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Muscat, March 10 - The second edition of the International Exhibition for Crafts Industries kicked off on Sunday evening at Sahwa Park, Seeb. It was inaugurated by Dr Abdulmunim Mansour al Hasani,...

MUSCAT, March 6 - A number of Bronze Age graves on the hills adjacent to Salut City in Bahla were recently excavated, witnessing a great variability in their structure. Some of them have already been...

Muscat, March 5 - Shaikh Khalid bin Omar al Marhoon, Minister of Civil Service, said man is the pillar of development. He is its tool and its purpose. He was speaking at Arab Human Resources...

MUSCAT, MARCH 3 - The number of Omani craftsmen witnessed an increase in 2018 by 1.96 per cent to reach 21,557, of whom 88 per cent are women, according to the National Centre for Statistics and...

Muscat, Feb 26 - As part of the Muscat International Book Fair 2019, a seminar on children and the future media was organised at the Children’s Public Library on Tuesday by the Ministry of...

MUSCAT, Feb 25 - The number of marriages fell by 22 per cent between 2013 and 2017, while divorce cases witnessed a rise of 9 per cent during the same period, according to the National Centre for...

Muscat: The number of marriage cases decreased by 22 per cent between 2013 and 2017, while divorce cases witnessed a rise by 9 per cent during the same period, according to the National Center for...

Muscat, Feb 12 - The Central Fish Market, Fulaij, Barka, has received a record 30 tonnes of fish in just one day, the largest catch since the beginning of 2019. Thirty tonnes of fish, collected from...

Muscat: The Central Fish Market, Fulaij, Barka, has received a record 30 tonnes of fish in just one day, the largest display since the beginning of 2019. Thirty tonnes of fish, collected from the...

Muscat, Feb 11 - A conference that aims to identify new technologies in ocean economy and benefiting from them kicked off on Monday. The first edition of the ‘Ocean Economy and Future Technology’...

MUSCAT, Feb 10 - The Gulf region’s largest e-waste processing plant will be operational in the Sultanate this year. Eighty-five per cent of work on construction of Evergreen Gulf Recycling Hub...

Muscat, Feb 6 - The State Council on Wednesday approved a proposal for a general framework for the ‘Development Planning Law.’ The Council approved the proposal during its fifth session, presided...

Muscat, Feb 4 - The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has claimed two lives in the Sultanate, while five people have been diagnosed with the disease, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has said....

Muscat, Feb 3 - A programme to train Omanis in agriculture and fish production began on Sunday. The programme, which kicked off under the auspices of Dr Fuad bin Jaafar al Sajwani, Minister of...

Muscat, Jan 29 - The Tenth Five-Year Plan will be the founding plan for Oman 2040 Vision, which requires changing of some legal frameworks, His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tareq al Said, Minister of...

Muscat, Jan 28 - The Oman Vision 2040 Conference has called for the need to “give young people a greater chance to participate in realising the vision”. It called for development and...

Muscat, Jan 27 - The National Conference for Future Vision Oman 2040 was inaugurated on Sunday under the auspices of His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tareq al Said, Minister of Heritage and Culture...

Muscat, Jan 22 - The Majlis Ash’shura on Tuesday approved the draft law for a unified mail system and the draft law on statistics and information. The draft laws were approved during the fifth...

Muscat, Jan 21 - A National Conference on Oman Vision 2040 will be held on January 27 and 28 at the Oman Convention Centre. The meet aims to win the support for Oman Vision 2040 both locally and...

Muscat, Jan 15 - In an effort to mitigate the effects of climate change, a general framework is being discussed for a ‘marine climate change strategy’. A workshop on ‘Marine climate change...