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MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology announced a target of boosting the number of AI tech startups and the amount of investments within the sector by 20 per...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources (MAFWR), represented by the Directorate General of Animal Wealth, began on Sunday, September 22, 2024, a training workshop aimed at...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has unveiled a tender for the development of a space accelerator programme.Overseen by the National Center for Space,...

MUSCAT: Fisheries Development Oman (FDO) – the Omani government’s fisheries investment arm – says its participation in the Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo in Russia last week has helped solidify...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources (MAWFR) has announced the signing of an agreement for the domestic cultivation of red onions with an annual capacity of 700 tonnes...

MUSCAT: Bilateral trade between the Sultanate of Oman and the People's Republic of China amounted to RO 10.4 billion in 2023, according to a key official of the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

MUSCAT: The Oman Climate Week, set to take place during Feb 24 – 27, 2025, will showcase investment opportunities across a wide array of green and renewable energy projects, according to the...

MUSCAT, SEPT 15Climate finance is expected to be one of the key themes of the upcoming Oman Climate Week conference and exhibition, which will take place during February 24-27, 2025 in Muscat, under...

Muscat - Fisheries Development Oman (FDO), the investment arm of Oman Investment Authority (OIA) in the fisheries sector, announced its participation in the upcoming Seventh Global Fishery Forum &...

MUSCAT, SEPT 11Oman-based cloud kitchen startup IO Kitchens announced that it has raised $2.8 million in seed funding, led by Tanmia Small-Cap Fund.In a statement, Hisham Hasan, CEO and Founder of IO...

MUSCAT, SEPT 8The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology announced the conclusion of the first phase of the Oman Drone Competition last week.The competition and training...

MUSCAT: Oman’s first commercial scale saffron cultivation farm project commenced operations at a site in Al Jabal Al Akhdar earlier this week. Saffron Oman aims to introduce the first batch of...

MUSCAT, SEPT 3The emerging green hydrogen sector in Oman presents various employment and localisation opportunities across all supporting sub-sectors, according to recent remarks by the Minister of...

MUSCAT, SEPT 2A two-week laboratory aimed at assessing and evaluating the readiness of the green hydrogen ecosystem in Oman, was launched yesterday, September 2, in Muscat.The laboratory was organised...

MUSCAT: The National Office for Local Content is developing a loyalty programme designed to incentivize the purchase of local products and services, a key official has revealed.Eng Maryam Mohammed al...

The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology kicked off yesterday, Monday, August 26, the “Engineer it with AI” competition, under the auspices of the Under-Secretary of...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has unveiled a programme that enables individuals who have acquired specialised technology certificates to be suitably...

Omani fintech and crowd financing company Mamun announced that it has raised over RO 1 million in Sharia-compliant financing within a span of a year, this week.In a press statement, the company shared...

MUSCAT: The Rising Omani Startup Programme announced the launch of an accelerator in cooperation with the SME Development Authority (SMEDA) and The Public Establishment for Industrial Estates...

MUSCAT: The AI Economies Initiative, launched by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, will receive RO 15 million in additional funding in 2025, according to the...