in Oil Prices” was told yesterday.
Eng. Salim bin Nasser Al Oufi , Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil and Gas, said, “Omanisation is not an obstacle in the oil and gas industry and therefore we must rehabilitate cadres and plan for the future.”
The ministry is working to en-courage investment by providing more accurate information on the concession areas. Without strate-gic action, a plan and time frame for
contribution of renewable energy in electricity generation, we will not fi nd the required contribution, stressing the importance of partici-pation of Omani fi rms in the com-petition to get private investment in the oil gas contracts, he added.
Raoul Restucci, Managing Di-rector of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) said a large demand for investment in oil and gas sector in the Sultanate, where the num-ber of foreign companies operat-ing in the Sultanate rose to about 26 companies, explaining that the ultimate goal is not oil production, but to maximise the benefi t from it and fi nd related industries. -ONA
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HIS MAJESTY RECEIVES MESSAGE FROM UAEHis Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said received a written message from Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of UAE, Prime Minister, Ruler of Dubai. The message
was received by HH Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Coun-
cil of Ministers when he received Mohammed bin Sultan Al Suwaidi, UAE envoy. -ONA
HM RECEIVES MESSAGE FROM MAURITANIAHis Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a written message from President Mo-
hamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania. The message was received by HH Sayyid Fahd bin
Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers when he received
Ahmed Daoud, Envoy of the Mauritanian President. -ONA
State Council discusses Omani Penal Law draft
MUSCAT: In response to the Royal Orders of His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said, the State Council and Majlis Al Shura will hold a joint sitting on Thursday under the chairmanship of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council.
The joint session will consider and approve the articles on which there is disagreement between the two Councils with relation to the proposed amendments on the draft Income Tax Law, the draft Foreign Investment Law and the
draft Insurance Companies Law.On the other hand, the State
Council will continue on Wednes-day its discussion of the draft Omani Penal Code, which was referred from the Council of Min-isters and the reports of Majlis Al Shura and the State Council’s Le-gal Committee on it.
The State Council’s 9th ses-sion of the fi rst annual sitting of the sixth term, which was held yesterday under the chair of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council
witnessed detailed discussions of the draft law.
Discussion to continueTomorrow, the State Council will continue its discussions of the re-mainder articles of the draft law and review some reports from members on their foreign partici-pation. It will also review some incoming letters and the report of the Secretariat General on the ac-tivities of the Council during the period between the 7th and 8th sessions. -ONA
State Council and
Majlis Al Shura
will hold a joint
sitting under the
chairmanship of Dr.
Yahya bin Mahfoudh
Al Mantheri
Property panel approves 154 evaluations
MUSCAT: Property Enu-meration and Evaluation Com-mittee (PEEC) approved 154 evaluation decisions of the prop-erty aff ected by public utility projects.
The fourth meeting of the year was chaired by Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Ghuraibi, Un-dersecretary of the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources for Regional Municipalities Aff airs .
Decisions included Al Bati-nah Coastal Road, Bidbid – Sur Road, the dual -carriageway, from the roundabout of LBG Company to the Roundabout of Bilad Sur, multi-level in-tersection on the existing Al Batinah Road, in addition to the dual carriageway of Madha-Al Rawdha Road in Al Buraimi, Jibreen — Ibri Road, Al Batinah Expressway and the Railway line.
The meeting also discussed other topics related to evalua-tion. -ONA
P U B L I C U T I L I T Y
NINTH SESSION: The State Council held yesterday meeting under
the chair of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the
State Council. –ONA
Oman-Iran investment forumMUSCAT: An Ithraa team led by His Highness Sayyid Faisal bin Turki Al Said, Director General of Investment Promotion will hold trade and investment talks in Tehran at the end of this month.
Logistics, metals and healthcare sectors will be the main points of the discussions. Ithraa is Oman’s investment promotion and export development agency.
“Our visit to Tehran has been designed specifi cally to enhance dialogue between Ithraa and our Iranian counterparts and capi-talise on the existing trade and investment ties our two countries enjoy. The Oman – Iran Invest-ment Meet will focus particularly on logistics, metals and health-care” Sayyid Faisal said.
Iran is second largest economy
in Middle East and North Af-rica (MENA) region after Saudi Arabia, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2015 of $ 393.7 billion. It also has the second largest population of the region after Egypt, with an esti-mated 78.8 million people in 2015.
The Iranian economy is ex-pected to grow by about 4 percent this year. -ONA
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Greece will start dispatching key data of the EgyptAir crash to Egyptian authorities on Wednesday, including data of the airliner as it fl ew through Greek airspace moments before disappearing
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces shelled IS targets in Falluja on Tuesday, the second day of an assault to re-take the militant stronghold just west of Baghdad, as international concern mounted for the security of civilians.
Residents in the city, 50km (30 miles) from the capital, reported sporadic shelling around the city centre, but said it was less intense than on Monday.
“No one can leave. It’s danger-ous. There are snipers everywhere along the exit routes,” one resident told Reuters by internet.
About 100,000 civilians are es-timated to be in Falluja which, in January 2014, became the fi rst Iraqi city to be captured by IS, six months before the group declared its caliphate. The population was three times bigger before the war.
The Iraqi military said it had dislodged the militants from Gar-ma, a village to the east, overnight. No casualties were reported by the army or the city’s main hospi-tal. On Monday, eight civilians and three militants were killed, and 25 people wounded, 20 of them civil-ians, according to the hospital.
Air powerThe US-led coalition “is provid-ing air power to support the Iraqi government forces in Falluja”, its spokesman, US Army Colonel Ste-ve Warren, told Reuters by phone.
The United Nations and the
International Committee of the Red Cross issued statements on Monday evening appealing for the warring parties to protect ci-vilians, who have limited access to food, water and healthcare and who now risk being used as hu-man shields.
Resourceful residents have be-gun appropriating solar panels affi xed to street lights to generate power in their homes.
Even the militants have had to scrounge and conserve supplies, collecting plastic objects to turn into makeshift fuel and conduct-ing patrols on bicycle, residents told Reuters.
Prime Minister Haider Al Aba-di said the armed forces had been “instructed to preserve the lives
of citizens in Falluja and protect public and private property”.
“Those who cannot take the exit routes, they can stay at home and not move,” he added in comments aired by state Iraqi TV while on visit to the fi eld command center near Falluja.
The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, a political organi-sation formed in 2003 to represent minority community, on Monday condemned the campaign as “an unjust aggression, a refl ection of the vengeful spirit that the forces of evil harbour against this city”.
It said in a statement nearly 10,000 residents had been killed or wounded by government shelling over the past two years, which Re-uters could not verify, and warned
any victory would be “illusory”.The military campaign could
take “many weeks, if not longer”, predicted Ranj Alaaldin, an Iraq expert at the London School of Economics, due to lingering sup-port for IS among many residents who may still prefer the militants to a Baghdad government long per-ceived as sectarian and repressive.
In a nod to local sensitivities, Iraqi offi cials say militias, grouped under a loose government um-brella to help boost the army and police following partial collapses since 2014, would be restricted to operating outside the city limits.
Abadi ordered the off ensive despite concerns that it could di-vert resources from a push later this year to retake Mosul, IS’s de
facto capital in Iraq. “You do not need Falluja in order to get Mo-sul,” Warren, the anti-IS coalition spokesman, said in a phone inter-view at the weekend.
A series of bombings that killed more than 150 people in one week in Baghdad, the highest death toll so far this year. cranked up the pressure on Abadi to do some-thing about the city seen by many politicians as an irredeemable bulwark of militancy.
“The intelligence indicates that this recent IS resurgence in Bagh-dad through some sleeper cells originated from Falluja,” said sen-ior lawmaker and former national security adviser Mowaff aq Al Ru-baie. “Falluja is too close to Bagh-dad.” — Reuters
The Iraqi military
said it had dislodged
the militants from
Garma village and
no casualties
were reported
Investigators play down explosion theory in EgyptAir crashCAIRO: The head of Egypt’s fo-rensics authority dismissed a sug-gestion on Tuesday that the small size of the body parts retrieved since an EgyptAir plane crashed last week indicated there was an explosion on board.
Greece will start dispatching key data of the EgyptAir crash to Egyptian authorities on Wednes-day, including data of the airliner as it fl ew through Greek airspace moments before disappearing, a source close to the probe said on Tuesday. “We will start sending the main data from tomorrow, in-cluding the radar tracking and the conversations with controllers,” one source who requested ano-nymity told Reuters.
Investigators struggling to work out why the Airbus 320 jet vanished from radar screens last Thursday, with 66 passengers
and crew on board, are looking for clues in the human remains and debris recovered from the Medi-terranean Sea so far.
The plane and its black box re-corders, which could explain what brought down the Paris-Cairo fl ight as it entered Egyptian air space, have not been located.
An Egyptian forensic offi cial said 23 bags of body parts have been collected since Sunday, the largest of them no bigger than the palm of a hand. The offi cial, speak-ing on condition of anonymity, said their size suggested there had been an explosion although no trace of explosives had been detected.
But Hisham Abdelhamid, head of Egypt’s forensics authority, said that assessment was “mere assumptions” and that it was too early to draw conclusions.
At least two other sources with
direct knowledge of the investiga-tion also said it would be prema-ture to say what caused EgyptAir fl ight 804 to plunge into the sea.
French investigators say the plane sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board as well as other possible computer faults shortly before it disappeared.
The signals did not indicate what may have caused the smoke, and aviation experts have said that neither deliberate sabotage nor a technical fault could be ruled out.
Investigators rely on debris, bags and clothes as well as chemi-cal analysis to detect the imprints of an explosion, according to people involved in two previous probes where deliberate blasts were involved. An Egyptian team formed by the Civil Aviation Min-istry is conducting the technical
investigation and three offi cials from France’s BEA air accident in-vestigation agency have also been in Cairo since Friday, with an ex-pert from Airbus, to assist. Egypt has deployed a robot submarine and France has sent a search ship to help hunt for the black boxes, but it is not clear whether either of them could detect signals emit-ted by the fl ight recorders, lying in waters possibly 3,000 metres deep.
The signal emitters have a bat-tery life of just 30 days.
Five days after the plane van-ished off radar screens, Egyptian and Greek offi cials — who moni-tored the fl ight before it crossed into Egypt’s air space — have given diff ering accounts of its last mo-ments. Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said on Thurs-day that Greek radar had picked up sharp swings in the jet’s trajectory,
90 degrees left, then 360 degrees right as it plunged from a cruising altitude to 15,000 feet before van-ishing from radar. But Ehab Mo-hieldin Azmi, head of Egypt’s air navigation services, said Egyptian offi cials saw no sign of the plane swerving, and it had been visible at 37,000 feet until it disappeared. “Of course, we tried to call it more than once and it did not respond,” he told Reuters. “We asked the planes that were nearby to give it a relay and we could not reach it. That’s it.”
Egypt’s public prosecutor has asked Greece to hand over tran-scripts of calls between the pilot and Greek air traffi c control, and for the offi cials to be questioned over whether the pilot sent a dis-tress signal.
He also asked France for docu-ments, audio and visual records
on the plan during its stopover at Charles de Gaulle airport and until it left French airspace.
At a hotel near Cairo airport where relatives of the victims were giving DNA samples to help iden-tify the body parts recovered so far, grief mixed with frustration.
Amjad Haqi, an Iraqi man whose mother Najla was fl ying back from medical treatment in France, said the families were being kept in the dark and had not even been for-mally told that any body parts had been recovered.
“All they are concerned about is to fi nd the black box and the debris of the plane. That’s their problem, not mine,” he said. “And then they come and talk to us about insur-ance and compensation. I don’t care about compensation, all I care about is to fi nd my mother and bury her.” — Reuters
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Sanaa varsity gardener killed in blast
Saudi court sentences man to death
SANAA: A bomb at Sanaa Univer-sity killed a gardener and wounded at least two students on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, in a relatively rare attack on the Houthi-ruled Yemeni capital.
A police offi cial at the scene said the explosion appeared to have targeted an exhibition organ-ised by the Houthi’s Ansarullah group, which controls most of northern Yemen.
No one has claimed responsibil-ity for the bombing.
Offi cials at the main hospital in Sanaa said the gardener, who they did not name, died of injuries sus-tained in the explosion. — Reuters
RIYADH: A man has been sen-tenced to death in Saudi Arabia for killing six Westerners and a Saudi soldier in an Al Qaeda attack in the city of Yanbu in 2004, local media reported on Tuesday.
The shooting at Swiss engineer-ing fi rm ABB Lummus Global and a subsequent police chase killed two Americans, two Britons, one Canadian, one Australian and one Saudi. Three of the four attackers also died.
Reports in the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat and other media did not name the man but said he had as-sisted in the assault in Yanbu, an oil and petrochemicals hub on the Red Sea.
At the time, the only surviv-ing attacker was named as Saudi national Mustafa Al Ansari. The other three were all members of the same family.
Reuters could not immediately contact the kingdom’s Justice Ministry spokesman for comment on the case. — Reuters
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Dubai ‘opens’ world’s first functioning 3D-printed office buildingDUBAI: Dubai has opened what it said was the world’s fi rst function-ing 3D-printed offi ce building, part of a drive by the emirate to develop technology that cuts costs and saves time.
The printers - used industrially and also on a smaller scale to make digitally designed, three-dimen-sional objects from plastic - have not been used much for building.
This one used a special mixture of cement, a Dubai government statement said, and reliability tests were done in Britain and China.
PrototypeThe one-storey prototype build-ing, with fl oorspace of about 250 square metres (2,700 square feet), used a 20-foot (6-metre)by 120-foot by 40-foot printer, the gov-ernment said. “This is the fi rst 3D-printed building in the world, and it’s not just a building, it has fully functional offi ces and staff ,” the United Arab Emirates Minis-ter of Cabinet Aff airs, Mohamed Al Gergawi, said.
“We believe this is just the be-ginning. The world will change,”
he said. The arc-shaped offi ce, built in 17 days and costing about $140,000, will be the temporary headquarters of Dubai Future Foundation - the company behind
the project - is in the centre of the city, near the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Gergawi said studies estimated the technique could cut building
time by 50-70 per cent and labour costs by 50-80 per cent. Dubai’s strategy was to have 25 per cent of the buildings in the emirate print-ed by 2030, he said. — Reuters
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DIGITALLY DESIGNED: Left: The world’s fi rst functional 3D printed
offi ces are seen in Dubai on Monday. Above: Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE
and Ruler of Dubai, signs on the board during the offi cial opening of
the offi ces. – Reuters
Iraqi forces shell IS targetsin assault to retake Falluja
FIERCE FIGHTING: Militia fi ghters of the popular crowd use mobile artillery near the city of Fallujah on May 23, 2016, as part of a major
assault to retake the city from IS group. – AFP
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Sonowal sworn in as Assam chief minister
GUWAHATI: Sarbananda So-nowal was on Tuesday sworn in as the fi rst BJP chief minister of Assam at a massive public meet-ing that was also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his senior cabinet and party colleagues.
Sonowal, 53, took the oath along with Himanta Biswa Sarma, the former Congress strongman who crossed over to the Bharatiya Ja-nata Party (BJP) last year and is largely credited for its huge elec-toral victory that dislodged 15 years of the Congress rule in the northeastern state.
Assam Governor P.B. Acha-rya administered the oath of offi ce and secrecy to Sonowal, formerly minister of state for youth aff airs and sports at the centre, and his council of ministers.
Modi addressed the gathering after the oath ceremony which turned into the BJP’s show of strength on the fi rst days of its fi rst government in the state.
“Our job doesn’t end at voting. For development it is important the people work with the govern-
ment together,” Modi said.The prime minister promised
that the central “will always try to stay ahead, even if by a step, than the Assam government” for the development of the state.
The ceremony, also attended by BJP president Amit Shah and vet-eran leader Lal Krishna Advani, was held at the sprawling Khana-para rally ground in the city that was turned saff ron with BJP fl ags fl uttering all over.
Also present at the event were the chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states and leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Chief ministers of other northeastern states also par-ticipated. Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who headed the state 15-year Congress rule before Sonowal dethroned him, also at-tended the gala event.
Leaders who took oath as cabi-net ministers included BJP’s Pa-rimal Shuklabaidya, Chandra Mo-han Patowary and Ranjit Dutta.
Atul Bora and Keshav Mahanta from the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), Pramila Rani Baishya and Rihan Daimary of the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) also took oath as cabinet ministers.
Two BJP legislators Nab Doley and Pallab Lochan Das were sworn-in as as minister of state with independent charges.
Most of the leaders, including Sonowal, took the oath in Assa-mese. But BPF leaders Pramila Rani Brahma and Rihan Daima-ry took the oath in their native Bodo language.
Assam’s newly sworn-in chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal promised a “poverty-free” state that will serve all sections of the society irrespective of caste, creed and religion.
“We all have to work together. In this election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bodoland People’s Front and Asom Gana Parishad went to the people with a pledge to work for all sections
of the society, for Assamese, Ben-galis, Rabhas, Marwaris and all others. People have reposed their faith in us,” Sonowal said in his maiden speech after being sworn-in as the chief minister.
“In Assam, all kinds of people reside. We may have diff erent manner of praying to the God, but we have been living together for ages,” Sonowal said.
Referring to the issue of lin-guistic divide in the state, Sonow-al, who spoke in Assamese, said: “Our government will work along with all sections of the society, ranging from the Barak Valley to Brahmaputra Valley.”
He said in the last two years Prime Minister Narendra Modi has steered an inclusive central government committed to devel-opment and “good governance”.
Sonowal also appreciated the immense sacrifi ces and hard work of foot soldiers of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). - IANS
Assam Governor
P.B. Acharya
administered the
oath of offi ce and
secrecy to Sonowal,
formerly minister
of state for youth
aff airs and sports at
the centre, and his
council of ministers
SWEARING-IN CEREMONY: Assam Governor P.B. Acharya administers the oath to Sarbananda So-
nowal as chief minister of Assam during a swearing-in ceremony at Veterinary College play ground,
Khanapara in Guwahati on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also seen on the stage. - PTI
Air ambulance crash
lands near Delhi airport
NEW DELHI: An air ambulance coming from Patna with seven persons on board crash landed in Najafgarh area of South West Del-hi after both its engines apparently shut down but no one sustained any major injury.
The six-seater Beech King Air C-90A aircraft crash landed at around 2:40pm on a fi eld in Kair village in Najafgarh about 10km from the Indira Gandhi interna-tional Airport, police offi cials said.
The 27-year old plane belong-ing to Chandigarh-based private operator Alchemist Airways had to force land after both its engines failed, airport offi cials said.
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) has already started an inquiry into the incident.
A 61-year-old cardiac patient Virender Rai who was being fl own to Delhi has been rushed to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon im-mediately after the incident. The other passengers were taken to a
nearby government hospital for medical examination.
The 1989-make aircraft, carry-ing registration number VT EQO, was in touch with to Air Traffi c Control as it was in the fi nal ap-proach to landing.
The six other onboard persons include Rupesh (doctor), Jung Ba-hadur (aircraft technician), Juhi and Bhagwan Rai (both relatives of the patient), Amit Kumar (pilot) and Rohit (co-pilot).
“I pray for the early recovery of the injured. The causes of the acci-dent shall be looked into,” tweeted Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Ga-japathi Raju.
Minister of State for Civil Avia-tion Mahesh Sharma said DGCA offi cials have been sent to the site of the incident to conduct a probe. “We received an emergency call from the pilot. Both the engines of the aircraft had reportedly failed. They made the landing safe. The DGCA is looking into the inci-dent,” Sharma told reporters. - PTI
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‘92% chances of India receiving normal and above rainfall’NEW DELHI: There are 92 per cent chances of India receiving “normal” and above rainfall this season with good amount of rain expected in Central India and along the West coast while some pockets of Bihar and East Uttar Pradesh could experience less pre-cipitation.
Tamil Nadu, northeast India and south interior Karnataka will be at “moderate risk” in terms of rainfall through June, July, August and September (JJAS).
“Good amount of rainfall is expected in Central India and along the West coast. There may be excess rainfall in some pock-ets of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Some pockets of Bihar and East Uttar Pradesh could ex-perience less rainfall.
“Second half of the Monsoon will see better rainfall than the fi rst half. “Post-Monsoon, the spell of good rainfall activities will spill over,” the Skymet said in its second forecast for the monsoon season.
There are 50 per cent chances of India receiving “normal” rainfall in June while the fi gure will jump to 60 per cent in July and August. In September, there are 40 per cent chances of India receiving “normal” rainfall and 50 per cent chances of “above normal” rainfall.
El Nino impact“There are 25 per cent chances of excess rainfall, 37 per cent chanc-es of above normal rainfall and 30 per cent chances of normal rain-fall for the entire season (JJAS),” Skymet said.
“The El Nino is tapering down and it will collapse after the on-set of Monsoon. It is not likely to have an adverse impact on the Monsoon performance. There are more chances of getting into La-Nina in the later part of this year. Under the infl uence of the cyclone Roanu, Monsoon arrived before time over the Andaman and has also advanced further.
“Conditions are now favourable for its timely onset over Kerala,” Jatin Singh, CEO of Skymet said.
Interestingly, Skymet has pre-dicted that monsoon will hit Ker-ala between May 28 and 30 while the India Meteorological Depart-ment (IMD) has said that the onset date of monsoon will be around June 7. The normal onset date for monsoon is June 1. - PTI
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FORECAST: A man rows his Shikara across the Dal Lake during rains in Srinagar on Tuesday. Skymet
has predicted that monsoon will hit Kerala between May 28 and 30 while the IMD has said that the
onset date of monsoon will be around June 7. The normal onset date for monsoon is June 1. - PTI
‘Reducing divergence a key principle of India-China ties’
GUANGZHOU: The cardinal principle of India’s relationship with China is expanding areas of agreement and reducing diver-gence, President Pranab Mukher-jee on Tuesday said ahead of his talks with top Chinese leaders during which he is likely to raise issues like India’s membership in the NSG.
“We have never indulged in ex-panding divergence but reducing divergence and expanding areas of agreement. This is the cardinal principle of Indian diplomacy,” Mukherjee said, starting his four-day visit to China from this south-ern Chinese industrial hub.
Addressing the Indian com-munity at a reception hosted by India’s Ambassador to China Vi-jay Gokhale, he cited examples of growing cooperation between In-dia and China in various multilat-eral fora like the UN, World Bank, IMF and BRICS and said the two countries have worked in close co-operation with each other in these institutions.
During his fi rst state visit to
China, the President will be meet-ing his counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday besides holding delega-tion-level talks with him.
He will also meet Premier Li Keqiang and other top leaders. He is likely to raise the issue of China blocking India’s bid to get a UN ban on Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and its insistence on India signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to get membership of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Mukherjee, who is making his fi rst visit as head of state but has made a number of trips to China in various capacities during his long political career, is expected to convey India’s concerns on these issues and present India’s views on how it felt strongly on them, sources said.
Issues of mutual interest like the festering border dispute and ongoing mechanism to resolve the problem will fi gure in his discus-sions with the Chinese leadership. India’s stand on the nuclear issue assumes signifi cance in the con-text of the scheduled meeting of the 48-member Nuclear Suppli-ers Group (NSG) in South Korea next month when it is expected to make its bid strongly for member-ship of the nuclear club.
The sources rejected Beijing’s new insistence on India signing the NPT for gaining membership of the NSG or its dismissal of New Delhi’s stand that France had not signed the NPT when it became a member of the NSG.
Offi cials pointed out the NSG is a consensus-based regime and not a treaty. In his speech on Tues-
day, the president recalled that as commerce minister a couple of decades ago he had wondered how the WTO could function without China. “You can’t have WTO with-out China...the presence of China must be there. We work in close cooperation with each other,” he said.
Mukherjee said Prime Minister Narendra Nodi and Chinese Pres-ident Xi Jinping would be meeting soon on the margins of G-20 sum-mit scheduled to be held in China later this year.
Referring to the global econom-ic meltdown in the wake of the US fi nancial crisis in 2008, he said In-dia and China greatly contributed to stabilising global economic with their economies.
Mukherjee said the Indian economy has been growing stead-
ily in the last decade and was growing at 7.6 per cent now.
“We have the potential if 2.5 billion plus people of the two countries can work together and cooperate and diversify their ac-tivities,” he said.
The president said the sharing of best practices and developmen-tal experiences have great oppor-tunities for stabilising prosperity and pushing the forward march.
Touching on the phenomenal expansion of relationship be-tween India and China, Mukher-jee said the bilateral trade which was just $2.9 billion in 2000 has gone upto $71 billion now.
“We believe there is immense potentiality if trade and invest-ment and mutual expansion of co-operation takes place between the two countries,” he said. - PTI
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WARM WELCOME: President Pranab Mukherjee is received by Vice Governor of Guangdong He Zhongyou as China’s Foreign Aff airs
Vice Minister Liu Zhenmin looks on, upon his arrival at Guangzhou in China on Tuesday. - PTI
New fi nger print database of foreigners to check terrorism
NEW DELHI: A data bank car-rying fi nger prints of all foreigners coming to India on e-tourist visa is being set up by the Home Ministry to help thwart entry of terrorists and criminals from abroad.
Immigration offi cials have start-ed collecting fi nger prints of those coming on electronic or e-tourist visa and creating an Unique Case File (UCF) of all visitors, offi cial sources said on Tuesday.
Over 10 lakh UCF having all rel-evant information about the fl yers including their fi nger prints are part of the database now, they said.
The move comes amidst high-tened threat from terror groups, including the IS.
All those coming to India on e-tourist visa have to mandato-rily get their fi nger prints scanned with authorities here.
ReservationsThe Home Ministry has decided to press ahead with the drive de-spite External Aff airs Ministry re-cently expressing its reservations over the mandatory requirement of fi nger print scanning of the for-eigners, saying it may discourage tourists form visiting India, the sources said.
The Home Ministry offi cials, however, suggested that the gov-ernment could look at incentiv-ising the tourists by giving them long-term visa to address Foreign Ministry’s concerns.
“It has been suggested that long term e-visa for two to fi ve years or maybe more can be given to foreigners if they are giving fi nger prints. This will encourage the visitors while complying with all security requirements,” a source said. The US also gives long-term tourist and business visa of upto ten years to Indians, he said.
The e-tourist visa scheme was launched on November 27, 2014.
The scheme has been extended to 150 countries. - PTI
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CBI questions Rawat on sting operationNEW DELHI: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat was on Tuesday questioned by CBI in con-nection with a probe into the sting operation involving him.
Rawat accompanied by some supporters and an MLA arrived at the CBI headquarters at 11am.
The CBI had last week rejected the state government’s notifi ca-tion withdrawing the nod for prob-ing the case which was given dur-ing President’s Rule.
The Uttarakhand High Court also did not stay the CBI probe as requested by Rawat. CBI had said the notifi cation was rejected after taking legal opinion, which said there was no ground for its withdrawal and it was “not legally tenable”. CBI had registered a Pre-liminary Enquiry (PE) on April 29 to probe the “sting operation” pur-portedly showing Rawat off ering bribes to rebel Congress lawmak-ers to support him during a fl oor test in the Uttarakhand Assembly.
The agency had summoned Rawat for examination for May 9 but he had sought more time after
which he won the fl oor test and re-turned to power. Rawat has denied the allegation and called the video fake after it was released by the re-bel Congress legislators but later admitted that he was on camera in the sting operation.
After Rawat’s victory in the fl oor test, the state cabinet met on May 15 and withdrew the notifi cation recommending a CBI probe into a sting operation involving him.
Instead, the state cabinet decid-ed to constitute a Special Investi-gating Team to probe the case as it was a state subject. - PTI
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India aims to be among top 30 in ‘ease of doing business’, says KantNEW DELHI: The government is focussed on improving infra-structure and driving innovation to ensure that India ranks among the top 30 countries in terms of ‘ease of doing business’ in the next 3-4 years, Niti Aayog CEO Am-itabh Kant said on Tuesday.
Speaking at an IAMAI event here, Kant said the ecosystem of innovation is just “beginning to blossom” and one is seeing a re-surgence of young Indians start-ing new businesses.
“Our objective is that India must become a very easy and a very simple place to do business in. This is one government that is focussed on innovation and try-ing to make India an easy simple place to do business,” he added.
Stating that India has jumped up 12 positions in the ease of do-ing business, Kant said the gov-ernment has taken various steps in this regard including bringing in the bankruptcy law, e-biz plat-form for a single channel of ap-provals and is also introducing a
national company law tribunal.According to the World Bank’s
Doing Business Report 2016, In-dia ranks 130 out of 189 countries in the ease of doing business.
Improving connectivity“...our objective is that in the next 3-4 years, India must come in the top 30 countries as far as ease of doing business is concerned,” he added. Kant added that the gov-ernment is strongly focussed on enhancing the infrastructure sec-tor and improving connectivity.
He also released a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) that highlights
the opportunities for India to be-come a leading player in the global data centre market.
“Decision to set up data centre in the country cannot be manda-tory and it will not be conducive for the ecosystem. For a con-ducive policy and regulation on data centres, we have to work in partnership with the industry and bodies like IAMAI,” he said.
He added that a dialogue will be initiated with departments like IT, telecom and energy to create the best possible infrastructure for data centres.
According to the report, India’s data centre infrastructure market
is pegged to be around $7 billion by 2020 from about $2.2 billion currently. This would make India the second largest market for data centre infrastructure within the Asia/Pacifi c region by 2020.
Potential“India has the potential to cap-ture a big share in the global data centre market. However, there is a need to address some of the risks and barriers and create the right incentives for businesses to build eff ective data centre infrastruc-ture in the country,” IAMAI Presi-dent Subho Ray said.
The report calls for the gov-ernment to facilitate data centre operations in India through clear policies to facilitate trans-border fl ow of data and tax sops and in-centives to woo foreign players. It also warns against the dangers of “forced localisation of data” add-ing that the same would reduce competitiveness, harm India’s GDP and fl edgling reputation as an emerging data centre hub. - PTI
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According to the report, India’s data centre
infrastructure market is pegged to be around $7
billion by 2020 from about $2.2 billion currently
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Sykes-Picot Treaty is dead after 100 years
Joschka Fischer
On May 16, 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in Lon-
don. Offi cially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the deal, negotiated by the dip-lomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, has determined the fate and politi-cal order of the Middle East ever since. But not for much longer.
A century ago, Europe’s soon-to-be-vic-torious powers, concerned with dividing the region (then part of the Ottoman Em-pire), drew a “line in the sand” (as the au-thor James Barr called it) stretching from the Mediterranean port of Acre in north-ern Palestine to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, on the border with Iran. All territories north of that line, in particular Lebanon and Syria, would go to France. Territories to its south – Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq – would go to Great Britain, which mainly sought to protect British interests along the Suez Canal, the main naval route to British India.
Simultaneously, however, the United Kingdom was negotiating with Arabs who had sided with the British and French in an uprising against Ottoman rule.
The secret agreement negotiated by Sykes and Picot subsequently led to the formation of states that served the great European colonial powers’ geopolitical in-terests, not the social, religious, and ethnic realities of the region. A political order was forced upon the Middle East by European powers that had fl outed their commit-ments to Arab independence – an order that has been at the root of a century of war and confl ict. In the Arab world, the trauma of that betrayal and the defeat of the na-tional movement has lingered. But Sykes and Picot did bring about a reconciliation between the two great Entente powers, and the regional order they created.
The European hegemons, Britain and France, took the place of the Sublime Por-te, guaranteeing this order either directly or via regional proxies.
After World War II, the United States
assumed the role of ultimate guarantor of the Sykes-Picot system. But America’s experience in Iraq following its 2003 in-tervention, and spreading turmoil there and elsewhere, led the US to withdraw its forces and reduce its involvement in the region. With that, the Sykes-Picot system began to collapse.
That is why today’s main crises in the Middle East are playing out precisely in the heartland of the Sykes-Picot Agree-ment: Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The “Kurd-ish question,” too, has returned to the fore.
Israel, meanwhile, seems to be stable – with an emphasis on “seem.” Without rec-onciliation between Israelis and Palestin-ians, it is only a matter of time before the Palestinian powder keg ignites once again.
Iraq and Syria are now the main theaters in the battle for a post-Sykes-Picot Middle East order. Both had been unstable for a long time, ruled by secular Baathist dicta-tors who faced popular majorities that ad-hered to a rival community, in addition to a large population of Kurds, who have long dreamed of independence.
The post-Sykes-Picot order will be the result of fi ghting in the coming years be-tween regional powers. Any Western mili-tary intervention would only exacerbate the situation.
The era when a Western hegemon could maintain control of the Middle East, by military force if necessary, is over. Region-al forces, not external powers (including Russia), will create the new order in the Middle East emerging out of the remains of the Sykes-Picot system. By the time proxy wars like the one in Syria have fi n-ished their work, the Sykes-Picot Agree-ment will be history.
But the new order could be slow to emerge, because none of the region’s pow-ers is strong enough to impose its will on the others. In the end, total exhaustion on all sides will force reconciliation and the fi rst steps in the direction of a regional peace settlement.
One thing is clear: The longer the break-through to a new order takes, the worse off everyone will be. - Project SyndicateThanks for thinking about workers in hot season
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Surveillance will be helpful for those with sensitive stomachsThis refers to the report, Food safety: Restaurants in Oman placed under CCTV surveillance (May 23). This is a great move!
It was very necessary for those with sensitive stomachs while those people who never had problems amongst those whose stomachs have become immune. — Suad Abdulra, Muscat via Facebook
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DOOR-TO-DOOR POLIO CAMPAIGNA health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a door-to-door polio campaign in Karachi on Tuesday. Pa-
kistan is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic but years of eff orts to stamp it out have been
badly hit by reluctance from parents, opposition from militants and attacks on immunisation teams. — AFP
Nisar brushes aside justification of US drone strike targeting Mansoor
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s inte-rior minister said on Tuesday he could not confi rm that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been killed in a US drone strike, and described Wash-ington’s justifi cation for the attack as “against international law”.
US President Barack Obama
said on Monday that Mansour had been killed in the drone attack, and the Pentagon said separately that Mansour was plotting attacks that posed “specifi c, imminent threats”
to US troops in Afghanistan. On Tuesday, Pakistani Interior
Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters that the body recov-ered near the Afghan border was
charred beyond recognition, add-ing that DNA samples would be tested against a relative who had come forward to claim the body.
“The government of Pakistan
cannot announce this without a scientifi c and legal basis,” Khan told a news briefi ng.
He did not identify the relative or say whether he or she claimed to
be related to the Taliban leader or someone else. Khan criticised US statements that the drone strike, which he said hit a car on Pakistani soil but was fi red “from another country”, was justifi ed because Mansour was plotting attacks.
“For the US government to say that whoever is a threat to them will be targeted wherever they are, that is against international law.
“This could have serious impli-cations for the Pakistan-US rela-tionship,” Khan said, adding that decisions would be made once Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif re-turned from abroad.
Pakistan and the United States have been uneasy allies in the war against extremist militants in the region.
US critics accuse Pakistan of al-lowing the Afghan Taliban’s lead-ership to take shelter on its territo-ry, something that Islamabad has denied. The militant movement has made territorial gains and car-ried out a series of deadly attacks across Afghanistan since NATO forces offi cially wound down their combat mission at the end of 2014, undermining the Western-backed government in Kabul. — Reuters
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CONTROVERSY: Pakistani demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in Multan on Tuesday, against a US drone strike in Pakistan’s
southwestern province Balochistan. — AFP
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Per capita income increases to $1,561ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s per cap-ita income has marginally grown to $1,561 but targets to increase investment and savings – the two most critical economic indicators after national output goal – have been missed again during the out-going fi scal year.
The government’s inability to increase investment as percentage of total size of national economy is probably the biggest failure after it failed to achieve outgoing fi s-cal year’s gross domestic product (GDP) target of 5.5 per cent.
Missing of the targets on sav-ings, investment and GDP growth also puts a question mark over the acclaimed structural reforms introduced under the $6.2 billion International Monetary Fund bailout package.
Saving ratesPakistan has one of the lowest in-vestment and savings rates in the region and the world, obstructing progress towards a sustainable and inclusive economic growth path. Slow progress on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor due to lack of political vision and usual bureaucratic ineffi ciency also pulled back investments.
Sources said in dollar terms the
per capita income has grown by only 2.9 per cent to $1,561 – up $44 in the outgoing fi scal year 2015-16. Despite a marginal increase in per capita income, the country con-tinues to be in the league of low middle-income countries. It needs to enhance per capita income to $4,000 to be labelled a middle-in-come country.
In rupee terms, there was a 5.8 per cent growth in per capita in-come that increased to Rs162,568.
Statistical armTo arrive at the per capita income fi gure, the Pakistan Bureau of Sta-tistics – the government’s statisti-cal arm – estimated about 2 per cent growth in the country’s popu-lation that reached 193.56 million this year. It then divided the total national income with the number of people and arrived at per capita income of $1,561.
In absolute terms, the PBS has estimated addition of about fi ve million people in a single year.
Like the previous year, in the current fi scal year too the federal government has again failed to deliver on the two most critical economic indicators. It missed the targets of investment and savings with wide margins. — Express Tribune
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UK entrepreneurship award won by Pakistani doctorISLAMABAD: Spearheading a campaign to provide quality healthcare to the impoverished people of Pakistan and breaking barriers when it comes to women entrepreneurship, doctHERs’ co-founder Dr Sara Saeed won the prestigious HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability En-trepreneur Prize 2016.
“I was humbled to receive the award after being selected from seven fi nalists who came to the fi nal stage from 927 applications from the world.
“This is the fi rst time a Paki-stani company reached the fi nal stage and the fi rst time a Paki-stani company won the award,” Dr Saeed said.
Women-led start upThis is also the fi rst time a wom-en-led start up has won the award, Dr Saeed shared. Over 900 entre-preneurs from 99 countries were in the running for the award.
Using video conferencing, doctHERs connects qualifi ed fe-male doctors, who are not prac-
ticing medicine due to social pressures or family constraints, to under-served patients in rural as well as urban areas.
The award is part of eff orts of Unilever and University of Cam-bridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to support 17 United Nations Sustainable De-velopment Goals and celebrate inspirational entrepreneurs aged 35 and under who have developed
a product, service or application that tackles some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges.
Strangely, of 150,645 licensed doctors in Pakistan (till October 25, 2015), 69,670 are women yet only 9,000 are registered as spe-cialist physicians, according to the PMDC. Also, there is approxi-mately one doctor available for every 1,475 persons and one nurse for every 3,644 persons. This is the gap that the 29-year-old aims to bridge with her initiative that not only provides quality health-care to the poor but also reinte-grates qualifi ed female doctors into the workforce.
Mentoring programmeDr Saeed has been awarded €50,000 and she will be sup-ported with a tailored mentoring programme delivered by CISL and Unilever over the course of the year.
The award will help doctHERs expand in 20 more communities and in all four provinces over the next year. — Express Tribune
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HONOUR: Dr Sara Saeed col-
lecting her award from Paul
Polman, CEO, Unilever and
Polly Courtice, Director, Cam-
bridge Institute for Sustain-
ability Leadership. — Express Tribune
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against the centre-right government’s proposed work reforms as they plan rallies and strikes over the next few months. — AFP
French oil workers strike hits output at refineries
MARSEILLE/PARIS: France’s Socialist government drew battle lines with one of the country’s big-gest trade union’s on Tuesday over labour market reforms as a strike by oil workers forced at least fi ve refi neries to halt or slow down operations.
Riot police fi red tear gas and water canon to break up a picket line blocking access to Exxon Mobil Corp’s refi nery outside the southern port city of Marseille, as scores of petrol stations nation-wide ran dry of fuel.
“Enough is enough,” said Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
The pre-dawn swoop drew a sharp riposte from the hardline CGT union, which wants to force President Francois Hollande’s government to rethink the labour
reforms designed to make it eas-ier for companies to hire and fi re employees. The CGT described the police operation as an act of “unprecedented violence” as it and other unions served notice of a June 3-5 strike by air traffi c controllers that will dovetail with walkouts by state rail employ-ees, port workers and staff on the Paris metro and suburban rail net-works. The CGT, traditionally one of France’s most powerful and in-fl uential trade union groups, says the reforms will unravel France’s
protective labour regulations, al-lowing fi rms to lay off staff more easily in hard economic times and by providing further exemptions from rules on pay and working conditions.
CGT boss Philippe Martinez vowed to push on with the strikes until Hollande withdraws the leg-islation. “We’ll see this through to the fi nish,” Martinez said. “This is a government which has turned its back on its promises and we are now seeing the consequences.”
Total SA, said on Tuesday that it
had shut down its Gonfreville and Feyzin refi neries, was in the pro-cess of halting operations at two others and was reducing output at a fi fth refi nery.
The company’s chief execu-tive said the strikes could make it reconsider investments in its French plants.
Total’s US rival Exxon Mobil Corp. said its two French refi ner-ies were operating at normal lev-els, but damage to the road and terminal tracks at the southern Fos-Sur-Mer plant meant trucks
could not load. Hollande, plagued by dismal popularity ratings a year from elections and an unful-fi lled promise to lower a jobless rate stuck at about 10 per cent, says labour reform is crucial to creating new jobs. The president blamed the fuel blockade on a small minority of people. In parts of France, motorists swamped petrol stations, some using real-time mobile phone applications to learn where they could refi ll without queuing for hours or be-ing turned away.
The panic-buying amid fuel rationing in parts of France will compound the troubles of Hol-lande and his government as they strive to convince voters that “things are getting better”.
“The Prime Minister said there is no problem, but he doesn’t see this spreading in Paris and maybe the rest of France,” said Katha-rina Lefevre, who queued for two hours to buy fuel.
Emergency stocks could keep fuel stations open for up to two months if tapped, according to ex-perts. But Valls said pickets aimed at halting distribution would not be tolerated. Hollande, France’s most unpopular leader in recent memory, has said he will only run for re-election if he hauls the job-less rate down.
The International Monetary Fund said France’s economy was not recovering quickly enough to cut unemployment and debt signifi cantly, and would not do so without further reforms. — Reuters
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Saudi leaders harness social media for dialogue with youthDUBAI/RIYADH: The participa-tion of tens of thousands of young Saudis in a social media debate over plans to reform the kingdom’s oil-reliant economy last month marked a shift in how Riyadh’s leaders interact with their subjects.
Saudi Arabia’s leaders have his-torically courted public opinion only via informal councils with tribal, religious and business lead-ers or citizens seeking to petition them. But in one of the most active countries on social media in the Arab world, the leaders have start-ed trying to shape the online de-bate with carefully managed me-dia campaigns and senior offi cials have been sacked after social me-dia criticism. “It’s a new focus for the government as it reaches out to a young Saudi population that is more likely to use social media,”
Saudi analyst and commentator Mohammed Alyahya said. “That’s the most eff ective way to capture their attention.”
One recent showcase for this was the launch of 31-year-old Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 reform plans, which used Twitter along-side traditional media to build an-ticipation and introduce hashtags - key discussion phrases.
“A strong and determined coun-try with a connection between the government and the citizen,” one of the slogans read.
Some 190,000 Twitter users in Saudi Arabia actively took part in the ensuing debate over Vi-sion 2030, generating more than 860,000 messages according to France-based social media moni-tor Semiocast. This meant the
discussion reached 46 per cent of the 7.4 million active Twitter users in the kingdom, Semiocast said, describing this level of outreach in a state-sponsored debate as ex-ceptional. There is good reason for the sensitivity: since 2012 social media storms in Saudi Arabia over government policies or the actions of senior offi cials have culminated in the sacking of senior people on at least fi ve occasions.
Level of participationThe level of participation means even ministers without social media accounts invest time and money monitoring what people say about them online, said Diya Murra, a Riyadh-based account di-rector for social media agency The Online Project. “People are hold-ing them accountable for things
that are being done or not,” he said.Social media use among the 21
million Saudis and roughly 10 mil-lion foreign residents of the king-dom cuts across political and reli-gious lines: keenly followed social media users include both strict clerics and self-described liberals.
In a country in which debate has traditionally been strictly regulat-ed by state decree and cultural tra-dition, and in which gender mixing is often illegal, social media has allowed many young Saudis to in-teract in ways that were impossi-ble before. Twitter is most popular among 18 to 24-year-olds in Saudi Arabia, followed closely by users in their late 20s to early 40s and its useage is split roughly between men and women, according to iM-ENA Digital, which serves clients in Saudi Arabia. It said photo-
sharing site Instagram has become the leading channel among young Saudis, around three-quarters of them women.
Speaking at a packed discussion about Twitter in an expensive Ri-yadh hotel last month, Saudi For-eign Minister Adel Al Jubeir said the platform was not always an accurate barometer of public opin-ion, but that it could help track trends. “It is direct. There are no barriers,” he told the largely young audience. However, he and other Gulf Arab politicians speaking at the forum also said they were in fa-vour of controls to prevent anony-mous posting and of punishing us-ers who broke taboos.
The growing infl uence of so-cial media became apparent in 2012 when the the religious police chief was sacked after a viral video
showed members of the body har-assing a family in a mall.
It is a far cry from the days be-fore widespread internet use in Saudi Arabia, when discussion was limited to informal meetings or to newspapers and television channels that rarely held offi cials to account or criticised govern-ment policies.
Still, a culture of public expres-sions of respect for government endures. More than a third of re-actions to Vision 2030 on Twitter were positive, Semiocast said, add-ing the debate generated “patriotic pride” and expectations of pro-gress. The debate had been closely coordinated over various media and driven by infl uential Saudi personalities young people were already connected to, The Online Project’s Murra said. — Reuters
N E W F O C U S
Nine charged after clashes
NAIROBI: A Kenyan court charged nine men on Tuesday for their role in a protest against an electoral oversight body, a lawyer said, after the fourth fl are-up on the streets in a month drew criti-cism from international donors.
In Monday’s protest, a demon-strator in the western city of Ki-sumu died from an injury while running away, the police said. Newspapers had reported three dead, but a government spokes-man denied the higher casualty fi gure. Police denied using live am-munition.
Dozens of people have been ar-rested in protests that began on April 25 and have been held on vir-tually even Monday since then.
“We are deeply concerned by the escalation of violence during the demonstrations in Kenyan cit-ies,” ambassadors from the United States, Britain and other Western nations said.
In a statement, they called for an investigation into the use of “ex-cessive force” by the security ser-vices and urged protesters to act peacefully.
After last week’s demonstration, a senior police offi cer said there would be an investigation to see if there had been any violations by police.
The demonstrators want the In-dependent Electoral and Bounda-ries Commission (IEBC) to be scrapped, saying it is not impartial and cannot oversee fair presiden-tial and parliamentary elections due in August 2017. — Reuters
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Anastasiades cuts short Turkey trip after protocol row
ATHENS: Cyprus’s president cancelled peace talks scheduled for Friday, his spokesman said, and cut short a visit to Turkey in anger over a perceived protocol breach at a UN summit where the rival Turkish Cypriot leader was treated as a head of state.
President Nicos Anastasiades was in Turkey attending a UN summit on the migration crisis but refused to attend a banquet for heads of state on Monday even-ing after Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, who represents breakaway north Cyprus, was also invited. Implicitly blaming the United Nations for the contro-versy, Cypriot government spokes-man Nikos Christodoulides said there was ‘no fertile ground’ for Friday’s planned meeting with Akinci in Nicosia. Nonetheless, he added, Anastasiades was still com-mitted to the peace process on the ethnically divided island.
The row underscores the sen-sitivity and complexity of the Cyprus confl ict, a decades-old co-nundrum that generations of dip-lomats and an army of peacemak-ers have failed to crack. The island was split in a Turkish invasion in 1974, triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup. The Greek Cypriots, who represent the whole island in the European Union, are sensitive to any perceived attempt to place them on an equal footing with the breakaway statelet of north Cy-prus, which is unrecognised inter-nationally but backed fi nancially and militarily by Turkey. — Reuters
C Y P R U S P R E S I D E N T
INDUSTRIAL ACTION: French gendarmes remove branches, wood pallettes and tyres after striking
workers blocked roads near the oil refi nery at Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, France, on Tuesday. – Reuters
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Greece starts moving migrants
IDOMENI (GREECE): Greek police on Tuesday started moving some of the 8,000 migrants and refugees stranded in a makeshift camp on the sealed northern bor-der with Macedonia to state-run facilities further south.
Several busloads of people, most of them families with children, left the sprawling expanse of tents at Idomeni early on Tuesday and about a dozen more buses were lined up ready to take more, Reu-ters witnesses said.
At the latest tally, about 8,200 people were camped at Idomeni.
At one point more than 12,000 lived there after several Balkan countries shut their borders in February, barring migrants and refugees from central and north-ern Europe.
Greek authorities said they planned to move individuals gradually to state-supervised fa-cilities further south which cur-rently have capacity of about 5,000 people. The operation is expected
to last several days. “The evacu-ation is progressing without any problem,” said Giorgos Kyritsis, a government spokesman for the migrant crisis. People would be relocated “ideally by the end of the
week,” he said. “We haven’t put a strict deadline on it.”
A Reuters witness on the Mac-edonian side of the border said there was a heavy police presence in the area but no problems were reported as people with young children packed up huge bags with their belongings.
Media on the Greek side of the border were kept at a distance. Inside the Idomeni camp, police in riot gear stood guard as people from the camp boarded the buses, footage by the state broadcaster ERT showed. Some 1,100 refugees and migrants had been relocated by noon, Greek police said.
A police offi cial said about 1,000 people were blocking the sole rail-way tracks linking Greece and Macedonia. Protesters demanding passage to northern Europe have for weeks blocked the route, forcing
trains to divert through Bulgaria to the east. Some goods wagons have been stranded on the tracks for weeks. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) urged Greece to refrain from using force during the transfer of the migrants and refu-gees. “It’s important that organised movements are voluntary, non-dis-criminatory and based on well-in-formed choices by the individuals,” spokesman Adrian Edwards told a briefi ng in Geneva.
International charity Save the Children said it was concerned about a lack of basic services such as bathrooms and shelters in the offi cial camps.
“Many of the children, especial-ly lone children, have been through enough trauma already,” said Amy Frost, team leader in Greece.
“Now that the evacuation has started, it is paramount that au-thorities make it a priority to keep families together, and to ensure that children are being transferred to facilities where they can live in conditions that meet European and international standards for child welfare,” she said. — Reuters
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Google Paris HQ raided in tax evasion inquiryPARIS: French investigators raided Google’s Paris headquar-ters on Tuesday as part of a tax evasion inquiry, the fi nancial prosecutor’s offi ce said.
Google said it was fully com-plying with French law.
Facing public anger at the way multinational companies use their footprints around the world to minimise tax, France, Britain and others have sought ways to make sure Google, Yahoo! and other digital giants, who of-ten have their tax bases in other countries, pay their taxes locally.
Investigators from the fi -nancial prosecutors offi ce and France’s central offi ce against corruption and tax fraud, accom-panied by 25 IT specialists, took part in the raid.
“The investigation aims to ver-ify whether Google Ireland Ltd has a permanent base in France and if, by not declaring parts of its activities carried out in France, it failed its fi scal obligations, including on corporate tax and value added tax,” the prosecutor’s offi ce said in statement.
Google has based its regional headquarters in Dublin where
corporate tax rates are lower than elsewhere in Europe.
The company, now part of Al-phabet Inc, has been under pres-sure in recent years over its prac-tice of channelling most profi ts from European clients through Ireland to Bermuda, where it pays no tax on them.
“We are cooperating with the authorities to answer their ques-tions,” Al Verney, a spokesman for Google in Europe, said in an email. Google Executive Chair-man Eric Schmidt approached for a reaction at a conference in Amsterdam, declined to com-ment. Investigators started their investigation of Google’s offi ces in central Paris at 5am, a source close to the fi nance ministry said.
France is seeking some 1.6 bil-lion euros ($1.8 billion) in back taxes from US Internet giant Google, criticised for its use of aggressive tax optimisation tech-niques, another fi nance ministry source had said in February.
Google had agreed in January to pay £130 million in back taxes to Britain, prompting criticism from opposition lawmakers and campaigners. — Reuters
O N G O I N G I N V E S T I G A T I O N
Pit collapse kills13 in MyanmarYANGON: A collapse at an ille-gal mine killed at least 13 people in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, a resident involved in res-cue eff orts said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly acci-dents to hit the jade-mining area.
The wall of the pit in Weikha Village in Hpakant, the centre of the opaque jade industry, col-lapsed on Monday after heavy rain, according to Naw Li, who was assisting in rescue eff orts. “We’ve found a total of 13 bodies while 14 injured people have come to the hospital for treatment,” he said. Naw Li said that only two people were offi cially listed as missing and it was unclear how many people could still be buried.
Khin Maung Myint, a law-maker from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) from Hpakant, said workers were digging illegally in the abandoned mine when the wall gave way. He said the pit was several hundred feet deep and unstable, making rescue eff orts diffi cult for fear of another collapse. Workers, many of them migrants from elsewhere
in Myanmar, toil long hours in dangerous conditions for lit-tle pay searching for precious stones, which are highly valued in neighbouring China. The mines and soil dump sites are hazardous and deaths among the workers who pick through the slag piles for jade are common. Last No-vember, a man-made mountain of earth excavated from mines gave way, smashing into a makeshift settlement at the foot of the slag heap and burying more than 100 mine workers as they slept.
Another major landslide oc-curred a month later and in May, police said, 13 were killed in a landslip. The newly elected gov-ernment of Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD said that it will work to re-strict mining and improve safety conditions, but details on exact measures have been limited. Speaking to parliament on May 11, Ohn Win, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, said the govern-ment would enact legislation but gave no time frame for imple-mentation. — Reuters
J A D E - M I N I N G D I S T R I C T
EVACUATED: People board in a bus in order to leave the refugee and migrant makeshift camp on the
Greek-Macedonia border near the village of Idomeni. – AFP
France is seeking some 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in back taxes from US Internet giant Google, criticised for its use of aggressive tax optimisation techniques.
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Pound ............................................1.78
Indian Rs .............................. 175.41
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Pakistan Rs .............................272.00
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OMAN CRUDE DECLINESOman Crude (July delivery) declined 44 cents to $44.78 per barrel on Tuesday, said Dubai Mercantile Exchange. The average price of Oman Crude (June delivery) was $39.40 per barrel, $3.06 a barrel higher than May delivery 2016. - ONA
Central Bank of Oman issues treasury bills worth OMR41mMUSCAT: A tender of Govern-ment Treasury Bills was held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week.
The total value of the allot-ted Treasury bills amounted to OMR41 million, for a maturity pe-riod of 28 days, from May 25, until next June 22, 2016.
The average accepted price reached 99.957 for every OMR100, while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.955 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.56276 per cent and 0.56301 per cent, respectively.
The Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured fi nancial in-struments issued by the CBO on behalf of the Government, which helps the licensed commercial banks to gainfully invest their sur-plus funds, with added advantage of ready liquidity through dis-counting and repurchase facilities
(Repo) off ered by the central bank.Furthermore, Treasury Bills
promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Additionally, the Government (MOF) may also resort to this instrument whenever felt neces-sary for fi nancing its recurrent expenditures.
The interest rate on the Repo op-erations with CBO is one per cent for the period from 24/05/2016 to 30/05/2016, while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Dis-counting Facility with CBO is 1.75 per cent, for the same period. — ONA
T R E A S U R Y B I L L S
PDO plans to raise output to 600,000 barrels of crude per day
MOBIN MATHEW [email protected]
MUSCAT: Oman’s majority state-owned Petroleum Develop-ment Oman, which accounts for around 70 per cent of the coun-try’s total crude oil production, is looking at producing 600,000 bar-rels of crude oil per day (bpd), said the company’s managing director.
“PDO is trying to raise its out-put to 600,000 barrels per day, which we originally planned for 2019,” Raoul Restucci said on the sidelines of the Oil & Gas Year Oman 2016 sixth strategic round-table. “In January to March, we were not able to reach our target because of the bad weather and we hope we can catch up in the com-ing months,” he added.
“With the sharp fall in global oil prices, PDO still managed to sur-pass expectations right across the business,” he continued.
Average oil production of PDO for 2015 was 588,937bpd, the highest
since 2005 and almost 14,000bpd above the planned target.
Gas productionGas production was 83 million cubic metres a day, one million cubic metres above the planned target, as the company stepped up its eff ort to meet growing national gas demand.
Speaking about the current oil price, Restucci said; “We are near $50 now; for PDO it is a very prof-itable number.”
According to him, the average cost of production for the fi rst grade oil is $5 per barrel, for the second grade it is $12 and for the third grade is $25. “Most of our projects are very attractive, all of our projects generate double digit returns even at the low prices,” Restucci confi rmed.
Sixth strategic roundtable, or-ganised by the Oil & Gas Year in partnership with Oman’s Minis-try of Oil and Gas and the Oman Society for Petroleum Services
(Opal), was attended by several representatives from local ser-vices companies.
Led by Salim Al Aufi , undersec-retary at the Ministry of Oil and Gas, participants who attended the strategic roundtable discussed on several issues in the industry and how to address these challenges. Speaking about the initiatives taken to manage the current oil crisis, Al Aufi said; “Government’s aim is to reduce the expenditure for produc-tion of oil, not the production and the ministry has asked the compa-nies to protect the job of nationals.”
“Production of oil and gas in the Sultanate stayed high,” he added.
While answering a question about Omanisation, Al Aufi said; “It is not considered as a barrier, but it should be considered as an advantage.” “We have a lot of good talents available in Sultanate. If we are short of Omani manpower, the blame should be on everybody because we haven’t invested in developing the right technical ca-pabilities that we need to run our business,” he added.
Wesel Wessels of OOMCO, Barry Gran of ABB, Moham-med Al Jawahari of Hydrocar-bon Finder, Raoul Restucci from PDO, Robert Swain of Occidental Oman, Hans Erings from Gulfar Engineering and Rod Macdregor of Glasspoint were the panel members who participated in the round table discussion.
Average oil production of PDO for 2015 was
588,937bpd, the highest since 2005 and
almost 14,000bpd above the planned target.
MAKING A POINT: In January to March, PDO was not able to reach its target because of the bad
weather and the company hopes to catch up in the coming months. — Jun Estrada/Times of Oman
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Seven ICT firms finishincubation programme
Times News Service
MUSCAT: A celebration to mark the successful incubation of the fi rst batch of seven information and communication technology (ICT) fi rms from Sas Centre for Entrepreneurship was conducted by the Information Technology Authority (ITA) on Monday.
The event was held under the patronage of Dr Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Com-merce and Industry, in the pres-ence of a number of offi cials and chief executive offi cers of gov-ernment and private fi rms and ICT professionals.
Dr Salim bin Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, chief executive offi cer of ITA, said: “Today, we proudly celebrate
the graduation of seven promising SMEs in the ICT fi eld after pass-ing the incubation period at the Sas Centre for Entrepreneurship, and their remarkable achieve-ments as the overall revenues of the incubated companies reached OMR1.6 million gained over the last 3 years only.”
“The role and support of Sas Centre for Entrepreneurship will not end at this point and it will be committed to follow-up and monitor these SMEs even after graduation. They will also be able to benefi t from all the continuous consultancy services and par-ticipate in the networking events, training courses and overseas training by Sas Centre for Entre-preneurship,” he added.
About Sas Centre for Entrepre-neurship, Hassan Fida Al Lawati, acting director general of the Digital Society Development Division at ITA said; “Since its establishment in 2013, the centrehas received 190 application requests for incuba-tion, 30 of which were selected to be incubated at the centre for the next 3 years and employed approxi-mately 40 Omani youths up to date.
“We hope to see these SMEs grow in the Omani market and compete at a regional and inter-national level, thereby boosting the ICT industry with innova-tive products, solutions and services produced and made in Oman,” he added.
After passing the evaluation panel to join Sas Centre for En-
trepreneurship and overcoming many challenges over the 3 years, seven companies made it to this stage. These companies are Ak-kasa Production, Al Etijahat For Design, Global Computers, KI-Bros Productions, Quattro Tech-nology, North Systems and United Muscat Business Solutions.
To foster an entrepreneurial spirit in the ICT sector, ITA estab-lished the Sas Centre, which was inaugurated in March 2013, as the fi rst centre responsible for devel-oping ICT industry in Oman, with the aim of attracting start-ups and ambitious youth in various areas of the IT sector by providing an appropriate environment for such projects to help them innovate, create and generate ideas.
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Business growth in the Euro zone slowsLONDON: Business growth across the euro zone dipped to a 16-month low in May but stronger showings from Germany and France suggest it is the smaller member countries that may be struggling.
Off ering the latest evidence that a strong acceleration in growth in the fi rst three months of the year was only temporary, Markit’s fl ash Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index edged down to 52.9 from April’s 53.0.
While essentially stable — and still indicating growth — the read-ing was the lowest since the start of 2015. It ran against expectations in a Reuters poll, which had pre-dicted a tick up to 53.2 in one of the earliest reported broad indicators of growth during the month.
Markit said the PMI pointed to quarterly GDP growth of 0.3 per cent, in line with forecasts in a Re-uters survey published earlier this month, but short of 0.5 per cent in the fi rst quarter, which was initial-ly reported as 0.6 per cent.
Individually, surveys showed growth in Germany’s private sec-tor accelerated to hit the fastest rate so far this year. French busi-ness activity also grew faster than expected, returning to a rate not recorded since before the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.
“That suggests that the PMIs for the other major euro zone econo-mies such as Italy and Spain will
be soft when released next week,” said Stephen Brown at Capital Economics.
Germany and France are the only individual euro zone coun-tries for which Markit publishes fl ash PMIs. May surveys for other euro zone members will be pub-lished early next month.
Despite evidence of a slowdown, consumer confi dence in the cur-rency bloc rose for a second month in May, climbing more than ex-pected to reach its highest level since January.
Markets were unmoved after Monday’s data as they were still di-gesting last week’s surge in expec-tations for a rate hike in the United States following a more hawkish tone from the Federal Reserve.
Infl ation targetWhile the headline compos-ite PMI was above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction, the index measur-ing prices businesses charge re-mained below it at 49, although that was an increase from last month’s 48.3.
This may concern policymak-ers at the European Central Bank (ECB) who have been battling to get infl ation up to their 2 per cent target ceiling. Consumer prices fell 0.2 per cent in April, despite the Bank’s ultra-loose monetary policy. — Reuters
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Liquidity is a ‘bigger issue’ than in 2008: Doha Bank chiefDOHA: Qatar’s liquidity shortage is more serious than during the fi nancial crisis, forcing the coun-try’s lenders to adapt their busi-nesses to the low oil-price envi-ronment, according to Doha Bank Chief Executive Offi cer Raghavan Seetharaman.
“Liquidity is a much bigger issue today than it was in 2008,” he said
in a TV interview with Bloomberg Markets Middle East on Tuesday. “All of the Gulf countries were run-ning a fi scal surplus and current account surplus in 2008, today they’re running a fi scal and cur-rent account defi cit. Every institu-tion, including Doha Bank, has to redefi ne its business model.”
Bank liquidity in the GCC, which
includes Qatar and Saudi Arabia, is tightening as a more than 50 per cent slump in crude since mid-2014 slows deposit growth and pushes the government to boost borrowing. The drop in oil is also forcing some fi rms in the country, including Qatar Petroleum and Vodafone Qatar, to restructure op-erations and cut jobs.
Lenders in Qatar are experi-encing “extraordinary stress,” the CEO said in a separate interview at the bank’s headquarters in Doha last week. “It’s a challenging time. Liquidity is under stress and gov-ernments are having to borrow money externally to improve local market liquidity. Oil and gas com-panies have scaled down because
their revenue streams have been shrinking, which has defi nitely im-pacted local consumer retail.”
Qatar banks’ loans-to-deposit ratio, a key measure of liquidity, worsened to 130 per cent in April from 125.7 per cent in March, ac-cording to central bank data. Lend-ers in the country are also facing a narrowing in net interest margins
and higher interest expenses, Seetharaman said.
Despite the challenges, Seethar-aman said Qatar’s banking system is stable and lenders have strong capital-adequacy ratios, helping them to avoid the crisis experi-enced in 2009 when the govern-ment had to step in to rescue the industry. — Bloomberg News
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For Hyundai, Oman is third largest market in the region
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MUSCAT: Oman is Hyundai’s third largest market in the Middle East region with the Korean auto giant marketing 9 per cent of its total regional sales in the country, senior company offi cial say.
“We hold the number three po-sition in the market with about nine per cent market share,” Mike Song, new head of Hyundai Africa & Middle East Headquar-ters told Times of Oman (TOO) in an exclusive interview.
“Obviously, population is a big driver in overall sales fi gures, so the largest markets in the Mid-
dle East are Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Globally, giant economies such as the United States or China will always dominate,” he said, but added; “To say a market is bigger, is not to say customers there are more important. Our priority is individual customers, and to en-sure a satisfying ownership ex-perience – and that has been the foundation of our success.”
Regarding the recent drop in oil prices, he said the automobile market faces the same challenges as many industries in the region at the moment, “and this is some-
thing that aff ects all carmakers.”“Hyundai is in a stronger posi-
tion than many of our competi-tors, given that the trend for us has been strong growth both in terms of overall sales and market share. Today’s Hyundai models represent the latest thinking both in terms of design and technology, and we have an excellent reputa-tion for reliability, resale value, and value for money both at the time of purchase and for aff orda-ble ownership costs,” Song added.
The regional Hyundai chief said; “We certainly don’t see
economies in the region as being distressed. Economies move in cycles. We benefi ted from a period when the oil price, and therefore income in the region, was very high, and there are a number of reasons for that. Demand driven by high levels of economic growth in China was a key factor.”
“As that growth cooled, the mar-kets have reacted strongly, partic-ularly to a sense that high demand had created oversupply. That will change, and already we are seeing that investment in high-cost pro-duction, such as shale oil, sub-salt drilling, and arctic exploration, is being cancelled, and that will lead to oil prices recovering,” he added.
New Elantra launchedThe company offi cial also said they have recently launched a new car Elantra, “which is a top-seller in its market segment in the Middle East, so that is very signifi cant.”
“The big launch regionally in the next few months will be estab-lishing our luxury products as a stand-alone Genesis brand, start-ing with the Genesis G90. We see enormous potential for Genesis in the Middle East, and we are very excited for the brand’s prospects in this region,” he said.
Alternative fuel-model“Globally, we will also be launch-ing the new IONIQ alternative fuel-model, off ering a choice of three powertrains - full hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or full electric. We have plans for that in the region, but the initial launch will focus on markets where there is already a strong customer base for vehicles of this type, and as we establish the balance between demand and production, we can expand on that, so for Oman that would be a longer term prospect for local sales,” he added.
Asked if the company plans making new investments in the Sultanate, Song said; “For Oman, we are working on some inter-esting plans with our national distributor, OTE, to enhance the experience of buying and owning a Hyundai, but it would be prema-ture for us to announce anything at this time.”
“Around the region, we work closely with local partners to im-prove our sales and distribution channels.”
“In the past few weeks alone in the Middle East, we have seen the opening of a new national head-quarters, and Saudi Arabia has launched a new Digital Showroom concept,” he added.
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ICAI Muscat chapter to hold annual conference
Times News Service
MUSCAT: An annual interna-tional conference of Muscat Chap-ter of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will be held on May 27 and 28, 2016 at Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah, Muscat.
The conference will be held with the theme “Transforma-tion and Excellence with Ethics” and will be addressed by eminent technical speakers, according to a press release.
Mohamed Said Al Abri, direc-tor general at Capital Market Au-thority, will be the chief guest and inaugurate the conference in the presence of the ICAI president-Devaraja Reddy, deputy chief of mission at Indian Embassy, Gloria Gangte and the Dean of College of Banking and Financial Studies, Dr. Ahmed Mohsin Al Ghassani.
Speaking about the conference, Chapter chairman NSreedhar said that the theme of the last confer-ence was on Governance and this year, the focus will be on ethics. Governance and ethics are two critical component of the overall ethical behavior which brings in transparency and fairness.
Ethical issues“The chapter attempts to create awareness about key Govern-ance and Ethical issues by hold-ing such conferences where the participants brainstorm together and learn from each others’ expe-riences,” said Mubeen Khan, vice-chairman of the chapter. “We ex-pect more than 250 delegates from Oman, GCC countries and India,” added Khan.
ICAI Muscat Chapter repre-sents its parent body ICAI New Delhi in the Sultanate, which was established under a law passed by the Indian Parliament. ICAI Muscat Chapter mainly organ-ises technical seminars as part of Continued Professional Educa-tion (CPE) for its members, who hold key executive positions in the corporate sectors of Oman, including chief fi nancial offi cers, chief executive offi cers, fi nance managers and senior accounts executives. ICAI Muscat Chap-ter also encourages and engages with Omani accounts and fi -nance professionals to attend its events as part of its knowledge sharing initiative.
C O N F E R E N C E
Mike Song. — Supplied picture
DP World to sell sukuk to fund its bond buybackDUBAI: DP World, the Dubai-owned company that operates ports from China to South Amer-ica, may sell Islamic bonds on Tuesday as it seeks cash to buy back existing securities.
The company set initial price guidance on the seven-year sukuk at about 262.5 basis points to 275 basis points above the benchmark midswap rate, ac-cording to a banker familiar with the deal, who asked not to be identifi ed because the informa-tion is not public yet.
The dollar-denominated se-curities are likely to be priced on Tuesday, he said.
Money raised from the sale will be used to fund an off er to buy up to $750 million of DP World’s existing 2017 sukuk and for general corporate purposes, the
company said earlier this month. The tender off er for the 2017 se-curities, which will be purchased at $10,555 for every $10,000 of principal, also closes today and is aimed at reducing costs.
Bond salesBond sales from the six-na-tion Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes the two biggest Arab economies of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are ac-celerating as governments and companies seek funds following oil’s decline in the past two years. Off erings from the region have risen 28 per cent to $16.7 billion, while Qatar’s government, Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways and its partners as well as Dubai-based Noor Bank also plan to sell bonds this week. — Bloomberg News
I S L A M I C B O N D S
Greece needs ‘up-front’ debt relief, lower fi scal target: IMFWASHINGTON: Greece needs “up-front, unconditional” debt relief and a sharply lower budget surplus target to make its bailout viable and its debt sustainable over the long term, International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff said on Monday.
In a new debt sustainability analysis (DSA), IMF staff said few countries have ever managed to achieve the 3.5 per cent primary budget surplus that European lenders have demanded.
They added that this could not be sustained for long, and there is little political support for the deep cuts needed.
“In view of this, staff believes that the DSA should be based on a primary surplus over the long run of no more than 1.5 per cent of GDP. This target would in staff ’s view be within the realm of what is plausible,” the report said.
The new analysis was released a day before European fi nance min-isters meet on Tuesday to review Greece’s bailout and discuss the potential for debt restructuring,
underscoring the IMF’s hard line in bailout negotiations. On Sun-day, Greek lawmakers approved tax increases and a new privatisa-tion fund to help pave the way for disbursement of new bailout loans and debt relief.
But the IMF and European lend-ers disagree over the need for im-mediate debt relief, with Germany pushing to delay any decisions un-til the Greek bailout programme ends in 2018.
In Monday’s report, IMF staff said the debt relief component needs to be completed before 2018.
“Providing an up-front, uncon-ditional component to debt relief is critical to provide a strong and credible signal to markets about the commitment of offi cial credi-tors to ensuring debt sustainabil-ity, which in itself could contrib-ute to lowering market fi nancing costs,” the staff wrote.
While a defi nitive deal on debt relief at Tuesday’s meeting ap-peared unlikely, some ministers hope to be able to agree that Ath-ens has met the conditions for re-
lease of 10 billion euros ($11.2 bil-lion) in new loans to avoid another default in July.
IMF staff said lower targets would still be suffi ciently ambi-tious for European lenders to sup-port. They said that with the lower targets — and a better chance for success — Greece could meet IMF criteria for “exceptional access” lending criteria.
The staff report called for a “substantial reprofi ling” of Eu-ropean loans, including a low, 1.5 per cent interest rate until 2040. It said extending maturities by up to 30 years could reduce gross fi nancing needs by 7 per cent of gross domestic product by 2060. Deferring payments through 2040 could reduce gross fi nancing needs by another 17 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). — Reuters
D E B T S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y A N A L Y S I S
FUND RAISING: Money raised from the sale will be used to fund an off er to buy up to $750 million of
DP World’s existing 2017 sukuk and for general corporate purposes. — Bloomberg fi le picture
NEW REPORT: The International Monetary Fund staff said the debt relief component needs to be
completed before 2018. — Bloomberg fi le picture
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MARKETW E D N E S DAY, M AY 2 5, 2 0 1 6
MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET
SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, MAY 24
REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
OM0000002374............UNITED FINANCE ...................................................... 52,400 ................7,779......................12 ............0.146 ........... 0.152 ...........0.146 ........... 0.148 ............. 0.144 ........... 0.004 ............. 2.778 ................0.150 .............. 0.150...................0.152 ...................48,292,872.........0.100
OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 1,517,613 ....... 324,561................... 128 ............0.215 ........... 0.218 ...........0.210 ........... 0.214 .............0.209 ........... 0.005 ............. 2.392 ................ 0.211 ..............0.210...................0.212 ................... 26,728,163 .........0.100
OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES .............................................49,171 ............. 11,567........................8 ........... 0.236 ........... 0.236 ...........0.231 ........... 0.235 .............0.232 ........... 0.003 ............. 1.293 ................0.231 .............. 0.231...................0.236...................14,383,004 .........0.100
OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 1,064,163 ...... 243,157..................... 73 ........... 0.229 ........... 0.231 ...........0.227........... 0.228 .............0.226 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.885 ................0.228..............0.227...................0.228 .................. 34,217,100 .........0.100
OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ............ 1,146,832 ......287,422..................... 93 ........... 0.250 ........... 0.255 ...........0.246............0.251 .............0.250 ............0.001 .............0.400 ................0.252..............0.252...................0.253.................... 5,271,000 ..........0.100
OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ....................................................... 50,000 ............ 63,500........................ 1 ............1.270 ........... 1.270 ...........1.270 ........... 1.270 ............. 1.270............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.270 ..............1.230...................1.270 ................. 254,000,000 .......0.100
OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE ................ 79,794 ............. 16,172......................14 ........... 0.205 ...........0.205 ...........0.202 .......... 0.203 .............0.203 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.202 .............0.201...................0.203 ..................40,600,000 ........0.100
OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 129,797 ............ 73,984........................7 ........... 0.570 ........... 0.570 ...........0.570 ........... 0.570 .............0.570 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.570 .............. 0.516...................0.576 ................. 362,400,806 .......0.100
OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ..................................... 25,000 ............ 45,670........................2 ............1.825 ........... 1.830 ...........1.825 ............1.825 ............. 1.825............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.830 ..............1.800...................1.825 ..................163,702,500 ........0.100
OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 622,000 ......... 167,943..................... 25 ............0.271 ........... 0.271 ...........0.270........... 0.270 .............0.270 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.270..............0.269...................0.270 .................. 79,977,694 .........0.100
OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 201,500 ............50,375........................5 ........... 0.250 ...........0.250 ...........0.250........... 0.250 .............0.250 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.250..............0.245...................0.250 ................ 424,800,350 .......0.100
OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 317,300 ...........127,629..................... 35 ........... 0.404 ...........0.404 ...........0.402........... 0.402 .............0.402 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.404............. 0.400...................0.404 ...............1,003,492,604 ......0.100
OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. ..........1,150 ................1,765........................ 1 ............1.535 ........... 1.535............1.535 ............1.545 ............. 1.545............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.535 .............. 1.535...................0.000 .................106,605,000........0.100
OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 279,589 ......... 455,730......................15 ............1.630 ........... 1.630 ...........1.630 ............1.630 ............. 1.630............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.630 .............. 1.630...................1.640 ................1,222,500,000 ......0.100
OM0000003281 ............TAAGEER FINANCE .....................................................3,000 .................. 387........................ 1 ............0.129 ........... 0.129 ...........0.129 ........... 0.130 ............. 0.130............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.129 ..............0.128...................0.133 ...................32,966,700 .........0.100
OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 1,195,112 ........131,015..................... 92 ............0.112 ........... 0.112............0.108 ............0.110 ............. 0.110 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.109 ..............0.108...................0.109 ................... 31,897,870 .........0.100
OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER ................................................................4,800 ............... 1,488........................3 ............0.310 ........... 0.310 ...........0.310 ............0.318 ............. 0.318............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.310 ............. 0.300...................0.310 ................... 70,281,180 .........0.100
OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 670,637 ......... 501,636......................17 ............0.748 ........... 0.748 ...........0.748 ............0.748 ............. 0.748............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.748 ..............0.740...................0.748 ................. 486,906,284 .......0.100
OM0000004669 ...........SHARQIYAH DESALINATION ...................................2,115 ............... 9,941........................5 ........... 4.700 ........... 4.700 ...........4.700........... 4.700 .............4.700 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................4.700 ..............4.700...................4.950 .................. 45,967,015 .........1.000
OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH .................................................. 7,500 ............... 1,875........................2 ........... 0.250 ...........0.250 ...........0.250........... 0.250 .............0.250 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.250..............0.250...................0.253................. 238,642,988 .......0.100
OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL .............................................. 20,000 ............... 1,478........................4 ............0.075 ........... 0.075 ...........0.073 ........... 0.074 .............0.074 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.074 ..............0.074...................0.075 ...................12,950,000 .........0.100
OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER ..................................................29,380 ............... 6,317........................4 ............0.215 ........... 0.215 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 ............. 0.200...................0.214 .................. 145,100,797 ........0.100
OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER .................................................... 11,406 ...............2,464........................2 ............0.216 ........... 0.216 ...........0.216 ........... 0.216 ............. 0.216............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.216 .............. 0.216...................0.220 ................. 154,311,769 ........0.100
OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ........................................................... 170,898.............89,531......................16 ........... 0.528 ........... 0.528 ...........0.518 ........... 0.524 .............0.526 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.380 ...............0.518 .............. 0.516...................0.518 ...................28,820,000 ........0.100
OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION ........................ 26,000 ...............6,470........................3 ........... 0.245 ...........0.249 ...........0.245........... 0.249 .............0.250 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.400 ...............0.249..............0.245...................0.249 ..................23,664,960 .........0.100
OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 388,000 ........... 69,064..................... 10 ............0.178 ........... 0.178 ...........0.178 ............0.178 ............. 0.179 ............-0.001 ........... -0.559 ...............0.178 .............. 0.178...................0.179 ..................285,600,883 .......0.100
OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ..................59,869 ............... 8,414........................4 ............0.143 ........... 0.143 ...........0.140 ............0.141 ............. 0.142 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.704 ...............0.140 ..............0.140...................0.143 .................. 28,200,000 ........0.100
OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 100,000 ........... 12,500........................4 ............0.125 ........... 0.125 ...........0.125 ............0.125 ............. 0.126............-0.001 ........... -0.794 ...............0.125 .............. 0.121...................0.125 .................... 7,355,402 ..........0.100
OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ............ 20,000 .............. 2,820........................3 ............0.142 ........... 0.142 ...........0.140 ............0.141 ............. 0.143............-0.002 ........... -1.399................0.140 .............. 0.138................... 0.141 ...................12,690,000 .........0.100
OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 360,000 ........... 38,880........................3 ............0.108 ........... 0.108 ...........0.108 ........... 0.108 ............. 0.110 ............-0.002 ............-1.818 ................0.108 ..............0.108................... 0.110 .................. 216,033,781 ........0.100
OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ...................................70,102 .............17,809........................4 ........... 0.255 ........... 0.255 ...........0.254........... 0.254 .............0.259 ...........-0.005 ............-1.931 ................0.254..............0.254...................0.258................. 374,594,444 .......0.100
OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ..................................... 133,700 ............ 39,823......................15 ........... 0.300 ...........0.300 ...........0.296........... 0.298 .............0.304 ...........-0.006 ............-1.974................0.296..............0.295...................0.298 ..................86,614,004 .........0.100
OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT ................................... 115,000 ............... 7,475........................8 ........... 0.065 ........... 0.065 ...........0.065 ........... 0.065 .............0.067 ...........-0.002 ........... -2.985 ...............0.065 ..............0.064...................0.065...................13,464,840 .........0.100
OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING .............15,000 ...............2,100........................2 ............0.140 ........... 0.140 ...........0.140 ........... 0.140 ............. 0.145............-0.005 ........... -3.448 ...............0.140 .............. 0.136...................0.140 ................... 17,062,500 .........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 8,938,828 ...2,828,741................... 621 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......34........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 2,000,320 ..... 155,688..................... 22 ........... 0.078 ........... 0.078 ...........0.077 ........... 0.078 .............0.076 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.632 ................0.077 ..............0.077...................0.078..................117,000,000 ........0.100
OM0000001590 ............MUSCAT FINANCE .................................................... 329,990 ........... 40,919......................12 ............0.124 ........... 0.124 ...........0.124 ........... 0.124 ............. 0.122 ........... 0.002 ............. 1.639 ................0.124 .............. 0.123...................0.124 ...................33,072,732 .........0.100
OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 512,264 ........... 79,227..................... 39 ............0.153 ........... 0.155 ...........0.153 ............0.155 ............. 0.153 ............ 0.002 ............. 1.307 ................0.154 .............. 0.154................... 0.155 ..................226,703,226 .......0.100
OM0000001053 ............OMAN TEXTILE HOLDING .......................................... 200 .....................66........................2 ........... 0.330 ........... 0.330 ...........0.330........... 0.330 .............0.330 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.330..............0.322...................0.362 ...................1,980,000 ..........1.000
OM0000001855 ............MAJAN GLASS .................................................................2,200 .................. 396........................ 1 ............0.180 ........... 0.180 ...........0.180 ........... 0.190 ............. 0.190 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.180 .............. 0.174...................0.199 .................... 7,984,427 ..........0.100
OM0000001939 ............NAT. PHARMACEUTICAL IND. .............................. 15,877 ............... 1,746........................ 1 ............0.110 ........... 0.110............0.110 ............0.110 ............. 0.110 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.110 ............. 0.000...................0.000 ...................5,500,000 ..........0.100
OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.......................................1,238 ...................114........................2 ........... 0.092 ........... 0.092 ...........0.092........... 0.093 .............0.093 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.092..............0.089...................0.092 ...................6,994,344 ..........0.100
OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK............................................... 29,000 ............... 1,677........................4 ........... 0.057 ........... 0.058 ...........0.057 ........... 0.058 .............0.058 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.058 ..............0.057...................0.058...................58,000,000 ........0.100
OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 187,000.............11,343......................16 ............0.061 ........... 0.061 ...........0.060........... 0.061 .............0.062 ...........-0.001 ............-1.613 ................0.060..............0.060...................0.061 .................... 7,625,000 ..........0.100
OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. .................. 174,093...............5,608........................7 ........... 0.033 ........... 0.033 ...........0.032........... 0.032 .............0.033 ...........-0.001 ........... -3.030 ...............0.033 ..............0.032...................0.033....................2,720,000 ..........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 3,252,182 ...... 296,783...................106 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......10........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ......................................................................................................................................................................OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 ........................1,782 ................... 171........................3 ........... 0.096 ........... 0.096 ...........0.096........... 0.096 .............0.096 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.096 ..............0.096...................0.099....................31,119,515 ..........0.100
.............................................SUM: .......................................................................................1,782 ................... 171........................3 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. .........1........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ISIN ......................................SECURITY NAME .................................................................. VOLUME ..... TURNOVER ............TRADES ......OPEN PRICE ......HIGH ............. LOW ........ CLOSE PR. ...PREV. CLOSE...DIFF (RO).........DIFF % ............. LAST PR .....LAST BID .............LAST OFFER ........MARKET CAP .PAR VALUE
O M A N S T O C K S
INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,953.86 ...............5,937.42 ....................5,937.42 ................... 5,948.41 ................ -10.99 .................. -0.18Financial Index .....................................7,666.59 ............... 7,615.54 ....................7,615.54 ....................7,641.56 ................-26.02 .................. -0.34Industrial Index .................................... 7,351.39 ...............7,335.28 ................... 7,335.28 ................... 7,328.38 ....................6.90 ................... 0.09Services Index ...................................... 3,300.43 .............. 3,293.45 ................... 3,293.45 .................. 3,300.20 ...................-6.75 .................. -0.20MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................890.08 ..................888.23 ...................... 890.04 ...................... 888.25 .................... 1.79 ...................0.20
Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded12,192,792 ...................3,125,695 .....................730 ................ 17,149,975,172 .................. 8 ......................13 ....................24 .........................45
MSM index ends lower
MUSCAT: Shares reacted on the Muscat bourse on lack of buy-ing support. The MSM30 Index fell by 0.18 per cent to close at 5,937.42 points, down by 0.18 per cent. The MSM Sharia Index in-creased by 0.20 per cent to end at 890.04 points. Bank Nizwa was most active in terms of volume, while Oredoo Oman was the most active in terms of turnover. The top gainer was United Finance, up by 2.78 per cent while Oman& Emirates was the top loser, down by 3.45 per cent.
As many as 730 trades were executed on Tuesday, generat-ing turnover of OMR3.12 million with 12.1 million shares changing hands. Out of 45 traded securi-ties, eight advanced, 13 declined and 24 remained unchanged. Foreign investors were net buy-ers for OMR339,000 followed by GCC and Arab investors for OMR301,000 while Omani investors were net sellers for OMR600,000 worth of shares.
Financial Index to close at 7,641.56 points, down by 0.34
per cent. United Finance, Bank Nizwa, Muscat Finance and Al Anwar Holding increased by 2.78 per cent, 2.63 per cent, 1.64 per cent and 0.88 per cent, respec-tively. Oman& Emirates, Al Ma-dina Investment, National bank of Oman and HSBC Bank Oman declined by 3.45 per cent, 2.99 per cent, 1.93 per cent and 1.86 per cent, respectively
Industrial Index marginally up by 0.09 per cent to close at 7,335.28 points. Jazeera Steel Product and Gulf International Chemicals increased by 2.39 per cent and 0.40 per cent, respec-tively. Construction Material Industries and Oman Fisheries declined by 3.03 per cent and 1.61 per cent, respectively.
Services Index closed at 3,293.45 points, down by 0.20 per cent. Jazeera Services was the only gainer and was up by 1.29 per cent to close at 0.231. Renais-sance Services, Port Services and National Gas fell by 1.97 per cent, 0.40 per cent and 0.38 per cent, respectively. — United Securties
The top gainer was United Finance, up by
2.78 per cent, while Oman & Emirates was the
top loser, down by 3.45 per cent.
Sony’s profi t forecast misses estimatesTOKYO: Sony forecast annual profi t that fell short of estimates, hurt by costs to repair an earth-quake-damaged chip factory and slowing demand for smartphone components.
Net income will probably de-cline 46 percent to 80 billion yen ($732 million) in the 12 months ending March 2017, the Tokyo-based company said in a state-ment on Tuesday. That compares with the 196 billion yen average of analysts’ projections compiled by Bloomberg. The shares fell 6.2 per cent in German trading.
The earthquake erased Sony’s previous prediction for its most profi table year in almost two dec-ades, as Chief Executive Offi cer Kazuo Hirai sought to shift away from consumer electronics. The slowdown in demand for image sensors that power cameras in smartphones — including Apple’s iPhone — will test Sony’s ability to generate more of its earnings from PlayStation 4 gaming con-soles, streaming services for its 65 million online users as well as movies and music.
“These are most probably con-
servative,” said Amir Anvarza-deh, manager of Japanese equity sales at BGC Partners. “We be-lieve market’s reaction should be largely neutral.”
Operating profi t will probably rise to 300 billion yen this fi scal year, while sales are seen declin-ing 3.8 per cent to 7.8 trillion yen, Sony said. That compares with
average estimates for 400 billion yen and 7.94 trillion yen.
Smartphone businessThe smartphone business will report a profi t of 5 billion yen in the year to March 2017, compared with a loss the previous year, Sony said. The smartphone market is facing its fi rst slowdown since
Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007. While much of the drop in demand is seen in mature mar-kets and China, where Sony no longer markets phones, the broader slowdown has implica-tions for the company’s image-sensor business, which supplies camera components to other handset manufacturers.
Future earnings“You have the uncertainty over future earnings from CMOS sen-sors as smartphone market decel-erates,” said Hiroyasu Nishikawa, an analyst at Iwai Cosmo Securi-ties. “On the other hand, fi nancial services remain a steady source of profi t, as well as automotive sen-sors, and they are also over the hump when it comes to restruc-turing TV and handset business-es.” Sony forecast a 40 billion yen loss for its device business, which include chips that convert light into digital signals in smartphone cameras. The company booked a 59.6 billion yen impairment charge for the business last fi scal year, citing “a decrease in projected future demand.” — Bloomberg News
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India off ers attractive opportunities for investment: MinisterSINGAPORE: Seeking to garner investments for its power sector and infrastructure building, In-dia on Monday apprised Singa-porean investors of accelerated reforms and new initiatives of the government.
“I do feel that the mood is very favourable for India. They (inves-tors) can see the India story struc-turally improving. They can see the demand that India provide and to my mind India can look forward to good investments coming from Singapore,” said the Coal, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal.
Goyal updated investors, includ-ing the Government Investment Corp and state owned Temasek, of a wide ranging investment op-portunities in India and the gov-ernment drive towards swift eco-nomic development.
“We had a good sessions with in-vestors during the morning,” said
Goyal who addressed Deutsche Bank annual economic conference earlier on Monday.
He also accepted Singapore’s invitation to India to raise more funds from the island city’s vibrant fi nancial centre.
He also called on Singapore deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Later in the afternoon, Goyal visited Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and discussed a possible collaboration with ITE in setting up 21 centres across India as part of the govern-ment’s “Skill Development” initia-tive. Goyal wrapped up the day by addressing some 250 investors on Indian economy and power sector investments.
Goyal was on a one-day visit to Singapore, leading a high-power delegation from the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). — PTI
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NOT SO ROSY: Sony forecast a 40 billion yen loss for its device
business, which include chips that convert light into digital sig-
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Volkswagen comes with exciting Ramadan offers
MUSCAT: Wattayah Motors, the exclusive distributor of Volkswa-gen in Oman, recently announced its exciting range of off ers for the holy month of Ramadan. The of-fer will run throughout the holy
month, coming to a close on July 10.Throughout the promotion pe-
riod, visitors to the Volkswagen Oman showrooms in Azaiba, So-har, Salalah and Nizwa can take advantage of fi ve years unlimited mileage warranty, three years or 45,000km free vehicle servicing, three years roadside assistance, and free insurance for the fi rst year of ownership on all Volkswa-
gen models – including the Jetta, Tiguan, Touareg and the new Pas-sat models. In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, custom-ers will also receive an attractive cash gift on every purchase, says a press release.
Andrew Squires, general manag-er of Wattayah Motors said, “Dur-ing the Ramadan season, Volkswa-gen Oman is going the extra mile to
off er world class customer service. As part of our wide range of off ers during the holy month, we have in-cluded the perfectly balanced new Passat combining great features, enhanced value and a refi ned driv-ing experience in addition to the Jetta, Tiguan and Touareg mod-els. Volkswagen off ers the smart choice; innovation has never been more aff ordable.”
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GlOwork founder to be guest speaker at Startup Grind eventMUSCAT: Startup Oman, the Sultanate’s only online platform created by entrepreneurs for en-trepreneurs and an offi cial chap-ter of Startup Grind in Muscat is to host its 6th edition with Khalid Al Khudair, founder and CEO of GlOwork.
Only fi ve years ago, the 33-year-old Al Khudair left a comfortable job as auditor at KPMG and set up Glowork, a company that focuses on solving female unemploy-ment. His journey hasn’t been an easy one. “Everyone thought I was insane,” said Al Khudair. “It was really diffi cult. Nobody liked the idea.”
Only few years later Khalid led GlOwork to an investment of over $16m to expand its cur-rent operations into diff erent verticals when Riyadh-based SAS Holding bought a 51 percent stake in the company.
His persistence, tenacity and vision led him to being awarded the Forbes Middle East Award for Entrepreneurship, The King Salman Award for Entrepreneur-ship, ranked third most infl uen-tial Arab globally, and fi rst most infl uential entrepreneur globally by Arabian Business.
His work has been recognised globally as well. He won the award for Best Innovation glob-ally for job creation by the UN, ILO & World Bank.
“Continuously, on a day-to-day basis, my ideas are boiling. I real-ly want GlOwork to be the Virgin of the Middle East – an empire based on women balancing work and life. We want it to be a billion-dollar company – we truly believe we can do that,” he added.
“Unemployment is one of Oman’s biggest challenges at the moment. Khalid’s story serves not only as an example of a young visionary entrepre-neur who’s hard work and per-sistence paid off but also a re-minder that opportunities lay in the biggest challenges. After all,
entrepreneurship is about all that,” said Ali Kamal Daud, co-founder of Startup Oman (www.startupoman.om) and CEO of Daud Group. The event is hosted by National Business Centre in Knowledge Oasis Muscat as an event partner. It is scheduled to take place on May 29 at 7pm in NBC Incubator, 4th Floor.
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Home Centre captures spirit of sharing in Ramadan catalogueMUSCAT: Home Centre, the region’s leading home retailer, launched its Ramadan catalogue for 2016 across its stores in the GCC.
Inspired by the spirit of shar-ing, the catalogue will feature 152 ideas for elegant décor, thoughtful gifts, inviting table settings and mouth-watering recipes, says a press release.
The holy month of Ramadan is a beautiful time for self-refl ection, prayer and good deeds. Bringing
individuals and families together to share meals and exchange gifts, this is a special time of the year to reconnect with family and friends and cultivate relationships.
Capturing the mood of the sea-son, Home Centre’s 2016 Ramadan collection will comprise timeless furniture pieces, complemented by patterned fabrics and fl oral de-signs. Elegant table accessories and serve-ware will add to the warm ambience of those special
Iftar gatherings. With giving and receiving gifts
being an integral part of the occa-sion, customers can make their selection from a wide range of gold-embellished decorative platters, antique lanterns, artsy candle hold-ers and other beautiful objects.
The seasonal catalogue also has brand ambassador Nancy Ajram sharing her favourite picks from the Ramadan collec-tion with the readers.
New collectionNancy commented, “It is an ex-tremely special time of the year and Home Centre’s latest collec-tion provides inspirational ideas to make this month all about enjoying time together. I have hand-picked a few items from this collection. I am confi dent that shoppers will love the new collection.”
Médéric Payne, CEO of Home Centre, said: “Ramadan highlights the spirit of togetherness and gath-
erings, which form the basis of our catalogue this year. Our Ramadan collection refl ects new styles and the latest designs keeping cus-tomers’ needs and preferences in mind, inspiring them to share the true essence of the occasion.
“Through the stimulating ideas, tips and recipes featured, we wish to off er our customers a holistic experience and help them make this month even more memorable.”
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based on women balancing
work and life. We want it to
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– we truly believe we can
do that
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Winners drive home Suzuki Swift at LuluMUSCAT: Five Suzuki Swift hatchback cars were handed over to the winners of the Lulu Sadia promotion held in conjunction with the Food Fiesta 2016 at the Baushar outlet last week.
In addition, there were OMR2,000 worth of Lulu gift vouchers also in this promo. The winners were picked by the offi cials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in the presence of senior offi cials of Lulu. Josefi na T., Shim-jith, Muzina Mohammed, Anil Ku-mar Nair and Muhanna Moham-med Moosa were the winners of the Suzuki Swifts, says a press release.
Sadia is the market leader in frozen chicken in the Middle East, with an extensive range of whole
chicken, chicken parts and ready to prepare products. Sadia prides itself on upholding the highest standards of quality and taste across all products, and managed as such to win over the hears of the consumers in Oman.
Lulu has become a symbol of quality and trust and a part of eve-ryday life in Oman, which certainly sets them apart from the rest. With over 124 outlets, Lulu hypermar-kets have become the preferred shopping destination for custom-ers seeking a whole new shopping experience. An innovator in the retail industry with an impressive presence across the region, Lulu ensures that quality shopping for residents is just a short drive away.
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ISAS conducts Merit Award Ceremony
MUSCAT: Indian School Al Seeb (ISAS) celebrated the 4th Merit Award Ceremony to honour its meritorious students who made their parents and teachers proud by achieving academic excellence.
The chief guest of the pro-gramme was Amararam Gujar (IFS), First Secretary, Head of Chancery, Embassy of India, Sultanate of Oman. The guest of honour for the function was Engineer Mohamed Ibrahim Al Balushi, deputy director general, Muscat Municipality of Seeb. The other eminent guests were Kamla Gujar, Mohamed Ibrahim Al Bal-ushi, Dr. C. K. Anchan, director-in-charge, BoD of Indian Schools in Oman, Cdr. Mathew Abraham (Retd.), Edu. Adviser, BoD, Dr Alex C. Joseph, assistant edu. ad-viser, BoD, Ravi Jayanthi, presi-dent of ISAS management com-mittee and the other esteemed members of the SMC.
The programme commenced with the Royal Anthem of Oman followed by the National Anthem of India. Members of the student council pinned the rosettes and welcomed the guests with a fl oral tribute, followed by the lighting of the lamp. The school choir of ISAS rendered a solemn prayer song to suit the occasion. Gopika Gokul, the girls’ dean extended a formal welcome to the distin-guished guests. The primary section’s children touched a soft cord in the hearts of the parents with wonderfully blended musi-
cal dance drama on conserva-tion which stressed to conserve nature for future. The choir of ISAS stole the hearts of the par-ents with their astounding rendi-tion of a mellifl uous song on the theme ‘Water Conservation’. The students of the middle section presented a riveting dance befi t-ting to the programme’s theme – ‘Nurture Nature’. The audience equally relished the ostrich dance andappreciated the students with a booming applause.
Nagesh Kelkar, the school’s principal read out the academic report and informed the parents about the school’s current feats and achievements in a nut shell. He expressed his deep gratitude to the Indian Embassy for their staunch support provided to school and thanked all the mem-bers of the Board of Directors of the Indian Schools in Oman and the SMC members of Indian
School Al Seeb for facilitating the smooth functioning of the school in the right direction.
The meritorious students of middle and senior sections were felicitated by the distinguished guests and were appreciated for their hard work and perseverance.
Amararam lauded the school and its managing committee for their tireless striving towards ex-cellence. He was impressed by the school’s epoch making standards of discipline, excellence in aca-demics and co-curricular activi-ties and the children’s high level of awareness to keep their environ-ment clean on a day to day basis. He congratulated the awardees and stressed on the importance of instilling the value of conservation among children who are the future custodian of mother earth.
The formal vote of thanks was presented by Alan Anu Jacob, Boys Dean.
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Extension of CSE held at PSMMUSCAT: The inauguration of the extension of the Centre for Special Education (CSE) was held at PSM Junior School.
The extension of CSE was grounded on the generous contri-bution made especially by Syed Ayaz Hussain, former ambassa-dor of Pakistan to the Sultanate of Oman, and with the support of Naheed Naveed Atif, charge d’Aff aires, embassy of Pakistan.
Naheed was the chief guest of the inauguration ceremony. Em-bassy offi cials, Adnan Shahzad, chairman BoD, members of BoD, Ataullah Khan Niazi, senior prin-cipal - PSS, Khalid Jadoon, princi-pal - PSM, Munazza Ghafoor, prin-cipal - Junior Block PSM, Dr Asad Mehmood from Gulf Specialised Hospital, parents and the commu-nity dignitaries marked the occa-sion with their presence.
Centre for Special Education has been catering to the needs of the students with learning disabil-ities since 2012.
The extension of CSE included the well-equipped, technology ori-ented, spacious classroom to meet the mental and physical needs of the students with learning dis-abilities such as dyslexia, ADHD, autism, hearing impairment, cer-ebral palsy and etc.
Meeting the needs of 21 special students, the CSE now has more advanced technology based equip-ment and support material such as laptops, desktops, smart inter-active boards, refrigerators, pho-
tocopy machines and need-based designed lavatories for the special students. In her address, Munazza voiced her indebtedness to the em-bassy offi cials, BoDs, management of PSS and staff of CSE. She high-lighted the pivotal role played by this centre for educating students with special needs of the Pakistani community in Oman.
Naheed expressed her delight at the progress made for the confi -dent young special students.
Adnan extended his gratitude to all the benefactors, whole team and the entire management to make this dream come true within a short span of time. In his address, he spoke about the upcoming new
college block and separate block dedicated for CSE.
Dr Asad Mehmood announced free consultation and analysis vis-it along with free coupons worth OMR45 for the students of CSE.
Taking the opportunity, a com-munity notable Shahid Chatha also unveiled his plan to donate 10,000 construction blocks for the new college block building. A well-wisher of the school from Pakistan community has also promised to donate OMR1,000 for the school projects in the pipeline.
A documentary prepared by Saima presenting the glimpses of ‘Past-Present-Future’ of the cen-tre was also shown.
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Jaguar XE honoured at Motoring awards
MUSCAT: Luxury automotive manufacturer, Jaguar, was the proud recipient of yet another award for its Jaguar XE saloon car, which was granted the ‘Pukka Performer Award’ by the 2015 Mo-toring Middle East Car of the Year Awards, says a press release.
Bruce Robertson, managing di-rector at Jaguar Land Rover Mena,
commented: “Since its launch, the Jaguar XE continues to attract at-tention and has been the proud re-cipient of several award accolades. This is a very exciting time for the Jaguar brand and the launch of the Jaguar XE was a key milestone in the brand’s history, quickly be-coming one of the front runners in its segment.”
Commenting on the award, Shahzad Sheikh, editor-in-chief at Motoring Middle East said: “The all-new baby saloon from Jaguar turns the driving fun factor right up to 10 to make itself a more than worthy rival to its German com-petitors. The new XE is practical and prestigious yet astonishingly good to hurl around a twisty road, as well as being a smooth and se-
rene cruiser with an excellent ride quality. It simply had to win the ‘Pukka Performer’ award in the 2015 Motoring Middle East Car of the Year awards.”
The award-winning vehicle has truly left its mark as the driver’s car in its segment with innovative vehicle dynamics, ground-break-ing performance, unmatched ride comfort and refi nement.
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its mark as the driver’s car in its segment
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Nabil biscuits picks promotion winnerMUSCAT: National Biscuit In-dustries Ltd, the makers of the brand ‘Nabil’ range of biscuits, wafers and snacks, announced the winner of the grand Scratch N Win promotion. Navab Hussain Picha-kannu has been declared as the winner of the raffl e draw and has won a brand new Nisssan Altima.
The promotion was on a select range of Nabil biscuits. The draw was conducted by offi cials from the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry recently and Hussain was invited to receive his grand prize on Monday.
The Scratch and Win promo-tion was on Multipacks of Nabil Glucose, Nabil Cookies, Nabil Crackers & Sweet n Salt Biscuits, Nabil Cream biscuits and the newly launched Nabil Sugarfree Digestive Biscuits. Apart from the mega prize, there were 10 iPhone 6 which were won by consumers of Oman as instant prizes.
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Toyota announces Dream Car Art Contest winnersMUSCAT: The 10th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest (TDCAC) held in cooperation with the Min-istry of Education, was success-fully conducted across 21 Toyota showrooms in Oman. The offi cial prize distribution event was held at various Toyota branch locations namely Salalah, Ibri, Ibra, Nizwa, Sohar, Al Kamil, Barka and Mus-cat, says a press release.
One of the largest global art contests for children, the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest invites children from all corners to share ideas about the future of mobility by drawing their dream cars.
Hundreds of entries were re-ceived for the competition, which encouraged children to call upon their fertile imagination and crea-tive skills, to design what they think would be a great car for the future. With the successful con-clusion of the event, the jubilant winners have now emerged.
Here goes the list of winners in
the Under 8 Category: From Sinaw, Durar Amur Al Mabsali took home a Xbox 1. Thrilled to be a winner, Durar, a Grade I student of the Al Shareq School said that she was participating in TDCAC for the second time. She harbours ambi-tions of being a doctor when she grows up. Her father, a member of the armed forces, felt proud about her winning the prize and appreci-ated the annual TDCAC.
Sef Yousuf Saif Mohammed Al Hinai, hailing from Samail won an iPad Mini 3. The 7-year-old felt joy and happiness in participating in TDCAC for the fi rst time and also to have won a prize. Young Sef, Grade I student at the Alyanabee School wants to be a photographer and painter when he grows up. His proud parents appreciated Toyota holding the annual painting event and expressed a hope that it would continue. Fatma Hamood Salim Al Wahashi from Ibri was the happy winner of a Sony PS Vita.
In the 8 to 11 years category, the winners comprised Abdul Salam Salim Al Mabsali from Sinaw, who won an iPad Air 2. Happy and excit-ed, the Grade V student has partici-pated in TDCAC earlier and wants to be a doctor when he grows up. His parents, highly appreciative of TDCAC, called it an excellent plat-form for encouraging and nurtur-
ing young talent. From Suweiq, it was Hanin Fawzy Mohamed Elno-zahy who took home a Dell Laptop while from Salalah, Leron Attis Su-ares won a Samsung Tab.
In the children aged from 12-15, the winners comprised Chris Anto from Salalah, who won an iPhone 6. He is a Class X student at the In-dian school and wants to become
an IT professional when he grows up. From Sinaw, Prabhuraj Rajan Pillai won a Lenovo Laptop and Abdul Hamid Salim Al Mabsali won a Canon DSLR.
According to a Toyota spokes-person, “Apart from the above nine national winners, 60 branch win-ners were also declared in the 10th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, Oman and they each won a JBL Bluetooth Speaker to encourage them and appreciate their eff orts.”
Every contestant who partici-pated received a certifi cate of par-ticipation. Recalling the highly successful event, an offi cial men-tioned, “We were ready for a large number of people. Even so, the staggering numbers exceeded eve-ryone’s estimates! This is the index of Toyota’s popularity in Oman.”
“With such wonderful results, it is more than evident that this annual property of Toyota was yet again successful at inspiring young minds to dream, to imag-
ine. It brought together families and spread many smiles and hap-piness. Invitations were extended to the winner and their family to be part of a fun fi lled event and re-ceive the prize in presence of other winners and their families, turned out in large numbers making these events a roaring success,” said the spokesperson.
The spokesperson continued, “Toyota Oman has been partici-pating in the event since the 5the-dition of TDCAC. We are happy to say that this year, we received a very high number of entries from Oman - since the time Oman start-ed participating. Lot of compelling entries received that show the cre-ativity of the children of Oman.”
In conclusion, he added, “Follow-ing the brand philosophy of Toyota, ‘Always a better way’, we are con-stantly trying to reinvent ways to do things in a better way and hope to keep contributing to society in the best ways that we can.”
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Ooredoo Business extends support
to Entrepreneurs Conclave 2016MUSCAT: Ooredoo Business has joined as the presenting sponsor for Entrepreneurs Conclave 2016, an event organised by Experiment Events, with the theme ‘Dive In to your Destiny’.
The third edition of Entrepre-neurs Conclave, in partnership with Sabco Media, with Sharakah as a strategic partner, and powered by Startup Oman will be held at the multipurpose hall of Public Au-thority for Civil Aviation on May 30, says a press release.
Ooredoo Business’s support of this event is in alignment with its vision of supporting human growth through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Said Shanfari, head of Ooredoo Business, said: “We are happy to
encourage the growing entrepre-neurial presence in Oman through supporting such initiatives as En-trepreneurs Conclave.”
Entrepreneurs Conclave was a platform created in 2014 to recog-
nise the potential of young Omani entrepreneurs and expand their capabilities in handling the chang-ing business environment.
This year’s edition involved young entrepreneurs taking part
in diff erent challenges and activi-ties in each of the competition’s three phases, while being coached and guided by established entre-preneurs from Oman and the GCC.
The fi rst phase, ‘Learn’, included a case study on entrepreneurs fac-ing real time situations on manag-ing an organisation while facing critical issues in high-pressure situations. The second phase, ‘Sur-vive’, saw entrepreneurs take part in a diving exercise as per personal consent, which represented the frequent challenges entrepreneurs regularly face.
The third phase, ‘Grow’, includ-ed a workshop that prepared the entrepreneurs on how to eff ec-tively represent themselves at the fi nal event.
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Badshah live in concert tomorrowMUSCAT: Aditya Prateek Sin-gh Sisodia, better known by his stage name Badshah, an Indian rapper featuring the very popular Astha Gill, will perform live at the Qurum Amphitheatre tomorrow in what is being dubbed as the biggest party of 2016 by Spiral Events and Al Nimr Expo. Gates will open at 6:30pm.
The multi-dimensional Bad-shah is the true representative of Rap on the Hindi-Punjabi music scene, successfully bringing Hip Hop to Bollywood with the club banger Abhi toh Party Shuru Hui Hai in the Sonam Kapoor-starrer Khoobsurat and Saturday Sat-urday, that had the entire nation groove to its beats featuring Bol-lywood’s two most promising stars Alia Bhatt and Varun Dha-wan. His most recent tracks Selfi e
Le Le Re with Salman Khan and DJ Waley Babu broke all records, receiving 7 million views within a month of its release on YouTube. He has also collaborated with art-ists such as Gippy Grewal, Diljeet Dosanjh, Manj Musik, Raftaar and Aastha Gill among others.
The event is being held in part-nership with Oman Air, Lulu Hy-permarket, Audiotech, Integrity International, Mobicell, Huawei, Global Car Rental & Leasing, Oman Arab Cinema Company, Oman UAE Exchange, Yoko Siz-zlers, Country Club, Al Hayat International Hospital, Maya Asiana Restaurant & Lounge, Muhammad Riaz and Partners. Times of Oman and High Defi ni-tion are the media partners of the concert. Tickets are available at Lulu Darsait and Bausher.
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Saeed Bin Nasser Al Hashar holds customer meet
MUSCAT: Saeed Bin Nasser Al Hashar, the Sultanate’s exclusive distributor for Kardex Remstar and other leading international brands, held a customer meet-cum-seminar for its Kardex Rem-star customers at the Crowne Pla-za Hotel, Muscat.
High profi le clients of Saeed Bin Nasser Al Hashar, comprising senior-level managers at various ministries, government agencies and corporate houses, attended the meet, says a press release.
A series of presentations on the German top brand Kardex Rem-star, a global giant in automated industrial storage and retrieval systems, and its wide portfolio of automated industrial storage and retrieval systems as well as their diverse range of applications were held as part of the customer meet.
Further, a live demo of the Kar-dex Remstar Shuttle XP lift sys-
tem, which was displayed at the venue, helped the customers gain a deep understanding of the func-tional aspects of the product. The guests were also briefed about the other latest innovations from Kar-dex Remstar including Megamart, Horizontal Carousel and a range of Kardex Intertex systems.
The presentations and demo were conducted by a team from the brand’s regional offi ce in Cy-
prus led by Demetris Kouloundis, Kardex Remstar regional sales di-rector (Middle East /Africa).
The presentation on Shuttle XP highlighted its wide-ranging applications across sectors in-cluding aviation, automotive, oil and gas, healthcare, palettes storage, warehousing, defence, and heavy equipment.
Tailor-made solutions can be provided to suit the varied require-
ments of customers across sectors.The meet concluded with a Q&A
session and business lunch.“Saeed Bin Nasser Al Hashar
has been the undisputed leader in the automated material handling products sector in Oman, and has introduced a wide range of best-in-class products to the Sultan-ate’s market as the sole distributor Kardex Remstar intelligent stor-age and retrieval systems. These amazingly versatile units are highly customisable and capable of meeting a variety of industrial requirements. The customer meet aimed at familiarising our august customers with the latest features of Kardex Remstar. It was also an occasion to honour our customers and expand the relationship to the next level of mutually benefi cial partnership,” said Rajeev Sharma, general manager at Saeed Bin Nasser Al Hashar.
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to sense its hope
and power, because
you yourself are the
means for that future’s
creation.
— Sara Paddison
Success is waking
up in the morning,
whoever you are,
wherever you are,
however old or young,
and bounding out of
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TAC offers guaranteed cash gift on Geely models
MUSCAT: The brand Geely has brought a lot of excitement to the automobile lovers in Oman. With its unbelievable prices that do not compromise on quality and fea-tures, Geely has shown that in a world where everything is getting more expensive, it continues to provide feature rich cars at unbe-lievable price points.
Giving into the demands of vari-ous customers, Towell Auto Cen-tre (TAC) is once again launching the rather successful guaranteed cash gift off er on the Geely models – the Emgrand GT, Emgrand X7, Emgrand 7 and the GC7. The off er is valid for a limited period only, says a press release.
A spokesperson from TAC says:
“Geely allows you to upgrade your drive by paying less and getting a better, bigger car, thanks to the guaranteed cash gift with every car. There is a guaranteed cash gift of OMR1,501 on the Emgrand GT which now costs OMR5,999; OMR1,601 on Emgrand X7 which now costs OMR4,399; OMR1,101 on Emgrand 7 which now costs OMR3,499 and OMR651 on the GC7 model which now costs OMR2,999. Indeed, what makes it even more rewarding is the fact that this cash gift can be used as down payment.”
On the brand Geely, the senior spokesperson adds: “With a wide
range of sedans and a 2.4L SUV, the Geely range embodies versa-tility and the latest technologies. Its reasonable prices let custom-ers buy a large car for the price of a small one, upgrading not just their comfort and safety, but also their lifestyles. As a company that owns leading global brands, Geely has come a long way since its incep-tion and are now exporting their cars all around the world. In Oman, the brand is doing exceptionally well and with this exciting cash-in off er, we are expecting a huge foot-fall in our showrooms.”
A Fortune 500 company, Geely (offi cially Zhejiang Geely Hold-
ing Group) has shown robust growth momentum in the inter-national market. From the design concept to the manufacturing, all Geely models have been devel-oped in accordance with Euro-pean standards by European and Chinese designers.
By bringing the Geely range to the Sultanate, TAC has reinforced its commitment to provide high-quality products and services to its customers in Oman. With a network of 11 showrooms, 13 ser-vice outlets and 10 parts outlets spread across Oman, TAC is one of the leading automobile distribu-tors in the region.
The off er is valid for a
limited period only
Female surgeon joins Badr Al Samaa Al KhoudMUSCAT: Badr Al Samaa Hos-pital, Al Khoud welcomed Dr. Deepa N, MS (general surgery) as a laparoscopic surgeon. Her presence as a female general sur-geon in its team is a rare distinc-tion in comparison with other private healthcare establish-ments in Oman.
Dr Deepa completed her Mas-ter of General Surgery (MS) from Dr MGR Medical University, Ta-mil Nadu, India followed by her Bachelor of Medicine and Bach-elor of Surgery from the same college. She was an associate professor in the department of general surgery in the prestigious institution as well.
She has worked with many well reputed hospitals and has extensive experience in major surgical procedures such as thy-roidectomy, mastectomy, herni-oplasty, hemithyroidectomy, varicose veins surgery, ingui-nal herniotomy, herniorrhaphy, hernioplasty, breast lump exci-
sion, incisional hernia repair, am-putation, hemorroidectomy, plas-tic surgical operations like skin grafting and fl aps in addition to endoscopy, colonoscopy, sigmoi-doscopy and laparoscopic sur-geries indeed serves our goal to a larger extent, says a press release.
V. T. Vinod, Abdul Latheef and P. A. Mohammed, the board of direc-tors, expressed their happiness in inducting Dr Deepa to Badr Al Sa-maa Hospital Al Khoud.
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‘Lifetime Achievement’ award conferred on Bank Muscat CE
MUSCAT: In recognition of out-standing contributions to the bank-ing and fi nancial sector in Oman and the GCC region, AbdulRazak Ali Issa, chief executive of Bank Muscat, was conferred the ‘Life-time Achievement’ award at the Oman Banking and Finance awards hosted by Oman Economic Review.
His Highness Sayyid Taimour bin Assad Al Said presented the award to AbdulRazak Ali Issa at
the GCC New Age Banking Sum-mit, in the presence of Hamoud bin Sangour Al Zadjali, executive president of the Central Bank of Oman, says a press release.
AbdulRazak Ali Issa said: “I owe this achievement to the valuable opportunities made available to Omanis by His Majesty Sultan Qa-
boos bin Said. Bank Muscat is a Re-naissance achievement of the Sul-tanate under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos and I am proud to have been associated with the bank in its quest to emerge as the leading fi nancial services pro-vider in the Sultanate. I thank the entire Omani banking and media
fraternity for this recognition and goodwill. I also owe this achieve-ment to the unstinted support from the 3500 plus colleagues at Bank Muscat. I look forward to achieving greater success for Bank Muscat and the nation in future.”
AbdulRazak Ali Issa is a leading Arab banker with more than four decades of dynamic leadership experience and the chief execu-tive of Bank Muscat for the last 22 years. He has a successful track re-cord of organisation-building and delivering sustained growth and profi tability, organically as well as through mergers and acquisitions.
AbdulRazak has played a leading role in shaping the banking and fi -nance industry in Oman. He is the chairman of Oman Banks Associa-tion. A highly respected fi gure in the fi nancial sector, AbdulRazak continues to lead Bank Muscat from strength to strength. Under his leadership, the fi nest of global banking practices and products have been introduced in Oman through Bank Muscat, raising its stature as the premier fi nancial institution in the Sultanate with
a 38 per cent market share of as-sets, 158 branches in Oman and 3,500+ employees. He also guided the expansion of the bank into the regional markets, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, and Singapore.
AbdulRazak was conferred the ‘Arab Banking Personality’ award in 2012 by the Arab Banking Un-ion. He was ranked among the 500 most infl uential Arabs in the ‘Pow-er 500 - the World’s most infl uen-tial Arabs’ by Arabian Business magazine. He was honoured with the ‘Banking and Finance Person-ality of the Year’ award at the 3rd Middle East CEO awards in 2006.
Bank Muscat highlighted its electronic banking channels at the GCC New Age Banking Summit. Amjad Al Lawati, AGM – Cards & eBanking, made a presentation on the bank’s state-of-the-art mobile banking service.
Winner of the coveted His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos Award for the Best Public eService, mBanking is Oman’s preferred mobile banking service with more than 410,000 registered customers.
His Highness Sayyid
Taimour bin Assad
Al Said presented the
award to AbdulRazak
Ali Issa at the GCC
New Age Banking
Summit
JAC 4 ton truck
suitable for
business needs
MUSCAT: JAC Motors 4 ton trucks, available in Oman ex-clusively at Towell Auto Centre (TAC), are a powerful and relia-ble workhorse for several small and medium businesses.
Rigid, safe, reliable and suit-able for various road conditions, JAC 4 ton trucks are highly ef-fi cient with low maintenance costs and excellent value. More-over, they are equipped with wa-ter tanks, refrigerated storage, strong load capacity and many other features that make them an ideal vehicle for diff erent business types.
People in the fruits and veg-etable sector, construction and transportation, farming indus-try are particularly apprecia-tive of the truck’s performance, sturdiness and fuel-effi ciency, says a press release.
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Dhofar Automotive promotes ‘family fi rst’ at customer meetMUSCAT: In a bid to elevate customer engagement, height-en customer loyalty, and spark brand advocacy amongst fami-lies in Ibra, Dhofar Automotive recently conducted a customer meet at its showroom.
Held with the prime goal to reit-erate its stance of continuously go-ing above and beyond for custom-ers, while considering them family, the customer meet was a fun event organised for families living in and around the Ibra region of Oman, says a press release.
With over 50 families in at-tendance, the meet served as the
perfect customer engagement op-portunity for Dhofar Automotive’s staff to interact with customers, and highlight the company’s su-perior pre-Ramadan off ers on the Dodge, Jeep and Ram range of ve-hicles in a fun setting.
A painting contest was also organised for children as part of the meet, where they were asked to paint the Dhofar Automotive logo. Following completion of the contest, the three best paintings were selected and the kids that painted them rewarded with spe-cial goodie bags. Face-painting, mascots, games, giveaways, and
refreshments for children were some of the other special arrange-ments that were part of the day’s proceedings.
“From the moment you walk on to our parking lot here in Ibra, you’re going to feel like a family,” said Mahmood Hamed Moham-med Al Zahil, Ibra showroom manager, at Dhofar Automotive addressing attendees at the meet.
“We understand how impor-tant it is to have a quality car, and that’s why we strive to provide our customers with the best customer service possible,” he added.
“Dhofar Automotive provides
a wide array of 2016 models of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Fiat and Alfa Romeo vehicles, and body styles to cater to every individual or family’s taste, need and lifestyle. Whether it is a car, pick-up or SUV, we have a vehicle that is sure to meet your needs. Providing an all-in-one shopping experience, we pride ourselves in off ering a mas-sive selection of new vehicles, as well as parts, service and more,” he elaborated.
Dhofar Automotive strives to meet its customers’ expectations of quality shopping experience and customer service.
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MUSCAT: Oman’s team for the upcoming Optimist World Championships, scheduled to be held in Portugal from June 25, will be picked from the squad of 10 young sailors confi rmed by Oman Sail as having qualifi ed to attend Oman Sail’s Omantel Youth Squad training camp in Portugal next month.
Over the past few months, dozens of talented young sailors have been competing and train-ing with an aim to be selected to represent the Sultanate at the Optimist World Championships.
Following the latest ranking races in Al Musannah in April, se-lectors have revealed their short-list of 10 youngsters who will trav-el to Portugal for a training camp where they hope to earn fi nal se-lection for the Championships.
The squad is headed up by exciting young prospect Al Moatasem Al Farsi from Musan-nah Sailing School who swept the board at the recent ranking races and also includes notable talents Mohammed Al Qasmi, Jihad Al Hasani and Samiha Al Riyami, all from Almouj Sailing School.
The training camp represents a superb opportunity for the young-sters to climb onto the fi rst rung of the ladder in a professional sailing career, said Hamdan Moo-sa Al Harasi, Acting VP Corporate Strategy Unit at Omantel. “These are talented kids and they have worked hard to earn selection to the Omantel National Youth Squad training camp. They fully deserve this opportunity and I hope they seize it because it could very easily change their lives.
“We are pleased to be associ-ated with Oman Sail’s excellent youth programme because we see
a very clear and visible pathway for talented and committed indi-viduals who are prepared to work hard to succeed.
“When these kids get to Por-tugal, their future is in their own hands and if they can set their sights just a little higher than their coaches expect, they are sure to reap the rewards. We wish them well and look forward to fol-lowing their progress,” he added.
The selectors used a wide rang-ing set of criteria to fi nalise their choices, explained Mohsin Al Bu-saidi, who heads up Oman Sail’s Youth Programme.
“They were chosen based on their performance in the events in 2016 but also taking in con-sideration other factors such as their general behaviour and co-operation with the coaches and within the team and their poten-tial for development in the future.
“All ten have an exciting future and we will give them all the help they need to fulfi l their potential. Our aim is to have Omani sailors compete at the Olympic Games in the future and it is possible that a member of this youth squad could be involved in that process.”
Oman Sail’s Optimist Youth Squad: 1. Al Moatasem Al Farsi – Musannah Sailing School; 2. Mohammed Al Qasmi – Almouj Sailing School; 3. Jihad Al Hasani - Almouj Sailing School; 4. Samiha Al Riyami - Almouj Sailing School; 5. Abdul Malik Al Hinai - Almouj Sailing School; 6. Mohammed Al Alawi – Sur Sailing School; 7. Ali Al Riyami – Marina Bander Al Rowdha Sailing School; 8. Talal Al Harmi - Marina Bander Al Rowdha Sailing School; 9. Osama Al Zadjali - Almouj Sailing School; 10. Ablaj Al Digishi - Almouj Sailing School.
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YOUNG TALENTS: Ten young Omani sailors will travel to Portu-
gal for a training camp where they hope to earn fi nal selection
for the Optimist World Championships. – Supplied photo
Fatma out of doubles competition
at South Korea ITF tournament
MUSCAT: Omani star Fatma Al Nabhani suff ered the fi rst round loss in the doubles competition of the $25,000 Incheon ITF Pro Cir-cuit Tournament in South Korea on Tuesday.
According to information re-ceived here, Fatma and her Japa-nese partner Mari Osaka found Kamonwan Buayam of Thailand and Pei-Chi Lee of Chinese Taipei too hot to handle in their tough opening encounter.
Though Fatma and Mari Osaka did well in the beginning match-ing their rivals stroke for stroke, they couldn’t stop Kamonwan and Pei-Chi from winning the match 6-4, 6-2.
Fatma, however, will continue her singles campaign on Wednes-day when she takes on Thailand’s Bunyawi Thamchaiwat in the fi rst round.
Earlier, Fatma also took part in the $25,000 Goyang ITF Pro Circuit tournament in South Ko-rea where her singles challenge ended in the quarterfi nals while in the doubles the Omani girl and her Thai partner Patcharin Cheapchandej failed to get past the fi rst round.
Last month, the Omani sensa-tion, whose highest career ranking of 362 came way back in 2010, took part in a highly rated $100,000 An-ning ITF Pro Circuit tournament in China where she bowed out in the fi rst round of both singles and doubles competitions.
Fatma Al Nabhani had a great year in 2015 when she won fi ve $10,000 titles, including two back-to-back crowns in south In-dian city of Hyderabad.
In 2013, she won back-to-back $10,000 Sharm El Sheikh titles in Egypt and similar level tour-naments in Fujairah in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
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DISAPPOINTING START: Fatma Al Nabhani
Oman Sail announces Optimist team ahead of fi nal qualifying camp
Zeeshan smashes ton as Oman vanquish Vanuatu
MUSCAT: Zeeshan Maqsood smashed an unbeaten century as Oman routed Vanuatu for a nine-wicket victory in the ongoing ICC World Cricket League Division 5 competition in Jersey on Tuesday.
Chasing a 205-run target set by Vanuatu, Oman eased to victory in just 40.4 overs scoring 208 for one, thanks to a determined unbeaten knock of 130 by Zeeshan. Oman opener’s knock innings was stud-ded with 17 fours and two sixes.
The result, their third success in a row, has virtually assured Oman of a place in the fi nal which will in turn will enable them to seal their promotion to Division 4.
But before that Oman will have to complete their league engagements, playing a rather easy opponents in Tanzania on Wednesday and a tough team in Guernsey on Friday.
If everything goes in Oman’s favour they will be contesting Sat-urday fi nal against Guernsey, who also won all the three matches
they played so far. Guernsey, how-ever, had to tackle hosts Jersey on Wednesday and then Oman on Saturday.
On Tuesday, Vanuatu won the toss and elected to bat fi rst against Oman hoping to set a defend-able target. But the team from the South Pacifi c Ocean nation pre-ferred to play cautious after Oman pacer Rajesh Ranpura had their opener Jonathan Dunn (8) caught behind early in the innings.
However, fellow opener Joshua Rasu (34) combined well with number three batsman Nalin Nipiko study the ship. Nipiko infact took the attack to Oman and scored an unbeaten 93 off 108 deliveries with nine fours and three sixes.
Later Ronald Tari (35) giving him good company, Nipiko made sure Vanuatu put up a respectable score of 204 for seven in 50 overs.
In reply, Oman payed calculated game and with Zeeshan Maqsood mixing caution with aggression, they took the match away from Va-nuatu team.
Zeeshan was dominant partner in his 103-run fi rst wicket stand with Khawar Ali, who scored 29 with four fours.
With Oman crossing the half-way mark in just about 18 overs and with number three batsman Vaibhav Wategaonkar too show-ing good touch, it was a matter of how quickly Oman will reach their target and whether Zeeshan will be able to complete his century, which the opener did to the delight of the entire Oman cricket fraternity.
In other matches played on Tuesday, Jersey defeated Tanzania by 85 runs while Guernsey romped to 10-wicket win over Nigeria.
Lalcheta reprimanded Meanwhile, Oman captain Ajay Lalcheta has been reprimanded for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during his side’s 58-run victory over hosts Jersey in the ICC World Cricket League Di-vision 5 in Grainville on Monday.
According to news posted on In-ternational Cricket Council (ICC)
Ajay was found to have breached Article 2.1.5 of the ICC Code of Con-duct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to “show-ing dissent at an umpire’s decision during an international match”.
Ajay admitted the off ence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee David Jukes. As such, there was no need for a formal hearing. The charge was levelled by on-fi eld umpires Mark Hawthorne, Jacqueline Williams and third umpire Alex Dowdalls.
Chasing a 205-run
target set by Vanuatu,
Oman eased to
victory in just 40.4
overs thanks to a
determined unbeaten
knock of 130 by
Zeeshan Maqsood
VANUATUJ. Dunn c Khadye b Ranpura 8J. Rasu b Lalcheta 34N. Nipiko not out 93A. Mansale c Bilal Khan b A. Kaleem 11S. Kalworai c Lalcheta b Z. Maqsood 5R. Tari b Bilal Khan 35JW Chilia run out 2SH Obed c Khadye b Ranpura 3J. Vira (not out) 4Extras (b-1, lb-4, w-3, nb-1) 9 Total (7 wkts; 50 overs) 204Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-53, 3-70, 4-94, 5-138, 6-157, 7-160.Bowling: Bilal Khan 10-0-60-1 (nb-1, w-1); Rajesh Ranpura 10-3-37-2 (w-1); Mehran Khan 4-0-14-0; Ajay Lalcheta 10-3-28-1 (w-1); Aamir Kaleem 10-3-36-1; Zeeshan Maqsood 6-2-24-1.OMANZeeshan Maqsood not out 130Khawar Ali c Rasu b Mansale 29VS Wategaonkar not out 35Extras (lb-2, w-9, nb-3) 14Total (1 wkt; 40.4 overs) 208Fall of wickets: 1-103.Bowling: C. Blake 7-1-45-0 (nb-3, w-1); N. Nipiko 3-1-24-0; JW Chilia 10-1-29-0 (w-1); C. Mete 3-0-18-0; A. Mansale 10-0-46-1; SH Obed 5.4-0-32-0; J. Rasu 2-0-12-0.
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CENTURION: Oman’s Zeeshan Maqsood receives his man of the
match award after their win over Vanuatu. – Supplied photo
GREAT GOING: Members of Oman squad pose for a group in Jersey on Tuesday. – Supplied photo
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Australia recall Henriques, Starc for Sri Lanka tourMELBOURNE: Australia all-rounder Moises Henriques is in line for his fi rst Test in three years after being named in the squad for their three-match tour of Sri Lanka in July and August.
The 29-year-old seam bowler played the last of his three Tests during the ill-fated 2013 tour of India where Australia were white-washed 4-0 and four players were stood down for a match in the in-famous ‘homework-gate’ episode.
Henriques failed to make an im-pression with the ball during that series but injuries to Peter Siddle and James Pattinson have opened the door for the Madeira-born cricketer to stake another claim in the top-ranked Test nation.
“Henriques comes into the squad to give the fl exibility of an ad-ditional all-rounder option, having already shown he plays and adapts well to spin-friendly conditions,” chairman of selectors Rod Marsh said in a team release on Tuesday. “He has been working hard with his fi tness and we believe he is in prime condition to serve us well should he be selected to play.”
Fast bowler Mitchell Starc and left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe were also named in the 15-man squad on Tuesday for the matches in Pallekele, Galle and Colombo.
Lethal left-armer Starc returns to the test set-up for the fi rst time since he broke down with a foot
injury during the inaugural day-night test against New Zealand in Adelaide last November.
He leads a pace attack featur-ing Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Jackson Bird, with Pattinson missing the series due to a recurrence of stress frac-tures in his back and Siddle also nursing a back injury.
O’Keefe, who played just his second Test in January in the se-ries fi nale against West Indies in Sydney, will provide the option of a second spinner to back up regu-lar Nathan Lyon.
“We know his ability, he takes wickets continually in fi rst class cricket and he impresses when we select him to play Test crick-et,” Marsh said of the 31-year-old.
Australia have retained the batting lineup which soundly de-feated New Zealand and West In-dies over the home summer.
Sri Lanka host the fi rst Test in Pallekele on July 26, with match-es in Galle (August 4) and Colom-bo (August 13) to follow.
The teams will also play fi ve One-day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches.
The squad: Steve Smith (capt), Da-vid Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawa-ja, Adam Voges, Shaun Marsh, Mitchell Marsh, Moises Henriques, Peter Nev-ill, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Steve O’Keefe, Jackson Bird, Nathan Coulter-Nile. - Reuters
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IN PRIME CONDITION: Moises Henriques
Oman U-16 team to undergo training campMUSCAT: Oman national un-der-16 team coach Yacoub Al Sa-bahi has called up 27 players for the fi rst of a series of domestic training, which is scheduled to start on June 1.
The camp will take palce at Sultan Qaboos Sports Com-
plex in Bausher till June 6. The OFA has also planned for another camp from June 11 to 21, during which the team are also scheduled to play a few friendly matches. Another camp would also be organised from June 25 to July 3.
List of players: Arshad Al Alawi,
Mohammed Al Alawi (Al Arouba), Naji AlGhailani, Omar Al Midailwi (Sur), Sul-tan Bashir, Najib Al Shijaibi (Al Nasr), Mohammed Al Shekaili, Islam Al Hinai (Ibri), Yaqdhan Khamis, Yahya Hamood, Isam Khamis, Mutasim Al Bakri, Yousef Al MAlki, Nawaf Al Harasi, Faisal Al Na-dabi (Seeb), Yousuf Al Shiyadi, Moham-
med Al Shukaili, Mohammed Al Khamisi (Al Suwaiq), Thamir Al Zaabi, Moham-med Al Qaidi (Al Salam), Imad Al Jaradi, Khalid Al Hadabi (Al Musanna), Haider Al Ajmi (Saham), Hamza Al Shukaili (Al Rustaq), Mohammed Al Miqbali (Sohar), Al Bara Al Mawali (Al Shabab) and Muaz Al Jahdhami (Bausher).
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Sensational De Villiers powers RCB into final
BENGALURU: AB de Villiers played a breathtaking knock to sin-glehandedly lead Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore (RCB) fi ghtback and take them into the Indian Premier League (IPL) fi nal with a thrilling four-wicket win over Gujarat Li-ons here on Tuesday.
Chasing 159, RCB looked down and out at 29 for fi ve before de Villiers smashed 79 off 47 balls to script a sensational comeback and take the team home in 18.2 overs. The Lions were outdone by one man’s class as the eff orts of Dha-wal Kulkarani and Dwayne Smith went in vain.
With the spectacular win, RCB are into their third IPL fi nal and one step away from their maiden title. Lions on other hand will have another chance to make the sum-mit clash in the Qualifi er 2 in Delhi on Friday.
The RCB were expected to over-come the target with minimum fuss but tricky batting conditions
at the normally batting friendly Chinnaswamy made the job tough-er for them.
Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle can close the game in a space of a few overs but the devastating opening pair had an off day. Kohli, who has been in sensational form this IPL, suff ered a rare failure when he dragged a wide one off Kulkarni on to his stumps, stunning the crowd into silence.
The disappointment on the face of India’s star batsman was evident as he walked back into the dressing room. The two of his four hundreds in the competition had come against the Lions.
The odd ball stopping on a slower surface made the task more challenging. Gayle too was out in
Kulkarni’s over as he attempted a whack over midwicket to see his stumps rattled.
Kulkarni kept bowling in the off stump corridor and that worked brilliantly for him. Lokesh Rahul was caught at fi rst slip the follow-ing ball and Kulkarni was on a hat-trick. Kulkarni ended up with a ca-reer best fi gures of 4 for 14, albeit in a losing cause.
Soon after, RCB had lost half their side with de Villiers left to pull off a herculean task. The South African, as he often he does, brought his team back into the game and involved Iqbal Abdulla (33 not out off 25) in a unbeaten 91-run stand for the seventh wicket.
The team needed 49 off the last 30 balls but de Villiers paced his
innings perfectly to take the team with 10 balls to spare. He ended with fi ve sixes and as many bound-aries in his special knock.
Earlier, Smith hammered 73 off 41 balls to help Gujarat Lions re-cover from a disastrous start and post a competitive total.
Smith hammered six sixes in his whirlwind knock and shared an 85-run stand with Dinesh Karthik (26 off 30) after Lions lost their top three batsmen for nine runs. Wat-son was the stand out bowler for the hosts, ending with four wickets for 29 runs in his four overs.
Brief scores: Gujarat Lions 158 in 20 overs (Dwayne Smith 73; Shane Watson 4/29) lost to RCB 159/6 in 18.2 overs (AB De Villiers 79 n.o., Iqbal Abdulla 33 n.o). - PTI
Chasing 159, RCB
looked down and out
at 29 for fi ve before
de Villiers smashed
79 off 47 balls to
script a sensational
comeback and take
the team home
in 18.2 overs
BREATHTAKING KNOCK: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s AB De Villiers, centre, celebrates with team-
mates after guiding the team to victory over Gujarat Lions in Bengaluru on Tuesday. – PTI
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Djokovic and Nadal start with easy wins, Murray survives, Kerber out
PARIS: Novak Djokovic and Ra-fael Nadal sauntered to opening wins at the French Open on Tues-day but Andy Murray, one of their main title rivals, came perilously close to going home before joining them in the second round.
World No. 1 Djokovic, back on Philippe Chatrier court where a year ago in the fi nal Stan Wawrin-ka snatched away the missing title in his Grand Slam collection, out-classed fi rst-round opponent Tai-wan’s Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4, 6-1, 6-1.
Nadal found Australian Sam
Groth even more compliant as the Spaniard set off in search of his 10th title at Roland Garros with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 victory in little more than an hour.
Second seed Murray completed a fi ve-set victory over 37-year-old Czech veteran Radek Stepanek, hav-ing trailed by two sets on Monday evening before bad light intervened.
Murray returned to wrap up the fourth set before surviving a nerve-jangling decider to win 3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5 -- his ninth career
comeback from a two-set defi cit.“It was obviously an extremely
diffi cult match,” three-time semi-fi nalist Murray, who was two points from defeat serving at 4-5 in the decider, told reporters. “Today was pretty stressful.”
At least he lived to fi ght an-other day, unlike Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber who succumbed to a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 fi rst-round defeat by Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens.
“First rounds are always tough
in the tournament, especially for me. What can I say? It happens,” third seed Kerber, who stunned Serena Williams in Melbourne to win her maiden Grand Slam title, told reporters.
It almost never happens to the leading men. The last time Serbian Djokovic lost in the fi rst round of a grand slam was in 2006 in Aus-tralia, while Nadal has only experi-enced it once, at Wimbledon three years ago. There was no chance of those records being tarnished as
they began their runs on day three of the elongated fi rst round.
Nadal, bumped up to fourth seed after Roger Federer’s with-drawal, made mincemeat of Groth’s serve, one of the fastest in tennis, as he ruthlessly exposed the burly Australian.
He made only three unforced er-rors in the match.
“It’s obvious that was a good start for me,” Nadal, who suff ered only
his second career loss at Roland Garros last year when beaten by Djokovic in the quarterfi nals, said.
There were mixed fortunes for two former women’s champions.
Italian veteran Francesca Schi-avone, who lifted the Suzanne Len-glen Cup in 2010, was bundled out in the fi rst round by Kristina Mlad-enovic but 14th seed Ana Ivanovic, champion in 2008, beat France’s Oceane Dodin 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. - Reuters
Murray completed
a fi ve-set victory
over Czech veteran
Stepanek, having
trailed by two sets
on Monday evening
before bad light
intervened. Murray
returned to wrap up
the fourth set before
surviving a nerve-
jangling decider to win
3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5DIFFICULT OUTING: Andy Murray of Britain stretches for a return against Radek Stepanek of the Czech
Republic during their match in the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Tuesday. – Reuters
PARIS: It was a heart-tug-ging moment: As Francesca Schiavone went down to defeat in the fi rst round of the French Open, the tournament organisers announced she was retiring, and the crowd had seen her last Roland Gar-ros campaign.
But one person didn’t feel very warm and sentimental: Schiavone. The retirement was news to her.
Roland Garros’s Twitter feed had carried the an-nouncement. The tweet was quickly deleted, but several reporters took theinforma-tion into the news conference room after Schiavone’s 6-2 6-4 loss to Kristina Mladenovic.
“Roland Garros announced my retirement, but I didn’t,”
Schiavone told them. “So you can stand up, all of you, and go back to work in the offi ce, because I didn’t say that.”
Schiavone lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup at the 2010 French Open and was runner-up in 2011. She turns 36 next month, an age when tennis players start hanging up their racquets. But Schi-avone would prefer not to be hurried along.
“I will announce when I will want to stop,” she said.
“When I fi nished, every-body stood up. I say, I don’t know if it’s respect, I love, I appreciate this situation. But I think that everybody thought this because Roland Garros announced it. It was not the last one for me.” - Reuters
Rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated: Schiavone
There is no bad blood between Amelie and I, says MurrayPARIS: Andy Murray tried to end speculation about the state of his relationship with former coach Amelie Mauresmo by declaring “we certainly didn’t fall out”.
As if surviving a fi ve-set thrill-er against wily Czech Radek Stepanek in the fi rst round of the French Open was not exhaust-ing enough, the British second seed was then quizzed on why he ended his two-year partnership with Mauresmo. A sequence of interviews by the two grand slam champions seemed to suggest that things had turned frosty between the duo before they parted ways.
However, Murray said that was far from the truth.
“Me and Amelie have a good relationship,” said the 2013 Wim-bledon champion, whose alliance with Mauresmo two years ago created a buzz after he became the fi rst high-profi le male player to hire a woman coach.
“We certainly didn’t fall out.“The reason we stopped work-
ing together... was the fact that we literally are spending hardly any time together in a three-month period right before major events coming up. And she was not able to help me during that period.”
Murray won seven trophies un-der Mauresmo’s guidance, includ-ing his fi rst two titles on clay.
However, the Frenchwoman has not been regularly on the cir-cuit with Murray since giving
birth to her son Aaron last August.Mauresmo had indicated that
the union ended because she felt she could not “take things fur-ther anymore” with Murray be-fore adding: “Andy is complex. On court, he can be opposite of what he is in life. It can be confusing.”
But Murray clarifi ed that wires had simply got crossed.
“I did an interview before any-thing that Amelie had said had
come out. And the last two days... I was supposedly hitting back at Amelie’s comments and disagree-ing with everything that she said and that we had a really tough breakup,” said Murray. “That sim-ply is not true. When we sat down in Madrid... it was far from heated. We spoke very calmly.”
“To say that the reason that we stopped working together is because of my behaviour on the court, that is not true. In Madrid when we spoke, we didn’t discuss that one time.”
Responding to Mauresmo’s ob-servation that he was a complex character, Murray admitted there are still things he needs to work on to curb his tendency to shout at his entourage when things are not going his way.
“On the court... when I’m losing I get very frustrated. When I’m winning, obviously I’m happier,” he said. “I don’t know if that’s complex or not. It’s actually quite simple, to me.” - Reuters
G O O D R E L A T I O N S H I P
The reason we stopped working together... was the fact
that we literally are spending hardly any time together in a
three-month period right before major events coming up
Andy Murray
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SPORTSW E D N E S DAY, M AY 2 5, 2 0 1 6
RUWI KINGS LIFT ADRAK CRICKET TROPHYRuwi Kings defeated New XI by 40 runs to clinch the title at Adrak Cricket Fiesta Cup
tournament organised by Muscat Black Caps and Al Adrak LLC here recently. The tourna-
ment was inaugurated by Dr. Thomas Alexander, CEO of Al Adrak, the prizes were distrib-
uted by Joseph Thampan, General manager of Al Adrak. — Supplied photo
Shounak, Saiprem dazzle at ISC tourneyMUSCAT: Shounak Kelkar and M.V. Saiprem notched up im-pressive wins at the annual table tennis tournament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC) and sponsored by Muscat Insurance Services and Oman United Insur-ance Company.
Shounak and Saiprem dealt heavy blows on fancied senior players in a dazzling display that earned them valuable victories.
Lefthander Shounak shrugged off the loss of the fi rst game and played brilliantly to stun fancied Yash Tanna 4-11, 11-5, 11-6, 4-11, 11-7 in the fi rst round-robin match of the boys under-17 singles. Shou-nak followed it up with another brilliant 11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 11-5 vic-tory over veteran R. Murali in the fi rst round of the men’s A singles.
In another boys under-17 league match, Fancied Subash Pillai suf-
fered a setback at the hands of MV Saiprem. In a fi ve-game thriller, Saiprem combined brilliance with strong nerves to register a fi ne 11-3, 9-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6 victory. In other boys under-17 matches, Kenneth Vaz scored an identical 11-8, 11-8, 11-8 victory over Pra-khar Pateria,P. Sai Saran posted a comfortable 11-3, 11-2, 11-3 win over Chandan Srinivas.
In fi rst round action of the men’s
singles, Yash Tanna defeated Ra-hul Joshi 11-6, 11-8, 11-7, Shou-nak Kelkar faced some resistance before ousting Vijay Rawat 11-3, 17-15, 11-5, Pranav Vinod routed Yusuf Karimbhai 11-4, 11-1, 11-8, R. Subramanian coasted to a 11-4, 11-7, 11-5 win over Mustafa In-dorewala, Simon Joseph defeated Dinesh Gandhi 11-5, 11-8, 11-6 and S. Sagayaraj downed Percy Pereira 11-7, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7.
T A B L E T E N N I S
Valencia stick
with Ayestaran
VALENCIA: Pako Ayestaran has been appointed Valencia coach until 2018, the La Liga club said on their website on Tuesday.
The 53-year-old Spaniard took over the fi rst team in March until the end of the sea-son after former England in-ternational Gary Neville was sacked four months into job.
Ayestaran guided Valencia to 12th place in the league stand-ings after a relegation scare, winning three of his eight games in charge.
Ayestaran, a former Valen-cia player, previously managed Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv, guiding them to the Premier League title in 2015. - Reuters
F O O T B A L L
Zidane praises Simeone ahead of final in Milan
MADRID: Zinedine Zidane had few equals as a player but heading into his fi rst Champions League fi -nal as a coach, he admits that unlike Atletico Madrid counterpart Diego Simeone he still has much to learn.
The former France playmaker, who was promoted from Real’s reserve team to replace Rafa Ben-itez in January, steered the side to a runners-up fi nish in La Liga and Saturday’s fi nal in Milan.
Real have won 21 out of 26 games under Zidane and lost two, scoring
71 goals and giving away 18.Simeone led Atletico to their
second Champions League fi nal in three years. “He has everything that a coach needs but above all, he knows his team and his players well, which is the most important thing,” Zidane told a news confer-ence on Tuesday.
“I have a lot to learn but my en-thusiasm to learn is tremendous. This will make me improve. I still have a long journey to be an impor-tant coach.”
Saturday cannot come soon enough for Zidane, who could be-come the seventh man to win the European Cup as a player and a
coach. His spectacular volley in the fi nal in Glasgow in 2002 gave Real their ninth European title and they claimed a record 10th crown in 2014.
“I’m excited and happy,” the 43-year-old said. “I am looking for-ward to the fi nal, to take advantage of this opportunity. I know how lucky I am to have the chance to be in a fi nal with this club.”
Zidane was assistant to Real coach Carlo Ancelotti when Los Blancos beat Atletico 4-1 in extra-time in the fi nal two years ago today.
“When it comes to fi nals, I only know what it feels like as a player and as an assistant. I will experi-ence it now as coach with calm-ness, determination and patience.”
Zidane played fi ve seasons for Real and when he took over in Janu-ary he knew exactly what was ex-pected of him. “The pressure is al-ways there. It’s part of the work and I like it. I have been a player and I had pressure but I have more as a coach. Failure would be not to give our all.”
Real failed to beat Atletico in La Liga this season, losing 1-0 at home and drawing 1-1 at the Vi-cente Calderon stadium.
“It’s going to be a diffi cult match,” Zidane said. “I don’t think holding possession will be good enough. Atletico are a complete team.” - Reuters
Real have won 21 out
of 26 games under
Zidane and lost two,
scoring 71 goals
and giving away 18.
Simeone led Atletico
to their second
Champions League
fi nal in three years
He (Simeone) has
everything that a coach
needs but above all, he
knows his team and his
players well. I still have
a long journey to be
an important coach
Zinedine ZidaneReal Madrid coach
Ronaldo declares himself fi t for Atletico matchMADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo has reassured Real Madrid fans he will be fi t to play in Saturday’s Cham-pions League fi nal against Atletico Madrid in Milan after limping out of Tuesday’s training session.
Ronaldo failed to complete training for the third session in a row, leaving the pitch with a thigh problem following a clash with Real goalkeeper Kiko Casilla.
“It was a minor scare, a knock, but in a few days’ time I will be well,” the Portuguese forward told reporters.
The 31-year-old missed the fi rst leg of Real’s semifi nal against Manchester City with a thigh injury but thinks he is in better physical condition than he was before the fi nal two years ago.
“I believe I’m in better shape,” Ronaldo said.
“I’ve had a slight problem but it’s normal as I have been the most used player in the team.
“I think this is the season where I have played the most minutes,” he said.
“Besides the problem of today’s training session, I believe I’m at my best level.”
Real Madrid’s goalscoring ma-chine is just one victory away
from clinching his third Euro-pean crown.
Ronaldo is one goal short of matching his own record of 17 goals in the competition set in the 2013-14 campaign when the team lifted the European Cup for the 10th time.
“I would love to equal or even surpass that record,” Ronaldo said. “But it is not an obsession. The record is mine whether I score or not in the fi nal. The im-portant thing is that we win.”
Ronaldo is the all-time leading scorer in Europe’s elite club com-petition with 93 goals, 78 for Real.
The former Manchester Unit-ed player netted the last goal in the fi nal in Lisbon two years ago when Real defeated Atletico 4-1 after extra-time.
Ronaldo has amassed 51 goals in 47 games in all competitions this season but none against Atletico Madrid.
“I’m focused,” he said. “This is the game of our lives. The best two teams are in the fi nal. I be-lieve we are better but we have to play a good game.
“I think we will win and lift the European Cup again on Satur-day.” - Reuters
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The heat wave has already started to creep in and has dampened our outdoor entertainment dur-ing weekends. Residents prefer to stay at the cool confi nes of
their homes or pack to air-conditioned re-sorts abandoning wadi bashing, boat trips or a desert camp during weekends. Gone are the outdoor barbecue days, it is so humid and hot outside, say many revellers who want to be with nature for a weekend day trip. Many are staying indoors glued to PS4s or TV sets.
Farm stay is a perfect remedy to this sum-mer blues. And Oman’s Batinah region is peppered with lot of farm houses that fi ts to any budget. Though, agricultural tour-ism is a popular form of tourist activity in many countries around the world, it has not made a fi llip in a big way in the tour-ism marketing scene of Oman. But the fact is that many domestic as well as tourists from the neighbouring UAE states are fl ocking to the farm houses in the Batinah region during the weekends. These farms are so overbooked that you will have to dial them days in advance to book one.
The farm houses combine a rural world of farming with modern amenities to create a unique stay experience. Guests have the op-portunity to even experience the daily farm-ing activities. “One of the best things about these farm stay is that children enjoy it very
much with family members and friends. For the children, who have been growing in an apartment culture, the farm life is a sort of going back to nature and learning some of the basics of our life,” says Shabu Thampy, who is an ardent lover of farm stays. Chil-dren can enjoy everything that they miss in their city life.
“I always advise farm stays, because some farms are like mini-zoos and their owners take a special interest in raising animals and rare birds. Visiting families can learn many skills and gain much knowledge during the stay, such as how to grow and care for plants and trees, how to pick and store fruits and vegetables, as well as taking care of the birds and animals. We can also purchase some of the best farm fresh vegetables and fruits and dairy products from these farms,” he said.
In the Batinah region, you can also indulge in activities outside the farm, like visiting nearby farms, forts or castles and beaches, fi sh markets, wander through seasonal markets, or just relax and enjoy the beau-ty of nature. The region is famous for its greenery serenity.
The very fi rst moment you enter a farm house, you will get to know the welcoming cool climate of the place which will soothe your body and soul. Lush greenery is abun-dant around you with diff erent kinds of trees and vegetables farmed and you will
be amazed by the amount of hard work that has gone into the making of this farm from a desert land. You can join the farm workers in plucking mangoes, and fresh vegetables like long beans, bitter gourds, pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes and curry leaves from the fi eld. If you are done with the fi eld activities, it is time to cool off yourself in the swimming pools.
Many of the farm houses have indoor and outdoor pools of various size and depth. The evenings are for you to enjoy the chirping of birds or to have a game of football or cricket with your loved ones. At night the area will be transformed into a vast open air party lawn where you can prepare barbecue, en-gage in games with kids, sing to karaoke mu-sic or dance to your favourite peppy beats.
There are a lot of farms that you will fi nd it diffi cult to choose from. Some of the high-end farms off er luxury facilities like plush accommodation with private temperature controlled pools, quality food with bbq par-ties, while mid-range farms off er the facili-ties for your stay. You can even set up your tents inside the farms and sleep there. An-other attraction is that you can take 20 to 25 people to a farm for overnight stay, which compared to hotel stay is much cheaper.
The farms are a best place for activi-ties like educational trips for the students, company meetings, team building, and family get-togethers, birthday parties, fi rst Holy Communion and any function of your choice. These farms are situated close to the main town and all facilities like shopping malls, hospitals, supermarkets are just 5 or 10 minutes drive away.
Many of the top-end farmhouses can be booked through websites such as Tripadvi-sor or Booking.com. Take a break, go away for a weekend and discover one of the farms available. Planning a trip like this will defi -nitely clear your head by taking you away from the toil and stress of the daily life. It is an experience unlike any other.
Al Harthy Palms, Barka+968 9932 1332
In the Lap of NatureWith farm houses galore in Batinah region, farm stays are a better way to cool off this summer.
Story Mohammed Shafeeqe
The farm houses combine a rural
world of farming with modern
amenities to create a unique stay
experience
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PANORAMA MALLX-Men: Apocalypse (3D) (Action) (PG12)Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender3:30, 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45PMX-Men: Apocalypse (4D) (Action) MX4DCast: James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30PM (PG12)X-Men: Apocalypse (3D) (Action) (PG12) VIP LOUNGE3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30PMOur Kind of Traitor - (2D) (Thriller ) (15+)Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis3:30, 9:30 & 11:30PMThis Time - (2D) (Tagalog) (PG12)Cast: James Reid, Nadine Lustre7:30PMWyrmwood: Road of the Dead - (2D) (Comedy | Horror) (15+)Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey11:30PMThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) (Animation) 3:00 & 6:45PM
Captain America: Civil War - (PG) (Action) 8:45PM (3D)Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.The Man Who Knew Infinity - (2D) (PG)Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons5:30PMThe Jungle Book - (3D) Drama| Family) (PG)4:45PMCast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
AZAIBA X-Men: Apocalypse (3D) (Action ) (PG12) Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender3:15, 9:00, 11:45 PMOur Kind of Traitor (2D) (Thriller) (15+) Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie3:45, 11:45 PMThe Angry Bird Movie (3D) (Action) (U) Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess3:45 PMChakravyuh (Kannad) (2D) (Action (PG) Cast: Puneeth Rajkumar, Rachita Ram6:00 PMThe Jungle Book (3D) (Family) (PG) Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley5:45 PMKing Liar (Mal) (2D) (Comedy) (PG12) Cast: Dileep, Madonna Sebastian, Lal8:45 PM
Sarabjit (Hindi) (2D) (Drama) (PG12) Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shiwani Saini, Randeep Hooda3:30, 6:15, 8:45, 11:15 PMAzhar (Hindi) (2D) (Action) (PG) Cast: Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi10:30 PMBrahmot Savam (Telugu) (2D) (Comedy) Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kajal Aggarwal, Tanikella6:00 PM (TBC)Maruthu (Tamil) (2D) (Action) (PG12) Cast: Vishal, Sri Divya, Radha Ravi7:45 PM
RUWIScreen 1Sarbjit(2D) (Drama ) –PG12Cast : Aishwarya Rai, Randeep Hooda3.30, 9.30 PMX-Men: Apocalypse (2D) (Action) PG12Cast : Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn6.30 PMScreen 2X-Men: Apocalypse (2D) (Action) –PG12Cast : Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn3.45, 9.45 PMSarbjit (2D) (Drama ) –PG126.45 PM
Screen 3Baaghi (2D) (Action) –PG3.45, 6.45, 9.45 PMCast : Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor
SURX-Men : Apocalypse 3D (Crime ) ( PG12 ) Cast : James Mc Avoy, Michael Fassbender4:45, 9:15, 11:45 PMOur Kind of Traitor (Thriller ) (15+ ) Cast : Ewan Mc Gregor, Damian Lewis4:30, 9:00 PMKing Liar (Malayalam | Comedy ) (PG12) Cast : Dileep, Madonna11:00 PMThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) ( Animation) 7:15 PM ( U ) Marudu ( Tamil | Action ) (PG12) Cast : Vishal, Sri Divya, Radha Ravi6:30 PM
SOHAR
X-Men: Apocalypse (PG12) (3D) (Action)Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender3:15, 6:00, 8:45, 11:30PM Jungle Book (PG) (3D) (Adventure)Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley5:00PMThe Angry Birds Movie (U) (3D)(Comedy)Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess3:00, 7:00PMOur Kind of Traitor (15+) (Thriller)Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis3:45, 9:15, 11:45PMSarbjit (PG 12) (Hindi)(Biographical Drama)Cast : Shiwani Saini, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan11:15PMKing Liar (PG12) (Malayalam) (Comedy)Cast: Dileep, Madonna Sebastian, Lal 9:00PMWyrmwood: Road of the Dead (15+) Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey11:55PM (Horror)Captain America: Civil War 3D (PG12)9:00PMCaptain America: Civil War 2D (PG12)3:45PMMaruthu (PG12) (Tamil/Action/Romance) 6:15PMBrahmot Savam(Telugu/Comedy/Romance)Cast: Kajal Aggarwal, Mahesh Babu, Tanikella Bharani6:30PM
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Maruthu (PG12) (Tamil) (Action / Romance)
Cast: Vishal Krishna, Sri Divya, Radha Ravi 6:30 PMX-Men: Apocalypse (PG12) (3D) (Action)4:30, 8:45 & 11:30 PMJungle Book (PG) (3D) (Adventure)4:30 PMThe Angry Birds Movie (U) (3D)( Animation)Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess, Jason Sudeikis6:45 PM Our Kind of Traitor (15+) (Thriller)Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, NaomieHarris4.45, 7.00 & 9.15 PMSarbjit (PG 12) (Hindi)(Biographical drama)Cast : Shiwani Saini, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda11.15 PMKing Liar (PG12) (Malayalam) (Comedy)Cast: Dileep, Madonna Sebastian, Lal 9:00 PMWyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Comedy)Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon11:55 PM (15+)
SALALAH
X-Men: Apocalypse (3D) (PG12) (Action) Cast: James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence6:00, 8:45, 11:30PMX-Men: Apocalypse (2D) (PG12) (Action) Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender 1:00, 3:45PMCaptain America: Civil War (3D) (PG) (Action | Adventure| Sci-Fi) Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson3:15, 11:15PMThe Jungle Book (3D) (PG) (Adventure) Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley2:30PMThe Angry Birds Movie (3D) (U) (Animation) 12:30, 4:30PM (Eng)Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess, Jason SudeikisOur Kind of Traitor (2D) (15+) (Thriller) Cast: Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris1:15, 6:30, 11:55PMSarbjit (2D) (PG12) (Biographical Drama) Cast: Shiwani Saini, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 8:30PMKing Liar (2D) (PG12) (Malayalam) (Comedy)9:00PM Maruthu (2D) (PG12) (Tamil) (Action )Cast: Vishal Krishna Reddy, Sri Divya, Radha6:15PM
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X-Men: Apocalypse (4D) (Action) MX4D (PG12)Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender Jennifer Lawrence3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30PM
Brahmot Savam (Telugu) (2D) (Comedy) Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kajal Aggarwal, Tanikella6:00 PM (TBC)
BAHJA CINEMAFilm information 24540856 / Advance Booking
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The Trust (Crime / Thriller)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira
4.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.55 p.m.
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Term Life (Crime / Drama)
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4.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.55 p.m.
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Ratchet & Clank (Animation)
Voice Overs: James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye,
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King Liar ( Mal) (Comedy)
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9-30 pm Cinema Main; 3-30 & 6-30 pm
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Brahmotsavam (Telugu) ( Drama)
Cast : Mahesh Babu, Samantha & Kajal Agarwal
3-30 & 6-30 pm Cinema Main; 9-30 pm
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Cast: Vishal & Sri Divya
3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 pm Cinema-4
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Send us a colour photograph of the child (below 17 years) whose birthday you are celebrating, along with his/her full name, date of birth, address, telephone number and parents’/your name to Times of Oman, With Love, PO Box 770, PC 112, Ruwi or through e-mail to [email protected]
WITH LOVE
JAGAN TEJMay 25, 2011
ERICA SOPHIA FREDERICKMay 25, 2005
LIFESTYLEC7
Misfat Al Abryeen is a mountain village
near Al Hamra. Walk through one of the
ancient rock arches to time-travel back
to the 12th century. This is an ancient
land that predates history and script. The
contrastingly painted doors and windows
are unique to this ancient village.
-Mohammed Shafeeqe
Colourful Door of Misfat Al Abryeen
Location: 23°08’21.9”N 57°18’41.9”E
I N T H E N E W S
Emirates Opens New Lounge at Cape Town International Airport
DUBAI: Emirates’ premium and loyal customers can now look for-ward to even greater levels of com-fort, hospitality, and convenience with the opening of the airline’s new two-level premium lounge at the Cape Town International Air-port in South Africa.
All Emirates First Class and Business Class customers, as well as Skywards Platinum and Gold members travelling from Cape Town to Dubai will have compli-mentary access to the new facility, which has the capacity to accom-modate 123 people comfortably.
The lounge, which was recently opened, represents an investment of $289 million by the airline. It is conveniently located in the inter-national departures corridor next to Emirates’ preferred boarding point at Gate A3.
Emirates’ airport lounges are an integral part of the airline’s service and product off ering for its pre-mium and loyal customers, and the
continued investment in airport services ensures the airline pays as much attention on providing luxury and comfort on the ground as it does on board it fl ights.
Designed with a focus on com-fort and quality, the new lounge, coupled with complimentary chauff eur drive service in Cape Town, dedicated check-in coun-ters, as well as Emirates’ award winning on board service, ensures premium customers have a seam-less, comfortable and enjoyable journey from the moment they start their travel until they arrive at their destination.
Emirates expects to welcome approximately 65-70 premium customers on a daily basis at the lounge.
Cape Town has become Emir-ates’ 39th lounge in its network of over 150 global points and the 14th destination to feature the airline’s new lounge design concept, which includes Italian marble fl oors,
leather armchairs, and walnut wood fi nishes creating an upmar-ket contemporary space with a fresh relaxing atmosphere.
It off ers a dedicated dining area with a choice of bar seating, an ex-tensive menu of complimentary hot and cold gourmet foods served buff et style, including local dishes, and a beverage service.
Customers will also have access to a fully equipped business centre with state-of-the-art touch screen workstations, complimentary Wi-Fi and a dedicated lift to access the upper level of the lounge, which off ers a quiet seating area, main dining room, a second TV area, main restroom with showers, and a prayer room. Emirates currently operates two daily fl ights between Cape Town and Dubai with its popular Boeing 777 aircraft.
The airline will launch a third daily service between the two cities from July 4, 2016.—[email protected]
The new lounge becomes the airline’s 39th across its global network
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LIFESTYLEC8 W E D N E S DAY, M AY 2 5, 2 0 1 6
To get a glimpse of the ‘real’ Oman, one should visit these charming fi shing vil-lages. In Muscat the
famous fi shing villages are Sidab, Seeb, Muttrah, Darsait, Azaiba, Yiti, Sifah, and Qurum. These are the spots to watch the real beach life and a good variety of fi shes. The fi shermen are seen near the beach in the early morning light, preparing their nets and boats on the beaches. The seemingly sleepy fi shing villages become live when the day’s catch being hauled in with the arrival of fi sh merchants, agents, buyers, ice vendors, zigzagging Land Cruiser pick-ups, and a lot of birds. Fish-ing has been the mainstay of in-come for generations in these villages, well-supported by the abundance of tropical fi sh varie-ties in the Sea of Oman and down the Arabian Sea. But many of the fi sher folk feel that their lives are in jeopardy with the arrival of big water front development projects. Photography: MMG photographers/ Shutterstock
Fish and FolkloreFrom ancient times Oman has been known as a
seafaring nation. The vast stretch of beautiful coast,
peppered with bubbling fi shing villages from north
to the south are some of the must-visit places.
W W W.T I M E S O F O M A N . C O MSECTION
CONNECT H E D A I LY G U I D E
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W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6
RENT D2
*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication.
* Subject to space availability
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461
FOR RENT
D2 W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6
DAILY GUIDE
*Tourist visa arranged
Villa for rent in Al Hail South one at
fi rst fl oor and other at Ground fl oor.
Contact: 99546777
Available for lease Open Com-
mercial Land of 21370 sqm near
AL Nahda Resort, Shaksuk, Barka.
Contact : 99337160
Offi ce for rent in Al Ansab near
bank Muscat. Contact: 99466173
3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.
18 November Street. Near Mars
Hypermarket and The Chedi.
Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or
Residential use. OMR 295/- month.
Call 94477222
1000 sqmtrs industrial land for
rent in Ghala suitable for
warehouse workshop etc. Contact
24700120 / 92584715
Al Khuwair 17, villa 3 B. Rooms, 3
toilets, kitchen, hall owner.
Contact: 99385553
Offi ce 55SQ.Mtrs & 2B/R at Bausher
directly from owner. Contact:
92158031
Spacious 1BHK fl at in Darsait & fully
furnished 2 BHK fl at in Shatti Al
Qurum. Contact: 99369081
Ware house open type in Saham,
shared basis at OMR 150.00 P.M.
Contact +968 99450811 & 9921
3487, EMAIL: [email protected]
House in North Al Hail with 3
rooms, living room, hall, 4 toilets
300 RO. Contact 99738881 /
99439568
2 bed rooms fl at with hall, 2
bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat
Municipality. Contact: 92584715 /
24700120
Plot at Barka next to Germany Col-
lege & next to Aramex Company,
next to Bahwan Warehouse, next to
Omasco warehouse 37,074 SQM2
required 0.250 Baiza per SQM.
Contact: 99888390
Shop for rent at Wadi Kabir Indus-
trial area. Contact: 99888390
Double bedroom fl ats available in
Honda road, Ruwi and Mabellah.
Contact: 24833972/ 24833974
Mobile 99367448
3 Bedroom well maintained fl at
(villa Type only 2 fl ats in villa)
in Al Khuwair, behind Al Akhtam
Restaurant villa No 1841,
Way No 3922--- block no 239.
Contact: 99462980
Flat for rent in Al Qurum,
3 rooms & hall. Contact: 91763660
Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms
& hall. Contact: 917633665
Flat for rent in Wadi Al Kabeer
including 3 rooms with ACs.
Contact: 99333639
Villa for rent in Al Ghubrah,
5 rooms, hall. Contact: 91763665
Al Khuwair 17 a new room, toilet,
kitchen, deluxe owner.
Contact: 99385553
Staff Complex villa (Al Khuwair
17) 10 rooms, 10 toilets, 7 kitchens.
Owner Contact: 99385553
2 BHK at Azaiba behind Bahwan
half KM. Contact: 99224748 /
99332297
For rent New fl ats at Darsait Al
Sahail. Contact: 99777351
House in Darsait 3 rooms, kitchen,
1 bathroom with A/C.
Contact: 95522405
1 BHK and 2BHK Flats available
near Lulu Darsait (Main road, Opp. to
Min. of Defense). Contact : 93202733
Flat for rent : fl at available at
Hamriya & Wadi Kabir. Contact:
97380548 / 99680499
4 bedroom villa at Madinat Illam
Offi ce / 1 BHK Ruwi. #95915154
1BHK Ghubra R.O 275/-.
Contact: 92144045
3BHK Al Khuwair R.O 375/-.
Contact: 92144045
1BHK Mumtaz R.O 225/-.
Contact: 92144045
1BHK Darsait R.O 225/-.
Contact: 92144045
Room Al Khuwair R.O 110/-.
Contact: 97799175
7 rooms villa at split AC 18th
November road Azaiba.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
New fl ats Wadi Al Kabir.
Contact: 92130703
5 bedroom brand new villas for
rent in Al Khoud, near Al Ruwad
International School.
Contact: 99447002 / 99352441
2 BHK at Mawaleh North, near
Sadiq Al Amin Mosque.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
For rent Gym & Health club for
rent in Al Khoud near Al Ruwad
International School.
Contact: 99447002 / 99352441
1 bedroom family / bachelors in
Al Khuwair R.O 100/-.
Contact: 95154331
Villa for rent in Al Khoud, 6 rooms,
hall. Contact: 91763665
5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair, for Staff
Accommodation. Contact 99792181
2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair &
Ghubra. Contact 99792181
Flat for rent Al Hail North to the
Wave Muscat ground fl oor with
furniture the price RO 250/-.
Contact: 99353433
Contact: 95215289, 99229263, 93221054
COLD STORE ROOMS FOR RENT
Available at a prime locati on on azaiba service road
(previously occupied by A’Saff a Foods) near Al Turky and Mazda showroom
Just 2 OMR / Sqm, Showroom /
store for rent Ground fl oor & base-
ment, area - 1100 Sqm, location
Seh Al Ahmer, 20 km to Rusayl.
Contact: 97714433 / 93437982
Flats for rent at Just RO 160/- 2 Bed
room, hall, kitchen , 2 toilets, loca-
tion Seh Al Ahmer, 20 KM to Rusayl,
including AC & roof Garden.
Contact: 97714433 / 93437982
1BHK Flats for rent, behind Shera-
ton hotel in Ruwi, rent R.O 250/-
per month. Contact: 96051941
1BHK fl at in Ruwi for family.
Contact- 92947251
FOR RENTOFFICES & OUTLETS
IN PRIME LOCATIONS:MAIN ROAD – MIDDLE OF THE MARKET
AT: WALJA – HAMRIYA – SEEB - BARKA
CALL: 99332242 / [email protected]
Three storied villa for rent At Fahud Street, Qurum 16
Total four bedroomsHaving spacious halls
Drawing & dining roomsMajlis
Two kitchen, store roomWith split A/C units in all rooms
Servant rooms & pantryCare taker room with toilet.
Contact – 24785555/ 93394444Villa No.1259 Fahud Street,
Qurum 16
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6 D3
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
FOR RENT
Flat in Al Bustan in Muscat, 3
rooms, 3 bathrooms, family hall,
kitchen, store, laundry with spilt
unit air condition 350/- O.R.
Contact : 98919037
3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in
Misfah. Contact 99792181
Flat in Al Bustan in Muscat,
4 rooms, 3 bathrooms, family hall,
kitchen with spilt unit
air conditioner 400/- O.R.
Contact: 96228232 / 92776303
1 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury
Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33. 2 B/R
Fully Furnished Luxury Apartment
@ Al Khuwair 33. 4 B/R Unfur-
nished Apartment with attached
Split A/C @ Azaiba. Contact: Atlas
Real Estate & Rent A Car LLC :
99249069 / 94617563/ 99436312,
Email: [email protected]
Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Flats for rent, rooms in
Al Khuwair. Contact: 93830111
Flat for rent 2 bedrooms in Ruwi
Mumtaz area. Contact: 91409667 /
24291500
Ware house in Ghala for rent (400/
800/ 1200/ 3300 SQM).
Contact: 91155779
Hotel for investment. Contact: 91155779
2/3 BHK in Al Khuwair for rent.
Contact: 91155779
Flats, shops & store for rent in
MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.
Contact: 97293708 / 92433127
Offi ces and Flats in Ghala.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Fully Furnished apartments in
Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 /
97201688
1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat
Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh
near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
Flats in Darsait. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Brand new villas in Al Ansab. Con-
tact 94051789 / 97201688
BUYING
Bobcat available for rent.
Contact 97623299
Buying cars for cash.
Contact: 90202090
Two bedrooms, fl at available, just
behind ISM. Contact: 99467374
Furnished single room available
for Executive bachelor or small
family in Walja near Honda road
Ruwi. Contact: 99016546
Semi furnished big room with
separate entrance attached bath-
room near Indian School Al Ghu-
bra for non cooking Indian Execu-
tive bachelor. Contact: 95146361 /
92657598
Big single room with AC, separate
toilet, kitchen at Al Hail highway
side preferred South Indians rent
RO 90/-. Contact: 98593040
Semi furnished room for single
bachelor at Muttrah R.O 85/-, WIFI
& E/W. Contact: 92828615
Independent room in Qurum/Hail
Contact: 95529970
ACC. AVAILABLE
ACC. AVAILABLE
Running Coff ee Shop at Hamari-
ya/Ruwi for sale with CR & Visa.
Contact : 92824153 / 99881187
Commercial land in fi rst line in
Barka for sale. Contact: 91155779
Farm in Barka for sale.
Contact: 91155779
Villa for sale in Mabela 6 rooms,
living room & hall.
Contact: 91763665
Dental chairs for sale sparingly
used dental units for sale.
Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.
Kumar 99570284
Dental clinic for immediate sale
doctor going abroad. Contact:
92882209 / 96373097
2 Shops for sale at prime location
in Ghobra. Contact: 96381294
Bozlur
Building in Al Khuwair at prime
location for sale. Contact: 91155779
Commercial /R land in Al Khuwair
for sale. Contact: 91155779
Luxury Apartments in Boucher
(35). Contact 95056808 /
97201688
Shop for sale near Oman House,
Muttrah. Contact 99024362.
Ware house in W/K for Sale.
Contact: 91155779
Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale
at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /
What`s up No 97290565
400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-
dential land in Mabela Phase 5
Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.
Contact 99333479 or 95215360
or 97509955
Commercial /R land in Ghala
(Industrial area) for sale.
Contact: 91155779
Villa in Al Qurum / Azaiba/
Mawaleh for sale. Contact: 91155779
Steel Scrap materials for im-
mediate sale. Contact 99273774/
99202278
Space for printing press available
at wadikabir with or without
machinery. Contact 99328430
HD Scaff oldings, 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
Apartment for sale location
Bowshar apartment 105m has one
sitting room, kitchen, balcony, two
rooms with cupboards & curtains
& 3 toilets. Contact: 99822260 /
94400777
6 Villas of six bedrooms each under
construction in one compound in
Bausher near Muscat Private hospi-
tal. Prices range from 165 thousand
to 179 thousand for each villa. Each
villa has three fl oors and 369 sq
mtrs build up area. Tel: 99333479
or 95215360 or 97509955
Working beauty parlour for sale
at Al Ghubra. Contact: 98178135
Double Shutter 80 sq mtrs corner
textile shop in Seeb Souq for sale.
Contact 99326339
Urgent sale of steel scrap only
serious buyers kindly contact
+968 96725423 for viewing the
items.
Almost new beach/ garden
lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.
Photos can be sent 95865457
Room available for family / bach-
elor opposite to o.K. Center, Ruwi.
Gsm 942-888-63
PORTA CABINS FOR SALE
Two Porta Cabins of Size 12mX3.6m and
11mX3.6m In good condition.
Contact Lal 99418657 or Vijay 24492813
99147207
Full Furnished room with at-
tached bathroom near Star Cinema
for ex. Bachelor/lady. Contact
92886715 / 99782133
Room furnished attached for
Executives in Mumtaz area.
Contact: 99334770
Room with attached bathroom for
a family in Wadi Kabir.
Contact 97167857
Spacious semi furnished room
with separate bathroom for execu-
tive bachelor Opp. O.C. Centre Ruwi
. Call : 90611670
Villa for rent in South Mabellah,
3 bedrooms, sitting room, family
Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact
92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.
1 BHK appartment for rent in Al
Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque
for rent (next to alkhoud medical
center and squ) MOB: 93913224
Furnished apartment for rent,
two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.
Near Carrefour al-mawalah.
Contact 99336776
Small old house for rent in
Ghobra. Contact: 97165972
Room with attached bathroom for
working ladies in a fl at in M.B.D.
Contact: 99764307
Furnish bedroom with attach
bathroom for executive bachelor.
Contact: 97704794
Room with attached bathroom
and sharing kitchen available for
Executive bachelor or small family
at wadikabir Contact 93049849
LOST
FOR RENTCommercial Space
Commercial Space For Rent in Al Khuwair. Ideal for Coff ee Shop / Restaurant / Offi ce Space / Showroom
27sqm / 68sqm / 128sqm
Contact: 96775026
Available at a prime locati on on Azaiba Service Road
(Previously Occupied by A’Saff a Foods) near Al Turky and Mazda showroom.
Contact: 95215289, 99229263, 93221054
FURNISHED OFFICES FOR RENT
Four bedroom two fl oors luxurious
and spacious residential villa in
Al Hail North, near to the sea and
Oman oil. Each room has its own
bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and
shaded car park. OMR 750 month-
ly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or
97509955
2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly
& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly
new building good location Barka
Market. contact 99342661
4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.
Contact 99792181
1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small
store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.
Contact 99792181
Shop for rent good location main
road behind wholesale hyper mar-
ket Amerat space 11 MT long, 4 MT
Width. Contact: 92877449
Two bedrooms fl at in Al Ghobrah
near Oman Oil of 18 November Street.
OMR 330 Monthly. Contact 99333479
or 95215360 or 97509955.
Villa in Al Khoud consists of
6 bedrooms, 1 sitting & living
room. Contact: 91153933
Flats in Ghobrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Flats in Muttrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33.
Contact: 92277419
2 BHK fl at at Ruwi Mumtaz area
RO 320/-. Contact: 99358589 /
97079146 / 95570288
02 BHK residential fl at opposite
to Al Nahdha hospital.
Contact: 99342733 /99795241
Villa in Bousher consists of 5
rooms, 1 hall & living room.
Contact: 91153933
Villa in Al Ghubra consists of
5 bedrooms, 1 hall and living room.
Contact: 91153933
Room with 9 bathrooms in Boush-
er for rent. Contact: 91153933
Apartment in Al Khoudh consists
of 2 room & hall.
Contact: 91153933
2 bed rooms fl at with hall,
2 bathrooms in Darsait near
Muscat Municipality.
Contact: 92584715/ 24700120
Fully furnished offi ces in Ghala
main Street. Contact: 94300909
Offi ces & Showrooms in Al Khood.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Flats In Qurum. Contact 94051789 / 97201688
2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank
Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.
97826454, 24815012.
2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah
near Oman House.
Contact: 97007934 / 92629232
1BHK Studio fl at near Star Cinema
RO 180/-. Contact: 99358589 /
97079146 / 95570288
Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM
muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate
Tel : 00 968 95158570
Furnished offi ce (61M2) for sale
/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi
Mosque. Contact: 95611569
Warehouse at Wadikabir - total
area 3500 sqm - covered ware-
house (500sqm), offi ce, ac-
commodation (1000sqm), open
area (2000sqm) please contact:
99273774 - 99202278
Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,
2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti
Masjid. Contact: 97007934 /
92629232
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
fl oor 400. Contact 99420346
Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah
3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen
rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580
Sahjahan Hossain has lost Bang-
ladeshi Passport No. AG 3709580.
Finder please handover to ROP.
CONTD ON PG 6
DAILY GUIDED4 W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
DRIVER
MISCELLANEOUSENGINEER/MECHANIC.
ARCHITECT
BEAUTICIAN
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
SALES / MARKETING
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
DOMESTIC HELPER
MEDICAL
IT
DESIGNER
Urgently required Off set Printer (5 years experience in the same
and well versed in any related
jobs. Contact: 93218176 /
Email: [email protected]
Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-
ence in road construction fi eld).
Contact: 99882127
Email: [email protected]
B.Com Graduate 10 years experi-
ence in Oman accounts & auditing.
NOC available. Contact: 95716128
mail: [email protected]
Accountant available with NOC,
plus 10 years experience up to
fi nalization of Accounting, Inventory
Control on Tally ERP9, ready to join
immediately. Contact: 97667273
Email: [email protected]
Chief Accountant well experi-
enced with reputed group available
for immediate joining.
Contact : 98803439 / 97413784.
MBA female looking for job in
accounting or in marketing or
Administration department having
1 year experience have knowledge
of Tally ERP9, MS Word.
Contact: 95910427 Email:
Indian female with B.Com & CA
Inter having overall 12 years expe-
rience in accounting / fi nance fi eld,
now on visit visa.
Contact: 90651102
Part Time Accountant, up to fi na-
lization of accounts, looking for job
after 5 PM (location prefer MSQ to
Al Hail). Contact: 90935099
American Certifi ed Manager (6 sigma, CPPM) with MBA, PMP
trained having 10 years, UAE cross
functional experience in procure-
ment, projects management, sup-
ply chain, facilities & Administra-
tion with UAE D/L seeking suitable
placement. Contact: 90772927
Email: [email protected]
MBA & BBA (Hons) fi nance &
having three years experience in
accounts & seeking suitable job on
visit visa, immediately joining. All
documents are attested and
verifi ed from Oman.
Contact: 00968 94044125
Omani female looking for job exp
in accounts date entry customer
service & PRO. Contact: 91161736
Indian male 43 yrs, M.Com –
Finance with 5 yrs experience in
Accounts in India, presently in
visiting visa looking for a suitable
placement. Contact: 93671785
Email: [email protected]
Qualifi ed CA & CS, CISA (pursu-
ing) Indian male 10 yrs managerial
experience, working in bank seek-
ing suitable placement open to any
GCC. Contact: 90788509
Email: [email protected]
Accountant Assistant BBA, exp,
Tally have 2 yr valid VISA
PH : 98269281
Young Indian male ACCA fi nalist
with B.Sc (Hons) in applied Ac-
counting with 3 years experience
& holding valid Omani driving
license seeks immediate
placement, NOC available.
Contact: 92851056
ACCA member with 6 yrs of
experience in Oman looking for a
suitable job in fi nance.
Contact: 99284193
Indian/MBA/male Chief Account-
ant 18Yrs Experience, MIS, C.Flow,
Budgeting, ERP, Cost accounting &
Liasing with auditors. NOC availa-
ble. Contact: 92254691/97826674
email: [email protected]
Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company
with minimum 2 years experience.
Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,
Email: [email protected]
ADMIN
Required Offi ce Boy. Contact : 91120552
House maid for small Omani family.
Contact: 92158031
Required house maid part time in
Azaiba for Keralite family.
Contact : 96758982
A full time living Housemaid required for an Indian family in
Ghobrah. Contact: 97335255
Require Employee for Saloon in
Al Amerat, should have experience.
Contact: 90600688
Part Time Accounting, Audit
Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly
Reports, Accounting set up for new
companies, Project Report for Bank
Loan purposes. GSM : 96975454,
email: [email protected]
Indian male good experience in
accounts, Admin & ERP, Tally 9 NOC
available looking for suitable job.
Contact: 94834687
Senior Accountant 5 years experi-
ence NOC available up to fi nalization
valid D/L. Contact: 96339599
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 32 Chartered Account-
ant having 2 years Oman experience
looking for suitable placement in
fi nance & Audit fi elds.
Contact: 96357827
Email: [email protected]
Indian Accountant with 15 yrs
experience / driving license 8 yrs in
Oman local release available.
Contact: 93477447
Email: [email protected]
Indian CA, male 34yrs and 14+
Yrs exp. in A/Cs, fi nance, auditing,
consultancy and knows SAPB1,Tally
ERP etc. , Oman D/L .Currently in
Oman. NOC available.
Please contact: 94704800,
Email: [email protected].
Indian (Male) having 17+years
Experience in Trading & Healthcare
seeking senior Position in Accounts
(11 years GCC Experience )
currently on Resident Visa (NOC
Available ) and has a valid Omani
Driving Licence. Contact: 91335026;
Indian male 26 years MBA experi-
ence in Accountant & Administration
in a MNC company currently on visit
visa ready to join.
Contact: +968 92194987
email: [email protected]
Indian male Accountant looking
for a suitable placement in Salalah.
More than 20 yrs experience in Ac-
counting job (upto the fi nalization of
Accounts), 8 yrs working experience
in Middle East in Dubai, Muscat &
Salalah. Contact 91325029.
Sri Lankan, Senior Accountant
with 6 Years experience, 2 years in
Oman, BBA, Reading MBA , CA Inter
Looking for Suitable Job, have Valid
Oman Driving License,
NOC Available. Contact 97250638
Indian male age 26, Accountant one
year experience in accounts
looking for suitable job. Contact -
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +968 9565 9415
Senior Accounts Executive, B.Com, 05 years experience in
India, seeking urgent job in Oman.
Contact 919900077458,
+968-98444359,
Email:[email protected].
Fresher 24, ACCA Affi liate, Ad-
vanced diploma in Accounting and
Business seeking suitable place-
ment in Accounts, Finance or Audit
with Oman driving license.
Contact - 92430152
Email - [email protected]
Accounts part time services,
available to handle all accounts up
to fi nalization on monthly basis.
Finalization and audit works.
Contact: 96247295
28/male/MBA - fi nance/B.Com -
Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/
India experience looking for a
suitable placement.
Contact 90187483
Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA
Finance and marketing with IT
skills, 7+ yrs of experience,
Looking for suitable placement.
contact 94879615,Email-
Accountant available with NOC,
7 years experience in Oman.
Ready to join immediately.
Contact 98263394
Indian female M.Com with Oman
driving license having 10+ years ex-
perience in Accounts & Administra-
tion in Oman seeking suitable job,
NOC available. Contact: 91609799
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
Accountant 8Years Experience
with D/L and NOC.
Contact 97712084
Accountant Indian male with 7
years experience up to fi nalization
in tally & accounts receivable SAP
R/3, good knowledge of payroll
having Oman D/L, NOC.
Contact 93733996
Email Id: [email protected]
Female Executive Secretary for
MD Indian / Philippine Minimum
5years experience in HR and other
administration work. Immediate
appointment & attractive package.
Send your CV with passport size
photo to E-mail: [email protected]
Required candidates for following
posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving
license preferred.
Contact 99273774/99202278
Wanted an experienced Account-ant. Forward your CV to
ACCOUNTS & FINANCE
Required Omani Driver for a restau-
rant. Contact 95929911
Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.
Gsm : 942-888-63
Wanted driver. Contact:
97165972
Urgently required Printing & Stationary Salesman (minimum
3 years experience in fi eld.
Contact: 93218176 /
Email: [email protected]
Require Freshers & experienced Receptionists, insurance under-
writers & marketing executives
with fl uency in English (Omani &
expatriates) apply to
Experienced Sales and Market-ing Executive required for Indian
restaurant, valid driving license
preferred. Email CV to
Sales person with 10 years expe-
rience in logistics sales. Attrac-
tive salary and incentive scheme.
Required for the fastest growing
logistics company in Oman.
Will be required to recruit and
develop a sales team.
Email: [email protected]
Required marketing / PR manager
for a modern restaurant group in
Oman , profi cient in illustrator &
Photoshop charismatic , proac-
tive , creative & fl exible excellent
writing / Editing skills degree in
relevant area fl uent in English.
Send CV to
Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experi-
ence for a reputed manufacturing
company in Oman, 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: [email protected]
Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experi-
ence for a reputed manufacturing
company in Oman, having its
Head Offi ce 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: [email protected]
Required Sales Merchandiser Age 21-30 status: Single, English
speaking, experience 2 years
minimum, Salary RO 300/-
(Accommodation+ transportation).
Contact: 93875654
Required for a leading Engineering
Consultancy fi rm experienced
Offi ce Secretary. Send CV to:
Fax: 24614398
Civil Engineer, Masons, Helpers, Shuttering, Carpenters, Steel fi xers with 5 yrs experience in Oman.
Contact: 97491117
Indian, Kerala Male B.COM &
B.PE, Currently on Visit Visa. Look-
ing for a suitable job in Accounts,
Store Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to
join as early as possible.
Contact: 96988923
email:- [email protected]
Senior Accountant Indian male
10 years experience (8 yrs in
Oman) with D/L & NOC, Accounts
upto fi nalization.
Contact: 99582979 / 97373853
Sudanese accountant holding
BSC, CIB 8 Post Graduate Diploma
in fi nancial management with
Banking experience in projects
fi nance. Contact: 99061339
Urgently required an Accountant
With minimum 3-5 years Oman / GCC experience for a reputed
Trading & Contracting Co. located in Azaiba.
Candidate must have Oman D/L & NOC.
Send your CV: [email protected]
Fax: 244 95 411
REQUIRED URGENTLYAn experienced Cold Store Technician
For a well-established Muscat based Frozen Foods Distribution Company.
Must have sound knowledge of cold room installation/ maintenance and air conditioning
maintenance experience.Applications may be mailed to the HR Manager:
ARCHITECT, Indian Female with
4 years experience in Oman, well
versed in related softwares, seeks
suitable placement. Contact
email: [email protected]
GSM 96207476
Indian female diploma architect
6 years exp in Oman Engineering
consultancy, valid Oman driv-
ing license. Contact: 96683293 /
97750870
Architect looking for a private &
freelance work in design & mod-
eling in 3ds max & architecture.
Contact: 96041201
Urgently required Pharmacist & MOH licensed female Dentist
for a reputed polyclinic. Send CV :
or call 96721709.
Wanted G.P Doctor, Pharmacist, Lab Technician and Staff Nurse for a running medical clinic near
Sohar area. Contact 95272672
Care Medical Centre Al Seeb
requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:[email protected]
Required Offi ce Assistant with
driving license present in Oman,
Electrical B.Tech with 5 years of
Oman experience & D/L electrical
with ITI Industrial & MEDC license.
Contact: 99454425
Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately
for a clinic in Suwaiq.
Contact: 95081010
Email: [email protected]
Wanted expatriate legal profes-
sional. Forward your CV to
lawfi [email protected]
Required Lab Technician, X- Ray Technician, Staff Nurses & Doctors. Contact: 99681325 Email:
Wanted Nurse for a dental centre
at Qurum. Interested candidates
may contact the below or
mail : [email protected]
or Contact 99458844
Wanted Staff Nurse for
a dermatology clinic in Muscat .
Must have MOH license and NOC.
Attractive salary off ered. Email:
GP doctor needed for reputed clin-
ic. Preferably with MOH license or
with Datafl ow & Paramatics pass
Contact: 95388934
Require a qualifi ed Nurse to take
care of an elderly female.
Contact: 99425200
Required female person to work
at the retail shop/Marketing.
Please send your CV on e mail:
Required fresh Graduate in Sales / marketing with valid D/L.
Send CV on
Email : [email protected]
Qualifi ed 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,
Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in
commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in ac-
counts/ fi nance fi eld. On visit visa.
Immediately available.
Contact 92836216 /
HOTEL MANAGERA new modern 3 star hotel located in a prime location at Bawshar – Muscat is looking for a Hotel Manager. Th e Candidate should be a holder of degree or an equivalent qualifi cation in Hotel Management and should have at least 5 years’ experience at the Hotel industry with 2 years at least as Hotel manager.
Interested Candidates can e-mail CV’s to [email protected]
Teachers required Math, Science & English with B.Sc, B.Ed & B.A,
B. Ed for Omani Private School in
North Al Hail. Contact: 95141554 /
95825772
EDUCATION/TRAINING
A renowned school in Muscat is looking for competent & experienced teachers to teach the following subjects
English (for primary & secondary) Primary Math’s & ICT Experience: minimum 3 years Qualifi cati on: Masters/ Bachelors in the relevant subject B.Ed/ M.Ed
Only eligible candidate with the required experience and qualifi cati ons may apply by 30th May, 2016
A leading Travel Agency in Oman requires the following staff for immediate employment.
Send CV at Email : [email protected]
Accounts Assistant Sales Executive Reservation Assistant
With valid Omani driving license and 2-4 years experience in IATA Accredited Travel Agency.
URGENTLY REQUIREDPROTECTION ENGINEER
INTERESTED CANDIDATES PLEASE CONTACT :TELESCOPE ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY
PO BOX : 270, POSTAL CODE 115MR. M. RAJASEKARAN : +968 98340555, EMAIL : [email protected]
LEADING GRADE1 ELECTRICAL CONSULTANCY FIRM FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS IN OMAN NEEDS AN ELECTRICAL PROTECTION ENGINEER VERY URGENTLY. CANDIDATES SHOULD BE GRADUATE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WITH MORE THAN 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN PROTECTION.DCRP OMAN LICENCE HOLDER WITH NOC WILL BE AN ADDED ADVANTAGE
SALES EXECUTIVES(Dubai, Saudi, Qatar & Oman)
A Prominent Building Materials Trading Company requires Sales Executi ves for
various GCC locati ons. Graduates with minimum 3 year experience in Sales may sent their resume to
Urgently required Designer minimum 5 years experience with
diff erent design concept and any
related jobs Contact: 93218176 /
Email: [email protected]
Indian female MBA (HR) 4 yrs exp
in HR & Admin in India & Oman
looking suitable placement.
Contact: 95619537
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6 D5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
DRIVER
EDUCATION/TRAINING
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Indian Female, M Sc Mathemat-
ics from a Prestigious University.
B.Ed qualifi ed, distinction holder
through out academics with
absolute passion for teaching. 7
Yrs experience with 5 years as As-
sistant Profession in Engineering
College. Contact: 91360147.
ADMIN
DRIVER
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
Civil Engineer, B.Tech, 6 yrs expe-
rience with Omani driving license,
local release available.
Contact: 91693008
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24
with almost 1 year experience as
Production Shift Engineer, has
achieved training on HVAC En-
gineering 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: [email protected]
Project Manager Electrical with 6
years experience with EHV & MV
substation projects. NOC available.
Contact 91398559
Civil Engineer fresh Graduate with
Omani driving license looking job
in any company. Contact: 91745797
/ 99190898
Email: [email protected]
Indian worked as Electrical & In-
strumentation Maintenance Engi-
neer with Global Gypsum Board Co.
LLC, Salalah (3 yrs) having valid
Oman driving license, looking for a
new job urgently.
Contact 93363104
Electrical Engineer with 8 Years
Experience, looking for Job, hav-
ing driving License and NOC.
Ph#91293519
Email:[email protected]
Diploma in Civil Engineer 3 years
experience (Surveyor) 1 year ex-
perience building work looking for
job. Contact: 94857668
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech &
M.Sc, 3 yrs experience in Oman
having Driving License.
Contact: 91162085
Mechanical Engineer with 2 years
experience in Quality Control /
Mechanical Engineer has achieved
certifi cation in NDT level 2, cur-
rently in Oman looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 95632276,
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer with 16 years
experience in switchgear / trans-
former / over head lines & trading,
looking for sales / procurement &
project planning & Execution with
NOC & D/L. Contact: 95994727
Email: [email protected]
Pakistani male Diploma Civil
Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-
ing & mega projects, valid license
Oman.Contact:98921022
IT
Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5
years experience in Oman with
valid Omani driving license & NOC
looking for suitable opportunity.
Contact: 93101283
Diploma in Civil Engineer (11 years Gulf experience +7
years India experience) Building
structure & fi nishing work NOC
available. Contact: 90458201
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer Indian male
30 years having 5 years of experi-
ence in industrial automation &
utility maintenance in India,
holding valid Oman D/L.
Contact: 92789995 mail:
Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)
Indian male with 1 year experience
looking for job, qualifi cation in
QA- QC, HVAC & piping engineer-
ing. Contact: 90510800 Email:
Worked as Electrical & Instrumen-
tation Maintenance Engineer with
Global Gypsum Board Co. LLC, Sala-
lah (3 years) having valid Oman
driving license looking for a new
job urgently. Contact: 93363104
Indian male, Instrumentation
Engineer with M.Tech in Chemi-
cal process control seeking for
suitable job position, presently in
Oman for visit. Contact: 98352288
Indian male 23 years Electron-
ics and Communication Engineer
B.Tech & Technical Diploma look-
ing for suitable position. Contact:
94804100, [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer 28 years,
3 yrs experience, 1 year in Oman
with NOC looking for suitable
placement. Contact 94887665
Email: [email protected]
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age
33 with 6+ years experience in
GCC in MEP building construc-
tion fi eld (execution and design
of HVAC,fi refi ghting,plumbing),
with D/L, NOC available
96978380;[email protected]
Civil & MEP Sub contractor we
are doing all types of civil electri-
cal & plumbing works. Contact:
98040451 /94109760
Auto CAD Drawings & program
chart we are doing all types of civil,
electrical, plumbing shop draw-
ings & program chart for approval.
Contact: 98040451/ 94109760
Civil Engineer B.Tech 2 years ex-
perience on visit seeks immediate
placement. Contact: 98233199
Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs
of exceptional exp in spear head-
ing strategic planning and project
management initiatives & execut-
ing various high rise residential
& commercial building as well as
roads and highway project with
profi ciency in installation, seeking
a challenging position in a dynamic
organization. Contact 96570891
Construction Machinery repairs
Engineer, 5 years, driving license,
Contact - 94001961
B.Sc Civil Engineer, MBA experi-
ence 5 years (15 months in Oman)
English & Arabic, driving license
looking for a suitable job.
Contact: 94162443
INDIAN MALE, MARKETING & HR SPECIALIST,
25 yrs, Master degree with 2 yrs of experience both HR & Marketi ng,
now on visiti ng visa. Contact 96972939 / 96096723
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp
seeks suitable position ina reputed
company. NOC available.
Contact 96789711
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
Structural buildings marine.
Available NOC release.
Contact: 92451323.
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in
designing, assembling, commission-
ing execution etc having valid GCC
license too looking for a suitable.
Contact: 00968-98052942 Email:
HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma
Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over
10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter
(NOC) available), seeking suit-
able placement, Mob:97061817,
Email:[email protected]
Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian
male 24 years with 1+years Indian
experience,(Certifi ed in Staad
Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).
Looking for a Suitable position.
Available In Sultanate of Oman
(Muscat) on Visit Visa.
Contact 92835952. E-mail:
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: [email protected]
Indian male, Mechanical
Engineer having 1year experi-
ence, on visit visa looking for
suitable job. Contact:97416564,
Email:[email protected]
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
in Oman as a project engineer for
governmental & private projects.
Contact – 90164912
Mechanical Engineer & Project Manager Sudanese 29 yrs, more than 3 yrs experience in Mining Company,
Profession:Producti on & manufacturing, safety, fi re fi ghti ng designing,
Engineering Management, sales – Muscat, Oman. Contact 968 93642704,
Email : [email protected]
An experienced Chartered Accountant
With over 25 years in varied industries, presently working with
a reputed group in Muscat, looking out for a suitable change.
Contact - 96491030
With 15 years of Gulf experience
in HR / Admin / logistics looking
for suitable position. Fluent in
Arabic / English with D/L.
Contact: 95824598
Tamil Nadu female BE, (ECE) MBA
(HR) 25 years, 6 months experience
business consult (HR) currently un-
der family visa looking for suitable
position. Contact: 99502581
Indian female 27 yrs MBA HR with
3.6 yrs exp in HR / Marketing / Cus-
tomer relation currently in Muscat
on visit visa. Contact: 97205038
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Post Graduate in HR
19 years (8 Years in Oman) well
experienced in HR / Admin in Oil
& Gas, Construction fi elds with
Oman D/L seeks suitable position.
Release / NOC available.
Contact 92854993.
Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+
experience in Administration/HR,
Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-
tor with good Computer skill, Now
on Visit Visa,looking for suitable
position. Contact: 90196235
Indian female BE (EC) with 2 years
HR /IT/ Admin experience looking
suitable placement now in visit visa.
Contact: 93263169
Receptionist (BSC Hotel Man-
agement) Indian male 26 years
experience in Taj, Ramada, Crowne
Plaza looking for position, now
in Oman (Salalah) on visit visa.
Contact: 99780896
Indian, 20 years experience
in Oman as Personal Assistant
/ Offi ce Manager / Executive
Secretary / Senior Administrator /
Business Development Asst. seeks
job change. Release available.
Contact 99168054.
Dynamic Indian male with 5
years Oman & Indian experience in
Administration, purchase, market-
ing with valid Oman driving license
seeks placement, also a certifi ed
SAP SD. Contact: 93846053
Filipino HRD especialist / mate-
rial controller supervisor with
18 yrs experience looking for
suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968)
98037142 / (+968) 92659817
Young Omani male have experi-
ence 12 years as P.R.O, CLERK
Helper Supervisor Admin Supervi-
sor, H.R Manager have diploma in
H.S.E, IT and P.D.O license, looking
for H.R position or P.R.O part time
or full time. Contact: 95933288
MANAGER, CIPD HR With 13 years experience in GCC and Oman. Competent in Sales, Marketi ng, Business operati on
and administrati on. Interested employer please call
97728418
Sr. Sales & Marketing SpecialistIndian male, Diploma Engineer with BBA & 16 yrs experience in Oman, worked with MNC in retail (Telecom/ Lubricant sales) and with construction industry handling various products & subcontract projects. Holding valid Oman D/L, NOC available.
Contact 96960991, Email : [email protected]
Indian female 25 years MSc food,
nutrition and dietetics looking for
suitable job as dietitian or food
quality Controller or
Nutritionalist. Contact: 98924131 /
96737147 Email:
Filipino Cabin steward / Linen
vallet is looking for suitable job in
Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or
email: [email protected]
CATERING
Bangladeshi want job with own
car. Contact : 93822195
Experience driver looking for job.
Contact: 95113612
Looking for a full time driver with
valid Omani license.
Contact: 95454033
Indian male BE Mechanical with
11 years experience in Automo-
tive engineering and Industrial
maintenance in Oman. With valid
driving license seeks suitable job.
On release in Oman. 92880593
Indian 24 yrs exp SR civil Engg
with NOC, searching suitable job,
in any project Supervision.
Contact: 96602718
Diploma Civil Engineer (8 years
Exp.) with driving license.
Contact 92429006,
Sudanese Civil Engineer 6 years experience in Oman.
Contact: 95212902
Electrical & Electronics Engineer
1 year experience currently on
visit visa, available immediately.
Contact: 90654844 / 90491353
Email: [email protected]
Telecommunication Engineer res-
ident in the Sultanate, Sudanese
Nationality. Contact : 95000024
Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years
experience marine mechanical
fi tter 2 yrs experience.
Contact: 93674847
Site Supervisor, Diploma in
Civil Engg (cert attested) knows
autocad revit, salary exp: 250
Ph : 92279784
Mechanical Engineer 2 years ex-
perience as HVAC design and draft-
ing MEP Engg. Contact: 90150913
Young Indian, Engineering in
Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and
Chemical, looking for a challenging
placement in Oman.
Contact 97607000. Email:
Indian male, Structural Engineer
looking for job in structural design
fi eld. Having 6 years of experience
in design fi eld. Residing in Muscat.
Contact: 91176187
Indian 14 yrs exp SR MEP – Elect
Engg with NOC, searching suitable
job, in fi eld PMC, Fire consultants ,
Testing & com, project supervision.
Contact: 92437865
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B-tech 8 years expe-
rience as senior electrical project
engineer / QC engineer on visit
visa seeks suitable placement.
Contact 94094543
Email: [email protected]
Electrical & Electronics Engr,
knows autocad & revit.
PH: 93837973
Filipino I.T. with 5 years experience
looking for suitable job in Oman.
Contact: +968 91183514 or email
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 profes-
sional experience is looking for
suitable job in Oman. Please Con-
tact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.
License light heavy duty, PDO license experience 8 years
mechanical experience vehicle.
Contact: 92091528
Light driver / Salesman fl uent in
English, Arabic well knowledge of
Muscat Areas. Contact: 97950869
Bangladeshi driver looking for job.
Contact: 97418036
Driver with light duty license,
10 yrs experience.
Contact: 92742722
IT Solution Architect,Indian fe-
male post graduate with 12 years of
IT experience. Looking for position
of IT Solution Architect/Consult-
ant/Project Manager, Valid driving
license. Contact 96563962
Indian male 3 years experience in
IT as Linux Administrator& 1 year
experience in Amazon EC2 Cloud
at Wipro Technologies Bangalore
seeking for a suitable placement.
Contact: 92889678
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs
exp in ERP, CSM Certifi ed, seeking
suitable role.NOC Available.
Contact : GSM : 90189284
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B.Tech Electronics
communication, MCSA, Java on
visit visa seeking placement in IT
/ Network / Server Support / Retail
sales. Contact: 91736346 Email:
Software Developer having two
years of experience in PHP Web
development & Microsoft CRM &
adx Portal experience looking for
a developer position in reputed
Software house or IT Dept bilal.
Contact: 95596711 / 92762313
IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years
in Oman 2 years in India.
Contact: 94672759
System IT Engineer with Linux &
UNIX System Administration skills
transferable visa. Contact: 99109332
Omani 26(m) seeks placement
6 yrs experience IT specialist.
Contact: 99025044
Indian female M.Sc Computer
Science seeking suitable place-
ment in Muscat area.
Contact: 98660672
Indian female M.Sc Biotechnolo-
gy, 3 years experience seeking for
suitable position, part / full fl exi-
ble for research, teaching business
development IT hospitals.
Contact: 94710931
Email: [email protected]
MANAGER
Purchase Head Indian 20 years
experience in MNC Civil, MEP,
FIRE, Oil& Gas, PDO Omani driving
license NOC available.
Contact: 93737496
Young Dynamic MBA Post-Grad
with 2 yrs exp as Procurement
offi cer at Muscat & 3 yrs exp &
Marketing-Interior construction
in India with NOC and Driving
License. No# 98238260
Workshop Manager having 30
years gulf and abroad experience
in plants & machineries, heavy
duty trucks, readymix batching
plants & crushers, water well drill
rigs, rock blasting machineries etc.
kindly contact @ 97145088.
D- Pharm Pharmacist 17 years
experience Ayurvedic Panchakar-
ma Masseur’s 3 years experience.
Contact: 93672452
Licensed Pharmacist with experi-
ence want job in Buraimi or Sohar.
Contact 93608698
Indian female Dentist specialized
Endodontist looking for suitable
placement, prometric completed.
Contact: 96410448
MEDICAL
MISCELLANEOUS
Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc
Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Micro-
biology, Looking for suitable job.
Mobile: 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).
Contact: 92475206 Email:
Indian male 28 years with D/L
with NOC seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 93083279
Procurement Coordinator Indian
male 30 yrs B.Com (Computers) 4
years experience in Saudi Arabia
Construction Company looking for
any suitable position on visit visa
till 18 June 2016.
Contact: 0968 98590811 Email:
Indian male, 28, post graduate,
6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back
offi ce) & credit control with valid
Oman D/L looking for suitable lace-
ments. NOC available.
Contact: 92066 523
SALES / MARKETING
Indian male, 5 years building
material sales experience in Oman
Seeking for placement.
Contact 90655903
10 years ICT Business develop-
ment & project management exp
in Oman looking for suitable sen-
ior position. Contact: 98987654
Pakistani male MBA 6 years experi-
ence, electrical & building material
in Oman seeking for placement.
Contact : 968 96789513
Indian male 24 years B.com
2 years of experience in Sales
& Offi ce Admin knowledge of
Tally ERP 9 & MS Offi ce. Contact:
98613373 / 97359814, Email:
Indian Male, MBA marketing 5
yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG
sector, looking for best opportunity.
NOC available. Contact: 96001877
Indian Male 22 years, Having
experience in indoor sales/site
supervisor Looking for suitable
Placement.GSM: 97435306.
Email: [email protected]
Marketing, BBA, Dip in Logistics
Mgmt, on 2 yrs free visa.
Contact : 98269281
35 years male, Lebanese holding
British passport, 10 years of experi-
ence in procurement, Omani Gov-
ernment tenders, setup marketing
plans & strategies, importing, Organ-
izing events, management, have car,
NOC available. Contact 94123939
Email: [email protected]
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:
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
Lady Secretary / Sales Co-co-
ordinator 12 years experience in
Oman in reputed companies,
seek immediate Employment.
Call: 95244761
Looking for part time job Secre-tarial / Data Entry / Documenta-
tion available every day after 5:00
pm Friday / Saturday full day area
preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD /
Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827
Indian male MBA Finance & Marketing 25 yrs
having 1.9 years of experience Finance & Marketing
Contact: 95206140/ 96992013 Email:
Light driver available.
Contact: 95501608
Light driver available. Contact: 91362475
Looking for weekly light driving
job, experience 5 years.
Contact: 92640278
Light driver. Contact: 99775728
Looking for driving job experi-
ence 5 years, Pakistani.
Contact: 96046242 / 93804176
3 years experience looking for
job. Contact: 96457875
Light vehicle driver. Contact:
95891087
Light driver with 6 years experi-
ence looking for job.
Contact: 92617293
Light duty driver 2 yrs exp.
Contact: 96393805
Driver with car. Contact: 93346085
Electronics and Communicati on ENGINEER
With 2 years exp in Telecom sector, currently on visit visa, looking for suitable placement.
Contact : 93919943 [email protected]
Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable
placement. Contact : 99739415 /
92091528
Indian English teacher B.A Tesol,
8 years experience, 4 years in Om-
ani School & 4 years in India seeks
suitable job. Contact: 99839385
Indian female, MSc Physics, B.Ed,
5+ years experience in Oman
seeks suitable placement.
Contact: 93992958 / 96203570
DAILY GUIDED6 W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Indian male 33 years, B.Com, hav-
ing 6 years experience in Oman.
Tally & ERP looking for suitable
placement. Mobile no :98492921
B.E. (Mechanical) 12years indus-
trial sales one year Muscat experi-
ence, Presently in India,
Immediately ready to join.
Contact :917338899372 , email id :
Male, Indian, 25, 5 years experi-
ence in Dubai; looking for perma-
nent placement in Oman for jobs
related to sales, coordination and
marketing. Contact: +971563664701
Male, 23, with experience in UAE
& India, looking for job in sales /
marketing. Contact: 94032041
Sr. Accountant, WITH Oman D/L
& 8.5 yrs exp, 7.5 yrs Oman & 1 yr
India in manufacturing, trading
& contracting Cos, independently
handling all accounting, fi nance,
banking, L/C, import, export & fi na-
lization seeks placement,
Procurement/Tender & Contract
Procurement /logistics & freight
Specialist /Oil Field / petrochemi-
cal/Engineer /MBA /SAP certify
/ 15yrs Rich Experience/ Import
&export Specialist / Oil Field expe-
rience/ coordinator / World Wide
supplier network /Noc available
Looking for challenging Position
Contact: 97813849,
Email Id:[email protected]
Male, 23, with experience in UAE
& India, looking for job in sales /
marketing. Contact: 94032041
Indian Male Accountant. Com-
pleted MBA with 1 year experience,
good working knowledge in Tally
& Excel. Searching for suitable
job. Email : jovin8910@gmail.
com, Contact : 919715874548 ,
918015907437
Indian male electrician(EEE ).
Two years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail antonyajin15@gmail.
com, : Contact; 918148336160 /
918300136160
Electrical & Electronics diploma
Engineer Indian male 23 years,
2 years experience in Electrical
fi eld/good experience in Electron-
ics MCU projects currently in
visit visa please do not hesitate to
#93047707 [email protected]
Indian male 30 yrs, holding valid
driving license, having 5 years of
experience in sales, looking for
suitable position.
Contact # 90552942/94355626
Indian male Diploma in Electron-
ics, having 3 years of experience
in the hardware and networking
fi eld, also worked in construction
company Mabela for 6 months
as supervisor, trying to get driving
license. Contact: - +96897017866.
Mechanical Engineer, Indian,
Male,5 years experience in GCC &
India, looking for permanent place-
ment in Oman. NOC Release Avail-
able. Contact: 00968-95140445;
Indian female (27 yrs)
MBA(IT),BCA,CCNA.2year
experience in IT operations in
Oman. Graduated from Oman
with good analytical, commu-
nicating & programming skills,
presented in international con-
ference, seeking suitable posi-
tions.contact:93672143.e-mail
Part- Time Accountant, well experi-
enced senior accountant ,capable of
doing all type of accounting works
up to fi nalization, Budgeting, Bank
fi nancing requirements, taxation
work etc available. # : 98803439
MANPOWER SITUATION WANT-
ED
BUSINESS
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
Required partner investor to
build an apartment in Al Mobelah.
Contact: 99355330
Need investor for pure Veg. Coff ee
shop, Al Khuwair. # 99437869
Want to market a product.
Contact: 92162623
IT Consultancy division available
interested person to handle the
above division can # 92162623
Coff ee shop for sale 7 visa avail-
able at Al Khuwair. # 98826793
Indian Female seeking a job in
Back Offi ce and Accountancy,
8+ years proven experience as a
dynamic candidate with excellent
Excel & Communication skills.
Quick learner and Team player.
Currently on Family Visa.
Contact 94093154, 91746890,
Email: [email protected]
Sri Lankan Male, 31 years. 6 years
experience as an Accounts Execu-
tive, (Languages can speak Urdu/
Arabic, English written & spoken) .
Contacts: 99782930/
HSE Engineer, Indian male, 5.5
Plus years experience in Oil & Gas.
Working in Shclumberger.NEBOSH,
IOSH, & NDT Certifi ed, M Tech in
HSE. CONTACT-krish.569@gmail.
com Mobile- +91 9867016808
Sri Lankan Male, 31 years. 6 years
experience as an Accounts Execu-
tive, (Languages can speak Urdu/
Arabic, English written & spoken).
Contact 99782930/
Indian male with 10+ years of
working experience (security solu-
tions, event management) on visit
visa seeks suitable placement.
Contact – 97945269,
Indian male Network Cabling Tech-
nician (19-years gulf experience)
seeking for suitable placement. mo-
bile no: 0091-8089909265 (India),
email: [email protected]
Senior accountant ,NOC avail-
able, more than 5 years exp., born
& bought up in Oman, Accounting
upto fi nalization, computer skills
tally9, Sage ERP accpac 500(6.0A),
Vcams , Audit ,valid Oman D/L,
languages known English ,Arabic,
Hindi. can join immediately. Tel:
(+968) 96339599, mail-ahmed-
Business Management Gradu-
ate with 12 years of experience
in Oman, Worked with catering,
medical, IT groups seeks suitable
placement in Finance/purchase/
insurance sector, NOC Available.
Email, saima.gangawali@gmail.
com, Mob 94258301
Indian Male, 24 yrs, looking for
any type of job, qualifi cation is
Diploma in Electronics with 3 years
of experience in the hardware an
networking fi eld an also worked
in construction company Mabelah
for 6 months as supervisor, having
valid D/L. Contact : - +96897017866.
BS in Electrical engineering,
experience : 6 years in electrical
installation and maintenance
Contact : 99817032,
Email : [email protected]
33 year old Filipina with experi-
ence in Tele performance, Manila
call centre, now working as Wait-
ress in Qatar seeking suitable post.
Local contact 99022484
SCM / LOGISTICS/ PROCURE-
MENT - 25 Yrs exp - Indian Male
- Oil & Gas, Manufacturing Sector
- Having valid Oman D/L & NOC
available. Seeks Challenging sen-
ior position. GSM-94236414,
Email ID - [email protected]
Petrochemicals Specialist, Chemical, MBA 18 YEARS EXPE-
RIENC IN OIL FIELDS COM, RAW
MATERIAL , polymer, SPACIAL-
ISED IN Procurement /COMME-
CIAL/ PURCHASE / LOGISTICS /
SCM/Planning & sound knowledge
of technical requirement for any
manufacture plant Forecasting,
Distribution, Vendors Develop-
ment, LC opening/ establishment
coordination with NOC available.
Contact:97813849
Highly experienced mechanical/
steel structural fabrication engi-
neer looking for suitable place-
ment. NOC available.# 99860714,
Indian Male 28 years, Mechani-
cal Engineer (Diploma) with 2
years’ exp., Automobile ITI NCVT,
CSWIP-BGAS Painting QC Grade-2,
NDT Level-2, ISO Lead Auditor
QA (IRCA), Piping QC & Isometric
Drawings, WPS & WPQR, available
on Visit Visa, seeks suitable job.
Contact: 90653733,
Indian male, M. Com with 3 yr
Oman Exp in Accounts with valid
NOC & D/L on Visit Visa, available to
join immediately . GSM :94744575
Light Duty Driver, Fluent in
English, Arabic. Well knowledge of
Oman Areas looking for suitable
placement. Contact 97950869
SIT.WANTEDSIT.WANTED
IT Administrator with 6 yrs of GCC
experience, now in Dubai (visit
visa).seeking suitable placement in
UAE. Contact :00971-565598176,
email:[email protected]
Civil Engineer (Indian male)
with 5 years experience in Oman
and having a valid Oman driving
license and NOC looking for a suit-
able opportunity. GSM: 93101283
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male: 23yrs, MBA in Market-
ing from UK (United Kingdom), look-
ing for a job, currently in Muscat in
visit. No: 97210361 / 95357513,
Email: [email protected]
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job, 8 years experience.
GSM : 96075000, Email :
B.E(Mechanical) 12years in-
dustrial sales one year Muscat
experience ,Presently in India
,Immediately ready to join ,Mobile
no :917338899372 , email id :
Electrical & Electronics diploma
engineer Indian male 22 years,
2 years experience currently in
visit visa. Contact 93047707
Planning Engineer, BE Mech Engg.
Indian Female having total 11 yrs
exp in oil & gas projects (8+ yrs in
Gulf) with valid Oman D/L, Seeks a
Suitable job. Contact: 92456003
Indian Male 48 Yrs with over 25
Years Oman experience in Sales &
Marketing with NOC & valid Oman
D/L Also Fluency in Arabic, seeks
suitable placement. Contact no.:
92210661/99224057
B.S.C in Electrical Engineering,
Experience: 5 Years (Power Plant).
Contact: 92475206
Email: [email protected]
Fresh B.Com Graduate in visit
visa looking for a job. Contact:
93518923 / 99075027.
email: [email protected]
Admin Assistant. Having 5 years
experience in admin department in
reputed companies, presently work-
ing in Muscat (NOC Available).
GSM. 00968-98404122, mail -
Looking for a part time accounting
& admin job. Contact 99196621.
Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Graduate
more than 1 year experienced in ac-
counts planning to come for a family
visit in oman seeking for a suitable
placement .#99339544 / 99743709
Indian male, 40 Years, B. Com,
having 10 years experience in
Oman, Tally & ERP- looking for
suitable placement ( NOC and
Oman driving license available)
Tel- +91 89 43 109897
Rajeev. [email protected]
Import & Export professional, Expe-
rienced as Asst. Commercial Man-
ager for 15 years, Profi cient in MS
offi ce, Male Indian, Seeks suitable
placement, on Visit, #95484684
Indian male, 33 yrs, MBA-HR
generalist with 10 yrs including
training of Omani nationals.NOC
possible .Seeking a suitable job.
Contact :[email protected],
94179499
Indian male, 40 Years, B. Com,
having 10 years experience in
Oman, Tally & ERP- looking for
suitable placement ( NOC and
Oman driving license available.
Contact +91 89 43 109897
Rajeev. [email protected]
Safety offi cer, 3 years of experi-
ence in safety certifi cations: BE
(electrical and electronics engi-
neering), NEBOSH, IOSH, DHSE,
fi rst aid. Contact +97474018995,
mail:[email protected],
skype:midhunmike
Indian male, network cabling
technician (19 years Gulf experi-
ence) seeking for suitable place-
ment. NOC available. Contact :
0091-8089909265 (India),
E mail: [email protected]
Indian male,B.Com + Dip. Logistic
2year experience looking for a job
in Accounts/Logistics Field. Pres-
ently on Visit Visa # 93884951,
Email:[email protected]
Electronics Technician , 4 Years
experience as Electronics service
engineer. Knowledge in all type of
Electronics items. Looking for suit-
able placement. GSM- 99105043
IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,
MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT, valid
Omani D/L seeking suitable place-
ment in IT/Network/Server sup-
port/Retail sales. # 91496939.
Assistant Accountant - B.Com
Graduate with excellent overall
skills. 2 Years of experience. Ready
for immediate joining.
Contact: [email protected],
968-92049215
Software Engineer with 5 + plus
years of experience in Infosys
ltd on visit visa seeking suit-
able vacancy in oman. Email :
steff [email protected] mob:
96896246205 / 96897032284
SALES / MARKETING
SKILLED LABOR
STP operator 20 yrs experience.
Contact: 93550661
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Graduate with 18
years of Marketing experience
presently in Oman on family visit
visa, looking for best opportunity.
Contact: 96168687
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 37 years MBA
graduate in marketing with 9yrs of
experience in UAE in fi eld of brand
promotions & marketing with UAE
D/L on a visit seeking suitable
position. Conatct 95792820
INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED
Please contact – 95213273Email:
muscatcoff [email protected]
For a successfully Catering Restaurant
Investor cum Partner is required.
Investor with fi xed returns also welcome.
ONE STOP SHOP BUSINESS SERVICES
Public Relation Service (PRO)Document Clearance,
Business setup, Formation new Companies,
LLC Companies, Investor Visa, Legal Services.
Contact Saleh: 96723485
NRI
910 sq ft furnished fl at at Qupem -
Goa. Contact: 97094797
Plot for sale in Mundur & Palakkal
Trichur District.
Contact: 00968 92376297
20 cent of Land at Irinjalakuda, Kallettumkara,
Trichur Dist besides road side for sale. Contact on
+968 93978378 / 0091 9947461230
MATRIMONIAL
Sunni Muslim (Urdu) girl B.E,
MBA, 25 years HT 5.1” fair invites
alliance from Tamil Nadu Bangluru
/ Mysore. Contact: 99502581
Two properties at Bangalore for sale
(1) 3 BHK Senior living apartment
with full fl edged facilities & services
in Ozone Urbana Serene project for
the cost price of Irene project. Hand-
over by August 2016. (2) 4 B/R villa
(BUA 3600sq.ft, 4 fl oors, 3 Livings, 5
bathrooms, maid’s room & car park)
for sale at JP Nagar. Contact Mrs.
Mangala Ph: 97903127, Email:
Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.
Seeks suitable alliance from
widow/ divorcee/ single.
Contact 96059801.
Sunni Muslim family seeks
proposal for their 24 year old
daughter from well settled Urdu
speaking Indian family. Pls call on
93521249 / 99374371
Parent of Thrissur based Hindu
Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham
star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-
ing alliance from well employed
Graduates, preferably in Engineer-
ing Contact :96425102
Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in
Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites
parents/nurses working in Oman.
Contact 968 98267338,
0091 9287215726
Ezhava male, 31 yrs, height 5.6,
B. Tech Aeronautical, administra-
tive professional, parents in Oman.
Contact 99550870
ACC. AVAILABLE
Sharing accommodation
near ISD. Contact: 99657340
1 BHK for rent, Ideal for small
family or two bachelors, easy
access to main road with AC near
Sheraton hotel, CBD.
Contact: 96444400
Room available for Executive
bachelor at Al Hail.
Contact 96234708
Sharing Accommodation avail-
able for working ladies opposite
Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably
Indians. Room with seperate toilet
and sharing kitchen.RO.90.
Contact 96524717
Furnished room attached bath
for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj
Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near
Mars hypermarket. CONTACT
96202458/96761960
Room available in Mumtaz area
1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1
room, common bathroom. Inter-
ested pleasecontact 92680041
Mr. Altaf
IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,
MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT, valid
Omani D/L seeking suitable place-
ment in IT/Network/Server sup-
port/Retail sales. # 91496939.
Indian male 26 years, Graduate in
BBM & having Diploma in Logistics
with 3 years of experience in
Banking and Accounts looking for
suitable placement. Contact :
+ 968 97166820/ +91 9895102356
Email :[email protected]
Indian Female looking for a part
time opportunity (Graphic Design/
Teaching/Research Assistant/
Business Development/Admin-
istration) Contact: 95811820 or
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com
Finance-Indian with 7 years expe-
rience in Finance & Accounts up
to fi nalization. Having D/L & NOC.
Mob:94122464,
Tea boy looking for job Name:
Man Bahadar Contact: 97859837
Indian Female, M.Sc Computer
Science, Seeking suitable place-
ment in Muscat Area. #98660672
Indian Female, 29 Yrs Age, M.Sc
Microbiology, looking for Job any
reputed organization / Hospitals,
seeks suitable position.
Contact : 95218424 / 9610 6604.
On Family Residence Visa.
Indian female 10 years exp as cook
in Oman. South Indian &
Gujarati special looking for job,
company or restaurant.
Contact 90559292
Indian Male B-Com Graduate
1 year, experience in market sur-
vey, Valid Driving License,
looking for any suitable post.
Contact: 92567020 / 96930392
Indian Male 30 year GCC driving
license and past experience as
project coordinator looking for a
suitable position. Project Coordina-
tion, Sales Executive, Marketing
Executive or any other suitable
post. Contact number -97070427
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6 D7
TOURS
TOURS
RENT A CAR
25 - 50 seater bus with PDO &
BP specifi cation for monthly rent
& small car with driver. Contact
99839898
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with
Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours contact 98029602,
92808636
We arrange tours & accommoda-
tion at all the beautiful places in
Oman. Contact 99839898
RENT A CARBest Rates for Saloon
Contact: 97869042 / 95730550
DRIVING
TRANSPORTATION
Transport. Contact: 96538078
Transportation available Ruwi to
Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.
Contact: 91103909
Transportation. Contact:94510847
Transportation. Contact 9508282
Transportation. Contact
92015894
Transportation required from
Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon
only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165
Indian B-Com Graduate 1 year
Experience in market survey,
Valid Driving License,
looking for any suitable post.
Contact :92567020 / 96930392,
Indian male, M.Com, 7 years Oman
experience in the fi eld of accounts
and valid oman driving license
& NOC . Good knowledge in SAP,
Tally, oracle, MS offi ce and Excel
seeks suitable placement. Contact
92859733
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rent-
als. Full line, from Tables, Linen
& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,
Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,
Chafi ng Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to
Large Sound Systems and spec-
tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606
2222 for Catering and Croyden
9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
ww.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
MV SALE
Prado 2007, manual 4-cylinder.
Contact: 99454425
Car for sale Mitsubishi Lancer,
2008 model, 1.3 CC.
Contact: 92815138
Diesel tanker 1600 gallon, Volvo
model 1987. Contact: 92836774
SIT.WANTED
GOOD NEWS
Ayurvedic treatment for joint
pain, backache, paralysis, mas-
sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-
litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,
18 November Street, Azaiba.
Contact: 99639695 / 97397320
Ayurvedic treatment for backache,
paralysis, arthritis etc & mas-
sage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam).
Contact:24475280 / 95371664 /
92504980 www.siddhayur.com
FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to
know more about Islam, please
call: 99425598, 99250777,
99353988, 99253818, 99341395,
and 99379133. For ladies:
99415818, 99321360, 99730723
Orvisit:www.islamfact.com
D8 W E D N E S D AY, M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 6
DAILY GUIDEEmail: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,
Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.
Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020
A/C Maintenance & Servicing,
Fridge, Washing machine & Dish
washer repairing, Painting & Clean-
ing services, Electrical & plumbing.
Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /
24504281
Regular container transportation
from Sohar sport to anywhere in
Muscat area OMR 100 per con-
tainer. Contact: 93731363
Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC
Contact: 99344723
A/C servicing maintenance.
Contact: 92279370
Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC
Contact 99344723
Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning ti les /
Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.
Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C
House shifting. Contact 99708138
CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD –
comply BIM. Contact: 91233975
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control &
anti-termite treatment, general
cleaning painting,Plumbing,
Electrical, shifting. Contact Mun-
dhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.
Contact: 24810137, 99450130
Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.
Ocean center LLC.
Contact 99344723
Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS-
99320217 /24788722
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,
Contact 99314807/24792998
Window & split unit A.C servicing
& repairing. Contact: 99557080
Split & window A/c servicing &
maintenance. Contact 93769089 /
95323517
Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-
ing & maintenance.
Contact: 95323517 / 93769089
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of
your marble. Contact 24793614/
99314807
Split unit & window unit A.C
servicing & maintenance.
Contact: 96236476
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
Cleaning services, Sofa, carpet,
shampoo old house or new house.
Contact: 92179395
Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/
24788722
Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont
Maintenance services electric,
plumbing and A/C. Contact:
96524904 /94285064
House Shifting Packing. Contact: 99657644 /
98518013
SITUATION WANTEDEDUCATION/CLASSES/COMP./WEB.
Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English
class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi
• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed
Tel: 95244310
SITUATION WANT-CLASSES
Karate and self defense classes
at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per
month twice a week Monday and
Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.
Contact: 98294551
FOR LADIES
Off er!! Treading Gold Facial &
Pedicure just for 10 RO, Al Doom
Parlour Ruwi: Contact 99619409
(watsup) Home service available
WANTED
IELTS Coaching (academic)
required nearby wadi Kabir area.
Please call on mobile or msg on
Whats up. Mobile no: 92927880/
99012165
