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At the Conclusion of the 28th Summit of the Supreme Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Qatar, 2007

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

The goals of our council are clear, and we will forge ahead, with God’s help, to achieve them to ensure security, peace and stability for our region and progress and prosperity for its peoples.”

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jabir Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait in reply to His Majesty’s condolences ca-ble on the death of Sheikh Salim Nasser Hamoud Al Malak Al Sa-bah. In his cable, Sheikh Sabah ex-pressed his utmost thanks for His Majesty’s sincere condolences and sympathy, praying to Allah the Al-mighty to rest the deceased’s soul in peace and protect His Majesty against all harm. -ONA

K U W A I T

His Majesty issues six Royal DecreesMUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said yesterday issued six Royal Decrees.

Royal Decree No. 10/2016 promulgates the Land Transport Law, after it had been presented before the Council of Oman.

Article (1) states that the provi-sions of the Land Transport Law attached to this Decree shall be enforced.

Article (2) says that the Decree shall be published in the Official Gazette.

Royal Decree No. 11/2016 promulgates the Takaful In-

surance Law, after it had been presented before the Council of Oman.

Article (1) enforces the Takaful (Collaborative) Insurance Law.

Article (2) says that the Decree shall be published in the Official Gazette.

Royal Decree No. 12/2016 in-troduces amendments to some of the provisions of the Vehicle Insurance Law, after it had been presented before the Council of Oman.

Article (1) stipulates that the amendments of the Vehicle Insur-

ance Law (Motor Insurance Law) attached to this Decree shall be enforced.

Article (2) says that the Decree shall be published in the Official Gazette.

Royal Decree No. 13/2016 rati-fies the Sultanate of Oman’s join-ing the International Agreement on the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System, after it had been presented before Majlis Al Shura.

Article (1) approves the Sultan-ate’s joining the above-mentioned International Agreement on the

Harmonised Commodity De-scription and Coding System.

Article (2) instructs the au-thorities concerned to deliver the documents required for joining the said agreement as per its pro-visions.

Article (3) states that this De-cree shall be published in the Of-ficial Gazette and be enforced on its date of issue.

Royal Decree No. 14/2016 en-dorses the oil agreement between the Sultanate of Oman and Hy-drocarbon Finder E & P LLC for Bloc 7. >A6

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

SQU finishes fifth at Shell Eco-marathonHASAN SHABAN AL LAWATIhassan@timesofoman.com

MANILA: Months of hard work paid off as Sultan Qaboos Univer-sity (SQU) students bagged the fifth place at Shell Eco-marathon 2016 among 34 teams that partici-pated in the gasoline-run proto-type category in Manila.

In the fifth and final round, the team miraculously held on to its position among the top five as many other teams recorded high scores, but failed to beat the Omani engineers.

Commenting on the interna-tional achievement, Tariq Al Sub-hi, the team leader, stated that he was so proud to have represented Oman in a major Asian event, not to mention snatching a remark-able place.

Unlike last year, the SQU team surprised everyone with its per-formance and even came in third during the five rounds. However,

two Vietnamese teams turned the tables in the final round, snatching the third and fourth places.

Tamer Al Siyabi, the 21-year-old team driver, expressed satisfac-tion with the results, saying, “We

successfully implemented all the strategies we learnt on the track.”

Al Siyabi endured high levels of humidity and heat which, ac-cording to him, can badly distract and affect any racer during the ten

laps which may take 29 minutes to complete.

It was noted that among more than 100 teams, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) students were the first team to hit the track of Manila in the prototype category on Friday after smoothly passing the technical inspection. >A4

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YOUNG ACHIEVERS: Oman team held on to its position among the top five, though many others got high scores. – Supplied photo

A decision that ended one life and left another shattered

FAHAD AL GHADANI REJIMON K fahadnews@timesofoman.com reji@ @timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: “It was raining and we decided to enjoy swimming. I still remember the strength of the sea waves. The sound still beats in

my ears. I feel now that the sound of the waves was telling me to go away from the sea. Maybe I could save my cousin’s life.”

Sultan Al Balushi’s story is tragi-cally familiar, a tale which starts with a foolish decision in the name of ‘fun’ to ignore safety warn-ings from the authorities as the

weather worsened. Despite alerts from the Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) to stay out of the rough seas Sultan and his cousin went in search of thrills.

Their decision did not end well.“I remember we were screaming

for people playing on the beach as they heard us but quite late,” said Al Balushi, a resident of Shinas who was finally plucked from the waves by those on the sand.

“I was unconscious for some time and when I turned conscious I discovered my cousin is missing. The people thought I was alone and they didn’t search for him at first,” said Al Balushi.

Some time later his cousin was found dead on the shore.

Today, and for days to come this week, others will face a choice similar to Sultan and his cousin, whether to risk the waves or the wadis despite the warnings of the PACA.

Heavy rain“It will rain heavily from Monday till Friday. Already, it has started to rain in many interior areas. Wadis will overflow posing threat to pub-lic. We advise people not to risk their and others life,” Hamed Al Barashdi, a senior official from the PACA, told Times of Oman.

“This time the rain is expected to be heavier than last week and more wadis are expected to flow heavily,” said Al Barashdi.

He added that although many instructions and messages are sent to public through different languages, still some don’t take them seriously.

“You still can have fun but just wait for the situation to be more safe and clear to everybody. Fun is always better, when it is safe ,” said Al Barashdi.

A spokesperson with media department of Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA), advised the public not

to risk their lives during rain and try not to leave home unless in emergency situations.

“People should listen to the up-date and instructions sent by the authorities concerned.

“Light rain started at around 12pm in Bahla, Yanqul, Sharqiyah, Ibri, Ibra, Mudhaibi and Buriami. By 3pm, it started to rain heavily in Kabourah, Suwaiq, Rustaq, Mus-sanah and other areas, . Muscat region also may receive heavy rain in evening and night,”said Bader Ali Al Baddaei, an administrator of www.rthmc.net, a local Web-based forum that discusses weather in Oman. >A6

With heavier rain forecast this time, people

have been advised to keep clear of wadis, sea

MORNING MINUTE

A26 vehicles damaged in Cairo blast

OMANHotel packages

2Hotels in Oman come up with special offers, giving attractive discounts. >A6

MARKETSalalah port deal

3Port of Salalah signs a MOU with Shahid Rajaee Port & Chabahar Port.>B1

OMANSignificant drop in traffic accidents in January

1A significant dip in accidents could be considered an improvement in people driving safely and more cautiously. There were 382 accidents in January 2016 compared to 568 of the same period last year. >A5

T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S

Three Ibri bus crash victims laid to restFAHAD AL GHADANIfahadnews@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Three brothers of the injured woman who had died in the Fahud-Ibri road accident last Tuesday, were buried on the same day in the Dhofar governo-rate, according to one of the rela-tives of the woman.

Thirteen bodies had been al-ready identified among the 18 dead in the accident, according to the Royal Oman Police’s official announcement last week.

However, five bodies have still not been identified. There has been no official announcement by the authorities concerned in this regard.

Meanwhile, bus driver Shawkat Al Balushi, after his re-lease from the Nizwa Hospital yesterday said: “I will not drive any bus in the future.”

“I have been passing through a rough patch in my life since the accident. I cannot walk and sev-

eral of my bones are broken, in-cluding in my leg and hand. The horrific scene still remains in front of my eyes,” said Al Balushi.

He said he still remembers the sound of the brakes of the third car involved in the accident.

“I feel really sorry and sad for the 18 people who died in the ac-cident. I am sorry for what hap-pened though it was not my mis-take. I tried my best to save my passengers but could not,” said Al Balushi.

“The front window broke as my body ended up hitting it. I still remember the sound of people in the bus screaming and yelling from pain,” said Al Balushi.

He added that he has complet-ed 20 years in this vocation and said it was now time to quit.

“I can’t carry on like this. It is such a difficult profession as one becomes responsible for so many souls. Anything can happen, even if you try to avoid it,” said Al Balushi.

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Call to improve the services forautistic children

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MUSCAT: Parents of people suffering from autism and those campaigning to draw attention to the plight of the afflicted ex-pressed concern about the quality of services provided in the Sul-tanate and urged the government to come up with a strategic plan to resolve their issues.

During a meeting between the representatives of the Ministries of Health, Education, Manpower, Social Development, campaign-ers and parents at the Shura Council on Wednesday, all parties presented their views on autism in Oman and possible solutions.

Hilal bin Mohammed Al Abri, speaking on behalf of the Minis-try of Social Development, said during the meeting that the gov-ernment has taken “serious steps to better safeguard the rights of the disabled.”

Rehabilitation services include special education, functional re-habilitation, speech treatment and counselling. He said cur-rently, 300 disabled children are enrolled in rehabilitation centres and 153 are on the waiting list.

He noted that new rehabilita-tion centres in Salalah, Sohar and Muscat will be established with the support of the private sector.

On the other hand, Al Abri said the curriculum in public schools does not currently cater to autism sufferers, that there are “weaknesses” in early diag-nosis of children and that there are no rehabilitation centres for children. He added that there is a lack of specialised staff and a shortage in financial resources to improve services.

In order to improve rehabilita-tion and educational facilities, the Ministry will ensure more finan-cial resources and bring in staff from abroad to assist in expand-ing these facilities.

Increase in prevalenceAccording to Dr Watfa bint Said Al Maamari, Advisor for Develop-mental Health of Children at the Sultan Qaboos University Hos-pital, there has been an increase in prevalence of autism among Omani children, with 8.5 out of 10,000 children in 2015 being af-flicted, compared to 6.4 out of 10,000 children in 2014.

Yahya bin Mohammed Al Fari-si, Director of Oman Autism Soci-

ety, said during the meeting that the Omani health system could only determine one out of ten cas-es of autism.

Hilal Al Sarmi, member of the Shura Council, said the medical staff will be trained regarding autism and more rehabilitation centres will be built in the Sul-tanate, but pointed out that the lack of financial resources makes it difficult. “The facilities that we have now are not bad, but are not enough. In the coming period, we will ask for more resources to ex-pand the services,” he said.

He added the Ministry of Health will bring in experts from abroad to assist Oman in improv-ing the services to deal with those affected by autism.

He said while there is a national strategy for the disabled, but eve-ry type of disability deserves at-tention in its own particular way.

“Autism is a relatively new area of concern in Oman. It needs spe-cialised knowledge to deal with it,” he said.

Parents of children suffering from autism expressed concern about the lack of facilities to diag-nose the affliction and the quality of rehabilitation centres. One par-ent complained about the quality, or its lack, in services for her son.

“My eight year-old son is not able to speak, while he is treated in a specialised centre. And I ask the Ministry of Education: where are his rights and which school will I take him to?” she told the audience.

Another parent said: “Our chil-dren are not being treated in these facilities in a fashion that can help them develop their abilities.”

Khalid Al Malki, board member of the Oman Autism Society, told the Times of Oman that the meet-ing was “useful,” but the govern-ment agencies failed to come with a clear strategy with a defined time frame.

“Full services of high quality will ensure a better life for autistic people. In order to reach that goal, we need more support and more funds than before, and not just talking. This has to be implement-ed as soon as possible,” he said.

Mohammed Al Busaidi, mem-ber of the Shura Council, said it is difficult to implement a strategy on autism. “We have strategies, but we are facing difficulties to im-plement and realise them,” he said.

Al Busaidi said the Shura Coun-

cil will prepare a complete report and other committees will follow up on the progress.

Meeting with parentsFollowing the Shura discussions, the Times of Oman met with par-ents of autistic children, an initia-tive organised by Tariq Al Khabo-ri, founder and team coordinator of Oman Disabled Divers Associ-ation (ODDA), where they stated that finding support for autistic children and raising awareness remains the main challenge that the parents and autism societies in Oman face.

Asad Mirza, father of an au-tistic child and a member of the Oman Autism Society, said lack of awareness remains one of the top challenges along with having a fu-ture plan for teens past the age of 16. Following the Majlis Al Shura discussions, Khalid Al Badawi, an advocate for Autism in Oman, commented on the meeting, say-ing, “Now we are in 2016 and the ministry is now understanding more about the problem.”

Sibling’s perspectiveSpeaking with the younger sister of an autism struck individual, who is four years her senior, Aree-bah Mirza, said, “It’s definitely different than having a normal brother that you can speak and talk to as well as share the same level of maturity.”

“It’s more of a challenge but I look at it as a gift which makes you appreciate all the things in the world,” she added.

Autistic children are often gift-ed in certain areas, with creativity being the most common. Playing a musical instrument and artistry is a natural talent among a lot of autism struck children who pos-sess many other talents which are often overlooked.

Lubna Al Kindi, one of the parents, questioned the discus-sion panel during the meeting in the Majlis, asking, “Autistic children possess extraordinary talent, maybe even more than normal children. Why aren’t you considering their talents and de-veloping them?”

Providing a suggestion regard-ing ways to cater to the children’s talents and capabilities, Areebah said, “You just have to believe in them and appreciate what they have and build on that, not just consider what they can’t do.”

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SULTANATE PARTICIPATES IN ISLAMIC SUMMITThe Sultanate participated yesterday in the ministerial meeting of the Emergency Islamic

Summit and the meeting of the permanent representatives at the Organisation of Islamic

Cooperation (OIC) held in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. -ONA

TAKING CARE: Hilal bin Mohammed Al Abri, speaking on behalf of

the Ministry of Social Development, said during the meeting that

the government has taken “serious steps to better safeguard the

rights of the disabled.” – Tariq Al Haremi

48 arrested for illegal entryTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Forty-eight intrud-ers from several nationalities in a number of governorates were ar-rested and 14 others were deport-ed during the last week, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) has reported.

These people were found to have entered the country illegally. Fourteen of them belonging to an Asian nationality were deported from the Muscat International Airport, after consultation with their embassy.

An ROP source said the police has called upon everyone to co-operate to counter intruders and immediately report any cases by calling the emergency number 9999 or by heading to the near-est police station. People are also urged not to help anyone enter the country illegally.

Four Asians, including three women, were arrested dur-ing a raid on a brothel in Sur on charges of prostitution. The main

suspect in the case was accused of renting a house in Sur for the purpose of operating a brothel. He allegedly brought the three women to the brothel with the help of other Asians. The house was raided and the suspects were arrested. The case was referred to the Public Prosecution.

The ROP calls upon owners to check the identity of those seek-ing to rent any property and not let it out to foreigners without consulting their sponsors.

C R I M E

Six vehicles damaged in explosion near Oman embassy

CAIRO: An explosive device went off on Saturday morning near the Cultural Attaché Office of the Sul-tanate’s embassy in Cairo damag-ing six vehicles belonging to Egyp-tian citizens.

Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Harthi, the Sultanate’s Ambassador to Egypt said that the explosion has not targeted the Cultural Attaché Office because it occurred on the opposite side of the building and that Sultanate’s embassy is located on another road. Mona bint Mosa al Zedjaliyah, Cultural Attaché con-firmed that all the Omani students and the cultural mission staff are safe and no one was harmed. -ONA

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Four Asians, including three women, were arrested during a police raid in Sur

The facilities that we have now are not bad, but

are not enough. In the coming period, we will

ask for more resources to expand the services

Hilal Al Sarmi, Shura Council member

Oman University project reviewed

MUSCAT: Latest developments in the University of Oman project were reviewed at a meeting of the Supreme Committee of the Uni-versity of Oman yesterday.

This was the first meeting this year and was held under the chair of His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, Advisor of His Majesty the Sultan and Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Oman University Project.

The meeting reviewed the lat-est developments in the univer-sity project, including a review of the achievements and progress of the project, and following-up implementation of the recom-mendations and decisions of the Committee taken in previous meetings.

The meeting included a detailed review on what has been achieved in the academic and research plans, as all the plans and percep-tions of academic programmes

and scientific research centres are completed, in addition to the final course description of the curricu-lum and areas of knowledge asso-ciated with them.-ONA

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Funds raised for Omani disabled at Dutch Night

ERIK PRINSerik@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Dutch Night 2016 has raised OMR10,000 worth of revenue from both, sponsors and ticket sales, of the annual event.

The amount was announced by the organising committee during Dutch Night, which was held at the Ras Al Hamra Recreational Club last Friday.

Wladi Rabiej, Head of the Dutch Night Committee, said that he was “very happy with this result.”

‘Willing to help’“At the moment, things are not easy for companies due to the low oil prices, but they have been will-ing to help us in various ways, ei-ther financially or in kind, which enabled us to limit our costs and rustle up a respectable amount for charity. We are very proud of this,” he said. He thanked the Dutch Night’s loyal sponsors, without whom the event would not have been possible.

The money will be used to fund the construction of greenhouses at Al Wafa Centre for Disabled in Bidbid, which will enable some thirty disabled people to make a living from horticulture, accord-ing to May Al Bayat, Marketing Director at Dar Al Ataa.

“Al Wafa Centre is a project very dear to us. Recently, we have prepared the playground area and have enrolled teachers in the Montessori programme. Now, we are working on this amazing pro-ject with the Dutch community, providing them with greenhouses. Thank you very much and we are looking forward for this project to see the light.”

In a packed Sohar Garden, members of the Dutch communi-ty and their friends enjoyed good food, beverages and music.

Barbara Joziasse, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Nether-lands, praised the Dutch Night charity efforts and reminded the guests that there are also people who do not have this luxury.

Difficult livesCommenting on the theme of the night ‘Frozen, the coolest place to be,’ Joziasse said it is “not only cool to be in a place where people have fun and enjoy good company and food,” but it is also “cool that people at this party do not only party, but also realise that there are people in this world whose lives might not always be a party. I think that’s really cool,” she said.

Joziasse said she hopes that this development, where green-houses support people in making a living, will continue and expand in Oman.

She told guests about the year 1900, when the Dutch also had

to deal with a harsh climate and greenhouses enabled them to con-trol the climate.

“Wouldn’t it be great if in this country also, greenhouses could be used for food security purposes for the well-being of the commu-nities?” she said.

Platinum sponsors of Dutch

Night 2016 were OHI, CB&I, KLM and OUA. Gold sponsors were Ca-rillion Alawi, Wipro, TruckOman Oil & Gas Services, NAPCO, Port of Sohar and Oman LNG.

Dutch Night is organised once a year by the Dutch community in Oman to celebrate the King’s birthday.

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the Dutch Night charity efforts. – Eric Prins

Oman Air products to be showcased at Berlin Trade FairTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Air is set to par-ticipate once again in the world’s largest travel fair, ITB Berlin, be-ing held at Messe Berlin between 9th and 13th March.

The carrier’s iconic white stand number 202 in Hall 22B will pro-vide an ideal venue for showcasing Oman Air’s award-winning prod-ucts and services, establishing new partnerships, renewing exist-ing relationships and announcing latest developments.

Furthermore, the national car-rier of the Sultanate of Oman will be signing an agreement with a major service provider, which will add choice, value and convenience to the Oman Air passengers’ expe-rience. Further details will be an-nounced at the time of the signing.

Oman Air’s participation in this year’s event follows a year in which the airline increased its fleet size to 40 aircraft, grown its network to include 50 exciting destinations and introduced more frequencies on many of its key routes.

Paul Gregorowitsch, Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of Oman Air, an-ticipates a highly successful event. He says: “ITB Berlin is the largest and arguably the most important travel fair in the global calendar. Oman Air has attended this event for many years and we have always found it impressively organised and highly productive.

“This year, as Oman Air contin-ues its ambitious programme of

fleet and network expansion, we look forward to meeting a wide range of important trade partners, industry experts and, of course, in-dividual air travellers. We will be discussing the potential for new destinations, new products and services and new partnerships throughout our growing network.

“And, vitally, we will be raising awareness about both Oman Air’s internationally-acclaimed passen-ger experience and the country’s numerous attractions as a leisure and business destination.”

Since Oman Air’s participation in ITB Berlin 2015, the airline has introduced a range of new aircraft to its fleet, including Boeing 737s and iconic Boeing 787 Dream-liners. The Dreamliners entered service in October and have been greeted with enthusiasm by cus-tomers. The fleet expansion pro-gramme will see the addition of more aircraft, including Dream-liners, between now and 2020, by which time Oman Air will operate 70 airliners.

In addition, the last year saw Oman Air launch brand-new servic-es to Singapore, Dhaka and Goa – the airline’s 11th destination in India. The frequency of services to many established destinations was also increased, with all Indian destina-tions enjoying daily or double-daily services and return flights to Paris expanding to six per week. Oman Air’s service to London Heathrow is due to increase from daily to double-daily in April of this year.

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BIG PRESENCE: Since Oman Air’s participation in ITB Berlin 2015, it

has introduced a range of new aircraft to its fleet. – Supplied photo

Jet Airways announces ‘launch offer’ to DelhiTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Jet Airways, yes-terday announced its “Launch Offer,” exclusively to serve the people of Oman.

Travellers can enjoy a 15 per cent discount on fares, applica-ble on all flights booked on jetair-ways.com and its mobile app.

This special online fare from India’s premier international airline, will be available for sale from 6-12 March, 2016 and for travel up to 31 May, 2016, on flights from Oman to India and beyond, via Delhi.

Riyaz Kuttery, General Manager, Jet Airways, said, “We are pleased to offer added value as you travel and enjoy the airline’s globally acclaimed product and service, on ground and in the air.

Now guests from Oman can take advantage of our connec-tions to Lucknow, Patna, Jaipur, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Dehra-dun , Varanasi, Bangkok, Kath-mandu, Dhaka and many more.”

Jet Airways is India’s premier international airline operat-ing flights to 73 destinations, including 51 in India and 22 across the world.

The Jet Airways Group cur-rently operates a fleet of 116 air-craft, comprising Boeing 777-300 ERs, Airbus A330-200/300, Next Generation Boeing 737s and ATR 72-500/600s.

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At 281 km per litre, SQU car sets Arab record

Ahmed al Hadhrami, a team mem-ber, said such an accomplishment was a huge motivation for the SQU team. SQU ECO WHEEL, a gaso-line-run car purely made by Om-ani students at an estimated cost of OMR2,000, can go at a speed of 60 km per hour. The red, white and green machine weighs around 80 kg, which is 20 kg lighter than last year’s model.

The aim of the contest was to design and build a car that will drive the furthest on the smallest amount of fuel or battery power.

Teams of studente may partici-pate in the Prototype or Urban-Concept vehicle categories of the

competition. The three Omani teams—SQU, Caledonian College of Engineering, and GUtech—have chosen the Prototype category, which will see student teams en-tering cars of the future – stream-lined vehicles focused on max-imising fuel efficiency through innovative design elements, such as drag reduction.

Shell Eco-marathon ended on Sunday with a huge closing cer-emony which was held at the Ma-nila Hotel. This year’s record of 281 km/litre was achieved by the SQU which was better than all Arab teams. It’s the highest record for an Arabic team since 2014.

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Omani help for Indian team

HASAN SHABAN AL LAWATIhassan@timesofoman.com

MANILA: Selfless students of the Caledonian College of Engi-neering participating in the Shell Eco-marathon 2016 showed a great gesture of goodwill by giv-ing away some of their car parts to their Indian competitors.

On the final day of the event, the Indian team from Varanasi was struggling to pass the very chal-lenging technical test, but thanks to the help of the Omani engi-neers, the Turkish drama turned into a Bollywood dance show as the Indian team successfully cleared the inspection.

“It wouldn’t have happened without Oman’s team which helped us a lot, even helping shift parts from their car to ours,” Akash Gupta, the leader of the BHU team of the Institute of Technology (IIT), said.

He added that the Omani stu-dents were treating the Indian-made-car just like it was their own. “We respect such support from the very good people of Oman,” Gupta stated.

The Omani team failed to pass inspection due to a last-minute technical error. However, they de-cided to give away their car parts including the engine, battery and the controller.

“We donated parts which had cost us roughly $5,000 to be part of our Indian mates’ success,” Omar Al Jabri, leader of Sadarah team, said.

Amuthak Kanan, associate pro-fessor at the college, said his stu-

dents, or as he also calls them, his friends, managed to install all the parts in the battery-run Indian ve-hicle within just half an hour.

Proud moment“Even though we didn’t pass our inspection, it was a very proud moment and we felt as if our heart is attached to another body, mak-ing it come alive,” Kanan said.

“The Indian team’s steering wheel was not functioning at all, so we did all we could to make them pass. Their happiness and joy is our happiness and joy,” Al Mutassim Al Jabri, an Omani stu-dent and inventor, said.

The college’s environment friendly, yet beautiful and colour-ful machine, took Team Sadarah (forefront) more than six months to craft.

“The best part of this com-petition is that we get to learn and share knowledge with other teams from different parts of the continent,” Mohammed Al Amri, the driver of Sadarah team, said during the closing ceremony held at the Manila Hotel on Sunday.

Thousands of students have said goodbye to the Shell Eco-marathon which hosted teams from all across Asia and the Mid-dle East in Manila to put their self-built fuel-efficient vehicles to test on a street circuit in the heart of Philippines.

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Indian team clear

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Omani team failed to pass

inspection due to a last-minute

technical error. However, they

decided to give away their car

parts including the engine,

battery and the controller. – Hasan

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MUSCAT: Sciences are the key to the future, said the world-re-nowned Omani adventurer, Nabil Al Busaidi, who addressed stu-dents, staff and invitees at the of-ficial opening of the new science laboratories at British School Muscat (BSM) on Sunday.

The laboratories, which include facilities for physics, maths, biol-ogy and chemistry, were opened in a ceremony in the presence of British Ambassador Jonathan Wilks, special guest and Omani adventurer Nabil Al Busaidi and Principal of BSM, Kai Vacher.

Al Busaidi, who was the first Arab to walk to the magnetic North Pole, climbed Mount Kili-manjaro in Africa, attempted to become the first Omani to climb the Mount Everest and was the first Arab to row across an ocean, stressed the importance of sci-ence for the future.

Al Busaidi told the Times of Oman that during his adventures,

he relied a lot on scientific knowl-edge in order to survive.

“Rowing across the Atlantic, we had to keep an eye out on the waves and the weather. We also had to work out the amount of calories we had to take in. We had to take dehydrated food and we dug up snow, which we boiled to rehydrate the food. All of this might not seem to have anything to do with science, but 50 years ago, none of this would have been available,” he said.

Tech advancementsAl Busaidi noted that scientific and technological advancements have been and are still developing very fast.

“In the past fifty years, there have been more scientific and technological breakthroughs than in the whole history of humanity. I am sure that in the next 25 years, there will be even more scientific breakthroughs. Science, maths and technology are definitely the future,” he said.

Al Busaidi particularly ad-dressed his words to the young students of BSM. “I would like to impress on all the young students here how important science, technology, mathematics and en-gineering are going to be in your lives in the future,” he said.

Addressing the students, Am-bassador Wilks stressed the beauty of sciences.

“Although there is no particu-lar subject we look for, I got a lot out of studying sciences, inher-ently because it is a beautiful area to work in. The ability to see for yourself the beautiful nature of our universe makes for one of the most exciting experiences.”

The opening of the science lab-oratories, ten in total, is part of the BSM’s overall expansion plan.

A new all-weather pitch was opened last Christmas and in September 2017, more new fa-cilities, including a new aquatics centre, sports complex, car park and drop-off facilities will be completed.

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SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: The laboratories, which include facilities for physics, maths, biology and

chemistry, were opened in a ceremony in the presence of British Ambassador Jonathan Wilks, spe-

cial guest and Omani adventurer Nabil Al Busaidi and Principal of BSM, Kai Vacher. – O K Mohammed Ali

British School Muscat students get new facilities

Internal Website Award to SEZAD

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MUSCAT: Internal Website Award was given to SEZAD at the Fourteenth Session of the World Free Zone Convention.

The conference organising com-pany carried out an assessment of the websites of participating eco-nomic authorities and zones be-fore conferring this award.

It pointed out that SEZAD was granted this award in recogni-tion of the richness of its website, which gives the investor a clear idea of the characteristic invest-ment environment and available projects in SEZAD.

It indicated that the continuous updating of news and tenders and providing footage materials and publications on the website help attract investors.

Muhammad bin Ahmad Al Shezawi, Director of Awareness and Media at SEZAD and edi-tor-in-chief of Duqm Economist Journal, received the award. This award put SEZAD into the spot-light for its ability to attract in-vestment at one of the specialized international conferences in the field of economic and free zones attended by representatives from 21 countries.

The conference, held in Bang-kok, Thailand, from February 27 to March 1, reviewed the global economic trends that affect eco-nomic zones with regard to free trade agreements and their impact on economic zones and invest-ment trends.

Geographical locationIt also touched upon the impor-tance of geographical location, industries in economic zones, and importance and feasibility of in-vestment in border free zones.

The conference also touched on foreign direct investment and its relationship to the growth and development of economic zones, financing and development of in-frastructure to attract more invest-ments, along with gains achieved by the economic zones that enjoy diversity in areas of investment and have ports and airports.

F R E E Z O N E C O N V E N T I O NAccident numbers decline in Sultanate

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI tariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A significant reduc-tion in the number of traffic acci-dents in Oman could be attribut-ed to people driving more safely and more cautiously.

According to statistics from the National Centre for Statis-tics and Information (NCSI), the month of January this year witnessed a total of 382 acci-dents compared to 568 during the same month last year, a 32.7 per cent decrease.

A total of 179 Omanis were in-jured, 27.5 per cent less than the 247 who suffered similarly in January 2015.

Injured expatriates numbered 58, compared to 92 last year.

Although the number of acci-dents fell significantly in January 2016, the number of deaths fell by a mere 1.7 per cent. A total of 58 people died this year in January, compared to 59 in January 2015.

Forty-five Omanis died in traf-

fic accidents in January 2016, 15.4 per cent more than the 39 nationals who perished in ac-cidents in the same month last year. These included 38 males, compared to 30 males who died in the same period in 2015.

There was a noticeable de-crease in expatriates’ deaths with only 13 dying in January 2016, compared to 20 who died in the same period the previous year.

According to the NCSI, most accidents occurred during day-time, accounting for 61.5 per cent compared to 38.5 per cent that happened during the night.

As for governorate wise data, the Muscat Governorate topped the list with 35.6 per cent acci-dents, followed by South Al Shar-qiyah Governorate with 17.5 per cent of accidents. North Al Bati-nah Governorate came third with 11.5 per cent of total accidents occurring within the Sultanate. North Al Sharqiyah Governorate recorded the least number of ac-cidents, making up for only 1.6 per cent of the total.

Although the number

of accidents fell

significantly in

January 2016, the

number of deaths fell

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For Millennium Mussanah, it is about giving best value for

money to our guests. I think this initiative offers a great

opportunity to experience various hotels in exclusive locations

Maurice de Rooij, General Manager, Millennium Resort, Mussanah

Hotels in Oman offer special packages to attract guestsRAHUL DAS/ERIK PRINSrahuldas@timesofoman.comerik@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: In an effort to boost do-mestic tourism within the Sultan-ate, several hotels under the Oman Tourism Development Company (Omran) have come up with spe-cial offers, giving attractive dis-counts on room tariff and dining options to attract customers. The offer is valid for seven days a week until April 30.

Luxurious Alila Jabal Akhdar which is perched on the edge of a canyon is offering breakfast with dinner at OMR90 per night for the locals and residents.

The Ras Al Jinz Turtle Reserve is offering to host up to three guests per room at OMR55 with breakfast and dinner buffet included. “Added to that, we are offering free evening turtle viewing and museum entry,” said an official of Ras Al Jinz Turtle Reserve Centre.

The City Hotel Duqm is offer-ing up to three guests per room at OMR35 with breakfast and dinner

buffet per night. The Millennium Resort, Mussanah is offering up to three guests per room at OMR40 and InterContinental Muscat at OMR60 with breakfast and dinner buffet per night.

Maurice de Rooij, General Man-ager, Millennium Resort, Mussan-ah, said they are working closely with the Ministry of Tourism to

drive in-country tourism among residents and citizens of Oman.

“For Millennium Mussanah, it is about giving best value for money to our guests.

“I think this initiative offers a great opportunity to experience various hotels in exclusive loca-tions which, for some, would not be affordable otherwise. Now this

really seems like the best deal in town,” he said.

He also said, “Building in-coun-try tourism for the residents of Oman is a key objective for Om-ran and for the hospitality sec-tor at large in the years to come. Our exclusive rate package is one of a series of incentives aimed at stimulating the hospitality market for Omani nationals and residents of Oman to rejuvenate and enjoy a break with their family and friends at our unique resorts and hotels that span across the Sultanate.”

But are these offers because of economic situation in the region?

A senior official of a leading ho-tel in Muscat said they have been affected by the economic situation in the region.

Occupancy rates“Our occupancy rates are stagnat-ing around 75 to 85 per cent, which is lower than expected in this sea-son. There is a lot of pressure on the average rates because of the macro-economic factors push-ing the prices down in the entire

region.”Commenting on the ques-tion whether his hotel has lowered its prices, he said that they are “more competitive in the market.”

“We have offers and we are look-ing at other areas and pockets of business we can fill, such as week-ends where we can be more flex-ible with our rate structures and packages with golf or wadi tours. I am hopeful that, together with the Ministry of Tourism, there can be some improvement in the occu-pancy levels,” he said.

Another hotel, Park Inn, which focuses more on business travellers, feels the pressure in another way.

Sales Manager Ajay Dogra said bookings in January were on the lower side due to the lower oil prices. “The year 2016 doesn’t look that healthy. Projects are on hold and consultants travelling to Oman will not travel unless it’s re-ally required.

“We have reduced the prices by 10 to 15 per cent as we faced strong resistance from clients. In addition, the costs of operation has

gone up, as the fuel prices have in-creased and suppliers have raised their prices,” he said.

Good seasonHowever, Julian Ayers, Regional Vice-President for India and the Middle East of Alila Hotels and Resorts, said they have not de-creased their prices, since they had “a good season.”

“We haven’t slashed our prices at all. We did introduce a spe-cial offer for local Omanis to give a chance to come and see the property.”

He said these rates are about 30 per cent lower than regular rates. He added that it is an initiative of the Ministry of Tourism and Om-ran, which owns the hotel in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, to attract more Omanis to Omran-owned hotels.

According to the figures provid-ed by the National Centre for Sta-tistics and Information (NCSI), the total occupancy rate in 3-5 star hotels decreased from 63.6 per cent in December 2014 to 63.3 per cent during December 2015.

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ATTRACTIVE DISCOUNTS: The Millennium Resort, Mussanah is

offering to host up to three guests per room at OMR40. - Supplied photo

Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah marks 10th anniversary

Times News Service

MUSCAT: On February 26, 2016, Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa celebrated its 10th anni-versary in Muscat.

As a result of the resort opening in 2006, after three years of con-struction, the 640 rooms doubled the total room inventory available in Muscat and was, and remains, the largest resort, in terms of both size and facilities.

During the construction, ma-terials were shipped to the site by sea, as a road was still being built. The development was created as a self-contained and independent location, including its own desali-nation plant and backup electric generators.

The construction was so exten-

sive that on occasions there were over 3,000 workers on site each day. When creating Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa, its archi-tects and designers followed tradi-tional themes to produce an expe-rience based upon the very roots of Oman’s rich cultural heritage.

Ancient castles, palaces, cities, towns and mud brick villages that embody the Sultanate’s unique regional identity were the main inspiration for the resort.

Today, these themes contin-ue and are evident in the decor and style portrayed throughout the resort.

Since time immemorial, sea turtles have been making their way onto beaches throughout Oman to lay their eggs. To ensure these creatures experience mini-mum disruptions during their annual pilgrimages, Shangri-La appointed Mohammed Al Hassini

as the first turtle ranger at a re-sort, not only in Oman, but within the global Shangri-La family.

Since opening, Al Hassini has assisted over 50,000 turtle hatch-lings as they made their way to the ocean. During the design and construction of the resort, it was important to preserve this envi-ronment for the turtles, so after careful consideration the resort was designed to ensure that all lighting at night was directed away from the shores, so as not to impact nesting turtles.

Shangri-La Muscat has always been a key contributor to Oman’s tourism sector and provided strong support to the country’s growing economy, assuring em-ployment in Muscat, providing work for over 5,500 people since opening in 2006, with 145 mem-bers of the staff from the team in 2006 still working there today.

Shangri-La Muscat

has always been

a key contributor

to Oman’s tourism

sector and provided

strong support to

the country’s

growing economy

Wadis start overflowing“Wadis in Al Taiaan is (are) over-flowing following heavy rain,” Bader added.

Meanwhile, AccuWeather.com’s meteorologist Adam Douty said that thunderstorms are ex-pected to intensify on Tuesday and Wednesday and become more frequent and leading to sig-nificant flooding threat across eastern Oman.

“On each day, the highest threat

for flash flooding will be dur-ing the afternoon and evening hours. Typically dry rivers may quickly become swollen with wa-ter. Roads in some areas may get flooded and damaged. Late in the week, thunderstorms should less-en ending the threat,” Adam said.

Still grieving for his cousin, Sultan had this to say to Oman’s residents in the coming days, “Please think hundred times be-

fore taking such decision. It’s not only you who will be going through difficult scenario but oth-ers, relatives, who have lived their whole lives trying to protect you.”

In 2015, at least 14 people had drowned in overflowing wadis in different parts of Oman during the flash floods in September and October. Oman’s civil defence had to carry out more than 200 rescue operation during the rainy days.

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TOURISM BOOST: Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort was, and re-

mains, the largest resort, in terms of both size and facilities.

Article (1) endorses the above-mentioned oil agreement.

Article (2) says that this de-cree shall be published in the Of-ficial Gazette and be enforced on its date of issue.

Tethy’s Oil LimitedRoyal Decree No. 15/2016 en-dorses Tethy’s Oil Limited com-pany’s conceding 100 per cent of its share quota (stake), rights and obligations in the petroleum

agreement signed on September 6, 2005 for Bloc 15 to Odin En-ergy A. S., as well as endorsing Odin Energy AS’s conceding 90 per cent of its share quota, rights and obligations in the petroleum agreement signed on September 6, 2005 for Bloc 15 to Hydrocar-bon Finder LLC.

Article (1) endorses Tethy’s Oil Limited company’s conced-ing 100 per cent of its share quota (stake), rights and obligations in

the petroleum agreement signed on September 6, 2005 for Bloc 15 to Odin Energy A. S.

Article (2) endorses Odin En-ergy AS’s conceding 90 per cent of its share quota, rights and ob-ligations in the petroleum agree-ment signed on September 6, 2005 for Bloc 15 to Hydrocrabon Finder LLC. Article (3) says that this decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and be en-forced on its date of issue. -ONA

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PASI board meetingMUSCAT: Board of Directors of the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) discussed a number of topics listed, includ-ing the insurance system against discontinuation of business.

The meeting was held yester-day under the chairmanship of Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri, Minister of Manpower and Chairman of PASI.

The Board reviewed the first draft for the system and gave in-structions to study the remarks cited by the three production stakeholders to take the nec-essary action. The board also discussed the investment op-portunities raised to it from the Investment Committee. -ONA

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Responsibility for the bombing in Hilla, 117 kilometres (73

miles) south of Baghdad, was claimed in a posting on the

website of the Amaq news agency, which supports IS

IS truck bomb kills 60 at checkpoint in Iraq’s Hilla

HILLA (IRAQ): A truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint south of Baghdad killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 70 on Sunday, medical and security offi-cials said, and IS claimed respon-sibility for the blast.

The suicide attack, involving an explosive-laden fuel tanker, is the second deadliest this year after one on February 28 that killed 78 people in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad. This was also claimed by the extremist group that con-

trols vast swathes of territory in Iraq and in Syria. The escala-tion in IS bombings suggests that Iraqi government forces are being stretched thin after their recent

gains against the group in the western and northern provinces.

Responsibility for the bombing in Hilla, 117 kilometres (73 miles) south of Baghdad, was claimed

in a posting on the website of the Amaq news agency, which col-laborates with IS.

“A martyr’s operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins

checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wound-ing dozens,” the statement on the Amaq website said. Hilla is the capital of Babylon province. “It’s the largest bombing in the province to date,” Falah Al Radhi, the head of the provincial secu-rity committee, told Reuters. “The checkpoint, the nearby police station were destroyed as well as some houses and dozens of cars.”

ConfirmedA provincial hospital official con-firmed the number of casualties, adding that 23 of them were mem-bers of the police and other secu-rity forces that were manning the check point located at the north-ern entrance of the city.

Brett McGurk, the US envoy to a coalition fighting IS, on Sat-urday told a news conference in Baghdad that IS was losing the battle against forces arraigned against it from many sides in Iraq and Syria. He said the focus would turn to stabilising cities seized back from them. — Reuters

The suicide attack,

involving an

explosive-laden fuel

tanker, is the second

deadliest this year

after one on February

28 that killed 78

people in Sadr City

Indian priest kidnapped in Yemen attackADEN: Gunmen who killed at least 15 people in an old people’s home in Yemen last week also kid-napped an Indian priest, officials said on Sunday.

No one has claimed respon-sibility for Friday’s incident in which four gunmen posing as relatives of one of the residents at the home burst inside, killing four Indian nuns, two Yemeni female staff members, eight elderly resi-dents and a guard. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter that an Indian national identified as Father Tom Uzhun-nalil had been “abducted by terror-ists in Yemen”. She said officials in nearby Djibouti were trying to as-certain his whereabouts to secure his release.

InvestigationOfficials in the southern Yemeni city of Aden confirmed that the priest had been kidnapped and said authorities were investigating the attack. It sparked widespread condemnation, including from the Pope and the government of Presi-dent Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi, which called it an act of terrorism.

Aden has been racked by law-lessness. The Yemeni government has repeatedly promised to restore security to the city but has so far had little success. — Reuters

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Italian hostages flown homeROME/TRIPOLI: Two Ital-ian hostages freed in Libya after two fellow captives were alleg-edly killed by IS militants were flown back to Italy on Sunday, officials said.

The four were employees of Italian construction company Bonatti and were seized last July near the western Libyan city of Sabratha, near a compound owned by the energy group Eni.

Gino Pollicardo and Filippo Calcagno were transferred by hel-icopter to Tripoli from Sabratha at night and boarded an Italian plane, Libyan officials said. They arrived at Rome’s military airport of Ciampino at 0400 GMT and were due to be interrogated by magistrates, Italian media said.

According to a spokesman for Libyan security forces in Sabra-tha, fellow captives Salvatore

Failla and Fausto Piano were shot dead by IS militants shortly be-fore Libyan forces attacked them on Wednesday.

The spokesman, Sabri Kshada, has said Pollicardo and Calcagno were released during a raid early on Friday. However the exact cir-cumstances of both the killings and the release remain unclear. The two freed hostages have made no comment.

Sabratha is one of several Liby-an cities in which militants loyal to IS have established a presence, taking advantage of the chaos that has plagued Libya since Muam-

mar Gaddafi was toppled in an uprising five years ago.

Libya is a former Italian colony, and Rome is working with other Western powers and the United Nations to try to convince two rival Libyan governments to cre-ate a single, unity coalition and focus their energy on the fight against IS.

Pollicardo and Calcagno were questioned by Libyan forces at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport for about 45 minutes before departing for Italy and briefly appeared beside Ali Abu Zakouk, the foreign min-ister of Tripoli’s self-declared government.

“We need support and coop-eration from the Italians to tackle the criminal organisation of IS in Libya,” Zakouk said, without giv-ing details on how the hostages were released. — Reuters

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of Baghdad, on Sunday. – Reuters

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Delhi, Gujarat on high alert after terror threat

NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: Delhi was on Sunday put on high alert after Police received inputs that 10 suspected LeT and JeM terrorists believed to have en-tered India from Pakistan through Gujarat may have sneaked into the national capital for an attack even as four elite NSG teams were

rushed to the western state.On the eve of ‘Maha Shivratri’

festival, Gujarat as well as other metros and Jammu and Kashmir were also on high alert with raids conducted at Kutch and other places, security being beefed up at vital installations, sensitive areas and at all main temples including the Somnath temple where a NSG team has been deployed.

The Gir-Somnath district au-thorities have postponed Mon-day’s cultural event at Somnath temple owing to the terror threat.

In Kolkata, security has been stepped up at NSC Bose Inter-

national Airport after an e-mail threat that it would be blown up within 24 hours, airport officials said. The e-mail came in the air-port manager’s ID early on Sunday and it was claimed to have been sent from Germany, they said.

In the national capital, secu-rity was beefed up at vital instal-lations, important buildings and crowded places after Delhi Police received inputs about a potential terror strike in the city.

A constant vigil was maintained near prominent malls, hospitals, schools and colleges.

A police source said the in-

put specifically mentions about 10 militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfits having entered In-dia via Gujarat and that they could carry out a terror strike in Delhi.

The Special Cell and Crime Branch of Delhi Police have been briefed about the input separately, so that activities of gangs operat-ing in and around the city and ele-ments with suspected terror links can be monitored.

The police are also ensuring that CCTV cameras at all places with high footfall, like popular markets in the city and metro sta-tions are functional. Patrolling across the city has been intensi-fied, security has been ramped up at major religious sites in Gujarat like Somnath Temple and Ak-shardham and in metro cities —Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru.

Vital installations across the metros like railway stations and airports are also being secured.

An advisory has been issued to enhance security at all stra-tegic locations, sensitive indus-trial sites and religious places in Gujarat after intelligence inputs suggested that the terrorists have entered the state taking the sea route, official sources said. - PTI

A police source said

the input specifically

mentions about 10

militants of Lashkar-

e-Taiba (LeT) and

Jaish-e-Mohammed

(JeM) outfits having

entered India via

Gujarat and that they

could carry out a

terror strike in Delhi

Don’t use Parliament as platform

to settle political scores: Shah

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM (AP): BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday tore into Congress over disruptions in Parliament and asked the opposition party to desist from using Parliament as a platform to settle “political scores” instead of a forum to dis-cuss issues concerning develop-ment of country.

“If you want to play politics, choose a state (for electoral fight).BJP is ready to pick up the chal-lenge,” Shah said, addressing a huge public meeting organised by the state BJP unit in the Arts Col-lege grounds here.

“Is Parliament for debates or slogan-shouting? Is it for de-velopment or to settle political scores,” the BJP chief said.

“If you have to settle political scores, jump into the electoral battlefield. BJP workers don’t fear anyone. Do do haath kar lenge (lets fight),” Shah said.

He asked Congress to let Par-liament be a forum for develop-ment, “one that leads the country

on the path to progress”.“Let Parliament be a forum that

enhances the country The BJP president asked the party work-ers to visit villages to strengthen the party in the state.

Shah thanked the people of Andhra Pradesh for helping NDA win 17 Lok Sabha seats out of 25 in the state.

The BJP president said the Op-position is “misinforming” the people about the various govern-ment measures taken in the last one and half year and highlight-ed the various initiatives of the Modi-government for develop-ment of Andhra Pradesh.

He said the Central govern-ment has provided schemes worth over Rs140,000 crore for the state since it came to power, besides bringing in amendments to implement the multi-purpose irrigation project — Polavaram Project.

The BJP president also cred-ited the Modi-government for according the project a ‘national

project’ status and said it is a lifeline of the state, specially Ra-jamahendravaram region.

He extended all support to the project, saying “whatever needs to be done, the Central govern-ment will do” but said “if some-one says that the entire cost of the project would be given in just a single budget then he is misin-forming the people”.

InitiativesHighlighting the initiatives of Centre, he said the Modi-govern-ment has selected every village of the state in the pilot project to provide round the clock electric-ity by 2019, besides providing funds for various projects like national highway, international water way and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, among others.

Shah said the Modi-govern-ment has given the list of their initiatives in the last one and half years and asked Congress to tell the people what they have done in last 60 years. - PTI

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AIADMK councillor,

son hacked to death

SIVAGANGA (Tamil Nadu): An AIADMK Town Panchayat Coun-cillor and his son were on Sun-day allegedly hacked to death by a group of unknown assailants at their house near here, police said.

Nattarasankottai town panchay-at councillor Nagarajan (50)and

his son Vignesh (21) died on the spot when the gang of armed per-sons attacked them. Nagarajan’s wife was injured in bid to stop the gang from attacking her husband and son. Special teams have been formed to nab the perpetrators who were yet to be identified. - PTI

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SECURITY CHECK : Police check vehicle after high alert in

Ahmedabad on Sunday. - PTI

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PM bats for empowerment of women but silent on quota bill

NEW DELHI: Women should empower themselves techno-logically and become effective as people’s representatives as mere changes in the system would not suffice, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday but remained silent on the women’s reservation bill for which the President and

the Vice President had made a strong pitch on Saturday.

Insisting that “mere change in system” would not suffice, he said “some changes in structure keep on happening” and stressed the need for women leaders to em-power themselves technologically and make effective interventions.

“You will have to make yourself effective. You will have to pre-sent issues with facts and figures. Merely changes in the system will not suffice. Some or the other

change keep happening in the structure...In order to establish your leadership, you should have the knowledge of subjects.

“...Try to develop your independ-ent image as a public representa-tive. Make an attempt that you have your own image in your re-gion. Once the image of your work-ing style and your views is estab-lished among people, it will last for long. You will see people accepting your ideas once you are thus estab-lished,” Modi said at the National

Conference of Women Legislators here. The prime minister said “we must think beyond women’s devel-opment” and move towards “wom-en-led development.”

Inaugurating the conference on Saturday, President Pranab Mukherjee pitched for 33 per cent reservation for women in elected bodies saying it was a “sad com-mentary” that so far the country has not been able to achieve over 12 per cent representation for women in Parliament’s total membership. Vice President Hamid Ansari had also asked parties to voluntarily increase the nomination of women candidates in elections till the leg-islation is enacted.

However, the prime minister on Sunday skipped any men-tion about the bill but focussed on larger issues of attitudinal change and the need for women promoting women leadership in different spheres. In his speech, he called upon women leaders to groom female leadership down the rung, overcoming “jealousy”

due to competition. “Politics is a game of competition but... when the feeling of jealousy dominates in competition, then you can-not grow. If you start feeling that what will happen to you if more talented women come in your field, or if your attempt is that I am there and will not allow anybody else to progress.

“Rather if you allow others to come up, you will go high. A kind of pyramid-like structure comes up then,” the prime minister said.

Observing that only budgets and infrastructure do not strengthen nations, the prime minister said every citizen of India strength-ens the nation like a Mother gives strength to a child.

Lauding the ability of women to rise if given an opportunity, he said, “we had had many a foreign minister in last so many years but we do not even remember their names.

Everybody knows about the out-standing work of Sushma Swaraj.

“All women Speakers in Lok Sabha have done good work. The success of women is better than men when they are given oppor-tunity,” he said, citing the role of women in reshaping African na-tion Rwanda whose Parliament has 65 per cent women. - PTI

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi

skipped any mention

about the women’s

reservation bill but

focussed on larger

issues of attitudinal

change and the need

for women promoting

women leadership

in different spheres

Intelligence failure led to riots in Muzaffarnagar: Judicial panelLUCKNOW: The one-man com-mission of Justice (retd) Vishnu Sahai that probed the 2013 Mu-zaffarnagar riots has said intel-ligence failure and laxity on the part of two senior police officials led to the violence that left 62 people dead.

The 700-page report tabled in the state Assembly on Sunday said the riots, following the mur-der of two persons by a youth from a minority community in Kawal town on August 27, 2013, took place as the then inspector of intelligence unit Prabal Pratap Singh failed to give an exact num-ber of people going to attend a ma-hapanchayat at Mandaur.

The proceedings of the ma-

hapanchayat were not recorded and there was laxity on the part of the then SSP Subhash Chan-dra Dubey due to which violence spread to Saharanpur, Shamli, Baghpat and Meerut, it said.

The commission sought to know from the then DM Kaushal Raj Sharma as to what law and or-der arrangements had been made in the wake of the mahapanchayat and why it was not videographed.

It also said transfer of the then DM Surendra Singh, who was re-placed by Sharma, and SSP Man-jil Saini before the riots led to re-sentment among members of the Jat community.

Besides, the release of 14 peo-ple arrested in connection with

the Kawal incident gave a mes-sage that the government was fa-vouring a specific community.

A video on social media show-ing some people being beaten up in a Taliban-held area was falsely related with the Kawal incident.

Inflammatory speeches by leaders of both the communities were among the major reasons behind the riots, it said.

Referring to a case registered against BJP MLA Sangeet Som and 229 others for uploading an objectionable video on Youtube, the commission said it was of of the view that under Article 20(2) of the Constitution no other pe-nal action could be taken against them. - PTI

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SPELLING OUT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the valedictory session of the National Conference of Women Legisla-tors, at the Central Hall of Parliament, in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

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South Indian film actor Kalabhavan Mani deadKOCHI: Noted South Indian film actor Kalabhavan Mani, known for his award-winning performance in Vasantiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum, on Sunday passed away at a private hospital here, sources said.

Mani, 45, also a singer, was undergoing treatment for liver and kidney diseases at the Am-rita Institute of Medical Sci-ences. Mani, who was admit-ted to the hospital two days ago, passed away at 7.15pm, the sources said.

Mani, born on January 1, 1971, was an auto rickshaw driver when he started his ca-reer as a mimicry artiste at the famous Kalabhavan, a centre for learning performing arts, here two decades ago.

Entering Malayalam film industry as a comedian, Mani later became an active artiste in South Indian films, including Tamil and Malayalam, especial-ly essaying villain roles.

The Malayalam film industry expressed shock over the actor’s untimely demise.

“It is an irreparable lose for us,” noted film director Kamal said. Mani is survived by wife and daughter. - PTI

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Jaitley attacks Rahul for sympathising with those who want to ‘break India’VRINDAVAN: Finance Min-ister Arun Jaitley on Sunday launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing “sym-pathies” for “those who raised slogans for breaking up India” and said it was the Congress vice president’s “ideological hollow-ness” that he did something that likes of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi never did.

Jaitley also termed Jawahar-lal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech, delivered fol-lowing his release on bail, a “vic-tory for us”, saying he had gone to jail for raising anti-India slogans but came back to speak amid slo-gans of ‘Jai Hind’ and hoisting of the tricolour.

In his valedictory address to a convention of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, Jaitley said it was the country’s “misfortune” that the Congress vice president sympathised with the actions of a “small group of extremists and a bigger group of Maoists”.

Congress had always been against those wanting to break up the country through the last 100 years of struggle between na-tionalist and anti-national forces, Jaitley said as he attacked Rahul.

“A new trend has started. Some people want to hold an event to commemorate Yakub Memon and some to commemorate Afzal Guru. These people used to com-prise a small section of extrem-ists and a big group of Maoists.

“Slogans were raised for break-ing up the country and it was the country’s misfortune that a lead-er of Congress, which has been in the mainstream so far, went there

to express sympathies with those who did so. It was ideological hol-lowness,” he said.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fulfilled its “national responsi-bility and emerged victorious”, he said, referring to Kanhaiya’s speech without naming the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student Union President.

While the Left has had a “his-torical tradition” of speaking against the national interest, Congress was always against the conspiracy to break the country except for Emergency when it was supported by Communist Party of India (CPI), Jaitley said.

The JNU row and the opposi-tion attack on the Modi govern-ment and BJP was at the centre of the two-day Bharatiya Janta Party Yuva Morcha conclave with party chief Amit Shah, chief ministers and a number of union ministers raising the nationalist pitch and attacking Congress, es-pecially Rahul. - PTI

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HITS OUT: Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley addressing national convention of BJP Yuva Morcha in Vrindavan on Sunday. - PTI

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Women section of Peshawar jail converted into car park

PESHAWAR: Lack of space and overcrowding has become a cause for concern at Central Prison Pe-shawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ‘s captial due to reconstruction that is under way at the facility.

However, the problem for the space for women inmates is not new.

The matter has become espe-cially critical because they have to live in a small barrack after the women section was demolished a decade ago.

“It was due to the then proposed reconstruction plan,” authorities concerned at the prison said while talking to The Express Tribune.

But the reconstruction plan was changed repeatedly. “The space

has [now] been turned into a park-ing lot due to unknown reasons.”

However he added, “Recon-struction began two years ago but its pace is so slow that it would take years to complete and until then the lives of all the inmates, men and women, would remain miserable.”

“There was once a time when the women section was the only section in the premises where there was no overcrowding,” he

said. “This is no more the case.”Currently, there are 94 women

living with their 30 children in the jail. The spacious women sec-tion was demolished because the administration was planning to reconstruct the entire jail.

However, the entire recon-struction plan was abandoned in favour of a more spacious central prison on Cherat Road in Jalozai, Nowshera. When all was set to start construction of the prison,

the idea was rejected on security grounds. This further delayed the solution for the problem of a sepa-rate section for women in the pris-on in Peshawar.

The Jalozai prison project was abandoned due to the fears of militant attacks and then it was decided that a two-storey prison would be reconstructed on the same location in several phases.

“The ideal step was to vacate the jail and reconstruct it swiftly.

But it was decided the inmates would be kept here, while recon-structing the facility at the same time,” he added.

Previously, convicted and undertrial inmates were kept separately in the women section but this demarcation has long been removed.

Another official at the prison told The Express Tribune they could not do anything about the demolished section as it was razed before they were posted and they were also helpless about the re-construction.

“I can tell you just one thing that overcrowding has been a serious issue — not only for women but for men and everyone else— for the past few years due to this re-construction,” he said.

“It has been a permanent mess for the administration too because these people are not animals who could be put in one cage, they are human beings.”

Earlier, it was decided that all the inmates from Peshawar would be shifted to a high-secu-rity prison in Mardan once it was completed. However, after long delays, when it was finally con-structed, the inmates were never ever shifted.

There are an estimated 2,000 prisoners in Central Prison Pe-shawar, which was designed just for 450 people by the British gov-ernment. — Express Tribune

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on Cherat Road in Jalozai area of Nowshera. — Express Tribune

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Auto part makers plan to cash in on surging demandLAHORE: Improving macroeco-nomic indicators and a phenom-enal increase in auto sales have convinced local part makers that this might be the right time to in-vest and expand their businesses.

For long, Pakistan has suffered from economic stagnation, but in-creased auto financing and falling oil prices have spurred spending in the auto sector, leading stakehold-ers to ponder, much more serious-ly, over increasing capacity.

“We are getting orders and the pace is increasing,” said Sultan & Kamil International CEO Faisal Mahmood on the sidelines of the 12th Pakistan Auto Show 2016 being held at the Lahore Interna-tional Expo Centre.

Mahmood’s company makes more than 350 automotive parts and exports to all major automo-bile markets in the world.

He is not alone. Almost every other exhibitor was hopeful of im-proved business activity in both local and international markets in coming months.

Growing every yearPakistan Association of Automo-tive Parts & Accessories Manu-facturers (Paapam) Senior Vice Chairman Mashood Ali Khan said the industry is growing every year.

The size of the global aftermar-ket (automotive part dealers other than Original Equipment Manu-facturers) is over $600 billion, and

Pakistan can tap into this huge market, he said.

“Pakistan is producing parts of good quality and at economical rates,” said Khan.

“What it lacks is better market-ing, which is a vital skill needed to tap into the robust international market.”

Paapam is planning to arrange a three-year export coaching pro-gramme with the government of Netherlands for engineering goods manufacturers of Pakistan. They say it will bring significant change in how Pakistani exporters ap-proach foreign buyers.

Some exhibitors were also optimistic about the China-Paki-stan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

and the business it is expected to generate related to the engineer-ing sector.

“Chinese truck manufacturers are thinking of setting up manu-facturing facilities here because they think CPEC will increase truck demand in the country,” a car company official said requesting not to name him or his company.

The exhibition has attracted 17 international exhibitors, most of which are from China.

Organisers say the annual event is gradually gaining credibility in European auto parts buyers, but it is taking time because business deals in automobile sector usually takes two to three years to mature. — Express Tribune

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BULLISH: Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts & Accessories

Manufacturers Senior Vice Chairman Mashood Ali Khan said the

industry is growing every year. — Express Tribune

Factory fire an act of arson: Inquiry team

KARACHI: The 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi was a planned terror activity involv-ing some key members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) over non-payment of extortion, the court hearing the matter was formally told on Saturday.

As many as 260 workers were burnt to death while around 100 were wounded in the blaze that gutted Ali Enterprises garment factory located in Baldia Town on September 11, 2012.

The fresh investigation re-port by a joint interrogation team (JIT) constituted last March says the incident was an act of arson and the miscreants used some highly inflammable chemicals to torch the factory.

Main culpritHammad Siddiqui, a former lo-cal leader of the MQM, is the main culprit behind the episode, says the report. Being the Kara-chi Tanzimi Committee (KTC) in-charge, Siddiqui looked into the operations of the 26 sectors of the party in the city.

He is alleged to have directed the whole unfortunate episode to wreak vengeance on factory owners for their refusal to pay Rs250 million as protection money and awarding him part-nership in the company’s prof-its. — Express Tribune

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Woman killed by guard after car enters high security area

PESHAWAR: A woman was killed Saturday evening when a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) of-ficial opened fire at a car which reportedly tried to enter an area, closed to civilian traffic due to se-curity reasons, near Peshawar’s Airport Road.

Bashirun Nisa, a resident of Nowshehra, was travelling to Pe-shawar’s Bacha Khan Internation-al Airport (BKIA) along with three other people to receive her relative in a private vehicle, police sources said. “The vehicle was signalled to stop as it tried to enter an area which has been closed for civilian traffic and when it did not stop a PAF sentry opened fire on it which critically injured the woman,” po-lice officer Dost Muhammad said.

“She was rushed to the Com-bined Military Hospital but suc-cumbed to her injured before reaching there,” he added.

The police officer, however, de-nied the registration of an FIR in the case.

Security has been beefed up at Peshawar airport following threat alerts specific to the airport in the city.

In January, personnel of the PAF had participated in a mock exercise to deter a possible mili-tant attack on the BKIA.

The alerts had been issued by in-telligence agencies which warned airport authorities of a possible rocket attack.

“We received a threat from agencies and have taken it serious-ly since the airport has come under attack in the past,” a senior airport security official said, anonymous-ly. — Express Tribune

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Search for missing jet must continue: MH370 families

KUALA LUMPUR: The families of passengers lost aboard Malay-sia Airlines flight MH370 say the two-year search for the missing aircraft must go on beyond a June deadline, as new hope emerged last week of resolving the aviation mystery. Debris found off the Afri-can coast rekindled hope for many,

prompting relatives like Grace Subathirai Nathan to demand in-vestigators go back over mistakes made early on.

“A lot of it was based on calcu-lations that had never been used before, where there’s room for human error,” Nathan said in an interview. Nathan’s mother, Anne Daisy, was on board when MH370 disappeared on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and

crew on board. Some 120,000 sq km (46,300 sq mi) of the sea floor is being scoured at an esti-mated cost of about A$170 million ($124.17 million).

But no trace of the missing Boe-ing 777 has been found except for a wing part, known as a flaperon, which surfaced on Reunion island off Madagascar last July.

Australia said in August that initial drift models of where debris from the jet might first wash up

had incorrectly identified Indone-sia as the most likely location.

“If that could be wrong, what else could be wrong?” Nathan, a 28-year-old lawyer, said.

A meeting set for June between Australia, Malaysia, and China will determine whether to extend the search. But families are calling for the search to continue after the discovery last week of a white, me-tre-long chunk of metal suspected to be from MH370 off the coast of Mozambique. Just as they prepare to mark the two-year anniversary of the jet’s disappearance, the rela-tives are asking for efforts to focus on the southeast African coast.

Voice370, a support group for MH370 next-of-kin, said last week in a statement that the claims of funds drying up was “unaccepta-ble” as a reason for ending the in-vestigation, which they say could benefit the broader industry and increase safety. On Sunday, scores of family and friends of those on board the plane gathered at a mall in Kuala Lumpur in a memorial seeking to “re-investigate, re-eval-uate, re-start” the search.

Accompanied by poignant mu-sical and dance performances, the next-of-kin made an impassioned plea for search efforts to continue until the plane is found.

“They can stop the search, but where do we stop the feeling of loss? We want them to try, if pos-sible, to continue searching for MH370,” said Jacquita Gonzales, the wife of MH370 in-flight super-visor Patrick Gomes.

MH370 vanished from radar screens shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, and investi-gators believe it was flown thou-sands of miles off course before eventually crashing into the ocean off Australia.

A 584-page interim report into the disappearance of the Boe-ing 777-200ER released on the first anniversary provided de-tails on how radars tracked the plane going off course and issues concerning the battery of the flight data recorder’s underwater locator beacon.

However, it did not identify a definitive cause for the disappear-ance, adding there was nothing suspicious in the financial, medi-cal or personal histories of pilots or crew. The next interim report will be released on Tuesday.

“It is definitely their duty to con-tinue to investigate this case, be-cause until now they have not made any substantial progress,” said Beijing resident Steve Wang, whose mother was on the flight. - Reuters

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CONCERNED: Grace Subathirai Nathan, 28, whose mother Anne

Daisy was aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, poses

for a photograph before an interview with Reuters in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, March 1, 2016. - Reuters

Bangladesh arrests three suspected militantsDHAKA: Bangladesh’s elite anti-terrorism unit detained on Sunday three suspected mem-bers of a militant group believed to be behind a spate of recent at-tacks in the country.

Bangladesh has seen a rise in extremist violence in which lib-eral activists, members of mi-nority sects and other religious groups have been targeted.

The detainees were members of the banned Jamaatul Muja-hideen Bangladesh and were arrested in a raid conducted in the northwestern district of Ra-jshahi, said Rumman Mahmud, a deputy director of the Rapid Action Battalion.

Sixteen crude bombs, seven petrol bombs and books were also found in their possession, he added. The group is believed to be behind attacks such as the bombings of a minority com-munity shrine and the killing of two foreigners.

At least five militants of Jamaatul Mujahideen have been killed in shootouts since November, as security forces stepped up a crackdown on militants seeking to make the moderate nation of 160 million an obscurantist state. - Reuters

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China will never allow Taiwan to be ‘split’ off again, says XiBEIJING: China will never allow the tragedy of Taiwan being “split” off from the rest of the country to happen again, state media on Sun-day quoted President Xi Jinping as saying, offering a strong warning to the island against any moves to-wards independence.

China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan a wayward province, to be brought under its control by force if necessary. De-

feated Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan in 1949 after the Chinese civil war. Beijing has repeatedly warned against any moves towards independence since January’s landslide win by Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

Meeting with Shanghai del-egates to the annual meeting of parliament, Xi made apparent ref-

erence to the Qing dynasty’s loss of Taiwan to Japan in 1895, who then ruled the island as a colony until the end of World War Two.

“We will resolutely contain ‘Tai-wan independence’ secessionist activities in any form, safeguard the country’s sovereignty and terri-torial integrity, and never allow the historical tragedy of the nation be-ing split to happen again,” Xi said.

“This is the common wish and

firm will of all Chinese people. It is also our solemn commitment and our responsibility to history and the people,” he added.

Tsai has said she would main-tain peace with China, and Chi-nese state-run media have also noted her pledges to maintain the “status quo” with China. Without making direct mention of Tsai, who assumes office in May, Xi said Beijing’s policy towards Taiwan

was clear and consistent and “will not change along with the change in Taiwan’s political situation”.

“Compatriots from both sides of the Taiwan Strait are expecting the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations, and we should not disappoint them,” he added.

Many in China are deeply sus-picious of Tsai. Speaking on Sun-day at a meeting on sidelines of parliament, Lin Xianshun, a Chi-

nese military officer who defected from Taiwan in 1989, said she was a “schemer” who wanted to have the benefits of good economic ties with China at the same time as coveting Taiwan’s independence.

The past eight years have been marked by calm between China and Taiwan, after the election of the China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou as president in 2008 and his sub-sequent re-election.- Reuters

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Ageing, indebted Japan debates

on right to ‘die with dignity’

TOKYO: Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn’t thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with ma-lignant lymphoma and decided against costly and invasive life-prolonging treatment.

He watched his mother die peacefully at a nursing home where she received only palliative care after checking out of the hos-pital where she was diagnosed.

Soon after, Tanzawa made his own “living will”, stipulating he did not want life-prolonging treatment if he became terminal-ly ill or was in a vegetative state.

“I felt it was too soon (for my mother to die) but I also thought ‘Ah, there is this way of dying,” Tanzawa, now 68, said.

“My generation of baby-boom-ers ... are reaching old age, and we must confront death as a practical issue.” Although Japan has one of the world’s fastest ageing popu-lations, the country has no laws regarding “living wills”, let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few US states such as California and some nations including Can-ada and Belgium.

‘Living wills’Japanese like the Tanzawas with “living wills” are a small minor-ity. But as ageing baby-boomers ponder their own demise and the country struggles with the worst public debt among advanced countries due partly to rising ex-penditure on medical care, the taboo on avoiding life-extending care is eroding.

The topic of “natural death” is increasingly being tackled in TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles and books; seminars on preparing for death are popular; and health experts say the use of feeding tubes for feeble elderly patients is declining.

“I think we are at a turning point in terms of attitudes,” said Teruhiko Mashiko, an opposition lawmaker and head of a parlia-mentarians group set up a decade ago to discuss a law giving legal protection to doctors who with-hold life-prolonging care with

the patient’s consent. “The view that it is not dignified as a hu-man to simply be kept alive by medical treatment is becoming more common,” Mashiko said in an interview.

The lawmakers’ group drafted a new version of a bill last year but it has yet to be introduced in parliament, largely because of opposition from disability rights groups who fear it could be a first step toward legalising euthanasia.

Traditional Japanese views that families are obliged to care for elderly relatives have long been an obstacle to rejecting or withdraw-ing life-prolonging treatment.

Many families fear being ac-cused of callous abandonment, whatever the patient’s wishes. Doctors worry about family mem-bers filing suits.

Health Ministry guidelines is-sued in 2007 call for an informed decision by the patient or a proxy and say a decision to withdraw aggressive treatment should be made by a health care team.

But these and other guidelines have not erased physicians’ con-cerns. “We doctors want some guarantee not to be accused criminally or civilly if we stop such treatment,” said Toshiharu Furukawa, head of the ruling Lib-eral Democratic Party’s health, welfare and labour panel, and a lawyer-doctor who has treated terminally-ill cancer patients.

The sensitivity of the topic was underscored by the outcry that greeted remarks by Finance Min-ister Taro Aso in 2013 when he said the ailing elderly should be allowed to “hurry up and die” and linked the issue to the high cost of medical care.

Most advocates of the legal change say respect for individual rights, not cost, is the key factor and legislation would help pro-mote the concept of “living wills”.

Others, though acknowledge the role of the fiscal burden. Ja-pan’s total spending on national health care topped 40 trillion yen for the first time in the year to March 31, 2014.

Spending on those aged 75 and over exceeded a third of the total, a percentage set to grow as the population ages.

“We cannot say clearly that it is a problem of cost, but it is a prob-lem,” the LDP’s Furukawa said. Groups representing the handi-capped say such talk simply con-firms what they fear - public fi-nancial woes are driving the push for legislation that could be a first step toward legalising euthanasia of those society deems a burden.

“They say people want to die in a dignified way ... but because of the cost, they want people to have ‘living wills’ and reduce medical expenses,” said Shoji Nakanishi, president of the non-profit Hu-man Care Association. - Reuters

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CONFRONTING PRACTICAL ISSUE: President of the non-profit Hu-

man Care Association Shoji Nakanishi, 72, who has been wheel-

chair bound since a spinal cord injury at age 21, speaks during an

interview in Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2016. - Reuters

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Upheaval not to lead to ‘Latin America Spring’Luis Alberto Moreno

As corruption scandals rattle Latin America, many observers are asking if the region will ever shake off its legacy of weak institu-

tions. I believe the answer is yes.My optimism is based partly on the history of the

United States, founded by leaders who were highly concerned about corruption; by some accounts, they devised the Constitution with the specific goal of vaccinating the new republic against vice. Despite their efforts, however, the US government soon became as venal as any of the old regimes in Europe – and, as Francis Fukuyama has argued, re-mained so for more than a century. Even after the US finally started cleaning up the federal govern-ment, political patronage endured at the state and municipal levels. Policies to increase government transparency, such as the Freedom of Information Act, did not come into force until the 1960s.

Today, Americans still worry about the influ-ence of money in politics, as demonstrated by re-curring arguments over campaign finance in their current presidential primaries.

But there is no denying that the US government today is infinitely more virtuous than it was in the days of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Teddy Roosevelt. Viewed from Latin America, the US experience is a reminder that strong institu-tions emerge at a glacial pace, thanks to the cumu-lative efforts of generations of reformers.

The lesson of the US and other countries is that countries need three ingredients to combat cor-ruption: A strong legal framework, committed leaders, and sustained public support.

The first ingredient should not be a problem for Latin American countries (many of which drew from the US constitution in writing their own fun-damental laws), though consistent enforcement remains a serious weakness. As for the second, nu-merous courageous individuals have stood up for probity, though they have largely been ignored or ostracized. The third ingredient – popular mobili-sation against corruption – has been the most diffi-cult to obtain, as Latin Americans have historically tended to be tolerant of pilfering politicians. Bra-zilians even had a saying to excuse malfeasance: rouba mas faz (he steals, but he gets things done).

This seems finally to be changing. Across Latin America, citizens are taking to the streets to say of corruption: ya basta (enough is enough).

These are not just isolated protests against spe-

cific policies that harm their particular interests; demonstrations now involve a broad cross-section of society, including, most crucially, the region’s emerging middle class.

Moreover, today’s corruption scandals are being investigated and prosecuted with unprecedented independence. Courts in countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala are in-dicting and even jailing prominent politicians and business people. In a region long inured to im-punity among political and economic elites, this amounts to a tectonic shift. Should this popular and judicial pressure persist it could create the condi-tions in which many other reforms can succeed. Since returning to democratic rule in the 1980s and 1990s, many Latin American countries have been quietly working to strengthen their politi-cal systems’ checks and balances, from enhancing the legislature’s authority to analyse budgets and monitor spending to reinforcing the judiciary’s ca-pacity to prosecute complex financial crimes. Sev-eral countries have recently introduced enhanced safeguards against tax evasion and money laun-dering. And some are trying to reform their police and adopt a more strategic approach to fighting drug trafficking and organised crime.

These are the kinds of unglamorous changes that rarely generate headlines. Yet they are indis-pensable to building trust in public institutions – which in turn is essential to economic progress.

As it stands, a lack of confidence in institutions is not only discouraging long-term investment; it is also driving roughly half of Latin America’s small-business owners to operate in the informal economy, thereby avoiding laws and taxes they be-lieve will applied unfairly. At a time when sluggish global growth and falling commodity prices de-mand rapid productivity growth, Latin America’s economies cannot afford to be hobbled in this way.

By and large, Latin America’s elected officials are getting the message and rushing to join good governance initiatives, such as the multilateral Open Government Partnership. It is time for the private sector, which has all too often tolerated corruption as an unavoidable cost of doing busi-ness, to take a stand as well.

If the region’s political and business leaders add their voices to the protests against corruption, Lat-in America can achieve a definitive break with the past, ensuring that all citizens can count on the fair implementation of the rule of law to enable every-one to reach their full potential. - Project Syndicate

Mugabe has every right to rule for more years This refers to the story, ‘Mugabe will not pick successor, says still fit, wants to live to 100’ (March 5). It is indeed a pity world leaders continue to vilify a statesman. Whatever has been done during his

long rule has been to ensure good living conditions of the natives. As he is still fit mentally and physically, I cannot see why people are making such a fuss. The country has been holding free and fair election, which self serving interests are termed as unacceptable by global bodies. Every country needs to evolve it’s own system thus imitation of Western democracy is not needed. — Robin Stone, Ruwi

To stay fit regular exercise needs to begin early on in life This refers to the report Start jogging now (March 5). The article is very informa-tive and indeed more residents of Muscat should be seen jogging in parks and on roads. However, I cannot understand why people are not already doing this. It seems lot of people like to indulge in guilty pleas-

ures without thinking of an illness free future. The importance of regular exercise needs to begin from early on in life. Regarding this, parents must lead from the front and take time out to work out. — Rashid Hassan, Seeb

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RUSSIA PRESSED TO FREE UKRAINE PILOT People take part in a rally demanding liberation of Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko by Russia, in central Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday. — Reuters

Cruz stakes claim as Trump main Republican opponent

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz solidified his claim to be front-runner Donald Trump’s prime challenger by splitting four nomi-nating contests with the real es-tate mogul, and both turned their attention to a crucial showdown in Michigan on Tuesday.

The wins for Trump and Cruz on Saturday were a setback for the Republican Party’s most pow-erful members, who have largely opposed Trump and hinted that they prefer Marco Rubio, a US senator who was shut out in the four contests.

“I think it’s time that he dropped

out of the race,” Trump said of Rubio afterward.”I want Ted one on one.”

The Republican campaign now moves to Puerto Rico on Sunday and contests on Tuesday in Michi-gan, Mississippi, Idaho and Ha-waii, where Trump will be looking to expand his lead in the battle to pick nominees for the November 8 presidential election to succeed

President Barack Obama.On the Democratic side, front-

runner Hillary Clinton won on Saturday in Louisiana and rival Bernie Sanders won in Kansas and Nebraska in results that slightly expanded Clinton’s delegate lead over the US senator from Vermont.

Next up for Democrats is a con-test in Maine on Sunday and a na-tionally televised debate on Sun-

day night from Flint, Michigan, a majority-black and impoverished city that has suffered a health cri-sis caused by a contaminated wa-ter supply.

Legal uncertaintyIn an interview on Sunday, Clinton downplayed the legal uncertainty of the ongoing inquiry by federal investigators into her use of a pri-vate email server for her work as secretary of state.

“Well there is no basis for that,” she told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program after being asked about fears in her party that she or her colleagues from the State Depart-ment may be prosecuted. She said she was “delighted” that Bryan Pa-gliano, a technician who managed her email system, was cooperating with the criminal investigation in exchange for immunity by the US Justice Department.

The Republican race has been marked by a growing wave of at-tacks on Trump from the Repub-lican establishment, which has blanched at his calls to build a wall on the border with Mexico, round up and deport 11 million undocu-mented immigrants and tempo-

rarily bar all Muslims from enter-ing the United States.

The party’s establishment has not been much happier with Cruz, who has alienated many party leaders in Washington.

Cruz, 45, has called for the United States to “carpet bomb” the IS group and has pledged to eliminate the tax-collecting In-ternal Revenue Service and four Cabinet agencies.

Substantial leadTrump still has a substantial lead in the race for delegates who select the presidential nominee at the nominating convention in July.

Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, said he thought the party’s nomi-nee would most likely be decided by voters before the convention, and that the party’s leadership did not intend to subvert the will of its members.

“There are no plans to undo the rules, or change the nomination process mid-stream,” he said in an interview on Sunday with ABC News, downplaying the prospect of the first contested convention in decades. — Reuters

More headaches for

party establishment’s

favourite candidate

Marco Rubio

suffers big losses

GAME ON: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz signs a

poster at a campaign rally on March 5, 2016 in Wichita, Kansas.

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Nancy Reagan dies at 94LOS ANGELES: Nancy Rea-gan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hol-lywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and Alzheimer’s disease, died on Sunday at age 94, the Rea-gan library said.

Reagan became one of the most influential first ladies in US history during her Republi-can husband’s presidency from 1981 to 1989,

Her husband, who affectionate-ly called her “Mommy” while she called him “Ronnie,” died in 2004 after a long struggle with Alzhei-mer’s, the progressive brain disor-der that destroys memory.

Hollywood actressAs Nancy Davis, she was a Hol-lywood actress during the 1940s and 1950s and married Reagan, a prominent film actor, in 1952.

She then served as first lady of California during her husband’s stint as California governor from 1967 to 1975 before moving into the White House after his de-cisive victory over incumbent

Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Her most publicised project as first lady was the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign.

Alzheimer’s diseaseAfter her husband developed Alz-heimer’s disease, she became an advocate for discovering a cure.

She was diminutive and public-ly soft spoken but Nancy Reagan’s strong will, high-tone tastes and clout with her husband made her a controversial figure during his presidency.

As Reagan’s wife, political part-ner and adviser, she became one of America’s most potent first la-dies, alongside the likes of Frank-lin Roosevelt’s wife, Eleanor, Woodrow Wilson’s wife, Edith, and Bill Clinton’s wife, Hillary.

Isolated“I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated,” she said in 1985.”I talk to people. They tell me things.

And if something is about to become a problem, I’m not above

calling a staff person and asking about it.

I’m a woman who loves her husband and I make no apologies for looking out for his personal and political welfare.”

Tiny and frail in her later years, Reagan devoted her time to car-ing for her ailing husband at their home in Los Angeles’ exclusive Bel Air enclave. She was always a stickler for protocol and detail and stoically presided over the former president’s weeklong fu-neral and celebration of his life in June 2004. — Reuters

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After EU exitUK has golden opportunity, claims BorisLONDON: London’s influen-tial mayor on Sunday denied personal ambition was behind his decision to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union and said it was a “golden opportunity” for the country to forge its own trade deals with the world.

Boris Johnson, whose back-ing for a so-called ‘Brexit’ has angered Prime Minister David Cameron and highlighted the deep splits within his Conserva-tives over Europe, said he be-lieved the risky option was to re-main inside the 28-nation bloc when Britons vote in a June 23 referendum.

His comments came as Ger-man Finance Minister Wolf-gang Schaeuble warned Brexit would lead to years of tortuous negotiations and create insecu-rity that would be “poison” to the British, European and global economies.

No country has previously quit the EU, and a British de-parture would deprive the bloc of its number two economy and leading financial centre. — Reuters

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‘Zaman’ nowpro-Ankara newspaperISTANBUL: A day after Tur-key’s top-selling newspaper Za-man was taken over by the state, it dropped its criticisms of the gov-ernment on Sunday and published flattering stories on President Tayyip Erdogan.

The episode is the latest twist in a long-running conflict between Erdogan and US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Police raided the offices of Zaman, which is af-filiated with Gulen, late on Friday after a court approved a request by a prosecutor to appoint a state ad-ministrator to the daily.

The prosecutor is investigating whether funds have been diverted to Gulen.

Sunday’s front page included a story about Erdogan’s planned reception to mark International Women’s Day and his visit to the site of a bridge being built across Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait.

There was no mention of pro-tests by Gulen’s supporters on Friday and Saturday when police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse large crowds gathered outside of the newspaper.

Rights groups and European of-ficials criticised the seizure, say-ing it infringed on press freedom in the EU candidate country.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davu-toglu, rejected that charge, saying a legal process was under way to investigate illicit financing of a “terrorist” organisation and that there had been no political inter-ference. — Reuters

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INDONESIA: Tourists enjoy a view of Mount Bromo from Penanjakan, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia on Sunday. — Reuters/Zabur Karuru/Antara Foto

LEBANON: Leen Al Hayek, left, poses with Iraqi musician Kadhim Al Sahir for a picture after winning ‘The Voice Kids’ singing competi-

tion in Beirut, Lebanon on Saturday. — Reuters

ITALY: A surfer rides a wave on a day of swell generated by strong winds on the Mediterranean sea in Varazze, Italy, on Thursday, pic-

ture released on Sunday. — AFP

EL SALVADOR: The Ed Force One airplane of British heavy metal

band Iron Maiden is seen at the Monsignor Oscar Romero Interna-

tional Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, on Saturday, ahead of

The Book of Souls World Tour concert. — AFP

UNITED STATES: Sara Cavendish, left, leads conch shell blow-

ers during the Annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in Key West,

Florida on Saturday. — Reuters/Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout via Reuters

COLOMBIA: Acrobats perform ‘Aphrodite and the judgment of Paris’

choreographed by the Spanish troupe La Fura dels Baus during the

opening of the 15th Ibero-American Theatre Festival on Saturday in

Bogota, Colombia. — AFP

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BRIEFING NEWS PERSONS: Egypt’s Interior Minister General

Magdi Abdel Ghaffar speaks during a news conference in Cairo,

Egypt on Sunday. – Reuters

18 refugees drown as boat sinks off Turkish coast in Aegean Sea

ISTANBUL/ZURICH: At least 18 people attempting to reach Greece drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast on Sunday, the state-run Anatolian Agency reported.

The Turkish Coast Guard, using speedboats and a helicopter, res-cued 15 people and recovered 18 bodies in the Aegean Sea near the town of Didim, it said. Efforts con-tinued to find more victims whose nationalities were not given.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu travels to Brussels on Monday for an emergency sum-mit with European Union leaders

to tackle illegal migration to mem-ber states, much of which occurs through candidate country Turkey.

A million people reached Eu-rope through illegal routes in 2015, many fleeing economic and po-litical turmoil in the Middle East,

North Africa and Asia. Most of them came through Turkey, which borders Syria, Iran and Iraq.

Meanwhile, Austrian Chancel-lor Werner Faymann has urged Germany to set a clear limit on the number of asylum seekers it will

accept to help stem a mass influx of refugees that is severely testing European cohesion.

The comments by the Social Democrat to the Kurier newspaper threaten to make even more com-plicated an emergency EU summit

with Turkey on Monday on han-dling the worst refugee crisis in generations.

Austria - the last stop before Germany, the top destination for Migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond - has already come under fire from the European Commission and human rights groups for capping its own intake of refugees.

“Germany too must give a num-ber for the refugees it is prepared to take from the Syria and Turkey region. Germany must finally cre-ate clarity or else refugees will continue to head off in the direc-tion of Germany,” Faymann was quoted as saying.

“If you take the Austrian guide-lines, Germany could give its quota at around 400,000. As long as Ger-many does not say that, it is clear what will happen. The refugees will continue to believe that they will be waved through.”

In Berlin, a government spokes-man declined to comment directly on Faymann, but referred to previ-ous statements from Chancellor Angela Merkel in which she re-peatedly rejected the introduction of such a national cap.

In a newspaper interview, Mer-kel defended her decision to keep Germany’s borders open and reaf-firmed her push for a joint Euro-pean solution, including strength-ening the continent’s external borders and cooperation with Tur-key to stop refugees from travel-ling on to Europe.

Faymann said Monday’s sum-mit was set to decide three things: improving cooperation with Tur-key to fight human smugglers and return rejected asylum seekers, ending a policy of waving through refugees, and agreeing on a system for EU members to absorb asylum seekers with the help of the UN refugee agency. — Reuters

The Turkish Coast

Guard, using

speedboats and a

helicopter, rescued 15

people and recovered

18 bodies near the

town of Didim

Egypt accuses Brotherhood of killing prosecutorCAIRO: Egypt has accused ex-iled Muslim Brotherhood offi-cials of conspiring with Hamas fighters to assassinate public prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year and arrested 14 people in connection with the attack.

Barakat, 64, was killed by a car bomb in Cairo in June 2015. He was the most senior state official assassinated since the toppling in mid-2013 of elected president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack at the time.

Egypt’s Interior Minister General Magdi Abdel Ghaffar told a news conference that the attack was ordered by Turkey-based leaders of Egypt’s oldest movement and coordinated with fellow hardline group Hamas, which he said provided training and explosives.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri denied the accusations, calling them groundless and in-correct. There was no immedi-ate comment from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdel Ghaffar said Egypt had arrested 48 members of a Broth-erhood cell aimed at undermin-ing security through a series of attacks. Fourteen of them had confessed to killing Barakat.

He said Yehia Moussa, health ministry spokesman during Mursi’s presidency, had planned the operation. Moussa is now liv-ing in Turkey.

“This is a very big conspiracy that started a long time ago and continued,” he said.

Judges and other senior of-ficials have been targeted by radicals since then-military chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi ousted Morsi following mass protests against his turbulent rule.

Sisi, who went on to win a pres-idential election in 2014, banned the Brotherhood and jailed thou-sands of its followers. Shortly after Sisi took power, security forces killed hundreds of Morsi supporters in a single day in the bloodiest episode in Egypt’s mod-

ern history. The Egyptian judici-ary says it is independent of the government and military, but some judges have been accused by human rights groups of bias after handing down lengthy jail terms and mass death sentences.

The crackdown, which has in-cluded restrictions on freedom of protest, has angered many op-ponents of Sisi who has struggled to suppress an insurgency that is raging in the eastern Sinai Penin-sula, which borders Hamas-con-trolled Gaza and Israel.

Barakat’s assassination cast doubt on Egypt’s ability to con-tain the insurgency, which has seen hundreds of police and sol-diers killed since Sisi took over. The Brotherhood has been desig-nated terrorist. The group says it rejects violence.

The most active militant group is Sinai Province, which has pledged allegiance to IS. Egypt makes no distinction, describing such groups as an existential threat.

The interior ministry showed video clips of men, most in their early 20s, confessing to join-ing protests and later attacking police with fireworks, destroy-ing electricity towers, and go-ing to Gaza for military training from Hamas.

“I received a firearms course, a car bomb course, and a mili-tary tactics course. I returned to Egypt three months later and remained in contact with Hamas intelligence officers,” one young man told the camera.

“I was later told to prepare for an operation with others where we would assassinate the public prosecutor.”

The young men said they plant-ed a car filled with explosives and detonated it remotely the follow-ing day as Barakat’s motorcade passed by.

“As soon as the motorcade moved (near the car bomb) I pressed the button and we took a photo then moved in a red hatch-back car,” said another young man. — Reuters

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ASYLUM SEEKERS: Afghan refugees walk through a beach where they will wait to board a dinghy sail-

ing off for the Greek island of Chios, while they try to travel from the western Turkish coastal town of

Cesme, in Izmir province, Turkey on Sunday. – Reuters

A million people reached Europe through illegal

routes in 2015, many fleeing economic and political

turmoil in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

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China warns Hong Kong not to politicise issues after recent riots

BEILING: China’s third-ranked Communist Party leader Zhang Dejiang said Hong Kong shouldn’t “politicise everything” and should instead focus on integrating its economy with China’s, according to members of China’s parliament who met with him on Sunday.

A day after Premier Li Keqiang

pledged greater economic support for Hong Kong at the opening of annual parliamentary sessions in Beijing, Zhang said that while a recent riot in Hong Kong was a concern, it was one the city’s gov-ernment could handle.

“He (Zhang) said one needed to take a broader perspective to look at it, and to not politicise every-thing,” said Rita Fan, a standing committee member of China’s par-liament chaired by Zhang.

Other delegates who met with Zhang said that while Zhang didn’t single out anyone for blame, there remained concern among Beijing’s top leaders towards an embittered cluster of youth groups in Hong Kong using increasingly radical or violent means to demand greater autonomy. China maintains Hong Kong is an inseparable part of Chi-na and as such resolutely opposes any moves towards independence. Reuters was not able to contact

Zhang for comment. Calls to Chi-na’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office in Beijing after regular busi-ness hours went unanswered.

“They worry about the rise of separatism,” said Lau Siu-kai, a former senior Hong Kong govern-ment adviser who met with Zhang on Friday with other members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top parliamentary advisory body. “If something big happens in Hong Kong that is seen as threatening national security, I don’t expect

China to wait, they may take the initiative to protect national secu-rity,” Lau told Reuters.

Hong Kong was returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 un-der a “one country, two systems” framework granting it broad free-doms and an independent judici-ary, though with Beijing having ultimate authority. As for the dis-appearances of five Hong Kong booksellers who published gossipy books of China’s leaders, the issue wasn’t raised by Zhang despite lin-gering questions about the cases.

All of the booksellers recently surfaced to give interviews on Chinese television saying they had travelled voluntarily to China. But the British government maintains one of the men, Lee Bo, had been “involuntarily removed” from Hong Kong. China’s Foreign Min-istry has said its law enforcement officials would never do anything illegal, especially not overseas, and called on foreign governments not to interfere in Hong Kong affairs.

“Even me, I still have some doubts ... most of the middle class actually have serious concerns,” Ma Fung-kwok, a Chinese parlia-mentary delegate told Reuters in a Beijing hotel lobby. “If someone broke the Basic Law and tried to do illegal enforcement in Hong Kong territory, this is something that shouldn’t be allowed... Even if it’s Chinese police.” Still, Andrew Yao, a Hong Kong businessman and member of China’s parlia-

ment, said such concerns were overplayed, with Beijing intent to maintain Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability. “I don’t see a pivot to a police state where they can come arrest us,” Yao said.

Premier Li emphasised in his annual work report that Beijing would continue to “elevate” Hong Kong’s role in China’s economic development. China’s updated draft five-year development blue-print also mentioned a so-called “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau big bay area” to boost economic synergies, as well as business and transport linkages between Hong Kong and southern China.

“He (Zhang) is saying ‘look ... don’t get politicised in all your so-cial and economic issues, concen-trate on developing your economy, ride with the tide of China rising’,” said Maria Tam, a veteran Hong Kong delegate to China’s parlia-mentary sessions. — Reuters

Beijing’s top leaders

are concerned about

youth groups in Hong

Kong using violent

means to demand

greater autonomy

Benin votes in presidential pollCOTONOU: Benin held an elec-tion on Sunday to choose a suc-cessor to President Thomas Boni Yayi who is stepping down after two terms, leaving 33 candidates to vie for power in the small West African country.

Boni Yayi’s decision to relin-quish power as mandated by law marks him out from African lead-ers in countries such as Burundi, Rwanda and Congo Republic who have changed the constitution to pave the way for a third term.

Leading the field is Prime Min-ister Lionel Zinsou, a former economist and investment bank-er backed by the president and the main opposition Democratic Renewal Party. Zinsou has prom-ised to restructure the economy, to create more jobs especially for young people, to aid small busi-nesses and improve access to micro-credit.

Benin produces cotton but its economy is flagging, in part be-cause a fall in oil prices has hit its

neighbour Nigeria, a country that is also its largest trading part-ner. A big choice facing voters is who best can create jobs and im-prove education. The country has around 4.6 million voters and the election began slowly in the capi-tal, with small queues of voters forming at polling stations.

Matter of pride“I have just voted. It’s a matter of pride for me to have done my duty as a citizen,” said Clarisse Nibime who voted in the capital.

“Benin is a big democracy. With my departure our democra-cy will take one further step for-wards.... I leave the republic with national unity,” Boni Yayi said as he cast his ballot. — Reuters

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Fossilised lizard may be a clue to ‘lost world’FLORIDA: A fossilised lizard found in Southeast Asia pre-served in amber dates back some 99 million years, Florida scien-tists have determined, making it the oldest specimen of its kind and a “missing link” for reptile researchers.

The lizard is some 75 mil-lion years older than the previ-ous record holder, according to researchers at the Florida Mu-seum of Natural History, who an-nounced the finding this week.

It was found decades ago in a mine along with other ancient, well-preserved reptile fossils, but the US scientists were able to an-alyse the finds only recently.

“It was incredibly exciting to see these animals for the first time,” Edward Stanley, a member of the research team, said on Sat-urday. “It was exciting and star-tling, actually, how well they were preserved.”

Scientists believe the chame-leon-like creature was an infant when it was trapped in a gush

of sticky resin while darting through a tropical forest in what is now Myanmar, in Southeast Asia. The creature’s entire body, including its eyes and colourful scales, is unusually well-pre-served, Stanley said.

The other reptiles trapped in the amber, including a gecko and an Arctic lizard, were also largely intact. Small reptiles have delicate bodies and typically de-teriorate quickly, he said. Being encased in solid amber helped to lock the specimen together.

Stanley and other research-ers used high-resolution digital X-ray technology to examine the creatures and estimate the age of the amber without breaking it.

The discovery will help re-searchers learn more about the “lost ecosystem, the lost world” to which the creatures belonged, Stanley said, and it may help re-searchers learn more about the creatures’ modern relatives.

“It’s kind of a missing link,” Stanley said. — Reuters

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MUSCAT: Port of Salalah, the biggest port in Oman, has signed a memorandum of understand-ing with Shahid Rajaee Port and Chabahar Port through the Port and Maritime Authority (PMO)

of Iran. This landmark agreement envisages close cooperation in a diverse range of activities that will facilitate growth in shipping, trade and commerce for both na-tions, said a press release from Salalah port.

“With multiple main line ser-vices already providing a compre-hensive and reliable global con-

nectivity via Salalah, and strong interest shown by all shipping lines in catering to the growing Iranian economy, this pioneering agreement will act as a facilitator and a platform for the three ports to work together to provide best in class logistics and supply chain solutions for multiple stakehold-ers,” said Ahmed Akaak, deputy

CEO of the Port of Salalah who signed the agreement.

“With a number of joint ven-tures being discussed between the two governments, the local com-munity sees this agreement as a step towards anchoring some of these ventures in Salalah provid-ing career opportunities for the Omani talent,” added Akaak.

Ebrahim Idani, director general for Hormozgan Province, (PMO) signed the MoU on behalf of Sha-hid Rajaee Port and Chabahar Port. PMO is the apex authority for regulating and controlling all ports and maritime affairs, pro-moting shipping and commerce, collecting port duties and taxes as well as registering Iranian vessels.

Under the MoU, the three ports will develop joint marketing strat-egies, work together to enhance trade opportunities and promote an all water route between Bandar Abbas, Chahbahar and Salalah.

The pact also provides for lever-

aging knowledge and experience of Port of Salalah to help modern-ise and improve infrastructure of the two Iraninan ports in addition to offering support and expertise in training and skill development for the Iranian work force. This is to cater to the growth in trade and commerce expected to pass through the Iranian ports.

“This agreement provides an opportunity for the three ports to complement and significant-ly enhance each other’s value proposition by providing the industries in their hinterland a gateway for wider market by leveraging on the location of the partner ports. We also en-visage the landlocked countries adjacent to Iran to use the exist-ing multilateral agreements for transport corridors to access new markets and thereby enhance re-gional trade opportunities,” said David Gledhill, chief executive officer of the Port of Salalah.

This landmark deal

envisages close

cooperation between

Oman’s Port of

Salalah and Iran’s

Shahid Rajaee Port

and Chabahar Port

Sharia index reconstitutedTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Muscat Securities Market (MSM) has re-constituted its Sharia Index based on fourth quarter financial results of 2015.

Sharia Index has 30 sample companies now and the reconsti-tution was on the basis of financial results of companies in the fourth quarter of 2015.

The companies that are includ-ed in the index include Al Anwar Ceramic Tiles, Al Jazeira Services, Al Madina Takaful, Al Maha Ce-ramics, Al Izz Islamic Bank, Bank Nizwa, Computer Stationary In-dustry, Dhofar Beverage and Food Stuff, Gulf International Chemi-cals, Gulf Mushroom Products, Majan Glass and Muscat Gases.

The newly constituted index was effective from March 6, ac-cording to a circular from MSM.

MSM’s Sharia index is made up of companies that comply with Sh-aria Law. The sample firms are re-viewed every three months to add or remove companies according to their compliance with the criteria.

M U S C A T B O U R S E

JOINING HANDS: The three ports will develop joint marketing

strategies to enhance trade opportunities. — Supplied picture

ITHRAA TO HOST FORUMSIthraa and World Trade Centre will organise on Tuesday and Wednesday two workshops for Omani exporters and a number of owners of small and medium enterprises under the title of “World Trade Centre Tools Used in Export Markets Analysis” at the College of Waljat Muscat and Dhofar University in Salalah. — ONA

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Gulf Investment Services asked to make open offerTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Gulf Investment Services (GIS) said that it has received a letter from the Securi-ties and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) that Sebi has passed an or-der on March 2, 2016 instructing the company and an another for-eign company to make an open of-fer for purchase of certain number of shares from public shareholders of Parsoli Corporation, according to a stock market filing. Parsoli is a company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

“This order is pursuant to acqui-sition of 5,384,980 shares of Parsoli Corporation by Gulf Investment on July 24, 2006 which, in accordance with takeover regulations applica-ble in India required the company to make an open offer to purchase shares from public shareholders in accordance with the applicable takeover regulations,” the disclo-sure statement added.

This order also directs the com-pany to pay interest at 10 per cent with effect from October 30, 2006 till the date of payment of consid-eration to those shareholders who

tender their shares in the open of-fer. The company has been making disclosures related to this matter which has been pending before Sebi from time to time in its quar-terly and annual reports to share-holders. The company had offered to settle this matter through con-sent with Sebi in December 2011 and has made a full provision in its accounts for this investment as also for the settlement amount offered to Sebi.

Following the receipt of the Sebi order on March 2, 2016, the com-pany has discussed this matter

with its legal advisers in India and has been advised that considering the circumstances surrounding Parsoli Corporation and its pro-moters and the uncertainty sur-rounding its shareholding pattern, which has been a subject matter of investigation by regulatory au-thorities in India since 2009 and litigation thereafter, it is nearly impossible to implement the Se-curities and Exchange Board of India order.

There are several others mitigat-ing factors which provide the com-pany with a strong case to challenge

this order before the Securities Ap-pellate Tribunal in India.

Strong caseThe board of directors of GIS at its meeting held on March 3, 2016 dis-cussed the matter in details. Based upon the legal advisory by the company till date, the board be-lieves that the company has a very strong case in its favour and is con-fident that the company shall be able to successfully defend itself against the Sebi order at appropri-ate judicial levels in India.

However, as a matter of pru-

dence the board decided to take an additional provident of OMR300,000 in its accounts for the year ended December 31, 2015, based upon the company manage-ment’s best estimates possible at this juncture, to cover the cost of implementation of open offer.

The company has been advised that the legal process for the final decision on this matter is expect-ed to take two to three years. The company management does not foresee the need for any further provisioning for this investment till the completion of legal process.

B U Y I N G S H A R E S

Frontier Airlinesto hire Barclays, Deutsche Bank for share offer

WASHINGTON: Frontier Air-lines, the no-frills United States carrier owned by private-equity firm Indigo Partners, hired under-writers for an initial public offer-ing (IPO), people with knowledge of the matter said.

Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are working on the IPO, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. Citi-group also will be working on the IPO, two people said. Frontier be-gan talks with banks in December about going public.

A Frontier IPO in the midst of a slow year for US stock-market debuts would be a victory for In-digo, which acquired the airline in 2013. Led by veteran airline execu-tive William Franke, Indigo is no stranger to overseeing discount carriers: The firm once controlled Spirit Airlines Inc., which went public in 2011, and is the largest shareholder in Wizz Air, Eastern Europe’s biggest low-fare operator.

Representatives for Frontier and Indigo declined to comment, as did representatives for Barclays, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Citigroup. Virgin America’s 2014 offering was the last major IPO in the U.S. industry, which reported record profits last year with a boost from slumping fuel prices and strong travel demand.

That still wasn’t enough to keep investors from driving down the Bloomberg US Airlines Index by 4.6 per cent — it’s off another 1.6 per cent this year through Friday — as large carriers such as American Airlines Group Inc. cut prices to take on ultra-low-cost challengers such as Spirit and Allegiant Travel.

There has been a dearth of Unit-ed States initial public offerings this year as volatility has shaken equity markets.- Bloomberg News

P U B L I C I S S U EArab-India meet to focus on trade, priority sectors

DEEBA HASANdeeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Focus will be on pri-ority sectors set by both the Arab countries and India at the Fifth Arab-Indian Partnership Confer-ence, to be hosted by the Sultanate from May 10 to 11. These sectors are renewable energy, clean tech-nology, food security, tourism, healthcare, innovation, higher education and skills development.

The 2016 version of the confer-ence targets businessmen, indus-trial investment companies, com-panies involved in financing the investment projects, travel and tourism agents.

Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) will host the event in Muscat under the theme ‘Partnership towards innovation and cooperation in IT’.

About 500 Arab and Indian government officials, academi-cians, businessmen and investors are expected to take part in the conference, which is organised in collaboration with the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Arab League Secretariat, the Ministry of External Affairs in India, the General Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Arab Countries (GUCCIAC) and Federation of the Arab Business).

Addressing journalists on Sun-day, Said bin Saleh al Kiyumi, chairman of the OCCI, said that the fifth Arab-Indian Partner-ship Conference has special im-portance in enhancing the level of existing partnership between Arab countries and India in var-ious fields.

Major trade partner“India is a major trade and eco-nomic partner for the Arab coun-tries in general and Oman in par-ticular. The importance of the conference is more due to the cur-rent economic conditions namely the low oil prices and the efforts made by many countries to en-

courage local and foreign invest-ments and diversify sources of na-tional economy,” Al Kiyumi added.

Eng. Redha bin Juma Al Saleh, deputy chairman of OCCI and general supervisor of the confer-ence, said that the conference aims at maximising bilateral trade and investment between India and the Arab countries. “It also aims at enhancing cooperation and providing an ideal platform for Arab countries and profes-sional organisations to share ex-periences about issues of mutual interest,” he added.

The opening ceremony will be held under the auspices of His Highness Sayyid Kamil bin Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, assistant secretary general at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers Affairs. Ministers, senior government of-ficials, businessmen and acade-micians from Arab countries and

India are expected to present.

Website launchedMeanwhile, a website for the con-ference -iapc-oman.com - was also launched on the same day. The website will provide help and support to those who intend to at-tend the conference from outside the Sultanate.

“We will help sort the visas for everyone who wants to attend the conference from abroad free of cost. Besides, there are a lot of in-formation which the participants might want to know, and they can access it all from the website. This also includes accommodation info and other essentials.”

It may be noted that the previ-ous India-Arab partnership con-ference was held under the theme ‘New Horizons in Investment, Trade and Services’ on Novem-ber 26 and 27, 2014 in New Delhi. A number of recommendations

were brought out, which included organising the conference annu-ally in alternation between India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, setting up partner-ships in all domains and fields, utilising the Indian experience in IT and communication, provid-ing solutions for SMEs and entre-preneurs, intensifying trade del-egations visits to both sides, using modern technology in boosting bilateral trade and benefiting from available investment opportuni-ties especially in human resourc-es development field.

The first Arab-India Partner-ship Conference was held in India on April 18 and 19, 2008.

Over 500 Arab and

Indian officials will

take part in the

conference hosted

by Oman Chamber

of Commerce and

Industry in Muscat

from May 10 to 11

India is a major trading and economic partner for the Arab

countries in general and Oman in particular. The importance

of the conference is more due to the current economic

conditions namely the low oil prices and the efforts

made by many countries to encourage local and foreign

investments and diversify sources of national economy

Said bin Saleh al Kiyumi Chairman, Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Frontier Resources to sell Oman assetsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Frontier Resources International has decided to sell its entire stake in Frontier Oman to former chief executive officer Jack Keyes, which is subject to shareholders’ approval.

The company will sell the own-er of the oil exploration assets in Oman – Frontier Oman – and the technical support subsidiary FRII, according to a company statement.

Frontier said it was dispos-ing of the Oman business after failing to find a partner for the project, as it could not gather the funding needed to develop the project before the deadline set by authorities in Oman.

Block 38, located in the Dhofar region of southwest of the Sul-tanate, was awarded to Frontier in October 2012.

The potential farm-out pro-cess of the Oman EPSA has been ongoing for some time, the com-pany retained the services of a Dallas-based adviser to assist and provide general transaction advice and Frontier Oman has had discussions with a number of parties.

“However, the board was un-able to complete any transaction or raise sufficient funding and/or provide a bank guarantee for the Oman EPSA before the Funding Deadline. Frontier Oman noti-fied the Oman Government that

it had not satisfied the Funding Deadline,” added the statement. No default notification has yet been received (which unless rectified would otherwise lead to the termination of the Oman EPSA) notwithstanding that Frontier Oman is in default of the renewal conditions. Frontier Oman’s sole licence interest is the Oman EPSA.

Expenditure“There are significant ongoing administrative costs and obliga-tions that Frontier Oman would still incur, should it continue in operation while seeking possible agreement from the Oman Gov-ernment to an extension of the funding deadline and negotiate and agree definitive terms with the potential farm-out partner, with no assurance that Oman Government approval would ever be forthcoming or that any trans-action could be subsequently completed on acceptable terms,” noted the statement.

As part of the Oman disposal, certain group liabilities have been novated to Frontier Oman such that on completion of the sale of Frontier Oman, the com-pany will no longer have any li-ability in respect of any accrued or ongoing costs associated with Frontier Oman, including any professional or other advisory fees potentially payable on a farm-out.

L A C K O F F U N D I N G

Oil firms in Oman to implement enhanced oil recovery methods

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMItariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Despite low oil prices and the Sultanate being in a year of austerity, oil companies in the country are looking to implement Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods. Although the new tech-nology is relatively more costly, it is ‘fruitful in the long run,’ accord-ing to experts, who addressed the media to announce the forthcom-ing Oil and Gas West Asia (OGWA) Exhibition and Conference.

Oil and gas companies remain optimistic, regardless of low oil prices, that the OGWA Exhibi-tion and Conference will provide a platform for discussion between experts in the oil and gas industry,

both globally and locally, as well as exchange knowledge, expertise and technology to open paths for viable alternatives, such as ad-vanced extraction techniques and technologies, specifically EOR, po-tential opportunities and new in-vestments in which the Sultanate would benefit in the long run.

EOR is an advanced extraction method which uses three primary techniques - chemical injection, thermal injection and gas injec-tion. This method allows 30-60 per cent or more of the oil to be ex-tracted from its original reservoir compared to only 20-40 per cent using the conventional method.

“The price situation will be for-mally present in the conference because that is today and it will

have an impact on the EOR, be-cause the EOR tends to be more expensive than conventional (methods),” said Sultan Al Shidha-ni, petroleum engineering manag-er south, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO).

“Because we are in this situation, most of the organisations are re-ally working hard on how to reduce cost; how to optimise development; how can we do better collaborate through technology development and that will be shared.”

“Why do people travel from long distances and present (research) papers and making expenses while everyone else is looking for cost re-duction? It is because of the value they anticipate to get from this type of gathering,” he added.

Long-term projectsSalim Al Salmi, resevoir charac-terisation manager and chief petro physicist, Occidental reassured that while applying EOR methods is expensive it will benefit the fu-

ture of Oman whether in high or low oil prices.

“Most of these EOR projects are long-term projects and cost is one factor. So trying to cut cost is one area of focus. But giving comfort for investors and other oil operators, EOR could survive low oil prices; this could bring a better future for the Sultanate,” said Al Salmi.

In 2015, the Oman government spent about OMR3.9 billion in in-vestments which is an increase of 9.35 percent on the OMR3.6 bil-

lion in 2014. Al Shidhani said that they have received 431 research papers from 40 countries and 164 companies for the EOR project but only 115 papers from 49 com-panies and 21 countries were se-lected while explaining that the criteria for selection is high in order to assure quality. These pa-pers will be discussed in 20 ses-sions throughout the conference which is organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

OGWA Exhibition and Confer-ence is set to welcome over 300 exhibitors from 16 countries with Italy, Iran and China having the largest pavilions in the history of Omani exhibitions. SME and ICV pavilions, supported by govern-ment initiatives, will also be pre-sent for the first time.

The exhibition will take place between March 21 and 23 at the Oman International Exhibition Center and the conference will be held on March 20 to 23 parallel to the exhibition at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Seeb.

Although the new technology is relatively

more costly, it is ‘fruitful in the long run,’

according to experts, who addressed the

media to announce the forthcoming Oil and

Gas West Asia Exhibition and Conference

ENERGY CONFERENCE: Oil and Gas West Asia Exhibition and Conference is set to welcome over 300 exhibitors from 16 countries with Italy, Iran and China having the largest pavilions in the history of Omani exhibitions. - ISMAIL AL FARSI/Times of Oman

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MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET

SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 6

REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION ....................... 375,915 ............ 72,048..................... 56 ............0.190 ........... 0.195 ...........0.188 ........... 0.192 ............. 0.184 ........... 0.008 ............. 4.348 ................0.195 .............. 0.195...................0.197 ................... 18,247,680 .........0.100

OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ..........................38,039 ...............5,496........................6 ............0.145 ........... 0.145 ...........0.144 ........... 0.144 .............0.140 ........... 0.004 ............. 2.857 ................0.144 ..............0.142...................0.144 ................... 17,985,306 .........0.100

OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .............. 2,561,020 ......522,014...................102 ........... 0.200 ...........0.207 ...........0.200 .......... 0.204 .............0.200 ........... 0.004 .............2.000 ................0.207..............0.207...................0.208 ................. 40,800,000 ........0.100

OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK .................................................................... 118,981 ............ 21,394........................8 ............0.175 ........... 0.194 ...........0.175 ........... 0.180 ............. 0.177 ............ 0.003 ............. 1.695 ................0.188 .............. 0.176...................0.186 ..................256,506,506 .......0.100

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 2,174,603 ...... 135,336......................61 ............0.061 ........... 0.063 ...........0.061 ........... 0.062 ............. 0.061.............0.001 ............. 1.639 ................0.062..............0.062...................0.063................... 17,978,799 .........0.100

OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ........................ 10,629 .................. 776........................2 ........... 0.073 ........... 0.073 ...........0.073 ........... 0.073 .............0.072 ............0.001 ............. 1.389 ................0.073 ..............0.073...................0.077....................2,190,000 ..........0.100

OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 108,000 .............. 7,884......................14 ........... 0.073 ........... 0.073 ...........0.073 ........... 0.073 .............0.072 ............0.001 ............. 1.389 ................0.073 ..............0.072...................0.074................... 12,775,000 .........0.100

OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT ........................................................... 50,000 ............22,500........................ 1 ........... 0.450 ........... 0.450 ...........0.450........... 0.450 .............0.444 ........... 0.006 ..............1.351 .................0.450 ..............0.446...................0.450..................148,892,720 ........0.100

OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 517,099 .......... 139,259..................... 25 ........... 0.269 ........... 0.271 ...........0.267........... 0.269 .............0.267 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.749 ................0.271 ..............0.270...................0.271 ..................360,651,057 ........0.100

OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ................................................................9,513 ...............2,936........................3 ........... 0.308 ........... 0.312 ...........0.308........... 0.308 .............0.306 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.654 ................0.312 ..............0.308...................0.312 ...................15,400,000 .........0.100

OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ..............87,400 ............ 27,040......................19 ........... 0.308 ........... 0.310 ...........0.308........... 0.310 .............0.308 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.649 ................0.310 ..............0.310...................0.312 .................... 6,510,000 ..........0.100

OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 382,713 ............ 59,350......................13 ............0.157 ........... 0.157 ...........0.154 ............0.155 ............. 0.154.............0.001 ............. 0.649 ................0.154 .............. 0.153...................0.154 ................. 223,423,200 .......0.100

OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 1,720,604 .......311,735..................... 92 ............0.182 ........... 0.182 ...........0.180 ............0.181 ............. 0.180 ............0.001 ............. 0.556 ................0.180 .............. 0.179...................0.180 ................... 27,163,575 .........0.100

OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 332,834 ..........155,766........................ 1 ........... 0.468 ........... 0.468 ...........0.468 ........... 0.468 .............0.466 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.429 ................0.468 ..............0.468...................0.480 .................258,739,248 ........0.100

OM0000001509 ............DHOFAR INT.DEV.AND INV. HOLD. ...........................237 .....................90........................ 1 ........... 0.380 ...........0.380 ...........0.380........... 0.380 .............0.380 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.380..............0.342...................0.390 ..................93,632,000.........0.100

OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ......................................63,644 ............ 98,330........................6 ............1.545 ........... 1.545 ...........1.545 ............1.545 ............. 1.545............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.545 .............. 1.545................... 1.655 ..................138,586,500 ........0.100

OM0000001822 ............UNITED POWER ............................................................. 5,000 .............16,450........................5 ........... 3.290 ...........3.290 ...........3.290........... 3.290 .............3.290 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................3.290............. 3.200...................3.400 ...................2,632,000 ..........1.000

OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT .................................... 50,000 ...............3,050........................4 ............0.061 ........... 0.061 ...........0.061 ........... 0.061 ............. 0.061............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.061 ..............0.060...................0.061 ...................12,636,234 .........0.100

OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 111,820 .............31,869......................12 ........... 0.285 ........... 0.285 ...........0.285........... 0.285 .............0.285 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.285 ..............0.285...................0.290 ..................84,420,899.........0.100

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING .............10,000 ............... 1,010........................2 ............0.101 ........... 0.101............0.101 ............0.101 ............. 0.101 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.101 .............. 0.101...................0.105 ....................9,090,000 ..........0.100

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 193,800 ............83,146..................... 28 ........... 0.436 ........... 0.436 ...........0.426........... 0.430 .............0.430 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.428..............0.426...................0.430 .................985,483,717 ........0.100

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 253,665 .........405,792..................... 30 ............1.600 ........... 1.600 ...........1.590 ........... 1.600 ............. 1.600 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.590 .............. 1.580................... 1.595 ................1,200,000,000......0.100

OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ................ 188,100............ 24,265......................11 ............0.130 ........... 0.130 ...........0.128 ........... 0.129 ............. 0.129............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.129 ..............0.129...................0.130 ...................25,800,000.........0.100

OM0000003141 ............ACWA POWER BARKA .............................................. 88,000 ............54,920......................11 ........... 0.624 ........... 0.628 ...........0.624........... 0.624 .............0.624 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.628 ..............0.628...................0.000 ..................99,840,000.........0.100

OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ..................................... 572,900 ......... 103,093..................... 33 ............0.180 ........... 0.181............0.178 ........... 0.180 ............. 0.180 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.178 .............. 0.178...................0.180 ................... 52,317,184 .........0.100

OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 368,000 ......... 256,128......................16 ........... 0.696 ........... 0.696 ...........0.696 ........... 0.696 .............0.696 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.696 ..............0.692...................0.696..................453,057,184 ........0.100

OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER ..........................................................100 .....................21........................ 1 ........... 0.208 ...........0.208 ...........0.208 .......... 0.208 .............0.208 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.208............. 0.000...................0.208 .................148,596,519 ........0.100

OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ...................................................17,058 ............... 7,041........................8 ............0.418 ........... 0.418 ...........0.412 ........... 0.412 ............. 0.412............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.412 ..............0.410...................0.412 ...................21,630,000 .........0.100

OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 483,550 ..........114,596......................41 ........... 0.237 ........... 0.239 ...........0.236........... 0.237 .............0.238 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.420 ...............0.239 ..............0.239...................0.240 ..................23,700,000 .........0.100

OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH .............................................. 320,801 .........785,962......................15 ........... 2.450 ........... 2.450 ...........2.450........... 2.450 .............2.500 ...........-0.050 ........... -2.000 ...............2.450..............2.450...................2.500 .................233,870,128 ........1.000

OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 277,000 ............74,798........................8 ........... 0.274 ........... 0.274 ...........0.270........... 0.270 .............0.276 ...........-0.006 ........... -2.174................0.270............. 0.260...................0.270 ................. 417,076,707 ........0.100

OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ...........................95,000 ............... 8,610........................8 ........... 0.090 ........... 0.093 ...........0.090............0.091 .............0.094 ...........-0.003 ............-3.191 ................0.093 ..............0.092...................0.094 ................... 5,354,733 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 11,586,025......... 3,552,705 ...........643 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......32........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING...................................... 9,065 .................. 623........................3 ............0.071 ........... 0.071 ...........0.068........... 0.069 .............0.066 ........... 0.003 ............. 4.545 ................0.068 ..............0.068...................0.071 .................... 5,189,352 ..........0.100

OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 218,706 .............12,458........................8 ........... 0.056 ........... 0.057 ...........0.056 ........... 0.057 .............0.056 ............0.001 ............. 1.786.................0.057 ..............0.057...................0.058.................... 7,125,000 ..........0.100

OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 457,949 ............31,567......................17 ........... 0.069 ........... 0.069 ...........0.068........... 0.069 .............0.068 ............0.001 ..............1.471 .................0.068 ..............0.067...................0.068..................103,500,000 .......0.100

OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 313,729 ............ 45,072......................16 ............0.143 ........... 0.144 ...........0.143 ........... 0.144 ............. 0.143.............0.001 ............. 0.699 ................0.144 ..............0.144...................0.145 .................. 210,614,610 ........0.100

OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. ................... 40,000 ...............1,280........................3 ........... 0.032 ........... 0.032 ...........0.032........... 0.032 .............0.032 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.032..............0.032...................0.033....................2,720,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001590 ............MUSCAT FINANCE .................................................... 120,000 ............15,600........................6 ............0.130 ........... 0.130 ...........0.130 ........... 0.130 ............. 0.130............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.130 ..............0.129...................0.130 ................... 32,710,401 .........0.100

OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 232,000 ............13,063..................... 20 ........... 0.057 ........... 0.057 ...........0.055 ........... 0.056 .............0.056 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.055 ..............0.056...................0.057...................56,000,000.........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 1,391,449 .......119,662..................... 73 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 7........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ......................................................................................................................................................................OM0000004602 ...........BANK MUSCAT CONV. BONDS 4.5 .......................... 3,500 ..................408........................2 ............0.110 ........... 0.117 ............0.110 ............0.117 ............. 0.117 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.117 .............. 0.110................... 0.117 ...................35,421,646 .........0.100

OM0000004867 ...........BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 ................................................ 280 .....................28........................ 1 ............0.101 ........... 0.101............0.101 ............0.101 ............. 0.101 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.101 .............. 0.101...................0.000 ..................32,283,910 .........0.100

OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 .......................... 284 .....................26........................ 1 ........... 0.090 ...........0.090 ...........0.090........... 0.095 .............0.095 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.090..............0.090...................0.099................... 30,795,353 .........0.100

.............................................SUM: ......................................................................................4,064 .................. 461........................4 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 3........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ISIN ......................................SECURITY NAME .................................................................. VOLUME ..... TURNOVER ............TRADES ......OPEN PRICE ......HIGH ............. LOW ........ CLOSE PR. ...PREV. CLOSE...DIFF (RO).........DIFF % ............. LAST PR .....LAST BID .............LAST OFFER ........MARKET CAP .PAR VALUE

O M A N S T O C K S

INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,421.93 .............. 5,398.52 ................... 5,406.53 ................... 5,404.51 ....................2.02 ...................0.04Financial Index ..................................... 6,681.17 .............. 6,634.50 ................... 6,645.54 ...................6,642.79 .................... 2.75 ...................0.04Industrial Index ................................... 6,630.27 .............. 6,604.87 ................... 6,630.16 ...................6,604.88 ................. 25.28 ................... 0.38Services Index ...................................... 3,084.02 ............... 3,077.70 ....................3,081.77 ...................3,082.45 .................. -0.68 .................. -0.02MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................836.63 ..................835.05 ...................... 836.54 ...................... 835.05 .................... 1.49 ................... 0.18

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded12,981,538.................. 3,672,828 .................... 720 ................ 16,417,587,656 ................ 18 ........................4 ....................20 .........................42

MSM index ends higher

MUSCAT: Shares on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) edged up on better support from insti-tutional investors. The MSM30 Index had minimal gains of 0.04 per cent amid normal trading vol-umes to close at 5,406.53 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed positively at 836.54 points, up 0.18 per cent.

OIFC was the most active in terms of volume while Sembcorp Salalah led in terms of turnover. Sunday’s top gainer was Al Hassan Engineering, up 4.55 per cent while Gulf Investment Services was the top loser, down 3.19 per cent.

As many as 720 trades were executed on Sunday, generating turnover of OMR3.7 million with 12.9 million shares changing hands. Out of 42 traded securi-ties, 18 advanced, four declined and 20 remained unchanged. Omani investors remained net buyers for OMR148,000 while GCC and Arab investors stayed net sellers for OMR129,000 fol-lowed by foreign investors for OMR19,000 worth of shares.

Financial Index ended largely flat at 6,645.54 points, up 0.04 per cent. Ahli Bank, Bank Nizwa, Al Madina Takaful, Al Batinah In-vestment and NBO gained 1.69 per cent, 1.47 per cent, 1.39 per cent, 1.39 per cent and 0.75 per cent, respectively. Gulf Invest-ment Services, BankDhofar and Oman United Insurance declined by 3.19 per cent, 2.17 per cent and 0.42 per cent, respectively.

Industrial Index advanced strongly by 0.38 per cent to close at 6,630.16 points. Al Hassan En-gineering, Al Jazeera Steel, Oman Fisheries, Galfar Engineering and Oman Cement increased by 4.55 per cent, 2.86 per cent, 1.79 per cent, 1.64 per cent and 1.35 per cent, respectively.

Services Index ended at 3,081.77 points, down marginally by 0.02 per cent. Port Services, OIFC, Phoenix Power and Na-

tional Gas increased by 4.35 per cent, 2 per cent, 0.70 per cent and 0.65 per cent, respectively. Semb-corp Salalah, down by 2 per cent, was the only sector loser.

Abu Dhabi stocks riseAbu Dhabi stocks entered a bull market, leading Mideast gauges higher, as rising oil prices added to growing bullish sentiment across global equities.

The ADX General Index climbed 3.1 per cent at the close, extending the longest winning streak this year and taking gains since a January 21 low to 22 per cent. Dubai’s DFM General In-dex, which entered a bull market last month, increased 2.9 per cent and Kuwait’s SE Price Index added 0.7 per cent.

Brent crude rallied a fifth day on Friday, the longest win-ning streak since November, and stocks climbed after United States employers added more jobs than projected and Nigeria’s petroleum minister said Opec members and Russia may meet to discuss capping output later this month. Governments in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Coun-cil rely on income from crude to fund spending, and stock mar-kets often move in tandem with oil prices.

The stock market in Qatar is closed for a national holiday. The QE Index is about 1 per cent from a so-called bull market, having risen 19 per cent since a recent low on Jan. 18. The nation’s cred-it rating was affirmed on Friday by Standard & Poor’s, which said it expects Qatar to maintain its large net- asset position and in-frastructure investment to sup-port growth through 2019.

Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index climbed 2.6 per-cent to the highest level in two months, even after a senior cen-tral bank official said on Thurs-day. – United Securities/Bloomberg News

Top gainer was Al Hassan Engineering, up by

4.55 per cent, while Gulf Investment Services

was the top loser, down by 3.19 per cent

Banks in Gulf face difficult time over falling oil pricesDUBAI/DOHA: Low oil prices are forcing Gulf states to borrow to prop up their economies and are now taking their toll on the region’s banks too, complicating their efforts to raise capital re-quired by regulators.

The impact of crude’s fall from more than $100 to below $30 a barrel in less than 18 months has already been felt by oil and gas rev-enue dependent Middle Eastern countries which have had to bor-row to prop up their economies.

And international investors have been avoiding the Gulf re-gion’s debt in recent months as a result, concerned about slower economic growth and substantial budget deficits.

This has had a knock-on effect on banks in the region, with the ensuing slump in stock prices and bond market volatility making it impossible for them to raise new capital so far this year, a situation which is unlikely to ease in the near future as they will have to

compete with governments need-ing to borrow billions of dollars to pay their bills.

A dozen of the region’s banks have announced capital raising plans as they try to meet local regulatory requirements, which in some cases are above the lev-els set by the Basel III banking accord, and top up reserves after years of lending growth.

These plans are now on ice and Gulf banks have to decide wheth-er to attempt to borrow at a higher cost or hold out and risk falling short of more stringent regulato-ry requirements, which come into force over the next three years.

Capital buffersAnother potential complication is that the flight of international buyers means banks will have to turn to local investors to buy their debt or equity.

The problem here is that banks themselves are the largest region-al debt investors.

Gulf banks reinforced their capital buffers in the wake of the global financial crisis so are not in any imminent danger, according to bankers and analysts.

However, they don’t have the same funds to deploy as before as Gulf governments have with-drawn some of their deposits to bridge budget shortfalls, which as in Europe during the eurozone crisis, has exposed the inter-linked relationship between gov-ernments and banks when bond markets fall.

The trend is perhaps most prevalent in Qatar, where half its commercial lenders have an-nounced capital plans, including the largest conventional and Is-lamic banks, respectively Qatar National Bank and Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB).

QIB’s total capital adequacy ra-tio — a key indicator of its health — stood at 14.1 per cent at the end of December, above Qatar’s minimum requirement of 12.5 per cent. - Reuters

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W W W.T I M E S O F O M A N . C O MSECTION

E- IMESTECH STUFF

BUBER UNVEILS NEW SERVICE FOR INDIAUber Technologies announced a pilot motorcycle and scooter service for India as the ride-sharing application adds to its efforts to capture customers in the world’s second-most populous nation. UberMOTO’s on-demand service will debut in the technology hub of Bengaluru offering rides starting from Rs15 (22 US cents), it said in a statement. — Bloomberg News

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SLOW DOWNENJOY THE RIDE

T E C H U P D A T E S

HP Enterprise results reassure investors on tech spendingMeg Whitman presented an inaugural earnings re-port that reassured investors about demand for corporate technology and provided early validation for her move to split up Hewlett-Packard. The shares rallied. Whitman, chief executive officer of the newly formed Hewlett Pack-ard Enterprise, forecast profit in the current quarter that may exceed some analysts’ estimates. The company on Thursday also reported earn-ings that topped projections in its first full quarter of results as a standalone entity. The division in November of one of Silicon Val-ley’s most storied pioneers left HP Enterprise as the larger of the two new companies based on market valuation. Now, Whitman will need to prove she can build on any momentum with stronger profits and growth even as she competes with Dell, which is set to acquire EMC in the biggest tech deal of its kind. “We’re start-ing to see now the real benefits of focus,” Whitman said in an in-terview. “What the split has allowed us to do is to accelerate the turnaround of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and focus on a smaller number of things.” The upbeat report added to a handful of others recently that suggest investors’ initial concerns about the slow-ing global economy and its effect on technology demand may be fading. In January, Intel, said 2016 is off to a “soft” start as tepid economic growth, particularly in China, is hurting demand for personal computers and the servers that have fueled expansion. But Cisco Systems, whose equipment is the backbone of the Inter-net, last month predicted sales that might beat some analysts’ es-timates and Broadcom Ltd., one of the world’s top-10 chipmakers, said Thursday it’s seeing “pretty broad-based strength” in demand for phone-networking components. — Bloomberg News

IBM now initiates workforce ‘rebalancing’ in United States

Dell appoints new executives ahead of $67b merger with EMC

IBM has started to cut some jobs in the US, part of what it says is a strategy to shift the workforce more toward cloud computing and artificial intel-ligence operations. The com-pany currently has more than 25,000 open positions, and the “workforce rebalancing” is part of a continued push to add staff with cloud- and cog-nitive-related skills, IBM said, declining to disclose specific numbers for the cuts. International Business Machines (IBM) reduced its workforce by less than one per cent overall in 2015, ending the year with 377,757 employees. Technology service providers in recent years have sought to stay competitive through expense cuts achieved by moving many jobs to lower-cost countries, a process known as offshoring. IBM in-creased its mix of offshore workers by six percentage points over the past two years, according to a presentation from its investor day last week. “IBM is aggressively transforming its business to lead in a new era of cognitive and cloud computing,” the company said Wednesday in a statement. “This includes remixing skills to meet client requirements.” Since 2006, Armonk, New York-based IBM has cut 90,000 to 100,000 workers, according to es-timates from Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bern-stein & Co. IEEE Spectrum, a science and engineering industry publication, earlier reported on its website that IBM could be laying off a third of its US workforce, citing affected employees. IBM said that report is untrue. — Bloomberg News

Dell named new executives to its marketing, products and supply chain leadership ahead of a planned $67 billion merger with EMC, a person familiar with the appoint-ments said. The changes were revealed in a memo to employees, said the person, who asked not to be identi-fied because the appointments haven’t been announced yet. While the positions cover new areas for the combined company, the new roles aren’t major shifts for many of the executives. The deal be-tween Dell and EMC, the biggest technology merger in history, is scheduled to close later this year. — Bloomberg News

Reason nobody needs to wear the wearables

VIRGINIA POSTREL

Technology watchers have been proclaiming wearables the next big thing since at least the 2013 debut of Google

Glass. The rapid sales growth of fit-ness bands and smartwatches has intensified that conviction. But to fulfill its potential, wearable tech-nology has to be good for more than tracking workouts or getting notifi-cations on a wristwatch.

An app up your sleeveDefined loosely as tiny comput-ers worn somewhere on the body, wearable tech still needs its graphi-cal user interface, its browser, its broadband, its VisiCalc, its Google, its Amazon: the enabling technolo-gies and unique benefits that make it essential and easy to use. Early adopters of Apple’s headline-grab-bing smartwatch are, after all, using it mostly for telling time and getting notifications — not exactly world-changing applications.

“Where we are with wearables is about where we were with the Inter-net in 1993,” says Amanda Parkes, the chief of technology and research at Manufacture New York and a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

Think of wearable development as a series of generations. Today’s first generation, exemplified by fit-ness trackers but including smart-watches as they’re actually used, are worn as accessories or patches. They do just a few things and tend to aim at niche markets, from ath-letes to anxious parents. As Fitbit’s plummeting stock price reflects, basic fitness trackers are now easily knocked-off commodities, but first-generation wearables include less fully exploited markets. Instead of constantly checking on your sleep-ing newborn, for instance, you can now let an Owlet smart sock moni-tor the baby’s heartbeat and breath-ing. The TempTraq thermometer

patch continuously records body temperature, allowing parents to use smart phones to check on fever-ish kids. (Although TempTraq mar-kets the 24-hour patch to parents, it also works for adults.)

Second-generation wearables would integrate sensors and pro-cessing into garments, making the technology less obtrusive and more versatile. Clothes could both collect and react to new kinds of data.

At the moment, however, wear-able chips and circuits, as amaz-ing as they are, are still too large, delicate and hard to assemble for manufacturing second-generation ideas at scale, especially when you add in consumers’ expectations that clothes will be durable, washable and fairly cheap. “Fashion factories and technology factories are vastly different enterprises,” notes Liza Kindred, founder of the New York fashion and technology consulting firm Third Wave Fashion. Neither knows how to make smart clothes.

So we’re still in the superhero phase of second-generation tech-nology. If you’re a Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne with lots of money — or an artist or fashion designer planning a one-time show — you can get a bespoke outfit to do something remarkable, such as protecting per-sonal space with an exoskeleton that responds to encroachments. But a prototype, however impres-sive, isn’t a commercial product.

“It’s doing damage to the whole industry that so many companies are putting out prototypes and call-ing them products,” says Kindred, citing Google’s Project Jacquard as an example.

Or take the smart sports bra. The design house Chromat showed one at New York Fashion Week last September. It used Intel’s weara-bles-oriented Curie chip to sense and adjust to body temperature and sweat, opening and closing vents to cool or warm the wearer. The smart bra drew plenty of attention, but you couldn’t actually buy one — a mes-sage that got lost in the hype.

Basic ingredientsWearables have Moore’s Law on their side, since chips get smaller and cheaper with each new gen-eration, but developing second-generation versions still requires other basic ingredients, such as easily installed connectors and better battery solutions. Smart-watches have helped spur devel-opment, but component quality is still a problem. “If you’re not deep inside the world” of wearable de-velopment, says Parkes, “you don’t understand why it’s necessary.”

Even promising ideas for second-generation wearables face a chick-en-and-egg problem that makes it hard to go beyond proof of concept.

Consider the leggings that re-searchers at King’s College London recently developed to measure mus-cle fatigue in runners. With sensors embroidered at fixed points, the leg-gings don’t require a runner to know anything about the equipment. By collecting data in real-world condi-tions rather than in a lab, smart leg-gings could improve training and re-duce injuries. But, again, they’re still a research prototype, tested on only two people. Runners come in many different proportions. Just because

athletes wear the same size doesn’t mean the sensors will hit them in the same place. Assuming these smart garments could be manufac-tured at scale, would they actually work in the field? How would they hold up? Would people want them? If you don’t know, how can you jus-tify investing in a new manufactur-ing process to make them?

There’s the rub: Second-generation wearables need trial- and-error test-ing to find out if they’ll work in eve-ryday life. That means large numbers of consumers using them under real-world conditions. And that in turn requires manufacturing an entirely new product at scale — a costly invest-ment, which itself demands learning over time. Why do it if you aren’t sure the new idea will catch on? The chick-en-and-egg problem explains why prototypes that grab attention don’t show up in stores.

Like the leggings, and unlike to-day’s fitness trackers, advanced wearables offer the possibility of collecting entirely new kinds of information, telling us things we didn’t already know. Their great potential, says Parkes, is “prolonged and continuous data collection and mapping. What you’re trying to do is sense change.” Normal tempera-tures vary from person to person, but by how much? How do they fluc-tuate by time of day? By surround-ing environment? By subjective im-pression? (Is it just me, or is it hot in here?) How does temperature affect sleep? Can you predict the onset of an illness by a subtle spike? Once we have the ability to collect such data, the challenge is to figure out what it means. - Bloomberg News

Defined loosely

as tiny computers

worn somewhere on

the body, wearable

technology still needs

its graphical user

interface, its browser,

its broadband,

its VisiCalc, its

Google, its Amazon:

the enabling

technologies and

unique benefits that

make it essential and

easy to use.

B6 M O N DAY, M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 6

ROUND-UPAll-new Toyota Camry available with benefits

MUSCAT: The athletic and luxu-rious 2016 Camry is packed with a host of exciting features giving its owners a lot to cheer about.

Camry fans can now be delight-ed by the news that from now until April 30, the 2016YM and 2015YM Camry models of 2015 production are available with Summer Sur-prises benefits that include a cash gift of OMR800. These benefits are applicable for all purchases except those made by government organi-sations and ministries. Conditions apply. Please visit nearest Toyota showroom for exact details, says a press release.

Its aggressive front grille and bumper makes it stand apart from the crowd. Its new headlamps and elegant daytime running lights ex-ude style like never before. The rear is equally impressive, with new combination lamps and bumper giving it a more sporty appearance. The stylish new design 17” alloy wheels on the new Camry further

accentuate the distinctive looks. “Indeed, those who love the

Camry will definitely feel ex-hilarated by the offer that makes their favourite Toyota even more rewarding to own,” an enthusiast remarked.

The new Camry looks good and feels even better. Its elegant in-terior isadorned with new black wood grain finish. The newly de-signed steering wheel is equipped with audio and Bluetooth controls. There is a sophisticated new auto light control system and now even the base grade comes equipped with cruise control.

Depending on the model grade, the Camry offers a new 7” SD card type navigation system.The premium materials build into an overall richer, roomier feel. The high-quality upholstery is me-ticulously crafted, enhancing the Camry’s upmarket appeal. The centre stack shows off a hi-tech, upscale look that more smoothly integrates with the console. The centre console plays a larger role than ever in modern cars, accom-

modating all manner of personal items as well as presenting multi-media functions. The Camry’s console tray offers more storage and a convenient power source in the storage box.

The new Camry has a rigid body structure, enhanced aerodynam-ics and offers the quietest ride ever. The upscale interior, and ad-vanced instrumentation with in-tuitive controls help keep the driv-er safely focused on the road. This may be the best-handling and most comfortable-riding Camry ever. Beneath the bolder body lines the Camry’s body structure has been bolstered with additional spot welds to enhance rigidity. Refined suspension systems in all models put an edge on handling agility while taking the edge off bumps.

In the areas of performance and safety, the Camry delivers out-standing power coupled with su-perb efficiency. The key attributes include a 2.5L Dual VVT-i Engine delivering 181HP and 6-speed multi-mode transmission. Safety enhancements in the Camry in-

clude vehicle stability control, traction control, ABS, EBD, en-gine immobiliser, braking assist system, back view monitor with rear parking sensors, which fa-cilitates easy parking and airbags that include the front side and curtain airbags.

The other thoughtful features include an ECO meter for fuel effi-cient, economic driving and aero-dynamic fins to ensure straight-line stability while driving.

According to a renowned auto-motive blogger, the appeal of the Camry is in its quality, “The Camry builds on the rational values of ‘Quality, Durability and Reliabil-ity’ with strong model appeal, su-perior interior and exterior quality and the top level of equipment and safety.” Those who have experi-enced the Camry may not be sur-prised to know that it is one of the top-selling cars across the globe for more than a decade.

The new 2016 Camry is on dis-play at Toyota showroom. Cus-tomers are welcome to visit the showrooms to get a first-hand feel.

Until April 30, the

2016YM and 2015YM

Camry models of

2015 production

are available with

Summer Surprises

benefits that include a

cash gift of OMR800

Masaco Trading gets

coveted certificationMUSCAT: Masaco Trading Est. is one of the leading trading com-panies in Al Mawelah region of Oman since the year 1974.

Masaco Trading was recently awarded the prestigious ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Certification by Bureau Veritas, says a press release.

The ISO 9001:2008 certificate was received by Sabeel Mubarik Khamis Al Balushi, Mohammed Ali Murad Al Balushi and Gee Varghese John, Masaco direc-tors, from John Rosario, certifi-cation manager, Bureau Veritas, Oman at a glittering ceremony held at Golden Tulip, Muscat. The ISO 9001 certification pro-cess was audited by Bureau Veri-tas, Oman in two stages (Prelim-inary and Main Assessment) and is accredited by UKAS.

The directors of Masaco con-gratulated the entire team for this accomplishment and reit-erated the company’s mission: ‘To source, supply the best qual-ity products and maintain the leadership in fresh fruit, veg-etables and egg trade within the Sultanate of Oman’.

The main business activity of the company include: fruits and vegetables – importers and whole-salers, stores and eggs supply. The organisation has major clients in catering companies, labour camps, hypermarkets, supermar-kets, and wholesale companies.

Masaco’s accomplishment of this international milestone is a re-sult of trained and competent staff, best quality and fresh produce sourcing, stricter inspection and monitoring at receiving and dis-patch, good storage facility, house-keeping and temperature controls, excellent supply chain supported by easily retrievable process con-trol documents and records.

The Masaco directors thanked all their patrons and well-wish-ers for their continual support and reiterated that the organisa-tion remains focused on under-standing and meeting customer expectations, delivering custom-er satisfaction and strive for con-tinual improvement. They said the implementation of quality management system within the organisation shall benefit their end customers.

Q U A L I T Y M A N A G E M E N T S Y S T E M

Bahwan Furnishings receives ISO 9001-2008 certificationMUSCAT: Bahwan Furnishings and Trading Company (BFT), one of the largest commercial furni-ture fit-out solutions providers in the Sultanate of Oman under Su-hail Bahwan Group, has reached another milestone in its history.

BFT has recently been awarded the coveted ISO 9001-2008 certifi-cation, says a press release.

The ISO certification was awarded by Bureau Veritas, a glob-al leader in certification services after inspecting and testing BFT’s robust quality management sys-

tem and operations from design to delivery on various parameters and specifications.

“The ISO certification is the most credible way to demonstrate excellence and continuous im-provement in our quality manage-ment system.

“This recognition will build a tangible competitive advantage and assures that our customers will continue to receive the very best in quality and service from BFT. I congratulate the entire BFT team for achieving this ac-

complishment,” said Amal Su-hail Bahwan, managing direc-tor and board member of Suhail Bahwan Group.

Equipped with some of the world’s best and sophisticated ma-chinery at its 250,000 sq. ft work-shop and warehousing facility in Rusayl Industrial Estate, BFT spe-cialises in large-scale commercial turnkey projects – right from con-ceptualisation to commissioning of interiors for retail showrooms, offices, shops, residential build-ings, academic institutions, fac-

tories and warehouses. BFT also designs, manufactures and supply bespoke customised furniture as per customer demands and have a large list of loyal customers.

The ISO 9001-2008 quality management standard was devel-oped and published by the Inter-national organisation for stand-ardisation (ISO) and establishes an effective quality management programme for manufacturing companies, which has their in-house designing to manufacturing capabilities.

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ABIS students explore OmanSOHAR: Every year Al Batinah In-ternational School (ABIS), Sohar, sends its students to explore the rich cultural, natural, and historical opportunities Oman provides.

The goal is to celebrate and learn about the country, and open stu-dents’ eyes to its magnificence. This year’s trips were the best ones yet, with trips ranging from diving and sailing in the ocean, visiting forts and villages, to climbing up Oman’s highest peak, says a press release.

The trips are carefully organised to support unique and sometimes challenging student learning ex-periences. For younger students, they celebrated Omani culture first at the school by practising Omani art forms such as henna and basket weaving, and sampling Omani food. There were Arabic stories shared, and elaborate Om-ani costumes to try on. Then they took trips out into the countryside to explore wadis and mountains, and into the towns to explore forts and museums.

For older students, they ven-tured further afield. Destinations included the Buraimi sand dunes, Daymaniyat Islands, Muscat, Je-bel Akhdar and Jebel Shams, and camping and outdoor skills form a key part of the experience. For ex-ample, Grade VII students went on a five-day camel safari, which trav-elled on ancient routes, and stu-dents learned about Bedouin cul-ture as they camped. Other grades explored marine diversity and learned the skills of diving or sail-ing. A unique addition to the trips was the journey to Jebel Shams, where Grade IX students learned how to rock climb, abseil, and took guided hikes, learning about the geology, as well as learning about

the stars in the evening. Trips also included service ac-

tivities, such as cleaning up wadis. Students developed an appreci-

ation for Oman, as one comment-ed, “Since we are an international school and a lot of us are from outside of Oman it’s important to learn about this country that we live in.” Another student said, “This was an opportunity to ex-plore the wonderful country that we are living in. It also encourages us to take chances and overcome challenges. It can also bring the class closer together, because we

learn new things about each other.”ABIS benefited from the assis-

tance of many individuals and or-ganisations during these trips, and acknowledged the Omanis who helped make this trip a success. ABIS thanked Muscat Diving and Adventure Centre, Oman Sail and The Millennium Resort, Musan-nah for providing the necessary assistance required. The school also specially thanked the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Sohar, which hosted students for a refreshing swim at the end of a tough but rewarding camel trek.

L E A R N I N G E X P E R I E N C E

‘Clean Dunes’ drive a successMUSCAT: Rolling up its sleeves to participate in a truly thought-ful initiative, the staff of Dunes by Al Nahda, recently under-took a cleaning expedition on its premises.

Doing their bit to give back to the environment, the small groups of staff performed a thor-ough clean-up of the venue along with the adjoining dunes, says a press release.

“A cleaning activity carried out in a desert terrain, in the middle of undulating dunes, is quite a challenge,” said Riri, an employee of the Dunes by Al Nahda resort. “But our team dedicatedly went around and rid the place of all signs of polythene bags, pieces of paper and even food leftovers.”

The programme lasted for a good 3 hours with staff volunteers getting into action by mid after-noon. The troop together covered a vast expanse of area, in and

around the resort. An otherwise busy time for the resort with am-ple number of guests flocking to make the most of the weather, the volunteers nevertheless decided to take the time out to pick up the trash left behind by visitors.

“Dunes by Al Nahda definitely draws inspiration from its unique location. Coupled with our luxuri-ous amenities, we create a surreal experience that can’t be forgotten. But while we attribute a signifi-cant amount of success to the sce-nic beauties and natural settings that the enigmatic sands provide us, we should not forget our re-sponsibilities towards it,” said Arup Singh Deo, manager, Dunes By Al Nahdha Resort.

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Meethaq enhances value proposition of savings account

MUSCAT: Meethaq, the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman from Bank Muscat, has enhanced the value proposition of its innova-tive Sharia based savings account with attractive new features.

Committed to maintaining the leadership in Islamic banking, the savings account with enhanced

features is aimed at further en-couraging the savings culture in Oman by providing attractive benefits to customers.

Notably, the Meethaq savings account based on Mudaraba prin-ciple provides annual profit rate up to 1.25 per cent, along with free life Takaful. With monthly profit payment and smart cash manage-ment, Meethaq savings account offers profit for every single rial of deposit. The benefits also include Visa ATM debit card for Point of Sale (PoS) transactions and cash withdrawal through ATM ma-chines around the world. There is no minimum balance fee on Meethaq savings account.

Sulaiman Al Harthy, deputy chief executive officer - Islamic Banking, said: “At a time when expectations on financial rewards and incentives are low due to prevailing economic situation, Meethaq is proud to further el-evate the unique Islamic banking experience. Meethaq is proud to enhance the features of the sav-ings account, aimed at rewarding customers with attractive ben-efits. The Meethaq strategy is to

maintain the leadership in Islam-ic banking through innovative Sh-aria based products and services.”

The Sharia based Meethaq sav-ings account is designed on the principles of ‘Mudaraba’ where the bank generates Sharia based in-come with a pre-determined prof-it-sharing ratio for the customer by investing the money in Sharia based instruments. The savings ac-count is available for both individu-als as well as corporates.

Meethaq savings account hold-er provides funds as ‘Rabb-ul-maal’ and Meethaq invests these funds as ‘Mudarib’ i.e. the fund manager ‘Entrepreneur’. Based on this relationship, the deposi-tors and Meethaq become benefi-ciaries of the profit earned. When the joint investment pool earns profit, it is distributed at the pre-agreed ratio between the deposi-tors and Meethaq.

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MUSCAT: Ooredoo has an-nounced a great deal for new Shahry Business pack mobile customers. In addition to the val-ue already included in the packs, businesses of all sizes signing up for, or migrating to, Shahry will receive free bonus data and com-plimentary free numbers.

The promotion is part of Ooredoo’s ongoing commitment to boost enterprise in the Sul-tanate, says a press release.

For the next three months, all business customers opting for the Shahry Business packs will be

able to choose either a one or two year option.

Those signing up for a two-year contract will receive 3GB of free data for six months and a free golden special number as a welcome gift. Customers opting for a one-year plan will get 3GB of free data for two months and receive a complimentary silver special number.

“We pride ourselves in being the partner of choice for Oman’s business community, providing innovative services and smart solutions to help companies real-

ise their goals and ambitions. We are also particularly keen to sup-port SMEs and budding entre-preneurs, helping them achieve their dreams, and this introduc-tory offer is designed to do just that,” remarked Said Al Shanfari, director of Business Marketing at Ooredoo.

“While the free data will help them be more productive on the move and, of course, keep costs down, the free special number will make their brand stand out from the crowd and give a com-petitive edge.”

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Audi quattro Cup witnesses exciting culmination of actionMUSCAT: The Oman edition of the Audi quattro Cup witnessed an exciting culmination of action with partners Taketsugu Kimura (course handicap 24) and Saeko Kimura (course Handicap 28) clinching the first place (team handicap 26 with 43 stableford points).

The Audi quattro Cup is the world’s premier series for amateur golfers. The 2016 round is the fifth tournament organised by Wat-tayah Motors, says a press release.

The second place in the tourna-ment was secured by John Guck-ian (course handicap 21) and Rob-ert Thompson (course handicap 8), with a team handicap of 13 with 42 stableford points.

The third place went to Pat O’Conor (course handicap 26) and Peter McNally (course handicap 23), with a team handicap of 24 with 40 stableford points.

While announcing the winners, Faisal Nawaz, marketing manager for Audi Oman, congratulated the triumphant duo on their outstand-ing achievement and thanked all the other participants in the tournament.

“On behalf of Wattayah Motors, it is my pleasure to congratulate the winning team for proving themselves as champion amateur golfers. The goal of the Audi quat-tro Cup is to help raise the profile of golf in Oman and to recognise the finest golfers in the Sultanate; and today, we have done just that. We are grateful to Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club for help-ing us organise the tournament. We wish Taketsugu Kimura and Saeko Kimura the best of luck for the World Final in Barcelona later this year,” said Faisal.

The fifth edition of the event in

Oman is part of the Audi quattro Cup series. As the Sultanate pio-neers a rapid investment in golfing facilities and in nurturing player talent, the Audi quattro Cup offers the ideal platform for golfers to demonstrate their skills and com-petitive spirit. Audi’s involvement in sporting events aims to support people in the pursuit of personal excellence and precision.

The Audi quattro Cup is the largest amateur tournament se-ries in the world and grows in popularity every year. Since 1991, more and more Audi importers and dealers from around the world have been inviting their custom-ers to experience golf passion during an exciting tournament day. An expected number of over 100,000 golfers will be compet-ing in teams of two across more than 800 tournaments in the Audi quattro Cup in 2016. This series is special as every team winning its regional tournament will be in-vited to the national final and thus has the opportunity to qualify for the World Final.

Audi represents sports competi-tion, precise technology and pas-

sion. With the Audi quattro Cup, Audi connects enthusiasm for golf with the fascination with Audi cars. For more than two decades, Audi has actively promoted golf. Since then, this team tournament has been writing its success story.

Fifty four countries are already hosting the Audi quattro Cup, which was founded in Germany in 1991. At the time, the German Audi dealers organised 51 tourna-ments with more than 6,000 par-ticipating golfers. In 1992, eight countries participated in this tournament series. Today, the threshold of 100,000 participants per year has been reached. All in all, more than 1,000,000 golf-ers have participated in an Audi quattro Cup tournament in the last 25 years.

The Audi quattro Cup World Fi-nal, hosted on a different famous golf course around the world every year, is the absolute highlight of the tournament year.

This year the final will be held in Barcelona from October 6 – 10 at Real Club de Golf El Prat, the well-known nine times host of the Spanish Open golf tournament.

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Warner, Maxwell set record in Australia winJOHANNESBURG: A record stand from David Warner and Glenn Maxwell helped Australia secure a last-ball, five-wicket vic-tory over South Africa in the sec-ond Twenty20 International at The Wanderers on Sunday.

South Africa posted 204 for seven on a flat batting wicket and were on top when they reduced the tourists to 32 for three in their re-ply. Yet Warner (77 from 40 balls)

and Maxwell (75 from 43) staged a remarkable fightback with a Twenty20 Australian record part-nership for any wicket of 161 to take their side close to victory.

Needing two from the final de-livery of the innings from seamer Kagiso Rabada, Australia’s Mitch-ell Marsh bludgeoned the ball down the ground and was able to scramble the runs his side needed to level the three-game series at 1-1.

Warner and Maxwell’s stand fell just short of the world record of 171 set by New Zealand’s Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill against Pakistan in January.

The pair were particularly se-vere on leg-spinner Imran Tahir and seamer David Wiese, who went for 105 in their combined eight overs. The only consolation for South Africa was the success-ful return of fast bowler Dale Steyn

(two for 32 from four overs). The home side’s innings was anchored by Faf du Plessis, who smashed 79 from 41 balls, with fine cameos from Quinton de Kock (44) and David Miller (33).

James Faulkner proved the pick of the Australian bowlers with 3-28 from his four overs.

The final match of the three-game series will be played in Cape Town on Wednesday. - Reuters

M O T O R S P O R T

Oman and Afghanistan warm-up tie rained offMUSCAT: Oman were de-prived of a valuable match prac-tice ahead of their ICC World T20 participation when their warm-up match against Af-ghanistan was rained off in Mo-hali, India on Sunday.

According to information re-ceived here, the match at the IS Bindra Stadium was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Oman were looking forward for the Afghanistan challenge, especially after their thrilling 14-run win over Scotland on Friday.

The Sultanate squad will now head to Dharamsala to begin their ICC World T20 campaign.

Oman are scheduled to play their first Group A match against Ireland on Wednesday.

They face the Netherlands on March 11 and Bangladesh on March 13. The group top-pers will make it to the Super 10 stage of the ICC World T20.

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MUSCAT: Omani racing champion Ahmad Al Harthy started the count-down to his eagerly awaited 2016 motor racing season on Sunday by announcing a brand new commer-cial partnership with the Sultanate’s most valuable brand - Omantel.

Ahead of his ‘official’ season launch a week from now, where the 34-year-old will outline his full motorsport programme during a specially arranged press confer-ence in the Sultanate’s capital, he is delighted to welcome Omantel as a key supporter to the Oman Racing Team.

Sunday’s announcement is es-pecially important as it reveals the first of two brand new personal partners for the Aston Martin Middle East and North Africa Am-bassador this year.

“It is such an honour to be part-nering with Omantel. I am abso-lutely delighted to welcome them to the Oman Racing Team,” said Ahmad. “We have been working incredibly hard behind the scenes, as we always do, during the off-season to establish the best possi-ble package for our 2016 campaign.

“The support of Omantel is a fantastic development for me per-sonally, it’s the Sultanate’s most valuable brand and the leading na-tional telecommunications com-pany who played a key part of the growth of our country for almost five decades now. I am very happy indeed to be associated with such a prestigious Company.”

Omantel has been a key player in the Sultanate’s economic devel-opment in the past four decades, offering full spectrum of telecom products and services to personal and business customers and Gov-ernment organisations.

Moreover, Omantel is consid-ered among the top three regional wholesale operators which con-tributed to making Oman one of the most connected nations in the MENA region.

Placing full focus on providing the ultimate in quality and profes-sionalism, the Company strives to fulfil the communications needs of the widest population in Oman.

Through this partnership, Om-antel is extending its brand reach internationally further than ever before by partnering with Ahmad’s motor racing programme.

Hamdan Moosa Al Harasi, Act-

ing Vice-President Corporate Strategy at Omantel, commented: “We are pleased to welcome back our national champion Ahmad Al Harthy to Omantel family.

“Omantel and Ahmad have both passion for leading performance, excellence, and we believe that this new partnership will bear fruits for both parties.”

“This sponsorship is an exten-sion to Omantel efforts to support Omani talents in various fields and affirms the company’s leadership in supporting youth and sports in the Sultanate,” Hamdan Moosa Al Harasi added.

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ICC Anti-Corruption

chief hopes for

clean World T20

MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has put in place checks and balances to eliminate corruption during the upcoming World T20 Champion-ship starting in two days’ time in the country, said the world gov-erning body’s Anti-Corruption Unit’s chairman, Sir Ronnie Fla-nagan, on Sunday.

Saying that like in the past ma-jor ICC events, a 24-hour tourna-ment-specific hotline has been set up to report on “corrupt ap-proaches” by the players and oth-ers, Sir Flanagan also cautioned that due to human nature it may not be entirely possible to root out the menace.

“There are 58 games, for men and women in the World T20 Championships which, we hope, will be an unforgettable experi-ence. My priority is that at the end of the tournament we will be talking about cricket and the unforgettable experience and not, I hope, about corruption,” said the ICC official at a media conference here. “Our activity is designed to prevent corruption, to disrupt activities of those who try to corrupt the game.

“We engage in education pro-gramme for players, support staff, match officials... and tell them they must report any suspi-cious approach made to them and that if they fail to report such ap-proaches to them they commit an offence within the parameters of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption code.

“We give them a little booklet to fit into their wallet which also has hotline numbers to contact

us at any time. We have a tour-nament-specific 24-hour hotline and another hotline to our office in Dubai.

Last year there were 450 re-ports and we take them all serious-ly. They range across all spectrum but we need concrete intelligence to act upon and not gossips.

“Human nature is such that it may not be possible to totally eliminate these corrupters. What we seek to do is to make cricket a very difficult environment to cor-rupt,” said Sir Flanagan. - PTI

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Back injury rules Simmons out of World Cup

KINGSTON: West Indies have dropped batsman Lendl Sim-mons from their Twenty20 World Cup squad owing to a back injury, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said on Saturday.

“The 31-year-old right-hand-ed top-order batsman will re-main in Trinidad to continue his rehabilitation,” the WICB said.

“A replacement player will be named in the coming days.”

Simmons, who has played 34 T20Is with a top score of 77, joins all-rounder Kieron Pollard on the sidelines after a knee injury forced him to decline signing a player contract for the tourna-ment in India. The Caribbean team, currently in Dubai, are due to arrive in Kolkata on March 7 ahead of the global event.

Squad: Darren Sammy (captain), Samuel Badree, Sulieman Benn, Car-los Brathwaite, Dwayne Bravo, John-son Charles, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Ashley Nurse, Denesh Ramdin, Andre Russell, Mar-lon Samuels, Jerome Taylor. - Reuters

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Messi bags brace in 4-0 Barca winMADRID: A double from Lionel Messi helped Barcelona secure a 4-0 victory at Eibar in La Liga on Sunday that moved them 11 points clear at the top and brought up 100 goals for their lethal strikeforce.

Munir El Haddadi, who was standing in for the suspended Neymar, tapped in the first early on, before Messi’s double, while Luis Suarez completed the rout.

Barcelona’s lethal attacking trio of Messi (35 goals), Suarez (42) and Neymar (23) have now scored a century of goals in all competi-tions this season.

Messi’s first was a fine solo goal, while his second came from the penalty spot as Barcelona stretched their advantage over sec-ond-place Atletico Madrid, who play at Valencia later on Sunday.

Barcelona extended their Span-ish record unbeaten run to 36 matches, which has included 30 wins. They have not lost since Oc-tober 3. They went in front in the eighth minute when Messi lifted a perfect pass forward to Suarez, who crossed from the right to the far post for Munir to tap in.

Messi added the second three minutes before halftime after running from the centre circle and ignoring the strikers either side of him who stretched the de-fence wide.

The Argentina captain made it 3-0 when he dinked a 76th minute penalty, awarded for handball by

Ivan Ramis, past goalkeeper Asier Riesgo for his 21st La Liga goal.

Messi is six league goals behind Cristiano Ronaldo, who hit four in third-placed Real Madrid’s 7-1 romp at home to Celta Vigo on Saturday, and five short of Suarez.

Suarez scored the fourth when he shot past Riesgo from a narrow

angle six minutes from time after knocking the ball through the legs of Ander Capa.

Eibar rarely troubled Claudio Bravo in the Barca goal but threat-ened in the 40th minute when Sergio Busquets almost turned a pass from Borja Baston into his own net. - Reuters

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FINE GOALS: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, centre, celebrates with teammates Luis Suarez, left, and Mu-

nir el Haddadi during their La Liga match against Eibar at Ipurua Stadium in Eibar on Sunday. – Reuters

West Brom beat 10-man Man UnitedLONDON: Salomon Rondon dented 10-man Manchester United’s top-four challenge with a sharp second-half strike to maintain West Bromwich Al-bion’s Premier League revival on Sunday.

The 26-year-old Venezuela striker controlled Sebastien Pocognoli’s cross from the left before burying the ball into the left corner on 67 minutes against an increasingly toothless United, who had lost Juan Mata to a sec-ond yellow card on 26 minutes.

The Spain international was booked for not retreating and blocking a quickly-taken free-kick before receiving his march-ing orders two minutes later for kicking Darren Fletcher’s shin in a clumsy tackle.

United’s first league defeat at The Hawthorns since 1984 kept them sixth in the table, three points behind Manchester City in fourth, while West Brom climbed to 11th with a third win in four league games.

Earlier, Christian Benteke’s last-gasp penalty completed 10-man Liverpool’s fightback against Crystal Palace to keep alive their hopes of a top-four finish.

Substitute Benteke was award-ed the spot-kick after a challenge by Damien Delaney deep in inju-ry time and coolly slotted home to add to Robert Firmino’s equaliser on 72 minutes.

James Milner’s red card for a second yellow on 62 minutes put Liverpool on the backfoot, but Firmino took advantage of a scuffed clearance from Pal-ace goalkeeper Alex McCarthy to cancel out Joe Ledley’s low drive just after the break. - Reuters

P R E M I E R L E A G U EIndia outplay Bangladesh to clinch sixth Asia Cup trophy

MIRPUR: India clinched the Asia Cup trophy for a record sixth time after beating hosts Bangladesh by eight wickets, riding on Shikhar Dhawan’s scintillating 44-ball 60 in a rain-truncated final on Sunday.

Sri Lanka have won the conti-nental title five times and Pakistan twice. Chasing a target of 121 in a match reduced to 15-over a side, Dhawan came good when it mat-tered the most as he hit nine fours and a six adding 94 runs with Virat Kohli (41 not out) with India win-ning with seven balls to spare.

In the last two overs, India re-quired 19 runs. If the partisan

25,000 supporters harboured any hopes of a comeback, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (20 not out in six balls) dashed it with a massive six over deep mid-wicket off Al Amin and another terrific blow over deep extra cover before finishing the match with another six.

There were no celebrations from the Indian team as the crowd were left spellbound in disbelief. Al Amin struck in the second over when a delivery moved a shade as Rohit tried to slash it. Soumya Sarkar at first slip made no mistake.

As his skipper wanted from his

openers in the earlier matches, Dhawan initially tried to play him-self in with India reaching 19 in the first four overs.

Things changed from the fifth over, bowled by left-arrm seamer Abu Hider, playing his first match of the tournament. With Mush-fiqur Rahim standing up due to his lack of pace and short third-man stationed, Dhawan played late to collect two boundaries while Kohli was lucky when his lofted drive went beyond mid-off’s reach as he was standing up. In all, 14 runs came off that over.

With Powerplay overs ending, Mashrafe Mortaza got Shakib Al Hasan into action and the Dha-wan-Kohli duo took 15 runs off that over. Kohli pulled one while Dhawan played a late cut and an imperious pull-shot as India were well on course in their pursuit of the total. The stand-out shot for Dhawan was a slog-sweep off Mortaza that was hit into the deep square leg stand.

After 10 overs, India were 71 for 1 and the match virtually ended in Shakib’s next over when Dhawan hit a conventional and a reverse sweep

to dash Bangladesh’s hopes. Dha-wan’s 50 came off 35 balls. He was finally out caught at point by a diving Soumya Sarkar off Taskin Ahmed.

Earlier, Indian bowlers lost their way in the final overs after an im-pressive start as Bangladesh rode on Mahmudullah Riyadh’s fiery 13-ball 33 to post a competitive 120 for five after being put into bat.

The match was reduced to 15-over per side after a spell of thundershowers resulted in a two-hour delay to the start of the proceedings. - PTI

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BANGLADESHT. Iqbal lbw Bumrah 13S. Sarkar c Pandya b Nehra 14Sabbir Rahman (not out) 32Shakib c Bumrah b Ashwin 21Mushfiqur Rahim run out 4M. Mortaza c Kohli b Jadeja 0Mahmudullah (not out) 33Extras (w 3) 3Total (5 wkts, 15 overs) 120Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-30, -64, 4-75, 5-75.Bowling: R. Ashwin 3-0-14-1; Ashish Nehra 3-0-33-1; Jasprit Bumrah 3-0-13-1; Ravindra Jadeja 3-0-25-1; Hardik Pandya 3-0-35-0.INDIAR. Sharma c S. Sarkar b Al Amin 1S. Dhawan c S. Sarkar b T. Ahmed 60Virat Kohli (not out) 41MS Dhoni (not out) 20Total (2 wkts, 13.5 overs) 122Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-99.Bowling: Taskin Ahmed 3-0-14-1; Al Amin Hossain 2.5-0-30-1; Abu Hider 1-0-14-0; Shakib Al Hasan 2-0-26-0; Mashrafe Mortaza 2-0-16-0; Nasir Hos-sain 3-0-22-0.

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Future Oilfield, Professional Trading post thrilling wins

MUSCAT: Future Oilfield record-ed a three-wicket victory over Al Meer in an Enhance-sponsored D Division match at the Municipality Ground III during the last weekend.

Batting first, Al Meer managed to score 147 for seven in 20 overs. Shankar G. top scored with 46. Imran Ali claimed three wickets for Future Oilfield. In reply, Fu-ture Oilfield scored 150 for five in 17 overs. Imran Ali top scored with 47 runs.

Brief scores: Al Meer 147 for 7 in 20 overs (Shankar G. 46; Imran Ali 3/28) lost to Future Oilfield 150 for 5 in 17 overs (Imran Ali 47; Rajendra K. 3/41). Points: Future Oilfield – 2, Al Meer - 0.

Mott MacDonald lose In another Enhance-sponsored D Division match, Professional Trading defeated Mott MacDon-ald by 11 runs. Batting first, Pro-fessional Trading scored 193 for seven in 20 overs. Muthu Mu-rugan top scored with 47. Ritesh Lad claimed four scalps for Mott MacDonald. In reply, Mott Mac-Donald scored only 182 for nine in 20 overs with Javed Tanasha with 45. Muthu Murugan claimed four wickets for Professional Trading to claim the win.

Brief scores: Professional Trad-ing 193 for 7 in 20 overs (Muthu Mu-rugan 47; Ritesh Lad 4/32) bt Mott MacDonald 182 for 9 in 20 overs (Javed Tanasha 45; Muthu Murugan

4/30). Points: Professional Trading – 3, Mott Macdonald - 0.

MARH beat Abu Maather In an E Division match, MARH defeated Abu Maather by 14 runs. Batting first, MARH scored 189 for eight in 20 overs. Khalid Moosa top scored with 53. Haneef Hodekar claimed three wickets for Abu Maather. In reply, Abu Maather scored 175 for eight in 20 overs with Nazim Mohammed top scoring with 78. Anwar and Sukh-preet claimed two wickets each for MARH.

Brief scores: MARH 189 for 8 in 20 overs (Khalid Moosa 53; Haneef Hodekar 3/26) bt Abu Maather 175 for 8 in 20 overs (Sukhpreet 2/29). Points: MARH – 2, Abu Maather - 0.

Big win for White Lotus In an F Division match, White Lotus eased to a 48-run win over OUA Travel. Batting first, White Lotus scored 162 for six in 20 overs. Nidin Mohan top scored

with 63. Ratheesh Kumar claimed three wickets for OUA. In reply, OUA Travel scored 114 for nine in 20 overs. Anup Rajan claimed three wickets for White Lotus.

Brief scores: White Lotus 162 for 6 in 20 overs (Ratheesh Kumar 3/26) bt OUA Travel 114 for 9 in 20 overs (Ratheesh Kumar 28 n.o, Anup Rajan 3/22). Points: OUA Travel – 0, White Lotus – 3.

RAY defeat Al Rehwan In a G Division match, RAY reg-istered an easy nine-wicket win over Al Rehwan. Batting first, Al Rehwan were bowled out for 132 in 18.1 overs. Shanid P. top scored with 73. Ruban, Vinu, Raghu and Mifas claimed two scalps each for RAY. In reply, RAY scored 133 for one in 10.2 overs. Tamil Kumaran and Ruban Durai scored 52 and 55 not out respectively.

Brief scores: Al Rehwan 132 in 18.1 overs (Shanid P. 73; Vinu 2/10) lost to RAY 133 for 1 in 10.2 overs (R. Durai 55 n.o). Points: RAY – 3, Al Rehwan - 0.

Ahli Bank winIn an H Division match, Ahli Bank recorded a seven-wicket win over Colour & Design. Batting first, Colour & Design were bowled out for 116 in 18.5 overs. Maaz Sid-dique and Haris Alam claimed three wickets each for Ahli Bank. In reply, Ahli Bank raced to 118 for three in 9.5 overs. SM Imran top scored with 67 runs.

Brief scores: Colour & Design 116 in 18.5 overs (Haris Alam 3/18) lost to Ahli Bank 118 for 3 in 9.5 overs (SM Imran - 67). Points: Ahli Bank – 3, Colour & Design - 0.

Khalsa down Douglas OHIIn an I Division match, Khalsa United scored a 34-run win over Douglas OHI. Batting first, Khalsa United scored 135 for nine in 18 overs with Sushil Kadam top scor-ing with 40.

Vinod and Ramsheela claimed two wickets each for Douglas OHI.

In reply, Douglas OHI were bowled for 101 in 15.2 overs. Mo-hammed Bilal top scored with 36. Arvind Singh claimed four wick-ets for Khalsa United.

Brief scores: Khalsa United 135 for 9 in 18 overs (Sushil Kadam 40; Ramsheela P. 2/22) bt Douglas OHI 101 in 15.2 overs (Mohammed Bilal 36; Arvind Singh 4/15). Points: Douglas OHI – 0, Khalsa United – 3.

Easy for Hydrotech In a J Division match, Hydrotech defeated OCT Al Nahdha by eight wickets. Batting first, OCT Al Nahdha were bowled out for 103 in 19.4 overs. Faisal Al Balushi top scored with 44.

Khurram and Jibin claimed three wickets each for Hydrotech. In reply, Hydrotech raced to 109 for two in 10 overs.

Sayed Azam top scored with an unbeaten 30.

Brief scores: OCT Al Nahdha 103 in 19.4 overs (Faisal Al Balushi 44; Khurram Rashid 3/16) lost to Hydro-tech 109 for 2 in 10 overs (Sayed Azam 30 n.o). Points: Hydrotech – 3, OCT Al Nahdha - 0.

Batting first, Al Meer

managed to score

147 for seven in 20

overs. In reply, Future

Oilfield scored 150

for five in 17 overs

D DIVISION: Future Oilfield pose for a group photo after their vic-

tory over Al Meer. – Supplied photo

I DIVISION: Khalsa United after their 34-run victory over Douglas

OHI. – Supplied photo

D DIVISION: Professional Trading celebrate their win over Mott

MacDonald. – Supplied photo

HYDROTECH STARS: From left, Mohsin, Jebin, Khurram Rashid and

Sayed Azam. – Supplied photo

G DIVISION: RAY after their nine-wicket win over Al Rehwan.

F DIVISION: White Lotus pose for a group photo. – Supplied photo

Wenger praises Arsenal players for ‘outstanding spirit’LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has praised his team for displaying “outstanding spirit” after they held arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur to a 2-2 draw despite being reduced to 10 men.

Arsenal had taken the lead through Aaron Ramsey. But a red card to Francis Coquelin and goals from Toby Alderweireld and Harry Kane put them on the backfoot. Alexis Sanchez eventually scored for Arsenal in the 76th minute to earn them a point against their north London rivals on Saturday evening.

“We’ve shown an outstanding performance, attitude and resolute spirit. Our spirit was questioned, our attitude was questioned and I think we gave the right response, which was not easy. We have been questioned to the extreme because from being 1-0 up and feeling com-fortable in the game, we were sud-denly 2-1 down and down to 10 men,” Wenger was quoted as say-ing by the official Arsenal website.

“Personally I never questioned the character of this team, but when you don’t win the games and you lose you have to accept that and respond on the pitch. That’s all you can do and I think we did that.”

Wenger however, also regretted

the fact that his team missed out on taking the full three points de-spite putting in a strong effort.

“We came back to 2-2 and in the end I think we could have won 3-2. That’s the regret of the day but overall I’m very proud of the play-ers and of their performance.

“The team needs to take encour-agement from today and repro-duce that kind of attitude in every single game,” the 66-year-old Frenchman said.

Wenger also said that he warned Coquelin to be careful after the midfielder picked up a booking in the first-half. “We told him at half-time, because he had a yel-low already. It was a mistake and he knows that but he wanted to do well,” he said. - IANS

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2012The Oyster Perpetual Rolex Deepsea Challenge is an experi-mental diving watch certified waterproof up to 12,000 metres (39,370 feet), entirely designed and built by Rolex to resist the extreme pressure in the deepest reaches of the oceans. Sets the record for the deepest diving watch in the world.

2013In keeping with its history of close ties to motorsports, in 2013 Rolex entered into a long-term partnership with Formula 1 Racing as Official Timekeeper and Official Timepiece.-lifestyle@timesofoman.com

1881Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex is born in Bavaria, Germany.

1959The Submariner 5512 watch with protective crown guards is introduced.

1960Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf dies, the 1st Cosmograph watch is launched model 6239.

1966The Sea Dweller watch 1665 is introduced, with a helium gas escape valve making it the first commercially available watch for use by saturation divers, The Submariner watch 1680 featuring a date is launched.

Talk luxury, talk watches, and it is impossible to continue on the topic any further without mentioning Rolex.

Adorning the wealthiest wrists around the globe, Rolex are the most ultimate statement one

could make in timepieces. One of the most known and respected brands in the world of horology, Rolex SA is the largest single luxury

watch brand, producing about 2,000 watches per day, with a brand value of $8.3 billion (As of May, 2015 – ‘Forbes’ Magazine).

We give you a sneak peek into the brand’s birth and evolution over the time.

G E N I U S I N F I V E L E T T E R S T H E TA L E B E H I N D T H E N A M EHans Wilsdorf wanted his watches to bear a name that was short, easy to say and remember

in any language, and which looked good on watch movements and dials. He said, “I tried combining

the letters of the alphabet in every possible way. This gave me some hundred names, but none of

them felt quite right. One morning, while riding on the upper deck of a horse-drawn omnibus along

Cheapside in the City of London, a genie whispered ‘Rolex’ in my ear.”

T I M E L I N E F O R T H E T I M E L E S S T I M E P I E C E

1945The Oyster Perpetual Date-just watch is launched, the 1st automatic, waterproof Chro-nometer with the date visible through a window in the dial.

1952The 1st Explorer prototype watch, model 6098 is launched. In May 1953 Sir John Hunts Mount Everest team are issued with prototype Explorers.

1953A large test watch known as the Deep Sea Special is attached to the exterior of Prof. Au-guste Piccard’s bathyscaphe, FNRS-2 which reaches a depth of 3131.80 metres. The watch remains waterproof, also this year The Turn-O-graph watch model 6202 is introduced.

2005Rolex develops and patents the Cerachrom bezel for specific professional models to ensure lasting beauty and functional-ity even after exposure to the most extreme conditions.

2005Rolex creates the blue Parachrom hairspring. Crafted from a paramagnetic alloy, it is unaffected by magnetic fields and up to 10 times more re-sistant to shocks. Historically, the unique blue colour of the hairspring has been a sign of prestige reserved for only the most accurate timepieces.

2007The Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master II Regatta Chrono-graph is the first watch in the world equipped with a pro-grammable countdown with a mechanical memory.

1935Whilst wearing the Rolex Oyster, Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a new land speed record in his Bluebird.

1971The Explorer II watch is launched.

1990Rolex produces its 10,000,000 chronometer certified watches.

2003Rolex celebrates the Submarin-ers 50th anniversary by launch-ing the 16610LV model with a green bezel at the 2003 Basel watch fair.

1905Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis form ‘Wilsdorf & Davis’ in Hatton Garden, England. Starts manufacturing watches and watchcases importing Swiss Movements, and sourcing dials.

1908Wilsdorf registers the trade-mark “Rolex” and opens an office in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

1910A Rolex becomes the first wristwatch to obtain the ‘First Class Chronometer Certificate’ from the Horology Society, Switzerland.

1912The Rolex Watch Co. begins manufacturing watches in Bienne, Switzerland.

1914Kew Observatory in Great Britain awards a Rolex wrist-watch a class “A” precision certificate, a distinction which until that point in time had been reserved exclusively for marine chronometers.

1915The company name is officially changed and registered as Rolex.

1954The Milgauss watch & GMT-Master watch are introduced.

1919Wilsdorf returns to live in Swit-zerland. Moves the company to Geneva, Switzerland, where it is established as the Rolex Watch Company.

1920Founds Montres Geneva, Alfred Davis is no longer part of Rolex watch company.

1925The Rolex crown logo is regis-tered as a trademark.

1926Rolex patents the screw down crown known as the Oyster.

1927Mercedes Gleitze becomes the first British women to swim the English Channel on October 21, whilst wearing a Rolex watch. One month later the new Oys-ter is launched on front page newspaper advertisements in the London Daily Mail.

1931Rolex patents an automatic rotary winding mechanism, the Oyster Perpetual.

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LIFESTYLEC7M O N DAY, M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 6

Life is so fragile, so un-certain; you never know what could happen to you this next moment – life could come em-

bracing you with open arms, or you could just fall out of favour with it suddenly when all seemed going so well. And yet at most instances, we afford to be so careless. Maybe that’s how we humans are: lacking fear of the unforeseen.

I was reminded of life’s frailty yet again recently, when I happened to visit my friend after returning from vacations back home. This guy, a qualified stunt motorbike rider; all his life revolved around motor-cycles. From a very tender age he started tending to motorbikes, start-ed his own garage; his skills began to

be known and consequently he was hired by Fairtrade Auto, for their motorbike operations. It was there, that I befriended him, and used to catch up with him.

This time also, I had turned up at the very place to congratulate him for his latest achievement – one of the bikes modified by him won the ‘Best Bike’ award at the recently concluded ‘Muscat Bike Week’. As I hastily inquired about him I was suddenly stricken with immense grief. I could not believe my ears for a moment.

Such a bright talent had been put to waste by a cruel stroke of fate. Some two weeks ago he was out riding his bike, when a car hit him badly sideways from the right, resulting in an injury that cost

him his right leg, amputated knee down. He was always very com-posed on the road; never aggres-sive. All the stunts he pulled, all the menace he created on two-wheels, was only at the OAA (Oman Auto-mobile Association) arena.

And yet he met this fate. All his dreams, all his aspirations suddenly came crashing in that ill-fated mo-ment. Though he was found to be free of fault in the incident, still it was him who paid the ultimate price, for someone else’s mistake, which brings to think of all those careless riders out on the road, reckless and so full of confidence that they are masters of the trade, only waiting for a mishap to occur to them.

Trusting your skills too much is over confidence. Many a times I

see, both riders and car drivers, whirling away at full speeds, even when there is a merging lane next to them or the road is brimming with fast paced traf-fic, thinking no harm would befall them as they are strictly keeping in their lane, and it is their right to pass first in that lane: What puerile behaviour.

Humans are not robots; to err is human. What if that driver enter-ing from the merging lane just made haste, or some driver more rash than you switched into your lane just like that, thinking you’ll some-how manage? You relied on his adherence to the road rules, and he relied on your skills, but none could estimate the possibility of error from either side and act ac-

cordingly. You can only make mer-ry until calamity hasn’t struck you. After that it is only regret and the question “What if I could have act-ed patiently for just one second?” lingering in the mind eternally.

Even I had a brush with death sometime back when I was testing a bike. At the Al Bustan road I was pac-ing at around 125kph, when suddenly a football bounced right in front of me. For a thousandth part of the second I thought I was done; this was how I was destined to meet my end – on the road, in a rider’s costume.

But lucky as I would say I was, I just managed to dodge it with a swift turn to the right. I am always extra careful while riding out, my right feet and hand never move away from the brakes, and eyes always

scanning the farthest distance for any possible hazard. But what to do when trouble pops up from nowhere right in front of you? It was only my extra alertness on the road, which saved me that day. Only God knows where I would have been now, were I flying carefree that day, ripping the brand new engine, relishing the roary sound note.

Just to know how to manoeuvre your ride perfectly or race it is not to be la-belled as skilled. The truly skilled are those who are alert enough on the road and know the virtue of pa-tience. I hope and pray my friend bounces back with a bang soon; he has lost a limb, but definitely not his heart. He still looks to be surrounded by the love of his life —bikes. Ride safe.-faisal@timesofoman.com

More than your skills rely on your instinct

which alerts you of the other’s mistake

or mischief, while out there on the road.

Life is precious; be cautious.

LOOK OUT, BE EXTRA CAREFULStory Faisal Mohammed Naim

LIFESTYLEC8 M O N DAY, M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 6

Your ‘Like’ on Facebook is being used by scam artists

Scam artists are using us-ers’ “Like” on social net-working website Facebook to make them vulnerable to online scams, a media re-port said. Facebook’s “Like” option is used for apprecia-tion and is a harmless way to express your thoughts on a photo or any information, but fraudsters are trick-ing users by making an at-tractive or emotional post popular before editing it to

include dangerous content, a report in The Independent said on Saturday. Facebook is being targeted by scammers hoping to trick people into sharing their hoaxes, it said. Generally on Facebook, like or share status on a picture or a link propels it to the top of news feeds, so that popular posts appear higher and more prominent. Scammers will post a story on Facebook that contains nothing malicious, for example a story of a dog or a life event of an elderly man, which is likely to become popular and attract likes and shares from users. As soon as the post has ample amount of likes and shares, scammers then change the content and add mali-cious content. Scammers are also promoting fake pages of products to buy and introduce a paywall on the page to steal credit card information. A paywall is a system that prevents Internet users from accessing webpage content without a paid subscription.

Have an Apple product? Ask your queries on Twitter

US technology giant Apple has launched customer sup-port on micro-blogging web-site Twitter to answer your queries about its wide range of products. Although Ap-ple has Twitter accounts for specific products like Beats 1, Apple Music and iTunes, it has avoided a central pres-ence on social media till date, The Verge reported. The new @AppleSupport account,

opened on Thursday, is already fielding questions about Apple Music, Apple IDs and enabling smart quotes. The ac-count received over 35,000 followers in its first few hours online. It has already tweeted about subjects ranging from Safari browser help to iPhone support. The account will also tweet tips on how to use Apple products. Apple launched a Twitter support account for Apple Music last year which has over eight million followers. It launched an account dedicat-ed to games on the App Store in September last year. -IANS

BR I E FS

You can soon watch your favourite 3D movie with-out headache or discom-fort. A team of Russian

researchers has found that apart from bad glasses and cheap pro-jectors, certain 3D movies do have headache-provoking scenes which can be improved upon to give view-ers a better experience.

A team of scientists led by Dmit-ry Vatolin, senior research fellow at Lomonosov Moscow State Uni-versity, investigated the problem of headache provoked by 3D-mov-ies for more than eight years. This headache is a brain’s reaction to the “wrong” images coming to both eyes simultaneously. The brain needs to combine them to produce a stereo effect, but unfortunately it does not always succeed.

Vatolin’s research team names more than 15 reasons for that prob-lem. These can be separated into

two categories: imperfections of equipment and errors in the mov-ie. The first kind is explained by a natural desire of the distributors to lessen their expenses, which inevitably leads to a lower qual-ity of the stereo show. Bad glasses, cheap projectors and other tools of improper kind tend to worsen the quality of viewer’s experience.

The reasons of the second cate-gory are more complicated, diverse, and unfortunately are not always detectable and preventable.

Among them, one of the most painful (and happily, one of the rar-est to be seen) blunder is reorder-ing of the left and the right views of the 3D video, that may sometimes happen even in the most profes-sional production.

That is far from the only dis-advantage of contemporary 3D-movies. As the main achievement of his team, Vatolin names a crea-

tion of “metrics” — programmes allowing to track such errors, minimising the time of 3D movies technical control.

With the help of these metrics the research team scanned the present Blu-ray productions and compiled statistics of the main problems.

Nearly 105 Blu-ray discs were scanned using the metrics and more than 10,000 potentially prob-lematic scenes were found.

A lot of various errors were de-tected in horror movies, added Va-tolin, which can be explained with their relatively low budgets.

In particular, 65 scenes with the left-right view swap were found in 23 different movies. Some prob-lems were found even in such top ranking movies as Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Stalingrad, and many more.

Vatolin believes that almost eve-ryone who watched 3D-movies felt discomfort at least once, and many refuse watching 3D because of that problem they once had.

The results of the research were presented during the 27th annual “Stereoscopic Displays & Applications” conference in San-Francisco last month. -IANS

Soon No More Headaches“Right now looking for a good 3D quality you need to choose high-budget movies and properly equipped cinema halls, if you wish to have fewer headaches.” – Dmitry Vatolin

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Luxury flat for rent in Bareeq Al Shatti building

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end fit outs split A/C full kitchen

fitting all rooms w/ private toilets

monthly 600/- R.O.

Contact : Hassan 99349990

2 Bedroom flat for rent (OMR 330)

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furniture (OMR 1000) for sale. Inter-

ested families contact 92180281

2 Room, 2 Bathroom, kitchen cat

parking 200 Rails.

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Two bedrooms flat in Al Ghob-

rah near Oman Oil of 18 Novem-

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Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

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ly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

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Flat for rent in Hamriya.

Contact 99341112

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Area.800 & 2500 approx sqms

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CONTACT: 94583320

1 BHK flats for rent behind OTE

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Contact - 98027975

Flats for rent 2BHK sitting room,

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split A/C Wadi AL Kabir 300/-

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OMR 295/- month. Call 94477222

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conditioners are available for

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near rose Garden. Interested

persons may content on phone:

9513331/96722449

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no.6.show room two shutter &

warehouse (900m2) & staff

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Contact-99318152

Email:ahastco@gmail.com

Office furniture for immediate sale

15 workstation, 4 executive desk,

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Household & electronic items for

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Expat leaving. Household items

for immediate sale, 99457386

New & used (refurbished) Porta

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RO.300/-Contact – 91776665

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south near Grand mosque.

Contact: 99342661

Flat with two rooms with window

A/C, with toilets & car parking way

No: 1670 north Al Hail near Dos-

teen restaurant 1KM Inside.

Contact: 99238334

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Flats in Qurum. Contact

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1BHK Flat with spilt A/C near

star cinema 210/-. Contact:

99358589/95570288 /97079146 Flat for rent south Al Mabela.

Contact: 95331177/95230355

1B/R apartment executive fully

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villa unfurnished at Madinat

Al Ilam & 5 B/R villa furnished at

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Luxury villa of 5 BHK in Al Khuwair

33 RO.650/- Contact – 91776665

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

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accommodation (1000sqm), open

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contact: 99273774 - 99202278

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Accommodation available in

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Contact - 94297820

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road. Contact: 95714202

Furnished room attached bath for

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lady Wadi Kabir near Mars

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Contact: 96202458/96761960

Furnish bedroom with attach

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Contact: 97242114

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at wadikabir Contact 9304 9849

Room available in Mumtaz area

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common bathroom. Interested

please Contact: 92680041 Mr. Altaf

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan villeage.

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AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

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IELTS Coaching (academic)

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msg on Whats up.

Mobile no: 92927880/99012165

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Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Buying cars for cash.

Contact: 90202090

NRI

Furnished Apartment for sale at

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Contact: 92394014

Flat for sale Kerala Thiruvanan-

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Hindu Boy -30 Yrs MBA Finance

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Kerala Kottayam RC male 28 years

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from suitable family, preference for

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Contact 95035953

RCSC female BSC nurse

(Christian) working in Sur ministry

hospital seeking good alliances from

well settled families.

Contact: 98055621/97929487

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

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COMMERCIAL/ OFFICE(Open space)

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House in Amerat near to Makah

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Contact 98885055/ 92744168

Flats for rent in Ruwi Mumtaz

area 2 bedroom. Contact:

91409667/24291500

Flat for rent in Al Hail south 2 bed-

room. #91409667/24291500

Shop for rent near Al Nahdha Hospi-

tal. Contact: 97380548 / 99680499

2 BHK Flats for rent, Muttrah near

Oman house S/ AC.

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1ST GRADE RUNNING ESTABLISHMENT

FOR SALEFully equipped

Signboard Fabrication

workshop.

Contact – Muhammad

90579500

HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering

Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering

wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),

Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,

Steel Fabrication Machinery

(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)

including tools for immediate sale:

Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Villas in Al Khoud. 95056808-

97201688

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact:

+968 96725423 for viewing the

items.

Accommodation required with

food for 1 month, bachelor for

March month. Preferably Al Ghob-

rah area. Contact: 99335742

DRIVING

DAILY GUIDED4 M O N D AY, M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

MEDICAL

SALES / MARKETING

ADMIN

ADMIN

CATERING

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

ADMIN

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Cooks (Arabic Indian) gulf exp

looking job. Contact: 99531802

Vacancy for the post of PRO for

a shipping company in Sohar -

97990844 - mail id:

operations@arabianseabridge.com

Required urgently a Legal Consultant/ Lawyer for reputed

law firm in Sohar, Muscat. Can-

didates should have 5-7 years

experience as a Legal Consultant/

Lawyer with good knowledge of

Computer & should be fluent in

English both written & spoken.

Email C V to shejaanil66@gmail.

com or Contact 99153620

between 8am to 1pm & 2pm to

5.30 pm on Sunday to Thursday

Indian Female 24yrs, AutoCAD

draftsman with 3ds max & rivet, 4yrs

exp. looking for suitable vacancy in

Muscat now in visit visa .

Contact: 95601266

Email: reshmanb121@gmail.com

Interior Designer Seeking suitable

job. On visit visa in Oman.

Contact - 92166130

Interior designer 3 years experi-

ence 1 year in Oman and 2 years

in Egypt, experience in interior

design, 3D max, AutoCAD,

Photoshop. Contact - 94762876

Indian male good experienced in

Accounts, ERP Tally 9 & Admin in

India & Oman, presently on visit

visa, looking for suitable placement.

Contact 94834687

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in com-

merce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/

finance field. On visit visa. Immedi-

ately available. Contact 92836216 /

muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELP

DOMESTIC HELP

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Kerala male 25 yrs B.com diploma

in IATA PGDCA Tally 2 yrs exp ac-

counts in Kerala. Currently in Oman

NOC available. Contact: 99323841

Email: rohitpanam@gmail.com

Indian male Accountant 8yrs exp

in Oman. Contact:93726921

Part time accountant, up to fina-

lization of accounts looking for job

after 5 PM (location prefers – MSQ

– to AL Hail). Contact: 95694737

Indian Chartered Accountant - with 8 yrs + Exp in Finance/

Accounts/Auditing in Oman &

UAE. Seeking suitable position

in Muscat/Dubai and available

immediately for joining. NOC avail-

able. Available till 9.3.16 in Oman.

CONTACT #: 98707434

Email: casmart007@gmail.com

Indian male 28 yrs MBA finance/

marketing and graduate in com-

puter experience 3 yrs seeking

suitable job, now family visit visa.

Contact: 93195378

Email: faisalme.beg677@gmail.com

Accounts Manager 24 years work-

ing experience 8 years in Oman

looking managerial position with

family status interested to work

construction or manufacturing trad-

ing organization. Contact: 95919546

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with

13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman in

manufacturing, trading & con-

tracting Cos, capable of handling

all accounting, finance, banking,

L/C, import, export & finalization

seeks placement. NOC Available.

Call+968-98932752,

mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com

Indian male, B.Com with 6 years

experience as an Accountant,

looking for suitable placement.

Mob: 93903458 ,

Email : Akkandyrijesh@gmail.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com

Finance-Indian with 7 years expe-

rience in Finance & Accounts up to

finalization. Currently employed

in Oman. Having D/L & NOC.

Mob: 94122464,

Email: cammk13@gmail.com

Accountant with two years of

experiencerequired for building

material shop .contact no.99318152

Email:ahastco@gmail.com

Required Accounts Officer- en-

sure accurate processing of

revenue data into ERP systems

and invoicing module. Posting of

invoices to customer SAP portal

and delivery to customer offices

and interface with country man-

ager/ reporting to regional CEO.

Qualifications: BSc accounting.

Relevant experience & knowledge

on online accounting systems

especially the customer

SAP system. Submit CV to:

me-job@interwell.com

Accountant with gulf experience

in construction field preferred with

Oman driving license. Interested

candidates send CV to:

Email: omanhari@yahoo.com

Gsm: 95892831/95197615

Housemaid required for caring

two babies for Keralite family

at Al Hail. Contact: 99423608

/95661254

Looking for a part-time cook-cum-housemaid in Azaiba.

Call 92450197.

Required Cleaners & Office boys. Contact 24707833

Housemaid (overseas)

Indian family looking for job.

Contact 99531802

BEAUTICIAN

EDUCATION/TRAIN

MISCELLANEOUS

Required Site Inspector (PRO) hav-

ing Omani D/L. Contact – 24291500

/ hr16career@gmail.com

Civil Engineer with minimum 5/8

years experience with valid Oman

driving license. Contact Interested

candidates send CV to:

Email: omanhari@yahoo.com

Gsm: 95892831/95197615

MEP Engineer minimum Diploma

5 years experience in building

construction and with driving

license. Contact- Fax- 24478522 /

Email – gh1.careers@gmail.com

Omani national Security Staff similar experience for immediate

employment for an international

school. Contact: 99468907

Urgently required fiber Optic Technician / splicer EXPO OTDR FTB -1 testing & power meter

report excellent package get N.O.C

or refer splicer from anywhere.

Send C.V mathersahra@gmail.com.

Contact: 91688007

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

We are looking for a driver for res-

taurant. Contact - 95048797

Required a expat driver with

Omani D/L. Contact – 91409668

Wanted driver. Contact: 91025698

Part or full time Driver Required

call us 91120552

ENGINEER

REQUIRED PROJECT MANAGER

FDuqm/Oman

in Oman/ GCC with valid D/L

computer literate. Send CV to Email :

omanproject2011@gmail.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED

28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a

suitable placement. # 90187483

shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Required Sales Executive knowl-

edge of building materials.Full or

part time. Contact: 99421513

We, the storm shield in the

talented candidates for the below

positions (Indian only): Sales man for mobile devices (male-2)

(1 Indian & Philippine) should

have 3 years Oman experience

knows English & Arabia.

Contact: 94441111 Send CV to

email: gshield9@gmail.com

Omani or European female Sales representative required for part

time please send CV to

gcpe16@gmail.com

with expected salary

Required male / female Market-ing person for man power Supply

Company with minimum 3 years

experience with valid GCC / Oman

driving license.

Contact: 97158893 / 94148972.

Kindly send CV at

Email: rastllcmuscat@gmail.com

Nurse required for a dental clinic in

Al Khuwair. Contact 95114616

GP doctor needed for reputed clinic.

Preferably with MOH license or with

Dataflow & Paramatics pass

Contact: 95388934

Wanted Nurse for a dental centre in

capital area. Interested may contact

– 93431024 or send CV to –

drasyanaseem@gmail.com

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for

a clinic in Suwaiq. Contact: 95081010

Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com

Indian female (25) M.com

Finance, 3 yrs, exp in accounts /

finance seeks suitable position

in corporate finance / Banking /

consulting purchase coordination /

Admin. Now in family visa.

Contact: 96953705 Email:

prapullasuvarna@gamil.com

8 years of intensive Oman experi-

ence in procurement & supply

chain management looking for

suitable placement.

Contact: 97755488

Female business graduate from

UK with four years experience in

procurement purchasing expedit-

ing logistics and supply chain in

UAE seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 99581399

Filipino male with 13 years HR and

Administration managerial experi-

ence. MBA & CIPD holder. Currently

looking for job in Oman. Interested

employer contact - 97728418.

Indian, 26 yrs , female , 5 yrs exp

in HR/ Admin with valid Oman

D/L seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98236033

Indian male MBA / HR and market-

ing 2 years experience in royal bank

of Scotland looking for opportunities

in banking operating marking and

HR services excellent communica-

tion Kills. Contact: 90661245

Indian male 40 years MBA with

11 years experience in Admin

& HR as HR & Admin manager

with valid Oman license seeking

suitable placement release/ NOC

available . Contact: 97782843

Email: vinodhpkd@yahoo.com

15 years of working experience

in Business development in Oman

& UAE & UK , marketing plans and

strategies & importing firewoks for

festivals & preparing government

tenders , Operations and logistics ,

importing and international busi-

ness trading , CNC engineering &

industrial areas , I have dual na-

tionality (I can travel abroad easily

without needing visa, for finalizing

business trading NOC available.

Contact: 94123939

Indian male (26) diploma, 6 years

experience as office asst & Admin

asst. Now on visit visa looking for

suitable position. Contact: 92600859

MCA Indian lady on a visit visa

seeking suitable job.4yrs exp in of-

fice Admin &IT.contact:92286147 Indian female, Masters in HR,

having 4 + years Oman experience

in media management and HR,

looking for openings in HR, Educa-

tion, Admin, Corporate communi-

cations. Contact 98252030

Indian Female, MBA-HR having

8+ experience in Administration/

HR, Customer Support, Office Coor-

dinator with good Computer skill,

Now on Visit Visa,looking for suit-

able position.Contact: 90196235

Indian male MBA 33yrs having

10 yrs of exp seeking full time suit-

able placement in Administration/

HR/ Operations/ Coordination/

Logistics. Holding valid D/L.

Contact 99054786

Indian Male, B.Com, MBA with 3

years GCC experience seeks Ad-

ministration job in Muscat. Valid

Oman & UAE D/L available.

Visit visa & can join immediately.

Contact: 00968 98896847

mail: tssavad@gmail.com

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA

Finance and marketing with IT

skills, 7+ yrs of experience,

Looking for suitable placement.

Contact : 94879615,Email-

sajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Indian male 32 yrs (B.com)

having 8 years accountant

experience in Oman looking for

suitable placement local release

Oman D/L available. Contact:

97494322/98093515

Senior Accountant B.com work

exp gulf, 8 years Indian 5 years.

Contact: 94364672/95517130

Accountant gulf exp 4 years.

Contact 96718001

Indian male 7 years Oman exp,

Tally ERP 9, Accounting, Inventory

Controller/Asset Supervisor & IT

Supports seeking suitable job. NOC

available. B.COm, PGDCA, location

Sohar, having Oman D/L.

Contact 98317698.

Email: sukuanilkumar@gmail.com

Indian C.A finalist having 7 years

exp in Finance field, looking for a

suitable position with license and

NOC. Contact – 98097009

Accounts part time services

available to handle all accounts up

to finalization, on Monthly basis

finalization and consulting works.

Contact: 96247295

25 Years/Male Indian/B.com with

2 Years Experience/Seeking Job

in Finance and accounts/Skills

Tally ERP9/SAP-FICO/MS Office.

Immediately Joining.

Contact No: +96897184087

Email: modi_harshal@ymail.com

Chief Accountant 25 years expe-

rienced looking for part/full time

accountant job.

Contact: 95598477/98803439

Indian male Accountant looking

for a suitable placement in Salalah.

More than 20 years exp in account-

ing job (up to finalization of ac-

counts) 8 years working experience

in middle east in Dubai, Muscat &

Salalah. Contact - 91325029

Experienced Accountant seeks

suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 96902860

Indian male 25 B.Com (graduate)

2 years experience as accountant

in country club India with ERP ora-

cle r12, tally knowledge. On visit

visa immediately available.

Email: shabi.hyd@gmail.com

Contact- 9042-1161

Indian Male 28, M. Com with 3 yr

Oman exp in Accounts with valid

D/L on visit Visa available to join

immediately. GSM: 94744575.

Email:sidharth673@gmail.com

Jordanian, Senior accountant, 15

yrs experience in Oman finance &

accountant. Contact: 92881223

Indian Male Accountant 10yrs

Exp. in OMAN Retail &

Furniture Co. (Release Available)

GSM.92564955

Indian female 25 yrs, MBA HR &

Marketing, with one and half years

experience as accountant and

6 months experience in teaching,

now on a visit visa, seeking suit-

able position. Contact: 99624044,

mail: np.neethu1@gmail.com.

A leading Oil and Gas EPC company is looking to hire competent

and energetic candidates who have an experience in EPC Oil& Gas

projects with mechanical and piping background. Th e Candidates

should have gulf experience and preferably with GCC driving license.

Project Manager : Minimum 20 years experience

Construction Manager : Minimum 18 years experience

QA/QC inspector : Minimum 12 years experience

HSE supervisor : Minimum 5 years experience

Piping supervisor : Minimum 15 years experience

Piping foreman : Minimum 15 years experience

Kindly send your CV to: recruitmentoman123@gmail.com

Required Beautician for beauty

Saloon at Ghobrah. Clearance /

visa available.

Contact- 95924910

Indian male MBA- UK 18 yrs Gulf

exp in Administration/ HR & Pub-

lic relationship. Fluent in Arabic/

English with D/L. Looking for

suitable position.

Contact - 99897280

Young Omani male have experi-

ence 12 years as P.R.O , Clerk helper

supervisor Admin supervisor , H.R

Manager have diploma in H.S.E, IT

and P.D.O license looking for H.R

position or P.R.O license . Looking

for H.R position or P.R.O part time or

full time. Contact: 95933288

Challenging tyres Omani compa-

nies seeking for Sales Man only

an tyres division sales minimum

2 years experience send CV to

saeed@liwainvestments.com

Urgently Required Steel Fabri-cated Products Salesman with

an experience in steel fabrication,

MUST have Oman driving license,

and immediately join. Apply,

fax 00968–24605955, emails

sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

An Omani construction company located at Muscat looking for

Marketing executive with

GCC driving license & NOC

send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

REQUIREDACCOUNTS CUM ADMIN

IN-CHARGE(For a service & contracting co)Qualifi ed accountant with 7 to 8 years of experience in accounts, cost control, inventory, procurement, fi nance up to

fi nalization and admin. Good knowledge of ERP, Tally-9,

MS offi ce, and good communication is mandatory.

Apply on

vacancyforoman@gmail.com

Engineering Company based in Oman (Muscat)is looking to hire the following position:

Email: therecuiter@hotmail.com

Years of Experience Position

Senior Detail Architect

Senior Contracts Engineer

7 to 15

Years

7 Years

1

2

OUR CENTER IS LOOKING FOR FULL TIME:

: Hair related treatments

Advises clients on hair care and use of products.

Please submit CV to info@artemishfp.com

The Egyptian school requires chemistry Teacher for IG, English, Science & mathematics. Teacher’s

application should be submitted

by hand or by email – egyptian-

school98@gmail.com / 24603930

Required personal lady Trainer at home in Wadi Kabir.

Contact – 94100959

TECHNICIAN

We, the storm shield in the talented candidates for the below

positions (Indian only): Maintenance Technician (male -1) should have knowledge of new

mobile devices & 3 years Oman

experience Contact: 94441111

Send CV to

email: gshield9@gmail.com

DAILY GUIDEM O N D AY, M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 6 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

DRIVER

EDUCATION/TRAIN

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

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

Diploma Electrical candidate look-

ing for suitable job having two years

experience in electrical utilities

maintaining and plant maintenance.

Contact: 94652387

Indian male 22, Chemical Engineer

residing in Oman looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 92379181

MBA Graduate with 6 yrs exp in IT

solutions, sales & marketing, solution

selling, POS, ERP, time attendance, se-

curity system, software development

projects, websites & mobile apps.

Seeking suitable position.

Contact - 92103545

Indian male, IT professional , BE

in ECE with 2 yrs of networking

and Technical Support Engineer-

L2’ experience with CNA certifica-

tion, looking for full time job -

GSM 92916894 ;

Email: salu.mn555@gmail.com

Indian female, B.Tech graduate,

with one and half years experience

as ‘web developer’ interested in web

development and has experience

working in HTML, CSS, Bootstrap,

JavaScript and Photoshop. Contact :

9592 7075, e-mail id:

mariarosejacob90@gmail.com SAP/ABAP Consultant, BCA, MCA,

ASP.Net certification, Indian fe-

male 30, having 1.5 yrs exp, family

visa, seeking placement.

Contact – 99109121/

ashamaryphilip@gmail.com

Omani 26(M) seeks placement,

6 yrs excellent experience

networking hardware software.

Contact: 95356166

Indian female 30 yrs B.Tech &

MBA (IT), 6 yrs work exp in Indian

& Oman experience in telecom-

munications, configuration &

installation & installation of auto-

mated solution systems seeking

for placement. Contact: 92689823

/97712425

Email: jobymees2014@gmail.com

Sudanese net work Engineer hold-

ing IT BACHELOR (CCNA, CCNP, and

MCSE) has one year experience and

license. Contact: 92394485

IT support Eng graduate 5 yrs exp,

Oman D/L, NOC available Indian.

Contact- 92101839

Indian male 25 years BSC (C.S)

with basic hardware and software

knowledge seeks suitable place-

ment now on visit visa.

Contact: 92319677

Email: ismabsc@gmail.com

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERIndian male 30 years, having 5 years

of experience in industrial automation and utility

maintenance in India (MRF Tyres), holding valid Oman D/L.

Contact - 92789995Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

IT

IT

Engineer has 10 years local & in-

ternational experience in ready mix

concrete also in Oil & gas filed also

in marketing & sales field ,

has Omani driving license.

Contact : 92534098

HSE Engineer MSc & B.Tech (safety

& fire) 6 yrs overall exp in O & G

project & construction. Available

immediately with clean NOC. Hold

valid D/L Oman, owns a car.

Contact – 94616721 /

aibelg19@gmail.com

REVIT (ARCH), Diploma Civil 3yr ,

in visit visa , exp. Salary : 250

PH : 92279784

AUTOCAD D/MAN, diploma civil

engg. 3 Yr , certificate attested , in

visit visa , expecting salary :

200 omr. Contact - 99506977

HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma

Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over

10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter

(NOC) available), seeking suit-

able placement, Mob:97061817,

Email:jayanammu1977@gmail.com

Electrical diploma Engineer with

1.5 years experience in AutoCAD

designing for LV constructions and

diesel generator maintenance look-

ing actively for job in Oman.

Contact: 92171858/90595609

Email: nelsondas213@gmail.com

MANAGER

MANAGER

MISCELLANEOUS

Sudanese Electrical Engineer, granted with distinction, hard-

working and can adapt to dif-

ferent work conditions. Contact:

98133281

Electrical & Electronics Engineer with 3 years GCC exp in sales, GCC

driving license. Seeking suitable

placement. Contact - 90301410

Diploma Civil Engineer 13 years

GCC experience NOC available

with valid Oman driving license.

Contact: 99794456

Network Engineering with 9 years

and half experience seeking

suitable placement.

Contact: 95249087

26 yrs Indian Male – B.Tech

(IT) - 6 yrs exp -sales & admin

-seeks suitable placement -

91848460 / 98304080; Email:

arun9895431989@gmail.com

BE Electrical Engineer looking for

suitable job experience in plant

electrical utility maintenance

Trans for men PLC driver panel

control wiring or crane air

compression. Contact: 90628814

Sudanese mechanical Engineer, 2 years experience HVAC firefight-

ing, on visiting visa.

Contact 95630047

Sudanese civil Engineer holding

bachelor with two years of experi-

ence in Oman has resident visa

and valid license.

Contact: 94393880

Hospitality Degree 5 yrs exp

holding Dubai driving license.

Contact - 91234870

Hospitality/Hotel/ Restaurants

Dynamic result oriented hospital-

ity professional with 20 years of

international exp. MBA in Hotel

Management, specializing in Hotel/

Restaurant start ups, concepts &

Franchise development with proven

records. Seeking for Challenging

positions in reputed groups as GM/

COO/CEO/Business Head. (NOC

available) Contact: 96059470

HOSPITALITY

Indian Female, 24 Years - MSc

Biotechnology. Worked in Interna-

tional Crops Research Institute For

The Semi Arid Tropics for project

work as trainee. Looking for suit-

able job. Mobile: 92619048,

Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

EXPERT ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE F

HR& CRM, appraise IT system for

Contact: Tel - 96500729

Indian male 31 years Civil

Engineer diploma holder 4 years

experience in Oman need

placement N.O.C available.

Contact: 93298395

HSE & Fire Safety Engineer 4 years experience air port opera-

tional safety, power & chemical

industry. Contact: 94374241

22 Years exp in Gulf civil building

construction project manager.

Contact – 0097430824610 /

arshadjamalkhan@rediffmail.com

Sudanese civil Engineer three

years experience with NOC.

Contact: 96297316

Email: abdallakoty22@gmail.com

Architect Engineer 8 years expe-

rience in construction field,

designing and supervision

(AutoCAD, Archi CAD, 3D Max).

Contact: 94370767

B.Tech Electronics & comm. Engg

& MBA Degree in operation man-

agement with five years experi-

ence in optical fiber planning coor-

dination etc. Contact: 94819139

Engineer in 14 yrs experience in

project execution & operation all

kinds of Mech / civil & interior

decoration with license.

Contact: 97070527

Indian Male Degree Holder BE (civil) having 11 years of Oman

experience with valid Oman driving

license looking for a suitable job

.NOC available and ready to join im-

mediately. Mobile: 93803950.

Mail:kavinvasi2007@gmail.com

B.SC Civil Engineer 27 yrs Oman

experience as project manager,

structural Engineer looking for suit-

able placement NOC/ LOCAL trans-

fer available. Contact: 99349578

Email: farooqatm@hotmail.com

Electrical Engineer with 18 years

exp in UAE. Contact: 98148034

Email: shassalih66@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer (male) with

2 years experience in project &

production field seeking suitable

jobs now on visit visa.

Contact: 94823009/94223483

Email: jisso.joseph@outlook.com

Civil Engineer 5 Years exp 2 years

in Oman as QS. Seeking for part

time job as QS. Contact- 91507508

Structural Engineer, 8 yrs expe-

rienced in flat slab, post tensioned

& slab-beam multi story building

design & supervision with driving

license. Contact: 98256860

Mechanical Engineer M.Tech

2 years experience HVAC design

& site Engg revit MEP Auto CAD.

Contact: 90150913 Email:

mahmanmechengg@yahoo.im

Omani HSE supervisor. Email:

jeebal3000@gmail.com

Chemical laboratory analysis

acquired knowledge of laboratory

and chemical safety

Sudan university of science and

technology. Contact 90644755

B.Com Graduate with five and half

yrs exp in Oman as a purchaser. NOC

available. Valid driving license. Look-

ing for suitable placement

Contact: 96772166

Graduate, computer literate, experi-

enced in sales, credit control,

accounts, Omani D/L , seeks suit-

able placement. Gsm 98805474

A lady entrepreneur with BF Tech

1st Class (Fashion Technology)

since 2006 in Kerala like to make

change for better. Specialized in

designing, Production Management,

Fashion Art, Grading, Surface orna-

mentation, Garment Construction.

Email: prettyjinu08@gmail.com

Mobile: +919539397097.

Indian female on visit MBA

(International Business- Market-

ing & Logistics), BE (Computers &

Science Engg.) Trained in SAP-BI/

BW with 1 year experience

seeking for job Contact: 90228586

Email:fathimasha16@gmail.com

Bangladeshi male, University

M.Com, Working as an Accountant

& Administrator in Oman; search-

ing better job. Phone: 94864966

Email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) with

2 and half years experience Indian

male 24 years in visit visa. Contact:

96620482 / + 919605423272

Email: bijumonps@gmail.com

Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp

seeks suitable position ina reputed

company. NOC available.

Contact – 96789711

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

in Oman as a project engineer for

governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

Procurement Engineer (27 years

single male with Oman Driving Li-

cense) having 7 years experience

(UAE 2, Oman 3) with expertise in

MEP, Water, Electromechanical,

Instrumentation seeking suitable

placements. Contact 95852033,

mail: hemal1988@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: 92835952. E-mail:

mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com

Manager having 12 years experi-

ence in Sales & property manage-

ment with valid GCC driving license

looking for a suitable placement NOC

available. Contact: 98125226

B.E Arch working as a project man-

ager (interior fit outs) specializing

in shop fit outs restaurateur, offices,

lifestyle shops etc looking to work

in a reputed firm NOC available.

Contact: 94274437

Operation & Accounts Manager. Indian 18yrs experiences in Oman

–operation, admin, fiancé, purchase,

HR& sales looking for SR.position.

Contact:99889396-

Email: srjopsinoman@yahoo.com

Indian male 35 years, mechanical

engineering diploma, 15 years of

total experience, 4 years in Dubai,

seeking challenging assignments in

business development/management

& sales, on visit,phone:95990541,em

ail:kckurup.v@gmail.com

P.M/Electrical Engineer B.Sc

5yrs exp.(2yrs in PDO area)driving

license looking for suitable job

mob.:91175016

E.mail:elmuthana@hotmail.com

Production Manager 9 years

experience in Oman manufacture

and development factories .GRB.

GRC. GRG rubber molds and false

ceilings, fiberglass and executive

at site emadadly2000@yahoo.

com96149081

General Manager MEP also manage

civil, MBA, BE Electrical, 10 yrs exp

in Oman valid D/L, release available.

Contact – 92447102

Indian male experienced in priority

and retail Banking handling HNI/

ultra HNI and SME portfolios as rela-

tionship manager in UAE and India,

with UAE driving license on tourist

visa looking for suitable opportunity.

Please contact #90204929

E-mail-hani.leo@gmail.com

The Business Development Manager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years

Inside and outside Oman following

activities: tenders& real estate&

construction & marketing projects&

investments & transportation & Ma-

rine services& companies manage-

ment& develop business. Contact:

:- 92385033

MBA with 18 years of experience in

Procurement, 2 years in Sohar, Oman

driving license with vehicle,

looking for suitable position.

GSM :94047501,

ahmed16071974@gmail.com

Indian female civil engineer B.Tech

having 3 years experience sound

knowledge of software, REVIT STAD

PRO structural detailing currently

on family visa seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact: 95345591

Civil Engineer (BE) having total

5 years experience in building

construction looking for a suitable

placement. D/L available

Contact# 94450270

Sri Lankan Engineer (27 Years old)

– B.Sc Engineering (Hon) Mining /

Geotechnical Presently in Muscat,

1.5 years experience.

Contact 91295802

acmfaslan123@gmail.com

Indian Electrical Engineer Btech,

female 24 seeking job, presently

in oman having 2 year experience

in design and estimation of

Ht &Lt projects.

Contact 968 97436557,

Mail id : sibinanoop1@gmail.com

Bachelor Civil Engineer 6 Years

in Oman experience Valid Driving

License seeks suitable placement

Phone 97619722

Email – golamrob@yahoo.com

Diploma in Mechanical Eng piping system in AutoCAD work,

21+ years experience with Driving

license. Contact: 95267113

Email: rkakkaryil@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 6 yrs Exp in Oman

with license. Contact: 98975518

7 Yrs Exp. PM in Mech. Engg in

the field of Building Const. Oil &

Gas Seeking Job.94625598

Road and Construction Engineer with 5 years exp in Oman.

Contact: 97667113

Mechanical Engineer with 3 Yrs

experience in international Oil

& Gas company looking for job

Contacts: Tel: 90164236 Email:

mustafaoshi-62@hotmail.com

Indian female, 31 yrs, 7 yrs expe-

rienced as AutoCAD civil drafts-

man (2 yrs experience in Oman)

currently in Oman seeks suitable.

Contact 96789441

Email: simi5304@gmail.com

Sudanese Telecom Engineer, 5 years experience, 3 years in

Oman PMP certificate.

Contact: 93391008 Email:

momen.awadallam@gmail.com

Indian Male 23 years B.Tech Civil

having 2 years experience in

quantity survey and site manage-

ment looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact:- 95042656

Indian Male B. Tech, 10+ years

of extensive work experience in

various aspects like Computer

Networking, Technical Support,

Management and Engineering with

good communications, interper-

sonal and technical skills seeks

suitable opportunity.

Now in Oman on Visit Visa

GSM : 9489 8009,

Email : bios4u@gmail.com

MEDICAL

Indian female Dentist specialized

endodontic looking for a suitable

placement prometric completed.

Contact: 96410448

Indian Bsc Female Nurse with

6.5 years exp, 4 years in KSA.

Passed Oman Pro Metric with 69%,

completed data flow. Presently in

Muscat in visit visa looking for a

suitable placement.

Contact 94744900, 94742834,

jincyalphonese@gmail.com

Indian male Nurse on visit visa

having 8.5 years of experience with

valid parametric ACLS, BLS dataflow

completed seeking jobs in Muscat.

Contact: 96925790/95579716

Email: libinmvarghese@gmail.com

Indian male Nurse 32 years Oman

parametric and data flow completed

8 yrs emergently experience.

Contact: 92463190

Male GP Doctor with NOC 6 yrs

experience in Oman for perm/locum

job. Contact : 97746074

Female Biomedical Engineer Be with 4 years experience in India,

Tamil Nadu ( TN MSC) looking for a

job in biomedical hospital Field.

Contact: 92942479 /+918122572471

An experienced Sudanese female Dentist with MOH license look-

ing for job. Contact 96436517

/97396088

Indian female 25years M.C.A

on family visit required suitable

placements also interested in

teaching. Contact: 90417133

Email: renjitharose04@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Executive Secretary/ assistant Indian female 9 years experience in

Oman, Diploma in Business

management. Valid D/L.

Contact: 96684705

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordi-

nator 12 years experience in Oman

in reputed companies, seek imme-

diate Employment. Call: 95244761

NOC available looking for opening

in sales 10 years experience in

Oman with driving license

to join immediately.

Contact: 95941228

Sales supervisor / Sales man / Cashier Indian male 26 years hav-

ing 2 years Oman experience in

retails looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact: 90318481

SriLankan malebusiness management BA (UK) Gradu-

ate.Specializedmarketing, key

Accounts,sales, and customer

services .4years work experience

in England .seeks opportunity in

Oman. D/L available.

Tell: 94820153.

email:inshafmalk@yahoo.com

Indian male 33 yrs, 11 yrs exp

in Oman in sales field, with NOC

seeks suitable placement.

Contact – 96169598 /

adilj.8782@gmail.com

MBA graduate having 6 years exp

in Sales & Marketing, 4 years with

PEPSI, India, having international

driving license permit seeks

suitable placement.

Contact : 95308167,

Email : samir.pag@gmail.com

Indian Male 28 MBA Marketing

with 4 years of experience in sales

with good communication skills

now available in Muscat on visit

visa. GSM 95840153 /

Mail akbarshareef786@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

20 Years Embassy experience expert driver cum PRO seeks suit-

able place. Contact – 94297820

Driver cum electrician 7 yrs exp,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact – 98255214

3 Years driving exp in Muscat,

speaks English, Arabic, Hindi&

Bengali. Contact- 97462781

Driver job wanted.

Contact 96393082

Pakistan driver with car.

Contact: 97198672 / 98988208

Looking for job light duty driver

6 years experience NOC available.

Contact: 92381696

Pakistani light looking job 3

years experience in Oman.

Contact: 93711608

Seeking driver job with own car.

Contact: 98031620

Bangladeshi male light driver

looking for job 3 exp. # 93254149

Bangladeshi male light vehicle

driver looking for job.

Contact: 91359624

Driver with car 3 yrs exp, looking

part time job. Contact – 97456062

Looking for driver, electrical &

plumbing job. Contact - 92360040

Looking for job driver 10 yrs exp.

Contact: 99035942

Indian light driver cum house

cleaner. Contact: 96255558

/99415443

Light driver. Contact: 96756014

Pakistani light driver looking job.

Contact 95604741

Looking for job car driver.

Contact: 98388947

Indian Male, IT System Engineer

having 4 yrs of experience in sys-

tem administration.CCNA,MCSE,

Linux. Looking for suitable job.

Contact :91272867

Indian well experienced per-

sonal assistant/executive office

manager/ senior administrator /

commercial executive with license

looking for a change. release letter

available – 99168054

mbkishore@hotmail.com

The Business Development Man-

ager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years

Inside and outside Oman follow-

ing activities: construction(Very

strong and qualified to bringing

business for civil work Or any

type of the construction work for

many million per year with a good

experience in pricing and collect

payment and cash management of

the company & marketing projects

& investments& tenders & real

estate. Contact 92385033

Indian male, with experience in

operations management, informa-

tion security, purchase & stores

mgmt, hold UAE driving license,

on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact 91904541

Email: naushers@yahoo.com

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

Autocad Drafting, part time/

full time, 2D & 3D, Architectural,

Structural, MEP, Shop drawing ,

experienced. Ph: 90189070

AutoCAD draftsman experience 2

years. Contact: 93738335 /95809393

Email: mammoosing@gmail.com

Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in

designing, assembling, commis-

sioning execution etc having valid

GCC license too looking for a suit-

able. Contact: 00968-98052942

Email: azamjeelani78@gmail.com

Indian male, Mechanical

Engineer having 1year experi-

ence, on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact:97416564,

Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

Structural buildings marine. Avail-

able NOC release. Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com

Indian Engineer, B. Tech (Mech),

MBA, MLM (Master of Labour

Management), 23 yrs experience,

5 years in Oman in the positions

of Operations Manager and Plant

Manager with Oman Driving

License seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 99744612. E-mail:

deleepkumarpk@gmail.com

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Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.

CONTACT 98294551

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

earn in two monthstion guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

Classes for Spoken EnglishTOEFL / GRE / GMAT / SAT

Excellent Guidance and Coaching Satisfaction Guaranteed

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WEB, ERP and Business Intelli-

gence (BI) creation and man-

agement at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

Land surveyor Experience: 8 years. Contact: 99585265 Email:

wajid.mohiuddin5251@gmail.com

Indian male executive secretary

having vast experience in admin,

logistics & procurement well versed

with computer .seek suitable place-

ment. Contact: 99514286

Indian male, accountant 2 year

experience doing accounts in Tally

and Excel. Searching for suitable

job. Contact: subbayan_r@gmail.

com GSM: +918098637908

BE Mechanical Engineering with one year experience now

on visit visa, looking for suitable

positions”Contact-90637918 /

99335742,

email: aquasharath@gmail.com

Looking for a part time job for

drawings struc. BBS Q/S & piping/

pipeline auto cad work.

Contact- 92103713.

Job Wanted as a Music Teacher

Classical Vocal Music, Having 3

years India Exp.Contact- 90310876

Homeopathic Doctor having 2

years experience seeks suitable

placement.Contact-93615169,

geethasreenathnn@gmail.com

A young CA (ACA & ACCA quali-

fied) with 4 years experience in

one of top audit firms in UK & KSA

seeks suitable placement in Oman.

Contact: Kamran

(hkamran112@gmail.com),

+44 7480 1196 74. +968 93595050

25 year old male B.Com and

insurance graduate with 6 year

experience looking for an opening

in accounts, finance or operations.

Driving license and NOC available.

Contact-95236312.

lilommca@gmail.com

MCA with 13+ yrs of teaching.

Worked as PGT (Comp Sc.) in CBSE

Board Schools, 2 yrs experience

in s/w development. Seek suitable

placement. Contact - 90477217

Bangladeshi Male, University

MA, Working as Store In-charge

cum Logistic Manager in Mus-

cat; searching better job. Phone:

91997605 email:

mohamednazrulislam2@gmail.com

Pakistani Male having 6 years

Experience Valid Omani Driving

license working as a Transport

Manager looking for a suitable

position. Salary is negotiable.

Mob: +96893363316 / 94202746

mohdnaveed043@gmail.com

Indian Male Accountant I have 2

year better experience in account-

ing field. I can do all my accounts

in Tally and Excel searching for

suitable job. Contact:

contactsubbayan5@gmail.com

GSM : +918098637908,

+919087776759

Indian female 23 BA economics

with computer knowledge looking

for the post of Administration dept

or day care or sales please

Contact 96155921 or

Email- fysal.nellaya@gmail.com.

Indian Female, 24 MA Eng. Litr

with 2 yrs experience in teach-

ing & 14 months in Administra-

tion cum Secretary, Currently

on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact: 92613704/99260702

Email:rohinis2010@gmail.com

Indian Male, 26 years, with 7 years

of experience in Sales Field in ship-

ping company in Dubai, looking for

suitable placement. Experienced

working in safety Marine equip-

ment and well versed with MS

Office. Contact: 90182494/

manojmallya999@gmail.com

Marine Services / Business

Development having more than 15

Years experience in GCC Countries

with Indian Male with experience

in Operations Management / Sales

and Procurement / Ship Chandling

/ valid GCC Driving License seeks

suitable job. Presently in Oman on

Visit Visa. GSM : 9053 55 65,

Email : rafi.vprc@gmail.com

Indian Female, 35years, Bach-

elor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) with

6months experience and BSc &

MA seeking position as Insurance

Coordinator or suitable positions in

pharmacy, pharmacy stores, hos-

pital, polyclinic & pharmaceutical

companies or in front office/admin-

istration office preferably in hospi-

tal. Please contact on 90236481

Indian Male, 26 years, with 7

years of experience in Sales Field

in shipping company in Dubai,

looking for suitable placement.

Experienced working in safety

Marine equipment and well versed

with MS Office. # 90182494

Male Locum Pharmacist with

MOH & Driving License. Available

on request from March to April

2016; Contact #: +968

9188 5485/+968 9943 8058.

Indian male with three years of

experience in IT as system adminis-

trator seeking for IT administration

job placements. Presently in Muscat

on visit visa. Contact 90664136

email: szuheabikram@yahoo.com

Assistant Manager – Planning

(B.Tech EEE): Indian Male, over

10 years( 7+ Yrs in Oman & UAE)

of experience in Project Plan-

ning & Scheduling, Liaison &

Coordination, Budgeting and

Client Interaction. Seeking a

suitable Job in Muscat. Contact

– 00971503529608, Email Id:

saravananbe44@gmail.com

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT/

networking/server support/Indoor

sales, valid Omani D/L seeking

suitable placement in IT/Network/

Server support/Retail sales.

Contact 92607532.

Indian male AUTO CAD Draughts-

man (civil) 8 years experience, seek-

ing for part time job.#- 99070584 /

email: remluvp@gmail.com

BS in Civil Engineering Experience: 3 Year (Road Projects)

Omani license: 9 Years. #97427701

Email: hassanrvc1989@gmail.com

Iraqi Civil Engineer with more

than 30 years experience in (Iraq

and G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C.)

is available. Contact No. 96561306

iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com

Indian male 28 years exp as sales

executive & asst accountant. With

valid Oman driving license .lan-

guages known Hindi and English.

Looking for any good job

Contact# 96175176

Mechanical Engineer (Indian

Male, 24 Years) with three years

experience, looking for suitable

job. Currently on visit visa, ready

to join immediately. # 92175441,

Email: ihabeeb24@gmail.com

Male Indian 27, working as finance

Officer having three years Oman ex-

perience with Driving license look-

ing for Finance/Audit/ Accounts

position. Mob: 98097009,

rameesnm@gmail.com

MBA (F), B.COM. Indian female

having knowledge of accounts

with Tally looking for full or part

time job. Presently on family visit

visa. Contact: - 96259171. Email: -

bhumicapandya@gmail.com

Indian Male, total 8+years gulf

experience in Document Controller

/ Coordinator / Secretary. Looking

suitable position. Local release

available. CONTACT: 94524259

EMAIL: madhuppnair@yahoo.com

Mechanical Engineer (Indian

Male, 24 Years) with three years

experience, looking for suitable job.

Currently on visit visa, ready to join

immediately. Contact 92175441,

Email: ihabeeb24@gmail.com

Indian female, holds LLB

& Masters in business

administration(MBA),2 yrs oman

experience as HR & Admin, seeks

suitable placement in jobs @

SOHAR. Contact: 96541959

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT/

networking/server support, valid

Omani D/L seeking suitable place-

ment in IT/Network/Server sup-

port. Contact 92607532.

Accountant. Having 6 years

experience in accounts in reputed

companies. Presently working in

Muscat (NOC Available)

GSM. 00968-97010584, Email -

usman7678@yahoo.com

Indian male 23 years Diploma in

Mechatronic having 3years expe-

rience in production and mainte-

nance department looking for suit-

able placement #+919597008904

(sachin.valappil92@gmail.com)

Indian female, B.Tech graduate,

with one and half years experience

as ‘web developer’ interested in

web development and has experi-

ence working in HTML, CSS, Boot-

strap, JavaScript and Photoshop.

Contact 9592 7075, e-mail id:

mariarosejacob90@gmail.com

Iraqi civil Engineer with more than

30 years experience in (Iraq, U.A.E.

and Oman) looking for a job, (N.O.C.)

is available.Contact 95626218

Email- amin.sarim007@gmail.com

Indian male 26, on vist visa, 2+

yrs of experience with UAE D/L,

IATA-FIATA,BBA looking for any

suitable job. Contact 91324567

Diploma (Electrical Engineering) from Government polytechnic.

Age 27 years, 6 years Experience

in troubleshooting and managing

and Technical in substation as a

Electrical Engineer. Seek suitable

placement. Contact - 92995899, Female Interior Designer 15

months experience design and

management skills ( 3D Max,

AutoCAD , Photoshop, Illustrator,

Coral Draw (Basic) and Sketch up

(Basic) and well versed with M.S

Office). 24789883

Email: sasd_shirur@yahoo.com,

Diploma in civil engineering

having an experience 26years

(22years in Oman) experience

in Estimator / quantity surveyor

looking for a suitable placement.

Willing to join immediately

Contact: 96328687.

18 years experienced in Shipping,

ShipChandling& Marine services.

Valied GCC D/L. Languages Known

as English, Arabic, Hindi & Malay-

alam.Now in Visit Visa.

GSM : 9053 5565

Indian Male ,MBA Finance &

Marketing 28 yrs,6+ Exp, with oman

D/L & NOC, Hospital Pharma ,Herbal

,FMCG, F&B Marketing ,construction

A/c & sales , 93379044

33 year old Filipina with experi-

ence in Teleperformance, Manila

call centre ,now working as Wait-

ress in Qatar seeking suitable post.

Contact 99022484

9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil &

Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughts-

man (HOLDING OMANI DRIVING

LICENSE) seeking job.

Contact 90139903

9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil &

Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughts-

man (holding Oman driving

license) seeking job. #90139903

Bangladeshi Male, University MA,

Working as Sales coordinator cum

Store keeper in Muscat; searching

better job. Phone:91997605. E mail:

mohamednazrulislam2@gmail.com

Indian male B.Eng. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT/net-

working/server, valid Omani D/L

seeking suitable placement in IT/

Network/Server support.

Contact 92607532

Assistant Manager – Planning

(B.Tech EEE): Indian Male, over

10 years( 7+ Yrs in Oman & UAE)

of experience in Project Plan-

ning & Scheduling, Liaison &

Coordination, Budgeting and

Client Interaction. Seeking a

suitable Job in Muscat. Contact

– 00971503529608, Email Id:

saravananbe44@gmail.com

Bangladeshi Male, University

M.Com, Working as an administra-

tor in Oman; searching better job.

Phone:94864966,

email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com

Indian Male, 26 years, With 7 years

of experience in Sales Field in ship-

ping company in “Dubai” , looking

for suitable placement. Experienced

working in safety Marine equip-

ment and well versed with MS

Office. Contact: 90182494,

manojmallya999@gmail.com

Indian female 25 yrs, MBA HR &

Marketing, with one and half years

experience as accountant and 6

months experience in teaching,

now on a visit visa, seeking suit-

able position. Contact: 99624044,

mail: np.neethu1@gmail.com.

B.Com 5yrs experience good

command on tally, Excel sheet on

family visa. Contact: 98002428

Email: lubnakanwal36@gmail.com

SIT.WANTED

SIT.WANTED

MANPOWER

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male (31 yrs) sales super-

visor, total 9 yrs gulf exp, 4 yrs

in Oman with valid GCC D/L with

NOC, release & transferable visa.

Contact: 94014327 Email:

praveenkotian188@gmail.com

Indian sales marketing profes-

sional highly experienced in busi-

ness development in ME India and

Africa seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 97897611

B.Com male 2 yrs experience in

sales Computer knowledge,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98371144

email: nabilnazar22@gmail.com

Indian male 3 years as sales

representative looking for suitable

placements. Contact: 94420033

Email: ssidisking@gmail.com

Indian male, MBA Marketing

having 2.5 years Sales experience

immediately looking for a suitable

position. Contact: 91415145,

Email: shariqs88@gmail.com

Indian male, 6 years of sales expe-

rience in Oman with Oman driving

license, NOC / Release available.

Contact: 95440908

Male 38 yrs Graduate 07 years

experience indoor / outdoor

electronic field with D/License &

NOC available (as per new rule).

Contact: 92453375

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

Mason, SH / carpenter, steel fitter

gulf & Indian exp looking job.

Contact: 95175192

Five years in travel field B.Com.

IATA & pursuing MBA including

experience in the travel desk of

(ITC managed) five star hotel,

looking for suitable position.

Contact 9470 5767, 9465 2485,

9536 4479

TOURS & TRAVEL

MBA (F), B.COM. Indian female

having knowledge of accounts

with Tally looking for full or part

time job. presently on family visit

visa. Contact :- 96259171. Email:-

bhumicapandya@gmail.com

Bangladeshi Male, University

MA, Working as Store keeper in

Muscat; searching better job.

Phone:91997605, email:

mohamednazrulislam2@gmail.com

Diploma in civil engineering

having an experience 26years

(22years in Oman) experience

in Estimator / quantity surveyor

looking for a suitable placement.

Willing to join immediately

Contact : 96328687.

Electrical Engineer with 11 years

experience in Electrical Design

(LV&HV) Villas , apartments ,

seek part time jobs. #-91403412

Pakistani Male having 6 years

Experience Valid Omani Driving

license working as a Transport

Manager looking for a suitable

position. salary is negotiable.

mail: mohdnaveed043@gmail.

com, Mob: +96893363316 /

94202746

Part- Time Accountant, well expe-

rience senior accountant ,doing all

type of accounting works, Finaliza-

tion, Budgeting available.

Contact 98803439

22, Indian BBA graduate, 1 year

experience, presently on visit visa,

looking for suitable placement.

Contact 91881053

Indian male 25 yrs, MBA (Finance,

Marketing), Overall 2 yrs exp in

Accounts/Finance field, On Visit

Visa. Immediately available.

Contact - 92989197/94786544.

abdulqhizer2004@gmail.com

Light Duty Driver Professional,

Indian male having 5 years of

experience with valid Oman driving

licence.NOC Available.

Contact 91652481

Bangladeshi Male, University MA,

Working as Store keeper in

Muscat; searching better job.

Phone: 91997605,

email: mohamednazrulislam2@

gmail.com

Light Driver looking for job.

Contact:99594946

Electronics service Technician , 4 Years experience as Electronics

service engineer. Knowledge in all

type of Electronics items. Looking

for suitable placement.

GSM- 99105043

Indian Male, 27 Years, MBA

Finance pursuing, BCA, 6 years

working in Airline Cargo Opera-

tions, Airline Passenger Ticket

Auditing domain, looking for a

suitable placement, currently on

visit. email: jeevamal89@gmail.

com, Phone:- 91713489

Highly experienced mechanical/

steel structural fabrication engineer

looking for suitable placement. NOC

available. Contact: 99860714,

hussain20173@gmail.com.

Bangladeshi Male, University

M.Com.Working as an Admin-

istrator cum Accountant in

Oman; searching better job.

Phone:94864966,

email: sunrisetoiqbal@gmail.com

Indian male M. Com 10 years of

experience looking for Part time

Job can do finalization

Contact 97433387 or

thodaforme@gmail.com

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT/

networking/server support, valid

Omani D/L seeking suitable place-

ment in IT/Network/Server support.

Contact 92607532.

Sudanese Mechanical Engineer

26 years old (male) with 4 years

experience as Mechanical engineer

, Sales engineer and Call center

agent seeking suitable placement.

Contact: +968.90644235

Bangladeshi Male, University

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