Times of Oman - November 14, 2016 by Muscat Media Group

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‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ Our dear country has witnessed a number of mighty achievements, but we still have a long, hard road ahead of us which will require much sincere and disinterested effort, determination and self-sacriﬁce. Our target is not personal reward, but the progress and welfare of our country and the raising of its status among the nations.

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COULD TRUMP BE GOOD FOR THE GULF? Rial’s peg to dollar has led to ﬁnancial stability in Oman and stronger US currency will augur well for the economy

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businesseditor@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Donald Trump’s surprising elevation to US president won’t see Oman abandoning its dollar peg, say economists and analysts, with some debating

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that his election might even be good for the Gulf. “The Omani rial’s peg to the US dollar is one of the pillars of economic and ﬁnancial stability in the Sultanate. So, I don’t expect any change (in the policy) any time,” said Fabio Scacciavillani, chief economist, Oman Investment Fund. He was talking to Times of Oman, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s surprise election victory last week. Echoing a similar view, Loai B. Bataineh, general manager and head of investment banking group at the Oman Arab Bank, said: “Oman will beneﬁt from a strong dollar if Trump manages to attract the US companies to invest within the country.” This is important since oil is priced in dollar terms and the Oman government depends on

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Council, Shura review financial situation

In implementation of the directives of His Majesty the Sultan to promote communication between state institutions and to reach a common vision on all the national courses of action, a meeting was held to address the decline in oil prices on the national economy. >A6

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Residential rents dip by 8% in 2016 SYED HAITHAM HASAN

Autistic children in Oman need additional facilities to assist in their development, if they are to be integrated into society. Institutions that are trying to do something for autistic children are private and very expensive, so many parents cannot afford their services, said an expert. >A5

more than 60 per cent of its revenue from crude oil resources. Hamoud Sangour Al Zadjali, executive president of the Central Bank of Oman, last February said that the Sultanate remains committed to the peg of its rial currency against the US dollar. He was unavailable for comment on the Sultanate’s foreign exchange policy on Sunday. Although the US dollar depreciated immediately after the election result was announced, it recovered on the same day. Since the Omani rial is pegged to the US dollar, any appreciation in dollar value is directly reﬂected on the local currency. Elaborating on the implications of the victory of Donald Trump in the recent US election, Scacciavillani said that it will exert its inﬂuence through three transmission mechanisms. >A6

haitham@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Rents in Oman have fallen more than eight per cent this year, according to a newly released data. While some sought after areas in the capital, such as Shatti Al Qurum, saw rents dropping by more than 20 per cent, areas such as Bausher and Al Mouj were able to buck the trend, according to a report by real estate services agency Cluttons.

Owners say they have been drastically reducing rents, while local business owners have welcomed the drop in the hope that residents will have more disposable income to spend. “In the residential market, average rental rates fell by a further 2.3 per cent during Q3, bringing the total decline for 2016 to 8.1 per cent. On an annual basis, the weakest performing residential submarket was Shatti Al Qurum, where rents fell 21.1 per cent, followed by Sur Al Hadid at 20.8 per

cent and Qurum at 17.9 per cent. On a more positive note, during the third quarter, rents remained unchanged in two submarkets, Bausher and Sur Al Hadid,” according to a report by Cluttons. Faisal Durrani, Head of Research at Cluttons, noted, “The prospects for an immediate turnaround in the residential market remain unlikely and, given the country’s reliance on the oil and gas sector, the outlook for the residential market remains weak.” >A6

All decked up for National Day

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hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: People in Oman will be able to witness the annual ﬁreworks display on the 46th National Day at three different locations in Muscat, said the officials. The shows are scheduled for November 18 at 8pm in the wilayats of Al Amerat, Al Seeb and Salalah. The ﬁreworks in Al Amerat will be organised at the Al Amerat Heights, in Al Seeb at Wadi Al Khoudh and at the Municipal Entertainment Centre in Salalah.

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No cameras in prayer and rest rooms: Haya Water Times News Service

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National Day ﬁreworks at three places

MUSCAT: Haya Water has emphasised that the news recently spread through various social media channels about the presence of surveillance cameras in the prayer room and rest rooms are untrue. The cameras are only installed in open offices, corridors and other facilities in order to maintain the security of the company and its personnel. Khalid bin Ali bin Moham-

med Al Salami, Head of Security Department in Haya Water conﬁrmed that the presence of cameras in the offices and sensitive facilities is necessary for security reasons in case there is any need for checking of recordings. This is so important because Haya Water is an industrial facility that specialises in environmental aspect. The rumours that there are cameras in the prayer room and rest rooms are not true and completely unacceptable and

illegal, the statement said. Security room The staff were informed last June that cameras will be installed in offices, corridors and other facilities and they will be connected to the security room. In fact, everyone can visit the security room to check how these cameras, which are connected to screens, work. Some authorities have already explored and investigated these

places and it was proved that there is no contradiction with the law. Regarding the strike that was recently carried out by some of the staff, the company confirms that this strike is contrary to the laws in force in the Sultanate, and this was confirmed during the meeting that was held on the first day of the strike on November 6, 2016 between Ministry of Manpower represented by. Undersecretary of Labour Affairs and the Executive Management of Haya Water rep-

resented by the CEO and the Administrative Board of Haya Water Labour Union and with the presence of representatives from General Federation of Oman Trade Unions and Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry. According to Ministerial Decisions No. ( 294/2006) , ( 17/2007) and (575/2013), the strike is considered unacceptable and illegal because the company is classiﬁed among the companies in which the strike is prohibited. >A5

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Small house is big entrepreneur hub A little building in a traditional neighbourhood is home to more than 20 female

SECOND ANNUAL SITTING OF THE 8TH TERM

Majlis Al Shura session from today MUSCAT: While the country is celebrating the 46th National Day under the wise leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and as per the provision of the Basic Law of the State and its amendments, the ﬁrst session of the second annual sitting of the 8th term will start at the Council of Oman premises today under the chair of Khalid bin Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of Majlis Al Shura. The State Council will also hold its ﬁrst session of the second annual sitting of its sixth term under the chair of Dr. Yahya bin Mah-

foudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council next Sunday. During its first session, Majlis Al Shura will discuss the statements by the Minister of Higher Education and the Minister of Manpower. It will also watch three presentations, the first of which will be presented by the Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Planning about evaluating the performance of the 9th fiveyear plan. The second presentation will be presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on

the food security system in the Sultanate. The third presentation will be on Oman International Convention and Exhibition Centre. During the ﬁrst session, Majlis Al Shura will be also briefed on the state draft budget for the year 2017, as well as a number of other issues. The State Council will hold next Sunday its ﬁrst session of the second annual sitting of its sixth term. The economic aspect will have priority in the delibrations of the Council during the coming period. -ONA

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tourists ﬂock to buy

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hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: This one-story whitewashed house is not your typical travel destination. The small house has turned from a business location into a remarkable tourist attraction in Muscat. Located in the traditional neighbourhood of Sidab, the house is home to more than 20 female entrepreneurs who make their living by selling handmade bags, purses, wallets and bottle covers. As the temperature has cooled and tourism season has begun in Oman, more visitors ﬂock to the handicraft shop to buy locally made souvenirs. ‘Women of Sidab’, a project that provides women with workshops, has recently invited a number of social media representatives to promote their business. This marketing strategy has already attracted more visitors and the women said they have been receiving additional orders, even from the United Arab Emirates. Salma Al Wahaibi, a tailor who joined the group when it was established in 2014, said that the female-only group is “like a family”. “We visit each other if one gets

sick, married or loses a relative,” the mother of three said. Like many others, Salma works daily from 8am to 2pm sewing traditional bags. The house consists of ﬁve rooms, including one for cutting fabrics, another for tailoring and one for crafting fronds. The fourth room is a studio where tourists can be photographed while wearing traditional

Omani dress, while the fifth room is where the products can be purchased. Al Wahaibi said that most of the tourists are Germans, French and British. “Sometimes we receive up to 20 tourists per day, and have had orders for more than 6,000 bags and wallets,” she added. Muna Al Zadjali, one the founders of the project, said that they display and sell their handicrafts at hotels and duty free shops in local airports. “The profit goes to pay the women in our group and to buy new tools,” she explained, adding that the group has trained and employed more than 100 women since 2004, most of them from Sidab village. “Some left after getting married or shifted to a new house far from the village,” she added. Sidab is a small village nestled in the heart of Muscat city, located a few minutes from Al Alam Palace. Overlooking the sea, Sidab is part of the Wilayat of Muttrah, and is one of the first locationsin the countryto assist women, according to Al Zadjali.

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hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: The new representative of peace is a snuggly toy. A group of Americans are helping a local crafting guild by bringing sewing patterns for the beloved ‘American Girl’ doll so they can make traditional Omani clothes for the doll. “These toys are sold all over the country. It will be beautiful to bring back some clothing made by Omani women to show how peaceful, warm and welcoming this country is,” said a visitor from New York. “My niece has one, it is very popular,” Justin Meyers, associate director of Al Amana Centre said, adding that dressing the doll with clothes “which are authentically Omani will be interesting.” In a bid to boost understanding between cultures and religions, Al Amana Centre brings groups from the United States and Europe to visit Oman. “We work to help Muslims and Christians to better understand each other,” said Justin Meyers. He said that the groups coming to the Sultanate get to learn about

the Arab culture and Islam. “We want our guests to go back to the States with good stories about Muslims in a hope to change minds and perceptions about the Muslim world,” he said. “Most of the perceptions we get about Muslims are from the TV and movies. People should know how loving, kind, generous and peaceful they are,” he said, while stressing that Muslims and Christians need to hear good sto-

ries about each other. Around 60 people visited to Oman through Al Amana programmes this year, according to Meyers. “These are short eight-to-tenday visits focusing on religious dialogue and understanding each other,” Meyers, who has been working in Oman since 2013, said. Meyers works in the office where the beloved Dr. Wells Thoms used to work.

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All decked up for the National Day With less than a week to go for the National Day, shops, souqs, markets and malls in Oman are all decked up with National Day merchandise and people are buying the goods to celebrate the joyous occasion. Purushothaman K captures some of the buzz

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Oman a potential business hub for Kazakh livestock, foodgrains: Ambassador

STRENGTHENING BONDS: Attended by the Italian Ambassador in Oman, Giorgio Visetti, Brigadier General Rashid bin Hamoud Al Tamami, and various other dignitaries, the event represented an occasion to strengthen the traditional friendship between the Royal Navy of Oman and the Italian Navy and also between the armed forces of the two countries. –Supplied photo

Italian diplomat thanks Oman for unstinted support DEEBA HASAN

deeba@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Italian Defence Attaché in Oman Andrea Barbalonga thanked the government of Oman for their support during the celebration of Italian Armed Forces Day. “A very special thanks goes to the Sultanate of Oman for the outstanding support provided in all circumstances. It has always been very much appreciated,” said Barbalonga. “I would like to address my warm respect and greetings to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said for his birthday and the Sultanate’s National Day, along with the best wishes for good health,”Barbalonga added. On November 4, 1918, World War One came to an end in Italy, Barbalonga noted, saying, “The uniﬁcation of our country was completed only at that time, and I would like to dedicate my deepest feelings to those soldiers, sailors, airmen and policemen who lost their lives to serve our country. “I would like to also mention

I would like to address my warm respect and greetings to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said for his birthday and the Sultanate’s National Day, along with the best wishes for good health, said Italian Defence Attaché in Oman Andrea Barbalonga the thousands of women and men of the Italian Defence forces who today- as in the past - are deployed abroad in many parts of the world, operating for peace, freedom and humanitarian assistance.” Omani cadet honoured with Italian Naval Dagger Also, Barbalonga awarded an Omani with the Italian Naval Dagger, which he said was “a symbolic sign of recognition and friendship for their essential support. I would like to take this occasion to award the most distinguished cadet of the Sultan Qaboos Naval Academy with the Italian Honour Naval Dagger,” saidBarbalonga.

The award was presented to Cadet Officer Mazen bin Talib bin Mohammed Al Ghafri, for the exemplary behaviour and excellent results achieved at the academy. Every year at the Naval Academy of Livorno the most distinguished cadet is awarded the symbolic dagger. Attended by the Italian Ambassador in Oman, Giorgio Visetti, Brigadier General Rashid bin Hamoud Al Tamami, and other dignitaries, the event represented an occasion to strengthen the traditional friendship between the Royal Navy of Oman and the Italian Navy, and also between the Armed forces of the two countries.

While Oman is a small market, it can be a transit to countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, African states and even India and Pakistan Yerzhan Mukash Ambassador of Kazakhastan to Sultanate of Oman

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hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Oman can be a hub for Kazakh livestock business in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Africa, Yerzhan Mukash, ambassador of the world’s biggest landlocked country said in an exclusive interview with the Times of Oman. As the ﬁrst batch of sheep from Kazakhstan arrived in Muscat International Airport for the “ﬁrst time in history,” the ambassador said his country might export goats and frozen halal meat to Oman in the future. “While Oman is a small market, it can be a transit to countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, African states and even India and Pakistan,” he said. Every year, Kazakhstan sells tonnes of wheat to Iran, Turkey and China, the country that shares one of the world’s biggest land borders in with Kazakhstan.

But since Kazakhstan is a landlocked country, Mukash said the main issue facing investment is related to logistics. “But as the world is lifting sanctions on Iran, we can take advantage of our very good relations with Iran and Oman’s relationship with Iran. There are horizons for businesses being boost between Kazakhstan and GCC, especially Oman,” he added. While the two countries are highly dependent on oil exports, Kazakhstan enjoys animal and agricultural resources, according to Mukash. Ashgabat agreement To boost commercial ties with the GCC, Kazakhstan joined the Ashgabat agreement, which is a multimodal transport agreement between Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, for creating an international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods be-

tween Central Asia and the GCC. “We can export our products to Iran and then to GCC from Bandar Abbas port in Iran to the Omani ports,” the ambassador stated. Asked about tourism, he said Omani nationals can get a visa to visit Kazakhstan two days after applying. Interestingly, there are only 50 Kazakhs in Oman. Official visit “We are waiting for an official visit by Oman’s Minister for Foreign Affairs to sign agreements to exempt diplomatic visa holders from visa to visit Kazakhstan,” the ambassador said, pointing out that Oman was the ﬁrst Arab state to support Kazakhstan in becoming a non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council. The ambassador also mentioned that the Sultanate was the ﬁrst Arab state to start a diplomatic and economic relationship with Kazakhstan.

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SPECIAL CARE: Currently, there are some 3,000 autistic children in the Sultanate. – Supplied picture

“The early intervention is there, but when they reach the age of 14 or 15, they don’t have facilities to continue. This is the challenge we need to work on as a society.” This was seconded by Barka Shahbal Al Bakry, Oman’s representative to the International Association for Volunteer Effort. “The government has a policy in Oman in which they do not conduct any pre-school education, but they subsidise us, instead,” she said. “In hospitals, the moment they feel a child has a disability, they will tell the parents to visit us. We then teach the mother a list of tasks her baby should be accomplishing. Currently, there are some 3,000 autistic children in Oman.

ties, “We are the only centre that intervenes when a child is a baby and helps parents to integrate children in larger societies, either in schools or other programmes they can attend,” she said. The association received government approval in May 2000, though it had been operating since

Expensive institutions “It’s just that they are different,” Al Bakry added. “We need specialists, and that is what we are lacking now. The institutions that are trying to do something for autism are private and very expensive, so many parents cannot afford to send their children there,” noted Al Bakry.

Apart from specialists, Oman needs additional facilities to assist in the development of autistic children and their integration into the society

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gautam@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Autistic children in Oman need additional facilities to assist in their development, if they are to be integrated into society. According to Sabah Mohammed Al Bahlani, Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Early Intervention for Children with DisabiliCONVENTION CENTRE

Stage three of Tanfeedh will start on Sunday MUSCAT: ‘Tanfeedh’, the National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversification continues preparation for the 3rd stage (Community Participation), which will kick off next Sunday at Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre. The three-day Community Participation stage seeks to involve citizens and present the final outcomes of the “Labs” workshops for the sake of acquainting citizens about such outcomes, taking their visions and proposals. With the blessing of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, ‘Tanfeedh’ came to build upon the achievements of the previous plans with a focus on targeted sectors through the programme. The targeted sectors identified by the Royal Decree (1/2016) are manufacturing, tourism, transport and logistics, mining, and fisheries. The programme will focus on raising the contribution of these sectors to the Sultanate’s gross domestic product. -ONA S E C U R I T Y T H R E AT S

Cyber security training for ministry staff Times News Service MUSCAT: Ministry of Education (MoE) employees learnt to spot cyber security threats at workshops on IT security. Represented by the Directorate General of Human Resources, the MoE trained its employees and the educational directorates in the governorates on the basics of information technology security at the College of Law at Sultan Qaboos University. Ahmed Al Amri, studies and follow-up member at the DG of Human Resources and the program’s supervisor, said, “This programme is designed to raise awareness about security for computer users and associated networks in the office or at home, and learn to protect themselves and the institutions they work in through the safe use of these devices, networks, and information management. “It has become necessary to make all information technology users among the Ministry’s employees aware of security threats, such as viruses, hacking, fraud, and identity theft,” he added. Al Amri noted that the programme provides the ministry staff with the skills necessary to deal with the challenges being faced, due to the nature of their work with regards to information security, data handling and conﬁdentiality. The programme also helps employees to recognise data threats from employees, service providers and outside individuals, as well as understand the essential features of information security, such as conﬁdentiality, safety and availability.

1998, and works to help children with disabilities until the age of six years. “A majority of children, when they leave us at the age of six, are integrated into educational programmes. Every year, we have 20 to 40 children graduating from our centre,” she said.

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A1 Rules to be reviewed It was stressed out during the meeting that in case of conﬂict, it shall be resolved through internal and transparent dialogue without affecting the work progress. It was clariﬁed during the meeting that the strike from work shall not be repeated by the Labour Union or the employees in the future in order to avoid any legal consequences which may result in applying penalties on the Labour Union members and employees. The Labour Union shall direct striking employees to resume their duties immediately without any penalties. The company has positively dealt with the demands of the employees in accordance with the existing rules and regulations and some of these demands were approved in the meeting that was held on November 6, 2016. A team was formed chaired by Head of Networks and Information Security in the Ministry of Manpower and with the membership of representatives General Federation of Oman Trade Unions and Ministry of Manpower and Haya Water Labour Union. The team

shall investigate the attendance system and ensure its accuracy and then submit a report to the Undersecretary and a copy to the CEO and another copy to the president of the Labour Union. Haya Water would also like to conﬁrm that the electronic attendance system aims to control workﬂow and such system is applied in most government and private organisations. It was also agreed to review and update the company’s Rules and Regulations and procedures. The committee that was formed to investigate the absence of staff shall be terminated and the company shall commit to the labour law. Another meeting was held on November 8 with the presence of representatives from General Federation of Oman Trade Unions, representatives of the employees and the company’s Executive Management. It was agreed to adhere to the minutes of meeting that was held on November 6 in the office of the Undersecretary of Ministry of Manpower for Labour Affairs and all employees shall return back to their offices.

43% of internal scholarship graduates employed MUSCAT: Graduate Survey Department at the Ministry of Higher Education released three detailed reports derived from the graduate surveys in 2015. The results indicated that 42.9 per cent of the internal scholarship graduates have jobs, compared to 52.4 per cent from the graduates of external scholarships and that graduates of internal scholarships are more employed in the private sector, in comparison to their colleagues of the external scholarships. These reports are designed to enable different categories of institutions and individuals interested in the higher education sector to understand the situation of graduates and their perceptions of higher education, and enable them to make decisions. -ONA

At one clinic in Oman, for example, parents had to pay OMR45 for a consultation with a specialist, with an additional OMR180 for an IQ test and OMR100 every time a behavioural test is conducted. “Children who are affected by autism don’t go to government schools because they do not have these programmes, so they go to special private schools that have these centres,” added Al Bahlani. “There need to be other organisations that we can work with in partnership, because we specialise in early intervention. “We want to work with society and help them understand the pain, struggle and difficulties families are facing when they have a disabled child,” said Al Bahlani. “This is in terms of a lack of services and an inability to ﬁnd proper services for their children,. Since they don’t know whom to approach, some of them require counselling and some require technical and ﬁnancial support. “If you have a child with a disability, the entire family needs to work together and support each other, or there will be many so-

cial problems.” “People are being shamed by society because they have been told they have a disabled child, and some parents are ashamed of this, as well,” explained Al Bahlani. “This is changing in Oman, and especially younger parents are coming forward with their children. “But there is still a stigma in society, and even if parents are accepting it, the larger society is not aware of this,” she added. “Children in school need to be educated about children with disabilities and understand their limits so that they can learn to work with them. “The thing we are lacking the most when understanding these children is communications, because they have their own way of communicating and learning things,” added Al Bakry. “You may be disabled in some form, but it is never that everything will be taken away from you. Something will manifest in greater ways than others.” Al Bahlani emphasized the need to create a conducive environment for those with disabilities.

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Haitham conveys HM’s condolences MUSCAT: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) received at Arqa Palace in Riyadh His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, Envoy of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. During the meeting, Sayyid Haitham conveyed the condolenc-

Mantheri to take part in UN convention MUSCAT: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council arrived in Morocco yesterday. The State Council chairman is leading the Sultanate’s delegation to the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change scheduled in Marrakesh on Tuesday. Dr. Al Mantheri and his accompanying delegation were

es and sympathy of His Majesty the Sultan on the death of Prince Turki bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Sayyid Haitham was accompanied by Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications, Sheikh Mohammed bin Sa’ayed Al Kalbani, Minister of Social Development and Omani envoy to the KSA. -ONA

received upon their arrival at the airport by Rachid bin Mokhtar, Minister of National Education and Vocational Training and Moroccan officials. Dr. Al Mantheri was seen off by Dr. Su’ad bint Mohammed bin Ali Suleiman Al Lawattiyah, deputy chairman of the State Council, Khamis bin Said bin Saif Al Sulaimi, Eng. Khalfan bin Saleh bin Nasser Al Na’abi and Tariq Al Hasisin, accredited envoy of Morocco. -ONA

Council, Shura review financial situation Discussions were held on enhancing efforts aimed at diversifying sources of income and the development of non-oil revenues to ensure the sustainability of the

DISCUSSION: The meeting stressed the need for concerted efforts of all parties to overcome the difficulties faced by the national economy. –ONA

ﬁnancial situation

MUSCAT: In implementation of the directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to promote communication between state institutions and the coordination of efforts to reach a common vision on all the national courses of action, a meeting was held to address the decline in oil prices on the national economy by enhancing efforts aimed at diversifying sources of income, and the

development of non-oil revenues to ensure the sustainability of the ﬁnancial situation of the state. The meeting was held within the framework of continuous coordination between the Council of Ministers and the Council of Oman in which Darwish bin Ismaiel Al Balushi, Minister Responsible for Financial Affairs, Dr. Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Planning, Sultan bin Salim Al Habsi, Secretary Gen-

eral of the Supreme Council for Planning met at the headquarters of the Council of Oman with the participation of Khalid bin Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of Majlis Al Shura, members of the offices of the State Council and Majlis Al Shura, members of the State Council’s Economic Committee and Majlis Al Shura’s members of the Economic and Financial Committee. The meeting stressed the need for concerted efforts of all parties to overcome the difficulties faced

by the national economy, and to avoid any possible effects on the approved development plans and programmes by the decline in oil prices. The meeting highlighted the importance of the observations made by the Council of Oman in helping to overcome the challenges facing the Omani economy, so that the process of development steadily moves forward to meet targeted goals. The meeting affirmed to continue to take all necessary precautions and measures to address the current ﬁnancial challenges. At the conclusion of the meeting, the participants unanimously agreed that the next stage requires more coordination and cooperation between the two parties so as to contribute to the completion of the comprehensive development process and keep pace with the expectations of everyone. Stressing the importance of maintaining the economic and social standard of living of the Omani citizen, it was decided to continue working on upgrading it within the framework of the royal keenness of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said on everything that would lead to the comfort and welfare of the citizens and prosperity of the nation. -ONA

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“During the spring we forecast residential rents to end the year 10 per cent to 15 per cent down, overall, and it appears we are on track to achieve that, reﬂecting the average decline in tenants’ budgets of 10 per cent to 20 per cent recorded this year,” he noted. Isaaq, owner of a leading real estate company in Oman, said the lower occupancy rate has forced him to decrease the amount of rent being charged this year. “There is a big drop in demand for residential and industrial rental. We had to slash rents by nearly 30 per cent to match consumer demand this year,” he said. Um Tariq, an apartment owner, said that proﬁts from rentals will be affected if she lowers her

rental price much further. “I used to rent out my apartments for OMR500 per month, but because of crunch I lowered it to OMR400, then again until it is now OMR 325. I couldn’t go any lower or else I’ll lose out on my proﬁts,” she explained, citing the high cost of maintenance and utilities. “The rent being reduced is very good because business has been slow for a while now. If rents go down, it means people have more money to spend on purchases,” said Manoj, a resident and small business owner. “A while ago they increased rents by 30 per cent , and that had a big impact on business in Qurum. At least 12 shops in the area

had to close because they were not making enough money. With rents decreasing, people will have more money with which they can buy things, and that will be good for everyone,” noted Dilshan, a shoe store manager. “The shop next to mine went out of business last Ramadan and the owner had to sell it for half of what he bought it for. With rents going down it will be good for us because business has been pretty bad, and we’ll look forward to new customers,” said Taj, a clothes store proprietor. “This is actually very good for us because if rents are lowered, more people will come to Qurum and that means businesses here will pick up. Because of all the big

malls opening in Seeb and Al Khuwair, businesses here have been forced to shut shop,” says Prasad, a resident. “If rents are lowered how will property owners and developers make money to pay salaries? There are times when cash ﬂows are affected these days and this will only make things worse,” said Mohammed Ghouse, a coffee house manager. One owner of several apartments in the Qurum area of the city added, “I have dropped from OMR500 a month to OMR400 a month because, otherwise, nobody will come. It’s the same for villas we own and apartments. There has been a drop in orders to get people to move in.”

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The ﬁrst one is political – how the new US administration will tackle the crisis in war-torn Middle East countries like Syria, Yemen and Libya and its attitude towards the nuclear deal with Iran. The second one focuses on oil price. “So far, it is not clear whether there will be an immediate effect in oil price with the change in US government,” added Scacciavillani. Saying that the oil price may take different directions, depending on the policies of the government, he noted that a sceptical attitude towards global warming would favour hydrocarbon consumption and therefore will be positive for the oil price. On the other hand, cutting red-tape for energy companies in the US will lead to higher production and therefore be negative for oil prices. The third transmission mechanism will hinge on interest rate because investors are expecting an economic policy that is more aggressive and expansionist

with higher spending on infrastructure projects and defence, along with a lower income tax. “This means that there will be higher rates (yields) on government bonds and a global reﬂation, which will sweep all markets, including Oman.” Rebound in oil prices “If these stimulus measures will succeed, there will be a gradual rebound in oil prices together in conjunction with tighter monetary conditions. However, if it fails, the risk is to trigger a debt crisis and a recession in two to three years,” added the economist. Trump this year promised independence from Opec and vowed to dismantle a nuclear deal with Iran that unlocked the nation’s crude exports. The US president-elect added that he would approve a pipeline from Canada to the US, which would curb demand for oil from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, most of whose govern-

ments rely on energy revenue to fund spending. Bataineh said that the new US administration under Trump’s leadership would discourage large companies to invest outside and will reduce income tax, which will have major impact in creating jobs. The US dollar, Bataineh said, will continue to ﬂuctuate until Trump assumes charge. The future trend in dollar value against other major currencies will depend on how Trump manages his country’s trade deﬁcit with China and his foreign policy. “We will continue to see a strong dollar,” noted Bataineh. S. Suresh Kumar, head of research at Al Maha Financial Services, last week said that the future trend in dollar value will eventually depend on US Federal Reserve policy on interest rate, which is expected by the middle of December. All indications are pointing to an increase in Federal Reserve rates, which will help dollar to recover.

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REGION Iraqi troops set to target district on edge of Mosul Iraqi troops recaptured the town of Nimrud, next to the ruins of the 3,000-year-old Assyrian city

BAWIZA (IRAQ): Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighbourhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around IS militants waging a brutal defence of their Iraqi stronghold. Four weeks into the campaign to crush IS in Mosul, the city is almost surrounded but the militants’ defences have been breached so far only to the east, where they have battled elite troops for control of up to a dozen districts. An army special forces officer on the northern front line said his men aimed to target Hadba, the first neighbourhood ahead of them within city limits. The district was visible from his position in the village of Bawiza. Brigadier Ali Abdulla said IS fighters had been pushed out of Bawiza and another village, Saada, although progress had been slowed by the presence of civilians he said were being used by the militants as human shields. “Our approach (to Hadba) will be very slow and cautious so that we can reach the families and free them from Daesh’s (IS’) grip,” Abdulla said. The timing of the decision to

TAKING AIM : Member of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service ﬁres his weapon at IS militants in the Al Zahraa neighbourhood of Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday. – Reuters

move on Hadba would also depend on progress on other fronts, he said. Security forces are advancing to the south of Mosul, targeting the city’s airport on the west bank of the Tigris river. Abdulla said IS was using suicide car bombs, roadside bombs, snipers and long range mortars to try to hold back the army advance in the north - all tactics it has used to lethal effect on the eastern front as well. Another officer, Captain Oqba Nafaa, said the militants were still ﬁghting in Saada, using a network of tunnels to carry out surprise strikes on the attacking forces. That also echoed the urban warfare which they have deployed to lethal effect in the east of the city against elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) forces and an armoured division. In some districts, control has changed hands three or four times as the militants, using tunnels and exploiting the presence of civilians as cover, have launched

night-time attacks and reversed military gains of the previous day. About 30 km (20 miles) south of Mosul, troops recaptured the town of Nimrud on Sunday, next to the ancient Assyrian city which was overrun by IS militants two years ago. “Troops from the Ninth Armoured Division liberated Nimrud town completely and raised the Iraqi ﬂag above its buildings,” a military statement said. The town of Nimrud lies 1km (less than 1 mile) west of the ruins of the 3,000-year-old city. The soldiers also captured the village of Numaniya, on the edge of Nimrud, which was once the capital of an Assyrian empire. More than 54,000 people have been displaced so far in the fourweek Mosul campaign. The Norwegian Refugee Council said on Sunday tens of thousands of people “lack access to water, food, electricity and basic health services” in areas recaptured by the army in Mosul and surrounding towns and villages. — Reuters

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016 I am doing what I was asked to do by the people of this country. This had become clear from the very ﬁrst meeting of my cabinet when I formed the SIT (on black money).We never kept the people in dark Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

INDIA

Modi hits out at Congress on opposition to demonetisation This is major step to eradicate corruption and black money... If any money that was looted in India and has left Indian shores, it is our duty to ﬁnd out about it,” he said in his speeches, both at Panaji in Goa and Belagavi in Karnataka.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was ready to face the consequences of his moves as certain forces are ‘up against me’ as their 70 years of loot was now in trouble as a result of demonetisation MAKING A POINT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the gathering during foundation stone laying ceremony of Greenﬁeld Airport in Mopa, Goa on Sunday. - PTI

PANAJI/BELAGAVI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on detractors of the demonetisation move, especially the Congress, saying those involved in mega scams were now standing in queues to exchange Rs4,000 and announcing that more anti-graft measures were on the anvil. Modi, who got emotional while addressing a function at Panaji over the problems being faced by the people and the long queues in banks, urged them to bear with him till December 30, saying “I will give you the India you desired”. He stressed the need to go cashless and adopt plastic money. Making a combative but emotional speech, he said he was ready to face the consequences of his moves as certain forces are “up against me” as their 70 years of loot was now in trouble as a result of demonetisation. “I know that (some) forces are up against me, they may not let me live, they may ruin me because their loot of 70 years is in trouble, but I am prepared,” Modi said in

Government hikes withdrawal limits at banks, ATMs NEW DELHI: With public anger rising across the country over limited cash availability, the government on Sunday night eased key restrictions including raising daily withdrawal limit from bank counters and ATM as well as hiking the amount of old and now defunct currency notes that can be exchanged. To augment cash supplies, newly printed hard-to-fake Rs500 notes were also released in market. After a review by Finance Ministry, the limit of

the speech which saw him getting emotional a few times. “This government does not want to bother honest people but doesn’t want to spare the dishon-

old and now defunct Rs500 and Rs1,000 rupee notes that can be exchanged for freshly minted Rs2,000 and new Rs500 notes was increased from Rs4,000 to Rs4,500 per day. Cash withdrawal limit at ATMs was hiked to Rs2,500 from Rs2,000 a day. The weekly limit of Rs20,000 for withdrawal from bank counters has been increased to Rs24,000. The maximum limit of Rs10,000 per day on such withdrawals has been re-

est. Bear with me for 50 days. Has India been looted or not?.....I am not going to stop at this. I will expose the history of corruption of 70 years since Independence,”

moved, the ministry said in a statement.“Banks have been advised to increase the issuance and use of mobile wallets and debit/credit cards as also to provide them to those customers and establishments not having access to these non-cash means of payment,” it said. Also, the last date for submission of the annual life certiﬁcate for the government pensioners which is to be submitted in November every year has been extended up to January 15, 2017. - PTI

Modi said. “This (demonetisation) is not an end. I have more projects in mind to make India corruption-free....We will take action against ‘benami’ property.

Corruption Hitting out at the erstwhile United Progressive Alliance government for not fighting corruption, Modi said “those who were involved in the coal scam, 2G scam and other scams, now have to stand in queues to exchange Rs4,000. “When Congress stopped 25 paise, did we say anything? You could dare to stop only 25 paise, that’s what your power was limited to. But you did not make higher denomination currency notes illegal.... We did it. People have chosen a government and they expect so much from it.” He said the people had voted against corruption in 2014. “I am doing what I was asked to do by the people of this country. This had become clear from the very first meeting of my cabinet when I formed the SIT (on black money).We never kept the people in dark.” “Soon after assuming power, a Supreme Court monitored Special Investigation Team was formed to investigate the black money parked outside the country. Previous governments neglected this; Did I hide anything? We took a key step to help the honest citizens defeat the menace of graft. “We collected Rs670 billion under amnesty scheme. “But in the last two years, through raids, surveys and declarations, the government has collected Rs1.250 billion in its exchequer...I kept on administering small doses of medicine to improve the economic situation of the country since I came to power,” Modi said, referring to the Jan Dhan scheme aimed at financial inclusion. - PTI

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

‘Take stern action against those advocating separatism’ JAMMU: The society will not tolerate any compromise with the sovereignty, unity and integrity of the country, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday and demanded stern action against those advocating separatism. “The society will not tolerate any compromise with the sovereignty, unity and integrity of the country. It is need of the hour to take stern action as per law against those who advocate separatism and work at the behest of their masters sitting across the border,” Bhagwat told Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) workers here. Bhagwat said people of Jammu and Kashmir have faced hardship to safeguard the integrity of the country. “You have faced those hardships for the country, the situation has to be resolved. If the situation has not been resolved for so long, then it can have two reasons. Either we have no courage to resolve the situation or there is some shortfall in our efforts to resolve the problem,” he said. The RSS chief said, in a democracy, society is the most powerful entity which has the power to elect its representatives. “Whatever the society wants the government has to work that way. This is the rule in democracy,” he said, adding in India the rule of the law is supreme and everyone has to follow it. “It is a huge country with so many states but it is still one country. The government will work for the emotional unity of the country which was the basis on which Constitution was written. The sovereignty, unity and integrity of the nation are paramount,” he said. Bhagwat said though the country adopted a federal form of government only a few decades ago, it has been one nation for ages. Bhagwat said the need of the hour was to follow the laws and strengthen the country and not divide it. - PTI

S A LT - T O - S O F T WA R E C O N G L O M E R AT E

Tata-Mistry row escalates, no-holds-barred fight likely MUMBAI: The Tata-Mistry feud flared up on Sunday, with the ousted chairman rebutting allegations of “drifting away” Tata companies during his tenure and hitting back at attempts to question integrity of independent directors who backed him, prompting the $102-billion group’s holding firm Tata Sons to assert it will do “whatever is required” to deal with the situation. Terming the Tata Sons’ contention that group companies were “drifting away” under him as “furthest from truth”, Mistry hit out first at Tata Sons calling its criticism of independent directors, revered names in India Inc, as “truly unfortunate”. This led the salt-to-software conglomerate to assert that it will do “whatever is required to deal with the situation”, hinting at a no-holds-barred battle in the days ahead. A day ahead of the crucial board meet of Tata Motors, the group also said it is “crucially important” for the boards, including the independent

REBUTTING ALLEGATIONS:

Ousted Tata Sons chairman, Cyrus Mistry, arrives for Tata Steel’s board meeting in Mumbai on Friday. - PTI

directors, to “consider their views and positions ensure that the future of Tata companies is protected, taking into consideration the interest of all stakeholders”. It can be noted that the independent directors of at least two big companies from the Group, including Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) and Tata Chemicals, have backed the ousted chairman

leading the holding company to question their objectives in a 9-page letter sent last week. Mistry’s ﬁrst statement was a part-rebuttal of the allegations levelled against him in the statement and in defence of the independent directors. “To suggest that ‘ulterior objectives’ and ‘clever strategy’ can sway these eminent names in undertaking their ﬁduciary duties and in discharging the duties mandated by statute as independent directors is absolutely astonishing and really speaks of how low Tata Sons has unfortunately stooped in their public statements,” a statement from his office said, in a rebuttal to the recent actions of Tata Sons. Stating that the independent directors whose conduct has been questioned include names like Deepak Parekh, Nusli Wadia and Nadir Godrej, among others, Mistry added that it is “truly unfortunate” that independence of “stalwarts of India Inc” is being questioned. - PTI

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PAKISTAN

External debt likely to swell to $110b At present, Pakistan’s external debt stands at $73 billion, which has been projected to swell 50 per cent to $110 billion in just four years

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s external debt is projected to grow to a whopping $110 billion within four years and it will need over $22 billion a year just to meet external payment requirements, posing a serious threat to the country’s solvency. By that time, Pakistan will again be back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avoid default

on international payments as it did in 2013, according to independent projections revealed at the National Debt Conference on Saturday. Two renowned economists, former ﬁnance minister Dr Haﬁz Pasha and former director general debt Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khan, have made the external debt projections. The $110-billion external

debt level by 2019-20 will be $24 billion higher than projections made by the IMF in its latest report on Pakistan. Khan shared his assessment at the debt conference, arranged by the Policy Research Institute of Market Economy (PRIME) – an independent think tank. The duo updated their previous external debt forecast for ﬁscal year 2018-19 from $90 billion to $98 billion after the government borrowed heavily in the past one year. At present, the external debt stands at $73 billion, which has been projected to swell 50 per cent to $110 billion in just four years. They did not see a major change in Pakistan’s export situation and anticipated that by 2019-20, the exports would stand

SURVEYS COMPLETED

Punjab to impose property tax on all vacant plots LAHORE: The government of Punjab has decided to enforce property tax on all vacant plots across the province, officials say. The Punjab Excise and Taxation

Department has already completed surveys in major cities including Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Gujranwala and identiﬁed about 250,000 vacant plots that

will come under the property tax net. The government will collect a revenue of at least Rs150 million from owners of these plots in this ﬁscal year. - Express Tribune

roughly at $25 billion, a level that the country crossed in the last year of previous government of Pakistan Peoples Party. Slowdown in exports Owing to slowdown in exports, Pakistan’s external debt to export ratio has been projected at 441.8 per cent by 2019-20, which is highly unsustainable. By that year, the country will consume 40 per cent of its export earnings to service the external debt. “Pakistan is fast slipping into the debt trap and neither the government nor parliament is playing its due role,” remarked Asad Umar, MNA of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf while speaking at the conference. Khan said by 2019-20 amortisa-

tion payments would increase to $10 billion. To fill the current account gap, the country will require another $12.5 billion a year, increasing the total external payment requirement to $22.5 billion. The current account deficit will mainly widen due to imports of machinery and plants for projects being developed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Against IMF’s projection of $16.7 billion, Khan said total external financing needs to bridge the current account deficit and repay loans would stand at $22.5 billion by 2019-20. After exhausting all available resources including CPEC financing, foreign investment and funds from traditional donors, there would still be

$11-billion financing gap, which the country would not be able to bridge without IMF’s help, said Khan. He predicted that Pakistan would return to the IMF in 2018-19 – the fiscal year when the country’s external debt would be $98 billion and its financing gap will be $9 billion. “Pakistan’s debt situation is deteriorating rapidly and posing a serious threat to its solvency,” he cautioned. Commercial borrowings comprised 25 per cent of external debt, which was a matter of concern, said Shahid Kardar, former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. He said low returns on the country’s foreign currency reserves compared to the borrowing cost were also a matter of concern. - Express Tribune

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WORLD Thousands flee homes as tsunami hits New Zealand Emergency response teams were dispatched by helicopter to the region that bore the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake, some 91 km north-northeast of Christchurch in

ALERT: A tsunami warning alert is seen on a notice board above State Highway 1 in Wellington early on November 14, 2016 following an earthquake centred some 90 kilometres (57 miles) north of New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch. — AFP

VICTIMS: New Zealand residents camp near the top of Mt Victoria, the highest hill in Wellington on early November 14, 2016, following an earthquake centred some 90 kilometres (57 miles) north of New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch. — AFP

the South Island

WELLINGTON: A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks shook New Zealand in the early hours of Monday, generating a tsunami and sending thousands of people ﬂeeing for higher ground. Emergency response teams were dispatched by helicopter to the region that bore the epicentre of the quake, some 91 km (57 miles) north-northeast of Christchurch in the South Island, amid reports of injuries and collapsed buildings. There were no immediate reports of deaths. Power was out and phone lines down in many areas of the country, roads were blocked by landslips and the Civil Defence Minis-

try warned that waves of up to five metres (yards) remained a risk for several hours. “The first waves have arrived but we know that it is too early to say what the impact has been,” said Sarah Stuart-Black, national controller at the Ministry of Civil Defence.”Our concern is what is coming. Future waves are coming that may be bigger than what has come before.” The first tremor, just 15 kms deep, struck the island nation just after midnight, jolting many from their sleep and raising memories of the 6.3 magnitude Christchurch quake in 2011, which killed 185 people. New Zealand’s Geonet measured Monday’s quake at magnitude 7.5. New Zealand lies in the seismically active “Ring of Fire”, a

FRAGILE GOVERNMENT

40,000 kilometre arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Paciﬁc Ocean. Around 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur within this region. Completely cut off St. John Ambulance said it was sending helicopters carrying medical and rescue personnel to the coastal tourist town of Kaikoura. It is completely cut off and officials said there are reports of a collapsed building. “There are some reports of casualties but the picture will be clearer as day breaks,” Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee said. In Wellington, there was gridlock on the roads to Mount Victoria, a hill with a lookout over the low-lying coastal city, as residents

headed for higher ground. “I’m just sort of parked by the side of the road and I think people are trying to go to sleep the same as I am,” Wellington resident Howard Warner told Reuters after evacuating his seaside house. Richard Maclean, a spokesman for the Wellington City Council, said there was structural damage to several buildings. Residents were advised to stay away from the central business district on Monday and the train network was closed for checks. Wellington international airport, however, was expected to open as usual on Monday. In Christchurh, where tsunami sirens continued intermittently, three evacuation centres were accepting residents. Police have set up roadblocks to prevent people from returning to

lower-lying coastal areas. Pictures shared on social media showed buckled roads, smashed glass and goods toppled from shelves in shops in Wellington and the upper South Island. “The whole house rolled like a serpent and some things smashed, the power went out,” a woman, who gave her name as Elizabeth, told Radio New Zealand from her home in Takaka, near the top of the South Island. There was initial confusion when emergency services ﬁrst said there was no tsunami threat. Christchurch Civil Defence Controller John Mackie said that while the earthquake was centred inland, the fault line extended offshore for a considerable distance. That meant that seismic activity could cause movement out at sea, leading to a tsunami. — Reuters

E S C A L AT I O N

8 dead in Myanmar clashes YANGON: Eight people died and 36 were arrested in clashes between the Myanmar army and what the government believes are Rohingya militants in northern Rakhine State, state media said on Sunday, in the largest escalation of the month-old conflict yet. Skirmishes took place throughout Saturday in villages in the north of Rakhine, leaving one officer and one soldier dead. Six bodies of attackers were recovered in the aftermath, while 36 other people believed to be involved were arrested. About 60 attackers armed with guns, knives and spears ambushed government troops on Saturday morning, the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar said. The Myanmararmy returned fire, but at one point asked for army choppers to reinforce because its troops were outnumbered, the paper said. Northern Rakhine Soldiers have poured into northern Rakhine, close to the border with Bangladesh, since October 9, after an insurgent group of Rohingyas that the government believes has links to hardliners overseas launched coordinated attacks on several border posts. The military has blocked access to the area for journalists and aid workers. Residents and human rights advocates have accused security forces of summary executions, rapes and setting fire to homes. The government and the army have rejected the accusations, saying they were conducting the “clearance operation” in the villages in accordance with the rule of law. — Reuters

SOUTH KOREA

Afghan parliament Park to be questioned over scandal dismisses two more ministers KABUL: Afghanistan’s parliament dismissed two more cabinet ministers on Sunday, ignoring pleas from the president and chief executive to halt votes that threaten an already fragile Western-backed government. The power-sharing unity government was brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry following the disputed 2014 presidential elections, but has since been weakened by inﬁghting between rivals. Parliament removed the transportation and education ministers on Sunday, citing poor performance and bringing the total number of ministers dismissed to ﬁve over two days. Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi was the only minister on Sunday to survive the vote, a relief for international donors and the government. The vote took place despite pleas from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to halt further action against the cabinet. “President Ghani and Dr Abdullah told MPs that their decision will deal a huge political blow to the government at this

critical time and urged them to stop the process,” Mirdad Najrabi, chairman of parliament’s security commission, said. A statement released by Ghani’s office said the government did not want confrontation and respected the decision of the parliament, but asked the House of Representatives to suspend its decision. Parliament, which has a constitutional right to sack ministers, may hold votes on as many as 11 more ministers. “This is our right and we will use it and will not let the government politicise this process,” lawmaker Gul Padsha Majidi said before Sunday’s vote. Parliament on Saturday dismissed three ministers including, Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani. The deteriorating political situation in Afghanistan could become a major foreign policy challenge for US President-elect Donald Trump, who has said little about Afghanistan on the campaign trail. Kabul was supposed to have overseen fresh parliamentary elections and a constitutional grand council to re-establish political legitimacy. — Reuters

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors will question President Park Geun-hye over a political corruption scandal engulfing her presidency, an official said on Sunday, the first time a sitting president will be questioned by prosecutors over a criminal case. Hundreds of thousands marched in the capital Seoul on Saturday demanding Park resign. Many protesters said Park, whose public support has dropped to the lowest point ever for a democratically elected South Korean leader at 5 per cent, was unfit to rule. Prosecutors are investigating whether Park exerted improper pressure on “chaebol” conglomerate bosses to raise funds for two foundations at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal involving a friend of hers, Yonhap reported on Sunday, citing prosecution sources. Choi Soon-sil They are also probing Park’s friend, Choi Soon-sil, who is alleged to have used her ties to the president to meddle in state affairs and wield influence in the cultural and sports communities, a prosecutor has previously said. Prosecutors have already questioned the de facto head of Samsung Group Jay Y. Lee and the chairmen of Hyundai Motor Group and Hanjin Group over the scandal,

the other chaebol bosses had met prosecutors. A Korean Air Lines spokesman conﬁrmed that Cho Yang-ho, who is chairman of Hanjin and South Korea’s largest airline, had appeared for questioning but did not elaborate further. A Hyundai Motor spokesman declined to comment and Samsung Group could not immediately conﬁrm the reports of prosecutors questioning their respective officials.

UNDER PRESSURE: South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul in this ﬁle picture taken on March 1, 2016. - Reuters File

media reports said on Sunday. “It’s correct we’re planning to question the president but the date is undecided,” an official at the prosecutors’ office told Reuters. Yonhap news agency quoted a prosecution official as saying Park’s questioning should be done no later than Wednesday. “Questioning people face-toface is our principle,” the official said. Park will appear before prosecutors as a witness, Yonhap reported. Park’s office said it would be Tuesday at the earliest before it

will have a position on the prosecutors’ plan and was considering retaining a lawyer for the president. While some previous South Korean presidents have been mired in scandals or allegations of wrongdoing involving family members during their terms, none were directly questioned by prosecutors while they were in office. The prosecution office official conﬁrmed the chairman of Hyundai Motor, Chung Mongkoo, was questioned on Saturday but declined to conﬁrm whether

Impeachment Park faces intense pressure from the public and parliament to step down over the scandal, but the main opposition parties have not raised the possibility of initiating impeachment proceedings. The presidential office said earlier on Sunday that Park was “earnestly considering ways to normalise state affairs” and that she had “heard the voices of the people at the rally”. Park has said she had discussed with conglomerate heads in July last year her desire for them to contribute more for culture without elaborating. South Korean prosecutors raided Samsung Electronics last week as part of the probe over the scandal and whether the company separately gave millions of euros to a company controlled by Choi and her daughter. — Reuters

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UKIP’s chief Farage meets Trump Pro-Brexit leader and the US president-elect discussed Donald Trump’s victory, global politics and Brexit

NEW YORK/LONDON: Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage visited Donald Trump at his home on Saturday, after suggesting he could act as a go-between to help smooth British relations with the US president-elect. British Prime Minister Theresa May is not expected to meet the incoming leader until early next year

and Farage has suggested her criticisms of Trump in the early days of the campaign could damage ties with Washington. “We’re just tourists!” Farage, head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), told reporters as he waited for an elevator to take him up to the meeting at Trump Tower in New York City.

He later tweeted a photograph of himself with Trump standing in front of a pair of golden doors and smiling broadly, the presidentelect giving the camera a thumbsup. “It was a great honor to spend time with @realDonaldTrump,” Farage tweeted. “He was relaxed and full of good ideas. I’m conﬁdent he will be a good President.” Trump’s election campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said: “I think they enjoy each other’s company, and they actually had a chance to talk about freedom and winning and what this all means for the world.” In a separate photograph posted on Twitter, UKIP donor Arron Banks, Breitbart London Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam, and Gerry

FA R - R I G H T L E A D E R

Le Pen hopes for Trump-like win in 2017 French election LONDON: Donald Trump’s US election was a victory of the people against the elite, France’s farright leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday, adding she hoped the French would follow suit next year and make her president. Opinion polls show National Front leader Le Pen likely to win the ﬁrst round of voting next April but lose the runoff in May to whoever should be her opponent. ‘Victory of people’ Asked during an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr show if Trump’s victory made her own election win more likely, Le Pen said: “He made possible what had previously been presented as impossible so it is really the victory of the people against the elite.” “So if I can draw a parallel with France then yes I wish that in France also the people up-end the table, the table around which the elites are dividing up what should go to the French people,” she said, according to a translation into

OPTIMISTIC: France’s far right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen in Paris, France, on May 1, 2016. – Reuters File

English provided by the BBC. Le Pen said she hoped all EU citizens could get the chance to express their views on the European Union through a referendum like Britain’s June 23 vote, adding that “the elites would be in for another surprise” if they did ask the question. She also said there was no reason for Europe to be scared of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We’d better, if we want a powerful Europe, negotiate with Russia, and

have cooperation agreements with Russia, commercial agreements with Russia,” she said, adding that it was the EU that was destabilising Europe, not Russia. “The model that is defended by Vladimir Putin which is one of reason, protectionism, looking after the interests of his own country, defending its identity, is one that I like.” Le Pen said her party had borrowed from a Russian bank but only because French banks had refused to lend to it. — Reuters

Gunster, an American whose advocacy ﬁrm worked on the Brexit campaign, were also pictured with Trump and Farage. In a leaked diplomatic telegram, sent on November 9 and printed in the Sunday Times newspaper, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, said he believed Britain had built better relationships with Trump’s team than other foreign diplomats. “(Trump) is above all an outsider and an unknown quantity, whose campaign pronouncements may reveal his instincts, but will surely evolve and, particularly, be open to outside inﬂuence if pitched right,” he said. “We should be well placed to do this.” UKIP, which has only one mem-

ber of parliament in London, said Farage and Trump spent more than an hour discussing Trump’s victory, global politics and Brexit. A UKIP official has suggested Farage could even be the next ambassador to the United States, but British media reported that May’s office rejected the idea of any role for Farage, citing unnamed sources who described him as an “irrelevance”. A day after Trump’s election victory, Farage called on the real estate mogul to reverse “loathsome” Barack Obama’s policy by making Britain his top priority. Farage said he had been pleased at Trump’s “very positive reaction” to the idea that a bust of former British prime minister Win-

ston Churchill be put back in the Oval Office. He has also joked about assault allegations against Trump. He proposed that in any meetings between the British and American leaders, he could attend to be the “responsible adult to make sure everything is OK.” Farage, who spoke at a Trump rally during the election campaign, had predicted the former reality TV host would tap into the same dissatisfaction among voters that led to Britain deciding on June 23 to leave the European Union. Trump made repeated references to Brexit during his campaign, saying it had highlighted the desire for change among voters frustrated with traditional politics. — Reuters

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WORLD British swimmer attempts 3,200km Atlantic crossing

AFTER 200 FILMS

HONOUR: Honoree Jackie Chan, left, poses with actor Sylvester Stallone after Chan accepted his Honorary Oscar Award during the 8th Annual Governors Awards in Hollywood, California on November 12, 2016. - AFP

Ben Hooper, a former military policeman who has been training for

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the challenge since 2013, expects to take between four and ﬁve months to swim to Natal in Brazil from Senegal in Africa

DAKAR: A 38-year-old British man set out on Sunday on a 2,000 mile (3,200 km) swim from Senegal to Brazil, seeking to become the ﬁrst person to make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Ben Hooper, a former military policeman who has been training for the challenge since 2013, expects to take between four and ﬁve months to swim to Natal in Brazil. Wearing swimming shorts, he waved to well-wishers, saying “See you in Brazil” before wading into the water at Dakar’s Monaco beach and starting a steady front crawl in the direction of Goree island.

hanging around, like I don’t want to let my team down or my daughter, let alone my charities and my followers,” he added. Hooper has had a lifelong passion for swimming since nearly drowning at the age of ﬁve. He said he ﬁrst conceived of the Atlantic challenge while battling depression in later life.

Shark breeding grounds A group of Senegalese onlookers said a prayer for him. Hooper, who is 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, may have to swim through heavy seas, as well as shark breeding grounds close to Brazil. “Together we’re going to show that nothing is impossible,” he told Reuters before his departure. “I’m a little bit nervous, I’m a human being. I have a few fears

Camouﬂage wetsuit In particularly risky zones, he will wear a camouﬂage wetsuit and use cans of rotting shark cartilage that are supposed to act as a natural repellent. He aims to swim up to 12 hours a day in two sessions and then rest on board one of the two support vessels sailing alongside him with nine crew members and an English Mastiff named Tank.

DETERMINED: Ben Hooper, 38, breathes between strokes as he starts a swim across the Atlantic from Dakar, Senegal, on Sunday.

The boats have been loaded with water, ration packs, bottles of vinegar for jellyﬁsh stings - and a Christmas tree. To ward off the inevitable fatigue and dips in morale, Hooper said he will think about his daughter but also bear in mind the exploits of explorers like Ranulph Fiennes, who crossed the Antarctic unsupported on foot, and is backing the mission. “I will need to draw on their stories as this is bound to drive me to the edge,” said Hooper. Music also gives him a boost and one of his top training tracks is “Hall of Fame” by Irish band The Script. The swim, which aims to raise a million pounds for charity, has been delayed several times. In recent days, three crew members including a skipper and

medic dropped out before the planned start. They have since been replaced. Sources formerly involved said that there had been concerns about the safety and readiness of the vessels. Little crazy “For me it was no skipper, no go,” said John Rogers, a friend of Hooper’s who was due to accompany him. “But I hope Ben makes it. He has the stamina and the mindset even if he is a little crazy,” he said. Nigel Taylor-Schoﬁeld, captain of one of the vessels, said the tiller had broken on the eve of departure and had to be repaired overnight. “It’s going to be an interesting challenge,” he said on the beach, with his catamaran bobbing in the

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background. Besides rough seas, another challenge will be crossing the low-pressure area near the Equator known as the Doldrums, where boats can be becalmed for weeks. French-born Benoit Lecomte claims to have swum the Atlantic in 1998 but it was not recognized by Guinness World Records and Hooper said his pace was impossible. “If I don’t make this, as long as I have at least one leg and one arm, I will bloody do it again and I will get it done,” said Hooper. — Reuters

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LOS ANGELES: When Jackie Chan saw an Oscar at Sylvester Stallone’s house 23 years ago, he said that was the moment he decided he wanted one. On Saturday at the annual Governors Awards, the Chinese actor and martial arts star finally received his little gold statuette, an honorary Oscar for his decades of work in film. “After 56 years in the film industry, making more than 200 films, after so many bones, finally,” Chan, 62, quipped at the star-studded gala dinner while holding his Oscar. The actor recalled watching the ceremony with his parents and his father always asking him why he didn’t have Hollywood’s top accolade despite having made so many movies. He praised his hometown Hong Kong for making him “proud to be Chinese,” and thanked his fans. Often overlooked The actor was introduced by his Rush Hour co-star Chris Tucker, actress Michelle Yeoh and Tom Hanks, who referred to him as “Jackie ‘Chantastic’ Chan.” Hanks said it was especially gratifying to be able to acknowledge Chan’s work because martial arts and action comedy films were two genres often overlooked during awards season. — Reuters

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he election of Donald Trump, the consummate deal-maker, throws up a unique chance for stability and an end to the chaos, violence and civil war that has engulfed Libya since the overthrow of Colonel Gadaffi. How? Because he is a businessman; a dealmaker, plain and simple. Policy-wise, Trump is hard to second guess this early after the election. He opposed the 2003 Iraq invasion, but also opposed US bombing of Gaddafi in 2011. But reasons for optimism regarding Libya, and for the Middle East in general, are not rooted in guesswork over policy, but in the style that he brings to the table. It is the style of a businessman-deal maker. It is often remarked that Trump is the first US president never to have served in politics of the military, and the flip side of this is he is one of the few who knows how to cut deals - because he is one of the few to have worked in the commercial world. His biggest challenge, in fact, may be getting things done by breaking through the layers of advisors and bureaucrats that clog Washington. “Mr. Trump as a decision-maker will be either contained by the Establishment, and so most of his rhetoric will be diminished, or he will somehow hopefully change the Establishment”, says Mahmud Jibril, who made his name as prime minister of the rebel administration that emerged in Libya’s Arab Spring to combat Gaddafi. “His (Trump’s) business instincts will make him go for the opportunity when he can see it,” says Jibril, while warning: “But there are institutions and a bureaucracy which are well established and entrenched in the United States. And so there will be tension between the new president and such a strong bureaucracy.” And yet, if anyone can ram change through a bureaucracy it is Trump. Especially concerning Libya, where clear blue thinking is needed to prevent a slow-burning civil war erupting into a Syria-style conflagration. Two sides have been fighting off-and-on since 2014, when Libya Dawn, an alliance of extremists and Misratans, rebelled against the newlyelected House of Representatives parliament.

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Story Nishad Padiyarath ogy, all-terrain ability, thanks to a ground clearance of 210mm, 15cm longer than the previous model, and 550dm3 VDA boot (equivalent to 600 litres). Besides, this new add-on to the catalogue highlights Renault’s know-how: A refined, comfortable interior with seats including technology and design amongst the very best in its category, class-leading cabin space, including 289mm of rear knee room, 8.7” touchscreen tablet with R-LINK 2 multimedia and navigation system. New Koleos delivers a blend of robust SUV codes as well as the refinement and features associated with large sedan cars. Refined on-board experience As soon as you settle on board, you already feel as if you are somewhere else. Nothing here is left to chance. Everything is a step above: The materials, the satin finish on the chrome inserts, and the finely stitched leather. In simple words, Koleos looks protective from inside with its comfort, quality and elegant interior which is in perfect harmony with the model’s exterior lines. An elevated driving position

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he launch of the secondgeneration Renault Koleos in Oman is one of the company’s most significant to date. So significant that we are in fact one among the first market to get the car — not something we’re used to here. The medium-SUV is poised to become the company’s topseller here, which is fitting when you consider the continued rapid growth in this corner of the market. The new Koleos sits on the same proven architecture as the Nissan X-Trail (fruits of the global Renault-Nissan Alliance) and Renault is keeping up with its offensive in the SUV segment. This brand-new addition to the product line-up will provide Oman customers with a wider and complete choice to fulfil even more their local expectations. Here we take our first drive of a Koleos hosted by the company at Downtown Dubai where it was officially launched. New Koleos was first unveiled at the last Beijing Motor Show and embodies Renault’s high-end vision for the markets where SUV sales are booming. I must say, Koleos delivers all that is expected of a D-segment SUV: Powerful, muscular exterior lines, four-wheel drive technol-

Impressive performance Koleos comes with a 2.5-litre, fourcylinder engine and has 16-valve powerplant with double overhead camshafts. Power is 170hp (126kW) at 6,000rpm, with peak torque of 233Nm at 4,000rpm. Renault says the two-wheel-drive Koleos needs 9.5 seconds to reach 100km/h, while the heavier all-

wheel-drive version needs an extra 0.3s to make the same mark. The all-wheel-drive variant drives the front wheels for the most part, sending up to 50 per cent of drive to the rear when required. A locked four-wheel-drive setting allows for an even split of torque at low speeds on loose surfaces. We tested the Koleos on winding roads surrounding Dubai, where the SUV acquitted itself well with nicely weighted, consistent steering and decent balance. On these roads, Renault’s machine felt much more impressive. With its global appeal, Koleos will certainly play a huge part in the Renault’s brand’s international growth by expanding its product range and extending its foothold across the world. For Renault, Koleos comes at a time when SUVs are enjoying strong growth in many markets, and for many consumers, this will be their ﬁrst opportunity to experience the Renault brand. –nishad@timesofoman.com Local dealer: Suhail Bahwan Automotive Toll free number: 8005 0011 renault-me.com

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e know that proper air pressure is the most important thing to help tyres wear longer, save fuel, and improve the handling of vehicles. Your tyres will naturally lose 1 to 2 pounds of air pressure a month, but most people don’t realise that for every 10 degree change in temperature your tyre air pressure changes 1psi (pounds per square inch). Checking air pressure is easy with accurate air device. To check air pressure, unscrew the valve cap and press the device in to place, you may hear short burst and air comes out. The device also displays the air pressure. If you add air, check the air pressure again to make sure you have the correct air pressure. The correct air pressure may be found in the vehicle owner’s manual or on the tyre placard attached to the vehicle door edge, doorpost glove box, or fuel door. Remember, don’t use inﬂation number shown on the tyre, this number only represents the maximum tyre inﬂation pressure, not the recommended air pressure for your vehicle.

When finished, replace the valve cap. This will protect the valve stem from dirt and moisture, which could cause air loss. Remember to replace the valve assembly when you replace the tyres. It’s your best assurance against a sudden or consistent loss of air pressure. Many believe that they can check air pressure of their vehicle just by looking at the tyre or judging the sidewall appearance. Also, many people use air metres at service stations, which can be grossly inaccurate due to exposure or abuse. Invest in a quality tyre pressure device. To get the most accurate reading, make sure to check the pressure before driving on your tyres. If you have to drive before you check the pressure, try not to drive more than a mile; driving on a tyre increases its temperature and air pressure. To get the most out of your tyres and best fuel economy, try to check your air pressure every other time you fill up at the gas station or at least once a month. And finally, don’t forget to check your spare tyre. — mobinmathew@timesofoman.com

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ship banking, where the combination of local presence and the profound expertise gathered by the HSBC Group internationally is customised for its clients in Oman, to provide innovative solutions across all aspects of banking, to best meet their needs. “For the growth of corporate clients, they must have access to advice, expertise and information, which HSBC can provide due to its local presence and wide network of experts around the world. This combined with the latest technology, can facilitate an environment where organisations can make use of our products to increase efficiency, meet their funding requirements and manage their business through the cycle” he explained, citing examples of companies engaging in a strate-

gic dialogue early in the process to ensure the right range of solutions are provided. Most organisations reach the dialogue stage with their respective banks when there is an immediate need for funding or the date of project execution approaches an uncomfortable proximity, which allows for little strategic discussion between banks and clients. SMEs constitute nearly 50 per cent of the workforce in Oman and with future diversiﬁcation plans they are to play a pivotal role in development of the economy. According to Felton, as HSBC serves nearly every sector and industry worldwide, SMEs should also be engaging in a strategic dialogue with their bank at an early stage to seek advice whilst they work to grow their business.Access to the right information is often as important as access to funding. “We have market leading technological solutions like our advanced internet banking channel – HSBCnet and liquidity solutions like cash concentration which remove manual processing, increase efficiency and therefore help accelerating decision making process. All of these can prove beneﬁcial for companies looking for efficiencies and better manage their working cap-

ital positions. “Online and digital solutions also remove significant operational burdens which can benefit all companies – including SMEs” he added. Felton elaborated that although there is a significant tightening of liquidity in the country and the region as a whole, technological solutions presented an excellent route to help manage the situation. “The times are certainly challenging but leveraging technological solutions is an effective way to help better manage cash position. We provide our customers with market leading technology solutions, that allow them to access real time information faster and more efficiently, giving them more time to focus on the strategic and tactical elements of running their business,” he said.Felton noted that this was one of the major discussions of the recent ‘Growth Series’ event held on liquidity management. HSBC started the ‘Growth Series’ in 2014, initially directed at SMEs and how HSBC could support them more broadly – since then the initiative has expanded and is offered to all corporates and SMEs. A major part of the series was to provide access to information and expertise accumulated by HSBC both locally and globally.

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Emerging-market rout extends to Gulf on Trump’s policy risk DUBAI: The biggest emergingmarket stock selloff in more than a year extended to the Gulf on concern US President-Elect Donald Trump will change oil agreements and his nation’s relationships with Saudi Arabia and Iran. The DFM General Index in Dubai, which counts Iran as a trading partner, dropped for a third day, losing 1.5 per cent as of 12:58pm local time. Abu Dhabi’s ADX General Index fell one per cent. Qatar’s QE Index retreated 0.7 per cent. Trump this year promised independence from Opec and vowed to dismantle a nuclear deal with Iran that unlocked the nation’s crude exports. He also said he would approve a pipeline from Canada to the US, which would curb demand for oil from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), most of whose governments rely on energy revenue to fund spending. “No one knows what Trump’s policies toward the Middle East will be, and that kind of uncertainty keeps investors away,” said Talal Touqan, the head of research at Abu Dhabi-based Al Ramz Capital, a brokerage and investment bank. “Will he increase production from Canada and break oil agreements? What will his policies be toward

Iran and Saudi Arabia?” Stocks across emerging markets fell for a third day through Friday on concern that Trump’s plan to boost spending will raise inﬂation, leading to more frequent Federal Reserve interest-rate increases. The rout extended to bonds and currencies, including all three of Saudi Arabia’s US dollar bonds, which fell every day since he won the election. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabian stocks have continued to rally after the government sold $17.5 billion of bonds last month, an emerging-market record. The Tadawul All Share Index, which entered a bull market last week, gained for a seventh straight day on Sunday, adding 1.5 per cent. The gauge has advanced 16 of the past 18 days. Kuwait’s SE Price Index slipped 0.2 per cent and the Bahrain Bourse All Share Index fell 0.1 per cent. — Bloomberg News

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INDICES Index .................................................High .................Low..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff % MSM30 Index ........................................ 5,417.57 ...............5,410.94 ....................5,416.96 ....................5,417.67...................-0.71 .................. -0.01 Financial Index .................................... 6,994.25 .............. 6,976.29 ...................6,994.22 ...................6,994.91.................. -0.69 .................. -0.01 Industrial Index .................................... 7,091.63 ...............7,088.68 ....................7,091.02 ....................7,091.61.................. -0.59 .................. -0.01 Services Index ...................................... 3,009.59 ...............3,007.60 ...................3,008.27 ...................3,008.40.................. -0.13 ...................0.00 MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................839.83 .................. 837.72 .......................839.81 ...................... 839.25....................0.56 ................... 0.07 Trading Summary Volume ................Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded 5,270,018 .....................1,013,586 .................... 242 ............... 17,134,462,597 .................. 4 ........................6 .................... 16 .........................26

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REGULAR MARKET ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ..................................................96,253 ............ 46,935........................7 ........... 0.486 ...........0.488 ...........0.486........... 0.488 .............0.486 ........... 0.002............. 0.412 ................0.488..............0.488...................0.490 ..................25,620,000.........0.100 OM0000001087............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ................................... 4,058 ................1,177........................1 ........... 0.290...........0.290 ...........0.290 .......... 0.290 .............0.290 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.290..............0.288...................0.290 ..................29,000,000 ........0.100 OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ........................................................13,348 ............ 20,356......................11 ............1.525 ........... 1.525 ...........1.525 ............1.525 ............. 1.525............ 0.000.............0.000 ................1.525 ..............1.500...................1.530................. 305,000,000 .......0.100 OM0000001483............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 135,000 ........... 29,700........................6 ........... 0.220...........0.220 ...........0.220 .......... 0.220 .............0.220 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.220 ............ 0.220...................0.225 .................324,451,881 ........0.100 OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE.............. 807,951 .......... 145,434.....................20 ............0.181 ........... 0.181............0.180........... 0.180 .............0.180 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.180.............. 0.181...................0.182...................36,000,000 ........0.100 OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST ............................................................................807 ...................391........................2 ........... 0.484 ...........0.484 ...........0.484........... 0.484 .............0.484 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.484..............0.480...................0.490 .................307,722,790 ........0.100 OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 712,473...........114,074..................... 28 ............0.160 ........... 0.162 ...........0.160........... 0.160 .............0.160 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.160..............0.160...................0.162...................28,000,393.........0.100 OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES .............................................. 1,000 .................. 180........................1 ............0.180 ........... 0.180 ...........0.180........... 0.180 .............0.180 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.180.............. 0.176...................0.182....................11,016,769 .........0.100

Bank Nizwa was the top gainer, up by 1.30 per cent, while Global Financial Investment was top loser with a loss of 2.78 per cent.

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 224,688 ......... 330,091......................17 ............1.460 ........... 1.470 ...........1.460............1.470 ............. 1.470............ 0.000.............0.000 ................1.470 ..............1.460...................1.470................1,102,500,000 ......0.100 OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR..................................................................26,543 ............... 3,743........................2 ............0.141 ........... 0.141............0.141 ............0.141 ............. 0.141............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.141 .............. 0.141...................0.142................. 226,234,407 .......0.100 OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ....................................................... 4,554 ...............2,049........................2 ........... 0.450 ...........0.450 ...........0.450........... 0.450 .............0.450 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.450..............0.450...................0.452...................27,225,000.........0.100 OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO...........................................................................5,000 ...............3,160........................1 ........... 0.632 ........... 0.632 ...........0.632........... 0.632 .............0.632 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.632..............0.628...................0.632.................. 411,396,753 ........0.100 OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ........................................................29,932 ............... 4,174........................5 ............0.140 ........... 0.140 ...........0.139 ............0.139 ............. 0.139............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.139 .............. 0.138...................0.139..................203,301,603........0.100

MUSCAT: Amid poor trading volumes, the MSM 30 Index ended on a ﬂat note at 5,416.96 points, down by 0.01 per cent. The MSM Sharia Index gained 0.07 per cent to close at 839.81 points. Al Hassan Engineering was the most active in terms of volume while Oman Telecommunications Company led in turnover. Bank Nizwa was the top gainer, up by 1.30 per cent, while Global Financial Investment was top loser with a loss of 2.78 per cent. As many as 242 trades were executed on Sunday, generating turnover of OMR1.88 million with 5.3 million shares changing hands. Out of 26 traded securities, four advanced, 6 declined and 16 remained unchanged. GCC and Arab investors stayed net buyers for OMR73,000 while foreign investors were net sellers for OMR61,000 followed by

Omani investors for OMR12,000 worth of shares. Financial Index was stable at 6,994.22 points, down by 0.01 per cent. Bank Nizwa and Al Sharqia Investments increased by 1.30 per cent and 0.88 per cent, respectively. Global Financial Investment, Al Madina Investment, Al Madina Takaful and Bank Muscat declined by 2.78 per cent, 1.85 per cent, 1.35 per cent and 0.50 per cent, respectively. Industrial Index stayed at 7,091.02 points, down by 0.01 per cent. Al Anwar Ceramics gained 0.41 per cent. Al Hassan Engineering and Al Anwar Ceramics declined by 1.85 per cent and 0.68 per cent, respectively. Services Index was unchanged at 3,008.27 points. Oman National Engineering, down by 0.67 per cent, was the only loser. – United Securities

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 179,095............72,004......................14 ........... 0.402 ...........0.404 ...........0.402........... 0.402 .............0.404 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.495 ...............0.404..............0.404...................0.406 ...............1,003,492,604 ......0.100 OM0000002168............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 184,872 ............26,801.....................20 ............0.146 ........... 0.146 ...........0.144............0.145 .............0.146............-0.001 ........... -0.685 ...............0.144..............0.143...................0.144...................42,950,984.........0.100 OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL...............................................70,473 ............... 5,145......................11 ........... 0.073 ........... 0.073 ...........0.073........... 0.073 .............0.074 ...........-0.001 ............-1.351 ................0.073..............0.072...................0.073...................12,775,000 .........0.100 OM0000001962............AL MADINA INVESTMENT .................................... 30,000 ...............1,590........................2 ........... 0.053 ........... 0.053 ...........0.053........... 0.053 .............0.054 ...........-0.001 ........... -1.852................0.053..............0.053...................0.054 ..................10,979,023 .........0.100 .............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,526,047......807,003...................150 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ...... 17........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 546,716 .............42,411......................16 ........... 0.076 ........... 0.078 ...........0.076........... 0.078 .............0.077 ............0.001 ............. 1.299 ................0.078..............0.077...................0.078..................117,000,000 ........0.100 OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ...............5,200 .................. 593........................1 ............0.114 ........... 0.114............0.114 ............0.114 ............. 0.113 .............0.001 ............. 0.885 ................0.114 .............. 0.112................... 0.114 ...................10,260,000.........0.100 OM0000001152 ............OMAN NATIONAL ENGINE. INVT. ......................54,303 ............... 8,145........................8 ............0.150 ........... 0.150 ...........0.150 ........... 0.150 .............0.149.............0.001 ............. 0.671 ................0.150 ..............0.149...................0.150...................15,000,000.........0.100 OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 156,000 ........... 32,790........................6 ............0.210 ........... 0.211............0.210........... 0.210 .............0.210 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.210............. 0.202...................0.210................. 398,832,294 .......0.100 OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 387,308 ........... 35,634..................... 27 ........... 0.093 ...........0.093 ...........0.092........... 0.092 .............0.092 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.092..............0.092...................0.093...................26,678,219 .........0.100 OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 181,444.............11,880......................12 ........... 0.065 ...........0.067 ...........0.065........... 0.065 .............0.065 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.066..............0.066...................0.067...................65,000,000.........0.100 OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ................. 20,000 ...............3,500........................2 ............0.175 ........... 0.175............0.175 ............0.175 .............0.180 ...........-0.005 ........... -2.778 ...............0.175 .............. 0.175...................0.179 ...................35,000,000.........0.100 .............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 1,350,971 ......134,954..................... 72 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 7........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

C O R P O R AT E

Cost-cutting helps Hindalco to triple quarterly net income MUMBAI: India’s biggest aluminium producer Hindalco Industries reported quarterly profit that more than tripled on cost-cutting and a one-time gain, and said it was seeking to raise funds. Net income climbed to Rs4.4 billion ($65 million) in the three months through September from Rs1.2 billion a year earlier, the company said on Saturday. That compares to the Rs3.3 billion average of 19 analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The company’s board approved raising up to Rs50 billion and has set up a committee to decide on the type of offering, including sale of shares or foreign currency convertible bonds, to be made. The flagship company of Indian business tycoon Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Aditya Birla Group is the best performer on the NSE Nifty 50 Index this year, boosted by higher prices for aluminum and copper and lower costs. Industrial metals are poised to benefit from United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to boost infrastructure spending, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. “Operational performance was supported by benign energy prices and some recovery in the aluminium prices,” Hindalco said.

RAISING FUNDS: The company’s board has approved raising up to Rs.50 billion and has set up a committee to decide on the type of offering, including sale of shares or foreign currency convertible bonds, to be made. – Bloomberg News

“The macroeconomic headwinds still persist and the uncertain global macro factors pose several challenges.” One-time gain Revenue was little changed at Rs95.6 billion, while total costs fell 5.3 per cent to Rs87.6 billion. The company had a one-time gain of Rs848.9 million in the quarter. Hindalco’s shares, which have

more than doubled this year, declined 2 per cent to Rs172.30 in Mumbai on Friday. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex has climbed 2.7 per cent this year. The company will focus on reducing debt over the next three years as it targets record output of 1.25 million metric tonnes of aluminium in the 12 months to March, Managing Director Satish Pai said in July. — Bloomberg News

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

MARKET OIL AND GAS

PDO scoops two awards at Abu Dhabi oil and gas event Times News Service MUSCAT: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has won two awards at this year’s prestigious Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec), which is billed as the most inﬂuential event in the global oil and gas industry. The company scooped the Best Oil and Gas Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Project for its support to Local Community Contractors (LCCs) and Super Local Community Contractors (SLCCs), Omani-owned companies supplying core services to the sector. And it also won the Best Practice Award for its early monetisation of new hydrocarbon discoveries through early development facilities at ﬁelds such as Tayseer, S AV I N G C L I M AT E

Rich nations told to shut coal plants NEW YORK: Rich countries must close all their coal-fired power plants by 2030 to have a chance of holding global warming to tolerable levels, a report from an environmental research group said. China would have to phase out the most polluting fossil fuel by 2040 and the rest of the world by 2050, according to Climate Analytics, a Berlin-based non-profit that is studying how nations can meet the emissions goals they agreed at United Nations talks in Paris last year. The findings illustrate the difficulty in achieving the UN goal of holding global warming to well-below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The world already has 8,175 coal plants and is building another 733, providing about 40 of all electricity. Envoys from more than 190 nations are meeting this week and next in Marrakech, Morocco, to discuss how to take forward the ambitions they set out in Paris. “Both shutting down existing coal and avoiding new coal build is absolutely essential to avoid devastating air pollution and climate impacts,” said Jennifer Morgan of the environmental group Greenpeace International. — Bloomberg News

1998 and has continued to support the businesses through a reserved scope in its main contracts. There are approximately 190 LCCs beneﬁting from Petroleum Development Oman contracts, providing various services such as well, electrical, mechanical, civil engineering, logistics, manpower supply and equipment hiring.

Hawqa Zauliyah and Sadad North in response to the low oil price environment. Charities and NGOs PDO’s Baader volunteering project, which allows staff to give their time and expertise to charities and non-government organisations (NGOs), and its initiative to optimise gas handling in aging assets were also shortlisted for the Best Oil and Gas CSR Project and Best Practice Award respectively. “I congratulate the winners and ﬁnalists for their magniﬁcent achievements, which have once again demonstrated the excellence of PDO on the international stage,” said Raoul Restucci, managing director of PDO. “Adipec is a banner event for the global oil and gas industry and our

ACHIEVEMENT: The Adipec Best Practice Award came after PDO took a strategic decision to support Oman by developing newly explored ﬁelds in the shortest time and at the lowest possible cost. - Supplied picture

victorious teams were up against some very tough competition from other major players in the region. The awards are testament to the professionalism, dedication and

expertise shown by PDO people on a daily basis and are a source of pride for all in Oman,” he added. Petroleum Development Oman established the LCC scheme in

Oilfield services PDO has also launched four SLCCs, which have over 9,300 shareholders drawn from its concession area. These provide core oilfield services such as well pulling hoists, flowline replacement and well services intervention and have a total capital value of OMR23.2 million. The Adipec Best Practice Award came after PDO took a strategic decision to support Oman by de-

veloping newly explored ﬁelds in the shortest time and at the lowest possible cost to support the Sultanate’s economy. “These awards show that we are staying true to our corporate vision to be renowned and respected for the excellence of our people and the value we create for Oman and all our stakeholders,” said Abdul-Amir Abdul-Hussein Al Ajmi, external affairs and value creation director of PDO. “Through the LCC and SLCC programmes, we have been able to give a direct stake to communities in the oil and gas industry and develop Omani skills and capabilities; and our drive for early monetisation of opportunities has generated accelerated revenue for the nation in challenging times,” he added.

Banks in India receive $30b in deposits as ATMs run dry 200,000 cash machines beforehand to help keep the announcement a secret, Jaitley said. The machines are being re-calibrated so that they can dispense new Rs500 and Rs2,000 notes, which do not ﬁt into the existing cash trays in the ATMs.

Customers queued for hours to deposit or exchange the old bills and ATMs ran dry as Indian government abolished highdenomination banknotes on November 8

MUMBAI: Indian banks received Rs2 trillion ($29.8 billion) of cash after the government’s November 8 surprise move to abolish high-denomination banknotes, as customers queued for hours to deposit or exchange the old bills and ATMs ran dry. With the banned bills accounting for 86 per cent of money out of circulation, there is tremendous pressure on the nation’s banking system to replenish the cash. More than 70 million transactions were recorded through midday on November 12, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement late on Saturday. There’s adequate money in the currency chests at more than 4,000 locations and reconﬁguration of dispensing ma-

chines will be completed within two weeks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. Lenders have been caught out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unexpected and widelypraised announcement of the withdrawal of Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes, part of a crackdown on tax evasion and the underground economy. Jaitley urged people not to rush to banks immediately and wait for a few days and to conduct ﬁnancial transactions using electronic transfers, checks and credit and debit cards. “A big regret is that people are getting inconvenienced, but currency replacement of this magnitude will cause some problems,” Jaitley said at a press conference

UNEXPECTED: Lenders have been caught out by the prime minister’s unexpected withdrawal of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes, part of a crackdown on tax evasion and the underground economy. - PTI

in New Delhi on Saturday. “There are long, but orderly queues. Such a big currency replacement can’t be done overnight.” Benami property The government will take more steps to curb tax evasion, including action against benami property, Modi said at an event in Goa on Sunday. Benami is property actually owned by someone but held in the name of a third party. State Bank of India (SBI), the

country’s largest, got deposits worth Rs478.68 billion, Jaitley said. It handled Rs543.70 billion of cash transactions in all, including deposits, withdrawals and exchange of banknotes, starting on Thursday through 12:15pm on Saturday, Jaitley said. The government-owned lender and its associates account for about 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the nation’s banking system, he said. The government deliberately didn’t reconﬁgure the more than

No mismanagement The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Sunday urged the public not to be anxious and avoid going to banks repeatedly to draw and hoard cash. “The Reserve Bank assures members of the public that enough cash in small denominations is also available at the Reserve Bank and banks,” the central bank said in its statement. “Cash is available when they need it.” The RBI’s presses are printing banknotes at full capacity to ensure availability, it said on Saturday. The cash crisis has seen people standing for hours. - Bloomberg News

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FEATURE

The chief executive officer of the world’s largest container line says he is willing to lose money in the short term in exchange for longer-term market dominance.

aersk Line’s decision to go for market share in an unproﬁtable third quarter might “seem strange,” but “you need to consider the alternative,” CEO Soren Skou said in a phone interview. “The industry is consolidating and in such a situation you have to make sure you keep growing so you don’t lose your marketleading advantage.” “In the long term, the winners in this business will be those with the lowest costs, and low costs are achieved through scale,” said Skou, who’s also the CEO of Maersk Line’s parent, Copenhagenbased A P Moller-Maersk. “We want our market share to grow organically every year.” Maersk Line has reported a third-quarter net operating loss

after tax of $116 million compared with a proﬁt by the same measure of $264 million a year earlier. Plunging freight rates outweighed a decline in unit costs. The shipping line increased volumes by 11 per cent in a quarter that only saw market growth of 1-2 per cent. The CEO said the 11 per cent growth rate “might have been a bit more than we planned,” but the August collapse of Hanjin Shipping Co. “gave us a lot of volume.” Maersk Line has about 15.5 per cent of the global container market, putting it ahead of Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s 13.4 per cent and CMA CGM SA’s 10.4 per cent, according to Alphaliner. Maersk also expects to sign an agreement to add South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. to its global 2M shipping alliance

“fairly soon,” according to chief commercial officer Vincent Clerc. “We are currently growing organically as fast as our biggest peers,” Skou said. “Large mergers can change that, but measured organically, we have matched the biggest peers.” The company is the “Saudi Arabia of the container market,” DNB Markets said in a note to clients. “The combination of strong volume growth but still low rates means we still believe Maersk Line will continue to use price to gain market share,” DNB said. Part of Maersk Line’s new strategy, revealed in September, is to add to its growth through acquisitions. Skou declined to comment on which speciﬁc targets management has identiﬁed. “If we see the right opportunity, we will strike,” he said. “We are

well capitalised and have a strong liquidity reserve, so we would be able to ﬁnance takeovers.” Japan’s three largest container lines said this week they plan to merge, marking the latest example of industry efforts to counter a decade of weak freight rates. Nippon Yusen KK, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. will have a combined 7 per cent of the world’s container-shipping trade if the deal goes through. “If you look at vessel prices and share prices, it is a fact that the container industry is priced at historical lows - perhaps an alltime low - which could mean that now is a good time to buy,” Skou said. “But if you buy something that does not generate any earnings, it could turn out to be a very expensive takeover.” – Bloomberg News

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NIKON PLANS TO CUT 1,000 JOBS Nikon is cutting 1,000 jobs to cope with losses in the division that makes machines used to produce chips and declining camera sales. The digital-camera maker plans to book 48 billion yen ($460 million) in restructuring costs in the year ending March 2017, it said in a statement recently. — Bloomberg News

T E C H U P D AT E S

Yahoo says probing claim of new hack of user data

Alphabet puts brakes on its pet drone project Project Wing, a unit of Alphabet’s X research lab, nixed a partnership with coffee giant Starbucks, according to people familiar with the decision. Following the

US federal regulation does not yet allow for delivery, except in select test zones. However, Alphabet’s deceleration comes as other technology companies, including Amazon.com, plough money into drone delivery

departure of project leader Dave Vos in October, the unit also froze hiring and began asking some staff to seek jobs elsewhere in the company

MARK BERGEN

he latest Google drones have just started taking ﬂight in the real world. But the team behind the technology is slowing down, trimming headcount and shelving initiatives as the experimental unit becomes the latest target of tightening budgets across parent company Alphabet. Project Wing, a unit of Alphabet’s X research lab, nixed a partnership with coffee giant Starbucks, according to people familiar with the decision. Following the departure of project leader Dave Vos in October, the unit also froze hiring and began asking some staff to seek jobs elsewhere in the company, according to some of those people. They asked not to be identiﬁed speaking about private company moves.

The decisions are part of a broader Alphabet effort to rein in spending and try to turn more experimental projects from loss-making risky bets into real businesses. Drones are in a particularly knotty place. US federal regulation does not yet allow for delivery, except in select test zones. However, Alphabet’s deceleration comes as other technology companies, including Amazon.com, plough money into drone delivery. Project Wing “Project Wing has the potential to remove a big chunk of the friction in how physical things are moved around in the world,” a spokeswoman for X wrote in an e-mail. “What we’re doing now is developing the next phase of our technology, and as always are thinking in a very broad way about all the potential use cases for delivery by unmanned aerial systems.” In August, Project Wing won approval for test flights at a US site, part of a White House effort to encourage unmanned vehicle delivery. Then in September, Alphabet announced a new foray: a partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill to deliver food via drone at Virginia Tech. Robotic burrito drop-offs are a far cry from Google’s initial aims. The unit first wanted to deploy drones to deliver health-care items, such as medicine and heart defi-

brillators. After those plans were scrapped, the unit moved to food and other perishables. Alphabet was in advanced talks with Starbucks and had tested delivery with the coffee-chain operator, according to two people familiar with the plans. Those plans were nixed, largely over disagreements about the access to customer data that Alphabet wanted, according to a former X employee. Similarly, the unit was in talks to provide suburban grocery delivery in Ireland, where drone rules are less stringent than in the US Amazon’s Prime Air service, a competing effort to use unmanned vehicles, announced it was testing with the British government this summer. The status of Project Wing’s effort in Ireland is unclear. An X spokeswoman declined to comment on those talks, as well as the Starbucks partnership and hiring decisions. Shifting directions Project Wing, like many efforts inside X, has shifted directions several times. Early on, under the leadership of Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticist Nicholas Roy, it operated like an academic research project, according to former employees. Vos, who joined Google in 2014, steered a different course. The aerospace veteran increased simulation testing

for the drones and implemented a new product review system that reflected standards in the aviation industry, which are more rigorous than software testing, the former employees said. Project Wing also hinted at aspirations aligned to Google’s mission — data collection along with delivery logistics. Last year, Vos detailed Project Wing’s ambition to run an air-traffic control hub for a drone-based economy. He described plans to equip drones with radio transponders that communicate with controllers and other aircraft by 2020. Then Vos suddenly left. Alphabet did not name a successor. The project now reports to Astro Teller, the longtime chief of X. Vos did not immediately respond to e-mails seeking comment on Tuesday. Teller is still making bold predictions for the technology. In an interview published on November 8 with The Verge, Teller said the drone programme could spell the end of an ownership society and “really dramatically, magically, change the world.” Financial scrutiny However, the drone team is now undergoing similar financial scrutiny as other Alphabet experimental arms, such as its Google Fiber and robotics units. Several Project Wing employees have received “90-day notices,” which are requests to find different jobs inside Alphabet before being terminated, according to one person familiar with the decision. Last November, Vos told an aviation conference that Project Wing planned to have a “commercial business up in running in 2017.” It is unclear if his exit and the staff changes will delay that timeline. Some in the nascent industry are sceptical that any company can move beyond test sites in the US in the next one or two years, given Federal Aviation Administration restrictions. “You’re not even allowed to ask for a waiver to fly beyond the visual line of sight if it’s delivery,” said Gretchen A. West, a drone specialist at law firm Hogan Lovells, who is not familiar with Project Wing’s plans. “Nobody knows how long it’s going to take.” — Bloomberg News

Yahoo! is investigating a new claim that user account data was obtained by a hacker, the latest security challenge for the company as it prepares for the planned acquisition of its core web services by Verizon Communications. Law enforcement authorities began sharing certain information they indicated was provided by a hacker who claimed it was Yahoo user account data, the company said on Wednesday in a regulatory filing. Yahoo said it’s analyzing the matter with the help of forensic experts. In the same filing, Yahoo also updated investors on a previously disclosed hack from 2014. In that incident, experts are looking at evidence that indicates a “state-sponsored actor” breached Yahoo’s system and could have gained user data by creating “cookies” that bypassed password protection, the company said in the filing. Yahoo doesn’t believe it is currently possible for the attackers to forge valid Yahoo Mail cookies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The company revealed the security incident in September, spurred by a hacker’s claim in July that led Yahoo to re-examine the 2014 breach, according to the filing. The continued investigation cost about $1 million during the third quarter, Yahoo said. An independent board committee is investigating how many employees at Yahoo knew about the breach by the state-sponsored actor, and when they knew about this, the company said in the filing. — Bloomberg News

Hon Hai’s quarterly proﬁt beats analysts’ estimates Hon Hai Precision Industry’s quarterly earnings beat analysts’ estimates as it maintained a tight grip on costs amid the release of Apple’s latest iPhones. Apple’s main gadgets assembler reported an 8.7 per cent fall in net income to NT$34.6 billion ($1.1 billion) in the three months ended in September, Taipei-based Hon Hai said on November 11. That compares with the NT$33.8 billion average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales were little changed NT$1.075 trillion. The world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics has been deploying robots and boosting production efﬁciency to drive down costs as the smartphone market endures its worst year on record. Apple, its largest customer, shipped a betterthan-expected 45.5 million iPhones last quarter and has unveiled a new line of Mac computers. The US company is expected to move toward using more organic light-emitting-diode screens. “Apple’s new MacBook Pro and Watch should boost near-term momentum. Hon Hai is our top pick among iPhone assemblers,” Thompson Wu, an analyst with Credit Suisse Group AG in Taipei, wrote in a report ahead of the earnings release. — Bloomberg News

Alibaba-rival JD plans its own delivery drone fleet by 2017 From Amazon.com to Domino’s Pizza, technology giants and retailers have dreamed of drone deliveries for years. One Chinese e-commerce giant intends to make it a full-fledged reality by 2017. JD.com has drawn up plans for drones to ply 100 regular routes by the end of next year. Taking advantage of lessrestrictive regulations, it’s spent months testing its drones and from Friday -- the same day as China’s annual 24-hour online shopathon — it intends to start operating four routes delivering packages to rural residents on a trial basis. JD.com competes with Alibaba Group Holding in selling everything from smartphones to salami to a rising middle class. But unlike Alibaba, it operates much of the logistics pieces needed to convey its goods, a costly undertaking that’s prompted the company to look for ways to heighten efficiency. Drones could be the solution in hard-to-reach locales, where deliveries can cost up to six times more than a city trip because the denser populations help spread the expense. “By the end of next year we’ll hopefully have over 100 routes available and in operation,” said JD.com’s chief technology officer, Chen Zhang. “This is something we look at as a long-term project. The benefits are tremendous if we get it into the most expensive areas of China.” When a customer places their order, a package is sent from the warehouse or distribution point to a delivery station. Workers hook up the package to one of five drone types, which zip over to a rural village contractor who then makes the final delivery to the buyer’s doorstep. JD.com has a network of around 300,000 contractors, whom it calls promoters, to cover an estimated 600,000 villages. -Bloomberg News

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Ominvest outlines vision for future growth, celebrates achievements Oman’s largest publicly listed investment company launched three new subsidiaries and announced construction of a new business centre in Hay Al Irfan precinct

MUSCAT: Ominvest, the largest publicly listed investment company in the Sultanate, held an exclusive event at the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort to celebrate milestone achievements and to outline the company’s vision for future growth. The event was held under the patronage of Mohammad bin Al Zubair, adviser for Economic Planning Affairs to His Majesty the Sultan, and was attended by Khalid Al Zubair, Ominvest chairman, Hassan Al Nabhani, deputy chairman, Abdulaziz Al Balushi, group chief executive officer, distinguished Omani public and private sector officials and guests from across the GCC region, says a press release. Delivering his opening remarks, Khalid Al Zubair reflected on the upcoming 46th National Day celebrations. He noted, “As we celebrate our National Day in this month, happiness and joy lives in the heart of every Omani. We are profoundly thankful for the wise and benevolent leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. Celebrating National Day underlines our firm commitment to preserve the achievements of our nation and demonstrates our aspirations to work harder for the continued development and prosperity of our country.” Highlighting growth potential and contributions of Ominvest, Khalid elaborated, “The development of the Sultanate, both in terms of human capital and economic diversification is our major priority. For over three decades, Ominvest has been a catalyst for empowering local businesses and creating opportunities for Omani nationals. Following our merger with ONIC Holding in 2015, the new Ominvest is one of the largest and most diversified investment companies in the MENA region. This new positioning enables us to play a much larger role in the economic growth and social wellbeing of country.” Commenting on the shareholder value creation at Ominvest, he noted, “Over the last three year period ending September 30, 2016, shareholders have seen their value increase substantially, as Omin-

vest stock delivered a total return of +86.4% vs a total return of -2.4% achieved by the MSM30 Index. He added that, “To further enhance and sustain value for shareholders, Ominvest’s strategy is focused on six key growth pillars: (i) further build our presence in the banking sector and help improve performance of our strategic investments, (ii) expand our footprint in the regional insurance sector through organic expansion and bolt-on acquisitions, (iii) explore strategic collaborations among our leasing associates to realise synergies, (iv) build and grow our investment banking and asset management platform to generate fee income, (v) develop a diverse and high quality portfolio of ﬁnancial investments in public and private equity through our new subsidiary ONIC, and (vi) establish a top-tier real estate investment and projects advisory business.” He added that these initiatives, which are already well under way, will help diversify Ominvest revenue streams and create durable value for all stakeholders. During his speech, Khalid Al Zubair detailed the major investments held by Ominvest across the banking, insurance and leasing sectors. He noted that in the banking sector, Oman Arab Bank is the company’s largest investment with an ownership stake of 51%. Ominvest also holds major investments in Bank Muscat and ahli bank. In the insurance sector, Ominvest’s ﬂagship subsidiary is National Life & General Insurance Company (NLGIC) – which commands the biggest market share in Oman and a fast growing market share in the UAE market. While in the leasing sector, Ominvest holds large stakes in National Finance Company, the second largest leasing company in Oman, and in Oman Orix Leasing Company which is the third largest leasing company in Oman. An important highlight of the evening came when the chief guest, Mohammad Al Zubair was invited to unveil plans for company’s new corporate office, which is being constructed in the Hay Al Irfan precinct in Muscat Hills. The Ominvest Business Centre or ‘OBC’ is

conceptualised to be the smartest and most modern office complex in Oman. When completed in early 2018, OBC will be the new home for Ominvest. It is aimed to be the most desirable business address, setting new standards for business productivity, energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. Outlining the company’s future growth strategy, Abdulaziz Al Balushi commented, “We are well positioned for strong growth in the years ahead, and it is our vision to be the largest and best performing

publicly traded investment company in the MENA region within the next ﬁve years. Demonstrating our commitment to promote economic and social growth in Oman, Ominvest has recently launched three new subsidiaries – these entities represent a major milestone in our efforts. The three new Ominvest subsidiaries are; ONIC, Ubhar Capital and Oman Real Estate Investment Services – ORIS.” Abdulaziz Al Balushi noted that ONIC will be a dedicated platform to manage all proprietary ﬁnan-

cial investments across public and private equities. Ubhar Capital or ‘U-Capital’ will be Oman’s ﬁrst independent investment banking platform – sponsored by leading Omani and international institutional investors. Meanwhile, ORIS is a unique company seeking to be positioned as an ‘affordable luxury’ lifestyle provider that creates exceptional value to its shareholders and the Omani economy at large. ORIS will be focused on developing Salalah Resorts and the upcoming Ominvest Business

Centre atop Muscat Hills. Commenting on the future potential of the new subsidiaries, Abdulaziz Al Balushi concluded, “We have set out ambitious goals for ONIC, Ubhar Capital and ORIS in order to meet today’s demands for innovation, focus and consistent growth. Ominvest is heavily invested in the future prosperity of Oman, with a strong focus on investments which will continue to grow - to create greater value and deliver a positive impact on Omani economy and the region.”

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Neck and back pain is a growing concern in Gulf, say specialists Millions of people suffer from several types of spinal disorders preventing them from working or even doing simple daily activities

MUSCAT: Back and neck pain is a major public health issue globally and Oman is no exception. It causes considerable loss of man hours of work and decreased productivity and contributes to morbidity in the population. Millions of people suffer from several types of spinal disorders preventing them from working or even doing simple daily activities. Dr Gowrishankar, who has recently joined the new American Spine Centre in Muscat and Madhur Bomb, general manager, Bahwan Healthcare Centre explain the causes, prevention and treatment advice for back pain in this article. How common is lower back pain? Lower back pain is a daily health challenge – 60 to 70% suffer throughout their lives. 1 in 4 suffer back pain at any point in time in their life. Statistics from a recent study in the UAE reveal that 65% of UAE residents suffer from lower back or neck pain and another new study on adults suffering from chronic low back pain

in the Gulf region has revealed that neuropathic pain is present in 55% of all cases.

successful and patients may still have some back pain post-surgery. As with all types of surgical procedures, these operations also carry a risk of potentially serious complications. In some cases, nerves near the spine can be damaged, resulting in problems such as numbness or weakness in a part of one or both legs or, in rare cases, some degree of paralysis.

What are the reasons for the back pain affecting many people these days? Lack of physical movement, poor sleeping posture, no regular exercise, and excess weight are the main factors contributing to neck and back pain. Worse yet, with seven to eight hours seated in front of a computer every weekday and another two to three hours on the road due to traffic, office-based workers are extremely likely to experience lower back or neck pain. A significant level of women also suffer from lower back pain due to non-adherence to physiotherapy post-pregnancy. What would you advise to working people who suffer such pain? Is there a better posture or activity? The simple answer is that we advise most people to get up and move, start exercising, take breaks from sitting, and learn to modify your environment to promote good posture and position. Reducing your body weight helps a lot in getting rid of the pain. In addition there are some specific stretches and simple exercises that can be done at home. I spend a lot of time on my smartphone, and it may sometimes give me pain in the neck that irradiate into my back. I have noticed that many people have the same pain due to the use of a smartphone or the laptop in a wrong position. Could you tell on how to relieve such pains? Unfortunately, the best answer

is to spend less time with your smartphones or laptops. That being said there are some speciﬁc stretches and strengthening techniques for both the back and the neck. One small but effective tip for laptop users is to get a bluetooth keyboard and set the laptop up on a raised surface where it is more at eye level. I’ve heard that bed rest is no longer recommended when I have back pain. Is this true? Yes. Movement is crucial for acute lower back pain. You also need to consult a dietician for body weight and food control, an orthopaedic and neuro surgeon for review and a physio is advised.

What are the treatment options for people suffering from acute/ chronic neck or back pain? Prior to starting any type of treatment, it is always advisable to ﬁrst see an appropriately trained spine specialist to develop an appropriate treatment programme for your speciﬁc condition and medical history. Spinal disc problems can be treated with below options: 1. Pain medications - Oral steroids, muscle relaxants, anti-depressants as prescribed by your GP 2. Pain clinics – Combination of group therapy, exercises, extensive physiotherapy, relaxation and education about pain and the psychology of pain.

3. Spinal Traction - Form of decompression therapy that relieves pressure on the spine. 4. Surgery – Discectomy or Spinal fusion 5. IDD treatment – Computer controlled physiotherapeutic treatment that is FDA approved and 100% safe. A speciﬁc treatment regimen that combines the most optimal use of Disc decompression therapy (IDD), physiotherapy, dietary modiﬁcation, exercise therapy and counselling. What are the implications of surgery? Surgery can help reduce pain caused by compressed nerves in the spine, but they are not always

What is IDD Treatment? Intervertebral Differential Dynamics (or more simply IDD) Therapy treatment is a non-surgical spinal decompression programme for low back pain, neck pain and related conditions. IDD is suitable for patients suffering with unresolved back pain, neck pain, leg pain (sciatica) or arm pain caused by spinal nerve root irritation. Most commonly, patients with bulging or herniated discs (‘slipped disc’), degenerative disc disease and chronic stiffness in the lower back are candidates for treatment. Each treatment lasts between 45 minutes and 1 hour and patients will have a series of treatments typically spread over 4 to 6 weeks. This is to allow time for the body to adapt to treatment with a goal of progressively improving spine function. The IDD machines are also equipped for cervical treatment and have a special unit for neck pain. Treatment lasts 25 minutes and is precise, gentle and safe and is approved by US FDA. IDD treatment is being provided at its state-of-the-art American Spine Center in Muscat which has all the facilities to provide most comprehensive back and neck management programme and aims at bringing a paradigm shift in its approach to the residents of Oman.

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Bank Muscat’s Imprints initiative receives thumping endorsement Highly ambitious in its scope and reach, the Imprints CSR initiative is a unique publicprivate partnership in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Tourism, Muscat Municipality and the Public Authority for Consumer Protection

MUSCAT: Leading by example is the forte of Bank Muscat, the flagship financial services provider in the Sultanate. As the nation marks the 46th National Day commemorating the glorious achievements of Oman under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Imprints corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative launched by the bank has received a thumping endorsement across the nation, says a press release. Highly ambitious in its scope and reach, the Imprints initiative is a unique public-private partnership in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Tourism, Muscat Municipality and the Public Authority for Consumer Protection. In line with its ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and commitment to partnership in sustainable national development programmes, the focus of Imprints include four key programmes to inculcate financial literacy, promote sustainable tourism, sustain green environment and encourage enriched lifestyle. The new CSR initiative stemming from the Royal directive of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to accord priority for social responsibility is the first-of-itskind in Oman in terms of its scope and reach, uniting different segments in making a big difference in reciprocating to what the country has given us. The initiative marks a big step in the public-private partnership to make lasting contributions to society and the nation. As the leading bank in the Sultanate, Bank Muscat is at the forefront in contributing to society and thereby setting a fine example for the corporate sector to develop social responsibility as corporate culture. The Imprints for the nation reiterate the bank’s commit-

ment to set benchmark standards in social responsibility. In step with the government’s economic diversification programme, the Imprints initiative has drawn up a programme in association with the Ministry of Tourism to support start-ups, encouraging Omani entrepreneurship in the tourism industry. The bank will encourage Omani youth to focus on providing basic amenities at Oman’s tourist attractions, thereby ensuring sustainable sources of income for the local community. Sayyid Adil bin Al Mardas Al Busaidi, adviser at the Ministry of Tourism, congratulated Bank Muscat for the Imprints initiative, adding that it will have a significant impact through the various programmes and activities aimed at serving the community and the nation. Against the backdrop of prevailing economic and social situation in Oman, the Imprints initiative opens new opportunities for the people. Al Busaidi said, “The initiative focused on the tourism sector will be a boon for start-ups by Omani youth. The tourism sector is poised to play a major role in the country’s economic diversification programme and opportunities are available to provide basic services in the country’s tourist attractions.” Al Busaidi added, “The Ministry of Tourism is happy to participate and co-operate with the Imprints initiative through the development of start-ups in the tourism sector benefiting Omani youth who will be supported by Bank Muscat and the ministry to set up companies offering basic services for tourists at the country’s tourist attractions. “The initiative will encourage Omani youth to come up with new ideas targeted at the tourism sector, especially in developing basic infrastructure facilities for

tourists. The initiative is aimed at encouraging innovation and creativity in establishing successful start-ups which will provide a sustainable source of income for Omani youth in their residential areas which have tourism appeal.” “The Ministry of Tourism will co-operate with Bank Muscat to ensure the success of this initiative, which will contribute to the growth and development of the tourism sector. The ministry welcomes co-operation with the private sector and has implemented various programmes to promote the tourism sector in Oman. We wish Bank Muscat all success for the Imprints initiative to be a role model for the corporate sector in the field of social responsibility,” Al Busaidi noted. In the Imprints programme to promote financial literacy, Bank Muscat will create an online portal, game or app for individuals to access financial literacy courses for free. The content will be tailor-made for different age groups, including college students. In all, the bank aims to certify 200,000 Omanis in financial literacy. For those who are not familiar with technology, classroom learning will be arranged.

Dr Said bin Khamis Al Kaabi, Chairman of the Public Authority for Consumer Protection, congratulated Bank Muscat for launching the Imprints national initiative. Dr Al Kaabi said: “We are pleased to cooperate and partner with the bank in the implementation of one of the important programmes to encourage savings and promote ﬁnancial literacy among citizens. The important role played by Bank Muscat in the area of social responsibility is appreciable as such initiatives contribute to strengthening partnership between the public and private sectors in community service.” Dr Al Kaabi said that within the activities of the Imprints initiative and in partnership with Bank Muscat, the Public Authority for Consumer Protection will carry out a number of awareness campaigns, media and marketing activities, which will contribute to promoting the culture of thrift and savings in Omani society. The campaign will also educate citizens on identifying fraudulent ﬁnancial schemes. The PACP is committed to joining hands with the private sector in the implementation of programmes and initiatives that serve the community in various

fields. Dr Al Kaabi urged everyone to contribute to the success of Imprints and other social responsibility initiatives, expressing pride in the role played by Bank Muscat in the field of social responsibility and wished the programme success in achieving its objectives. The ‘Little Investor’ programme to educate Omani children on the basics of financial literacy and investment, follows an already successful model by Meethaq Islamic Banking of teaching school students to manage personal finance, including savings. The aim is to develop the children’s entrepreneurial thinking and skills. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamdan Al Tobi, consultant at the Ministry of Education, expressed happiness in the partnership between the ministry and Bank Muscat in the Imprints national initiative. He congratulated Bank Muscat for the unique social responsibility initiative aimed at strengthening partnership between the public and private sectors in the implementation of programmes and activities benefiting Omani society. Sheikh Al Tobi said, “The Imprints programme to inculcate savings habit among children,

pursued in co-operation with the Ministry of Education, will go a long way in moulding a generation aware of their responsibilities in building a strong nation. Children are the future generations of Oman and the programme to inculcate the savings habit among them will prove beneficial for Oman.” Sheikh Al Tobi said that the social responsibility role played by Bank Muscat was a great encouragement for corporate institutions to launch similar initiatives benefiting society in various fields. “The Ministry of Education is keen to co-operate with all institutions for the benefit of communities and we wish Bank Muscat and the Imprints initiative all success,” Sheikh Al Tobi said. The Imprints programme to sustain green environment will focus on energy saving initiatives starting with a pilot Meethaq branch using solar energy, followed by two more branches run on green energy. The energy saving programme to be implemented in association with International Finance Corporation (IFC) will also highlight energy efficient products for homes and SMEs. The bank will provide special incentives like lower charges and interest rates on Meethaq and baituna mortgage finance for houses featuring energy efficient design and fixtures. The bank will organise educational workshops for the public to raise awareness on alternative sources of energy in the country. Industry experts will address these workshops. The highlight of the Imprints green initiative will be a public garden to be gifted to the nation, in association with Muscat Municipality, as a mark of the bank’s commitment to the nation on the occasion of Oman’s 46th National Day celebrations. Aimed at encouraging enriched healthy lifestyle and sustainable environment, the public garden will feature exercise equipment and fixtures run on efficient alternative sources of energy, providing the local community an ideal place for relaxation. Recalling what the country has given to the people during the past 46 years under the leadership of His Majesty, Bank Muscat aims to make lasting imprints for the nation as part of a strategic direction to consolidate social responsibility benefiting different segments of society.

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Pizza Hut introduces new ‘Cheesy Twist’

SQU wins NBO’s Innovation in SME Award MUSCAT: From Oman’s favourite pizza brand comes another tasty innovation. Pizza Hut has introduced new ‘Cheesy Twist’ with three flavours that is sure to leave its massive fan base delighted. Diners do not have to compromise on their favourite toppings with the Cheesy Twist which has the golden crust edge doubly twisted over and packed with tempting melted mozzarella. Three flavours have been selected for this most recent innovation after careful market analysis to cater to the taste of discerning customers, says a press release. Based on the customer’s preference the base crust is topped with Fiery Peri Peri, Cool Ranch or a tomato base in the case of Bold BBQ. Before service the still warm pizzas are generously drizzled with the sauce of choice to re-inforce the taste and the edges are dusted with Parmesan cheese to pack in more flavour. Sachin Malhotra, COO, Khimji Lifestyle said, “Pizza Hut is known for the innovations on its product offerings and everyone expects a whole lot when a new launch hits the market. The Cheesy Twist will not disappoint those expectations

with its ﬂavoursome offerings of mild, tangy and hot. The response of the Oman market has always been very encouraging and we expect that our new special will soon have a dedicated fan base.” Over the years, Pizza Hut has created special moments for its customers and made family times more special by constantly innovating on its products. Today, the brand offers an incredible range of food options, from pizzas and pastas to starters, salads, lasagne, mocktails, desserts and more. The menu has something for everyone. Yogesh Shah, GM, Khimji Restaurant Division said, “Today’s customer knows themselves, their tastes, their preferences and keeping up with them is paramount to staying a market leader. “Pizza Hut regularly surprises, delights and exceeds expectations not by following the market trends but by being a trend setter. We do believe that’s what makes the brand stand apart and why each offering always has a ‘wow’ factor for the customer.” The new Cheesy Twist Pizza comes in medium and large size and is also available on delivery and takeaway orders.

MUSCAT: The third edition of the NBO Innovation in SME Award has concluded with iDrop from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) winning the bank’s latest search for the Sultanate’s next great business idea. Their idea which was a smart water management system was chosen by judges Sayyidah Rawan Al Said, NBO’s director and CEO of Takaful Insurance, His Highness Sayyid Adham Al Said, assistant professor of the Business School at Sultan Qaboos University, and Dr Ahmed Al Ghassani, dean of CBFS, in the competition at SQU, says a press release. iDrop ﬁnished just ahead of Khaltech from Higher College of Technology and Gharsha from Modern College of Business and Science in the prestigious competition designed to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and, in turn, support the Sultanate’s wider economic diversiﬁcation agenda. Speaking ahead of the competition, Ahmed Al Musalmi encouraged university students from across Oman to enter the innovation in SME Award and gain the opportunity to turn their

ﬂedgling concept into a fully formed company. The unique NBO’s Innovation in SME Award was launched in 2015. Open to all current full-time undergraduate university students, the competition can be entered by individuals and teams of up to three people. Entrants must submit an original business idea related to any sector of the economy with shortlisted contenders invited to present their idea and a detailed business plan to a panel

of judges in front of an audience of their peers. The individual or team with the most innovative and commercially promising idea receives an OMR10,000 cash prize to help them develop their business further. They will also join NBO’s Tijarati SME mentoring programme and be given access to the bank’s Academy of Excellence, through which they will receive invaluable expert advice and training as they begin to build and grow their enterprises. Ahmed Al Musalmi, chief executive officer of NBO, said, “The Innovation in SME Award has proved to be a highly effective tool for discovering and developing the best new business ideas in Oman. Importantly, the competition does not end when the prize is awarded, with NBO and our partners providing a comprehensive package of follow-on support and guidance to help aspiring young businesspeople to realise their dreams. We congratulate iDrop on their outstanding win and encourage students from across Oman to enter the Innovation in SME Award and play a key role in furthering Oman’s economic di-

versiﬁcation agenda.” Eureka, a group of students from Sultan Qaboos University, won 2015’s inaugural Innovation in SME Award for their idea to convert kinetic energy into useful electricity. In 2016, Let’s Go Company, makers of an innovative camping chair founded by students from the Higher College of Technology, won the second edition of the competition and is now working with the National Business Center’s prestigious incubator programme. The company also recently signed a contract with Al Zubair to be its exclusive distributor. NBO’s Innovation in SME Award is part of the bank’s broader commitment to support the economy and people of Oman. The bank also runs the NBO Chairman’s Speaker Series, which bridges the gap between Oman’s ambitious youth and more seasoned professionals by providing an interactive platform to learn and share experience, knowledge and ideas. Each quarter, a leading inﬂuencer is invited to share their expertise, knowledge and best practice at an exclusive evening event in Oman.

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CAIRO: His Highness Sayyid Faisal bin Turki Al Said, Chairman of Special Olympics Oman, has become a member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Special Olympics International (SOI) representing the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His Highness Sayyid Faisal was named on the committee during the meeting of the Regional Advisory Council of the International Special Olympics in Cairo which saw the participation of 13 countries from the region. The membership also reﬂects his active role in the Special Olympics movement. — ONA

of the prestigious tournament that will start on November 17

T.K. MOHANDOSS sportseditor@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Ahli-Sidab will begin their title defence against Bausher in the 46th edition of the prestigious His Majesty’s Cup Hockey Championship, which begins in Muscat and Dhofar on November 17. Six clubs from Muscat and Batinah region and four from Dhofar region are taking part in the annual tournament for which a grand draw ceremony was held at the Grand Hyatt on Sunday. The ceremony was presided over by His Highness Sayyid Malik bin Shihab bin Tariq Al Said and had the attendance of Oman Football Association chairman Sheikh Salim Al Wahaibi, officials from the Ministry of Sports Affairs and representatives of others sports associations. Oman Hockey Association chairman Talib Khamis Al Wahaibi, who organised the ceremony in grandeur this time, is looking forward to a grand tournament as well. Though Ahli-Sidab begins their campaign on November 18, the tournament kicks-off with a match between Sohar and Quriyat at 6pm on November 17 followed by a

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GRAND CEREMONY: His Highness Sayyid Malik bin Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, left, presides over His Majesty’s Cup Hockey Championship draw at Grand Hyatt on Sunday. – JUN ESTRADA/Times of Oman

match between Seeb and Sohar at 8pm on the same day. In the Dhofar region, Al Nasr will open campaign against Al Ittihad at the Al Saada Sports Complex in Salalah on November 17. According to tournament draw, the ﬁrst round will feature a total of 15 matches in the Muscat-Batinah region and ﬁve teams will advance to the second round. In the Dhofar region the four teams will be involved in double round league and like last year three teams will progress to the second round.

However, the dates for the second round, semifinals and the final are yet to be announced. Defending champions Ahli-Sidab coached by K.K. Poonacha is all set to draft in Indian players for the second round. Mohan Muthanna, who is based here, will be featuring in the first round, while Pradhan Somanna is set to join during the second round. Poonacha, as sources said, is likely to bring in two more players for the next phase. Meanwhile, the team have already begun preparations with a camp in Sohar.

First round ﬁxures Muscat-Batinah region (Quriyat, Bausher, Ahli-Sidab, Seeb, Sohar, Saham): Venue: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex: November 17: Quriyat vs Saham, 6pm; Seeb vs Sohar, 8pm; November 18: Ahli-Sidab vs Bausher, 7pm; November 19: Quriyat vs Seeb 6pm; Sohar vs Saham 8pm; November 24: Ahli-Sidab vs Seeb 6pm; Sohar vs Bausher 8pm; November 25: Sohar vs Quriyat 7pm; November 26: Seeb vs Bausher 6pm; Saham vs Ahli-Sidab 8pm; December 1: Quriyat vs Bausher 6pm; Sohar vs Ahli-Sidab 8pm; December 2: Seeb vs Saham 7pm; December 3:

Sohar vs Bausher 6pm; Ahli-Sidab vs Quriyat 8pm. Dhofar region (Al Nasr, Salalah, Dhofar, Al Ittihad): Venue: Al Saada Sports Complex in Salalah: All matches at 4pm: November 17: Al Ittihad vs Al Nasr; November 18: Dhofar vs Salalah; November 19: Al Nasr vs Dhofar; November 21: Salalah vs Ittihad; November 24: Dhofar vs Ittihad; November 25: Al Nasr vs Salalah; November 26: Al Nasr vs Ittihad; November 27: Dhofar vs Salalah; November 29: Al Nasr vs Dhofar; December 1: Ittihad vs Salalah; December 2: Ittihad vs Dhofar; December 3: Al Nasr vs Salalah.

Djokovic wins LONDON: Deposed world No. 1 Novak Djokovic suffered an early scare against Austrian debutant Dominic Thiem at the ATP World Tour Finals before launching his bid for a ﬁfth successive title with a 6-7(10), 6-0, 6-2 victory. Andy Murray, who ended Djokovic’s 122-week spell at the top of the rankings last week in Paris, faces Croatia’s Marin Cilic in Monday’s second John McEnroe group match after Japan’s Kei Nishikori takes on U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka. - Reuters

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Play washed out but Aussies hit with deluge of criticism MELBOURNE: Rain thwarted South Africa’s hopes of building their 86-run lead in the second Test against Australia on Sunday but a bigger deluge of criticism fell on the home side following their chaotic batting on day one in Hobart. Australia’s ﬁrst innings dismissal for 85, their lowest Test total at home since 1984, rang alarm bells around a nation that, for all its experience of such failures overseas, remains far less comfortable with them occurring in its backyard. “Cape Town, Birmingham, Nottingham, Galle, and now Hobart. Like falling cities in a losing war, the scenes of Australia’s cricket disasters have come to our doorstep,” Malcolm Knox wrote in Fairfax newspapers on Sunday.

“The geography of decline presents a case that cannot be denied. In Australia’s case, the team failures have become frequent enough to suggest that the decline is irreversible.” The Bellerive blow-out followed Australia’s dismal collapse in Perth, where they lost 10 wickets for 86 runs to squander a dominant position before crumbling to a 177-run defeat. In the heart of maelstrom Captain Steve Smith, with an unbeaten 48, was the sole batsman to defy the Proteas’ marauding pace attack on a tricky wicket in Hobart. Joe Mennie, a debutant paceman, was the team’s second-highest scorer with 10.

Since the 3-0 whitewash in Sri Lanka, where Australia were skittled for 106 and 183 in the second Test defeat in Galle, coaches and former players have lined up to urge the team’s struggling batsmen to play their ‘natural game’. But barring the skipper, there has been scant evidence that their natural game can stand up to the rigours of a quality attack on a testing wicket. “The next away Ashes hardly bears contemplating. Today (Saturday) at Bellerive was as close as you can get to English conditions,” Andrew Faulkner wrote in The Australian newspaper. Pugnacious opener David Warner played his natural game and it delivered his wicket for the

cost of one run when he slashed needlessly at a wide ball and edged to the wicketkeeper. In the heart of the maelstrom at 17 for four, Callum Ferguson ran himself out, prompting his brother to storm out of the terraces in disgust, having ﬂown in from England to watch his 31-year-old sibling’s long-awaited Test debut. ‘Find a way to grind’ The tail were also complicit, leaving Smith stranded after losing their wickets cheaply with rash strokes. Head coach Darren Lehmann conceded the team’s batting was in “crisis”, while Smith, behind closed doors, read his teammates the riot act.

“We all were (disappointed),” paceman Mitchell Starc, who was dismissed for four with a loose drive to gully, told state radio ABC on Sunday. “The message from Smithy was that ... everything we’ve spoken about has not translated into actions or results on the field. “We’ve just got to be better, we’ve got to find a way to grind. “One thing he said was you’ve got to be happy to score ugly runs sometimes. You don’t have to look good doing it.” Australia will again hope for rescue from their bowlers on Monday, when Temba Bavuma (38 not out) and Quinton de Kock (28 not out) resume with South Africa on 171 for five. - Reuters

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England redeemed themselves, says Cook RAJKOT: England’s prospects in India were in doubt after their dismal tour of Bangladesh but the touring side proved themselves by running their hosts close for a draw in the opening Test, captain Alastair Cook said on Sunday. Cook and his men landed in India with bruised egos, having lost the second Test in Dhaka inside three days to settle for a 1-1 share of the series against Bangladesh, the world’s ninthranked Test team. However, they scored four hundreds in the match against world No. 1 Test side India and looked like the only team who could force a win in the contest. “We probably proved to everyone else that we can play,” Cook told reporters. “I said at the beginning of the tour that we have got some very talented players. “Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali, for example, and Joe Root is world class. The hundreds we set up, obviously it was a good toss to win, but the way we played to get 530 showed the character on a different wicket. “To score those runs was very pleasing and then we did 160 overs of hard graft to keep India below us. We did a lot of very good things, just couldn’t quite get over the line.” “As a group after what happened in Bangladesh I keep saying that if we play on those wickets we need to readjust,” said the 31-year-old, who scored his 30th hundred in Tests on Sunday. “On these wickets, it takes a bit of time to turn and it was pretty flat to start with. “I am confident we will score the runs and confident we can bowl well enough to put India under pressure if we hit the same standards.” - Reuters

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

SPORTS Defiant Kohli denies England SCOREBOARD

Kohli, India’s best batsman, then frustrated the touring side with a ﬁfthwicket stand of 47 with Ashwin

RAJKOT: India captain Virat Kohli remained unbeaten on a defiant 49 in a tense final session to deny England victory and claim a draw in the opening test of the five-match series on Sunday. England captain Alastair Cook notched up his 30th Test hundred and declared his team’s second innings on 260 for three in the second session, to set India an improbable target of 310. Leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who picked up four wickets in the first innings, took another three as the

England 1st innings: 537 (B. Stokes 128, J. Root 124, M. Ali 117) India 1st innings: 488 (M. Vijay 126, C. Pujara 124, R. Ashwin 70; A. Rashid 4-114) England 2nd innings A. Cook c Jadeja b R. Ashwin 130 H. Hameed c&b Mishra 82 J. Root c Saha b Mishra 4 B. Stokes (not out) 29 Extras (b-11, lb-3, nb-1) 15 Total (3 wkts decl, 75.3 overs) 260 Fall of wickets: 1-180, 2-192, 3-260 Did not bat: B. Duckett, M. Ali, J. Bairstow, C. Woakes, Z. Ansari, A. Rashid, S. Broad Bowling: M. Shami 11-1-29-0, R. Jadeja 15-1-47-0, R. Ashwin 23.3-4-63-1, U. Yadav 13-2-47-0, A. Mishra 13-0-60-2 (nb-1)

hosts were reduced to 71 for four shortly after tea. With the spinners getting the ball to turn sharply and bounce on the wearing pitch, Cook surrounded India’s batsmen with close-in ﬁelders in an effort to force a victory. Kohli, India’s best batsman, then frustrated the touring side

India 2nd innings M. Vijay c Hameed b Rashid 31 G. Gambhir c Root b Woakes 0 C. Pujara lbw b Rashid 18 V. Kohli (not out) 49 A. Rahane b Ali 1 R. Ashwin c Root b Ansari 32 W. Saha c&b Rashid 9 R. Jadeja (not out) 32 Total (6 wkts, 52.3 overs) 172 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-47, 3-68, 4-71, 5-118, 6-132. Did not bat: M. Shami, U. Yadav, A. Mishra Bowling: S. Broad 3-2-8-0, C. Woakes 4-1-6-1, Z. Ansari 8-1-41-1, M. Ali 19-5-47-1, A. Rashid 14.3-1-64-3, B. Stokes 2-1-1-0, J. Root 2-0-5-0. Result: Draw

with a ﬁfth-wicket stand of 47 with Ravichandran Ashwin, who made 32. The pair batted out over 15 overs to take India closer to the draw before Ashwin drove leftarm spinner Zafar Ansari straight to Joe Root in the covers. Wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha did not last long as India

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CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s fast bowler Dale Steyn has undergone surgery and will be out for at least six months after breaking a bone in his shoulder in the ﬁrst Test in Australia earlier this month, Cricket South Africa said on Sunday. The 33-year-old Steyn returned home for the operation in Cape Town, which was performed on Thursday, and had a screw inserted in his right shoulder blade. South African team manager Mohammed Moosajee said he will be out for a minimum of six months before he can even attempt to bowl again. “It is crucial to give the injury enough time to heal and to make sure that he is completely pain-free before he starts bowling again. He will begin with his rehabilitation programme once the satisfactory bone healing has taken place. This is expected to be in a few weeks,” he said. “We are positive that he will make a successful return to international cricket.” - Reuters

were reduced to 132 for six with enough overs still left in the match for England to force a win. But Kohli added another crucial unbeaten stand of 40 in 10 overs for the seventh wicket with local boy Ravindra Jadeja, who remained unbeaten on 32, to deny the tourists. The hosts reached 172 for six when the captains shook hands for the match to end in a draw. The result, however, could have swung in England’s favour had they managed to hold on to their catches. Vijay, India’s highest scorer in the ﬁrst innings with 126, was dropped on 13 by Ansari, who failed to hold on to a powerful return catch. The batsman went on to make 31. Ansari was the unlucky bowler again in his next over when Stuart Broad dropped a much easier catch from ﬁrstinnings centurion Pujara at point with the batsman on 10. Pujara was dismissed on l8, given out leg before off Rashid with replays showing the ball had pitched outside the leg stump and the decision would have been overturned on review. - Reuters

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

SPORTS Times of Oman, Arabian Sea Trading record wins GOLF

Batting ﬁrst, Times

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of Oman scored 229 for four in 20 overs. In reply, Mecamac Challengers were bowled out for 131 in 18 overs

MUSCAT: Times of Oman eased to a 98-run victory over Mecamac Challengers in an I Division match. Batting ﬁrst, Times of Oman scored 229 for four wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Mecamac Challengers were bowled out for 131 in 18 overs. Brief scores: Times of Oman 229 for 4 in 20 overs (Azeem Mohammed 97, Mujaba Ahmed 107; Predwiraj 4/37) bt Mecamac Challengers 131 in 18 (Moshin Nasir 5/28). Points: Times of Oman – 3, Mecamac Challengers – 0.

Mott MacDonald beaten In a D Division match, Arabian Sea

WINNERS: Times of Oman and Arabian Sea Trading players celerbrate their victories.

Trading defeated Mott MacDonald by 63 runs.

hail Khot 33; Muslim Alam 4/33). Points: Ibrahim Kishri – 0, Abu Maather – 2.

Brief scores: Arabian Sea Trading 202 for 8 in 20 overs (Shyam Lekshman 45; Prakash 3/35) bt Mott MacDonald 139 in 18.5 overs (Tawsif Tembe 31; Verghese M.B. 3/31). Points: Mott MacDonald – 0, Arabian Sea Trading – 3.

Al Fairuz down Waves Engg In another E Division match, Al Fairuz defeated Waves Engineering by 13 runs.

GME down Sayarti In another D Division match, Global Money Exchange (GME) defeated Sayarti by 21 runs. Brief scores: Global Money Exchange 183 for 6 in 20 overs (Sajeev S. 63; Ruwan Rupa 2/13) bt Sayarti 162 for 8 in 20 overs (Ruwan 40; Shafeek H. 2/18). Points: GME – 2, Sayarti – 0.

Abu Maather win In an E Division match, Abu Maather defeated Ibrahim Kishri. Brief scores: Ibrahim Kishri 170 for 4 in 20 overs (Wasif Bakker 72) lost to Abu Maather 171 for 7 in 16.5 overs (Su-

Brief scores: Al Fairuz 181 for 4 in 20 overs (Zaheer 68 n.o.) bt Waves Engineering 168 for 9 in 19.1 overs (Aadil Al Balushi 71; Sadam Hussain 3/31). Points: Waves Engineering – 0, Al Fairuz – 2.

Easy for Mecamac Royals In F Division, Mecamac Royals defeated Beatrice by nine wickets. Brief scores: Beatrice 157 in 18.4 overs (Jibin 39; Sajeev Sebastian 3/21) lost to Mecamac Royals 161 for 1 in 13.1 overs (Mohammed Ali 100). Points: Beatrice– 0, Mecamac Royals – 3.

Bank Muscat beat QBG In a G Division match, Bank Muscat defeated QBG by seven wickets.

Brief scores: QBG 158 for 9 in 20 overs (Amandeep Singh 64; Benny Matthew 4/34) lost to Bank Muscat 162 for 3 in 17.3 overs (Mony 71, Yousuf 64 n.o). Points: Bank Muscat – 2, QBG – 0.

Douglas OHI rout Majees In a H Division match, Douglas OHI defeated Majees by 106 runs. Brief scores: Douglas OHI 189 for 7 in 20 overs (Ramsheela Prasad 56; Shejeer Rahman 3/28) bt Majees 89 for 9 in 15.3 overs (Santhosh V. 3/28). Points: Douglas OHI – 3, Majees – 0.

MM overcome Design Group In a J Division match, Muscat Masters (MM) defeated Design Group by two wickets. Brief scores: Design Group 179 for 2 in 20 overs (Hari Prasad 79, Srinivas Annam 58) lost to Muscat Masters 182 for 6 in 19.2 overs (Gaurav P. 60 n.o., Hitesh P. 50). Points: Design Group – 0, Muscat Masters – 2.

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Yash, Prithvi shine at ISC monthly tourney

WINNERS ALL: Winners in various categories pose for a group photo at the end of ISC monthly tennis tournament. – Supplied photo

MUSCAT: Yash Tanna, Prithvi Raj, Vatsal Manikandan, Rohan Sebastian, J. Kaavya and Smrithi Iyer claimed titles at the monthly junior tennis tournament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC) for the trainees at the club’s coaching facility. Yash Tanna staged a brilliant rearguard action to register a hardfought 8-6 victory over Sanskar Dubey to claim the open under-17 title. Prithvi Raj was in awesome touch and won the boys under-14

singles after downing Varun Deepak 6-2 in the ﬁnal. Vatsal Manikandan scored an impressive 6-4 victory over Surya Mariappan to win the boys under-12 crown and Rohan Sebastian overcame Praneeth Raj 6-4 to win the boys under-10 singles. J. Kaavya won the girls open event after defeating Madhu Mitra 6-2 and Smrithi Iyer won the girls under-10 event after topping the round robin league with Sohaliya Patil ﬁnishing second.

MUSCAT: After three successful years, National Finance, one of the leading ﬁnancial companies, and International Heavy Enterprises (IHE), the official dealers of Volvo Trucks and Buses, are ready to host the fourth edition of the Open Golf Tournament at the Ghala Golf Club on November 25. “As golfers prep up for the tournament in an endeavor to bag the winning trophy, this year there will be numerous other trophies to be won,” the organisers said in a statement. The tournament will follow a Stableford scoring format with gross and net prizes for the men, ladies and junior divisions. Along with prizes for the nearest to pin and longest drive, there will also be awards for the front and back net winners too. After an overwhelming response in the previous years, National Finance and Volvo Trucks and Buses are keenly looking forward to another great event. Robert Pancras, CEO of National Finance, said: “Our tournament has golfers from all cat-

egories signing up for it; we have players from different age groups and varied skill levels. We see incredible sportsmanship spirit though the day as golfers from different backgrounds get together to put their best foot forward for a healthy challenge.” “The tournament is open to all golfers with a veriﬁable handicap. Encouraging the sport amongst all golfers, members of the Ghala Golf Club as well as non-members can register for the tournament. Ghala Golf Club members can enroll with an entrance fee of RO. 8 whereas non-members can register for a fee of RO. 15 which would also entitle them to be a part of the grand gala dinner and an exclusive goodie bag from the organizers,” the organisers said. “Showing strong support to developing junior golf and to induce the spirit of golf amongst the youth, junior golfers are also encouraged to enroll for the tournament at absolutely no cost.” Golfers interested in registering for the event can call the Ghala Pro Shop on 92194957.

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URGENTLY REQUIRED Staff Nurses, Pharmacists, Lab Technicians and Radiographers. Physiotherapists & Receptionists (Preferable females) For Al Raazi Hospital in Salalah.

Forward resume to rafeekdr@gmail.com Excellent Grade Construction Company Requires the following:Site Engineers (Civil), Senior MEP Engineer, MEP Engineers, QA/QC Civil, HSE Supervisor, Foreman (Civil), Foremen Electrical, Foremen Plumbing. Draft Man - Civil, Draft Man - Mechanical, Draft Man - Electrical, QS - Civil, QS - MEP, Experienced Purchaser, Store Keepers, Experienced person in Water Proofing Combo System. Interested Candidates to send CV to below email.

Email: info@durat.om

ACCOUNTS Urgent requirement Accountant B.Com Graduate minimum 3 to 4 years experience in Accounts and Oman D/L is preferable. Send CV to Email: omaniacademy@gmail.com Accountant 2-3 years experience. Candidate should be Indian, English speakers. NOC is a must. Email: mohammad.jwabreh@ bearingcitysc.com. Fax: 24509312

ADVOCATE Indian / South African lawyer needed - required 5 years experience Omani license required male / female. Contact: 99378253

DRIVER Required Driver / Business Coordinator should speak Eng/Hindi/ Arabic. Contact: 95327813 Wanted Driver for heavy (sewage vehicle) and light vehicle with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 97991654 / 97991652 Kindly send CV at Email: construction@remasalseeb.com / remaschandran2020@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Urgent required : Store labors. Candidate should be Indian, English speakers. NOC is a must. Email: mohammad.jwabreh @bearingcitysc.com, Fax: 24509312

MANAGER Required a freelance MEP Supervisor for supervising HVAC & plumber work with min of 4 yrs experience and good English comm. skills. Contact: 99454922 Email: humaid@brighteraoman.com Construction Project Manger with 10 years Oman experience in big projects (preferred with PMP) Contact: 99441122 Required cleaning supervisor with 5 years experience can speak English & little Arabic. Should have driving license. Contact : 92876832

Housemaid required for Keralite family in Ghubra. Malayalee maid preferred. Accommodation provided. Contact 96139267

Urgent requirement for Multiple position: Counter sales executive having B.Com & 2-3 years’ experience in paints/building material industry, Labor Camp Boss with 6-7 years’ experience in construction industry. Send CV to omanhr.recruitment@gmail.com

Engineer company at Sohar required Oman driver with light license, must hold ROP license for atleast 3 years & able to converse in English. Send CV : binukkmuscat@gmail.com

MEDICAL Urgently need G.P doctor with NOC for well known running clinic ready to work in Bidbid. call 96746460 Required Optometrist for a leading Optical group in Oman. Email : albasilopticals@gmail.com contact 93822557 Looking for a female Nurse on temporary basis for 2 months to look after an elderly patient contact 95777797 Fusion Medicare Polyclinic, Muscat wants GP, staff Nurse holding MOH license & Receptionist (Omani) Contact 97698004 email: medicare@fusionlogicoman.com

Sri Lankan Chartered Accountant (female), Graduate in B.Com (SP) having 2 years visa. Working experience in Accounting & banking sectors, looking for a suitable position in Muscat. Contact: 96356974 / 97488363 Email: hansikamail@yahoo.com

Contact - 90372638

SALES / MARKETING

ENGINEER

ACCOUNTS

with Omani driving license

SALES SUPERVISOR/SALES CO ORDINATOR with Omani driving license HELPERS Experience 3 to5 years

DOMESTIC HELPER

House maid required full time for an Indian family, salary RO 150/- , visa not available. Contact : 96999333

SITUATION WANTED

Reputed mineral water company required the following HEAVY/LIGHT DUTY DRIVERS VAN SALESMAN

Required sales and marketing executive for a 4-star hotel in muscat. candidate with excellent communication skills and having 3+ years experience need apply. driving license will be an advantage. email: hoteljobsmuscat@gmail.com Carpentry workshop located at Muscat looking for expert Marketing executive with Oman driving license & NOC. Send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com Wanted Sales man for a printing press Whatsapp: 94756618 Required Indian Marketing man or woman Omani license required. Contact: 99378253 Business Executive for experience in Sales & Marketing with Omani D/L. Contact: 98492112 Send CV to mirrorgo1396@gmail.com Required well experienced dynamic candidate in Real Estate Evaluation Field beside Building Management Techniques. Contact 91246444, Email: rescooman@gmail.com

SKILLED LABOUR

PLANT OPERATOR Diploma / ITI in Electrical Engineering (Fresher’s / Experienced). Preference will be given to candidates with experience in MASA / HENKE / BESSER Concrete Block Manufacturing Plants.

SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNTS Indian male with NOC , 12 yrs Oman experience in Operations, facility management banking project coordination with Oman D/L looking for suitable placement. Contact: 98183667 Well experienced Accountant looking part lime accounting job. Contact: 96558699 Indian Accountant having 13 years experience in accounts in Oman & 6 years in India, Oman driving license excellent knowledge in Tally & MS Office, Seeking suitable placement Contact: 79039690 Email: thomas.mahesh@gmail.com Indian male 10 yrs experience as accountant (6 yrs Oman exp) on visit visa seeking suitable job. Contact: 93488505 Email: rahmath.kara@gmail.com, rahmathkara@yahoo.in Syed Tousiff,B.Com,7 years Experience India, Currently in Oman seeking suitable job. #+968 90846557. Email :syedtou23@gmail.com Accountant Sri Lankan National Inter CA 3 yrs exp in finance, ready to join immediately. Contact: 79049355 Email: ahamedfiham777@gmail.com Indian male age 26 visit visa, B.Sc Mathematics 4 years experience as an Accountant seeks suitable job. Contact: 98615171 / 95374978. Email: worksite.tinson@gmail.com Indian (m) MBA (F), more than 6 years of experience in accounts, proficiency in various A/C software SAP (F1/CO) seeking for suitable placement. Contact: 95920740 mail: abdulhameed1527@gmail.com

Required “Supervisor Civil construction” site accommodation provided send CV: arabianhomellc@gmail.com Tel : 95371525

54 years Indian male having 20 years of experience in Accounts / ﬁnance seeking suitable positions. Contact: +91 9495274949 Email: jayangk@gmail.com

Wanted Orthodontist, Pedodontist and oral surgeon, implantologist for a specialty dental clinic. Email medident5000@gmail.com

Required Experienced Auto Electrician and Automobile Mechanic for a reputed service station. Contact : 91232638 hashim@ramainvestment.com

Finance Manager, 17 + years Gulf exp. in Accounts, MIS, budgets, strategic planning, cost control, cash ﬂow management, seeks job. Contact 99489784, E mail :- vijay.564@hotmail.com

SECRETARIAL / OFFICE

Accountant & Administrator, 18 years experience (7 yrs in UAE) Accounting software’s knowledge. Contact: 91729724

Wanted Office clerk having two years experience. Contact: 92891888

Qualiﬁed CA, ACS, 10 +years Managerial experience, working in Bank, looking for suitable opening, Open to any GCC, MBL: +968-90788509, Email: kartirevy@gmail.com

Fax: 00968 - 24490463 E-mail : cfovacoman011@gmail.com

Required General Physician, Gynecology & LAB & X ray Technician. Contact: 99681325 Email: altaqwamedicalcentre@gmail.com

Wanted female & Male Nurse with or without license (good salary, food & accommodation with other beneﬁts. Contact 92989109, Email: medicoport@gmail.com

Male MBA Finance, 10 Year experience in Accounting, Finance, Business Development, Administration & Banking (Import & Export). Proﬁcient in Quickbook & Microsoft Suite. Contact 91462125. Valid Oman Driving License.

Urgently Required

Indian chartered Accountant 17+ years experience in Accounts , Finance and Business management working in reputed group in Muscat looking for suitable change. Oman Driving Licence and NOC available 95562708 pandukp2016@gmail.com Indian male 30 yrs, B.Com 4 years experience in GCC, Sales / Accounts looking for suitable vacancy, currently on visit. Contact: 99727595 Email: samie61@gmail.com Chartered Accountant Finance Manager B.Com, CA, CIA focus, Sap Oracle, MS Office. Contact: 94641805 Male MBA (marketing & Finance) B. Com with SAP ERP & Accounts (SAP Certified), diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards (IAAP-UK), peach tree and experienced seeks placement. Contact- 92324692 Sri Lankan Senior Accountant having BBA, MBA,CA Foundation with 6 Years (2.5 Years in Oman) of experience up to finalization of accounts. Oman D/L, NOC Available Contact; 93598736 Indian male working in Oman for last 8 years as an Accounts Executive having driving license and NOC. Looking for an opportunity. Contact 95731665. Manager Accounts / finance professional, 15 years Oman experience looking for a opening. Contact: 92168401 Accountant 8 Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084 Indian male MBA (fin) 5 years experienced looking job on visit visa. Contact: 97127584 SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, WITH Oman D/L & 9 yrs experience, 8 yrs Oman & 1 yr India in manufacturing, trading & contracting Cos, independently handling all accounting, finance, banking, L/C, import, export & finalization seeks placement, Contact Email: srjob12@gmail.com Indian female 22 years, B.Com with 1 year experience in India as Accountant / Clark, looking for suitable opening. Now on visiting visa. Contact: 97754830

Indian male, B.Com, MBA in Finance, 4 yrs in Larsen & Tourbo, 26 yrs in Oman, English/ Arabic speaking with driving license. NOC available. Contact 95588565 Indian male 24 years MBA in finance 3 yr experience in Auditing, Accounts / Admin on visit visa. Contact: 94003325 Email: shafiqujive32@gmail.com Male MBA Finance, 10 Year experience in Accounting, Finance, Business Development, Administration & Banking (Import & Export), Proficient in Quickbook & Microsoft Suite, Valid Oman Driving License. Contact # 91462125 Post Graduate M.Com (finance) having 20 years experience in Accounts in seeking suitable placement, NOC available. Contact: 96275019 Email Id: vjkmr9583@gmail.com Indian Keralite Accountant male 27 yrs, B.Com tally, 3 years experience in Oman, 1 year in India. presently working in Muscat Municipality, valid Omani D/L, release available. Contact: 93826450 / 99656398 Email: renjith78078@gmail.com Indian Senior Accountant, B com, Having 8yrs Experience in Oman, Up to Finalization, Oman D/L, Release Available, Contact - 93484122 ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in finance. Contact 99284193 Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA Finance and marketing with IT skills, 7+ yrs of experience, Looking for suitable placement. Contact 94879615, Emailsajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/ finance field. On visit visa. Immediately available. Contact 92836216 / muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com Indian male age 26, Accountant one year experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact Email: anishkhan991867@gmail. Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415 Qualified and experienced MBA post graduate with proven work exposure in Middle East & India, having more than 5.5 years of rich experience in accounts , project coordination and administration in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil and gas projects is currently looking for suitable job. Contact 93953613, Email-allen.mathew83@gmail.com 28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement. Contact : 90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com Certified Public Accountant (Filipino, Male, 27-yrs-old) with four years experience, seeking suitable placement in accounting/ audit, currently on visit. Contact; 94959606, email: czesar.42@gmail.com 7 Years experience as Financial Analyst, MBA in finance. Responsibilities- research contributor, financial statement analysis, generating MIS & efficiency report, managing TAT, business & clients. On visit visa in Muscat. Contact 90191628 / 96175780 Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria University Graduate bachelor of commerce Diploma of Marketing professional photographer worked in PR and social media for 2 years looking for a job in public relations media, social media or marketing. Contact: 96976240 Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman. Ready to join immediately. Contact 98263394 Chief Accountant / Senior Accountant having 16 years experience can handle accounts up to finalization, MIS, C FLOW, Budgeting, ERP, Costing & liasing with auditors, looking for suitable position. NOC available. Contact: 97205058 / 94885686

8 yrs exp. in Admin & Accounts (3 yrs in Oman), MBA, exp. in Tally ERP 9, Indian (F) seeks placement. Contact 97243806

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA Finance and marketing with IT skills, 7+ yrs of experience, Looking for suitable placement. Contact 94879615, Emailsajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE, Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for a suitable job in Accounts, Store Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to join as early as possible. Contact 96988923 email:- sajith3969@gmail.com

Accountant B.com Indian male 12 yrs exp seeks suitable job.NOC available . Contact : 91212471 Email: rennyj6@gmail.com

Omani female Accountant, 32 years, having 10 years exp in admin/accounts seeks suitable placement. Contact: 93295953 Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin. Contact :94743790 Indian female 26 yrs, MBA ﬁnance 2 yrs exp with MNC. Email: rilooozmali@gmail.com. Contact : 90551366.

Indian female, 26 years,brought up in oman,M.COM(FINANCE) CA Foundation(CPT),CA INTER(DOING) presently on family visa seeking for immediate and suitable placement. Contact -97174201/99663957 Email-anishasasi@gmail.com Indian (M), 31 yrs, M Com 9 yrs experience in Oman, looking for Manager or Executive position in Fin & Accounts, NOC Available. Contact 968 96166178/ +919768537435: mohammednajeem@yahoo.com

M O N DAY, N OV E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 6

DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTED An experienced Chartered Accountant

Hospitality professional Indian, currently working as General Manager in a leading Hotel in Muscat.

with over 25 years in varied industries, presently working with a reputed group in Muscat, looking out for a suitable change.

18+ years experience in Middle East & India. With release / NOC, seeking General Manager / Operations Managers jobs in Hospitality sector.

96491030

Contact - 968 99589495, Email : mct2016job@gmail.com

DESIGNER/ DRAUGHTSMAN

ADMIN Indian Female, MBA HR & Admin with 3.5 years Oman Experience in HR/Admin, NOC available. M:99791008 8 years experience in administration and guest relations department in Oman With valid omani driving licence. Seeking suitable jobs. Ph: 98145825 email: getcb@rediffmail.com Omani, male, 26 yrs experience looking for job in reputed Companies as PR, having experience at airport / Emigration, Ministries/ Manpower with Oman D/L. Contact 95445779 Indian female MBA-HR having three plus experience in HR, Administration, Customer support, Office coordinator with good computer skills. Now on family visa. Contact :- 92427359. Indian female 33 years with 9.5 years experience (1 yr in Oman) as Executive Secretary, Administration, Sales Coordinator, and HR coordinator seeks suitable placement. Contact 97985059, Email: sarithajbinu@gmail.com Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+ experience in Administration/ HR, Customer Support, Office Coordinator with good Computer skill, Now on Visit Visa, looking for suitable position.Contact 90196235 Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817 Egyptian woman resident, considerable experience in the Administration and Secretarial Executive for company. Contact : 97221126 Male BBA, Admin officer, HR, Procurement Account Assistant, 6 years experience with NOC. Contact : 95526871

ARCH./ INTERIOR DEC. Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience. GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com

CATERING Part time Cook seeks placement in evening. Contact: 95799643

DESIGNER/ DRAUGHTSMAN 8 years in Oman Architect Drafts man working in Engineering Consultancy Muscat, language known Arabic, English, Hindi & Malayalam GCC driving license. Contact: 92466495 Indian, female, B. Sc Interior Designer (Scientiﬁc College- Muscat) 23, with 1 year experience, on visit visa, seeks suitable opportunity, as family resides in Oman. Contact: 99334391 Email: k.fazlurahman@gmail.com Freelance / part time 3d design works, interior /exterior. PH - 97103168 Tunisian girl looking for job in media ﬁeld, has 8years experience in publishing Contact 97816917 Free lance / part time autocad works / make boq 2d /3d arch , structural, shop drawings interior drawings. Contact 97103168 mkgroupoman@gmail.com Autocad d/man / Site Supervisor, experienced knows 2d/3d arch stru, interior civil ITI / Diploma PH : 99506977 Indian, Kerala male having 2 years experience in designing & town planning currently on visiting visa ready to join as easily as possible. Contact: 90861200 / 92929906, vineeshkrvini@gmail.com Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR. PH : 92279784

Civil Engg: B. Tech 6 yrs exp in Building Construction seek suitable Job.NOC Available. Contact 94682380, mathivananred@gmail. com

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Please Contact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

Electronics & Telecom Engineer (MSC, B-tech), 7 Years’ experience in Aviation Industry, seeking for suitable placement, on visit visa. Contact: 96565797, 98372393 Email: inampatriot@yahoo.com

Light driver Oman license holder, experience 6 years languages English, Arabic, Urdu. Contact: 90951199 Light driver 10 yrs. exp in Oman. Contact: 99465319 Heavy vehicle driver Pakistani looking for job. Contact: 93916645 Driver with car part time 4 year’s experience, looking for job. Contact: 94390979 Looking for light driver job, 6 years experience in Muscat, knows English / Arabic. Contact: 92747280 Looking for driving job experience Oman 8 years K.S.A 5 years education H.S.C. Contact: 94297563 Looking for driving job language English, Arabic & Hindi experience in shipping Companies. Contact: 95283531 Looking for driving job 2 yrs exp. Contact: 95145988 Looking for driving job Executive education speak good English and Arabic 4 years experience in Oman. Contact: 99474870 Looking for any driving job. Contact: 98549627 Looking for driver job, 3 yrs exp. Contact: 94987031 5 years experience of light duty driving in Oman. Contact: 95746203 Looking for L.T.V driving job. Contact: 94986972 Looking for driving job. Contact: 97418036 Looking job for driving (with car). Contact: 92005311 Looking for driver job, 9 yrs exp. Contact: 96216699 Private driver Bangladesh , age 25 light driver looking for job 1 yr exp ,knows English, Arabic & Hindi education. Contact : 94338977 Looking for job exp having driving license. Contact: 97363138 Driver looking for job. Contact: 95892363 Bangladeshi, light driver looking for job, 4 yrs exp. Contact: 92681457 18 yrs exp driver seeks job. Contact: 95541940 Experienced driver available with 4WD willing to work fulltime / part-time, familiar with all tourist destinations in Oman. Contact: 24814231 / 91941545

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Electrical Engineer, 24 yrs, Indian Male, Fresher, Training Undertaken in Electrical Draughtsman, Fire Alarm, Fire Fighting and Industrial Automation. Contact: 94989767, Email: Junaiz987@gmail.com Construction Machinery repairs Engineer, 5 years, driving license, Contact - 94001961

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. B. Tech Mechanical HVAC site Engineer 4 years experience, currently on visit. Contact 92837696 / mdabdulather@gmail.com

Contact - 93864278

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

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Canadian-Graduate interior designer. Proﬁcient in many 3D & 2D design software. Speaks English, Arabic, and conversational French. Mobile: 97945233

DRIVER

Indian male, 33 yrs, M.Com, Having 7 yrs experience in Accounting with knowledge of Tally & focus ability of finalization of account, financial reports looking for a suitable job, with valid D/L, NOC available.

Civil Engineer with 8 years experience performs multi- task job to structural work , building construction , infrastructure , planning , site development & architectural ﬁnishing works, NOC available valid Oman D/L. Contact:97474593 Email: a.baraka.om@gmail.com Mechatronics Engineer with NEBOSH and three years experience in Oman with license. Contact: +968-94180383, khalid_khogli@hotmail.com HSE Engineer, NEBOSH IGC and IOSH certiﬁed, having 3 years experience looking for a suitable position. NOC available. Please contact +968 91476537. Electrical Engineer (BSc) 8 Yrs Exp in Telecom Industry looking for Job Cell: 93872547 email: daniyal.badar@gmail.com

HSE Engineer 10+ years experience having NOC & valid driving license Contact: 97717468 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineer with 6 years Gulf Experience in Oil & Gas, MEP and HVAC. Contact : 92730137 Indian Male 22, BE Civil Engineer with few site and internship experiences looking for a suitable position in your ﬁrm. Got knowledge in (Primavera, Autocad, Staad pro). Currently In visit visa. 98327644 or shakib842@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 yrs Exp with Autocad & D/L. Contact : 98484123, Email: vinodpmani@gmail.com Electrical Engineer 2 years exp in construction & distribution seeking job available on visit. Contact: 98361217 / 94110178 Email:shariqsiddiqui09@gmail.com AutoCAD Civil Draughtsman with diploma in Civil Engineering, more than 8 yrs exp in Oman, valid D/L, NOC available. Contact: 96785348 / 93129804 Male, 25 yeas Diploma Instrumentation and Control Instrument Technician, 2 years experience, looking for suitable placement. Contact: 96946408 Email: anfeeranfu4@gmail.com Indian male 26 years Mechanical Engineer with 2 yrs exp in Oman. Looking for suitable placement. Contact - 91328079

Young Engineer with 2 years working experience as Business Analyst, Data Analyst and Business Strategist looking for suitable position in the ﬁeld of Research & Developing Marketing strategist is on a visiting Visa. Contact : 91983892. Email: utkarshgupta8@hotmail.com

Syrian Civil Engineer with 2 years experience in construction with driving license. Contact: 94799791

Diploma Civil Engineer Indian male, 15 yrs GCC experience, valid Oman D/L, NOC available, seeking suitable placement. Contact :99794456

Civil Engineer 5+ years experience in Building construction & Steel structural building with having valid D/L. Contact: 93850440/ shahadat033@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer 27 yrs Indian male 4 yrs experience (Oman, UAE) ASNT level II, ASMEB 31.3 certiﬁed looking for suitable position. Contact: 98843671 Email: ifthikharahmedpo@hotmail.com

2 yrs well experienced Structural Engineer with good knowledge on ETabs & fast in using AutoCAD looking suitable for suitable placement. Contact: +968 96118135

B.Tech Civil Engineer Indian male with 2 years experience looking for junior position job on visit visa. Contact: 97206179 Indian male 25 B.Tech Electrical, 3 years experience in industrial automation & supervision. Contact: 97207570 / 90481773 D.A.E (Civil), B.Tech (Civil) experience (4 years) Languages English Urdus Pushto, Civil Engineer, bachelor degree with 4 years. Contact: 97248565 Civil Engineer with B.Tech in Civil Engineer seeking new job opportunities, on employment visa in Sultanate of Oman with no objection certiﬁcate for two years, Eby Joe Witalius. Contact: 93671405 32 years male Indian Civil Engineer, advanced surveying (land surveying) 6 years of experience (Gulf experience) seek immediate employment. Contact: 98443218 Surveyor Supervisor Pakistani male 30 diploma in Civil 12+ year’s exp 9 years in KSA looking for suitable job, on visit visa with valid driving license. Contact: 97255028 Email: leo-khurais@yahoo.com Age 29, UK Computer Engineer Graduate, 5 years experience, 10 years in Oman, NOC & D/L available. Contact: 94423351 Civil Engineer having 7 years experience in Oman with AutoCAD. Contact: 98947460 Piping Engineer (B.E Mechanical) with 5+ years experience in Gulf and India seeks suitable position. Contact: 91987143

Indian male, Structural Engineer looking for job in structural design ﬁeld. Having 6 years of experience in design ﬁeld. Residing in Muscat. Contact - 91176187 Email: syam036@gmail.com

Engineer buildings diploma 3 years Sudanese National 4 years experience in the construction sites & management. Contact: 91183608

Indian male, B.E Mechanical with 2 years experience as Maintenance Engineer in Cochin Reﬁnery and 1 year experience in Chevrolet seeking job. Ph number: 97964862, Email:jossyabraham20@gmail.com

Civil Engineer, young Indian having almost 2 years experience looking for a challenging position seeks suitable position in Oman/ GCC. Please contact 92718490, Email ID: uvais.pk82@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer Sudanese 6 years exp in Gulf HVAC ﬁre protection plumbing with D/L. Contact: 90609377 Electrical Engineer having 16 years experience in switchgear / Transformer / over head lines & trading for Sales / Procurement & Project Execution with valid Omani D/L, also available on contracts basis. Contact: 968 - 95994727 Email: qurm340@gmail.com Piping Engineer with 10 years experience. Contact: +968 96745181 Email: khan121008@gmail.com Indian male Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) with MBA HR & marketing, on visit visa looking for suitable placement. Contact : 93353097, Email: jbabu4@gmail.com Indian male 23 yrs, B.Tech Mechanical Engineer 1 year experience in India having piping engineering and quality control certiﬁcation looking for suitable job, currently on visit visa. Contact: 90957740 Email: nishadphoenix@gmail.com

Civil Engineer looking for a job, 3.5 years experience in Oman in building construction and infrastructure have Omani license. Contact: 98826802 / 94903195 Email: eng.mn12@gmail.com

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

Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. #92451323. Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com

Civil Engineer 8 years experience in Oman as a project engineer for governmental & private projects. Contact – 90164912

Indian male Civil Engineer 1.6 yrs exp, having Omani D/L, looking for suitable position. NOC available. Contact – 92157694 / mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com

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

Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication site work with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 94696192 Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrs exp seeks suitable position in a reputed company. NOC available. Contact 96789711 B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24 with almost 1 year experience as Production Shift Engineer, has achieved training on HVAC Engineering design and has good hands on software like AutoCAD and HAP.Currently in Oman on a visit visa, looking for a suitable placement.Contact: 95065955 email: mjs.jazeb@gmail.com Pakistani, Land Surveyor, experience 5 years, 3 years in Pakistani & 2 years in Oman Muscat, building and roads and 3 years civil diploma, NOC available. Contact: 94791214 / 98489700 Indian female B.Tech (CSE), 22 with 4 months experience as System Engineer in leading MNC on visit visa seeks suitable opportunity as family resides in Oman. Contact: 71198596 Email: divyamarch94@gmail.com Civil Engineer has N.O.S for immediately join, 7 years total experience, 3 years oman experience. Contact +968 97983610 Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs of exceptional exp in spear heading strategic planning and project management initiatives & executing various high rise residential & commercial building as well as roads and highway project with proﬁciency in installation, seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization. Contact 96570891 Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) graduate with 3 years of experience in the ﬁelds of BMS and Low current systems and has good knowledge about Electronic Security Systems, currently working in Oman, NOC Available. Contact: 94737033/ mohdmuhafez45@gmail.com Electrical Engineer: Indian male 30 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation and utility maintenance in India, holding valid Oman D/L. Contact: 92789995 Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com Diploma in Civil Engineering looking for part time job, 6 years experience in Oman with driving license. Contact: 94013285

Electronics & Communication Engineering Graduate male 23 yrs seeking for an entry technical job, on visit visa. Contact: 91329719

Mechanical Engineer, Indian, 5 yrs Experience, Automobile Diploma, HVAC, On Visit Visa, Contact – 93042025

Mechanical Engineer with 4yrs exp in PAEW, Maintenance, Design and having GCC D/License Contact:+968 95712436 & tejab17@gmail.com

Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit.PH: 93837973

Iraqi Civil Engineer has Master degree in Project management with 14 years experience. Contact : 79038461 Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity. Contact: 93101283 Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.) on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350 mail: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com Civil Eng (DAE) with 4 years exp with Chinese company also good operator of AutoCAD, 3D Max, office etc. Contact: 90979849

B.Sc (Hons) & B.Tech (Electronics & communication) 2.5 years experience as B.T.S & microwave link installation & commissioning engineer currently on family visit visa. Contact: 96756964 BE Mechanical Engineer 1 year experience, diploma Mechanical Engineer QA/QC Mechanical inspector. Contact: 99865023 Email: sachu.s17@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 years experience Quantity Surveyor civil in Oman, looking for a job around 21 years experience in civil works. # 92801589 Graduate Civil Engineer 20 yrs GCC experience with Omani D/L, seeking job NOC available. Contact: 98621645 Email: imtiazcv@gmail.com

Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian male 24 years with 1+years Indian experience,(Certified in Staad Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad). Looking for a Suitable position. Available In Sultanate of Oman (Muscat) on Visit Visa. Contact: 92157694. E-mail: mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com Sudanese Civil Engineer male 6 years experience looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 95376205 Indian male 8 years experience in electrical field with managerial, office, site supervision, fault debugging and exposure to electrical devices now in visiting visa. Contact: 90181566 Email: jittoandrewsnesto@gmail.com Indian male, B.E Mechanical with 2 years experience as Maintenance Engineer in Cochin Refinery and 1 year experience in Chevrolet seeking job. Contact : 97964862, Email:jossyabraham20@gmail.com Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022 Mechanical Engineer, Indian, Male, 30yrs. Experienced in Steam turbines and Thermal Power house seek employment. Contact - +91 8130553668 or mohamedshah7@gmail.com Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784

EDUCATION/TRAINING Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. #99739415 / 92091528 Indian female 24. Masters in Computer science engineering, seeking job in colleges, schools and institutes. Having in good skill in teaching and advanced technologies. Contact : 93356858 Email id : annielino11@gmail.com English teacher having 5 years experience in Omani school seeks students at Honda road Volga. Contact: 99839385 Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualiﬁed, distinction holder with 6 yrs teaching experience in colleges. Contact : 91360147. Maths Teacher 30 years experience IGCSE bilingual I.B, A& AS levels. Contact: 98016336 Indian Female, Phd in Chemistry having 3.5 yrs of Experience in India. Staying here on Family Visa & seeking for a suitable placement. Contact – 99675828, Email anupam.tiwari67@gmail.com

HOSPITALITY Indian male, 24 yrs , Diploma in Hotel management, 2 years experience front office management in 4 star hotel Dubai, currently on visit visa. Contact: 97937504 Email: febinpalathingal01@gmail.com Indian male 31yrs old with hotel management degree,03 yrs experience in F&B services at 5 star hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06 star cruiseliner has butler. Has Oman driving license. Contact No 99859150.

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SITUATION WANTED IT IT Support Engineer Indian male 5 years experience seeking suitable jobs in Oman. Contact: 90117664 System and Network Administrator 30 yrs male, Indian over exp 5 years of experience in India with MCA Graduation and CCNA certification seeking placement in IT, Now in Muscat on visiting visa. Contact: 92805363 Email: anoopmprakash@gmail.com 8+ years experience as Software and multimedia Developer currently in Microsoft India seeking suitable opening in Oman. Contact: 93936878 IT Engineer male, 28 yrs, over 7 yrs experience with NOC, D/L available seeking placement in IT / Network / Telecom field. Contact: 93563297 Email: monuzv24@gmail.com Oracle DBA/ EBS developer, 9+ years experience in IT, Banking, financial, supply chain domain, currently in Muscat, NOC available. Contact: 96494216 CFA level 1 cleared (pursuing level 2) MBA operations research, female, 5 yrs experience as Analyst, have a valid Oman driving license, looking for related openings. Contact 95818892 Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India. Contact 94672759 Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement. Contact 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area. Contact 98660672 Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement. Contact 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com Female, master in mass communication, B.Ed, experience in media channel and teaching PH : 99362024

LOGISTICS Experienced Indian Male seeking placement in “Stores & Logistics”. Contact: 91927039

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male 10 years exp in Gulf country exp in store keeper seeks suitable job salary 175 to 225 Riyal. Contact: 90198237 9 year experienced industrial painter and sand blaster with Oman driving licence. NOC available. Seeks suitable placement. Contact ZakeerHussain 96681934. Indian male, 29 yrs, Diploma in Polymer Technology & Fire Safety,7 yrs of experience in Polymer Production Supervisor (Plastic & Rubber Industry).Seeking suitable placement. Contact : 9818 8418 21, Indian female B.com graduate on family visa looking for immediate and suitable placement. Holds valid Omani Driver’s license. Contact: 97208869 Indian male, 28, post graduate, 6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back ofﬁce) & credit control with valid Oman D/L looking for suitable placements. NOC available. Contact: 92066 523 BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants). Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation. Contact 92956848 B.Com,IICL Certiﬁed Container Inspector(No.150850),Visit Visa, Six months experience, need placement. Phone 90880935,99023279, Email solexyesudas@gmail.com.

SKILLED LABOUR Watch repair and service looking for job, 24 yrs experience. Contact: 99530405

MANAGER / SUPERVISOR Indian, male, 15 Years GCC experienced Finance professional looking for senior position in Finance, immediately. 96779717, Email : ﬁnsagu@gmail.com Experienced proﬁt center Manager for Aluminum /glass fabrication & installation industry available as Advisor / consultant, NOC available. Contact: 94951527 General Manager Indian National With 20 yr Experience In managing Civil Construction Business Seek Opening in reputed Civil Company. Contact-97464650. Manager FMCG distribution / Supermarket expert 15 years Oman experience looking for a opening. Contact: 92787747 Indian male 26 Graduate looking for suitable vacancy having 3 years experience in Supervision & Management. Contact: 98847095

MEDICAL Looking for job Dentist Indian female with 2 years experience. Contact: 95894258 An Arabic speaking Assistant Pharmacist with MOH license & over 5 years of extensive experience in public and hospital pharmacies (Mobile: 94109327) 33 yrs, male, Graduate (Physiotherapist, 8 yrs experience having Oman driving license looking for any kind of job. Ph : 91904191 / 91168482 Mail:davismchittetu84@yahoo.com Indian, 24, BSc, Nursing, 2.6 yrs experience in Apollo Emergency Chennai MOH license, with NOC. Contact: 92694514 Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 96906534 /99014885, Email: monishmajeed@gmail.com Filipino male Medical / Sales representative with 3 yrs experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: 92610394 Dr.Ayman Abduljalil Ali, E.N.T Specialist (Otolaryngologist), Yemeni-male, looking for job. Mobile: 00201096542706, Email: aymanjalilorl@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Indian male, Executive Secretary with 17 years experience seeking suitable position, release available. Contact: 94142594 Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment. Contact: 95244761 India PG diploma in Business Administration, 24 year experiences (22 years in Oman) in diverse ﬁeld handling office administration independently, Sales and Marketing, highly motivated, hard working skillful and willing to work in hallenging environments seeks suitable placement. Having valid Omani driving license. Contact 99120500 Secretarial & Office: Indian(F), MBA in Finance, 2 years experience as Associate in Branch Operations (Record Keeping, Desk job)on family visa. Ph: 93186865 ; email: ddthoppil@gmail.com Looking for part time job Secretarial / Data Entry / Documentation available every day after 5:00 pm Friday / Saturday full day area preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD / Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

SALES / MARKETING NOC available, Indian male, 30 yrs MBA, BE (Electronics & Telecomm) 7 yrs in Oman in sales, marketing & projects seeks suitable placement, valid Oman D/L, Contact: 98518776 Indian male 30 yrs, MBA, 5 plus yrs. work experience in sales, services, marketing G.C.C valid driving license in Oman work visa. Contact: 91739031 Marketing Executive MBA Marketing & HR 32 yrs 6+ years exp with Oman D/L NOC, looking for suitable placement. Contact: 90258303 Marketing Manager 29 years professional experience in GCC / Oman in marketing in building materials / High tech products. Contact: 92284066 / 98559317

SALES / MARKETING Purchase officer 5+ experience in Oman, CPP & Eppm certified. Contact: 95605084 Email: abdulsmr44@gmail.com Indian male 30 MBA visit visa seeking job in sales marketing experience 5 years. Contact : 98934277 / 96264642 Email: safi18058@gmail.com Mktg Indian M.Sc Oman exp 2 years NOC available. Contact: 90947859 Email: wilsonvarghese1@gmail.com MBA Qualified lady Purchase Executive with 8 years Oman experience seeks employment in a reputable organization. NOC available. Contact: 95834242 Procurement, Warehouse & Logistics, Pakistani Male, Graduate, Over 10 years experience, Looking for Suitable Placement, Currently on Visit Visa Contact Oman : +968-91257663 E-Mail:waqasmehar1@gmail.com MBA (UK), raised in Oman & with 2 yrs work experience holding valid Oman driving license, seeks job in sales / business development. Contact: 99513132 Indian male, 15 years Gulf experience in store in charge, sales and office assistant job in Auditing firm, looking for suitable placement. Contact: 92305353 Proactive sale pro male, 30 MBA (Marketing), 5 yrs exp seeks immediate placement in leading company, NOC available. Contact: 95656162 India PG diploma in Business Administration, 24 year experiences (22 years in Oman) in diverse field handling office independently administration, Sales and Marketing, highly motivated, hard working skillful and willing to work in challenging environments seeks suitable placement. Having valid Omani driving license. Contact 99120500 Indian male, looking for sales & marketing job, Oman license holder. Contact: 95642740 Email: shaijichakkara@gmail.com Indian male 26 yrs, Graduate, 3 years experience with Air India seeking suitable opportunity with reputed firms. Contact: 98847095 Sales professional (Graduate) additional qualification CCNA & MCSE having more 10 years experience in handling IT hardware, Networking & security products (project based) and experience in Education and training Industry in Oman, seeking employment in relevant IT companies. Contact: 99354209, Email: sandy6673@gmail.com Indian male MBA and Diploma in management from Australia. On visit visa, looking for a suitable job in sales & marketing. Contact – 71189884 Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG sector, looking for best opportunity. NOC available. Conatct 96001877 Resident in Oman 18 years, 10 years experience in setup marketing plans and strategies, sales, import & logistics, procurement, Omani government tenders, organizing projects & events, import fireworks for festivals, NOC available, have car. Contact 94123939. Email: 002015r@gmail.com

We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898 Enjoy Camping in Wahiba desert & all over Oman & tour. Contact: 92226866

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED SALES / MARKETING Indian male Graduate with 18 years of Marketing experience presently in Oman on family visit visa, looking for best opportunity. Contact: 96168687 Email: dhibupaul@gmail.com Indian male 26 years of experience of sales & marketing in surgical and laboratory equipments. Looking for good replacement. Contact – 92015894 /95774854 Indian male age 24, B.Com. having 2 year experience and currently in visit visa. Looking for suitable placement in Sales, Marketing & finance. Contact: 90766307 Email: shhaazz.007@gmail.com BBA Bachelor of business administration exp in custom clearance procedure, also done international logistics management & Nimb National Institute business management (US) certification all documentation work related logistics. contact – 91949050 / akram.chaush001@gmail.com Indian male 1 yr exp in sales automotive (TBL) looking for best opportunity , NOC available. Contact# 97793879 Email: shyampkn@gmail.com Indian male 37 years MBA graduate in marketing with 9yrs of experience in UAE in field of brand promotions & marketing with UAE D/L on a visit seeking suitable position. Conatct 95792820

MISCELLANEOUS Expat with 13 yrs experience in sales and marketing, seeking suitable placement. Contact 92100116 HSE Engineer, 3+years of experience, bachelor of engineering(EEE), Nebosh, IOSH, DHSE, ﬁrst aid. Contact :+97474018995, email: midhunmich@gmail.com, skype: midhunmike Indian male civil Engineer 8 years good working experience searching for suitable job. barathidasancivil@gmail.com, +91- 9176451772, +91-955157008 Job wanted as admin/clerk/office Bank, and money exchange ,I have 7 years of banking experience in Pakistan and have two years visa with Noc . Nawab khan 9497640

Indian female 29 years Post Graduate with computer Knowledge 2 years of Oman experience in coordinator & 5 years of experience in customer service, client relation officer with excellent communication skill seeks suitable placement. Contact: 95337665

IT Systems and network Administrator with 8 years of experience in Qatar & Bahrain , Holding MCITP & CCNA certiﬁed professional. With GCC D/L .Currently in Oman in Visit Visa, looking for a suitable placement . Kindly contact 91765841. (NOC NOT REQUIRED)

Client Relations and Sales Professional with 8 years in the Business Process Outsourcing industry, looking for suitable opportunity in Muscat. Contact +96879050752

Indian male B. Com Graduate, 1.5 Year exp. in various office works, Valid Oman driving license Looking for any suitable post. Contact: 95322175 / 91987965

Indian male with 6 years experience in sales in oman. NOC available, looking for suitable placement. Contact 95364128

Indian male, BBA and Diploma in logistics, looking for a suitable position. Contact 92267276

Indian Male, 26 M.Com with 4 yrs of Experience in Accounting & Administration in a Financial Company in India, seeks suitable job, Currently in India. +918907212253 Akhil:-93626288, Email: Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com

28, male, ACCA ﬁnalist, BSc Honours, have 4 years of professional experience in Finance of different industries independently. NOC available, seeking for permanent replacement at a Senior Position. Contact -97654769,email idabdullah.nooralam@gmail.com

Oil & gas experienced Indian lady with 6 years in sales & marketing to PDO and having valid Omani driving license. #96143430 / 99875919

Indian female Nurse with MOH License, looking for suitable placement in Muscat. Contact: 95537685.

SITUATION WANTED Indian male, 27 Yrs Age, MSW (HR) looking for Job any reputed organization. Having more than 1.5 years in India in the area of HR & Admin seeks suitable position. Contact : 93353912 Indian female B.E (I.T) : Good experience in documentation and CRM. Having good communication skills. Seeking for job from reputed organization. Previous experience in Oman and India. Contact - 97301058, 97136975. Indian male, completed BBA and diploma in logistics and transportation, fresher. Visa type: visit visa. Contact :92267276 Indian male 24 MBA, having 2 years of experience in accounting and admin ﬁeld, looking for job. Contact no- 91626565 Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian Male, Expert in AutoCad, Revit Arch, Staad, Primavera seeking for a suitable placement. Contact : 90198202, nanduchandran94@gmail.com

Indian male, Accountant looking for part time accounting job / data entry / office job. Contact: 93884951 Email: mehreenraiz@gmail.com Mechanical/Production Engineer, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B. Tech in Mech Engg, Proﬁciency in AutoCAD, Primavera certiﬁed. Contact arn9895@gmail. com, Mob 00919895233155 Indian Male Wood Designer & Wood works 7 Years good working experience searching for suitable job. +919698637279, GSM : +96891894487 Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures, Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. #Mob-00917741032368, rahulkunnath23@gmail.com 9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil & Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughtsman (holding Omani driving license) seeking job. Contact 93790601

Filipino, Female, 37 years old having 9 years’ experience in office administration. Looking for Admin/HR related jobs, on visit visa. Contact 96209384. Email: rechie.labandria@gmail.com

BE-Diploma Mechanical Engineering with 4 years experience in Oman as QA/QC in production, looking for valuable offer, with valid driving license. #99335742

Bangladeshi Male, University M. Com, Working as an Administrator cum Accountant in Oman since last year; Tally ERP9, searching better job. Phone:94864966, Email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com

3 yrs exp. in accounts ﬁeld in construction and contracting trading co Muscat Oman, looking for suitable placement. Release available and immediately ready to join. Contact: +968 94574596.

Indian Male, 27 Yrs Age, MSW (HR) looking for Job any reputed organization. Having more than 1.5 years in India in the area of HR & Admin seeks suitable position. Contact : 93353912

Highly Qualiﬁed male wanted decent driving job. #91243132

B.COM Graduate, Indian-Kerala, 4 Years of experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license. Looking for a suitable job in Accounts, Sales & Admin. email:jobhuntmuscat@gmail.com . Indian male Sr. Sales / Marketing Executive, with thorough knowledge of Oman market in trading as well as in procurement for about 10 years seek suitable position. Contact: 99045512 Indian male, Engineer, Procurement Officer, Construction. 23 years experience in Automobile Supply Chain, Production Planning, IT - Delivery Management, Business Analysis and Operations set-up. Contact: 90215985.

Pak. (Male), M.B.A (Management) having 2 years experience Admin + Accountant. Good Knowledge of Tally and M.S office in Oman on visit visa looking for job. Contact: 97094221, Email: mubinbrw@gmail.com Indian male, 10 years experience looking for part time Accounts/ Data Entry job contact: 93884951 Physiotherapist Indian with valid MOH license looking for suitable placement. Contact : 91556011 Petrochemicals specialist, MBA 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN OIL FIELDS COM/plastics /Automobile/construction/Polymer/Packaging, e-procurement /COMMERCIAL/ PURCHASE / LOGISTICS / SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT . NOC available . Contact: vved76@gmail.com cell:97813849

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SITUATION WANTED Indian Male 29 years MBA, B. Com having 8 years experience in Gulf and India as a HR and Admin looking for suitable placement. # :97914340. Email: kvraj30@gmail.com

Electrical supervisor having 10 years gulf experience in different construction project (Grid, primary s/s, etc) seeking suitable position. GSM: 95710831

Indian Female Nurse with MOH License, looking for suitable placement in Muscat. #95537685.

Indian male 27 MBA Graduate with experience looking for job in ﬁnance, Logistics or new ﬁeld in Oman. Contact: 90884252, Email: tamjeedruk@gmail.com

Filipina, Female, 37 years, having 9 years experience in Office Administration with good communication skills and knowledge in Microsoft Office. Looking for Admin/ HR related jobs, currently on visit visa. Contact: 96209384, Email: rechie.labandria@gmail.com HSE Engineer, 3+years of experience, bachelor of Engineering (EEE), Nebosh,Iosh,Dhse,First Aid. Contact : +97474018995, email: midhunmich@gmail.com, skype: midhunmike Indian Male, age 23, B.E. in Mechanical engineering. Looking for suitable job. Oman D/L available. Contact 93027183 Pakistani experienced male, masters in economics with valid Omani driving license, ﬂuent in English, needs any suitable job like accounting, teaching, management, marketing or decent driving. # 91243132 Heavy Driver looking for job. Contact 95651928

28,male, ACCA ﬁnalist, BSc Honors, have 4 years of professional experience in Accounts, handling work of 15 companies independently. NOC available, seeking for permanent replacement at a Senior Position,GSM-97654769,email id-abdullah.nooralam@gmail.com Document control, office admin, sales coordinator, Indian male, seeks suitable placement. Contact 97906386 / 99073690 Indian Male, Kerala,B.Com, having 4-years of experience in OMAN, with Valid Oman Driving License, looking for a suitable job in Sales, Accounts & Administration. mail:- jobhuntmuscat@gmail.com 33 years Indian Male MSC, MBA-HR having 8.5 yrs experience (HR / Payroll / Admin) with Oman valid DL. Seeking suitable opening in Human Resource, Payroll & Admin/ backend jobs. Contact:00968-99322978

Indian Male Store Keeper and Sales Person have Four Years Good experience searching for suitable Job. E-mail Id ajinantony9@gmail. com, Contact: +918056761888, GSM +9695694990 B.E Mechanical Engineer, Indian. Currently on family visit OMAN. Looking for job in various mechanical ﬁelds of production, manufacturing, technical and designing. Contact 92113987,email : mohammedthanzeel@gmail.com Senior sales executive. Experience in trading industries with thorough knowledge of Oman market and wide customer contacts. Driving license and NOC available, seeks senior position. #98487311 Indian Male 23 yrs B.E Mechanical with 02 years experience, Currently on visit seeking for suitable job. Contact : 79063064, Email id : sayedwasif@gmail.com Bangladeshi male, University M.Com, working as an Administrator cum Accountant in Oman since last year; Tally ERP9, searching better job. Phone:94864966, email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com Indian Male 22 years B.com graduate well versed English, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam, Holding a valid Oman driving License searching for a suitable placement. #96799287

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SITUATION WANTED SERVICES Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning tiles / Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available. Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C

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Karate and self defense classes at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM. Contact: 98294551

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SERVICES We Provide Cleaners, Oﬃce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc. Al Mudakhir National Est. LLC Contact : 94277020 Window unit & split unit A.C servicing & repairing Barka, Mabela , Ruwi area. Contact: 99557080

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998

Split unit & window unit A.C servicing & maintenance Barka, Mabela, Ruwi area. Contact: 96236476

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. Contact 24793614/ 99314807

General cleaning new villas cleaning Barka , Mabela, Hail area. Contact: 99557080 / 95323517 A/C maintenance & Servicing, Fridge / Washing Machine / dish washer repairing, 2) Painting and cleaning service, Electrical & Plumbing. Contact 94147874 / 24504281, Email : globalaccessunited@gmail.com We undertake new construction & maintenance & gypsum works. Contact 92711506, ammarayyub@gmail.com

Marble polishing & crystallization, building cleaning floor, floor polishing, carpet, sofa shampooing, pest control, anti termite, shifting maintenance. Contact: 99504275 Water proofing ABUQABASContact 99320217/24788722 House shifting packing. Contact: 99657644 / 98518013 Affordable rates all types of curtain blind. Contact 99539521/ 95615642

SITUATION WANTGOOD NEWS ED Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact 24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com

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Carpet & Sofa Shampooing General Cleaning & Polishing Ocean Center L.L.C. Contact: 24707833

We undertake building construction and maintenance, we have 40 Indian skilled & labors. Contact: 91797549 / 99539433 Pest Control Treatments. Ocean Center L.L.C. Contact 99344723

Marble Crystallization & Grinding, Ocean Center L.L.C. Contact 92705130 Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & antitermite treatment, general cleaning painting,Plumbing,Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. Contact 24810137, 99450130 Painting & plumbing work. Contact: 95963682

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Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis massage, steam bath, obesity, spondylitis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic clinic, 18th November Street Al Ghubra (North). Contact 99639695 / 97397320

DRIVING Specialist for road test drum and slope. Contact 94022250 Muscat Driving School. Contact: 94085688