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June 22, 2016 16 Ramadan 1437 AH
WEDNESDAY
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RAMADAN PRAYER TIMINGS
Dhuhr 12.14pm
Asr 3.32pm
Maghrib 7.02pm
Isha 8.24pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 3.54am
IFTAR
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MORNING MINUTE
On the occasion of the 8th National Day, 1978
FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN
We affirm that we are ready to extend the hand of friendship to all who will grasp that hand in a similar spirit of friendship and goodwill.
‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’
A630 tabs for young cancer patients
REGIONJordan troops killed
2 Six Jordanian border guards were killed by a suicide bomber. >A14
MARKETMuscat duty free sale
3Travellers passing through Muscat airport are snapping up just as
much now in duty free goods as they were before crisis. >B1
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
FAHAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Hotels in Oman have been told to register the names of all guest and their visitors with the Royal Oman Police on a daily basis, the tourism minis-try has confirmed.
Until now, a semi-voluntary re-porting system has been in place, but the ministry announced last night that it is tightening up the rules as too many hotels have not been submitting the logs.
The ministry undersecre-tary has cited security and a more transparent auditing pro-cess as the main reasons for the new register.
They are also streamlining the reporting process by creating an online, electronic site for all hotels in the country.
That system will record infor-mation about guests and provide ROP with daily data on guests, their nationalities, check-in and check-out date, and time of stay.
They will also have to provide all information and statistics to the ministry regarding visitors to guest rooms and single fe-males will be barred from hotel room visits unless accompanied by a relative.
The new ruling was an-nounced last night at a meeting to discuss the Oman Tourism Strategy. >A8
Citing security
reasons, the tourism
ministry has asked
all hotels in the
Sultanate to furnish
details of visitors
and their guest to
the Royal Oman
Police every day
TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI [email protected]
MUSCAT: Shooting, marching and navigation are just some of the skills schoolchildren will be offered next summer as part of a government drive to introduce military education in schools.
The Council of Ministers, at a meeting held earlier this week, discussed the plan for upgrading the education sector in collabora-tion with government organisa-
tions. “The council underlined the significance of collaboration of government establishments to upgrade the educational sector, address its challenges and con-tribute to the success of its strat-egies and programme,” said the Council of Ministers’ statement.
“It was agreed that the Ministry of Education would coordinate with other departments con-cerned to introduce military edu-cation programmes in schools,” the statement added. >A8
F R O M N E X T S U M M E R
Udta Punjab releasing in Oman on Thursday
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Bollywood’s latest controversial offering, “Udta Punjab” has been cleared for re-lease in Oman this weekend.
Confirming this, a spokesper-son of City Cinema Oman said they will be releasing the movie on Thursday. “We will be hold-ing two shows every night,” the spokesperson said.
Officials of Stars Cinema said they will be releasing the movie on June 23. “The timings of the show, however, have not been fi-nalised,” the spokesperson said, adding that it will be shown af-ter 9 pm. The film, starring Sha-
hid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Diljit Dosanjh in the lead, has become a major hit all over the world since it was released last week. >A8
B O L L Y W O O D M O V I E
HM sends condolencesMUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the death of Princess Hessa bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere condolences and sympathy to King Salman, praying to Allah the Almighty to rest the deceased’s soul in peace and grant her family patience. -ONA
S A U D I A R A B I A
HOTELS MUST REGISTER GUEST DETAILS WITH POLICE
OMANJob creation push
1Manufacturing, logistics, tourism, fisheries and the mining sectors will be core
receivers of investments. >A7
HM RECEIVES MESSAGEHis Majesty Sultan
Qaboos bin Said
received a written
message from King
Willem Alexander
of the Netherlands.
The message was
received by His High-
ness Sayyid Fahd bin
Mahmoud Al Said,
Deputy Prime Minister
for the Council of
Ministers.— ONA >A5
Schoolchildren to learn military skills
German released
with Oman help
MUSCAT: In response to the Royal Directives of His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said for responding to the request of the German government for the re-lease of its citizen in Yemen on humanitarian grounds, the de-partments concerned in Oman coordinated with the Yemeni authorities in Sanaa for the re-lease of German captive, the Sultanate foreign ministry said yesterday. >A3
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30% dip in Eid holiday trips, oil price blamed
REJIMON K [email protected]
MUSCAT: Oil prices are forcing many Omani travellers to stay at home this year, according to travel agents.
The Eid Al Fitr holidays are usu-ally the time when families pack their bags and head off on holiday.
“Compared with last year, there is a dip of 20 to 30 per cent in outbound destination bookings,” Raji Demonte, general manager at Universal Travel and Tourism in Oman, said.
“Bookings are too low, and those who book prefer cheaper destinations, mainly in South East Asia as budget airlines are on the scene,” Demonte said, add-ing that Malaysia has become the
favourite destination of people from Oman, especially for nation-als looking to spend their Eid Al Fitr holidays.
According to travel agents, the oil price dip has led to this situa-tion. “People don’t have money for leisure like they had in pre-vious years. It is not only in out-bound travel bookings, we have witnessed a dip in corporate book-
ings and also in cash sales. Cash sales have come down at many of our outlets,” Demonte added.
Joshy P, a senior official from Fayeda Travel and Tourism, said people make enquiries about tour packages but confirmations are too low.
“In the previous years, if there are 10 enquiries, at least seven will get confirmed, but now, not
even three are getting confirmed,” Joshy added.
Deepal Pallegangoda, country manager of Mihin Lanka in Oman, echoed the same opinion.
“This year, bookings for Eid holidays are too low. It does not reach up to our expectations. The oil price dip has affected out-bound travel prospects,” Pallegan-goda added.
Meanwhile, another travel agent in Muscat said they have re-ceived considerably better book-ings, compared with last summer.
“The maximum travel happen-ing is immediately after Eid. The most sought after destinations are Malaysia, Singapore, Thai-land, Sri Lanka, India, the Unit-ed Kingdom, France, Switzer-land, Austria, Germany, Georgia and other CIS countries,” San-thosh Kanakandath, managing director at Assaraya Travel and Tourism, said.
“With regards to inbound travel, we have taken a beating last season from European mar-kets due to incidents in Yemen, Paris and Brussels. However, the general feeling amongst our Eu-ropean partners for the coming season is quite positive as they feel that things are much more controlled and safer (in Oman),” Kanakandath added.
Bookings are too
low, and those who
book prefer cheaper
destinations, mainly
in South East Asia
Students can fly high with airline dealTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Oman Air has an-nounced that new graduates from high schools in Oman will receive a 25 per cent discount on return flights to enable them to continue their studies overseas.
The discounts will apply to all bookings, excluding promotion-al fares. To be eligible, students must be Omani citizens, aged between 18 and 25 years old at the time of travel and should have just graduated from high school, or an equivalent educa-tional institution.
In addition, they should have been accepted for full-time study on an accredited course at an overseas college or uni-versity. The discounts will apply to international desti-nations that lie within Oman Air’s expanding international network and where students are enrolled. Students will be entitled to an enhanced bag-gage allowance of 10 kilograms above the weight normally per-mitted and can reschedule one flight at no extra charge.
O M A N A I R
Air passengers reminded to pay new taxTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Airlines have remind-ed passengers leaving Oman to pay OMR2 extra as tax from July 1 if it hasn’t been paid while pur-chasing their tickets, travel agents said on Tuesday.
This comes after the tax for international passengers was in-
creased from OMR8 to OMR10 from July 1.
“We will collect the extra mon-ey if someone has not paid,” said Deepal Pallegangoda, country manager Oman, Mihin Lanka.
Raji Demonte, general manager at Universal Travel and Tourism in Oman, said they are contacting the passengers who have not paid
the extra OMR2 with their ticket cost. “Passengers may have to pay the money at the airport check-in counters if they have not paid,” she added.
Shahzad Paracha, country manager of Pakistan Internation-al Airline (PIA) Oman, said the increased amount was included in the ticket itself once it was an-
nounced. “The air ticket issuing system has included the new tax when tickets are issued to the client,” he said.
In March, the Oman Airport Management Company had is-sued a circular stating that all in-ternational departing passengers will have to pay OMR10 as new passenger charges.
P A S S E N G E R C H A R G E S
SOUGHT AFTER: The most sought after destinations
are Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, the United
Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Georgia and
other CIS countries.
German airlifted
The German citizen was trans-ported yesterday from Sanaa to Muscat onboard a RAFO plane for the return to his country, ONA reported.
Meanwhile a Reuters report from Doha said that in Novem-ber, three Americans were air-lifted out of Yemen to Oman. The capture of Sanaa in 2014 by the Houthis provoked armed intervention by a Saudi-led al-liance, which has been waging an air strike campaign against the Houthis.
Oman, which is not part of the Saudi-led alliance, has played an active role in efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.
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RAMADAN REFLECTIONS
The physical fast is a symbol and outward expression of the real, internal fast that is so fundamental to Islam, which is at its
core a guide to exercising restraint and humility in order to gain humanity.
GLOBAL RAMADAN RECIPESBANGLADESH
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“Forgive them even if they are not sorry. Let them forgive and overlook; do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is oft-forgiving,
Most Merciful. ” (Al Noor, 24:22)
WHERE TO SPEND YOUR ZAKAT The literal meaning of Zakat is ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’. In the Islamic faith, Zakat means purifying your wealth for the will of Allah; to acknowledge that everything we own belongs to Allah and to work towards the betterment of the Muslim Ummah. According to Islamic regulations, Zakat is 2.5% of one year’s total cumulative wealth. Zakat is not always financial, and can include everything from volunteering your time to giving an encouraging word, but when it comes to financial donations to the less fortunate, it can be difficult to decide which causes speak most to your heart. Here we will highlight worthy causes to help you decide.
{ Spotlight: Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs }W H AT T H E Y D O
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and Sunnah throughout the Sultanate.
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PLACE OF WORSHIP
This Ramadan is a great opportunity to go pray in beautiful houses of worship that you might not otherwise take the time to see. Whether for
Taraweeh prayers or Dhuhr, pay a visit to one of Muscat’s architectural monuments of faith.
{ Masjid Abbas }Abbas Mosque is a minuscule place of worship built in 1995. Located in the midst of the dishdasha tailoring shops of the
Seeb Souq, it has a simple, old-world feel. Its exterior design is very eye-catching as it is covered in marbles made of real stones in pastel pink and beige. Look for the small, stripped,
wooden gate marking its unassuming entrance.
FASTING HEALTH TIP
Consume good carbohydrates. Slow release carbohydrates, known as low-
glycaemic, are an excellent option for fasting foods. These include whole grain bread and basmati rice. Fast release carbs, like sugary foods and white bread, are
conversely high-glycaemic index, and are best avoided to prevent a midday energy crash.
IFTAR
WORD
Iman comes from the Arabic root amana, which means calmness of the soul and freedom from fear. Often
translated as faith, belief, or conviction, iman is faith accompanied by reason. At its most basic, it is belief in God (Allah), His Prophets, revealed books, angels, the
Hereafter, and Allah’s divine decree. The higher meaning of iman refers to the strength of that belief and the degree
to which one lives in accordance with it. “(Allah) sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers so that they may
have more faith added to their faith (Holy Quran, 48:4).”Source: Mosque Foundation
Iman{ Faith }
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HM receives message from King of the Netherlands
MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said received a writ-ten message from King Willem Alexander of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The message was received by His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers when he received Barbara Joziasse, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Sultanate yesterday.
The ambassador conveyed greetings of King Willem Alex-ander along with his best wishes of further success to His Maj-esty the Sultan and his govern-ment, and the Omani people further progress and prosperity.
Conversation during the meeting comprehensively re-viewed the bilateral relations and means of promoting them between both sides to achieve joint interests of the two coun-tries’ friendly people, in addi-tion to exchanging viewpoints on several issues and current developments in the interna-tional arena.
CooperationThe Dutch ambassador ex-pressed her country’s prepared-ness to enhance cooperation in several fields.
She also affirmed apprecia-tion of the Netherlands for the domestic and international progress made by the Sultanate, thanks to its wise leadership and its positive and effective contribution in cementing rela-tions of friendship, understand-ing and peace with countries of the world.
Sayyid Fahd also asked the ambassador to convey greetings of His Majesty the Sultan along with his best wishes to the King of the Netherlands and his gov-ernment, and the friendly Dutch people permanent progress and prosperity. -ONA
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Educational apps can also cover for
some of their missed education as those
patients can’t go to school
Aisha Al Habsi, nurse Royal Hospital
30 tabs for young cancer patients
HASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Children with can-cer who are limited to the hos-pital’s confined spaces can now catch glimpses of the outside world thanks to an initiative through which they received tablet computers.
Well-wishers at the Royal Hospital in Oman distributed 30 Samsung tab e devices to the bedridden children at the Hema-tology and Oncology department to fulfil their educational and entertainment needs.
Following a survey conducted by the hospital’s staff, children were found lacking entertainment in their lives.
“We built a play room for the children but many of them are on chemotherapy and can’t leave their room,” said Aisha Al Habsi, a nurse at the hospital.
“So we, in coordination with vol-unteers and W J Towell Company, decided to provide them with the latest tablet computers,” she said.
According to a hospital official, the device features educational applications such as (Mathemat-ics garden) and games like, where
is my water? Trip Trap, Glow Hock-ey, Color Switch and Cut Rope.
Al Habsi said that the children, between one and 13 years old, were so happy and excited about these devices that many of them were staying awake at night just to play the games.
“Educational apps can also cover for some of their missed education as those patients can’t go to school,” she explained, while adding that the hospital installed health awareness apps in the de-vices to educate kids on how to protect themselves from possible diseases and infections.
“The children have weak im-mune system and they need such awareness,” she added.
Well-wishers at the Royal Hospital in Oman
distributed 30 Samsung tab e devices to the
bedridden children at the Hematology and
Oncology department
ENGROSSED: The devices gifted to the bedridden children have a number of applications pre-loaded to
keep them engaged. – OK Mohammed Ali
A precious roof over the heads of 5 families - thanks to Dar al Atta’a
Staff Reporter
MUSCAT: Families without a roof over their heads will now be able to live in comfortable houses, thanks to Dar Al Atta’a’s (DAA’s) Family Welfare Programme, which has supported five families registered with the organisation.
An amount of OMR147,850 that was used towards helping five families in Oman has been spent in buying a flat worth OMR33,000 in the Al Seeb area, and another one worth OMR30,000 in Al Am-erat. Besides these, three houses were built in Al Mabela costing OMR84,850.
A beneficiary, who was given a flat in Al Amerat, to provide
shelter for her and her four chil-dren expressed happiness by thanking the association for this Ramadan present, where she can now live in peace after her long struggle with life when her hus-band went to prison.
Funds raised by DAA’s “Big Give Competition (2012-13) batch” participants also con-tributed towards the building of houses in Al Mabela. DAA’s Fam-ily Welfare Programme has since inception built almost 60 houses, and renovated over 350.
Those who want to benefit from the programme, can head straight to their office, register with the Family Welfare Department, and provide some documents after
which an inspection team will study the case.
Currently, they have ap-proximately 27 families on the waiting list, of which some are critical cases.
Meanwhile, DAA also organ-ised a Qaranqasho event for chil-dren, along with the Hand-in-Hand initiative at Shangri-La’s Barr al Jissah Resort and Spa, where goodies and sweets were distributed among children.
If you want to contribute to providing shelter to those in need, donate to the following account number: Bank Muscat, Account 0315003966850024 or via www.donate.om/daralatta. For further details, visit www.daralattaa.org.
F A M I L Y W E L F A R E P R O G R A M M E
HELPING THE NEEDY: Family Welfare Programme of Dar Al Atta’a has since its inception built
almost 60 houses, and renovated over 350 houses. – Supplied photo
REJIMON K [email protected]
MUSCAT: Low-lying fog and mist blanketed many parts of Salalah on the first day of the Khareef season, residents have reported.
“This morning, many parts of Salalah, especially the Sarfeet area, were covered by fog,” Bader Ali Al Baddaei, an administrator with www.rthmc.net, a local web-based forum that monitors the weather, told the Times of Oman. Basil Peter, an official at the Salalah Port, said they are happy with the weather.
“We are enjoying the pleasant climate here. The temperature will be dipping in the coming days,” Peter added. According to global weather forecasts, the maximum temperature in Salalah today is 31 degree Celsius and the minimum
will be 28 degree Celsius.“In the coming days, the maxi-
mum temperature will be 30 de-gree Celsius and the minimum will hover around 26 degree Celsius,” the Weather Underground report-ed on its website. In its forecast, Oman’s Meteorology Department has also predicted rain in the Dho-far region in the coming days.
Meanwhile, hotels and travel agents have already geared up for the Khareef season (monsoon) to lure visitors. The number of visi-tors to the southern governorate during the last monsoon stood at 514,000, with a daily average of more than 5,000 visitors.
Hotels and travel agents have said that Khareef is considered a significant aspect of tourism in Oman as it receives misty rains and has a cooler temperature.
W E A T H E R
Oman’s Meteorology
Department has predicted rain
in the Dhofar region in the
coming days. – www.rthmc.net
Fog envelops parts of Salalah
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Five sectors at centre of job creation push
HASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Manufacturing, lo-gistics, tourism, fisheries and the mining sectors, will be the core receivers of Oman’s investments in the coming five years, Talal Al Rahbi, deputy secretary general of the Supreme Council for Planning told the Times of Oman (TOO).
These five sectors will provide
new job opportunities to Omanis and increase the private sector’s contribution to the Gross Domes-tic Product (GDP), according to Al Rahbi.
“However,” he said, “the de-tailed number of available va-cancies will be announced after a series of workshops, which will take place next September and October.”
The “National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversi-fication” falls within the frame-work of implementing the ninth five-year plan (2016-2020).
But Al Rahbi explained that a major portion of the plan will be implemented this year.
Asked why Oman aims to focus on these five fields in particular, Al Rahbi said the selected industries have comparative advantage, and could make potential contribu-tions to the GDP, and can provide many jobs and investments.
Al Rahbi added that the Coun-cil will conduct joint workshops with private sector representa-tives for two weeks between Sep-tember and October.
The seminars will be attended by specialised experts from public
organisations, the private sector, civil society organisations and all stakeholders will take part.
The seminars will cover details and decide on responsibilities, resources, and the financial al-location for implementation, the timetable for implementa-tion and accurate measurement indicators.
“Following that, we will come up with a detailed plan to diver-sify the Sultanate’s economy,” he said, adding that this will reduce the country’s dependence on oil exports and products.
On Sunday, the Supreme Coun-cil for Planning held its second meeting for this year under the chairmanship of Dr. Ali bin Ma-soud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry.
The Council reviewed His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s roy-al blessing for programme.
It also reviewed the status of expenditure on the development budget for the ministries and governmental units in relation to implementing different develop-ment projects and compliance with the ceiling for expenditure during the 2016 financial year.
These five sectors
have comparative
advantage, and
could make potential
contributions to the
GDP, and can provide
many jobs and
investments
MOVING FORWARD: The Supreme Council for Planning held its second meeting for this year under
the chairmanship of Dr. Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry. – ONA
State Council, Shura approve Omani penal code, send to HMTimes News Service
MUSCAT: During the meeting on Tuesday, the articles of disagree-ment between the State Council and Majlis Al Shura in the Omani Penal Code were approved and forwarded to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said supported with the opinion of both councils.
The articles received extensive examination and were thoroughly discussed at the joint meeting, headed by Dr Yahya bin Mah-foudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council, in the presence of Khalid bin Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of the Shura Council, the honourable members of the State Council and Majlis Al Shura,
along with the Secretary Generals of both the Councils.
Dr Yahya welcomed the Coun-cil members and extended his congratulations during the holy month of Ramadan and the advent of Eid Al Fitr, and also prayed for the members’ well-being.
The State Council chairman ex-plained that the two bodies have discussed the draft Omani Penal Code, agreed on many of the ar-ticles and identified articles on which they did not concur.
The joint meeting included dis-cussions and voting about each article to resolve the differences between the two councils.
Dr. Yahya praised the attitude displayed at the joint meeting,
which confirmed the trust of the the people to meaningfully debate in the public interest, and thanked all for their participation.
The meeting was held in pur-suant to the provisions of Article (58 bis 37) of the Basic Law of the State, which declares, “In case of differences between the two coun-cils, they shall hold a joint meet-ing under the chairmanship of the Chairman of Majlis Al Dawla, and by his invitation, to discuss differ-ences and then vote on the draft law during the same meeting.
The absolute majority of the members present shall adopt the decisions, and in all cases, the Chairman of Majlis Al Shura shall submit the draft to His Majesty the
Sultan, along with the opinion of the two Councils.”
He pointed out that the session would be dedicated to extensive discussions on the draft Oman pe-nal code assigned by the Council of Ministers with the report of the Majlis Al Shura, in addition to the report prepared by the Legal Com-mittee of the State Council.
Additionally, Dr. Yahya praised the Legal Committee’s efforts in the preparation and conclusion of the study.
The draft Omani Penal Code is one of the most important draft laws, which aims to protect indi-vidual rights and freedoms, and preserves the integrity and secu-rity of society.
J O I N T M E E T I N G
EXTENSIVE DEBATE: State Council and Majlis Al Shura held the
joint session under the chair of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Man-
theri, Chairman of the State Council in the presence of Khalid bin
Hilal Al Maawali, Chairman of Majlis Al Shura. – ONA
ROP rescues
missing Omani
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Coastguards have found an Omani citizen who was reportedly lost at sea near Barka. He was found in his boat and is in good health, according to the Royal Oman Police.
The ROP received a distress call on Tuesday that a 29-year-old man has gone missing dur-ing a fishing trip.
Following a four-hour search, the Coastguards and Air Force, in cooperation with the locals, located the Omani man. Police sources said the boat devel-oped technical problems and he couldn’t start the engine.
MUSCAT: In all 870 of the 908 job contracts e-registered at the Ministry of Manpower website between June 12 to 16 were for Omanis. The number of organi-sations that registered their em-ployment contracts through the system stood at 442. -ONA
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Five-week military training for children to start next year
“It also aims to expand the base of students enrolled in these pro-grammes,” added the statement.
Sheikh Saudi Al Azri, Advisor to the Minister of Education, said that the programme is planned to begin next summer and will take five weeks to complete. He added that only male children will be eli-gible to enrol.
“It is not a mandatory pro-gramme but there are require-ments that students must pass to be eligible to enter. Of course the student will have to go through a medical check up to make sure he is free from illnesses and diseas-es,” said Al Azri.
He said that the students will learn skills and develop talents with regards to military aspects as well as learn the army norms and practices.
“There will also be programmes regarding discipline and march-ing,” he said. Shooting, navigation and running the obstacle course are among the many courses planned during the programme.
Students will receive a certifi-cate from their camp that states that they have completed the training course.
“The certificate qualifies the student should he feel that he would like to pursue a career in the military,” explained Al Azri.
Speaking to Timam Al
Mugheiry, a Sultan’s School graduate of 2007 who, among 30 students from that school, volun-teered to undergo military train-ing for 3 weeks during their mid-term break, said that it taught him more discipline and other things that he would not otherwise learn in school.
“As a student, my benefit was probably the discipline and learn-ing skill sets that just aren’t taught in a school environment,” said Al Mugheiry.
“It was also a strong bonding experience. The classmates who went there together, we built stronger friendships over that time,” he added.
Hard workAnother alumni from the same batch, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “Honestly, when first going in, I thought it was go-ing to be fun and games. But in fact it was hard work from day one; af-ter all it is the military.”
“My training taught me to be more responsible as well as in-spired me to help people. It has also taught me discipline and patriotism towards my country. They trained us to use our minds as much as our bodies,” he added.
Mohammad Mustafa, a 39 year expert in the field of education, a retired teacher, and one who
taught those who went for train-ing and returned different men, has high praise for the Ministry’s initiative to introduce a military programme.
“I remember when some of my students went away for military training and came back very dif-ferent than their former selves. They were more responsible, dis-ciplined and serious about getting their work done,” said Mustafa.
“They were focused in class and their homework would be submit-ted on time. I encourage parents to enrol their children in this pro-gram and students as well. It does have a positive effect on the stu-dents,” he added.
Members of the public were ecstatic to hear the news as it will help a lot of students brought up in a technology-saturated environ-ment to learn discipline as it has been a word used many times.
Rumaitha Al Busaidi, an Omani radio presenter said, “Quite hap-py actually; at least the younger generation will learn discipline amidst all the spoilt culture we have grown to raise them in.”
Vinod Varma, a private sector employee, echoed that and said, “It’s a great idea. It will ensure children learn discipline as well as loyalty and dedication to the country. The country’s progress will also become stronger.”
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Movie expected to perform well
“We hope that the movie will do pretty good here too as there was a lot of interest in this movie last week itself,” Anuj, a Bollywood movie buff said.
The movie got a decent start in the UAE and collected around AED325,000, famous Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted on Tuesday.
He also tweeted that the movie will be released in Oman and Ku-wait next week.
Director Abhishek Chaubey’s crime drama “Udta Punjab,” is based on drug abuse in the north Indian state of Punjab.
The film has been co-produced by Phantom Films and Balaji Motion Pictures, who struggled to acquire a release certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) or censor board of India.
The censor board first suggest-ed 89 cuts in the movie, and then the Revising Committee slashed its demand to 13 cuts.
But the makers moved the Bombay High Court, which over-ruled the CBFC-recommended cuts in the film, clearing it for re-lease with just one cut and three disclaimers by the filmmakers.
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Oman hotels ready to comply with government’s directive
A source at the ministry said: “This time, all hotels will abide by the rule to send the data to ROP.
“Earlier, some hotels didn’t fol-low the rule but now all must fol-low. “Hotels who fail to do so will face legal action.”
Welcoming this decision, Vi-jay Handa, General Manager, Masirah Island Resort, said that it would enhance the safety of visitors.
“Now the ROP personnel visit our hotel and take our records but it would be better if every-thing is online and then we can send all details of our guests once someone checks into our hotel,” he said.
“This is a process that has been going on for so many years with the hotels and we can’t reveal what kind of details we give to the ROP as it is confidential between us and the ROP,” an official at the Intercontinental Muscat Hotel told Times of Oman.
An official at the Grand Hyatt Muscat Hotel said they have al-ready complied with the ruling.
“We have been doing this for a long time,” she said.
According to Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa official they are ready to comply with the government’s needs.
Speaking exclusively to the Times of Oman, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Tourism, Mai-tha Al Mahrouqi, said: “Only five stars and four stars complied be-cause they have regulations but
three stars, two stars, one stars and camps (are) now required to activate the visitor system which is a government system to collect all visitors data at one place.
“The security reason is the first because all decisions made by us should consider the security mat-ter. It’s also revenue. If we know how many visitors we can know how much we get. We could not know the revenue for many years. ROP started the visitor system. Now when visitors come to Oman they only require electronic visa. No need for anything else. They can come to Oman electronically and it shows also when they stay in hotels. Everything is clear in one place. To facilitate the proce-dure we require the daily report.
“When we asked before, every five stars hotel has its own op-erator and his own style of report. Everyone sends the report in dif-ferent (format) shape and form. Now we have united the system and it’s one of the requirements of
the regulations to include all hotel buildings weather its one star or two stars, hotel apartments - they have to do the same thing.”
An official from a hotel in Mus-cat said that passing on guest de-tails to Royal Oman Police (ROP) is happening for the last few years on daily basis.
“We have been providing the details of guests from 2008 on a daily basis. We heard that the new law is going to make it man-datory. We provide guests de-tails like check in and check out their identity proof and all,” the official added.
A businessman involved in tourism activities said that such measures are already in place in UAE and other countries.
“These steps can enhance security measures. It is a good practice. Making it mandatory is not going affect tourism sector,” Vipin Chandran, a senior official at Special Projects, which focuses on tourism activities, said.
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MUSCAT: There was a 0.6 per cent increase in the number of Omani nationals working in the private sector in May 2016, compared with figures for April, according to the latest bulletin published by the National Cen-tre for Statistics and Informa-tion (NCSI).
As of May, there were 211,370 Omanis employed in the private sector, compared to 210,074 Oma-nis in April.
Significantly, the report shows that as of May, women made up less than one quarter of the total Omani workforce in the private sector, at 51,618.
It was further reported that the great majority of Omanis em-ployed in the private sector drew a salary of OMR325-400.
April figuresTheir numbers logged a 0.8 per cent drop to 62,098 in May, com-pared with April figures. In con-trast, as many as 7,871 Omanis working in the private sector were entitled to a hefty salary of over OMR2,000, and their num-bers rose by 0.8 per cent in May, compared with the previous month. Further, the number of Omanis with a salary of OMR400
to 500 stood at 48,763, even as the number of those earning OMR500 to 600 increased 1.4 per cent to 22,163.
As many as 15,647 Omanis were paid a salary of OMR600 to 700 in May, and their num-bers increased 1.1 per cent over April figures.
Further, an increase of 0.8 per cent was recorded in the number of nationals drawing a salary of OMR700-800, with their num-bers standing at 9,804.
Nationals employed in the private sector with a salary of OMR800-900 and OMR900-1,000 registered a rise of 0.3 per cent and 1.2 per cent over the period, to reach 6,970 and 5,488, respectively.
The number of Omani employ-ees paid OMR1,000-2,000 also rose 0.7 per cent to 19,910 in May, compared with April, as detailed in the report. — ONA
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Omani envoy delivers bin Alawi’s message to Pakistan officialISLAMABAD: Sartaj Aziz, Ad-viser to Pakistan’s Prime minster on Foreign Affairs, received in his office today Ambassador Dr Mohammed bin Awad Al Hassan, who delivered to him a written message from Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Respon-sible for Foreign Affairs on the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries and ways of developing them.
The meeting was attended by Plenipotentiary Minister Waleed bin Isa Al Zadjali, Acting Charge d’affaires of the Sultanate of Oman in Islamabad and Aizaz Mohammed Chaudhry, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, and a num-ber of officials from both sides. — ONA
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PM leads yoga day events, says ‘yoga not a religious activity’
CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday joined over 30,000 people here for the second International Yoga Day cel-ebrations as he pitched for treating diseases like diabetes through the ancient spiritual discipline.
Modi, dressed in a white-col-oured T-shirt and trouser along with a scarf, led over 30,000 par-ticipants, including defence forc-es personnel and schoolchildren, for the second International Day of Yoga celebrations here at the Capitol Complex amid tight se-curity. The prime minister, who arrived here on Monday night, participated in a mass demonstra-tion of ‘Common Yoga Protocol’. A yoga enthusiast himself, he per-formed yoga ‘asanas’ along with the people at the event.
Over 30,000 people from all
ages — 10,000 each from Chandi-garh, Punjab and Haryana — per-formed yoga ‘asanas’ on pink and blue coloured mats during the event. Separately, about 10,000 people also performed yoga at over 100 other locations in Chan-digarh itself.
Earlier addressing the gather-ing, Modi pitched for treating dia-betes through yoga.
Focus on diabetes“I want to request trainers who are associated with yoga, from this public platform. From next year when we celebrate yoga day, in this one year, you continue to do what you do for yoga but focus on one subject and this is my subject — diabetes — Diabetes and yoga,” he said.
“All people belonging to the yoga field, whatever knowledge they have, they must continue with the rest of their yoga activi-ties but this (diabetes) must be the main focus,” Modi said.
Expressing concern over ris-ing number of patients suffering from diabetes, Modi asked yoga trainers to help in controlling the disease.
“In India, patients suffering from diabetes are rising. We might be able to get rid of this disease or not but with the help of yoga, dia-betes can be controlled. Can we start a public campaign to suggest measures in yoga to the common man suffering from diabetes.
“It will be an achievement if we can help in treating diabe-tes. From next year, we can take another disease. But I want that for good health, we should address any one disease every year. We should run a public campaign with an aim to address one disease,” he said.
Yoga is not only a way to get rid of a disease but it also guarantees wellness. For holistic develop-ment of lives, yoga is a great way, he said. “India has given invalua-ble heritage to the world as we cel-
ebrate the second International Yoga Day. The world has accepted it in their way. Today from Indian government side, I am going to announce two awards. Next year, when yoga day will be celebrated on June 21, then from India, there will be a selection for two awards,” Modi said.
“One at the international level for those putting in excellent work in the field of yoga and the second one for those working in the field within the country. One Interna-tional Yoga Award and the second National Yoga Award,” he said.
Elaborate arrangements had been put in place to ensure a smooth performance, officials said. Punjab and Haryana Gover-nor Kaptan Singh Solanki, who is also Union Territory Chandigarh’a Administrator, Punjab Chief Min-ister Parkash Singh Badal and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar were among those present at the event. The prime minister stressed that yoga was
not about taking or receiving but about a healthy body.
“Sometimes, people cannot un-derstand it (yoga) fully because of their lesser ability to understand it. This science is not for tak-ing and receiving. Yoga is not for what one gets, yoga is what I can give and how I can get relief from different things, it is way to get mukti (salvation).
“All religions, communities etc. emphasise on what we will get af-ter death in parlok (heaven). They say if you pray this way, then you will get this thing in parlok. Yoga is not for parlok,” he said.
The prime minister said yoga is a science for life and not a reli-gious activity.
“It is not a religious activity. How will you get peace in your mind, how will you get healthy body, how unity remains in socie-ty, it gives power in that direction. Yoga is not a science for parlok. It is a science for this life,” he said.
“Therefore, Yoga gives training to help body, mind, intelligence, spirit working in a synchronrised way. If we see ourselves, if we walk or not, we may be alert or lazy, our body can be anything. But our mann (mind) can never be stable,” Modi said.
The prime minister said coun-tries like India can save on their health budget by adopting preven-tive healthcare measures like yoga.
“Therefore, it is necessary to connect Yoga with life.I request all people, to know yourself, to increase your capability, do not wait and make Yoga part of your life. The way mobile has become part of everyday life, you can make yoga part of your life easily. It is not a difficult job,” he said.
“There is no health insurance in world with zero budget. But yoga provides health assurance in zero budget. Yoga does not understand difference between rich and poor, intelligent and illiterate, even poor-est of poor and richest of rich can perform yoga easily,” he said. - PTI
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in a mass yoga event on
the second International Day of Yoga at Capitol Complex in Chandigarh on Tuesday. - PTI
Aadhaar to be linked with caste, domicile certificatesNEW DELHI: All state govern-ments have been asked to link Aadhaar with caste and domicile certificates to be issued to school students, as part of a first-of-its-kind initiative by the Centre.
The states have been told to ensure that such certificates are issued within 60 days time to the students when they are studying in Class V or VIII.
The development assumes sig-nificance as there have been com-plaints of delay in grant of schol-arship to students belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Besides, people have often complained of harassment alleg-edly by government officials in getting caste and domicile certifi-cates issued.
Meta data“The state government may also try to get the information of stu-dents fed into the meta data to be made online and may link it to Aadhaar enabled data, if feasible.
“Sincere efforts be made to issue these certificates along with Aad-haar number,” reads Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) released by Personnel Ministry on issuance of caste and certificates in schools.
The Unique Identification Au-thority of India (UIDAI) issues Aadhaar — a 12-digit number which acts as a proof of iden-tity and address, anywhere in the country. The main objective of is-suance of caste or tribe certificate is to facilitate access of bona fide candidates belonging to Sched-uled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to the reserved posts and services under the state or central govern-ments and secure admission in educational institutions and get other facilities.
“The concerned revenue or state government authorities would scrutinise or verify the documents and issue the relevant certificates preferably within a period of 30-60 days,” it said. - PTI
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China continues to stonewall India’s NSG membership bid
BEIJING/NEW DELHI: China on Tuesday continued to stone-wall India’s bid for Nuclear Sup-plier’s Group (NSG) membership despite a fresh push by the US as the 48-nation grouping remained divided over the entry of a non-NPT signatory country like India.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry sang different tunes, first say-ing that it was not targeting any country such as India or Pakistan and then taking a swipe at the US for backing India’s case citing the
rule that countries which have not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) should not be al-lowed into NSG.
CommentsThe Chinese comments came af-ter the White House said India was “ready” for NSG membership and asked participating govern-ments to support India’s applica-tion at the plenary session of NSG in Seoul two days from now.
At the same time, Beijing said the “door is open” for discussions on the issue but then emphasised on whether criteria for member-
ships should be changed instead of making exceptions.
In other words, China is seek-ing to equate India with its impec-cable non-proliferation record with that of Pakistan for which it is batting. Given this scenario and continued Chinese opposition, it is very likely that a consensus on India’s membership will elude the grouping’s plenary on June 23-24.
Some 20 members are said to be backing India, some are unde-cided and some are opposed to it.
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar may travel to Seoul to push for India’s bid for NSG
membership at the plenary of the 48-nation grouping.
According to government sources, the foreign secretary is watching the situation “very closely” and, depending on the “feedback” from the official-level meeting of NSG ahead of the cru-cial plenary on Thursday and Fri-day in the South Korean capital, he may travel to Seoul to give a “final push”.
The official-level session of NSG started on Monday.
With China leading the opposi-tion against India’s entry into the elite NSG, New Delhi is in a dip-lomatic overdrive to reach out to countries to support its bid.
Senior External Affairs Min-istry Official Amandeep Singh Gill, in-charge of ‘Disarmament & International Security’ division, is already in Seoul to “garner” support as well as “explain” In-dia’s case, sources said. The main meeting of the NSG Plenary on June 24 will happen a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Tashkent for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Sum-mit, which is also being attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Modi may meet Xi on the side-lines of the SCO summit and raise the issue of India’s NSG member-ship but whether the discussions
pave the way for a seat for New Delhi at the nuclear high table is a moot point.
Non-Proliferation TreatyChina has been opposed to India’s entry into NSG on the ground that it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
However, it has been batting for entry of its close ally Pakistan, also not a signatory to NPT, if India were to be inducted into the elite grouping. India has asserted that being a signatory to the NPT was not essential for joining the NSG, citing the precedent of France.
India is seeking membership of NSG to enable it to trade in and export nuclear technology.
The membership of NSG, which regulates global trade in nuclear technology, is expected to open up the international market for energy-starved India, which has an ambitious energy genera-tion programme.
India has set for itself an ambi-tious target of generating 63,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2030.
The NSG looks after critical is-sues relating to nuclear sector and its members are allowed to trade in and export nuclear technology.
Membership of the grouping will help India significantly ex-pand its atomic energy sector. - PTI
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To boost hiring, competitive exam scores to be put online
NEW DELHI: In order to boost hiring, scores of all candidates tak-ing various competitive examina-tions will be made available online for both public and private sector.
The central government has ap-proved the proposal of Niti Aayog for making available publicly scores and ranking of candidates in recruitment examinations through a portal for increasing access of the unemployed to job opportunities, an order issued on Tuesday by Department of Person-nel and Training (DoPT) said.
“As approved by the govern-ment, the candidates will have the option to opt out of the disclosure scheme. The option of opting out will have to be taken at the time of filing up the application.
“This, thus further indicates that the actual implementation can be done only on those exami-nations for which the application forms will be invited in future. Seeking option from candidates during the process of conduct of examination may neither be prac-tical nor feasible,” it said.
There are many recruiting agen-cies like Union Public Service Com-mission and Staff Selection Com-mission to select employees for various government jobs including for Indian Administrative Service, IFS and IPS among others. - PTI
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DIPLOMATIC OVERDRIVE: Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar may travel to Seoul to push for India’s bid for NSG membership at the plenary of the 48-nation grouping on June 23-24. - AFP file photo
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“Rexit” is bad news for IndiaMihir Sharma
All too often, the stewards of India’s economy have been short of credibility. Politicians’ promises of economic reform are rarely
fulfilled, bureaucrats’ assurances are widely disbe-lieved, and even India’s growth numbers have be-come objects of suspicion. Of late, one institution and its leader had proven exceptions to this rule: the Reserve Bank of India and its governor, Raghuram Rajan. That’s why the government’s decision to push Rajan out the door constitutes self-harm of monumental proportions.
Rajan, as with much else during his tenure, broke the news of his departure unconventionally, in a letter to the central bank’s employees well in advance of the government’s announcement of any decision. Clearly, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government would not confirm him, then he had little reason to hang about waiting for the inevitable. His letter subtly and gracefully made clear that he felt unwelcome: Rajan wrote that he was “open” to staying on, but following “consulta-tions with the government,” had decided to leave.
Rajan becomes the first RBI governor since India’s economic liberalization began more than two decades ago not to serve an extended, five-year term. The decision to grant an additional two years to a governor serving a three-year term had become almost automatic. Worst of all, the Modi government appears to have chosen to break this nascent (and healthy) tradition for the poorest of reasons: its unease with Rajan’s independence.
Rajan had discomfited the government on sev-eral occasions -- most notably, when he delivered a widely-shared speech arguing for freedom of ex-pression and the tolerance of different ideas and beliefs. The address merely restated basic liberal principles and linked national progress to an open and diverse marketplace of ideas. But many in In-dia’s ruling party took it as a direct affront. That Rajan had served as a top economic advisor in the previous administration, run by the nominally lib-eral Congress party, didn’t help.
Whatever their personal beliefs, Modi and his more urbane ministers, such as Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley, have signally failed to prevent the more radical members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from attacking anything and anyone they see as not Indian enough -- whether beef-eat-
ing Muslims or foreign-educated economists. Ra-jan, although he has never given up Indian citizen-ship and has always had one eye on public service, became the target of noisy condemnations issued by powerful BJP leaders. He had little reason not to suppose the government wanted him out; even a relatively mild statement tempering euphoria over India’s economic numbers was harshly criticized by a raft of senior ministers, including Jaitley. Ra-jan was forced to apologize.
The best-case scenario is worrying enough: that Modi and Jaitley were upset about Rajan’s hawk-ishness on interest rates and allowed him to be at-tacked, knowing they could then replace him with someone more malleable. If so, the RBI’s hard-won independence on monetary policy -- preserved and strengthened by successive governors spar-ring with profligate politicians in New Delhi -- has been undermined, perhaps fatally.
That the best-case scenario is so dire tells you exactly how big a disaster Rajan’s forced exit is.
There are more worrying possibilities. Rajan, as an economics professor, studied and wrote against crony capitalism. As RBI governor, he’s been working diligently to clean up the balance sheets of Indian banks stressed by bad lending to politically influential tycoons. The effort provoked some resistance, with the government warning that banks -- 70 percent of which are state-owned -- were reluctant to bring bad loans into the open for fear that the original lending might invite crim-inal prosecution. While Rajan did caution against a “witch-hunt” targeting bankers who had done nothing wrong, this might have been viewed by the government as not enough of a compromise on his part. If so, India’s vital battle against cronyism and bad lending risks being watered down or aban-doned, with dangerous consequences for the en-tire financial sector.And then there’s the hard-to-dismiss possibility that the government chose the anti-Rajan campaigners as instruments in a larger effort to install pliant economic managers across the board. Even the Prime Minister’s admirers will admit that Modi doesn’t encourage too much inde-pendent thought among his deputies. - Bloombeg View
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Elderly person in scamming incident I refer the story Beware of fake accident scammers, ROP tells vehicle drivers in Oman (June - 21) and congratulate the ROP for coming out with this statement. These kind of scammers are there in the capital for
quite some times. Couple of years back one of my colleague has faced this kind of problem in Ruwi parking lot . As he was taking out his car from the parking lot and suddenly from no where, an elderly person came screa-ming from the back of the car , pretending to be in severe pain and as if the rare wheel of the has run over his foot. My colleague sincerely apologised and offered to carry this elderly person to the accident & emergency department of Khoula Hospital for get him treated , to which he(scammer) agreed and sat in the car. On the way towards hospital this elderly person(scammer) started to chat with him and before they reached hospital, he (scammer) started insisting to get him some amount in cash and he(scammer) would handle the treatment himself as the treatment in Khoula Hospital will cost too much. In no way the scammer was interested
to go to hospital. After a brief argument the scammer got wild, started shouting but finally asked to stop the car and got down before they could reach the hospital. — Mohammad Osama Rawat, Ruwi
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FORTY BABIES OUT OF EVERY 1,000 ARE STILLBIRTHSPakistani health worker Zeweer Jan, right, speaks to a pregnant women at a healthcare centre in the town of Sharda in the mountainous Neelum Valley. In 2014,
a report by the charity Save the Children stated that Pakistan had the highest rate of first day deaths and stillbirths in the world, at 40.7 per 1,000 births. - AFP
Sindh court judge’s son kidnapped in Karachi
KARACHI: Masked men kid-napped the son of a senior Paki-stani judge in the southern port city of Karachi, police said on Tuesday, suspecting the victim could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations to free im-prisoned militants.
Awais Ali Shah, the son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was abducted outside a supermarket in the city on Mon-day, according to police. Eyewit-nesses told officers that Shah, a lawyer, had put up a fight before being quickly overpowered and thrown into a white getaway car.
“So far it is kidnapping, and my professional assessment is that it is not for ransom,” Allah Dino
Khawaja, the police chief in Sindh province said.
Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media, said they suspected the kidnappers would offer to free
Shah in return for the release of captured militants.
Kidnapping by criminal gangs and militants is common in Pa-kistan. Police did not say why they suspected Shah had been abducted by militants.
Karachi, a teeming metropolis of more than 20 million people, has long been plagued by politi-cal and ethnic violence, although crime has dropped sharply since the launch of a paramilitary op-eration in September 2013.
Fighting insurgencyPakistan has been fighting an insurgency led by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group of militant organisations seeking the overthrow of the government, since 2007.
Violence countrywide has dropped significantly since 2014, when the military launched an operation in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, but attacks against civilians and secu-rity forces continue.
Earlier this year, Shahbaz Ta-seer, the son of slain Punjab gover-nor Salmaan Taseer, was rescued four years after he was kidnapped by militants in the eastern city of Lahore.
Last month, United States and Afghanistan forces freed Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Pakistani prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, three years after gun-men abducted him. - Reuters
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Awais Ali Shah, a
lawyer, had put up
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Country ranked third cheapest in the world: ReportISLAMABAD: An extensive cost of living survey has ranked Paki-stan as the third cheapest country in the world.
The cheapest country to feature in the study is India, with a cost of living index of 24.14, followed by Moldova, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Nepal. A little further down the list you’ll find Colombia, Ser-bia, The Philippines, South Africa and Romania.
The survey takes into account the price of around 50 items, in-cluding a wide variety of accom-modation, food and drink from both — supermarkets and restau-rants, clothing, taxi fares, leisure activities, utility, internet and mo-bile phone bills.
The cheapest restaurant meals and apartments are found in Ne-pal, while Cuba has the cheapest cinema prices, public transport and electricity bills. The cheapest McDonalds combo meal is found in the Ukraine, and the cheap-est pair of Levis 501s can be pur-chased in Uganda.
Of those countries among the cheapest 20, India has the most world heritage sites (32), Colom-bia has the highest life expectancy (79) and the highest percentage of forested land (54%).
Romania has the best aver-age internet connection speed
(12.8mbits per second), Moldova has the fewest roads (9,352kms), Bosnia and Herzogovina is the least urbanised, while a natural disaster is least likely to occur in the Ukraine.
The cheapest countries ac-cording to the survey feature are as follows: 1. India, 2. Moldova, 3. Pakistan, 4. Kazakhstan, 5. Nepal, 6. Ukraine, 7. Georgia, 8. Algeria, 9. Azerbaijan, 10. Colombia, 11. Tu-nisia, 12. Macedonia, 13. Syria, 14. Serbia, 15. Albania, 16. Sri Lanka, 17. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 18. The Philippines, 19. South Africa and 20. Romania,
Most expensiveThe most expensive country, meanwhile, is Bermuda – a British Overseas Territory – which has a cost of living index of 133.68. Swit-zerland, The Bahamas, Norway and Iceland complete the top five, while the UK comes 12th, and the US 21st.
The most expensive countries rank as follows: 1. Bermuda, 2. Switzerland, 3. The Bahamas, 4. Norway, 5. Iceland, 6. Denmark, 7. Singapore, 8. Luxembourg, 9. Ku-wait, 10. Hong Kong, 11. Japan, 12. United Kingdom, 13. Australia, 14. New Zealand, 15. Ireland, 16. Israel, 17. Sweden, 18. Belgium, 19. France, and 20. Finland. – Express Tribune
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ADB to invest in China-Pakistan corridor, Gwadar projectsISLAMABAD: The Asian Devel-opment Bank (ADB) has expressed keen interest in investing in the China-Pakistan Economic Corri-dor (CPEC) and in the Gwadar city to complement efforts made by both the countries, but it has not yet received a formal request from the federal government.
“The CPEC, Special Economic Zones and other initiatives have huge financial needs and the ADB can complement Pakistan and China’s efforts,” said ADB vice president Wencai Zhang while speaking to media at the conclu-sion of his five-day visit to Paki-stan on Monday.
The ADB has provided Pakistan loans amounting to over $27 billion over a period of 50 years and the purpose of the vice president’s visit was to find new areas of coopera-tion and to get first-hand informa-tion about economic cooperation.
“I visited Gwadar for the first time and was so impressed by the quality and potential of the Gwa-
dar port, located at such an impor-tant place,” said Zhang while shar-ing his feelings.
“The port needs a lot of invest-ment in coming years. Authori-ties have named a few projects for transport, city development, water supply and road and rail to link Gwadar with other cities for which they seek the ADB support,” he added.
Bank’s supportHe said the authorities would first have to talk to the central govern-ment for the ADB support and that the bank had so far received no for-mal request from the government.
However, he added the bank – one of the two largest lenders to the country – would “certainly complement what China and Paki-stan are doing along the economic corridor”. “The ADB will not dupli-cate what the two countries have already agreed to,” he maintained.
Present on the occasion, ADB Country Director Werner Liepach
said the bank was actively looking at how to leverage the potential the CPEC offered. “If you only built the road; it’s only for transit, but the CPEC opportunity has to be realised,” he said.
“We are in talks with the gov-ernment to find ways to develop
the economic corridor.” The ADB vice president said he had also discussed a plan to invest in the Pakistan Railways on a medium to long-term basis. “The railway min-ister mentioned three main lines but we have not yet picked any line for investment.”
He said the bank was keen to support the railways but first wanted to see a clear roadmap for sector’s reform, one that showed that the sector would be economi-cally and financially viable in the years to come.
“Pakistan has achieved a lot of
macroeconomic and financial sta-bility, but the challenge of how to achieve higher economic growth remains,” he said, adding in order to take the current 4-5 per cent growth rate to 7 per cent, Pakistan needed more investment as the investment-to-GDP ratio was still very low.
Export diversification“Export diversification remains another challenge the country needs to address,” he added.
The ADB distanced itself from the on-going GDP growth fudging allegations levelled by the par-liamentarians and independent economists.
“The 4.7 per cent growth esti-mate for 2015-16 was in line with the projections made by the inter-national financial institutions,” the country director stated.
Zhang said the ADB had in-vested a lot in the energy sector to support reforms and remove bot-tlenecks. - Express Tribune
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40% Pakistanis live in povertyISLAMABAD: Four out of 10 Pa-kistanis are living in acute poverty with the population of Balochistan faring the worst among the prov-inces, according to Pakistan’s first-ever official report on multidimen-sional poverty.
The report unveiled by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday in Islamabad details the country’s official Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which shows a sharp decline with national poverty rates falling from 55 per cent to 39 per cent from 2004 to 2015.
Rather than income and wealth alone, the MPI uses broader meas-ures to determine poverty based on access to healthcare, education and the overall standard of living, thus giving a more detailed under-standing of poverty.
The report states 38.8% of Paki-stan’s population lives in poverty. A majority of the rural population (54.6 per cent) lives in acute pov-erty while this ratio is only 9.4 per cent in urban areas, emphasising the need to make rural-centric eco-nomic policies.
Among the provinces, multidi-mensional poverty is the highest in Balochistan and the lowest in Pun-jab. If regions are also included, the Federally Administered Tribal Ar-eas (Fata) has the highest poverty rate, where three out of every four persons (73.7 per cent) are poor.
Fata is followed by Balochistan (71.2 per cent) and Khyber-Pakh-tunkhwa. - Express Tribune
O F F I C I A L R E P O R T
VICTIM: Awais Ali Shah, the son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice
Sajjad Ali Shah, was abducted outside a supermarket. – File photo
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Six Jordanian troops killed at Syria border in suicide attack
AMMAN: Six Jordanian border guards were killed by a suicide bomber who drove a car at speed across the border from Syria and rammed it into a military post on Tuesday, security officials said.
The explosives-laden vehicle blew up a few hundred metres from a camp for Syrian refugees in a remote and desolate area where where the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, a Jordanian army statement said.
The southeastern desert area is close to where IS militants are known to operate, according to a security source who requested anonymity.
The source said the attack ap-peared to be a well planned mili-tary operation.
No group has claimed responsi-bility. The army said a number of other vehicles used in the attack at around 5.30 a.m.(0230 GMT) were destroyed and that 14 other people were wounded.
The suicide bomber drove out from behind a berm and dodged gunfire to reach the military post, it added.
It was the first such assault tar-geting Jordan from Syria since Syria’s descent into conflict in 2011 and followed an attack on June 6 on a security office near the Jordanian capital Amman in which five people, including three Jordanian intelligence officers, were killed.
The incidents have jolted the Arab kingdom, which has been relatively unscathed by the in-stability that has swept the Arab world since 2011, including the expansion of Is in Syria and Iraq.
In a rare move, the chief of staff of the Jordanian army Gen-
eral Mishal Al Zibn declared the northern and northeastern border strip with Syria a closed military zone, an order that went into ef-fect immediately.
“Any vehicle and personnel movement within these areas that move without prior coordination will be treated as enemy targets and dealt with firmly and without leniency,” the army statement said.
International relief workers said the Jordanian authorities had also suspended all humanitarian aid to the area and that this could
put the lives of refugees at risk.Jordan’s King Abdullah said the
perpetrators would not go unpun-ished and that his security forces would deal with “an iron fist” with any group that sought to harm the country’s security or borders, a palace statement said.
Jordan is a staunch ally of the United States and is taking part in the US-led campaign against IS in Syria, where the extremist group still controls large areas of terri-tory including much of the east.
Jordan has kept tight control of
its frontier with Syria since the out-break of the war in its neighbour.
Washington condemned the deadly attack as a “cowardly ter-rorist act” and said it would con-tinue “unwavering support” for the Jordanian army, a statement from the US embassy said.
Stem infiltrationSince the start of the Syria con-flict, Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars to help Am-man set up an elaborate surveil-lance system known as the Border Security Programme to stem in-filtration by militants from Syria and Iraq.
The Rakban crossing targeted on Tuesday is a military zone far from any inhabited area, and includes a three-km (two-mile) stretch of berms built a decade ago to combat smuggling.
The border is heavily guarded by patrols and drones.
US Patriot missiles are sta-tioned in the kingdom, however, and the US army has hundreds of trainers in the country.
It is the only area where Jor-dan still receives Syrian refugees, some 50,000 of whom are strand-ed in Rakban refugee camp in a de facto no-man’s land some 330 km (200 miles) northeast of Amman.
The population of the camp has since last year grown from several thousand to over 50,000 people as the fighting in Syria intensified, relief workers say.
Jordan has been a big benefi-ciary of foreign aid because of its efforts to help refugees but has drawn criticism from Western al-lies and aid agencies over the hu-manitarian situation at Rakban, diplomats say.
Earlier waves of Syrian refu-gees had an easier time, with some walking just a few hundred metres to cross into Jordan.
Jordan sealed those border crossings in 2013.
The United Nations refugee agency said late last year Jordan should accept the new wave of ref-ugees -- their numbers have ris-en, aid officials say, since Russia started air strikes last September -- and move them to established camps closer to Amman.
Jordan, which has already ac-cepted more than 600,000 U.N.-reg-istered Syrian refugees, is resisting.
It says IS militants may have infiltrated their ranks as most of them come from IS-held areas in central and eastern Syria, and has allowed only a trickle of refugees, mostly women and children, in re-cent months. — Reuters
Chief of staff of the
Jordanian army
General Mishal
Al Zibn declared
the northern and
northeastern border
strip with Syria
a closed military
zone, an order that
went into effect
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MILITANTS STRIKE: A security member is transported from a military helicopter to Al Hussein Medical Centre in Amman, Jordan, on
Tuesday. — Reuters/Stringer
EMERGENCY: Jordan’s King Abdullah, centre, listening to his
Military Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chief-of-Staff General
Mishal Al Zaben, centre-right talking during an emergency
meeting in the capital Amman after car bomb killed several
soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the
Syrian border. - AFP PHOTO/JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE/YOUSEF ALLAN
Russia seeks resumption of Syria peace negotiations
GENEVA: Russia called on Tues-day for a swift resumption of stalled Syrian peace talks, saying it was the only way to halt “mas-sive violations” of human rights perpetrated in the five-year-old conflict.
Russia, a strong ally of Syr-ian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air strikes in September to support the Syrian army and its militia allies battling rebels and IS extremists, and is backing an of-fensive on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo.
It supports proposals for a po-litical settlement under which some Syrian opposition figures would be brought into a Syrian unity government - steps which rebels and their foreign backers say do not go far enough.
Without diktat“The only way to find a solution to the Syria crisis and stop the mas-sive violations is to promptly con-vene talks with a broad spectrum of Syrian opposition which in-cludes Syria Kurds,” Aleksei Golti-aev, senior counselor at Russia’s mission to UN in Geneva, told the UN Human Rights Council.
“Only Syrians, without diktat, have the right to decide (their fu-ture),” Goltiaev said.
The main Syrian Kurdish po-litical group, the PYD, was left out of Geneva peace talks which ground to a halt in late April without results.
Goltiaev’s comments followed an appeal by United Nations war crimes investigators for world powers to pressure the warring sides to return to the negotiating table.
Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the UN independent commission of in-quiry on Syria, said that the Syr-ian government was conducting daily air strikes, while militant groups including IS and the Nusra Front also carried out indiscrimi-nate attacks.
“We need all states to insist time and time again that influential states and the (UN) Security Coun-cil unconditionally support the po-litical process,” Pinheiro said.
US ambassador Keith Harper did not refer to resumption of talks, but called for Damascus to release some of the “tens of thou-sands” of imprisoned Syrians.
Many are subjected to “torture, sexual violence and denial of fair trials”, he said.
Pinheiro said schools, hospitals, mosques and water stations “are all being turned into rubble” and tens of thousands of people were trapped between frontlines and in-ternational borders. — Reuters
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Egypt court voids deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi ArabiaCAIRO: An Egyptian court de-clared void on Tuesday a maritime border accord with Saudi Arabia that would have seen Egypt lose control of two Red Sea islands, ju-dicial sources said.
The state has the right to appeal the ruling at a higher court, and the accord must also be approved by parliament.
The agreement, which was announced in April, caused up-roar and protests in Egypt where many say they were taught at school that Tiran and Sanfir is-lands were Egyptian.
The ruling is a setback for Presi-dent Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who had asked Egyptians in a speech to end
to the controversy over the islands deal. Tiran and Sanafir lie between Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, at the narrow entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba leading to Jor-dan and Israel.
Saudi and Egyptian officials say they belong to the kingdom and
were only under Egyptian control because Saudi Arabia asked Egypt in 1950 to protect them.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states showered Egypt with billions of dollars in aid after Sisi toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood
in 2013, following mass protests against his rule. But a sharp drop in oil prices and differences over for-eign policy issues such as the war in Yemen have raised questions over whether strong Gulf Arab support can be sustained.
Egyptians are eager for an eco-nomic revival after years of politi-cal upheaval.
But the islands issue hurt na-tional pride, prompting thousands of protesters to take to the streets in April calling for the “fall of the regime. More than 200 people were arrested in connection with protests over the islands contro-versy. Many have since been freed. — Reuters
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Tiran and Sanafir lie between Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s
Sinai Peninsula, at the narrow entrance to the Gulf of
Aqaba leading to Jordan and Israel
Iraq forces retake
two Falluja districts
from IS extremists
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s armed forces pressed on with their offensive to retake the city of Falluja from IS on Tuesday, dislodging the mili-tants from two eastern districts and pushing them back into a handful of northern and western neighbourhoods.
A military statement said the elite counter-terrorism forces took the northeastern Shurta police district while units from Baghdad operations command recaptured the Askari military neighbourhood.
IS still held the northern dis-tricts of Jughaifi and Golan as well as the western banks of the Tigris river.
Fighting to recapture the Iraqi city longest held by IS, now in its fifth week, has forced more
than 85,000 residents to flee to overwhelmed government-run camps.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that the re-capture of Falluja would pave the way for the military to march on Mosul, IS’ de facto capital.
The operation’s commander Lieutenant General Abdul Wa-hab Al Saidi told Reuters on Monday that US-backed Iraqi forces expected the final push would take place in the west.
The Iraqi army is also pressing on with an offensive to dislodge the militants from farmlands lo-cated on the western bank of the Euphrates, opposite the built-up area of Falluja, that the militants use as a base for snipers and mor-tar attacks. — Reuters
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MAKING GAINS: Iraqi government forces stand next to their
vehicles as they hold a position southwest of the city of Fallujah,
near Amiriyiah al-Fallujah, on Tuesday. — AFP
Missile launch, air strike shake Yemen truce
ADEN: A Saudi-led military coa-lition said it intercepted a mis-sile fired in Yemen on Tuesday and residents said an air strike by the alliance killed and wounded eight civilians, straining a civil war ceasefire.
The ballistic missile was fired toward the central city of Marib, which is controlled by Saudi-backed government forces, but was intercepted and destroyed along with the source of the launch, the coalition said in a
statement without elaborating. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies intervened in a civil war in March 2015 on behalf of the in-ternationally backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Houthi group, which controls the capital Sanaa.
The alliance members and have launched thousands of air strikes in a bid to defeat the group.
Peace talks in Kuwait between the government and Houthis have dragged on for two months with
few concrete results, while a truce has dampened fighting that killed at least 6,400 people and plunged impoverished Yemen into a hu-manitarian crisis.
Civilian casualtiesBut residents in a mountainous area of Lahj province said a Saudi-led air strike late on Monday tar-geted Houthi forces who advanced into the area the day before, caus-ing eight civilian casualties.
It was not clear how many of
those were killed. A coalition spokesperson did not immediate-ly respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The strategic Jalis mountain area is near Al Anad, a major mili-tary and air base that once hosted US counterterrorism forces de-ployed to fight Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In the town of Jaar, about 60 km east of Anad, residents said AQAP fighters mo-bilised at the local prison and freed several inmates. — Reuters
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Belgian police release six questioned over 2015 train attack
BRUSSELS: Belgian police re-leased without charges six people who had been held for question-ing on Monday over an attack on a high-speed train as it travelled between Amsterdam and Paris in August 2015, prosecutors said.
In that attack, a man with a ma-chine gun wounded two people on the train before being overpow-ered by passengers .
The new detentions follow a se-ries of police raids on homes over the weekend, after which three men were charged with plotting an attack.
Prosecutors said that a judge had ordered six home searches and detained six people in the greater Brussels area. No weapons or ex-plosives were found.
Heightened alert“They were released as planned after some checks,” a spokesman for the belgian federal prosecutor said. “There were no charges, ei-ther.” Belgium remains on height-ened alert three months after three suicide bombers killed 32 victims in attacks on Brussels airport and a metro car.
Belgian media reported the men arrested at the weekend had planned to attacks fans watching the Euro 2016 games in Brussels. - Reuters
A T T A C K Japan on alert for possible North Korea missile launch
TOKYO: Japan’s military was on alert for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch, a gov-ernment source said on Tuesday, with media reporting its navy and anti-missile Patriot batteries have been told to shoot down any pro-jectile heading for Japan.
North Korea appeared to have moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, but there were no signs of an imminent launch, South Korea’s Yonhap
News Agency reported, citing an unnamed government source.
A South Korean defense min-istry official said it could not con-firm the Yonhap report and said the military was watching the North’s missile activities closely. Tension in the region has been high since isolated North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a satellite launch and test launch-es of various missiles.
Japan has put its anti-ballistic missile forces on alert several
times this year after detecting signs of missile launches. The Japanese government source said there were again signs North Ko-rea might be preparing a launch of the intermediate-range Mu-sudan missile, the same missile it attempted to launch in May, prompting the order for the mili-tary to go on alert.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said if the North goes ahead with a launch it would again be in viola-tion of UN resolutions and defying repeated warnings by the interna-
tional community. “It will further isolate the North from the inter-national community,” ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told a briefing.
Sanctions tightenedThe United Nations Security Council in March imposed tight-ened sanctions against North Korea over its pursuit of nuclear weapons. North Korea has failed in all four attempts to launch the Musudan, which theoretically has the range to reach any part of Ja-pan and the US territory of Guam.
North Korea tried unsuccessfully to test launch the Musudan three
times in April, according to U.S. and South Korean officials, while a May attempt failed a day after Japan put its military on alert.
North Korea is believed to have up to 30 Musudan missiles, accord-ing to South Korean media, which officials said were first deployed in around 2007, although the North had never attempted to test-fire them until this year. – Reuters
North Korea appeared
to have moved an
intermediate-range
missile to its east
coast, but there
were no signs of an
imminent launch,
South Korea’s News
Agency reported
ON ALERT: A PAC-3 surface-to-air missile launcher system deployed
at the Defence Ministry grounds in Tokyo on Tuesday. – Reuters
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China to launch cruise route in disputed islandsSHANGHAI: State-owned Chi-na COSCO shipping Corporation plans to launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first route to travel from Sanya city in the country’s southeast to the disputed Para-cel Islands, state media reported on Tuesday.
The Paracels, known as the Xi-sha Islands in Chinese, are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. “It is practical to stimulate the local economy through develop-ment of tourism, logistics and infrastructure facilities,” the China Daily newspaper quoted the company’s chairman Xu Li-rong as saying at a conference over the weekend.
In April, China’s largest ship-ping company signed a contract with China National Travel Ser-vice Group Corp and China Com-munications Construction to establish a cruise company to of-fer tourism services in the South China Sea.
In a statement sent to Reu-ters, China COSCO shipping said developing tourism services in the South China Sea was part of China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy and the responsibility of its state enterprises.
China claims 90 per cent of the
potentially energy-rich South China Sea. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Tai-wan lay claim to parts of the sea, through which passes about $5 trillion of trade a year.
Regional tensionsA growing number of skirmishes have taken place amid rising re-gional tensions over China’s as-sertiveness in the South China Sea, the latest last week when an Indonesian naval vessel fired on a Chinese fishing boat near the Natuna Islands.
The inaugural COSCO route to the Xisha Islands will be followed by the development of other routes in the South China Sea and Taiwan Straits, with a gradual expansion to interna-tional routes, in a bid to build China’s first national cruise brand, the company said.
Countries competing to ce-ment their rival claims have encouraged a growing civilian presence on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The first cruises from China to the Paracel islands were launched by Hain-an Strait shipping Co in 2013. Beijing has said it wants to build Maldives-style resorts around the South China Sea. - Reuters
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Taliban fighters detain
over 25 men from buses
KABUL: Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Hel-mand stopped vehicles and de-tained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan’s highways over the past few weeks.
Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, said 18 women and children were released by the Taliban after the group’s fighters stopped a number of buses and cars near the town of Gereshk, on the main highway linking Kabul with the south.
He said 25 men had been taken away and were being held by the Taliban. Police and army forces were searching for the men. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said in a statement 27 people had been taken from three buses and were currently being investigated.
“Those who are innocent will be released but those who are working for the slave administra-tion of Kabul’s security organs
will be submitted to the Emir-ate’s courts,” he said, using the term the Taliban use to describe themselves.
The kidnappings follow a se-ries of similar incidents in other parts of the country, underlin-ing the precarious security on Afghanistan’s main highways, which are vital lifelines in a coun-try where many cannot afford to travel by air.
Before the latest abduction, more than 200 people were re-ported to have been kidnapped on the road since the end of May, with at least another 21 mur-dered in northern and eastern Afghanistan.
Such incidents have led some officials and travellers to ques-tion a NATO-backed strategy that has reduced the number of security checkpoints in order to free up police and soldiers to go after the Taliban.
The Taliban have had to cope with the loss of their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a Unit-ed States drone strike. - Reuters
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STRONGER IN: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron gestures
while speaking with campaign volunteers for “Stronger In”
during a visit to Panorama Antennas, a small family business
in Wandsworth, south London on Tuesday. — Reuters
Brits do not quit: Cameron
LONDON: British Prime Min-ister David Cameron made a dramatic appeal to voters across the generation gap on Tuesday to back staying in the European Un-ion two days before a cliff-hanger referendum that will shape the future of the West.
Britons vote on Thursday on whether to quit the 28-nation bloc amid warnings from world leaders, investors and companies that a decision to leave would di-minish the former imperial pow-er’s influence, unleash turmoil on markets and send shock waves through Europe and the wider Western world.
In a rare televised address outside his Downing Street of-fice, Cameron hammered home his message that leaving the EU would jeopardise Britain’s econ-omy and its national security, with fewer jobs, fewer allies and higher prices.
“Brits don’t quit,” he said, us-ing the official backdrop to make a direct pitch to older voters con-sidered more eurosceptic and more likely to vote. “It will just be you in that polling booth.
Affect futureJust you, taking a decision that will affect your future, your chil-dren’s future, your grandchil-dren’s future.”
The Conservative prime min-ister’s last-minute intervention came as an opinion poll showed support for remaining in the EU shrinking.
The Survation poll put the “In” camp just one percentage point ahead of the campaign for a so-called Brexit, well within the margin of error.
Cameron panickedOpponents said the hastily ar-ranged appearance suggested Cam-eron, who promised the referen-dum in 2013 under pressure from lawmakers in his Conservative Party, and the “In” campaign were very worried about the outcome.
“Cameron is panicked, it’s out of his hands now,” Arron Banks, a multi-millionaire insurance tycoon who is funding one of the Leave campaigns, said on Twitter.
Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, a think-tank, said Cameron wanted to project a sol-emn, statesmanlike image.
“Because it was called off the cuff it looks panicked, but all peo-ple will see from the news are the clips which show him looking very measured and relaxed,” Ru-parel told Reuters.
As each side sought to play its last trump cards, the pro-EU “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign issued a final poster of a door leading into a dark void with the slogan: “Leave and there’s no going back.”
If Britain votes to leave, Cam-eron would face pressure to re-sign, though he has said he will continue as leader.
Former England soccer cap-tain David Beckham, a hugely popular public figure, added his voice to Remain’s list of celebrity supporters.”For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone,” he said.
Leave campaigners stepped up their relentless focus on what they call uncontrolled immigra-tion, saying Cameron had been warned four years ago his goal of reducing net arrivals was impos-sible due to EU rules.
The anti-EU UK Independ-ence Party issued a poster show-ing a traffic jam with the message “The school over-run” and saying nearly one in four of Britain’s pri-mary schools were full or over-subscribed. — Reuters
In a rare televised
address outside
his Downing Street
office, the UK prime
minister hammered
home his message
that leaving the EU
would jeopardise
Britain’s economy
and its national
security, with fewer
jobs, fewer allies and
higher prices
Riots hit Pretoria after ANC names candidate PRETORIA: Protesters burned buses and barricaded roads in South Africa’s capital on Tuesday in an escalating dispute over the ruling party’s mayoral candidate for local elections in August.
The vote is expected to be closely fought and will pose a ma-jor test for the African National Congress (ANC) as it looks ahead to a 2019 presidential election in the face of a strong challenge from the opposition and an eco-nomic slowdown.
Disturbances erupted on Mon-day night as residents of Preto-ria’s impoverished townships set vehicles and tyres on fire to block roads after the ANC’s national leadership named a mayoral can-
didate not nominated by its re-gional branches.
Rioters looted shops, torched vehicles and placed rocks and other debris across roads on Wednesday, snarling traffic and business in the capital of Africa’s most industrialised country.
The dispute flared at the week-end after an ANC member was shot dead on Sunday as party factions met to decide on a can-didate for mayor of Pretoria’s Tshwane municipality.
The ANC leadership then named senior party member and former cabinet minister Thoko Didiza as its candidate for Tshwane, overriding regional branch members. — Reuters
S O U T H A F R I C A
Iran arrests 10 terroristsBEIRUT: Iran has arrested 10 militants who were planning to bomb 50 targets across the country, Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Tuesday, according to the Fars News site.
Officials have said in recent weeks that militants from IS have been trying to target the country. Alavi said the arrests took place in the last week in Tehran and three other provinces in central Iran and along the border.
The minister told a news conference in Tehran that the group had planned to attack busy public locations with re-motely detonated explosions, suicide attacks and car bombs, according to Fars News.
One hundred kilograms of ex-plosive material has been con-fiscated and an additional two tons of explosive material was intercepted before reaching the suspects, who are currently be-ing interrogated.
Details of the attack come one day after the Ministry of Intelligence issued a state-ment saying it had thwarted a major terrorist attack. Mem-bers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have fought against IS militants in Iraq in a bid to support the government in Baghdad. — Reuters
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MARKEWWW.TIMESOFOMAN.COMW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6B
Muscat
5,788.38 + 3.91
+ 0.07%
Dubai
3,343.43+ 37.49
+ 1.13%
Abu Dhabi
4,503.49+ 22.45
+ 0.50%
Saudi Arabia
6,558.92- 5.91
- 0.09%
Kuwait
5,437.6+ 5.94
+ 0.11%
Bahrain
1,115.42 - 1.00
- 0.02%
Qatar
9,919.32+ 94.07
+ 0.96%
CURRENCY RATES* DRAFT RATES (OMR1)* GOLD PRICES*Forex rates vs OMR1*
US Dollar .................................2.58
Euro ............................................2.26
Pound ............................................1.76
Indian Rs ............................. 174.86
Pak Rs ....................................267.45
Bangla Taka.......................201.05* Rates are as of Jun 21
Source: Bank Muscat
Indian Rs ...................................175.25
Pakistan Rs ..............................271.75
Sri Lanka Rs ..................................N/A
Bangla Taka........................... 203.55
Phil Peso ................................... 120.20
* Rates as of Jun 21 Source: Oman UAE Exchange
Muscat 24ct per gm (OMR) .......16.45
Muscat 22ct per gm (OMR) .......15.80
Dubai 24ct per gm (Dh) ............ 155.75
Dubai 22ct per gm (Dh) .............146.25
* Rates as of Jun 21
Source: Malabar Gold & Diamonds
Type ............................Delivery...........Price
Oman Crude ............. (Spot) .........$46.61
Dubai Crude ............. (Spot) .........$46.41
Murban Crude ........ (Spot) ........$49.43
Arabian Light ......... (Spot) ........ $46.76
N.Sea Brent ............... (Spot) ........ $49.75
West Texas Int ....... (Spot) ........$48.45
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Slowdown has not affected sales at Muscat Duty Free
MOBIN MATHEW [email protected]
MUSCAT: Air travellers pass-ing through Muscat Airport are snapping up just as much now in duty free goods as they were before the economic slump, ac-cording to the general manager of Muscat Duty Free.
The current slowdown in the market has not affected sales at Muscat Duty Free and travel-ers are buying the same as in the
past, General Manager Martin Mullen said.
“The current slowdown has not affected our business,” he told Times of Oman.
He confirmed that a decision by airlines to count duty free buys as part of carry-on luggage has not affected their business as Oman Air is not restricting its passen-gers to carry duty free on board.
“So that decision has not affect-ed us commercially,” Mullen said.
Muscat Duty Free operating at the current airport is a 50-50 venture between Oman Air and Aer Rianta International Middle East (ARIME).
Earlier, this year ARIME was awarded the contracts for the man-agement and operation of the shops in the new Muscat International
Airport by the Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC).
The duty-free and luxury retail package will offer ARIME 5,200sq m space to provide core duty-free products in addition to luxury fashion, accessories, watches, toys and confectionery.
“We have won the contract to operate the new shop base in the new Muscat International Airport
and we have got some outstand-ing tenders for premium branded fashions and some other stores,” Mullen said.
Speaking about the new brands which will be available in the new airport duty free, Mullen said, “We are in talks with a lot of pre-mium brands who want to be in a premium airport.”
“The new airport has fantastic facilities and it deserves to have very good brands to showcase the airport as well, the general man-ager asserted.
Mullen said that the new air-port has the best infrastructure in the Middle East.
‘I have worked in many parts of Middle East but this is the best I have ever seen,” Mullen asserted.
The new airport looks modern and up to date, and definitely will become one of the top 20 airports in the world by 2020, he believes.
“We are trying to deliver premi-um class to our customers,” Mul-len said. He also confirmed that the new duty free service will be better than those in Dubai Inter-national Airport. “We are bring-ing in some brands which Dubai Duty Free doesn’t have so far and pricewise it will be the same on any brand,” Mullen confirmed.
Muscat Duty Free
operating at the
current airport is
a 50-50 venture
between Oman
Air and Aer Rianta
International Middle
East (ARIME)
WIDE RANGE OF CHOICE: The duty-free and luxury retail package will offer ARIME 5,200sq m space
to provide core duty-free products. — Times file picture
Oman issues treasury bill worth OMR82m
MUSCAT: A tender of Govern-ment Treasury Bills, issue number 10, was held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week.
The total value of the allot-ted Treasury Bills amounted to OMR82 million, for a maturity pe-riod of 28 days, from June 22 until July 20, 2016.
The average accepted price reached 99.962 for every OMR100, while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.955 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.49838 per cent and 0.49857 per cent, respectively.
Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instru-ments issued by the CBO on behalf of the Government, which helps the licensed commercial banks to gainfully invest their surplus funds, with added advantage of ready li-quidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo) offered 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 financing its recurrent expenditures. — ONA
C E N T R A L B A N K O F O M A N
B2
MARKETW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6
MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET
SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 21
REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK ..................................................................... 70,000 .............12,163........................5 ............0.170 ........... 0.175............0.170 ............0.174 ............. 0.169............ 0.005 ............. 2.959 ................0.175 .............. 0.170................... 0.174 ..................247,956,289 ........0.100
OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 200,000...........46,400......................11 ........... 0.232 ........... 0.232 ...........0.232........... 0.232 .............0.229 ........... 0.003 ............. 1.310.................0.232..............0.228...................0.232 .................394,214,725 ........0.100
OM0000003141 ............ACWA POWER BARKA ..................................................5,014 ............... 3,555........................3 ............0.708 ........... 0.712............0.708 ........... 0.708 .............0.700 ........... 0.008 ............. 1.143.................0.712 .............. 0.712...................0.740 ..................113,280,000 ........0.100
OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ............................................................ 50,000 ............26,300........................6 ........... 0.526 ........... 0.526 ...........0.526........... 0.526 .............0.526 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.526 ..............0.520...................0.526...................28,930,000.........0.100
OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 265,000 ...........64,540..................... 10 ........... 0.244 ...........0.244 ...........0.240 .......... 0.244 .............0.244 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.240 ............ 0.240...................0.243 .................359,846,631 ........0.100
OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST ..................................................................... 80,000 ............ 45,598........................5 ........... 0.568 ........... 0.570 ...........0.568 ........... 0.570 .............0.570 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.570 ............. 0.000...................0.570................. 362,400,806 .......0.100
OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ......................................15,000 ............ 27,300........................ 1 ............1.820 ........... 1.820 ...........1.820 ........... 1.820 ............. 1.820 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.820 ............. 0.000...................1.820 ..................163,254,000 .......0.100
OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT ............................................................ 47,016 ............ 22,192........................4 ........... 0.472 ........... 0.472 ...........0.472 ........... 0.472 .............0.472 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.472 ..............0.472...................0.480 ................. 156,171,919 ........0.100
OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ....................................................30 ....................... 7........................2 ........... 0.222 ...........0.222 ...........0.222 .......... 0.223 .............0.223 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.222............. 0.222...................0.225 .................. 13,648,553 .........0.100
OM0000002572 ...........OMAN OIL MARKETING ............................................2,500 ...............4,750........................ 1 ........... 1.900 ........... 1.900 ...........1.900 ........... 1.880 ............. 1.880............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.900 ..............1.880...................1.905 .................. 115,197,000 ........0.100
OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 141,000 ........... 54,980.....................40 ........... 0.390 ...........0.390 ...........0.388........... 0.390 .............0.390 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.390..............0.388...................0.390 ................. 973,537,601 ........0.100
OM0000002846 ...........GULF INV. SER. PREF SHARES ................................6,000 .................. 630........................ 1 ............0.105 ........... 0.105 ...........0.105 ........... 0.105 ............. 0.105............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.105 .............. 0.105...................0.109 .................... 9,596,032 ..........0.100
OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. .........6,000 ...............9,000........................4 ............1.500 ........... 1.500 ...........1.500 ........... 1.500 ............. 1.500 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.500 ..............1.480...................1.500 ..................103,500,000 .......0.100
OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ...........................91,710 .......... 146,988......................15 ............1.605 ........... 1.605 ...........1.600 ............1.605 ............. 1.605............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.600 ..............1.600...................1.605 ................1,203,750,000 ......0.100
OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ...................................... 70,000 .............20,615........................7 ........... 0.295 ........... 0.295 ...........0.294 .......... 0.295 .............0.295 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.294............. 0.290...................0.295................... 85,742,051 .........0.100
OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ........................................................1,236 ...................521........................2 ........... 0.420 ...........0.422 ...........0.420........... 0.422 .............0.422 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.422..............0.422...................0.428 ..................25,531,000 .........0.100
OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO.........................................................................98,573 .............72,816......................21 ............0.740 ........... 0.740 ...........0.736 ........... 0.740 ............. 0.740 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.736 .............. 0.736...................0.740 ..................481,698,730 ........0.100
OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH ............................................... 62,000 .............15,190........................ 1 ........... 0.245 ........... 0.245 ...........0.245........... 0.245 .............0.245 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.245............. 0.240...................0.245 .................233,870,128 ........0.100
OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER ................................................. 25,000 ...............5,225........................4 ........... 0.209 ...........0.209 ...........0.209 .......... 0.209 .............0.209 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.209............. 0.202...................0.209 ................. 141,051,473 ........0.100
OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER ................................................... 25,000 ............... 5,375........................4 ............0.215 ........... 0.215 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 ............. 0.000...................0.215 .................. 153,597,363 ........0.100
OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ................................................. 50,000 ............22,500........................3 ........... 0.450 ........... 0.450 ...........0.450........... 0.450 .............0.450 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.450 ..............0.430...................0.450...................23,625,000 .........0.100
OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE .................................70,500 ............. 17,414........................6 ........... 0.247 ........... 0.247 ...........0.247........... 0.247 .............0.248 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.403 ...............0.247..............0.247...................0.249 ..................24,700,000.........0.100
OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 607,541 ...........105,105......................13 ............0.173 ........... 0.173 ...........0.173 ............0.173 ............. 0.174 ............-0.001 ........... -0.575 ...............0.173 .............. 0.173................... 0.175 ..................277,578,386 ........0.100
OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 3,834,809......374,272..................... 24 ........... 0.098 ........... 0.098 ...........0.097 ........... 0.098 .............0.099 ...........-0.001 ............-1.010 ................0.097 ..............0.096...................0.097..................196,030,653 ........0.100
OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 659,699 ........... 70,099..................... 49 ............0.108 ........... 0.108 ...........0.106 ........... 0.106 ............. 0.108 ...........-0.002 ........... -1.852................0.106 ..............0.106...................0.107 ................... 30,737,948 .........0.100
OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 374,500 ........... 95,369......................12 ........... 0.252 ........... 0.255 ...........0.252........... 0.255 .............0.260 ...........-0.005 ........... -1.923................0.255 ..............0.254...................0.255...................75,534,489 .........0.100
OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING .............47,000 ...............6,345........................5 ............0.135 ........... 0.135 ...........0.135 ............0.135 ............. 0.138............-0.003 ........... -2.174................0.135 .............. 0.132...................0.135 ................... 16,453,125 .........0.100
OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 432,056 ............77,006..................... 68 ............0.180 ........... 0.180 ...........0.177 ............0.178 ............. 0.182............-0.004 ........... -2.198 ...............0.178 .............. 0.177...................0.179 ................... 31,150,437 .........0.100
OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 138,523............. 18,316........................9 ............0.133 ........... 0.133 ...........0.132 ........... 0.132 ............. 0.135 ............-0.003 ........... -2.222 ...............0.132 .............. 0.132...................0.133 ...................11,880,000 .........0.100
OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 103,600 ........... 20,730......................11 ........... 0.202 ...........0.202 ...........0.200 .......... 0.200 .............0.205 ...........-0.005 ........... -2.439 ...............0.200 ............. 0.196...................0.204 ..................24,979,592 .........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 7,579,307 ... 1,391,301...................347 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......30........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. .................. 523,019............. 15,691......................13 ........... 0.030 ...........0.030 ...........0.030........... 0.030 .............0.030 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.030..............0.030...................0.031 ....................2,550,000 ..........0.100
OM0000001723 ............OMAN ORIX LEASING ................................................. 1,298 ...................148........................ 1 ............0.114 ........... 0.114............ 0.114 ............0.112 ............. 0.112 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.114 .............. 0.112................... 0.114 ................... 28,116,413 .........0.100
OM0000001855 ............MAJAN GLASS ................................................................. 1,000 ...................174........................ 1 ............0.174 ........... 0.174 ...........0.174 ........... 0.190 ............. 0.190 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.174 ............. 0.000................... 0.174 .................... 7,984,427 ..........0.100
OM0000002382 ...........SALALAH BEACH RESORT .................................................8 ..................... 11........................ 1 ............1.380 ........... 1.380 ...........1.380 ........... 1.380 ............. 1.380............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.380 ............. 0.000...................0.000 ...................8,625,000 ..........1.000
OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.................................. 213,424 .............17,451..................... 28 ........... 0.084 ...........0.084 ...........0.080........... 0.082 .............0.082 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.080..............0.078...................0.080 ................... 6,167,056 ..........0.100
OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 847,939 ........... 64,438..................... 20 ............0.075 ........... 0.076 ...........0.075 ........... 0.076 .............0.076 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.076 ..............0.076...................0.077..................114,000,000........0.100
OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 345,715 ............ 54,607..................... 49 ............0.156 ........... 0.158 ...........0.156 ............0.158 ............. 0.158............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.158 .............. 0.158...................0.159 .................. 231,091,031 ........0.100
OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 305,000 ............18,130......................13 ........... 0.060 ...........0.060 ...........0.059 ........... 0.059 .............0.060 ...........-0.001 ............-1.667................0.059 ..............0.058...................0.059.................... 7,375,000 ..........0.100
OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK................................................46,550 ...............2,700........................2 ........... 0.058 ........... 0.058 ...........0.058 ........... 0.058 .............0.059 ...........-0.001 ............-1.695 ................0.058 ..............0.058...................0.060 ..................58,000,000 ........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,283,953 ...... 173,349................... 128 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 9........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ...................................................................................................................................................................... OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 ......................17,782 ............... 1,778........................2 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.100 ........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.100 ..............0.097...................0.000 .................. 32,416,161 .........0.100
.............................................SUM: .....................................................................................17,782 ............... 1,778........................2 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... 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 ........................................5,795.89 ...............5,780.47 ................... 5,788.38 ................... 5,784.47 .................... 3.91 ................... 0.07Financial Index .................................... 7,292.64 ............... 7,261.33 ................... 7,272.98 ................... 7,275.80 ..................-2.82 .................. -0.04Industrial Index ....................................7,299.92 ...............7,268.96 ................... 7,268.96 ...................7,298.44 ................-29.48 .................. -0.40Services Index ...................................... 3,246.67 .............. 3,244.96 ................... 3,246.14 ...................3,245.80 ....................0.34 ................... 0.01MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................884.07 ..................882.69 .......................882.72 ...................... 884.15 ...................-1.43 .................. -0.16
Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded9,881,042 .................... 1,566,428 .....................477 ............... 16,998,764,841 .................. 3 ......................11 .................... 26 .........................40
Index rises marginally
MUSCAT: The MSM30 Index had marginal gains of 0.07 per cent to close at 5,788.38 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed at 882.72 points, down 0.16 per cent. HSBC Bank was the most active in terms of volume and turnover. Tuesday’s top gainer was Ahli Bank, up 2.96 per cent while Al Jazeera Steel was the top loser, down 2.44 per cent.
A total number of 477 trades were executed on Tuesday, gener-ating turnover of OMR1.56 million with 9.9 million shares changing hands. Out of 40 traded securities, three advanced, 11 declined and 16 remained unchanged. At the session close, Omani investors re-mained net buyers for OMR84,000 while foreign investors were net sellers for OMR48,000 followed by GCC & Arab Investors for OMR36,000 worth of shares.
Financial Index closed at 7,272.98 points, down 0.04 per cent. Ahli Bank and Bank Dhofar gained 2.96 per cent and 1.31 per cent respectively.
Al Sharqia Investments, Al An-war Holding, Oman & Emirates Holding, Al Izz Bank and HSBC Bank declined 2.22 per cent, 2.20 per cent, 2.17 per cent, 1.69 per cent and 1.01 per cent respec-tively.
Industrial Index retreated 0.40 per cent to end at 7,268.96 points. Al Jazeera Steel, Al Anwar Ceram-ics, Galfar Engineering and Oman Fisheries decreased 2.44 per cent, 1.92 per cent, 1.85 per cent and 1.67 per cent respectively.
Services Index continued its stable trend to close at 3,246.14 points, up 0.01 per cent. ACWA Power, up 1.14 per cent, was the only sector mover. — United Securities
Tuesday’s top gainer was Ahli Bank, up 2.96
per cent while Al Jazeera Steel was the top
loser, down 2.44 per cent.
Muscat Securities Market. – Times file picture
Maserati sponsors Ramadan Tent at Al Bustan PalaceTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Alfardan Motors, the official importer of Maserati in the Sultanate, has announced its spon-sorship of the Iftar and Suhoor events at the luxurious Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Hundreds of guests are expected to attend the seasonal celebrations throughout Ramadan, held on the Al Khairan Terrace, overlooking lush gardens. The sponsorship ce-ments Alfardan’s position at the heart of the Muscat community.
Assistant General Manager of Alfardan Motors, Mohamed Zawawy said, “We are delighted to be sponsoring the Ramadan tent at the magnificent Al Bustan Palace Hotel. Ramadan is a time for com-passion and generosity and we look forward to sharing Iftar with the people of Muscat and friends from far away. Of course, we wish everyone a blessed month.”
Led by Executive Chef Joer-gen Sodemann, the team at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a Ritz Carl-ton property, will deliver a won-derful Iftar experience, filled with
an exuberant selection of fine cui-sine and excellent company.
The Ramadan tent was special-ly designed for the 2016 celebra-tions, resulting in a spectacular ambience for guests.
As the day draws to a close, Suhoor is held in a special tent on
the lawn of the terrace, encourag-ing a late finish with Shisha and lighter dishes.
Alfardan Motors was estab-lished in 2012 as the official dis-tributor of Ferrari, Maserati and leading motorcycle brands in the Sultanate.
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SHARING & CARING: Hundreds of guests are expected to attend
the seasonal celebrations throughout Ramadan, held on the Al
Khairan Terrace, overlooking lush gardens. - Supplied picture
Global oil industry cautious ahead of Iran’s licence roundTimes News Service
MUSCAT: International oil and gas (O&G) companies remain cautious ahead of the recent an-nouncement of a licencing round later this month, says interna-tional law firm Pinsent Masons.
International oil companies are gearing up for the licence round expected to be launched on June 21. The bidding process is expected to grant international companies access to Iran’s natu-ral resources for the first time since onerous trade sanctions were lifted earlier this year.
But energy experts say efforts to kick-start exploration and pro-
duction in Iran could be stymied due to the delay in finalising the new model contract outlining vital terms of investment and re-turns for O&G projects.
O&G expert at Pinsent Masons Niazi Kabalan, said: “It is possible that the licensing round might fo-cus on investment in existing in-frastructure upgrades, and defer the grant of new exploration and production rights until the model IPC is finalised’’.
“There is still an appetite to in-vest in Iran across many parts of the oil and gas community,” says Niazi Kabalan. “While the licence round signals support for over-seas investment, the lack of clear terms means plans may well be put on ice for the short term. The model petroleum contract must be finalised if Iran truly wants to realise its global ambitions.”
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Bidding process will be to grant firms access to Iran’s natural resources for the first time since trade sanctions were lifted earlier this year
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3D-printed building in Dubai uses Siemens technologyTimes News Service
MUSCAT: The world’s first 3D-printed office building has been inaugurated in Dubai, using smart technology from Siemens to in-tegrate the building management systems, access control and sur-veillance into a central building management platform.
“This is a globally significant project – the first of its kind – and our contribution is the very latest in intelligent building automa-tion and control,” said Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO, Siemens Mid-dle East. “Increasingly intelligent, digitalised infrastructure is pav-ing the way for a more sustain-able future in the UAE, and we are proud to be supporting Dubai’s smart-city strategy, and the coun-
try’s national vision 2021, by showcasing our technology in this landmark project.”
The 250-square-metre ‘Office of the Future’ was constructed using a 3D printer measuring 20 feet high, 120 feet long and 40 feet wide, and built on the site of Emir-ates Towers in Dubai.
Key componentsIntegrating key components of the ‘Office of the Future’ is a unique Building Management Platform from Siemens, Desigo CC, enabling the control and optimisation of the building’s technical infrastructure, surveillance, air conditioning, ac-cess control and safety technology from a single location. A custom-ised platform displays the status of these different systems in real
time, enabling operators to ac-curately monitor and control the building’s performance.
The ‘Office of the Future’ con-
cept also uses a Siemens video surveillance system with high-def-inition cameras and web-enabled access via apps and web clients,
and an access control system based on biometrics and smart cards.
Smart fire protectionSiemens has also supplied smart fire protection with technology for detection, alarm signaling and control, using multi-criteria detec-tors which can adapt to changing environments, analyse signals for false alarms and protect against hazards such as the presence of carbon monoxide. The system can also be analysed, evaluated and diagnosed remotely for more effi-cient maintenance.
“Integrating key functions with an intelligent building manage-ment system has clear safety, cost and efficiency benefits, and at the moment only Siemens is able to combine the management of all
building disciplines in one integra-tion platform,” said Koen Bogers, Senior Executive Vice President, Building Technologies, Siemens Middle East.
“Desigo CC gives building opera-tors a precise overview of their as-sets, allowing them to be managed more efficiently and transparently while enabling flexible usage and energy conservation.”
The Desigo CC Building Man-agement Platform is also able to accommodate a wider range of building systems including heat-ing, ventilation and air condition-ing, power, lighting and shading, and components can be added when requirements change. Glob-al installations of Desigo CC have realised reductions in building op-erating costs of up to 20 per cent.
‘ O F F I C E O F T H E F U T U R E ’
BEAUTIFUL: The 250-square-metre ‘Office of the Future’ was con-
structed using a 3D printer measuring 20 feet high, 120 feet long
and 40 feet wide, near Emirates Towers in Dubai. - Supplied picture
Low oil prices benefiting tanker shipping market
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Low oil prices are continuing to benefit the tanker shipping market, which is outper-forming other shipping sectors, with the tanker market gaining in the crude and product sectors, an industry expert said.
“Recent signs of increased de-
mand for crude oil imports in In-dia and China have given us rea-son for optimism.
Demand is being generated by the granting of import licences to China’s privately owned ‘tea-pot’ refineries—a trend that is expected to continue in the com-ing months. Growing near-term Opec (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) supply and declining US production will sup-port tanker demand by increasing voyage distances,” Chris Hayman, chairman of Seatrade, said.
“New refinery development in
the region also bodes well for the product tanker sector, and a tight market for finance will act as a constraint for new orders, despite low prices.
Meanwhile, the return of Iran to the market adds an interesting new dynamic,” he further added.
Tanker shipping marketRiding on the wave of positive industry news from the tanker shipping market, Seatrade has announced the return of its popu-lar Seatrade Tanker conference, Seatrade Tanker Middle East.
The newly rebranded conference will take place as part of Seatrade Maritime Middle East and Dubai Maritime Week.
Major stakeholdersReaffirming the decision, Hay-man, said: “In light of discus-sions that we have had with major stakeholders in the industry and general market feedback, I am pleased that we can reintroduce this important theme to the over-all programme in the knowledge that the tanker shipping market is continuing to perform well.”
Topics during the half-day conference will include a com-prehensive discussion of the fun-damentals of the crude oil tanker market and an analysis of the factors influencing the shape of product tanker demand and those driving it, including refining, and the composition of the order book. Delegates will be encour-aged to enter discussions with the panel speakers and a networking luncheon will follow the morning session. Seatrade Tanker Middle East, which takes place on Tues-day, November 1 in the forum area of Seatrade Maritime Middle East, will be moderated by Katha-rina Stanzel, manager director of Intertanko, who will share her significant industry expertise.
New refinery
development in the
region also bodes
well for the product
tanker sector, and
a tight market for
finance will act as a
constraint for new
orders, despite low
prices, an industry
expert said
ROBUST DEMAND: Recent signs of increased demand for crude oil
imports in India and China have given the industry a reason for
optimism. — Supplied picture
Investcorp acquires majority stake in Italian luxury brandTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alter-native investment products, on Tuesday announced that it has reached an agreement with the Corneliani family to acquire a ma-jority stake in the luxury Italian menswear specialist Corneliani
for an enterprise value of approxi-mately $100 million.
As part of the transaction, cer-tain members of the Corneliani family will remain as shareholder alongside Investcorp.
Founded in 1958, Corneliani is a luxury clothing brand best known for its men’s suits and chic casualwear and is one of the old-
est independent Italian luxury brands. Founder, Carlalberto Cor-neliani has,alongside his brother Claudio, built a business whose clothing line has become reputed across the international luxury apparel industry.
The firm’s expansion into the cas-ual wear market has seen its inter-national presence grow significant-
ly, with stores established across Europe, the US, Asia and more re-cently into emerging markets.
Corneliani employs approxi-mately 1,100 people and benefits from a global sales presence in 68 countries through 10 directly op-erated stores, approximately 850 multi-brand stores, more than 75 franchise stores and 50 store-in-
stores, including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdales.
Carlalberto Corneliani said: “Af-ter over six decades building Cor-neliani, I believe the time is right for me to pass the company to a trusted custodian who can build on the vision and journey that I embarked upon with my brother
in [1958]. I am confident that Investcorp
is the best partner Corneliani can hope for and I have no doubt that they will develop this busi-ness to become one of the lead-ing players in its market, similar to the success stories they have cultivated in Gucci, Tiffany & Co and Dainese.”
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Several important issues reviewed at CBO board meetingTimes News Service
MUSCAT: An economic and fi-nancial report on the period up to March 31 this year, as well as an activity report on the Central Bank of Oman’s (CBO’s) departments during the period under review, and various other issues, were on the agenda during the CBO Board’s second meeting this year.
The meeting was chaired by Dr. Ali bin Mohammed bin Moosa, deputy chairman of CBO’s Board of Governors.
During the meeting, the board approved the proposed amend-ments in the Articles of Associa-tion of the College of Banking and Financial Studies (CBFS).
It also approved an application of the Alizz Islamic Bank, allowing it to transfer the shares of Tasa-meem Real Estates LLC (United Arab Emirates) in the Bank to the United International Representa-tion of Companies LLC (UAE).
In addition, the Board also de-liberated on the recommenda-tions included in the report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank mission on Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP) and directed CBO’s executive management to
follow up the implementation of the said recommendations as far as possible.
The Board also reviewed the ac-tions taken by CBO and licensed banks operating in Oman with re-gards to the financing of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Besides this, the Board reviewed CBO’s financial position as end of April 2016 and the performance of CBO’s external investments dur-ing the period under review.
The Board also reviewed the financial and administrative mat-ters of CBO and has taken neces-sary decisions.
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Central Bank of Oman.
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For years now, India’s gener-ic drugmak-ers and their cheap copycat
pills have raised the blood pressure of sto-ried multinationals. Increasingly, though, the challengers are get-ting a taste of their own medicine now.
For the shareholders in these once-successful Indi-an stocks, the prognosis looks far from reassuring. A market capitalisation-weighted index of the top six producers of generic treatments has lost a quarter of its value over the past year, after jumping ninefold since April 2009.
The rudest shock to the indus-try has come from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It’s issued eight warning letters to Indian drugmakers since October, hauling up companies including Sun Pharma and Dr. Reddy’s Laborato-ries, the biggest and third-biggest generic producers by market value, for t h e infractions ranging from using buckets to collect rainwater from leaky ceilings to not doing enough to prevent possible manipulation of lab data submitted to the regulator.
Since October 2015, 35 per cent of all warning letters relating to violation of good manufacturing practices have been targeted at Indian facilities, according to Goldman Sachs.
Lupin, the second-biggest Indian generic company, saw its share price tumble 9 per cent on Friday after posting better-than-expected quarterly profit. The one-day slide, the steepest in almost eight years, was fueled by concerns that FDA approvals for products made in its key Goa
manufacturing unit may not be forth-coming soon. Lupin said on an earnings call that its facilities had been inspected as
many as 12 times over the past year.
Still, there are at least three reasons to
expect a recovery in the medium term. For one,
the market for generics and bio-similars has plenty
of room to grow. By the end of this decade, drugs worth $190
billion in annual sales will be going off patent, globally.
Second, treatments are moving away from sim-
ple tablets and capsules to more complex applications such
as injections and inhalers. Assum-ing that the top Indian generic drug-
makers succeed in “cracking the code” of complexity, as Goldman analysts term it, their stalling operating margins could
start expanding again.Finally, rapidly aging populations in
both developed and developing coun-t r i e s create a powerful incentive for govern-
ments to cut public health-care costs by promoting cheaper medicines. For instance, Japan is targeting 80
per cent generic use between 2018 and 2020, up from 56 per cent by volume last year.
To make the most of this opportunity, the industry will first have to bring down its cost of equity, which has shot up to between
13 and 14 per cent for the top three Indian drugmakers, up from 9 to 9.5 per cent three years ago.The easiest way to to soothe investors’ nerves will be for companies to
stop flunking their regulatory fitness tests. Until they can do that, though, shareholders’ headache might just keep getting worse. — Bloomberg News
THERE’S A CURE FOR INDIAN PHARMA’S SPLITTING HEADACHE
Since October 2015, 35 per cent of all warning letters
relating to violation of good manufacturing practices
have been targeted at Indian facilities, according
to Goldman Sachs. Lupin, the second-biggest
Indian generic company, saw its share price
tumble 9 per cent on Friday after posting
better-than-expected
quarterly profit.
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alizz Sharia-based Titanium, Platinum credit cards offer exceptional benefits
MUSCAT: alizz Islamic bank an-nounced that the Sharia-compli-ant Titanium and Platinum credit cards allow all bank customers to enjoy a world of exclusive privi-leges and facilities.
alizz Islamic bank is the first Islamic bank in the Sultanate that launches such cards with the aim of strengthening its pioneer role in providing modern banking options and cutting-edge products.
The cards, designed on the highest quality standards to meet customers’ diverse needs, allow cardholders to have free privileged access to airline lounges in the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt. In addition, there is access to business facilities including free Internet, fax, conference halls, etc, says a press release.
They can get special discounts
in different restaurants across the Middle East and Africa with 15 per cent discount for shopping on MARKVIP.COM as well as premi-um protection against fraudulent transactions.
But that is not all. The cards provide clients with a range of discount offers at various stores in over 19 countries and 6 per cent off for shopping at Reebon. Card-holders who are planning to travel
can get discount up to 30 per cent if they make a flight reservation at www.cleartrip.com. The features available through the cards in-clude superb banking services, fast transaction processing and free access to lounges in select airports around the globe.
Through Titanium and Plati-num credit cards, users can enjoy a safe and premium online shopping experience, thanks to the new en-
hanced 3D Secure feature, which is an authentication payment system. It authenticates the cardholder’s identity and provides a password to protect online banking transac-tions. The product is approved by the Sharia Supervisory Board and the Central Bank of Oman.
All credit cards are based on the Islamic concept of ‘QardHasan’ (interest-free loan), which is adopted by numerous leading Is-lamic banks all over the world and applied to all credit card products. A customer can pay the amount shown in the credit card statement of account at the end of the month or settle it in form of deferred in-stalments according to minimum payment option.
alizz Islamic bank won the ‘Best Credit Card 2014’ award in the Sultanate offered by renowned Banker Middle East Magazine fol-lowing a fierce competition among the country’s leading banks.
The cards, designed
on the highest
quality standards
to meet customers’
diverse needs, allow
cardholders to have
free privileged access
to airline lounges
in the United Arab
Emirates, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Kuwait and Egypt
Alargan Towell extends support to Dar Al Atta’a's Ramadan initiativeMUSCAT: Complementing its ef-forts towards social responsibility in the local community, Alargan Towell, one of the Sultanate’s lead-ing real estate development com-panies, extended its support to Dar Al Atta’a for Ramadan ration packs to families in need.
Commenting on the importance of participating in such initiative, Abeer Khamis al Balushi, head of Marketing at Alargan Towell noted, “Providing support to the local com-munity, especially those in need, is at the core of our CSR initiatives. At Alargan Towell we believe that it is our responsibility to support such important initiatives.”
Alargan Towell staff in part-nership with Dar Al Atta’a volun-
teered and participated in the dis-tribution of Ramadan ration packs to families in the Wilayat of Barka. The packs were delivered to the Omani Women’s Association at Barka. In total 33 families in Barka
received the ration packs from Alargan Towell.
Thanking Alargan Towell for its participation in the initiative, May Al Bayat, marketing director at Dar Al Atta’a said, “Dar Al Atta’a,
in cooperation with local compa-nies like Alargan Towell, strives to provide support to families in need across the Sultanate. We appreci-ate their support and cooperation as it has greatly helped us in mak-ing a positive impact in the lives of those in need and in supporting the community. We would like to extend our thanks to Alargan Tow-ell and other such companies that have contributed in supporting our initiatives.”
“Our partnership with the pio-neers in this field, Dar Al Atta’a is a clear reflection of our future as-pirations, aimed at enhancing our role in the local community; name-ly those surrounding our projects,” added Abeer.
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Lulu announces 3rd set
of Dream Drive winnersMUSCAT: The joy and excite-ment continued at Lulu as the third set of Dream Drive cam-paign winners was announced recently. The draw took place at the Nizwa outlet in the presence of the officials from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the senior management of Lulu who announced the winners.
This time Sara Salim Al Halra-mi was the lucky winner to drive home the grand prize, the third of the 6 brand new Land Rover Discovery Sports SUV cars. The other lucky ones to win a range of useful products from Ikon were Tarteeb Said Zahar who won the 5 Burner Cooking Range, Ahlam bin Thani Khalfan Al Amriya who won the automatic washing machine, Sheikh Abdullah who took home the air cooler, Sooraj and Ahmed Saeed Salim Al Hinai who won the VIO Smart Phone and 3D Air Fryer, respectively, says a press release.
The next draw will be held on June 26 and will be the fourth of the six draws of this promotion. The campaign will continue till July 13. With every purchase of OMR10, customers get a raffle
coupon for the lucky draw. With three set of winners al-
ready announced, shoppers still have the chance to be a part of three more draws to be held at various Lulu outlets throughout the promotional period.
Delighted after winning the grand prize, one winner said, “I am indeed excited and overjoyed on being the grand prize winner and the proud owner of a brand new car. Shopping at Lulu has al-ways been economical and now it has proved to be rewarding too. I have dreamed of being a winner of this grand promotion almost every year and now it’s my day. Now I can convince my friends and family to make use of every single chance to shop at Lulu.”
Shabeer K. A., regional director - Lulu Oman said, “I would like to congratulate all the winners of the third draw and place on record our gratitude to the shop-pers. The result of this lucky draw has showed that anyone from anywhere can be a winner! We at Lulu always strive to achieve new heights of customer confidence and satisfaction through our in-novative promotions and offers.”
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BADR AL SAMAA HOLDS IFTARThe annual Iftar gathering organised by Badr Al Sa-
maa healthcare group was held at Al Bustan Palace,
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Muscat recently. Over 400 officials
from various ministries and media representatives at-
tended the event. — Supplied picture
Experience Prius on virtual reality ride at Toyota Wattayah showroomMUSCAT: There is something special happening at the Wat-tayah-Muscat Toyota showroom.
“A thrill-a-minute virtual re-ality fantasy ride on the Toyota Prius is waiting for you right here in Muscat - at the iconic Toyota showroom,” said a Toyota spokes-person, “Come and visit the show-room with your family and you’ll be treated to a special ride of a hi-tech platform (as pictured) for an experience you won’t forget!”
The ride experience is free and open to all at the Toyota Wattayah showroom until June 30, says a press release.
Visitors who have taken the ride have been extremely thrilled with it, “It was like…like I was driving a Toyota Prius in real life,” ex-claimed a visitor while describing the ride. “So real…I looked up and saw the sky, I looked around and there were cars….it totally blew my mind! I really have no more words…wow…what an experience,” he added with a huge smile.
The spokesperson explained, “The moment a visitor steps into the Prius virtual drive zone, he or she is able to explore hybrid tech-nology like never before with dif-ferent units of the set up. To begin with, there is a kiosk “What is a hybrid vehicle?’ that explains how
the Prius works with twin-power. There is then an exciting giant 84” Touch-Screen interface, which provides easy answers to 13 fre-quently asked questions in an in-teractive manner.
"There also is a real cutaway of the hybrid battery used in the ac-tual car, showcased for the visitors. Made of a special Nickel Metal Hy-dride, this original equipment Hy-brid battery is covered for a period of whopping 8 years or 160,000 kilometres (whichever comes first). So in a short glance, one can quickly understand how the Prius works and what hybrid technology really is!”
At the ‘Hybrid Virtual Driving’ kiosk, as mentioned earlier, you experience a magical drive in the
virtual world, which is one of the most exciting parts. There also is a Prius car at the display to explore the car in detail apart from a test drive car that demonstrates the surging experience of twin-power coming to life. Regarded by the in-dustry experts as the ‘New Era Hy-brid’, the Toyota Prius has a strik-ing, new design that complements its refined interiors. It stands out as a global hybrid icon.
All set to create a significant im-pact in terms of sustainable mobil-ity in the region, the Prius deliv-ers on superb driving dynamics with remarkable results in terms of engine performance and fuel economy up to 26.1km per litre. Its advanced safety technologies sig-nify comprehensive protection for
passengers. Spearheading a new era in hybrid technology across the Middle East, Toyota Prius is today by far the world’s most successful hybrid car. The fourth-generation Prius brings groundbreaking en-vironmental performance along with a striking new design, in ad-dition to a fun-to-drive spirit that promises to appeal to eco-con-scious customers as well as driving enthusiasts.
For those who like a bit of his-tory, it may be worthwhile to mention that the first-generation Prius was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle. Antici-pating the 21st century’s need for vehicles with exceptional fuel ef-ficiency, successive generations of Prius have showcased Toyota’s commitment to environmentally conscientious forward thinking, and led the company’s drive to-wards the creation of the ultimate eco-car.
At the present moment, the Pri-us is available with a Service pack-age lasting for 6 years / 60,000km (whichever is earlier) on 16YM models. Customers also get a shop-ping voucher for use at a promi-nent mall and chance to enter a grand raffle with four Prius. In lieu of the service package, customers can opt for a cashback.
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MUSCAT: The recently opened Oasis Mall by Landmark Group, the region’s largest retail and hos-pitality conglomerate, is an ideal place for families and friends to spend the weekend shopping, en-joying a fun-filled experience as the mall has arranged carnival themed activities on weekends from June 23 till July 9.
The fun does not end here; shop-pers will get a chance to participate
in lucky draws in the opening week and stand a chance to win up to OMR15,000 in shopping vouchers and a luxury Lexus sedan as the grand prize, says a press release.
With ample parking facilities, the 384,000 square feet shopping mall houses some of the region’s leading fashion, footwear, acces-sories and home brands, as well as highly popular dining and en-tertainment options for the entire family, culminating in a whole-some shopping experience.
To add to the excitement, shop-pers can avail exciting inaugu-ral offers from Landmark Group brands including Splash, ICONIC, New Look, Koton and Home Cen-tre, with guaranteed gifts or gift vouchers on minimum spends, and will benefit from sensational Eid deals at Emax from June 23 till July 9.
The mall was inaugurated on June 16 by Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi, Minister of Tourism and other distinguished guests.
Designed to offer an easy shop-ping journey, the new Oasis Mall is spread over two levels, show-casing its 38 outlets. The retail mix includes household names from Landmark Group’s portfolio such as Centrepoint, Home Cen-tre, Max, Emax, New Look, Koton and Shoexpress, as well as a host of international brands, adding great strength to the mall’s overall retail offering.
Landmark Group’s ICONIC, a trendy one-stop fashion destina-
tion offering wardrobe solutions for men, women and kids, will also make its Oman debut, with its flag-ship outlet.
Entertainment centreOn the entertainment side, Fun City, Landmark Group’s family entertainment centre, will provide children and young adults with a variety of fun activities in specially created learning and play zones.
In addition to retail and hospi-tality options, Oasis Mall will also
feature a pharmacy, perfumery and a chocolatier.
On opening night, visitors to the neighbourhood destination were thoroughly entertained by jugglers, balloon figure artists, car-toon mascots, clowns and magi-cians along with a live concert at the mall, face painting and henna design stalls.
Landmark Group started its op-erations in Oman in 1992, and cur-rently operates 87 stores with over 680,000 loyal Shukran card-holders.
Shoppers will get a
chance to participate
in lucky draws in the
opening week and
stand a chance to win
up to OMR15,000 in
shopping vouchers
and a luxury Lexus
sedan as the
grand prize
International Yoga Day marked in Dubai
DUBAI: Thousands of yoga en-thusiasts thronged the Dubai World Trade Centre recently to participate in the yoga sessions conducted by popular Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev.
The event was organised by the Consulate General of India in as-sociation with the Dubai Sports Council to mark the International Yoga Day 2016, says a press release.
The event commenced with an introduction to yoga which is an indispensable asset of India’s an-cient tradition, which embodies
unity of mind and body; action and thought; abstinence and comple-tion; harmony between man and nature and happiness. It is a com-prehensive approach to health and well-being.
Swami Ramdev kept partici-pants entertained with his light-hearted comments as he moved from one yogic posture to another. He said that yoga is for all and is not restricted to any religion. Perform-ing a yoga posture, he said, it is simi-lar to a posture in Islamic prayer.
People from different nationali-
ties, religions and age groups were present to learn the yoga tech-niques from the epitome of the practice, Baba Ramdev who is also the founder of Patanjali group of institutions.
Patanjali Ayurved was started by Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna 10 years ago in Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). As of early-March 2016, the company’s turno-ver has already crossed $670 million and is cruising at a monthly rate of about $74 million to $82 million.
Patanjali Ayurved is the manu-
facturer of 500 world class, healthy, herbomineral health care, dental care, food, cosmetics, toiletries, hair care and other products. Pa-tanjali Yogpeeth also publish high standard books in English, Hindi, Urdu & other main Indian language dealing with Yoga, Ayurveda, Cul-ture, Refinements & herbs.
Patanjali Ayurved products dis-tribution was also launched yes-terday to mark International Yoga Day with their distributor office in Al Ghubra, Muscat and head office in Dubai.
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Ramadan special offers from Best CarsMUSCAT: When it comes to get-ting delightful deals on quality pre-owned cars, there is no better place than Best Cars.
“We want our patrons to know that during Ramadan, we are of-fering low EMI instalments on cars. This makes our offerings even more attractive and com-petitive,” said the spokesperson, “We can go as low as 5.0% inter-est (Conditions apply, full details at the showroom). What’s more, every customer also gets a chance to enter one of Oman’s most re-warding annual promotions - the ‘Winning Moments’ raffle.”
The ‘Winning Moments’ scheme will last until July 31. Dur-ing this time, any customer pur-chasing a car from Best Cars will be eligible to participate in a raf-fle comprising 10 Samsung Gal-axy A3 smartphones. The raffle will be conducted on August 15 at Best Cars Wattayah showroom in Muscat. Customers will be eligi-ble for the raffle only upon taking delivery of the vehicle from Best Cars during the campaign period after completing all necessary for-malities and not against booking. During Ramadan, the showroom timings are Saturday to Thurs-day, 9am to 1.30pm and 7pm to 11.30pm, says a press release.
Besides increasing the levels of excitement through attrac-tive prizes, Best Cars has built a strong reputation for offering some of the most affordable, great quality used vehicles.
“At Best Cars we constantly seek to introduce our customers to has-
sle-free used vehicle ownership,” said a spokesperson for Best Cars.
“Hence we only include the finest, most well-used vehicles in our assets, thereby providing potential customers with a huge range of vehicles to choose from and immediately make a lasting buying decision,” he continued “It’s a wonderful choice because of many reasons. As we know, Best Cars (main showroom) is located at the most convenient place in the heart of the automo-bile market in Wattayah, Muscat and it is a professional set-up with a proven system for evalu-ating vehicles. Many customers have expressed their delight with not just finding their dream car, but also with the prices they have obtained for their trade-in vehi-cle, the hassle-free documenta-tion, personalised care and over-all professionalism of the staff. No surprise then that many cus-tomers heartily recommend Best Cars to their friends and family calling it the ‘Best Bet’ to procure a vehicle of their choosing.”
Best Cars also updates its user-friendly website ‘www.bestcar-soman.com’ with new arrivals. Customers can login and view complete details, along with the vehicle’s photograph. It also pro-vides financing facilities for cus-tomers who want to purchase pre-owned vehicles on instalments.
Value-conscious custom-ers appreciate the hypermarket as a trusted source for quality pre-owned vehicles from the re-nowned Saud Bahwan Group.
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Al Ansari opens new sales outlet in IbraMUSCAT: Al Ansari Trading En-terprise, one of Oman’s leading building material suppliers, has expanded its network and opened a new branch in Ibra.
Yusuf Nalwala, managing direc-tor, inaugurated the opening of the new sales outlet. The inaugura-tion was attended by Sajan Jose, general manager, Zoeb Hathiyari, senior marketing manager, Mo-hammed Shaffi, marketing man-ager, Shakeel Hashmi, Ibra branch in-charge, and several guests and well-wishers, says a press release.
The Building Material Trading Division specialises in the trading of deformed steel bars from Oman, Turkey and UAE.
Additionally, the outlet sells a wide range of products including film faced shuttering plywood, commercial plywood, redwood, whitewood, steel props, binding wire and other basic building ma-
terials. “The opening of the Ibra sales outlet is in line with the com-pany’s strategy of providing high quality material at fair price to our valued customers. Al Ansari believes in being a catalyst in the dynamic growth of Oman in the era of Renaissance under the wise leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. We wish to serve
as many customers as possible to give them fair value and an enjoy-able experience in their commer-cial dealings with us.
The company is also looking to engage and train Omanis in keep-ing with their value system of pro-moting local talent and local prod-ucts,” said Yusuf.
“We always maintain the high-
est quality materials in our prod-uct range. Currently we have sales outlets in Ghala, Mussanah, Sohar, Ibri, Sur, Al Kamil, Nizwa, Sala-lah and now in Ibra. We intend to expand our sales network by add-ing more sales outlets during this year. Our aim is to reach closer to the customers as much as possible, so that it is convenient for them to interact with us for their require-ments and we can ensure timely delivery. Our trained sales team ensures that we give the right ma-terial at a fair price and as usual, the best services to our customers. Our ability to adapt to the changing customer needs and market de-mands enables us to maintain our growth momentum,” said Sajan.
Al Ansari, with it main focus on the customer service at a competi-tive price, has evolved as one of the leading building materials trading companies in Sultanate of Oman.
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Reliable honoured with Kia ‘Excellence Award’
MUSCAT: Reliable International Automotive, the authorised dis-tributor of Kia in Oman stays focused on elevating customer satisfaction levels in every area - whether sales, service or parts.
Recently, at the prestigious Kia Global Distributors Convention held in Hawaii, an award ceremony was held to recognise top perform-ing Kia distributors. During the event, the prestigious ‘2016 Global Sales Customer Satisfaction Ex-cellence Award’ was bestowed upon Reliable International Auto-motive. The award evaluates dis-tributors on parameters such as customer showroom experience, sales consultant knowledge and handling, finance handling, deliv-ery and post-sales contact with the customers, says a press release.
“We are committed to delivering more than an automobile - rather a complete Kia experience, to our
customers. From the moment they step-into our showroom, until the time that they are proud Kia own-ers, we continue to serve them with prompt, personalised service and consistent parts support…mile-after-mile and year-after-year,” remarked an official from Reliable International Automotive (RIA).
RIA’s dedication to ensuring a complete ownership experience - beginning from the showroom and reaching through to customer’s parts and service support – con-tinues to be recognised in global forums. Ensuring dependable part support is critical to elevating cus-tomer satisfaction levels. RIA’s outstanding after sales parts sup-port reaches customers through a nationwide network, with outlets dotting Oman. Backed by robust warehousing techniques along with strong logistics support chain, RIA not merely continues
to achieve but to also surpass Kia Motor’s Parts benchmark. In rec-ognition, RIA’s Spare Parts divi-sion was singularly honoured with an award - ‘Excellence in its Parts Operation and Facility Enhance-ment’ during 2015.
‘Family-like care’ is the provi-sion of prompt, personalised ser-vice-with-a-smile to Kia custom-ers. “Ensuring that each customer is treated as a member of the hap-py Kia family in Oman has worked wonders in elevating satisfaction levels,” said the spokesperson, “We have been there for them like a family member to serve, make their Kia run like new…”
RIA’s unflagging efforts in en-hancing customer satisfaction levels were crowned further by Kia Motors with the Top ranking in the region in 2015 Kia After Sales Customer Satisfaction (KACS) Survey. The award is a strong en-dorsement of Kia’s commitments towards customer satisfaction in Oman and in the region. No won-der then that Kia Oman is ranked amongst the Top Distributors in the world.
“These high honours motivate us to serve our customers even better, to reach ever closer to them. Their satisfaction is our aim and we are focused on elevating the Kia ownership experience for each one of them,” added the spokesper-son of RIA.
The Kia Global Distributors Con-vention is held to build up a strong marketing community by sharing Kia’s brand and marketing direc-tion with global business partners. It is also the perfect opportunity to share Kia’s visions and goals, while reaching a mutual understand-ing on the direction. It is a matter of great pride that the distributor from Oman emerged as a global leader on the sheer dint of its best efforts - making the event truly bril-liant experience for all participants.
RIA, the distributor for Kia in Oman provides a rewarding own-ership experience for customers. Excellent product attributes and unmatched facilities easily ensure their absolute satisfaction, every mile of the way.
During the Kia Global Distributors Convention
in Hawaii, an award ceremony held to
recognise top performing Kia distributors,
‘2016 Global Sales Customer Satisfaction
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Ooredoo Goodwill Journey moves to northern wilayatsMUSCAT: The Wilayat of Rustaq witnessed the start of the second leg of the 12th Oore-doo Goodwill Journey, where 24 fasting volunteers have set out to inspire communities in Al Khabourah, Al Sunainah, Daba, Dhank, Manah and Musannah.
Focused on enabling human growth, this year’s journey is providing people across Oman with the means to enhance their skills through sustainable learn-ing initiatives as well as provid-ing essential equipment, supplies and educational materials, says a press release.
“The first leg of this 12th Oore-doo Goodwill Journey, around the southern provinces of Oman, was a tremendous success,” said Kumail Al Moosawi, Chief Peo-ple and Corporate Affairs Officer at Ooredoo. “The reception we received as we passed through each town and village, and even as we drove along the road was inspiring. The items, equipment, and gifts the volunteers delivered were enthusiastically received
with many being put to immedi-ate use. And along the way, we took the opportunity to look in on old friends and projects we had contributed to in previous years and it was very rewarding to see first-hand the positive impact our contributions have made”.
He added: “To mark the start of the journey’s second leg, the Ooredoo Goodwill ambassadors called in at the Omani Women’s Association in Rustaq to initiate the establishment of a library for the benefit and enjoyment of its members. They also delivered kitchen equipment to the Hail and Saffron Project; a community initiative that provides catering for local events and celebrations and also offers cookery courses for women. In addition, the popu-lar project was gifted with a com-puter lab to assist in vocational training and the Goodwill team visited the Beauty and Hairdress-ing School set up during the 2015 Goodwill Journey, presenting further equipment to help in the delivery of its programmes.”
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Students showcase modernisation of Omani entrepreneurismMUSCAT: Demonstrating the growing diversity and modernisa-tion of entrepreneurism in Oman, 60 student companies vied for vic-tory at Injaz Oman’s highly antici-pated fourth annual exhibition of its Student Company Programme.
Displaying and demonstrating their budding talent, the youth’s exciting endeavours thrilled a na-tional audience with a delivery of innovation that captivated visitors from all segments of society and industry, says a press release.
Among the exhibition’s gamut of originality, ‘Third Sixty’ from Sul-tan Qaboos University delivered a concept capable of prompting a shift in the global construction in-dustry, realising a 3D printer that
takes just 30 days to build a house. Other ingenuous contributions demonstrated the comprehensive creativity of each company’s pro-duction, concept and gadgetry.
Representing the Higher Col-lege of Technology, Nameer’s in-vention filters water using locally sourced natural resources; while Al Baleel from College of Applied Sciences showcased an air condi-tioner that uses pottery piping to reduce energy consumption.
“The interaction of our visitors spoke volumes, their engagement of the students and the ideas on show was a well deserved testa-ment to the rising and diverse quality of local entrepreneurism,” said Khaula Al Harthy, executive
director of Injaz Oman. “Through our yearly expo we
provide a platform that supports the creativity of students and the spirited development of their en-trepreneurial endeavours, as well as the marketing of their prod-ucts and ideas to the public,” Al Harthy added.
She added, “Injaz Oman will hold another exhibition this week on Thursday and Friday (June 23-24) at the Oman Avenues Mall. By organising these exhibitions as a part of our Student Company Programme, we enable students of higher education to instil a strong foundation for establishing a live company operation in the future. Becoming familiar with the core
principles of establishing a busi-ness, managing it, and finding so-lutions to the challenges faced on the road to success are daily occur-rences for participants of the Stu-dent Company Programme.”
Inspiring the youthThe initiative seeks to direct, in-spire and nurture youth who are contemplating or progressing through the startup of a company, launching products or establishing a brand. In addition to having won awards for its approach to educat-ing youth, Injaz Oman has inspired the accolades of Best Student CEO, Best Student Company, and Most Innovative Product in the Mena region.
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Tadhamun initiativereaches Sharqiyah
MUSCAT: Bank Muscat’s Tad-hamun corporate social responsi-bility (CSR) initiative coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan reached beneficiary homes in the governorate of Sharqiyah.
Reiterating the bank’s dynamic ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and values of accountability and partnership, the Tadhamun convoy of vehicles
carrying the bank’s employees and volunteers distributed basic elec-tronic home appliances to ben-eficiary families identified by the Ministry of Social Development. The distributions will be carried out across Oman through the holy month along with Eidiyah provid-ed to beneficiary families as a gift from the bank’s employees, says a press release.
Bank Muscat has lined up a series of programmes under the banner of ‘Ramadan Al Kheir’ to benefit different segments of so-ciety during the holy month of Ramadan. In the second leg of the
Tadhamun programme, basic elec-tronic home appliances and Eid gift were distributed to beneficiary homes in the wilayats of Sur, Ma-sirah, Mudhaibi, Ibra, Jaalan Bani bu Ali, Jaalan Bani bu Hasan, Al Kamil W’al Wafi, Dima W’a Al Tay-een, Al Qabil and Bidiyah in the governorate of Sharqiyah, provid-ing them with an opportunity for a better quality of life. The objective of the CSR initiative is to address the requirements of beneficiary homes which do not have basic home appliances.
The Tadhamun initiative is a fine example of the public-pri-
vate partnership launched by the bank in association with the Ministry of Social Development to strengthen the hands of ben-eficiaries. Through the Tadhamun programme, the bank seeks to re-iterate its dynamic vision, striving to reach out to different segments and ‘doing more’ for society as a whole. Committed to sustain-able development, the bank uti-lises every opportunity to reiterate partnership in building the na-tion by creating opportunities for individuals and communities to grow and prosper. The bank works closely with local communities with the aim of improving living standards in a manner that com-plements the national economy.
The Tadhamun programme un-derscores the bank’s commitment to complement the government’s efforts in social responsibility and thereby strengthen the hands of low-income segments across Oman. Reflecting the corporate ethos, the bank seizes every avail-able opportunity to channel re-sources for creating sustainable, positive changes in communities by investing in their welfare to equip them for a better life.
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Radisson Blu Hotel honours employees at annual staff partyMUSCAT: Radisson Blu Ho-tel, Muscat, honoured its top-performing employees and rec-ognised their years of service with the company at the annual staff party held recently, says a press release.
The lucky winners received a certificate, a memento and a cash prize of OMR250 each. The ‘Manager for the Year’ winner was Shamsher Singh, front office night manager. Shamsher started his career with Radisson Blu Ho-tel, Muscat in 2014.
Arlette White, meetings & events coordinator started her career with Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2012. Her positive en-ergy and team spirit constantly wins her praise. Arlette was awarded the ‘Employee of the Year – Front of House’.
The ‘Employee of the Year - Back of House’ recognises the un-sung efforts of non-guest facing employees. Vincent Mondal, Ac-counts Payable was the appreci-ated winner. Vincent started his career with Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2014.
This year Radisson Blu Mus-cat, had added another important award to its list – ‘Yes I Can! Host of the Year’. The proud recipient was Sabir Al Balushi, who re-ceived a certificate, a memento and a cash prize of OMR250. Sa-bir joined Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2012 as Chef de Partie
– Pastry. He stands as a role mod-el for all its employees especially young Omani team members who aspire to making it big in the hotel industry as well as winning this coveted award.
The service awardees for this year received a certificate and a ‘Yes I Can!’ (YIC) diamond pin. Chef Ronald Marcel Pinto, ex-ecutive sous-chef, received his YIC pin with four diamonds com-memorating his 20 years with the hotel and Carlson Rezidor Group.
Rizalina Mendoza, front of-fice service manager, received her YIC pin with two diamonds which stands for her decade of continued service. Rizalina started her career as a front of-fice executive and her efforts earned her promotion to service manager. Nagasuderson Thanga-durai, Demi chef received his first YIC pin with one diamond. Chef Thangadurai joined Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2010 and is looking forward for more years with the company.
“This year the awards compe-tition has been very difficult for us to vote and choose along with the head of departments. Each nominee was unique and special, but for the winners, it is a well-deserved win. I am so blessed to work with this great team,” said Mohamad Yassine, cluster gen-eral manager of the Radisson Blu Hotels, Muscat and Sohar.
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TAC again offers Mazda3 at an attractive price
MUSCAT: In this holy month of Ramadan, Towell Auto Centre (TAC) – the sole distributors of the global brand Mazda in Oman – is once again offering the Mazda3 #GameChanger (Comfort variant) at an attractive starting price of OMR5,333, says a press release.
Mazda3 as the ‘Best Hatch-back Car of the Year 2015’, the ‘Red Dot Award winner for ex-cellence in product design 2015’ and the ‘Best small car in Oman in the year 2014’ has truly prov-en to be a #GameChanger for the
Japanese automaker. A senior spokesperson of TAC
commented: “The all-new Mazda3 has over 130 international awards to its credit. This is no mean feat. In Oman too, it is a much-sought after vehicle because of its many positive features. Ramadan is the time of warm sentiments and a time for us to show our gratitude towards our esteemed customers. We hope our clients will benefit from this pro-motion as OMR5,333 for a Mazda3 is a real steal. Moreover, they can avail this promotion till July 25.”
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Gomez goal puts Germans on top
PARIS: Germany’s Mario Gomez scored in the first half to secure a 1-0 win over a stubborn Northern Ireland side and a place in the last 16 of Euro 2016 as Group C win-ners on Tuesday.
Although the world champions wasted countless chances at the Parc des Princes, with Thomas Mueller notably hitting the wood-work twice, they were never threatened by the Irish, who fin-ished third and still have a chance to qualify.
Germany came top with seven points ahead on goal difference of Poland, who progressed with a 1-0 win over already-eliminated Ukraine. Northern Ireland have three points.
Joachim Loew’s Germany side will take on a third-placed team in Lille on Sunday while Northern Ireland will have to wait for the other groups’ results to see if they make the cut.
Backed by their noisy and devot-ed fans, the Irish, in their maiden appearance at a European Cham-pionship, showed great resilience against a Germany team who ap-peared more inventive than in their first two group games.
Germany, helped by their op-ponents’ having to defend deep in their own half, played the sort of free-flowing football that, if
matched by finishing, could be le-thal in the knockout phase.
In the seventh minute, Thomas Mueller was played through by a clever Mesut Ozil knock on but shot straight at Northern Ireland keeper Michael McGovern, who made several fin saves.
Casual chipWhile Germany’s larger contin-gent of fans were outsung in the
stands, their team were all over the Irish on the pitch.
In the space of two minutes, Ozil missed a decent chance, McGovern denied Mario Goetze from close range and Joshua Kim-mich’s all too casual chip went over the bar.
In the 23rd, Gomez chested Kimmich’s cross into the path of Mueller, whose half-volley went just wide of the far post. Four minutes
later, Mueller’s diving header hit the foot of the post.
“Will Grigg’s on fire,” the North-ern Ireland fans sang, even though their celebrated number nine was left on the bench again.
On the half hour, Germany fi-nally broke the deadlock when Mueller burst into the area, after being played through by Ozil, and played the ball back for Gomez, who coolly slotted the ball home albeit via a deflection off defender Gareth McAuley.
The goal left Gomez one short of Juergen Klinsmann’s Germany record of five goals at European Championship tournaments.
Mueller also missed a golden op-portunity in the 36th minute when his effort rattled the crossbar.
Goetze then wasted two clear chances soon after the break before being replaced by Andre Schuerrle in the 55th minute. - Reuters
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countless chances at
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ON TARGET: Germany’s Mario Gomez celebrates after scoring the
only goal of the evening. – Reuters
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PARIS: Slovakia, Hun-gary and Croatia were all assured of qualifying for the last 16 at Euro 2016 without kicking a ball on Tuesday after Germany beat Northern Ireland in Group C. The result from the Parc des Princes left Northern Ireland third in their group on three points and with Albania also on three points in third place in Group A it means that those three teams, who have four points, are guaranteed to be at least be among the best four third-placed finishers. — Reuters
Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia qualify too
Blaszczykowski strike helpsPoland sail into pre-quarterfinals
MARSEILLE: Poland reached the knockout stage of the Eu-ropean Championship for the first time when Jakub Blaszc-zykowski’s second-half goal beat already-eliminated Ukraine 1-0 on Tuesday and secured second place in Group C and a last-16 meeting with Switzerland.
Poland had started strongly but appeared to be settling for the draw that would also have guaranteed their progress un-til Blaszczykowski struck nine minutes after joining the fray as a halftime substitute.
The result left them on seven points, second in the group on goal difference to Germany, who beat Northern Ireland 1-0, and left their huge following in the Stade Velodrome celebrating long and loud after the humilia-tion of four years ago when they finished bottom of their group when co-hosting the tournament.
Poland could and should have been out of sight in the first five minutes as Arkadiusz Milik shot straight at goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov when through and Robert Lewandowski, the leading scorer from any country in the qualify-ing competition but without a goal in his previous five inter-nationals, side-footed wide with the goal gaping.
Ukraine looked shell-shocked
but, unlike in their previous two 2-0 defeats by Germany and Northern Ireland, they settled down, got stuck in and should have scored themselves when Andriy Yarmolenko bore down on Lukasz Fabianski but then blazed wide.
A goalless draw would have been enough for Poland what-ever happened in the other game but their grip on second place was strengthened when Germa-ny went ahead against Northern Ireland after half an hour and some of the intensity went out of their approach.
But they looked fired up again af-ter the break and an incisive inside pass by Milik sent Blaszczykowski through and the substitute beat a defender before hooking the ball firmly beyond Andriy Pyatov.
Bartosz Kapustka should have doubled the lead two minutes lat-er but shot wide from close range.
Poland then packed their midfield and sat deep and al-though it allowed Ukraine to have more possession, un-leash a few pot-shots and force some desperate last-ditch Pol-ish tackles, they never really threatened an equaliser.
So, Ukraine go home without a point or a goal and are now with-out a coach after Mykhailo Fo-menko had announced before the game that he would step down.
Poland, however, march on into uncharted waters and will have every belief that they can beat a Swiss team who hardly tore up any trees in finishing sec-ond to France in Group A. - Reuters
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GREAT GOAL: Poland’s Jakub Blaszczykowski celebrates after
scoring a goal. – Reuters
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Portugal promise that goals will start to flow
LYON: No team managed as many shots as Portugal in their open-ing two games at Euro 2016, yet all they have to show for it are one goal, two points and a possible ear-ly exit from the competition.
One of the most technically gift-ed of the 24 teams, Portugal man-aged 50 goal attempts in their two games, featuring 17 on target, 17 off target and 16 which were blocked.
After Germany, they are also the team that has enjoyed the most possession, at an average of 62 per-cent per match.
But poor finishing means they go into Wednesday’s Group F match against Hungary in third place and a distinctly uncomfort-able position.
Only a win over the unbeaten Hungarians will take them into the last 16 without depending on other matches. Hungary, meanwhile, need a draw to make sure of a top-two finish although even if they lose they could qualify as one of the four best third-placed teams.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of Portugal’s biggest culprits, missing an easy chance late in the 1-1 draw with Iceland and firing a penalty against the post late in the Austria match.
Portugal’s players have offered little insight into what is going wrong, saying merely that if they keep trying, the goals will start flowing eventually. “We did every-thing well, but once again the ball didn’t go in....what can you say?” said Nani after the goalless draw against Austria on Saturday.
“We can’t just keep making ex-cuses about the ball not going in. We played well and we were supe-rior to a very strong team. Our time will come, and that will be in the next game. We are going to be very lucky and all our shots will go in.”
Midfielder Adrien Silva also played the optimism card.
“We’re not even thinking of
another draw, it’s not part of our mentality and would not demon-strate our quality,” he said. “We have to resolve this solution and win the last match in the group. I’m sure we will do it.
“The most important thing is to convert the chances we create, which hasn’t happened so far. But I’m sure things will change.”
Coach Fernando Santos said that a more ruthless approach is required.
“Sometimes, I get the feeling that we are ashamed about being ugly, or not being pretty. If we have to be ugly and that brings us effi-ciency, we have to be ugly,” he said.
“I’m ugly by nature and I don’t mind being even uglier.” - Reuters
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TRAINING HARD: Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo, centre, and teammates take part in a training session at the team’s base camp in Marcoussis, south of Paris. – AFP
Iceland will stick with counter-attacking stylePARIS: Should tournament deb-utants Iceland reach the knock-out stages of Euro 2016 by secur-ing the result they need against Austria on Wednesday, much credit will go to a dentist and a film director.
Iceland, with a population of about 330,000, are the smallest country ever to qualify for the Euros, yet have been undaunted by their casting as minnows, holding Portugal and Hungary to 1-1 draws in Group F through re-silient displays.
That means a win, or perhaps another draw, against Austria, will put Iceland into the knock-out stages, a fairytale outcome which could make for an excel-lent movie script.
Goalkeeper Hannes Halldors-son would be the ideal judge of that, having halted his film career to become a full-time profession-al in 2014, first in Norway and then the Netherlands.
Halldorsson, who directed the video for Iceland’s 2012 Eu-rovision song contest entry, has made 14 saves — the most by any keeper at the tournament, but the 32-year-old’s game is about much more than just shot stopping.
Against Portugal, he tried 28 passes — of which 27 went long —which was the second most from any Iceland player and against Hungary, his 35 attempted passes were more than any teammate.
These are statistics that reflect the pressure Iceland resisted in those two matches as they aver-aged 33.5 percent possession, the
lowest at the Euros. “If someone had given us the option of having this position before the tourna-ment we would have gladly taken it,” joint-coach Heimir Hall-grimsson told a news conference.
“We’ve done quite well even though we have been pushed back. We’ve created some good chances so maybe that is the way against Austria, to stay back and let them come.”
Hallgrimsson, who will take sole charge of the team when co-coach Lars Lagerback retires this summer, maintains a dental sur-gery in a small town in Iceland.
His bilingual press confer-ence at the team’s Lake Annecy training base was markedly more relaxed than the tense affairs staged by other nations. He urged his players to use the ball better against an Austrian team who were considered potential dark horses but who have registered only one point and no goals so far.
“They seem to be a little bit lacking in the two games they’ve played. Let’s hope it will contin-ue,” Hallgrimsson said of Austria.
“They have really good organi-sation but they also have really good individuals and that’s a le-thal combination.”
Gylfi Sigurdsson, who scored six of Iceland’s 17 goals in quali-fying as well as a penalty against Hungary, is likely to again part-ner Aron Gunnarsson in central midfield. Hallgrimsson indicat-ed his combative captain Gun-narsson had shrugged off a groin injury. - Reuters
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WARMING UP: Austrian players training at Mallemort. – Reuters
GROUP F8pm: Portugal vs Hungary8pm: Austria vs Iceland
GROUP E11pm: Italy vs Ireland11pm: Belgium vs Sweden(All Oman time)
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Shot-shy Sweden hope to make Belgium’s Courtois workNICE: Belgium goalkeeper Thiba-ut Courtois may wonder whether he even needs to turn up to face Sweden on Wednesday given his opponents’ dismal attacking re-cord at Euro 2016.
The Swedes have failed to mus-ter a single shot on target in their first two games, a statistic made all the more embarrassing by the presence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in their attack. Their only goal so far was scored for them by Ireland’s Ciaran Clark in a 1-1 draw but they have singularly failed to exploit Ibrahimovic’s presence and they are now in danger of a second suc-cessive group stage exit.
A draw at Nice’s Allianz Riviera in the Group E match would send
Belgium to the last 16 alongside already-qualified Italy and almost certainly send the Swedes scut-tling home. A Swedish win would take them above Belgium and en-sure second place providing Ire-land did not beat Italy.
Forward Marcus Berg said that the statistics were not a fair reflec-tion of their performances.
“I understand that from outside, it’s black and white, but for us it’s a little grey too. But now it has be-come an issue,” he said.
“It’s up to the whole team to join in offensively,” he said. “In the Ire-land game we had some dangerous balls, and if we get a toe on the ball there it’s a goal.”
One of Sweden’s problems has been that Ibrahimovic has often
dropped back into midfield so that he is no longer available to receive the ball in attack. Midfielder Kim Kallstrom’s performances have suggested that, at 33, his role as a box-to-box midfielder is a little am-bitious. The Swiss-based player has
performed his defensive duties well but has had little to offer in attack. Winger Emil Forsberg has been largely anonymous in both games after both Ireland and Italy man-aged to close him down completely. Sweden are also searching for a suitable partner for Ibrahimovic after neither John Guidetti, who started alongside him against Italy, nor Berg himself, against Ireland, performed the role effectively.
Coach Erik Hamren acknowl-edged the problem although he did not give any clues about changes.
“Of course, I would be happier if we had scored some goals but we do our best,” he said. “We need to be better in offence, of course, if we are going to win the game.” - Reuters
G R O U P E P R E V I E W
CONFIDENT BUNCH: Swedish players attend a training session at their training ground in Saint-Nazaire. – AFP
Under-strength Italy face Ireland
LILLE: For Ireland to reach the knockout stages at Euro 2016 they must achieve something they haven’t done in 28 years — win a game at the European Championsip.
Martin O’Neill’s team face an Italian side already guaranteed victory in Group E and manager Antonio Conte is likely to field many of his reserves, but it re-mains to be seen if Ireland can end their long winless streak in this must-win game.
Group rivals Sweden and Bel-gium meet at the same time, with the Swedes aiming to finish sec-ond in the group by beating the side who hammered Ireland 3-0 last time out.
But Ireland could also take that spot behind Italy if they win and pip Sweden on goal difference. An Irish victory and a draw between Belgium and Sweden could also see Ireland through as a third-placed team.
“We have a really great game against Italy to look forward to, to put our immediate disappoint-ment to the side, and if we can win this game we give ourselves an incredible chance of qualifi-cation,” O’Neill told the Football Association of Ireland’s website (www.fai.ie).
O’Neill and his assistant Roy Keane will take a late decision on whether winger Jonathan Wal-ters, who missed the Belgium drubbing due to a recurrence of an Achilles injury, will play.
“If there is any chance he (Walters) thinks he can get through it he will have a go, even if we thought we could get Jon on the pitch for an hour it would be fantastic,” Keane told reporters at the Irish team’s training camp in Versailles.
It’s a long time since Ireland managed such a heroic feat at the Euros, and the return of the tal-ismanic Walters would give their chances a serious boost.
The Irish won their first-ever game at the Euro finals, beating rivals England 1-0 on June 12 1988 in one of their most famous victories. Since then they have only qualified for the finals once -- their disastrous Euro 2012 cam-paign under Giovanni Trapattoni,
when they lost to Croatia, Spain and Italy to become the first team eliminated.
Four years on there was enough in the first hour of their 1-1 draw against Sweden to suggest that they could upset a few teams, but the Belgium defeat brought ex-pectations crashing back down to earth.
Nor can they expect any fa-vours from Italy, with Azzurri midfielder Marco Parolo telling the Irish they won’t be taking it easy on them.
“To end the group stage with nine points would be extra proof of our strength and character,” he told the Italian FA’s website (www.figc.it). “We want all three points.” - Reuters
It is possible for
Ireland to qualify
behind Italy if they
win and pip Sweden
on goal difference
TRAINING FOR THE FINAL GROUP MATCH: Italy players warming up during a training session. Below, Ireland’s forward Robbie Keane, centre, and teammates training. – AFP
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
SPOR S
There isn’t a better sight to behold dur-ing a cricket match
than the stumps sent flying in the air. Both spinners and fast bowlers get to compose their symphonies, but the thrill we feel is awesome when a speed merchant gets the purchase in the space of a few seconds of drama that begins with the rhythm of his feet hitting the ground, with the thud we hear as he bangs the ball hard and with the spontaneous music that comes alive as the ball beats the bat and kisses the stumps, sweeping one or all the three slim beauties off the ground for a split second of tango in the air.
Three Zimbabwean batsmen lost their stumps in their encounter with the Indian fast bowlers without any third-party interven-tion on Monday. All the three instances spiced up the day, but there is always one looking better and sweeter than the others in such breathtaking events. Coming as it did just a day after the humiliation of the Indian bowlers by Elton Chigumbura, the middle stump of the Zimbabwean hard-hitter floating in the air in the 17th over was the most spectacular sight of the day.
Barinder Sran composed the first symphony when he sent the middle stump of Hamilton Masakadza in the air in the fifth over. The other two were scripted by Jasprit Bumrah in a single over, cleaning up Chigum-bura and Neville Madziva.
It was the first time India had won a T20 interna-tional game by 10 wickets, so the revenge of Dhoni and his boys for their painful defeat in the first match will have a historic tag attached to it, but the more pleasing aspect about the Indian win lies in the way it has been accomplished.
Sran and Dhawal Kulkarni gave the team a good start in the three ODI matches, but when Dhoni issued his nuke threat after the defeat on Saturday, few were convinced about the fire power he had at his disposal. Skeptics could dis-miss it as a show of muscle in a battle of unequals, but seldom have we seen an In-dian captain on tour thump-ing his nose at his rivals on the strength of his bowlers. If ever anyone did, that was always on home turf, with an army of slow guys lining
up behind him to do their ticks on dustbowls. The fact is that Dhoni spoke with confidence that he would bring in his fast bowlers for the second game—and he did and they have delivered. That’s another piece of Indian history.
None of the Zimbabwean batsmen had a strike rate of 100 on Monday, and it’s the fourth time something like that has happened in T20 history. Peter Moor was the top-scorer, but his 31 runs off 32 balls came at a strike rate of 96.87. What stands out is the way the Indians put Chigumbura on a leash and led him to a peak of despair and dumped him without mercy.
Scoreboard would say it was Bumrah who sent Chigumbura’s middle stump dancing in the air, but the process, as Dhoni would say, started in the 12th over itself with Yuz-vendra Chahal welcoming the hero of the first match with five dot balls. That was an admirable show of cour-age by the small man who was hit for three towering sixes by the Zimbabwean a couple of days ago.
By the time Chigumbura took guard to face the first ball of the 17th over, and lost his plot in the next few sec-onds, he was a tamed man, having spent 18 inglorious minutes in the middle to score eight runs off 19 de-liveries to post a strike rate of 42.10. What a fall for the 150-plus man, the only four of its kind globally in that elite club of guys who have scored 500 or more runs in T20 internationals.
The defeat in the first match hurt Indians’ pride, and we got to watch an awesome show of revenge exacted in a clinical way. Now, the humbling defeat and the nightmare of the flying stumps could put a spring in the steps of the Zimbabweans, especially of Chigumbura. That’s fun in store waiting to explode for us today.
The writer is a freelance contribu-tor based in India. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of Times of Oman
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India hold edge in series decider
HARARE: A rejuvenated India will have their nose ahead when they lock horns with Zimbabwe, left bruised and battered after a 10-wicket thrashing, in the series-deciding third and final Twenty20 International here on Wednesday.
India entered the series on the back of a 3-0 whitewash of Zimba-bwe in the preceding ODI series, but suffered a shocking two-run loss to the hosts in the opening T20 last Saturday.
The visitors got their act together in the second game on Monday and inflicted a crushing defeat on Zim-babwe at the Harare Sports Club.
India stayed alive with a win in the second game and would now look to seal the issue in their favour with another convincing victory.
Led by veteran skipper Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni, this young Indian side would take heart from Mon-day’s performances by Barinder Sran, Mandeep Singh, KL Rahul and also Jasprit Bumrah.
While young seamer Sran re-turned the best figures by an In-dian on debut, Mandeep struck a fluent half century and Rahul too contributed handsomely to guide the team home with plenty of overs to spare.
Bumrah was a perfect ally for Sran, picking up three wickets. The knock was Mandeep’s maiden half century in this format.
The young Turks would like to have another good outing before heading home.
The team lost its plot a bit in the first game and according to Mandeep, it stuck to basics in the second T20, and the result was there for all to see. India will take confidence from the fact that this was their first 10-wicket win in a T20 international.
The experienced campaigner that he is, Dhoni would however not take the beleaguered hosts lightly and advise his younger teammates to guard against com-placency, irrespective of the mar-gin of victory in the previous game.
“I emphasised we needed to run hard, push the fielders and in a shorter format it’s always impor-
tant to sneak in those quick runs,” Dhoni had said after Monday’s win.
As far as Graeme Cremer’s Zim-babwe are concerned, they would hope to end, what was a forgettable series for them, on a positive note.
Skipper Cremer spoke about the side losing wickets at regular intervals.
“We started well but we lost wickets at regular intervals, just couldn’t get going. It was disap-pointing, we thought the pitch misbehaved a bit but getting all out for 99 isn’t good enough. We still have one more game to go,” Cremer said after his team’s mis-erable outing with the bat.
If Zimbabwe are to give India a tough fight, the likes of Chamu Chibhabha, Hamilton Masakadza, Sikandar Raza, E Chigumbura and Malcolm Waller will have to fire with the bat in unison, and then hope the bowlers put up a good show. - PTI
India stayed alive
with a win in the
second game and
would now look to
seal the issue in their
favour with another
convincing victory
HAPPY TIMES: India’s Barinder Sran, who made an excellent T20I
debut on Monday, is congratulated by teammates. – Reuters
DANI HELPS OEC BEAT KLAIR SPORTSAdnan Dani scalped three wickets to help OEC beat Klair
Sports by 56 runs in the NMC Independence Cup 2016
organised by Oman Indo-Pak Friends. OEC batting first
scored 86 for 4 with Aquib Ilyas (23), Ifrat (23), Nitin
Hegde (16) contributing. Lucky (4 for 18) was the best
bowler of Klair Sports, who were restricted to 30 for 8 in 8
overs. Adnan Dani (3 for 6), Zaheer (2 for 5) and Shani (2
for 6) bowled well with Dani taking the Man of the Match
award. — Supplied photo
Lahore Badshah, Asfandyar XI winMUSCAT: Asfandyar XI and La-hore Badshah scored wins in the ongoing 2016 Omantel Ramadan Tape Ball Cricket Tournament organised byt the Pakistan Social Club at Pakistan School ground.
In the first match played on Monday night, Asfandyar XI de-feated Head Marala by 19 runs and in the match that followed Lahore Badshah beat Agha XI by 2 runs. Soharb Khan of Asfandyar XI and Ghulam Humayun of La-
hore Badshah were declared the men of the matches.
Brief scores: Asfandyar XI 102 for 1 wicket in 8 overs (Sohrab Khan 38, Naeem 39) beat Head Marala 83 for 7 wickets in 8 overs (Amjad 34, Bilal 2 for 10, Sohrab Khan 1 for 18) by 19 runs. Man of the match: Sohrab Khan of Asfandyar XI
Lahore Badshah 94 for 6 wickets in 8 overs (Ghulam Humayun 33 run) beat Agha XI 92 for 6 wickets in 8 overs (Adil 23, Mohsin 20, Rahman 2 for 17) by 2 runs. Man of the match: Ghulam Humayun of Lahore Badshah.
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Ahmad Al Harthy set for six-hour night race
MUSCAT: Podium finishing Pro-Am Blancpain Endurance Cup racer Ahmad Al Harthy is relish-ing his return to action when the 2016 season resumes in France on Saturday, where the second longest challenge of the cam-paign awaits — the six hour Paul Ricard 1000km.
Still buoyed by the superb maiden Pro-Am podium the Mus-cat driver and Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase team-mates Jonny Adam and Devon Modell achieved five weeks ago at Silverstone in the UK, they are now ready to try and do it all again a few days from now.
At six hours in duration, the Paul Ricard encounter will be double the length of the Silver-stone race last time out and, no-tably, it will also be contested through the evening and into the night – starting at 18.00 local time and finishing at midnight.
Offering twice the challenge of the opening two events of the Blancpain Endurance Cup sea-son, this weekend’s race meeting will also act as excellent prepara-tion for the biggest event of the campaign, the blue riband twice-round-the-clock Total 24 Hours of Spa which takes place in July.
“Everyone at the team is really looking forward to being back in action this weekend, it’s been a long break since Silverstone and so we’re all hungry to be back out in the car”, said Ahmad, “Tak-ing the podium there really was a dream result for us, all of us have worked so hard to be in this posi-tion and we plan to be every bit as
competitive at Paul Ricard.“So much can happen in a six-
hour race, of course, but if all of the preparations go smoothly and we can have a trouble-free quali-fying then I’m sure we’ll be in good shape for the race. I know Jonny and Devon are looking forward to the challenge as much as I am, it should be a fantastic event.”
Going into round three of the Blancpain Endurance Cup sea-son, Ahmad – who is supported by a prestigious portfolio of spon-sors including Oman Ministry of Sports Affairs, Oman Air, Nation-al Bank of Oman (NBO), Barr Al Jissah and Omantel – is second in the Pro-Am championship.
After an outstanding perfor-mance at the wheel of the Oman Racing Team’s No.44 Aston Mar-tin V12 Vantage GT3 during round one at Monza in April, Ahmad just missed out on podium success with a top four Pro-Am finish.
Silverstone, though, marked the
real breakthrough in the globe’s premier GT racing champion-ship for the Aston Martin Middle East and North Africa ambassa-dor who, with Adam and Modell, wasn’t very far away at all from actually winning the class.
On Friday, June 24, the opening Bronze test session at Paul Ricard will begin at 10.00 (local time) with free practice following at 14.10 (lo-cal time). Pre-Qualifying will then get underway at 17.05 (local time). Final qualifying is scheduled to commence at 09.45 (local time) on June 25 (Saturday), with the six hour 1000km starting at 18.00 (local time).
2016 Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am Driver Standings (after Round 2): 2nd Ahmad Al Harthy/Jonny Adam/Devon Modell, 30pts
2016 Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am Team Standings (after Round 2): 2nd Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase, 30pts.
Still buoyed by the
superb maiden
Pro-Am podium
the Muscat driver
and Oman Racing
Team powered by
Motorbase team-
mates Jonny Adam
and Devon Modell
achieved five weeks
ago at Silverstone in
the UK, they are now
ready to try and do it
all again a few days
from now
It’s been a long break
since Silverstone and
so we’re all hungry to
be back out in the car.
We are looking forward
to the weekend
Ahmad Al HarthyOman Racing Team
Russians, Kenyans to face evaluation for Rio spots
LAUSANNE: Every competitor from Russia and Kenya expecting to take part in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will have to be evalu-ated individually for doping and be cleared by their sports’s in-ternational body, Olympic chief Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.
The special measure was being introduced, Bach said, because of the unsatisfactory record of the anti-doping bodies in the two countries, which Bach said had put “very serious doubts on the presumption of innocence” of the athletes.
Russian track and field athletes remain suspended from Rio after the International Olympic Com-mittee (IOC) approved a blanket ban on them - extended on Fri-day by world athletics’ governing body - for systemic doping.
Kenyan athletes are not banned. But their country’s anti-doping structures are judged not to have been compliant with in-ternational standards.
But IOC President Bach, speaking at the end of a doping summit, gave a limited number of Russian athletes a chance to race for their country in Brazil despite a ban.
He said any Russian athlete cleared by the world athletics body IAAF or the Court of Ar-bitration for Sport as clean and eligible could compete under the Russian flag.
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) chief Aleksander Zhukov, meanwhile, said clean Russian athletes would appeal the “legally indefensible” ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. — Reuters
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OFA fixes wages for League playersMUSCAT: Oman Football As-sociation in a new circular be-fore the fresh league season has stressed full compliance of the clubs with advance of contracts and wages of Omani players who are fully devoted to play for their teams. Article Two of OFA Board decision stipulated OMR300 as the minimum advance of the contract for Professional League players for the season and OMR 12000 (max).
For First Division OMR 150 will be the minimum advance of the contract and RO 3000 (max).
Division Two will have OMR 70 as the minimum advance for the contract and the maximum will be OMR 1750. Meanwhile, the monthly wage according to OFA Board will be a minimum of OMR
60 and a maximum of OMR 720 for Professional League players.
For First Division, the mini-mum wage will be OMR35 and maximum of OMR 300 and it will be OMR 35 (minimum) and OMR 280 (maximum) for Sec-ond Division players.
Under-16 campThe Oman U-16 Team Recently held a camp in Muscat in lieu of preparations for the Asian U-16 Championships, to be held in In-dia this September.
The players were tested as preparations for the best possible outcome at the upcoming Asian Championships continue with coach Yaqoub Al Sabbahi ensur-ing there is no stone unturned before the tournament.
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Istanbul or Indonesia? Malaysia or Maldives? The holiday possibilities during Ramadan or at the end of the Holy Month seem endless, as far as the options available are concerned. Many prefer short break destina-tions which can be reached within
five hours of flight. But some others, who had planned it much earlier, will add up the leave days and go for a much longer holiday. Since the schools are closed, most of the holiday makers are in the mood of an over-seas family outing.
But finalising a package at an affordable price takes research and planning because during Eid holidays, usually we see airfares rise and availability plummets, according to Rajeev Thomas, Assistant Manager — Holi-days, Eihab Travels LLC, a local tour opera-tor. Experts in the holiday travel field say that this is a great time to pick a deal because many firms are able to offer plane tickets and accommodation for the same price as an economy airfare alone if booked separately.
During Ramadan and Eid, many of the GCC travellers prefer to fly to Istanbul, where the destination offers a traditional but
modern way of living plus a great Islamic and cultural background to explore during the Holy Month. Other destinations most of the residents prefer are Bangkok, Malaysia, and the increasingly popular resorts of the Mal-dives. None of these destinations will offer much respite from the heat, but, compared to Europe, which offers cooler climes, these op-tions are less expensive. The end of Ramadan is expected to bring an exodus of high-end travellers to places like Berlin, Paris, and Zu-rich, with travellers keen to take advantage of the school break.
However, one major factor dampening the Europe holiday travel plan is the non-availa-bility of visa appointments in the concerned embassies. “Till August, the visa appoint-ment is full in most of the embassies. For a four-member family, each one has to get an appointment for visa if they want to travel to a European country,” said Rajeev.
According to travel agents and tour op-erators, owing to the instability on job front and the other financial and economic fac-tors, majority of the holiday enquiries are coming from citizens than expatriates this year. Many have cut down their travel
budget and decided on travelling to the lo-cal destinations like Salalah. “This may be a reason in the overall dip in the enquiries this year than last year,” said Rajeev. Due to the online visa complications, many of the residents who prefer to go to Dubai also put aside their travel plans.
There are still some great deals on air-fares during Ramadan and over Eid, so shop around using price comparison websites to do the mousework for you. Also there are some good deals on offer from the tour mar-ket in Oman. You need not spend hours wait-ing for connections with obscure airlines to save money. Many airlines like Oman Air and Emirates, for example, are having good holiday deals on offer.
“A number of destinations are proving popular, including Istanbul, Far East and Europe routes, with Switzerland in particular demand. With such great demand on Eid geta-way flights, we advise passengers to book early at the lowest fares,” Rajeev added.
So, book now and discover somewhere new – there’s really no excuse to stay at home.
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FOR RENT
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DAILY GUIDE
*Tourist visa arranged
Spacious 4BHK with split A/C’S, 4
bathrooms & storeroom, near Church
roundabout, Mumtaz area.
Rent:R.O 575, Contact:99349672
Office for rent in Al Ansab near
bank Muscat. Contact: 99466173
3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.
18 November Street. Near Mars
Hypermarket and The Chedi.
Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or
Residential use. OMR 295/- month.
Call 94477222
Room for rent one bed room with
separate toilet Qurum, Mars hyper
market building.
Content: 96570147
Shop / office at MBD behind spar
for rent 325/-. Contact: 95818923
1 BHK near Oman house Muttrah.
Contact: 99233116
Shop for good location on main
road behind whole sale Al Amerat
Space 11 MT long, 4 MT wide. Con-
tact: 92877449
I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O.
175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/
Very big sitting area/ kitchen
- Villa 1st floor with A/C at Al
Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.
R.O 360/-For families. Contact:
94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm.
Email – [email protected]
Room with attached bathroom,
sharing, kitchen for executive
bachelor / lady or couple in Wadi
Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid, Please
Contact: 96510226/98404827
2 BHK flat at Darsait behind KIMS
hospital. Contact: 92141514
1BHK new bldg with A/C curtains
near Khimji mart MBD.
Contact: 99061408/99024039
1000 Sqmtrs industrial land for
rent in Ghala suitable for ware-
house workshop etc.
Contact 24700120 /92584715
2 Bed rooms flat with hall,
2 bathrooms in Darsait near Mus-
cat Municipality.
Contact: 92584715/ 24700120
Villa for rent at Azaiba, near al
Meera hypermarket. 4 Bedrooms,
3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room and
dining room. This will include
curtains and air conditioners.
Sharing is allowed ro.500/-.
Please call 99469203
2 Bed room, 2 bath room, 1 hall and
kitchen behind Bank Muscat for
rent. Contact: 99313533
New 1 & 3 BHK flat in Wadi Kabir.
Contact: 99792181
New flats for rent Muscat
Al Zafarania, split units AC , all
rooms & bed room R.O 200/-,
3 bedroom R.O 300/- negotiable.
Contact: 93393755
Running fabrication workshop
with area of 3000 sq. mtrs in Barka
Industrial Estate for rent.
Contact 99356748
1 BHK fully furnish flat in Hamriya
for short terms. Contact – 99792181
1 BHK flat in Al Khuwair for
2 months. Contact – 99792181
1 Room for sharing accommoda-
tion in Al Khuwair.
Contact - 99792181
3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommoda-
tion in Al Khuwair.
Contact - 99792181
Flats for rent near Indian school in
Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122
Room for rent with sharing, kitch-
en in Al Khuwair behind Burger
King. Contact: 92994415
House in Darsait, 3 rooms,
1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C.
Contact: 95522405
New villa for rent Al Hail north
neat to Ramez near to Main road
open sitting room with washing
area 3 family hall, dining room
, kitchen with store , laundry
5 BR with bathrooms. Contact:
93387732 / 99259977
2 BHK sea view flat Darsait.
Contact: 95311488
2 BHK 1 hall & seating room
Athaibah. Contact: 99224748 /
99425665
Flats in Darsait. Contact 94051789 / 97201688
2 BHK at Mawalah north near
Masjid Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact: 99224748/99332297
5 rooms 2 hall villa, 18th Nov.
Road North Azaiba. Contact:
99224748 / 99332297
Single room flat near Jibroo
roundabout on Road Muttrah:
99373290, 24815012
2 BHK specious flat behind Bank
Muscat Wadi Kabir near Indian
School: 99373290, 24815012
Double bedroom flats and shops
available in Honda road, Ruwi
and Mabela. Please contact-
24833972/24833974 -99367448
Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room,
hall. Contact: 90991079
Flat for rent in Al Qurum, 3 rooms &
hall. Contact: 91763660
Flats in Muttrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Flats for rent in Mumtaz,
2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352
building no. 3447 & 3668.
Contact: 90991079
Two bedrooms flat behind Ger-
man Embassy near to Al Nahda
Hospital. Contact: 99209354
Flat for rent 2 BHK in Darsait
North near Indian School about
200 mtrs, rent RO 300/-.
Contact: 94101134
Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm
show rooms for rent 400/- R.O.
Contact: 99879939
Fully Furnished apartments in
Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 /
97201688
Offices and flats in Ghala.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789
/ 97201688
Flats in Ghobrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Brand new villas in Al Ansab.
Contact 94051789-97201688
Flats in Al khuwair. Contact
94051789-97201688
Villa in Al Khuwair, 6 rooms,
living room & hall.
Contact: 91153933
Flat for rent in Darsait 1BHK.
Contact: 99357586 / 97500025 /
97500021
Villa for rent at Azaiba, near Al
Meera hypermarket, 4 bedrooms,
3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room
and dining room, this will include
curtains and air conditioners.
RO 520/-. Contact 99469203
2000 sqft land with p/cabin,
toilets at YETI. Contact 99221683
/ 92830110
2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly
& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly
new building good location Barka
Market. contact 99342661
Flats, shops & store for rent in
MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.
Contact: 97293708 / 92433127
3 BHK flat at Azaiba, Opp. Sultan
Centre. Contact 99261522
Shop for rent at Wadi Kabir Indus-
trial area. Contact: 99888390
For rent New flats at Darsait
Al Sahail. Contact: 99777351
Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah
3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen
rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580
Villa for rent in Al Khoud, 6 rooms,
hall. Contact: 91763665
1 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury
Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 2
B/R Fully Furnished Luxury
Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 4
B/R Unfurnished Apartment with
attached Split A/C @ Azaiba. For
Short Term or Long Term lease.
Contact: Atlas Real Estate & Rent A
Car LLC : 99249069 / 94617563/
99436312/ 92888376,
Email: [email protected]
Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall
4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3
floor 400. Contact 99420346
Deluxe two bedroom flat at
Mumtaz area, two bathrooms, good
size living/dining room, modern
kitchen and a guest bathroom.
Contact 99310375
1 BHK near medical Darsait, Mut-
trah house R.O 180/-
. Contact: 95076261
2 Bedroom villa with hall , 2 toilets ,
parking in Mawalah near City Center
, 1 bedroom ,1 toilets , Kitchen & hall.
Contact: 93930352
Villa for rent in South Mabellah,
3 bedrooms, sitting room, family
Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact
92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.
Ruwi office space for rent,
Saravana Bhava Building.
Contact: 95729549
2 BHK with Split A/C in MSQ, Bareeq
Al Shatti, Al Ghobrah near Indian
school. Content: 96708000
1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu
Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense)
Contact: 93202733 / 94771769
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2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir behind
Pioneer Hotel apartment.
Contact: 99857332 /99261522
Rent flat near Ruwi Badar Al
Sama, 2 bed rooms, attach bath-
room, big hall, and big kitchen.
Contact - 99345137
Rent flat in Wada Adai, one bed
room with toilet, big kitchen, hall
with A/C. Contact 99345137
3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in
Misfah. Contact 99792181
Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33.
Contact: 92277419
2 bed rooms flat with hall,
2 bathrooms in Darsait near
Muscat Municipality.
Contact: 92584715/ 24700120
Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,
2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti
Masjid. Contact: 97007934 /
92629232
2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank
Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.
97826454, 24815012.
House in North Al Hail with 3
rooms, living room, hall, 4 toilets
300 RO. Contact 99738881 /
99439568
Plot at Barka next to Germany 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
1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat
Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh
near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
Villa for rent in Al Ghubrah,
5 rooms, hall. Contact: 91763665
Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms
& hall. Contact: 917633665
2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah
near Oman House.
Contact: 97007934 / 92629232
FOR SALE
LOST
CHANGE OF NAME
Dental chairs for sale sparingly
used dental units for sale.
Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.
Kumar 99570284
Laundry / empty shop near
Camellia Café, CBD, Ruwi.
Contact: 92868123 /92841089
Tender Board Construction Com-
pany for lease / Run.
Contact: 92868123 / 92841089
HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering
Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering
wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),
Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,
Steel Fabrication Machinery
(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)
including tools for immediate sale:
Contact 99273774/ 99202278
Family restaurant for sale in Heart
of Wadi Kabir party hall for 120 pp.
Contact: 99321792
3 BHK flats for sale/ rent at Greater
Muttrah, Dar AL Maha.
Contact 99321792
Luxury Apartments in Boucher
(35) / Ghala / Qurum. Contact
95056808 / 97201688
Shop for sale opp Towell Service
Center, Wadi Kabir.
Contact 99221683
Shop for sale near Oman House,
Muttrah. Contact 99024362.
1No brand new containerized
package type STP 100 m3/ day
with blower equipments (suitable
for camps). Serious Buyers may.
Contact: 99445367
Book Shop in a busy shopping
mall for sale, interested parties
please contact 99851255
Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale
at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /
What`s up No 97290565
Steel Scrap materials for im-
mediate sale. Contact: 99273774/
99202278
Space for printing press available
at wadikabir with or without
machinery. Contact 99328430
Warehouse at Wadikabir - total
area 3500 sqm - covered ware-
house (500sqm), office, ac-
commodation (1000sqm), open
area (2000sqm) please contact:
99273774 - 99202278
1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,
2 bedrooms , sharing K& T
R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.
Contact 95154331
Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
02 BHK residential flat opposite
to Al Nahdha hospital.
Contact: 99342733 /99795241
Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM
muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate
Tel : 00 968 95158570
Labor Camp available with all
facilities near Sohar Port.
Contact: 98050654 / 99015826
5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair,
for Staff Accommodation.
Contact 99792181
2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair &
Ghubra. Contact 99792181
1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small
store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.
Contact 99792181
4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.
Contact 99792181
Furnished office (61M2) for sale
/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi
Mosque. Contact: 95611569
FORRENTContact
96177505
In MSQ. Near ABA school one villa for rent 6 rooms
+ 4 bathrooms+ house maid room +AC split unit + swimming pool
One fl at in CBD 2 bedrooms + sitting room + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen
One fl at in Qurum 29 – two rooms + AC split unit + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen
In Al Hail one offi ce space – (Near Main Road) one room attach with bathroom and kitchen.
FOR SALESHUTTERING
PLYWOOD
SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM
GSM:92835445,93205253,93205423
*Classified Advertisement space booking with text,
should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication.
* Subject to space availability
ACC. AVAILABLE
BUYING
Used office house furniture
& electronic items. Contact:
99834373 / 96642500
Bobcat available for rent.
Contact 97623299
Buying cars for cash.
Contact 90202090
2 BHK available Mumtaz area
Ruwi. Contact: 99269751
Fully furnished room available
for executive bachelors opp. Star
Cinema. Contact 92886715
Independent room in Qurum /
Hail. Contact: 96229522
Room, bath room for executives in
Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206
Separate entrance attach bath for
exertive bachelor.
Contact: 93231403 /93324458
Sharing accommodation
(furnished & with A/C) with kitchen
facility available near Al Falaj hotel
in Ruwi. Contact 92704439
Furnished apartment for rent,
two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.
Near Carrefour al-mawalah.
Contact 99336776
One room available in 2BHK in Al
Falaj area for Executive bachelor
only. Contact 99131742.
Furnished room attached bath
for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj
Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near
Mars hypermarket. Contact:
96202458/96761960
Furnish bedroom with attach
bathroom for executive bachelor.
Contact: 97704794
1 BHK appartment for rent in
Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon
mosque for rent (next to alkhoud
medical center and squ)
MOB: 93913224
Room with attached bathroom
and sharing kitchen available for
Executive bachelor or small fam-
ily at wadikabir.
Contact 93049849
Sharing Accommodation avail-
able for working ladies opposite
Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably
Indians. Room with seperate toilet
and sharing kitchen.RO.90.
Contact 96524717
Sharing accommodation
near ISD. Contact: 99657340
Room for rent in Qurum attached
bathroom and kitchen.
Contact: 99664703
Emdad Ul Hague has lost Bang-
ladeshi Passport No. AA 7433986.
Finder please handover to ROP
Sultana Akter has lost Bangla-
deshi Passport No. AG 4516356.
Finder please handover to ROP
NRI
Ready to occupy just completed
3 BHK in Chennai -Pallikkaranai
:1600sqft ,builders lcs city makers
,high quality construction ,
woodwork done, part of 64 apts all
3bhk in 4 blocks gated community
with swimming pool/gym/com-
mon hall/2 car parking. Genuine
buyers call rag @99235815 or
email: [email protected]
NRI Property for Sale: 774Sq .
2 BHK flat with OC ready at Palava
City Casa Rio, Dombivili, Mumbai
Contact : 97003326, 96791085
MV SALE
Nissan Pathfinder 2013 No-2 lady
driven KM 50.000 power sterns
auto transmission power window
R.O 6500/- Contact: 99157377
Mitsubishi Outlander 2008 model
4 cylinder, 2.4lt, Metallic grey ,
135000km , excellent condition ,
expat driven , single owner Price R.O
3.500/- Neg. Contact: 99330486
Mazda 6, model 2005, company
maintained excellent condition.
Price RO 1250/- Mazda 2, model 2014, 45,000km, for sale.
Price RO 2950/- Call: 95244761
Mazda6, 2.5L (classic model,
2014) expat driven, excellent
condition , 80.000km , mulkiya till
march 2017, RO 5.700 ( Negotia-
ble). Contact: 99415861
Toyota Prado, 2009 model,
6 cylinder, single expat owner
used, white pearl color, km 287k
Contact- 99318152
2 No 40 feet flat trailers 50 Ton
capacity with grill prime movers
Volvo 97 & Mercedes 9.
Contact: 99454425
Mazda Cx 9 (2013 model) 89,000
KM and Geely Emgrad (2015
model) 24,000 KM. Both cars in
excellent condition, single owner,
company serviced. Please call
94194071 (Pradeep)
for immediate sale
Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive
Insurance UAE / Oman.
Contact: 96995430
Prado 2011. Contact: 99336093
Furnished office at Ruwi near
Sheraton Hotel. Contact: 93993897
Almost new beach/ garden
lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.
Photos can be sent 95865457
Villa for sale in Mabela 6 rooms, liv-
ing room & hall. Contact: 91763665
Shop for sale at Ruwi high street.
Contact: 98787853
Urgent sale of steel scrap only
serious buyers kindly contact
+968 96725423 for viewing the
items.
WANTED
Partner / investor 20% - 30%
share transfer running building
construction company.
Contact: 93163157
Urgently required looking to
immediately buy used Grit blasting
& airless spray equipment 1 No each.
Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772
/ 93203773 / 93203778
IELTS Coaching (academic)
required nearby wadi Kabir area.
Please call on mobile or msg on
Whats up.
Mobile # 92927880/99012165
MATRIMONIAL
Maternal uncle of Indian Sunni
Muslim girl aged 21, beautiful, tall
and pursuing M.Sc, Urdu speaking
hailing from Chennai seeks suit-
able alliance. Contact: 97047811
Christian divorce, male 40.
Contact by Whatsapp: 91346321
Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy
from Mumbai, ACCA working as
a senior accountant in Muscat,
seeks alliance from an Indian
Sunni Muslim family. Contact
no. (Parent): 96408642 email id:
Nair boy, MBA, 28/173 cm, Rohini,
Pathanamthitta (district) working
in Oman, seeks suitable alliances,
Contact: 93722512/90651920
Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,
star Magham, B. Tech aeronauti-
cal, administrative professional,
parents in Oman, native Aluva
(ekm). Mob-99550870
Parent of Thrissur based Hindu
Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham
star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-
ing alliance from well employed
Graduates, preferably in Engineer-
ing Contact :96425102
Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,
Star Magham, B-Tech Aeronauti-
cal, administrative professional,
parents in Oman, native Aluva
(Ekm). Contact 99550870
Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.
Seeks suitable alliance from
widow/ divorcee/ single.
Contact 96059801.
Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in
Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites
parents/nurses working in Oman.
Contact 968 98267338,
0091 9287215726
I SURAJ (holder of Indian Passport
No. N2789365) son of/daughter
of SATYARAHAN SREEDHARAN
having permanent residence in
102, SHEETALNATH APPART-
MENT, SILICON CITY INDORE MP
INDIA (complete postal address
in India) and presently resid-
ing in FLAT No 14, BUILDING No
2934, WAY No 3933, AL Khuwair,
BEHIND RADISON BLU MUSCAT
OMAN (complete postal address in
Oman) intend to change my name
from SURAJ (old name) to SURAJ
SATHYARAJAN (new name) for all
practical purposes. Any objec-
tion towards my name change
may please be communicated to
Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplo-
matic Quarters, AI Khuwair,
P. Box No1727,Postal Code 112,
Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.
Room available in Mumtaz area
1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen &
1 room, common bathroom.
Interested pleasecontact
92680041 Mr. Altaf
Room with attached bathroom for
a family in Wadi Kabir. Contact:
97167857
Room available for Executive
bachelor at Al Hail.
Contact 96234708
ACC. WANTED
Urgently required Villa with 8
rooms near Bausher/Ghala/Al
Ansab area for accommodation of
Staff from a reputed company in
Oman. Interested party may
contact - Mr. Pramith 99694150
Accommodation Wanted for an
Executive Bachelor, Single Flat /
Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir. Pls call:
93883674 / 98103169
ACC. AVAILABLE
DAILY GUIDED4 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
DRIVER
MANAGER/ SUPERVI-
DESIGNER
DESIGNER
MISCELLANEOUS
ENGI./TECH./MECH.
ACCOUNTS
CATERING
BEAUTICIAN
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
DOMESTIC HELPER
ARCHITECT
MEDICAL
MEDICAL
IT
Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-
ence in road construction field).
Contact: 99882127
Email: [email protected]
Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company
with minimum 2 years experience.
Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,
Email: [email protected] maid cooking cleaning
experienced with babies required
immediately. Contact: 95584060 /
98920399
House maid for Omani family.
Contact: 99773100
Required candidates for following
posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving
license preferred.
Contact 99273774/99202278
Fabrication Engineer to run fab-
rication workshop on commission
basis. Email: [email protected]
Testing / Protection Engineer with minimum 05 years of experi-
ence and should have Oman DCRP
license, Interested candidates send
resume to [email protected]
Qualified and experience Technician required for the kitch-
en restaurant equipments. Who
can repair hot and cold equip-
ments will be preferred. Contact:
Email: [email protected] /
Fax: 24727481
Electrician with qualification and
experience. Contact:
Email: [email protected] /
Fax: 24727481
CCTV & Burglar alarm Techni-cian. Urgently looking for an
Expatriate with minimum 5 years
experience with NOC. Email your
CV with recent Photograph to:
Urgently required Pharmacist for a Pharmacy in Barka.
Contact: 99452755
Urgently required experienced female Lab Technician, with knowl-
edge of histopathology & cytology,
with MOH release, for a well-known
laboratory in Al Khuwair.
Contact: 95271561/98893034
Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately
for a clinic in Suwaiq.
Contact 95081010
Email: [email protected]
Required GP Doctors, gynecology, X ray tech staff nurses. Contact: 99681325 Email:
SALES / MARKETING
Advertising & interior company required Sales Executive with
driving /L send CV to
Urgent Required, Outdoor sales 3-5 years of experience in spare
part. - Store Keeper 2 years experience. -Accountant 2-3 years experience.-4 Store labors. All Candidates should be Indian,
English speakers. NOC is a must.
Email: Muscat.supply13@gmail.
com Fax: 24504723
Require Salesman with D/L for
construction, Ind materials,
hydraulic hoses & fittings.
Contact 99221683 / 92830110
Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive hav-
ing 2-3 years sales experience for
a reputed manufacturing company
in Oman, having its Head Office in
Ruwi. Experience in building mate-
rials is an added advantage. Omani
Driving License and NOC is a must.
Attractive remuneration package.
Apply with photograph to
E-mail: [email protected]
Required female person to work
at the retail shop/Marketing.
Please send your CV on e mail:
Urgently required south Indian cooks with NOC, having suitable
experienced. Contact: 94268319
/97408945
Email: [email protected]
Shawarma / grill / Salad / Chi-nese, Cook. Contact: 96229522
Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970
WANTED Female Gynaecologist,
Female GP- Two Female Staff Nurse (From India or Pilipino)and One
Female Dental Assist and
Female Lab Technician. With MOH Licence and Data Flow for
Al Saadi Specilised Medical Centre, Musanna.Contact # 92025033,
Email : [email protected]
A leading cosmetic company in
Muscat is looking for an
Accountant – Email: us on
An Omani Audit firm is seeking audit partner to join the firm, the
candidate should be completed any
certificate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC,
and 4 years’ experience, interested
candidates to submit their CVs to :
Sudanese GLS Analyst hold mas-
ter in RS & GLS Resident have an
experience in accounting & store
management. Contact: 97943738
Indian 20 years well experienced
accounts & finance professional
looking for immediate placement
NOC available. Contact: 94546455
Email: [email protected]
Young Indian male (25) with
B.Com degree on visit visa with
D/L and N.O.C for simple opportu-
nities preferably in accounting.
Contact : 96324484
7 Years experience as Financial
Analyst, MBA in finance. Respon-
sibilities- research contributor,
financial statement analysis,
generating MIS & efficiency report,
managing TAT, business & clients.
On visit visa in Muscat.
Contact- 90191628 / 96175780
Part Time Accounting, Audit
Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly
Reports, Accounting set up for new
companies, GSM: 96975454,
email: [email protected]
Chief Accountant, well experienced available.
Contact: 95598477
Indian male 43 yrs accountant
presently on tourist visa looking
for suitable placement in a com-
pany 18yrs experience in manag-
ing finance in Indian and abroad.
Contact: 90190648
Part time accounting workers up
to finalization, on monthly basis &
yearly finalization works.
Contact : 96247295
ACCA qualified professional lady with 5 years experience in finance
management accounts is looking
for a suitable placement NOC can
be Contact: 94521899
Accountant Indian male, 6 years
experience up to finalization in tally
with reporting knowledge & good
knowledge of payroll, having Oman
D/L, NOC. Contact: 92540313
Accountant , female , 1 &half
years experience up to finalization
in tally, good knowledge in report-
ing, pursuing ACCA, valid D/L.
Contact: 95373751
28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -
Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/
India experience looking for a
suitable placement.
Contact 90187483
Construction Company looking for Architect with experience in
Oman. Contact 97192707
Urgently required a Gulf experi-enced professional hair dresser cum beautician (lady) for a
reputed beauty salon. Immediate
appointment. Contact: 99816262
/ 98557585 Fax: 24796211 Email:
Beauty salon needs lady for
henna. Contact: 93336061
Indian male Accountant 2.5 years
exp in Oman with valid D/L NOC
available. Contact: 98870112
Accountant Having 5 Years expe-
rience in reputed companies.
Currently working in Muscat
(NOC AVAILABLE) GSM.91367217
Email [email protected]
Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experi-
ence, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting,
ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing
with auditors. NOC available.
Contact: 92254691/97826674
email: [email protected]
Indian male 27 yrs, MBA finance
with 4 years experience currently
in Muscat on visit visa seeking
suitable placement in finance /
admin. Contact: 90921724
Indian (Male) having 17+years
Experience in Trading & Health-
care seeking senior Position in
Accounts (11 years GCC Experi-
ence)currently on Resident Visa
(NOC Available) and has a valid
Omani Driving Licence. Contact:
91335026; [email protected]
ADMIN
ACCOUNTANT-
PART TIME
Qualifi ed Person (Female/Male) on a part time basis is required to audit, supervise
and complete all accounts work up to fi nalization on a day- to-day basis. Th e location is near
Oman House-Mutt rah. Apply to
Indian male age 26, Accountant
one year experience in accounts
looking for suitable job. Contact -
Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.
Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415
Qualified and experienced MBA
post graduate with proven work
exposure in Middle East & India,
having more than 5.5 years of rich
experience in accounts , project
coordination and administration in
(3.5 years UAE experience) oil and
gas projects is currently looking for
suitable job. Contact 93953613,
Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in
commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in
accounts/ finance field. On visit
visa. Immediately available.
Contact 92836216 /
Indian male 31 chartered Accountant having 2 years Oman
experience looking for suitable
placement in finance and audit
field NOC available.
Contact: 96357827 Email:
Customer Service Executive, for
immediate employment we are
looking for a Filipino male with
a minimum experience of one
year or more in customer support.
Candidate should be well versed
in English with good computer
knowledge. Please send your CV
to info@venusinternationalgroup.
com or contact us on: 99189303
Urgently required a Graphic designer with 2 years experience
in graphic designing, Photoshop,
illustrator. Send CV to
email: [email protected]
GP doctor needed for reputed clin-
ic. Preferably with MOH license or
with Dataflow & Paramatics pass
Contact: 95388934
Orthodontist for Dental Center in Muscat, Specialist Endodontist & General Dentist with MOH license
from Oman. Nurses & Marketing
female Executive. Contact:
Accountant available with NOC,
7 years experience in Oman.
Ready to join immediately.
Contact 98263394
Well experienced Account M.Com
available with NOC, Tally & ERP.
Contact : 99035707
Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs
experience in MNC’s currently in
Muscat seeking suitable place-
ment in Finance / Admin.
Contact: 94743790
Indian male 34 yrs, M.Com –
Finance with 5 yrs experience in
Accounts in India, presently in
visiting visa looking for a suitable
placement. Contact: 93671785
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA
Finance and marketing with IT
skills, 7+ yrs of experience,
Looking for suitable placement.
contact 94879615,Email-
Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria
University Graduate bachelor of
commerce Diploma of Marketing
professional photographer worked
in PR and social media for 2 years
looking for a job in public relations
media, social media or marketing.
Contact: 96976240
ACCA member with 6 yrs of experi-
ence in Oman looking for a suitable
job in finance. Contact: 99284193
Accountant 8Years Experience
with D/L and NOC.
Contact 97712084
Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE,
Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for
a suitable job in Accounts, Store
Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to join as
early as possible.
Contact: 96988923
email:- [email protected]
ACCOUNTANT-
PART TIME
Qualifi ed Person (Female/Male) on a part time basis is required to audit, supervise
and complete all accounts work up to fi nalization on a day- to-day basis. Th e location is near
Oman House-Mutt rah. Apply to
Branch Manger required to
manage entire Business.
[email protected] 99110080
Urgently required a Purchase Manager to handle all the procure-
ments for a reputed Ready-mix
concrete Company, having its
branches all over Oman. The
candidate should possess required
experience, product knowledge
and excellent communication
skills. Interested candidates may
send their CV to sndakshin@gmail.
com / Contact: 99256757
Required urgently driver, experience Omani or expat drivers
with P.D.O. license.
Contact: 98242478
Looking for a full time driver with
valid Omani license.
Contact: 95454033
Required marketing / PR manag-
er for a modern restaurant group
in Oman , proficient in illustrator &
Photoshop charismatic , proac-
tive , creative & flexible excellent
writing / Editing skills degree in
relevant area fluent in English.
Send CV to
A new Sanitary ware Company looking for a Salesman who has
experience in Oman markets not
than 5 years. Send C.V :
TOURS/ TRAVEL
Ticketing assistant, for immediate employment we are looking for a
Filipino male good knowledge of computers and communication skills
our travel agency in Ruwi, Please send your CV to
URGENTLY REQUIREDBuildings construction
qualifi ed & experienced male Projects Manager
with Civil Engineering B.SC & quantity survey knowledge 10- 15 years experience. For a Muscat based well known
construction company. Email - [email protected]
Fax - 24479675
Advertising and signboard making company required fresh
or experience graphic designer send CV to info@agloenterprises.
com
Care Medical Centre Al Seeb
requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:
Wanted Staff Nurse for
a dermatology clinic in Muscat .
Must have MOH license and NOC.
Attractive salary offered. Email:
Indian/ 23yrs female/ 5yrs GCC
experience with NOC looking for a
suitable position in HR/Admin
/ Accounts/ BD. #+96890656997
Indian female with nearly 10
years of Oman experience in
Administration & HR, seeking suit-
able placement. NOC available.
Contact: 99242841
Filipino HRD especialist / material
controller supervisor with 18 yrs
experience looking for suitable job
in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142
/ (+968) 92659817
Indian Male MBA (UK), 9 years experience in Dubai/London/Mumbai in Management Consulting,
Sales & Marketing, Business Development for Real Estate/Banking
seeks similar placement with D/L.
Contact: 95168205
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 D5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
EDUCATION/TRAININGARCHITECT
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
HOSPITALITY
IT
Mechanical Engineer with one year’s
experience as Asst. Piping Engineer
having good knowledge of PIPING
DESIGNS, PDMS, SP3D, AUTOCAD,
PRO-ENGINEER WILDFIRE, DS
CATIA, JAVA SCRIPTS etc, looking
for suitable opportunity. Contact:
+968-99200724/24496072.
Diploma Civil Engineering (cer-
tificate attested) 6 years Oman
experience as interior work site in
charge / quantity surveyor NOC/
Release available.
Contact: 93120433
Civil Engr. Diploma 8 yrs exp in
construction & consultancy with
auto cad. D/L.Contact: 93060770
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer, Indian male 4
Years experience in Oman & India.
Looking for Permanent Placement
in Oman. NOC Available, Contact:
+96895984661,+96891455949
Civil Quantity Surveyor with 3yr
UAE experience seeking job.
UAE driving license holder.
Email: [email protected]
+96895641991; +971557969671
Electrical Engineer 5 years
experience substations oil & Gas
water projects fluency in Arabic &
English & English driving license
available. Contact: 99525856
Mechanical Engineer 7 years
experience plumbing firefighting
water pipeline projects fluency in
Arabic and English driving license
available. Contact: 91117089
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job 4 years experience
currently working in Muscat, NOC
available. Contact: 99823368
B.Tech Civil Engineer 2 years
experience on visit seeks urgent
placement. Contact: 98233199
Electronics & telecommunication
BE Indian male having skills in
electronics communication, net-
working , embedded having 2 years
experience looking for suitable po-
sition available in Oman on family
visit visa. Contact: 93051918 Email:
Civil Engineer (QS) 2 yrs exp
seeking job UAE D/L.
Contact: +96895641991
Indian male, Structural Engineer
looking for job in structural design
field. Having 6 years of experience
in design field. Residing in Muscat.
Contact: 91176187
Email: [email protected]
B.Sc Civil Engineer 7 years gulf
experience total experience 9 years
having GCC D/L seeking for suitable
replacement local release available.
Contact: 98628515/ 98289234
Email: [email protected]
B.E Electrical Engineer, Age 28 yrs.
5.5 yrs experience. 2 yrs in OMAN
as site supervisor/ site engineer,
with valid GCC license. NOC avail-
able. Contact: 95527936
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp
seeks suitable position ina reputed
company. NOC available.
Contact 96789711
Indian male 24 years dynamic &
professional B.Tech (Mech. Engg)
with 1 year experience working
on BPCL project in India seeks
opening for suitable post, currently
in Oman. Contact: 93672286 /
97772272
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24
with almost 1 year experience as
Production Shift Engineer, has
achieved training on HVAC
Engineering design and has good
hands on software like AutoCAD
and HAP.Currently in Oman on a
visit visa, looking for a suitable
placement.Contact: 95065955
email: [email protected]
Mechanical diploma, Indian male
26, 4 years experienced MEP
supervisor seeks suitable openings
NOC / Release available.
Contact: 97901559
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, com-
missioning execution etc having
valid GCC license too looking for a
suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942
Email: [email protected]
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,(Certified in Staad
Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).
Looking for a Suitable position.
Available In Sultanate of Oman
(Muscat) on Visit Visa.
Contact 92157694. E-mail:
ADMIN
Indian mechanical supervisor (diploma) 17 yrs experience in pet-
rochemical construction (fabrica-
tion erection) in all steel structural
and mechanical jobs, on visit visa
seeks suitable placement.
Contact: 90924467
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) grad-
uate with 3 years of experience in
the fields of BMS and Low current
systems and has good knowledge
about Electronic Security Systems,
currently working in Oman, NOC
Available. Contact:-94737033/
Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech
(Post Graduate) looking for suita-
ble placement. Contact: 99576846
mail: [email protected]
Indian male Civil Engg. 11 years
experience having Omani driving
license, NOC available.
Contact: 95797286
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)
Indian male with 1 year experience
on visit visa looking for job, quali-
fication in QA-QC, HVAC& piping
engineering.
Contact: 90510800 Email:
Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years
experience marine mechanical
fitter 2 yrs experience.
Contact 93674847
Mechanical Engineer 2 years
experience as HVAC design &
drafting, CAD, MEP Engg.
Contact: 90150913
Pakistani male Diploma Civil
Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-
ing & mega projects, valid license
Oman. Contact: 98921022
Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+
yrs of exceptional exp in spear
heading strategic planning and
project management initiatives &
executing various high rise resi-
dential & commercial building as
well as roads and highway project
with proficiency in installation,
seeking a challenging position in
a dynamic organization.
Contact 96570891
8 years experience electrical
engineer have knowledge MEP
project have driving license can
join shortly. Contact: 96535204
Quantity Surveyor / Site Engineer
6 years experience in Omani have
valid driving license release avail-
able looking for immediate place-
ment. Contact: 96394948
Indian male MBA Finance & Marketing 25 yrs
having 1.9 years of experience Finance & Marketing
Contact: 95206140/ 96992013 Email:
ENGINEER With 2 years exp in Telecom sector, currently on visit visa, looking for suitable placement.
Contact : 93919943 [email protected]
Sudanese Male 35 yrs B.Sc Electronic System Engineering
with 11 yrs. Experience in Gov/Private. CISCO (CCNP-R&S) and Ethical hacking
services management.
Email: [email protected]:+97450475034
Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable
placement. Contact 99739415 /
92091528
Indian male, M.Tech Graduate in
Chemical Process Control Engi-
neering looking for lecturing jobs,
currently in Oman.
Contact : 98352288
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age
33 with 6+ years experience in
GCC in MEP building construc-
tion field (execution and design of
HVAC,firefighting,plumbing),
with D/L, NOC available
Contact 96978380,
Email: [email protected]
Construction Machinery repairs
Engineer, 5 years, driving license,
Contact - 94001961
Indian male 31yrs old with hotel
management degree,03 yrs ex-
perience in F&B services at 5 star
hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06
star cruiseliner has butler.
Has oman driving licence.
Contact No 99859150.
Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)
Indian male with 2 year experi-
ence, AREA OF INTEREST
Work on Oil Rigs, Work as an QA/
QC inspector, Ultrasonic testing,
Radiographic testing.
Contact: +91 9567526566
Email: [email protected]
Architectural Draftsmen diploma
in construction technology with 6
years experience in drafting and
detailing as per British standard
in Oman with valid Omani license
looking for suitable opportunity
Noc available. Call 94375897.
Autocad works freelance, MEP, Civil
works, Interior, 2d/3d, BOQ etc.
Contact 97103168
Revit, Autocad D/man, expected
salary 200 OMR PH :92279784
Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD
Draftsman with 20 years profes-
sional experience is looking for suit-
able job in Oman. Please Contact:
96489798, (+974) 66653780.
An MBA (M Finance)With SAP erp and accounts
Standards (IAAP-UK), peach tree
experience seeks suitable placement
Gsm: +968 98103247
A O G
diploma in I
experience seeks suitable placement.
Gsm:+958 98103250
An MBA (M Finance)
SAP Business Objects / Data
Warehousing professional. 10 years
experience with top IT global com-
panies (HP and Accenture) in team
leading roles. Oman Family visa.
Looking for jobs in Muscat.
Contact: 91487199
Female, 31, B.Tech- ECE/CCNA/
GSM, 5 yrs Oman experience in IT
support (AD, exchange, TMG, UNIS
Server admin, In-house apps sup-
port, project placement, Transfer
NOC available. Contact: 95742398
Indian female MCA having 3 yrs
experience in teaching looking
for any suitable job in reputed
organic station on visit skilled in
programming language VB, JAVA
,C,C,TT & also WEB development.
Contact 90595322
Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15
yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified,
seeking suitable role.NOC Avail-
able. Contact : GSM : 90189284
Email: [email protected]
Indian female M.Sc Computer
Science seeking suitable place-
ment in Muscat area.
Contact 98660672
SAP Business Objects / Data
Warehousing professional. 10
years experience with top 5 IT
global companies (HP and Accen-
ture) in team leading roles. Oman
family visa. Looking for jobs in
Muscat. Phone: 91487199
IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years
in Oman 2 years in India.
Contact: 94672759
Indian male 4 years experience in
IT as Programmer / Web Support/
CCNA/ Network on visit visa
seeking placement.
Contact: 93069694 Email:
3 years experience in IT Software
field, seeking suitable jobs.
Contact: 96350234, Email :
Indian male 31yrs old with hotel
management degree, 3 yrs experi-
ence in F&B services at 5 star hotel
Dubai, 05 yrs in American
06 star cruise liner has butler.
Has Oman driving license.
Contact- 99859150.
Indian male diploma in hotel
management with 16 years of
experience in Oman & Saudi , hav-
ing Omani D/L seeking for suitable
placement. Contact: 92100141
/92221956
Indian female 25years M.E (power
electronics) 3years experience in
teaching profession looking for
suitable job. Contact no 97003267
& 94214909
Email: [email protected]
Chemical Engineer with MBA &
experience looking for job.
Contact: 94908977
Sr. Quantity surveyor B.Tech (Civil
Tech) above 8 years (7 years in
Oman) having driving license NOC
available. Contact: 92324791
Mechanical Engineer experience
maintenance of pumping stations
production line machinery turbine
for power plant good communica-
tions skills, planning follow up
Engineer projects HSE awareness
trained multiple design software
looking for job. Contact 949064473
/ 96654019
Civil Engineer, young Indian
having almost 2 years experience
looking for a challenging position
seeks suitable position in Oman/
GCC. Please contact 92718490,
Email ID: [email protected]
Civil Engineer with 6+ years in
Supervision designing & Q.C expert
in much civil softwares,
NOC available. Contact: 90719263
Electrical & Electronics Engr,
knows autocad & revit.
PH: 93837973
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]
Mechanical Engineer (Sudanese)
3 years experience : Fire fighting,
HSE, Design, Production.
Contact: 93642704
Email: [email protected]
Senior Land Surveyor 23 yrs Oman,
UAE & Egypt GPS, T.S
Construction roads infrastructure oil
feed electric works OHL, UGC grid ,
primary substation processing data.
Contact: 95326927 / 92928981
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (Indian male)
5 years experience in Oman with
valid Omani driving license & NOC
looking for suitable opportunity.
Contact: 93101283
Indian male B-tech 8 years experi-
ence as senior electrical project
engineer / QC engineer on visit
visa seeks suitable placement.
Contact 94094543
Email: [email protected]
Site Supervisor, Diploma in
Civil Engg (cert attested) knows
autocad revit, salary exp: 250
Ph : 92279784
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
Young Indian, Engineering in
Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and
Chemical, looking for a challenging
placement in Oman.
Contact 97607000. Email:
Mech. Engineer 10 years GCC
exp automobile / oil & gas / const
project / plant, equip machinery in
charge with driving license NOC.
Contact: 95774585
Indian Female, MBA-HR having
8+ experience in Administration/
HR, Customer Support, Office Coor-
dinator with good Computer skill,
Now on Visit Visa,looking for suit-
able position. Contact: 90196235
Indian female MBA fin & HR now
on visit visa looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 92097764
Indian female, 27, MCA, 2 yrs
experience in Administration and
HR in India & Oman. Currently in
family visa seeking suitable jobs
preferably in Muscat.
Contact.99417993
Indian female MBA / HR, 2.5
experience seeking suitable job.
Contact: 99257214
Pakistani driver with car Subaru
2004 model. Contact: 99667817
Driver with Electrician 4 years
experience looking for job.
Contact: 97456062
Pakistani driver with 3 years
experience, seeking for placement
familiar with Batinah & Sharqiyah
regions. Contact 99832706
Looking for driver job.
Contact: 99035942 /97383016
Looking for job driver. Contact: 94158238
Six years experienced light duty
vehicle driver looking for a suit-
able placement. Contact: 96362871
Driver with light duty license 10
yrs exp. Contact: 94566432
Driver with car. Contact:
93346085
13 years experience driver.
Contact 95068976
Search job for light driver, experi-
ence 3 years, language Hindi, Eng-
lish & Arabic. Contact: 92458526/
97941771
Looking for driver job (private).
Contact: 98053733
Driver with car Subaru 2008
model. Contact: 99640986
Bangladeshi driver looking for job.
Contact: 97418036
Experience driver 12 years experi-
ence in GCC, seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 93722881
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job, 8 years experience.
GSM : 96075000, Email :
Indian female diploma architect
6 years exp in Oman Engineering
consultancy, valid Oman driving
license. Contact: 96683293 /
97750870
DRIVER
DESIGNER
MISCELLANEOUS
Indian male B.com MBA 4 years in
L &T total 26 years gulf experienced
English & Arabic speaking driving li-
cense with NOC. Contact: 95588565
Sudanese 27 yrs BSC in IT having
Omani driving in resident visa
experience in Administration P.R.O
general account and tourism
language Arabic and English.
Contact: 94907717
Email: [email protected]
Indian looking for a job in the
trade 27 years of age for a friendly
college degree. Contact: 96424192
Sudanese male bachelor geology
and mining with 3 years experience
in MUD logging and training in soil
investigation. Contact: 92956848
Indian male 28yrs Bcom 3yrs
exp. in warehouse operations
(including pharmaceutical). Well
knowledge in WMS & ERP, looking
for suitable job. Ph. 95576686,
E: [email protected] (UAE visa
holder, currently in Oman)
BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).
Contact: 92475206 Email:
Indian male, 28, post graduate,
6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back
office) & credit control with valid
Oman D/L looking for suitable lace-
ments. NOC available.
Contact: 92066 523
Interior design supervisor 6 yrs
experience valid Oman license NOC /
release available.
Contact: 92508926
Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc
Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical
Microbiology & 6 months working
exp. in international crop reserch
institute of semi arid crops (ICRISAT)
Looking for suitable job.
Contact 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
MEDICAL
Indian Male with 13 Years Oman
Experience as Assistant Pharma-
cist with Valid MOH License and
Oman D/L is looking for a Suitable
Job in Muscat Area. NOC available.
Please Contact: 92121414
Sri Lankan female qualified in UK
with BSC (Hons) pharmacology
and MSC pharmaceutical science
with management studies having
one year experience in Sir Lanka,
looking suitable placement in
regulatory affairs, clinical research
/ trials, Pharmacologist, pharma-
covigilance and research.
Contact- 99550318
Indian female dentist specialized
Endodontist, looking for suitable
placement. Parametric completed.
Contact: 96410448
Senior female staff Nurse with
MOH license, over 25 years
experience in Operation Theatre,
Gynaecology, Anaesthesia, General
, Plastic and reconstructive surgery
looking for suitable opportunities
in Oman. NOC available.
Call: 92098423
Veterinary Doctor 7 years experi-
ence Indian male wife in MOH with
family visa need job.
Contact 98107162
Email: [email protected]
MANAGER/SUPER.
Chief Accountant/Finance Manager
– Indian male, CA Finalist, having
20 years’ experience in Finance,
Accounts, Audit, Finalization of Ac-
counts, preparation of Project Reports
etc., looking for immediate placement.
12 yrs. in Oman in Construction and
Consultancy co., have Omani D/L,
knows Tally. Contact 94041048,
email: [email protected]
8 Years experienced camp boss
worked in SAOG CO. Looking for
suitable position. NOC available.
Contact - 94298945
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
Indian female BE, 3 years office
assistant experience, seeking
placement.Contact-90655903
DAILY GUIDED6 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6
Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
Indian male 26 years of experience
of sales & marketing in surgical and
laboratory equipments. Looking for
good replacement.
Contact – 92015894 / 95774854
Indian female, MBA Marketing with
4 years experience with 4 years ex-
perience with Oman experience, NOC
and D/L looking for suitable opening
with visa. Contact: 92460623
Indian female having D/L with
12 years experience in corporate
/ retail sales & B/D. Looking for a
suitable job in training / IT / Edu-
cation companies.
Contact: 91751077
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs
exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG
sector, looking for best opportunity.
NOC available. Contact: 96001877
Sales & Marketing Executive Indian
national with valid Omani D/L with
good command of languages, 18 yrs
exp in Middle East. Looking for suit-
able placement. Contact - 98103829
SALES / MARKETING
SALES / MARKETING
Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking
for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/
Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Cus-
tomer Care Executive / Sale Executive
& Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard
working w/ good computer and com-
munication skill. GSM: 97761075
Indian male 1 yr exp in sales
automotive (TBL) looking for best
opportunity , NOC available.
Contact: 97793879
Email: [email protected]
Sales & Marketing executive MBA
with 3 years exp , 6 months exp in
Oman with NOC , looking for suit-
able placement. Contact: 91345727
Indian female, BSC, Bed, MBA (Mar-
keting) 3years experience, seeks
suitable in the marketing section.
Contact: 95041134
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 33 having 6 yrs exp in
Oman & 4 yes exp in Qatar having
valid Oman D/L seeks opportunity
in sales & business development.
Contact: 98260607
Email: [email protected]
Oil &gas experienced Indian lady
with 6 years in sales & marketing to
PDO and having valid
Omani driving license.
Contact 96143430/99875919
Sales representative with 7 years
experience and valid Oman driv-
ing license, NOC or release avail-
able-99695780
Indian male 24 B.com, 2years of
experience in sales & admin & profi-
cient in M.S Office, Excel.
Contact: 98613373
Email: [email protected]
Indian male MBA 5 yrs experience
in Oman and India seeking suitable
position in marketing & sales NOC
available. Contact: 93059175 Email:
Indian male 1.5 yrs exp a sales &
merchandising in Oman looking
for best opportunity NOC available.
Contact: 93039342
Indian male 37 years MBA gradu-
ate in marketing with 9yrs of
experience in UAE in field of brand
promotions & marketing with UAE
D/L on a visit seeking suitable
position. Conatct 95792820
Indian, 20 years experience in
Oman as personal assistant / office
manager / executive secretary /
administrator / business develop-
ment asst. seeks job change. Release
available. Contact 99168054.
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 Female, 25 Years - MSc
Looking for suitable job.
Mobile: 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
MISCELLANEOUS
25, Indian female (BCA- Com-
puter Application). 1yr experience
as teacher and graphic designer.
Knowledge in Photoshop, illustra-
tor, in design. Looking for suitable
job in office administration, teach-
ing and graphic designing.
Contact - 98426509
Part- Time Accountant, well expe-
rience senior accountant, doing all
type of accounting works, Finaliza-
tion, Budgeting available.
Contact: 98803439
Filipino Cabin steward / Linen
vallet is looking for suitable job in
Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or
email: [email protected]
Qualified banking & Accounts
management profesional seeking
suitable job opportunities. Current-
ly working in India with ICIC Bank.
Email: sheemoljohn@rediffmail.
com Contact# 919755550181
Filipino Male: 35 yrs, with 3yrs
Technical & Customer Service,
2yrs Online Ad Serving, 1yr dmin-
istrative work experiences looking
for suitable job. Contact 97852816
Project Engineer, Mechanical In-
dian Male, 26 years 3 Years experi-
ence in Projects of Tanks, Boilers
and Steel structures Aware of int.
Standards B.Tech in Mech engg
Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail.
com Mob-00917350860889
Indian male Administrative
officer Four years experience in
same field. Well known MS office
tools, Specialization in handling
back office operations, inter of-
fice correspondence, confidential
mails, Quotations, Monthly billing.
Searching for suitable job in Oman.
Contact: +91 9750572088/ E-mail
Indian Driver, with Oman driving
license having 10 years experience
in Oman, looking for suitable posi-
tions. Contact-91519047
Indian male network cabling tech-
nician (19-years gulf experience)
seeking for suitable placement.
Contact: 0091-8089909265 (In-
dia) email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, Indian,
(B.E.) on visit visa, seeking suit-
able post. Contact no: 99534733
email: [email protected]
HSE Engineer, Indian male 5 years
experience in Oil & Gas. Working
in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,
& NDT Certified, M Tech in HSE.
+91 9867016808
Indian male MBA, 24 yrs having
experience in Sales & marketing
seeks suitable placement.
Contact GSM: 93833563
email: [email protected].
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. Contact 99334770/
99743709
Indian Male, 22, Experienced,
Looking for job in sales (no DL).
Contact: 90801420; Email:
Female Architect on visiting visa,
two years’ experience, graduated
from School of Planning and Archi-
tecture (under MHRD). Proficient
in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and
creative visualization. Email
Contact 00968-94057427.
Indian Architectural Engineer with 2.5 yrs experience in architec-
tural consultancy firms, currently
on visit visa, looking for suitable
placement.
Contact no: +96894955793
Economist: Female, MA & M. Phil/
PhD_ in ECONOMICS. 10 years
experience Banking/Lecturer/Cus-
tomer Service/Trainer, currently
looking for job contact: 97457248
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 2 years of
experience in purchase (supply
chain management) looking for a
suitable placement presently on
a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /
97351786 / E-mail:
Indian Female 23 Years, Post
Graduated in Sanskrit (language),
Seeking for Suitable Jobs, (Teach-
ing or Clerical), Knowledge in MS
Office, Good Communication Skill
#96141317, 94614317, E-mail:
Indian male electrician (EEE), 2
years good working experience
searching for suitable job. Gmail id
; [email protected], Contact;
918148336160 / 918300136160
Indian male Electrician(EEE)
2 years good working experience
searching for suitable job. mail ;
[email protected], Con-
tact;918148336160 / 918300136160
Indian male 33 years, B.Com, hav-
ing 6 years experience in Oman.
Tally & ERP looking for suitable
placement. Mobile no :98492921
Indian male 33 yrs, MBA - HR, worked on
Recruitments,Training,Site-HR,
Omanisation and development
plans of nationals ,10 yrs exp.
Seeking a job.NOC avl. # 94179499
Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate,
Fresher, on visit visa looking for
job in sales/marketing.
Contact - 94032041; Email -
Sudanese male. Bachelor geology
and mining with 2 years experi-
ence in MUD LOGGING & Training
in Soil Investigation.
Tel: 92956848
Indian female, B.Tech Computer
Science with 3 years experience
seeking full time job in IT support,
Teaching, HR. Contact: 95933507 /
97485997
SITUATION WANTEDCOMPUTER/WEB./ EDUCATION/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
Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English
class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi
earn in two monthstion guaranteed
Tel: 95244310
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
Indian Male MBA, 5 years Build-
ing Materials Project Sales experi-
ence in Oman, NOC available,
seeking for placement.
Contact - 90655903,99325544
Indian male 5+ years of experience
as a sales & marketing executive
with valid Oman D/L. #95434902
B. Com 2 years experience in Sales
Marketing Logistics Accounts and
Front office Contact 95506048
Sales 2 years B.Com male 24 yrs,
Indian. Contact: 00968 94212636
35 years male, Lebanese holding
British passport, 10 years of experi-
ence in procurement, Omani Govern-
ment tenders, setup marketing plans
& strategies, importing, Organizing
events, management, have car, NOC
available. Contact 94123939
Email: [email protected]
Indian female 29 years Post
Graduate with computer Knowl-
edge 2 years of Oman experience in
coordinator & 5 years of experience
in customer service, client relation
officer with excellent communica-
tion skill seeks suitable placement.
Contact: 95337665
Indian Male, 26 M.Com with
4 yrs of Experience in Accounting &
Administration in a Financial Com-
pany in India, seeks suitable job, Cur-
rently in India.#India:-+918907212253
Akhil:-93626288, Email:
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 25, Graduate in
commerce (B.com) having 4 years
of experience in Office Admin-
istration (admin) looking for a
suitable placement presently on
a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /
97351786 E-mail:
Indian male, 30.System adminis-
trator/desktop support profession-
al.5 years of GCC exp. Visa status:
visit (Dubai)
mob: 00971565598176/
Indian male, 26 years 3 Years’
experience in Projects of Tanks,
Boilers and Steel structures
Aware of int. Standards, B tech in
Mech Engg. Contact-
Mob-00917350860889
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 4 years of
experience in same field looking
for a suitable placement pres-
ently on a visit visa. Contact :
93979084 / 97351786, E-mail :
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 2 years of
experience in same field looking
for a suitable placement presently
on a visit visa. Contact : 93979084
/ 97351786, E-mail :
Indian male 26 yrs (MBA) Spe-
cialized in Marketing have 2 yrs
heavy equipment sales experi-
ence, have GCC driving license
looking suitable job in Oman.
Contact 99180369
Email: [email protected]
Indian female, 31 years (B.A., D.Ed)
having 6 yrs of teaching experi-
ence in CBSE schools in India well
versed with electronics devices
teaching, good computer knowl-
edge presently on visit visa look-
ing for suitable job. #97135319
Email: [email protected] 5 years experienced (Front office
& Banking), Indian Male (28 years.
Hotel Management graduate),
searching for suitable position.
English, Hindi, Malayalam,
Arabic fluent.
Noc available. Contact: 91383167
Indian male Electrician(EEE ).
Two years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail id ; antonyajin15@gmail.
com, Name; Antony Ajin.
G : 918148336160 /918300136160
Economics Specialist: Female ,
MA & M.Phil/PhD_ in ECONOM-
ICS . 10 years experience Bank-
ing/Lecturer/Customer Service/
Trainer currently Looking for job
Call: 97457248
Female Architect on visiting visa,
two years’ experience, gradu-
ated from School of Planning and
Architecture (under MHRD). Profi-
cient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup
and creative visualization. Email
Contact 00968-94057427.
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 D7
TOURS
TOURS
RENT A CAR
25 - 50 seater bus with PDO &
BP specification for monthly rent
& small car with driver. Contact
99839898
Al Ibtisama rent & leasing. Contact: 91374879 / 96627562/
99382001/ 24751177/ 24751188
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine Tours contact 98029602, 92808636
We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION
Transportation. Contact: 91703829
Transportation available Ruwi to
Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.
Contact: 91103909
Regin Accountant male Indian,
2 years experience doing accounts
in tally and excel searching for
suitable job. No : +91 7373387282
EMAIL – [email protected],
Indian Female Electronics System
Eng. UK Graduate. Programmer Mi-
cro Controller Robot, Eng. Analysis,
Instrumentation & Control, Eng. Pro-
jects, Integrated Circuit Eng., Elec-
trical and Fluid Drives, Analogue
Electronics, Wireless Systems,
seeking suitable post,
on Visiting Visa. # 97848075,
Indian male (B.E) Quality Control-
ler and Supervising. 3 year good
working experience. Better knowl-
edge in quality control technique.
Searching for suitable job. Mail:
Contact: GSM : +91 9786418033 /
968 91894487
Sri Lankan female, 27 years, quali-
fied English Language professional
with 6 years of lecturing, manage-
rial, marketing experience, seeking
suitable position in education
industry. Contact (+968) 93017330,
(+968) 98445287 Email:
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR HIRE
New Volvo Trailor available for
rent to UAE every alternative days,
50 ton capacity with reasonable
rent contact.99318152/
email- Ahastco @gmail.com
Transportation. available.Contact 92430239
Transportation available Al Khu-
wair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al
Khoud. Drop & pick.
Contact: 95250161
Transportation. Contact:96538078
Transportation. Contact94510847
Transportation. Contact
99508282
Transportation. Contact 92015894
Transportation required from
Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon
only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165
Indian female , M.B.A, 8 Yrs of
Experience in Oil and Gas industry,
Trading & contracting companies.
working as an Unit Manager for
MNC, HR Coordinator and Office
admin for local companies. seek-
ing suitable placement immedi-
ately. Contact 99179709.
Indian male, 44 Years, Plumbing
Supervisor, holding Omani Driving
license, having 14 Years of experi-
ence in Oman and 8 years in India.
Looking for suitable placement.
Contact - 95154414
Email- [email protected]
Sudanese male, 5 years experi-
ence in supply chain (warehouse
management, logistics and pro-
curement) Contact : 90644186
Indian Male, 44 Years, Plumbing
Supervisor, holding Omani Driving
license, having 14 Years of experi-
ence in Oman and 8 years in India.
Looking for suitable placement.
Contact - 95154414
Email- [email protected]
Accountant male Indian, 2 years
experience, doing accounts in tally
& excel seeks suitable job.
EMAIL – [email protected],
Contact +91 7373387282
Indian male, 25 yrs, more than
5 years experience in Dubai, Looking
for a suitable placement for jobs
related to sales, marketing, coordina-
tion and support. Contact: 95140445,
Indian Male, Post graduate with
10yrs experience in Gulf & 4.6yrs
in Oil & Gas experience with SAP
and ERP exposure. Finalization,
MIS, Auditing, Budgeting, AP &AR,
Tax, etc., with Oman D/L seeking
suitable placement. NOC available.
Contact: 91743376
Indian Male, 24, B.Com Graduate
with 1 year experience in Oman
looking for a job in accounting.
Contact – 96619348
Indian male electrician(EEE ).
Two years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail ; antonyajin15@gmail.
com. Antony Ajin.G, Contact: 91
8148336160 / 91 8300136160
Indian Male, 23, BBA graduate,
fresher, looking for a job in sales
(indoor). No driving license.
Contact: 94032041 Mail:
Skilled multilingual individual
with 33years of excellent experi-
ence in management and banking
at a nationalized bank; seeking
better job opportunities with
challenging responsibilities.
E-mail: [email protected],
call : 97848075
Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) gradu-
ate with 3 years of experience in the
fields of BMS ,Low current systems
and has good knowledge of HV and
LV, currently working in Oman,
NOC Available. Contact : 94737033,
mail : [email protected]
Indian female, B.Tech Computer
Science, 5 years experience in
teaching in India currently on visit
visa seeking for a suitable position
in teaching, IT or administration.
E mail: [email protected]
B.E (Mechanical) 12 years
industrial sales, 1 year Muscat
experience, presently in India ,
immediately ready to join. Contact
:917338899372 , email id :
Indian female B.Com, 1 year
experience in Oman, experience in
wings account package and knowl-
edge of tally. Looking for Account-
ing job. Presently in Family visa.
Contact: 93491124 &
92054531
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rent-
als. Full line, from Tables, Linen
& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,
Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,
Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to
Large Sound Systems and spec-
tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606
2222 for Catering and Croyden
9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
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SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,
General cleaning etc.
Contact : 94277020
Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control
MYearly contracts available.
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GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,
Contact 99314807/24792998
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
All Maintenance and services
electric, CCTV Camera, Plumbing
A/C service and gas installation,
painting tiles. Contact: 96524904 /
94285064
CAD drawings Archi/ MEP
CAD – comply BIM.
Contact: 91233975
A/C servicing maintenance.
Contact: 92279370
Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.
Ocean center LLC.
Contact 99344723
Pest control Gulfa international.
Contact: 92326955
Split unit A/C & window unit A.C
servicing & maintenance.
Contact: 96236476
Split unit & window unit A.C ser-
vicing & maintenance.
Contact: 93769089 / 95323517
Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont
Maintenance services electric,
plumbing and A/C. Contact:
96524904 /94285064
A/C Maintenance & Servicing,
Fridge, Washing machine & Dish
washer repairing, Painting & Clean-
ing services, Electrical & plumbing.
Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /
24504281
Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC
Contact: 99344723
Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC
Contact 99344723
WE SERVE OMAN
Window & split unit A.C servicing
& repairing. Contact: 99557080
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of
your marble. Contact 24793614/
99314807
Split & window A/C servicing,
repairing, installation ducted, pack-
age etc. Contact Abbas : 98667326
House shifting. Contact
99708138
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 Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance. Contact ABU QA-
BAS- 99320217 /24788722
Water proofing ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
House Shifting Packing. Contact: 99657644 / 98518013
FOR LADIES
Contact 99619409
Offer!! Treading Gold Facial &
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Home service available, (Threading, facial, waxing,
Head massage) R0. 20
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more about Islam, please call:
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99253818, 99341395, and
99379133. For ladies: 99415818,
99321360, 99730723
Orvisit:www.islamfact.com
Ayurvedic treatment for joint
pain, backache, paralysis, mas-
sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-
litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,
18 November Street, Azaiba.
Contact: 99639695 /
97397320
SITUATION WANTEDBUSINESS
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
Omani investor has a real estate
company in Shatti Al Qurum, looking
for a financial investor to partici-
pate in the real estate company. For
more details contact me by 00968
96225852
Email: [email protected]
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
For rent or investment garage full
equipment in Al Misfah Bousher.
Contact: 99284707
Ayurvedic treatment for backache,
paralysis, arthritis etc & mas-
sage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam).
Contact:24475280 / 95371664 /
92504980 www.siddhayur.com