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July 2, 2016 26 Ramadan 1437 AH
SATURDAY
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RAMADAN PRAYER TIMINGS
Dhuhr 12.16pm
Asr 3.35pm
Maghrib 7.03pm
Isha 8.25pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 3.57am
IFTAR
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FAJR
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On the Occasion of 7th National Day, 1977
FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN
We have continued to work in the closest co-operation and brotherly accord with the Arab League for the advancement of the Arab cause.
‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’
HM the Sultan sends greetings MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of congratulations to David John-son, Governor General of Canada on the occasion of his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sin-cere congratulations along with his best wishes of good health and happiness to David John-son and the people of Canada further progress.
His Majesty the Sultan has also sent a cable of congratulations to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on the occasion of swearing-in as a new President of his country.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations along with his best wishes of success to President Du-terte to achieve further aspirations of progress and prosperity for the people of the Philippines, and the relations between the two coun-tries further progress.
His Majesty the Sultan has sent a cable of congratulations to Presi-
dent Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia on the occasion of his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations along with his best wishes of good health and happiness to President Moha-mud and the people of Somalia further progress and prosperity.
His Majesty the Sultan has sent a cable of congratulations to President Paul Kagame of Rwan-da on the occasion of his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations along with his best wishes to President Kagame and his country’s people.
His Majesty the Sultan has also sent a cable of congratulations to President Pierre Nkurunziza of the Burundi on the occasion of his country’s National Day.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations along with best wishes to President Nkurunziz and his country’s people. —ONA
C A B L E S
ABANDONED: DEPARTING EXPATS DUMP PETS AS SLUMP BITES
DEEBA HASAN/ERIK [email protected]@timesofoman.com
MUSCAT: Expats leaving Oman for good are dumping their pets rather than pay to take them home with them.
One dog was left to die on the balcony of an empty apartment, while others were found wander-ing the streets or tied up in the yards of local dog lovers, rescue workers say.
The economic downturn has resulted in many more pets be-ing dumped by expats leaving the
country. They don’t want to spend hundreds of rials transporting their family pet home with them, according to rescuers.
Dr. Elke Heitz, vet and owner at the Al Qurum Veterinary Clinic, told the Times of Oman that people often find their material belong-ings more important than their pets when they leave the country.
“Working in animal rescue does harden you, because you see how easily people exchange the happi-ness an animal can give against the OMR300 it would cost to take the pets with them,” she said.
Heitz said she started sheltering stray animals when she arrived in Oman 11 years ago. It has since be-come her passion.
She said when she saw animals being left behind at her clinic and people not wanting to take the animals she treated, she decided to give them a home herself, “because no one else did anything for the an-imals here. I just couldn’t say no.”
Her clinic now has 60 cats and dogs, divided between the shel-ter, staff accommodation and pri-vate foster homes. “Everyone has animals, I have eight cats and two dogs in my house,” she said. Heitz said her clinic, which is funding
the shelter, saves around 200 cats and dogs a year from the streets.
The vet is also against putting animals to sleep. “You kill an ani-mal and another one will just take its place. You are creating space for the next generation of strays.”
However, with many people leav-ing Oman these days, Heitz has had to restrict the number of ani-mals that she can help. “I help as many as possible, but I cannot go bankrupt, I have to maintain in-vestments and keep the shelter running,” she stated.
Abandoned thriceRussell, a Jack Russell terrier, was abandoned thrice; a family left him with their friend because they couldn’t afford to take him back to their home country.
“My friend called my husband and said he’s not settling with his dog and dumped him on us, he stayed with me for a week till we found him a home and they aban-doned him too. My aunt found him in her yard, which means someone left him there, and eventually she adopted him despite having three dogs already. Now he’s happy and found his permanent home,” said Krystal Brown, an animal welfare
activist. Another such case was of Muffin, a Saluki dog, found roam-ing the streets of Al Mouj Muscat after being abandoned.
“My friend found her roam-ing the streets of Muscat, and the security guards said they would dispose of her. So my friend called me in the middle of the night ask-ing for help, and by next morning she was being fostered by another friend. After looking up her histo-ry, we realised she was first found in the balcony of a vacant apart-ment. She never really did find a home to call her own, but is happy where she is now,” Brown added.
Not everyone thinks that only expats moving out of the country contribute to the stray population increasing, there are also locals abandoning their pets.
“The issue of expats leaving pets is true, but if you compare the number of pets that were left by expats and locals, it’s the same thing—the increase is not only be-cause of expats abandoning their pets when they fly back, but it’s also because locals dump their pets when they can’t be bred prop-erly or when they lose too much hair,” said Dr. Palve Dlagojevic of the Sama Veterinary Clinic. >A2
Even the hands of
rescuers are tied due
to limited space, fund
crunch and rising
number of abandoned
canines and felines
ROP cautions against mischief during holidays, to keep watchTimes News Service
MUSCAT: With the Eid holidays just around the corner, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) has issued a warning against any wrongdoing during Eid celebrations and prom-ised to step up patrolling in con-gested areas.
A senior ROP official said police operations in areas used for enter-tainment during the Eid holidays will be maintained.
“We will increase patrolling in various congested areas, such as mosques and parks, as well as resi-dential areas,” said the official.
The official also warned against disturbing law and order during the celebrations, such as light-ing fireworks, where parents have been advised to monitor their chil-dren and make them aware of the dangers of playing with fireworks and firecrackers, as well as stop-ping them from playing alone in the streets.
“I have also warned (people) about the dangers of promoting and using firecrackers. We have a responsibility as a society to un-derstand the dangers they (fire-crackers) impose on us, especially
our children, and the damages it could inflict on our properties,” said the ROP official.
A common occurrence during days of celebration is an increase in speeding on Omani streets. The official said drivers will not be able to anticipate other drivers’ next move, adding that they are more likely to lose control of their vehi-cle if they pass the speed limit.
Others gather with their vehi-cles during celebrations to race in public, which results in fatal acci-
dents and turning the celebrations into an occasion for mourning.
The ROP official also cited Ar-ticle (50/1) of the Traffic Law, which states that “Without preju-dice to the measures stipulated in this Law or to any harder pun-ishment stipulated in any other law, any person who commits any of the following actions shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year and/or by a penalty not exceeding OMR500.” >A2
E I D C E L E B R A T I O N S
B5Cleaning before Eid
MARKETEU shouldn’t force UK to leave bloc quickly
3European Union leaders shouldn’t pressure the UK to leave the bloc
quickly following its Brexit vote and should rein in their “arrogant reaction”. >B1
INDIAIndian Air Force gets home-grown fighter
2 India’s first home-grown fighter jet Tejas was inducted into the IAF on
Friday after a tortuous saga of 33 long years with the launch of the first squadron. >A6
REGIONIsrael should stop settlements: Report
1Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development,
the Middle East peace “Quartet” recommended on Friday in an eagerly awaited report. >A5
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
For locals and those leaving Oman, the cheaper option is to abandon pets than spending some rials on their treatment or carrying with them
WATCHFUL: Royal Oman Police has vowed to step up patrolling in congested areas. -Supplied picture
Two Omanis found dead in vehicleStaff Reporter
MUSCAT: Two nationals were found dead in their vehicle at Salalah in Dhofar governorate on Wednesday, according to the official twitter account of Royal Oman Police (ROP).
Explaining the cause of death, the police said they died as a re-sult of inhaling carbon monoxide from their parked vehicle.
In an earlier incident, the body of a 14-year-old Omani boy, who reportedly drowned near Al Seeb, was recovered while his friend aged 14 years was rescued by the Royal Oman Police.
Coastguards received a dis-tress call on Wednesday from a citizen who reportedly saw the two young boys heading towards the sea for swimming in Sur Al Hadid area for more than half an hour without coming back.
“An Omani national who saw them swimming, alerted others when they didn’t turn up after a long time around 6 in the morn-ing,” sources said.
Immediately, rescue teams were rushed to the site which found the first boy and gave him the first aid. He was transferred to Sultan Qa-boos University Hospital, while the other was found dead.
S A L A L A H
PRAYER ON THE LAST FRIDAYMuslims praying on the last Friday of Ramadan and just before the Eid-Al-Fitr at a mosque in Muttrah Souq on Friday. — Purushothaman K See also >A2
– Jun Estrada
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OMAN
“It is irresponsible for the expats to do that, its better not to keep the animal in the first place if you don’t want to take them back with you. They are not a thing, but part of the family. When you leave, at least make sure that they are taken care of by someone else or just take them back with you,” he added.
“I believe this issue also depends on the economic condition, so with a lot of expats leaving the country due to the current economic crisis, this might be a problem, but I think the figure is usually constant,” Dlagojevic noted.
Not all expats leave their pets, many take them back, but there are always procedures to follow.
“It was fine, but there was lot of paperwork, vaccinations etc. The vets can sort everything out, including paperwork and release forms from the ministry. It’s expen-sive as well, for me all in all it cost something like OMR500 to 600,” said Matt Blackwell, a western ex-pat, who took his dog back home to the United Kingdom from Oman.
He has a piece of advice for eve-ryone wanting to take their pets back. “The only thing I’d say is to make sure you use a reputable vet, because not all of them know what they’re doing. Once our vets had sorted all the paperwork it
was easy, flew him to Europe (Am-sterdam) and then got the ferry to England. He was down in a special compartment with the cargo and we had no problems getting home.”
Ross Rosenquist, resident of Al Mouj Muscat, and part of a start-up called CNR (Capture, Neuter and Release) Oman thinks that dump-ing pets is a barbaric activity.
“Anybody that has any compas-sion or any kind of humanity in them will say that abandoning pets is absolutely horrendous, disgust-ing and barbaric, it’s a savage thing to do. The pets when abandoned cannot fend for themselves; they either die a painfully slow death or get tortured by people.”
“Expats also dump their dogs or cats without having them neu-tered or spayed and they breed with wadi or desert dogs, and that is why you have all these mix breeds and also lots of diseases in the dogs, as a result.” Heitz has a message for people, “Stray animals are not pests, and they are part of life. It is our duty being humans to not just shoot the dogs and kill the cats, but instead introduce neutering schemes. People, who have cats or dogs, should neuter them to avoid unwanted breeding,” she said.
She concluded that people should share the burden of the
problem of strays and not think they can leave the animal at the clinic for free. “I can’t take all of them and if people want to help an animal, they should realise that helping also costs money. If anyone is willing to adopt or shelter an ani-mal, please let us know.”
Jaison Mathai is an animal wel-fare activist and the founder of ‘Ti-ger by the Tail’, an animal rescue group which was started last years and not only rescues cats and dogs but also birds and provides ade-quate foster care for them.
Since last year, he has seen sever-al cases of expats abandoning their pets, some families even go to the extent of locking their pets in the apartments when leaving.
“I have seen quite a few cases of expats abandoning their pets, mostly when they leave the coun-try, because sometimes the money needed to take them back is a lot for them and on other occasions this depends on the country they are fly-ing back to. I have come across cases where expats dump their pets on the streets and in locked apartments.”
Being involved in animal rescue for a while now, Jaison thinks that it is very important for people to know that pets are not just enter-tainment items but part of the fam-ily. “Many buy pets on impulse, but
pets need time, love and care, own-ing a pet is a commitment, they are family and can’t be abandoned.
His group rescues animals and shelters them at the Capital Vet-erinary Centre LLC, which is run by an animal loving Omani family in Qurum.
“We recently rescued an eight-year-old golden retriever from Ma-dinat Qaboos, he was found wan-dering the streets. We are going to neuter him soon and he also has an eye infection that treatment is go-ing on, he was also dirty and so we arranged for a complete grooming. We found that he was owned by a well to do family and is in, he is in foster care now.” Mathai added.
Another mix breed cat, a two-year-old Persian and Turkish An-gora was rescued by the group from the PDO, Mina al Fahal area.
“When she was rescued, she had a severe eye infection and now is adopted by a doctor.” he said.
Tiger By The Tail (TBTT) is a non profit animal welfare group which rescues sick/ injured and homeless animals. Once rescued, the animal goes through a medical examinations, is treated and neu-tered and then groomed and put up for foster care and adoption. The group runs on donations, look up TBTT to donate or volunteer.
ADOPT I ON
Parents must monitor children while in water
“Driving a motor vehicle reck-lessly or at a high speed or under the influence of alcohol or tran-quilisers or any other materials, which affect the brain or oth-erwise in a manner, which pre-sents danger to the public, their lives or property. Punishment for such actions will be doubled if the rules of traffic are breached while driving,” the official said.
“Drifting in public shows the utter ignorance and disrespect to street etiquette and public safety,” said the official.
He added that law enforce-ment is even stricter and aimed at instilling fear and intimida-tion among those who commit these acts; they will be impris-oned and will not be let out until they are sent to court. This is due to the seriousness and danger of the crime, which poses a danger to property and human life.
Eid holidays commonly wit-ness several drowning cases, where some families, clubs and sports teams organise a mass gathering at the beach and the
usual victims are children.“Children drown due to
swimming in the strong current areas of the beach or where the waves are high or they just sim-ply can’t swim. Parents are also to blame if they leave their chil-dren without monitoring them,” said the official.
“Parents must keep monitor-ing their children if they are allowed to swim and prevent them from swimming when conditions are not favourable,” added the official.
Mass gatherings on the beach organised by clubs should have a predetermined programme for the day and appoint super-visors to offer advice and guid-ance, as well as follow the rules in order to not expose them-selves to danger.
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Pets are also part of the family
Last Friday of RamadanYesterday was
the last Friday of
the Holy Month of
Ramadan and people
congregated in the
mosques across the
Sultanate to pray
together. It was also
the time to get done
with the remaining
shopping and be
ready for Eid-Al-Fitr.
Purushothaman K
snapped a few pictures
capturing the mood of
the day in Muscat
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MOMENTS IN MUSLIM HISTORYWHERE TO SPEND YOUR ZAKAT
The literal meaning of Zakat is ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’. In the Islamic faith, Zakat means purifying your wealth for the will of Allah; to acknowledge that everything we own belongs to Allah and to work towards the betterment of the Muslim Ummah. According to Islamic regulations, Zakat is 2.5% of one year’s total cumulative wealth. Zakat is not always financial, and can include everything from volunteering your time to giving an encouraging word, but when it comes to financial donations to the less fortunate, it can be difficult to decide which causes speak most to your heart. Here we will highlight worthy causes to help you decide.
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from birth to six years old, with a comprehensive early in-tervention programme that covers social, medical, physical, academic, and therapeutic services with the goal of enabling the children to enrol in regular schools and to minimise their disabilities to ensure a better quality of life. The association
also undertakes an educational and advocacy role to improve awareness of those with special needs.
W H E R E : The Association of Early Intervention for Children with
Special Needs was formed in 2000 and was officially chartered by the ministerial order (144/2000) in Oman.
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TODAY’S VERSE
Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.
Al Baqarah, 2:286
PLACE OF WORSHIP
This Ramadan is a great opportunity to go pray in beautiful houses of worship that you
might not otherwise take the time to see. Whether for Taraweeh prayers or Dhuhr,
pay a visit to one of Muscat’s architectural monuments of faith.
{Masjid Al Imam Julanda Bin Mas’ood}
Al Imam Julanda Bin Mas’ood is a
beautiful mosque situated in a calm corner of Madinat Al Ilam, right next to the Arab Autism Centre. It was named after Oman’s very first Imam from the
era of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). It’s hugely inspired by the ancient fortresses
of Oman with rectangular muddy bricks covering the entire mosque,
black decorative grills surrounding the building, and windows festooned with
classic wooden trim.
WORD
Literally translated as “evidence” or “sign” the ayah in Islam refers to the verses of the Holy Quran. Made up
of 114 Surahs or chapters, within each Surah are verses, ranging from three in the shortest chapter, Al Kawthar (The
Abundance, 108) to 286 in the longest chapter, Al Baqarah (The Cow, 2). Muslims believe that each of the 6236 Ayah of
the Holy Quran is a sign from Allah.
FASTING FROM THE HEART
Certain people are exempt from fasting, including travellers, sick people, menstruat-
ing women, pregnant and nursing women, the elderly or others who are physically unable to fast or could be harmed by fasting. However,
spiritual discipline can still be practised through kind acts done with pure intention,
from feeding the poor and donating to charity and lending a helping hand.
RAMADAN TIP
Fasting is a choice we make, and it is meant to be an act of worship to Allah, and a blessing to us. To keep your heart
and mind in the right place, dedicate your day of fasting to God after Fajr each morning and ask for strength for the day
to come, and at Maghrib each evening, thank God for the blessing of Iftar, and for the many mercies of the day.
700-750CE Islam expanded further into India, and Muslims entered Spain, moving all the way to the borders of France.
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the Abbasid Dynasty was established and with it, the publishing industry grew and developed.
Within this time of expanding borders, knowledge, and written communication, Iraqi jurist, Al Shaybani published his now
famous work, The Concise Book of International Law.
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Israel denying Palestinian development, says Quartet
UNITED NATIONS: Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclu-sive Israeli use that Palestinians seek for a future state, the Mid-dle East peace “Quartet” recom-mended on Friday in a an eagerly awaited report.
The report by the Quartet enti-ties sponsoring the stalled peace process - the United States, Rus-sia, the European Union and the United Nations - said the Israeli policy “is steadily eroding the vi-ability of the two-state solution.”
“This raises legitimate ques-tions about Israel’s long-term in-tentions, which are compounded by the statements of some Israeli ministers that there should never be a Palestinian state,” according to the eight-page report.
Diplomatic sources said the report carries significant politi-cal weight as it has the backing of close Israeli ally the United
States, which has struggled to revive the peace talks amid ten-sions between Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama.
Relations between the rightist Israeli leader and the Democratic president have yet to recover from their feud over last year’s US-led nuclear deal with Israeli foe Iran.
Netanyahu’s office welcomed some aspects of the Quartet re-port but said Israel took issue with numerous factual and policy assertions.
The report also “perpetuates the myth that Israeli construction in the West Bank is an obstacle to peace,” the statement said.
Nabil Abu Rdainah, the spokes-man for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, expressed disap-pointment with the Quartet report.
“Any report that does not in-clude the full withdrawal to the 1967 borders, including Occupied Jerusalem, and does not include a recognition of the illegality of set-tlement will not lead to real and lasting peace and will lead to more
tension and more instability in the region,” he said in a statement.
UN Middle East envoy Nick-olay Mladenov briefed the UN Se-curity Council on Thursday on the report and said it would be up to the council and the international community to use the report to decide the way forward.
A senior US State Department official said on Friday: “We are open to having the Security Coun-cil welcome the report but that’s all at this point. We’re not looking for serious, substantive, UN Secu-
rity Council action on this report.” The Quartet said urgent affirm-
ative steps needed to be taken to “prevent entrenching a one-state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict.”
The report said Israel had taken for its exclusive use some 70 per cent of Area C, which makes up 60 per cent of the occupied West Bank and includes the majority of agricultural lands, natural re-sources and land reserves.
Under the Oslo accords of the mid-1990s, Israel retains full control over Area C, where large tracts have been declared closed military areas.
“Israel should implement posi-tive and significant policy shifts, including transferring powers and responsibilities in Area C,” the Quartet report said.
It said only one permit for Pal-estinian housing construction in Area C was reportedly approved in 2014, while there did not appear to have been any approved in 2015.
The report said at least 570,000 Israelis are living in the settle-ments, which most countries deem illegal.
“Israel should cease the policy of settlement construction and expansion, designating land for exclusive Israeli use and denying Palestinian development,” the re-port recommends.
The Palestinians want an inde-pendent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem - areas Israel captured in a 1967 war.
The last round of peace talks broke down in April 2014 and Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged in recent months.
Diplomatic sources
said the report
carries significant
political weight as
it has the backing of
close Israeli ally the
United States
OCCUPATION: Palestinian protesters carry an injured teenager during clashes with Israeli security forces following a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Nablus in the Occupied West Bank, on Friday. — AFP
Residents of Falluja may return by early August
BAGHDAD: The United Nations said Iraqi authorities will allow ci-vilians displaced by the assault on IS-held Falluja to start returning home as early as August.
More than 85,000 people fled their homes during a month-long campaign that ended on Sunday when Iraqi authorities declared they had completely recaptured the city, an hour’s drive west of Baghdad.
A report on Thursday from the UN refugee agency UNHCR, not-ing the government’s plans, said the level of destruction will make their return difficult in the short term and explosives would pose a hazard to residents.
The civilians at government-run camps, who make up about a third of Falluja’s total population before IS took over 2-1/2 years ago, are currently relying on hand-outs from the United Nations and aid groups.
Lack of funding means many do not have adequate shelter, food or water amid temperatures ex-ceeding 50 degrees Celsius. Hu-manitarian agencies fear poor sanitation could spread infectious diseases like cholera and skin dis-eases in addition to exacerbating chronic illnesses.
The head of Iraq’s minority sect endowment, a public institution that manages religious sites, deliv-ered the first Friday sermon since the city’s recapture at a mosque inside Falluja.
A few dozen worshippers, in-cluding senior military command-ers and tribal sheikhs, were gath-ered there. — Reuters
I S I N S U R G E N C Y
Syrian warplane crashes, militants kill captured pilotBEIRUT: A Syrian warplane crashed northeast of Damascus on Friday and insurgents cap-tured and killed its pilot, rebel and Syrian military sources said.
Syrian state media said the crash was due to a technical fault and the pilot had ejected.
The rebel group Jaish Al Islam said it had shot down the plane, but did not say how.
The military source accused Jaish Al Islam of killing the pilot after he parachuted into an area controlled by the group. “This despicable crime carried out by what is called the terrorist Jaish Al Islam will not go unpunished,” the source said.
Jaish Al Islam said the pilot was killed by a fighter from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front while being held at a joint command centre. Jaish Al Islam had earlier said he would be handed over to
them because they had shot down his plane.
Jaish Al Islam, which controls territory on the Syrian capital’s eastern and northeastern out-skirts, had earlier circulated a photo that it said showed the pilot.
“We call on the Nusra Front and Ahrar Al Sham to issue a statement explaining what hap-pened and also call on them to hand over the pilot’s body,” a Jaish Al Islam statement said.
Ahrar Al Sham is another large insurgent group.
Two warplanesRebels shot down at least two warplanes earlier this year.
The Syrian government said one of them had been downed by an anti-aircraft missile, but rebels said they had used anti-aircraft guns.
Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft mis-siles to help them fight off air raids by Syrian and Russian forces.
Russia has been a major ally of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and arms supplier in the civil war, now in its sixth year. — Reuters
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This despicable crime
carried out by what
is called the terrorist
Jaish Al Islam will not
go unpunished, said a
Syrian military source
Syria rebels retake key town in western coastal provinceBEIRUT: Insurgents seized a strategic town from Syrian gov-ernment forces and their allies in the western coastal province of Latakia on Friday, a monitoring group and the rebels said, in a rare advance for them in the area.
The Syrian government forces had captured Kansaba in Febru-ary, part of a wider advance in Latakia’s northern countryside at the time, backed by Russian air
power. Fighting picked up again in the area after a ceasefire deal later that month brought a tem-porary lull. The truce has mostly unravelled throughout areas where it took effect in the west of the country.
Retook KansabaThe Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front was among the groups that retook Kansaba, which had pre-
viously been an important base for the insurgents. The town overlooks much of the mountain-ous Jabal Akrad area close to the Turkish border, the Syrian Obser-vatory for Human Rights said.
Nusra Front said in an online statement that an alliance of ex-tremist groups including itself had captured Kansaba and few of other villages, seizing several tanks and artillery guns. — Reuters
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Economic activity should grow to such an extent that these routes are economically viableAshok Gajapathi Raju, Civil aviation minister
90 airports over 12 months, fare caps in regional connectivity pushNEW DELHI: India will push to get 90 new airports up and run-ning over the next 12 months, un-der a government plan to service smaller cities that have missed out on the country’s air travel boom, officials said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to accelerate growth in the world’s fastest expanding aviation market while encouraging airlines
like IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet Air-ways to fly more people to and from smaller, often poorer cities.
Scores of new airports have been built around the country but many are yet to open because air-lines do not see sufficient demand as ticket prices are too high for the majority Indians.
That has raised worries the gov-ernment is building infrastructure
few can afford to use. Civil aviation ministry officials, however, said on Friday that the government has identified 30 recently built airports, and another 60 nearing completion, that it says it can get airlines to start flying to soon.
Individual states will offer free land and emergency service sup-port to all newly built airports, while landing charges and taxes
on aviation fuel will be kept at low levels, they said.
“Economic activity should grow to such an extent that these routes are economically viable,” Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gaja-pathi Raju told reporters. India’s aviation growth has been driven by flights between larger cities, cater-ing to a growing middle class as the country enjoys economic growth
of more than 7 per cent a year. But the government believes there is latent demand in smaller cities where airports are too small or not yet built. In the western state of Rajasthan, a region the size of Germany, there are only a handful of airports currently open to com-mercial flights and new airports are not being used. Last month the government approved a policy to
cap air fares on services to smaller cities at 2,500 rupees ($37) per hour of travel, with the govern-ment providing part of the funding to make it viable.
Raju said on Friday that fund-ing for the scheme would be set at around Rs5 billion per annum, with states putting in up to 20 per cent of the money, or 10 per cent in the case of the remote northeast. - Reuters
A C C E L E R A T E G R O W T H
Home-grown fighter jet Tejas inducted into IAF
BENGALURU: India’s first home-grown fighter jet was finally in-ducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday after a tortuous saga spread over 33 long years with the launch of the first squad-ron of two Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas here, in a major milestone in the country’s mili-tary aviation.
A Tejas aircraft, the fourth plus generation lightweight, multi-role
supersonic single engine jet sporting the IAF colours soared to the skies, marking the raising of the first squadron of Tejas in the force at a ceremony preceded by inter-faith prayers, more than three decades after it went into development.
The LCA, smallest and lightest of its class, was flown by Com-manding Officer Group Captain Madhav Rangachari for a sortie for about seven minutes at the in-duction ceremony and was given a water cannon salute on landing.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the induction of Tejas as a matter of “unparalleled pride and happiness” and a step which il-
lustrates the skills and strengths of Indian scientists. “Induction of indigenously made Tejas fight-er jet into the Air Force fills our hearts with unparalleled pride & happiness,” he tweeted. “I laud HAL & ADA on the induction of Tejas fighter jet. This illustrates our skills & strengths to enhance indigenous defence manufactur-ing,” Modi said in another tweet.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said Tejas will take the country’s air strength to new heights. “Moment of National pride. Indigenously developed Tejas fighter jet inducted into Air Force. Tejas will take our air strength to new heights,” Parri-
kar tweeted. State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited(HAL) hand-ed over two Tejas aircraft to IAF at a ceremony held at the Aircraft System Testing Establishment here earlier in the day.
HAL officials and Air Marshal Jasbir Walia, Air Officer Com-manding-in Chief, Southern Air Command, Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, the Dep-uty Chief of the Air Staff and HAL Chairman Suvarna Raju were pre-sent. A ‘Sarvadharma Samaroh’ (inter-faith prayer), a practice followed by Air force during such inductions, was also held.
The two Tejas aircraft were in-ducted into 45 squadron of IAF, also called as “Flying Daggers”, which will be based in Bengaluru for the first two years before it is moved to Sulur in Tamil Nadu.
The aircraft was named “Tejas” (meaning radiance in Sanskrit) by Atal Behari Vajpayee as prime minister.
Calling it a “capable” aircraft, HAL said it would be used for air to air and air to ground strikes. Conceived as a replacement to the ageing MiG 21s, it has been designed by Aeronautical Devel-opment Agency (ADA) and pro-duced by HAL. The LCA has flown more than 3,000 sorties or 2,000 hours till date. - PTI
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Heavy rains hit Uttarakhand, 12 killed PITHORAGARH: Twelve per-sons were killed and 25 others were missing as torrential rains and landslides hit north Indian state of Uttarakhand’s Pithora-garh and Chamoli districts in the wee hours on Friday, burying vil-lages in sludge with many resi-dents trapped under the debris.
While eight persons were killed in cloudburst in Pithoragarh dis-trict, four lives were claimed by heavy rains in Chamoli district. Two persons were swept away by the muddy waters and debris rushing down the slopes into Siron village in Chamoli.
One person was killed in Ghat block and another in Sithel village in similar circumstances, SDM Chamoli S. K. Barnwal said, add-ing eight persons trapped in the debris have been rescued in the district so far.
The cloudburst in Singhali area of Pithorgarh district on Friday morning brought over 100 mm rains in two hours in a region of 50 sq km, flattening homes in over seven villages, according to officials. “We have recovered five bodies from Singhali area while three bodies have been recovered
from Thal village. The search for others is on by rescue parties con-sisting of army and paramilitary personnel,” Pithoragarh District Magistrate H. C. Semwal said.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who is Delhi, ex-pressed grief at the loss of lives and announced a compensation of Rs200,000 each to the families of the victims.
“Many people are still trapped under tonnes of debris brought by the heavy rains. ITBP, State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and paramilitary personnel are involved in rescue work,” he said.
“I am personally monitoring the situation from here. Chief Secretary too is keeping tab...we will give them (kin of victims) immediate compensation of Rs200,000 as per norms,” he said in Delhi. - PTI
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NATURE’S FURY: Damaged houses after a cloudburst hit Singhali area near Pithoragarh on Friday. - PTI
PROUD MOMENT: The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is inducted into the 45 Squadron (flying dagger) of the IAF at a ceremony, at HAL airport in Bengaluru on Friday. - PTI
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Sartaj against moving too fast against rebels
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top foreign policy official warned on Friday that pushing too fast against all extremist militants in the country could lead to “blow-back” in the form of more terror-ist attacks.
Sartaj Aziz sought to deflect criticism that Pakistan has not done enough to crack down on the Haqqani network and that it still shelters Afghan Taliban leaders,
highlighted by the US drone strike that killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in May.
Aziz said he would defend Paki-stan’s record of fighting militants when meeting this weekend with a US congressional delegation headed by Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee.
Achievement“I think what we have achieved in these three years is quite remark-able,” he told Reuters. “But there are risks involved of how far we
can go and in what sequence we should go and in what scale we should go.”
The military operation in North Waziristan targeted loosely al-lied fighters, including the Pa-kistani branch of the Taliban - which fights to overthrow Pa-kistan’s government. Also based in the area were elements of the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, which direct their at-tacks across the border to target the US-backed government in Afghanistan.
Critics, particularly in the US
Congress, say Pakistan has spared the militants that limit their at-tacks to inside Afghanistan.
Sartaj said the military acted “without distinguishing between ‘good and bad’ Taliban” but sug-gested that seeking a large-scale crackdown on all at once would overstretch the armed forces and lead to more terrorist attacks.
“So we have to make sure that we move in a decisive way, but at a measured pace and according to our capacity, and ensuring that the blowback is manageable,” he said. — Reuters
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Actor Jafri survives firing by robbersKARACHI: Television artist Na-deem Jafri came under fire while putting up resistance during a robbery bid outside his residence in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the wee hours of Thursday. He remained, however, unhurt in the firing.
The actor told Express News that the incident took place when he and his friends were going out at Suhur time, when some
unidentified assailants on mo-torcycles intercepted Jafri’s car. “At first I thought they were there to kill me, but they were robbers and demanded cash and mobile phones from us,” he said.
Managed to escapeThe robbers managed to escape after looting Jafri and his friends, the actor said, adding that his
friends also fired shots at the fleeing thieves. The robbers re-taliated and fired at them, after which some bullets hit his car, however, fortunately no one was hurt, Jafri said.
An FIR of the incident was reg-istered at Gulshan police under sections relating to attempting to murder and robbery, police officer Farooq said. — Express Tribune
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Google inducts ‘ethical’ hacker
Shahzad into its hall of fame
ISLAMABAD: At the tender age of 14, most children see good grades in school as a big achieve-ment. 14-year-old Muhammad Shahzad simply doesn’t conform to those lowly standards.
Setting the bar really high for his peers, this security researcher and ‘ethical’ hacker from Lahore only recently discovered that Google had inducted him into their hall of fame for highlighting several security vulnerabilities in one of Google’s acquisitions.
Despite his young age, this is the second occasion on which Shahzad has helped Google make its software more secure.
“When I was 12, I found An-droid 4.4 Lock Bypass and An-droid had no VRP at that time so
what I got was only an apprecia-tion email”.
Google are currently working to patch up some vulnerabilities pointed out by Shahzad, after which he may receive a reward from Google. But this doesn’t concern Shahzad much. “Being able to represent Pakistan on a global stage, and to be listed with researchers double my age is
enough of a reward in itself,” he says. Apart from Google, Shahzad has also pointed out several vul-nerabilities to Apple, for which he has been mentioned in their Hall of fame page twice.
When quizzed on how exactly a 14-year-old becomes so pro-ficient at software security and hacking, Shahzad mentioned an incident from his childhood. “At a very young age I had an internet facility, and one day my father’s email account got hacked. That was the time when I heard the word ‘hack’ for the very first time.
I promised my dad to bring that account back, I couldn’t do that but this was an excuse for me to get introduced to a whole new world”. — Express Tribune
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Patients suffer as doctors boycott OPDs at PolyclinicISLAMABAD: Patients visiting Polyclinic Hospital faced immense problems on Thursday as doctors boycotted the outpatient depart-ments (OPDs) in protest against the transfer of the Executive Di-rector Raja Amjad Mahmood.
The Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) had issued the transfer order a day earlier, replacing him with Dr Iftikhar Ahmed Naroo as new ex-ecutive director of the hospital.
Senior as well as junior doctors under the banner of the Young Doctors’ Association, members of the joint action committee, para-medical staff and nurses passed a resolution demanding rescinding of Mahmood’s transfer order.
Mahmood was transferred to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) at a time when the CADD Minister, Tariq Fazal
Chaudhry, was in Saudi Arabia to perform Umra.
The minister had appointed Dr Mahmood as executive director of the hospital two months ago.
Young doctors and joint action committee members at the Poly-clinic Hospital announced that they would boycott the OPDs from 9am to 11am daily till Eid and they would continue their protest until the hospital gets back Mahmood.
“The protest started today and the OPDs remained closed for the whole day and the next pro-test plan will be decided after the Eid holidays,” Young Doctors’ Association President Dr Sartaj Ali said, while talking to The Ex-press Tribune.
He claimed that what Dr Mahmood delivered in the last two months could not be done in the last 20 years. — Express Tribune
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Brexit forces stretched Central Banks to do moreMohamed A. El-Arian
Central banks are at their best when they have a correct and clear vision of econom-ic developments and prospects, as well
as the tools to deliver good outcomes, whether they are acting alone or with other policy mak-ers. The congressional testimony delivered by Fed Chair Janet Yellen last week suggests that these qualities may currently elude the US central bank.
Worse, the policy challenges facing Fed officials pale in comparison with those of their colleagues in Europe. For the Bank of England and the Euro-pean Central Bank, significant structural uncer-tainties have suddenly been added to the compli-cations presented by fluid economies and peculiar financial conditions.
This unusual combination undermines the ef-fectiveness of central banks and, as the experience of the Bank of Japan proves, could get them closer to the line that separates effective measures from ineffective or even counterproductive ones. In her semi-annual testimony on monetary policy, Yellen stressed that the US economy must contend with “considerable uncertainty.”
The reasons are both domestic and internation-al, and aren’t limited to short-term surprises such as the Brexit referendum and the disappointing US jobs report for May. She also pointed to structural issues including sluggish productivity growth and business investment. Similar forces are at play in Europe, and to a much greater degree.
The structural headwinds have been amplified in the last week by genuine uncertainties in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum -- specifically, the unclear future of the economic and financial relationships between the European Union, the world’s largest economic area, and Britain, the fifth-biggest economy. This state of affairs has made it enormously difficult for central banks (and others) to come up with an economic vision that commands sufficient conviction and foundation, leaving their policy approach without a solid secu-lar anchoring.
As a result, these institutions inevitably become more “data dependent,” which, in turn, adds to their communication challenges. The resulting fluc-tuations in their market signals expose the central banks to accusations of damaging inconsistency. This is occurring at a particularly challenging time for global central banking. As I detailed in “The
Only Game in Town,” central banks have taken on unprecedented policy responsibilities in recent years. This wasn’t done by choice but by necessity, as other national economic policy-making institu-tions have been sidelined by political polarization.
Repeatedly, and excessively, the banks have felt compelled to venture deeper in uncharted policy terrain, using a range of unconventional -- and un-tested — measures to buttress economic growth and avoid disruptive deflation. In the aftermath of Brexit, we should expect the BOE and the ECB to be under pressure to do even more.
They will loosen monetary policy further, in-cluding through lower interest rates for the BOE, more quantitative easing for the ECB as well as pro-market forward guidance from both. Their ob-jective will be to counter a post-referendum slow-down in economic activity, particularly business investment, and a higher risk of recession. In the short term, the additional measures would be re-flected in financial markets through more liquidity support for equities and in depreciation pressures on the pound and the euro.
However, the impact on the real economy, the intended ultimate beneficiary of this additional policy activism, would be much more limited. The reason is understandable: There isn’t much that either central bank can do to compensate for the structural uncertainties associated with the out-come of the referendum. Moreover, their attempts at action will be neither cost-nor risk-free.
Without the additional support of politicians for a more comprehensive policy approach —one that deals with exhausted engines of genuine growth (as opposed to relying on the artificial stimulus from added liquidity), deficient aggregate demand, overhangs of excessive indebtedness and incom-plete regional and global policy architectures — the additional monetary policy activism would take the central banks, and particularly the ECB, closer to the point of policy ineffectiveness.
That could risk repeating the unfortunate expe-rience of the Bank of Japan, which has already got-ten very close to — and perhaps even crossed — the threshold between being not just ineffective but counterproductive. -- Bloomberg View
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Two suspects in Istanbul attack identified as Russian extremists
ISTANBUL/TBILISI: Two Rus-sian nationals have been identified as suspected IS suicide bombers in the attack on Istanbul’s main airport that is thought to have been masterminded by a Chechen, Turkish media said on Friday.
Forty-four people were killed in Tuesday’s bombings and shoot-ings, which targeted one of the world’s busiest airports.
Prosecutors have identified two of the three suspected attackers as Russians Rakim Bulgarov and Va-dim Osmanov, state-run Anadolu Agency said.
Turkish officials declined to comment. One government of-ficial had previously said the at-tackers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals.
The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper has said the organiser of the attack, the deadliest in a se-ries of suicide bombings in NATO-member Turkey this year, was suspected to be a Chechen double-amputee called Akhmed Chatayev.
Chatayev is identified on a United Nations sanctions list as a
leader in IS responsible for train-ing Russian-speaking militants.
He was arrested in Bulgaria five years ago on a Russian extradition request but freed because he had refugee status in Austria, a Bulgar-ian judge said. A year later he was wounded and captured in Georgia but again released.
Turkish police on Friday de-tained 11 foreigners in Istanbul on suspicion of belonging to an IS cell linked to the attack, Anadolu reported, bringing the number of
people detained in the investiga-tion to 24. A police spokesman could not confirm the report.
Turkish officials have not given many details beyond confirming the attackers’ nationalities.
They have previously said that forensic teams were struggling to identify the suicide bombers from
their limited remains. Yeni Safak has said one of the bombers was from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and Islamist militants since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Fighting in ChechnyaChatayev lost his arm after being captured by Russian forces during fighting in Chechnya in 2000 and later claimed he was tortured, ac-cording to a 2010 statement from Amnesty International, which had called on Ukraine not to extradite him to Russia at the time.
In a statement on Friday, Am-nesty said it condemned the attack on the Istanbul airport and said it had opposed Chatayev’s extradi-tion on the grounds he faced tor-ture, which was against human rights law.
In 2012, Georgian officials said Chatayev had been wounded in a special forces operation against an unidentified group in the remote Lopota Gorge near the border with Dagestan.
The group was believed to be made up of Russian extremist insurgents fighting against Mos-cow’s rule in the North Caucasus.
Chatayev, whose foot was later amputated due to his injuries, was arrested on charges of weapons
possession. He denied this and said that he had been sent to the gorge as a negotiator at the request of Georgian officials.
He was released on the orders of a Georgian court later that year and cleared of all charges in Janu-ary 2013.”He was released lawful-ly, whether it was a mistake or not,” former Georgian interior minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said this year.
In 2011 he was detained by Bul-garian police at the country’s bor-der with Turkey as Russia wanted him for “participation in an armed group and for the recruitment of persons for terrorism and for fi-nancing terrorism”, a Bulgarian judge told Bulgarian national radio on Friday.
However, the Bulgarian court refused to extradite him, saying his refugee status, which had been granted to him in Austria in 2003, remained valid in all countries that are signatories to the Geneva Con-vention, which includes Bulgaria.
Separately, Turkish security forces detained four Turkish citi-zens on Wednesday at the Oncupi-nar border crossing with Syria on suspicion of membership of a ter-rorist group, the local governor’s office said in a statement. The four were attempting to return to Tur-key from a conflict zone in Syria under IS control, it said.— Reuters
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Del Potro ousts Wawrinka
LONDON: There is a reason why Juan Martin del Potro went under the knife — over... and over... and over again. Three wrist operations since his last appearance at Wim-bledon in 2013 meant Del Potro had had more appointments with surgeons and physiotherapists than on-court engagements with tennis professionals over the past 27 months.
On Friday, the gentle giant from Argentina showed why all the pain and scars —- both physical and mental — were worth it as he top-pled fourth seed Stan Wawrinka 3-6 6-3 7-6(2) 6-3 under a closed Centre Court roof in the second round of Wimbledon.
“It feels amazing. I beat one of the guys who is playing great tennis this season and I couldn’t have expected this before today,” a trembling Del Potro said.
“I was really sad for the last two years and now I am enjoying play-ing tennis again. My hands shaking is a great sensation for me because I’m playing tennis again and I feel alive,” he added.
Del Potro, world number 165, was feeling “so alive” that by the time the match hit the mid-way point of the second set, Wawrinka did not know what had hit him.
The Swiss, who won grand slam titles in Melbourne and Paris in the last 2 1/2 years, was probably left wishing Del Potro’s surgeon had not done such a good job of fix-ing the stricken left wrist which he uses to belt his trademark double-handed backhand.
A break for 3-1 was enough for Del Potro to bag the second set and he marked the moment with a clenched-fist salute to his sup-porters. While spectators on the outside courts had to make do with watching an army of groundstaff dragging the green covers on and
off with comical frequency, Del Potro’s flowing racket skills lifted the spirits of the soggy fans sitting atop Wimbledon’s Henman Hill and following proceedings on the giant TV screen. By the time the players swapped serves for four successive games at the start of the third set, Wawrinka knew he was in for a torrid afternoon against the 2009 U.S. Open champion.
A forehand long handed the 6-foot-6 Del Potro the third set tiebreak and the Argentine proved his patched-up wrist could go blow-for-blow with Wawrinka’s thundering groundstrokes in the fourth as he finished a 21-shot rally with a nerveless volley.
Wawrinka saved two break points in the sixth game, with an ace and a beautiful backhand win-ner, but his luck ran out two games later as an erratic backhand hand-ed Del Potro the break.
When the Swiss whipped a backhand wide on match point to complete another miserable out-ing at the only major in which he has yet to reach at least the semi-final, it completed a remarkable comeback from the tennis wilder-ness for his opponent.
“After my third surgery, I’ve been trying to play tennis again. It is like my second or third career in
my short life,” said Del Potro who will next face Lucas Pouille.
“I didn’t know if I could be in the top position again... after all the in-juries,” the 27-year-old added.
“To be in the third round in my first grand slam after three years, it means a lot to me. I’m excited to go far in the tournament.”
Tsonga, Berdych and Kyrgios, Isner advanceMeanwhile, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was in no mood to hang about on Friday, racing to a one-set lead in just 18 minutes against Argen-tina’s Juan Monaco some three hours after they first warmed up on another rain-interrupted day at Wimbledon.
The pair were among eight matchups at the bottom of the men’s draw waiting to play their round two matches at the start of day five, while players in the top half, like Novak Djokovic and Rog-er Federer, were scheduled to play round three.
Monaco put the brakes on the Frenchman in the second and third sets and Tsonga’s service level dipped, but the 12th seed won through 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 in one hour 23 minutes — the third fastest men’s match of the tournament so far.
The rain delays, which had also
held up eight women’s second round ties, have prompted organ-isers to consider playing matches on Sunday, usually a rest day.
Tsonga, twice a semi-finalist at the grasscourt major, and Monaco, a former top-10 player, warmed up in drizzle around noon but the match was suspended before a ball was struck in earnest.
Speaking of his relief at finally reaching the third round, he said: “... especially because now today I’m waiting for my match. So, yeah, I’m really happy the way it goes to-day because it’s better to go back home tonight than stay here.”
Czech 10th seed Tomas Berdych also sped through to beat the rain, downing Germany’s Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 and taking just a minute longer than Tsonga to se-cure his place in round three.
Berdych was sanguine about how the rain dice rolled.
“I think it’s fair. In the first round I was ... I about to finish a couple of points and then get rain delay overnight. Came next day and he was obviously better at the start,” he told reporters, referring to his four-set first-round win over Cro-atian Ivan Dodig.
“So that one was, I would say, unlucky. This one I was lucky.”
France’s Lucas Pouille, seeded 32, also made it through, defeat-ing American Donald Young and men’s 15th seed Nick Kyrgios of Australia beat German Dustin Brown 6-7(3), 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round.
American 18th seed John Isner ended the Wimbledon odyssey of Australian qualifier Matthew Barton on Friday, serving his way
to victory 7-6(8) 7-6(3) 7-6(8) in a high-octane second-round clash.
The 6-foot-10 (2.08 metre) American fired down 43 aces, in-cluding a 142 mph bullet that was the joint fastest of the tournament.
He was forced to knuckle down by the gritty Australian, at 248th the lowest-ranked competitor left in the men’s singles draw.
Venus, Serena survive In a rain-marred match, women’s number one seed Serena Williams beat fellow American Christina McHale 6-7(7), 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the third round
On the outside court, experience wrestled aside youth at Wimble-don on Friday when Venus Wil-liams, at 36 the oldest woman in the draw, overcame rain interrup-tions and Russian teenager Daria Kasatkina 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 to reach the fourth round.
Kasatkina, 19, demonstrated clearly how she has leapt 128 plac-es up the rankings in the last year, saving two match points, one after a lengthy rain stoppage.
The women were forced off court with Williams on match point as the heavens opened for a third time in the match, the score-board showing 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 and 40-30 in the eighth seed’s favour. Ka-satkina won the next three points using a hefty serve.
Five-times champion Williams, who suffered peaks and troughs of form throughout the two hour 41 minute match, finally downed the 29th-seeded Wimbledon debutant on her third match point with a thundering return that the Rus-sian dumped in the net. — Reuters
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Cheema, Klair in semis
MUSCAT: Cheema XI and Klair XI booked semifinal berths in the MRI category of the Omantel Ramadan Cricket Tournament organised by the Pakistan Social Club at the Pakistan School Mus-cat on Thursday night.
In the first match, Cheema XI beat Rising Star, while in the match that followed Klair XI defeated Al Nafeesa. The third match in the Tape Ball category saw Sialkot Stallion get past Muttrah Boys.
Brief scores: Rising star 40 for 8 in 8 overs (Saleem 11, Kaleemullah 4 for 11) lost to Cheema XI 41 for no loss (Waseem 33 not out) by 10 wickets. Man of the match: Kaleemullah of Cheema XI
Al Nafeesa 89 for 4 in 8 (Aqib 56, Shamas 2 for 14) lost to Klair XI 90 for 1 in 7 .5 overs (Mujeeb 30, Fayyaz Butt 2 for 32) by 6 wick-ets. Man of the match: Shamas of Klair XI
Muttrah Boys 93 for 4 in 8 overs (Shoaib 28r, Waqas 22) lost to Sialkot Stallion 94 for 1 in 6 overs (Waseem 40, Mani Butt 39) by 9 wickets. Man of the match: Mani Butt for Sialkot Stallion
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Shastri resigns from ICC post
NEW DELHI: Former India captain and Team Director Ravi Shastri has resigned from his post as media representative in ICC’s prestigious Cricket Com-mittee. Incidentally, the chair-man of ICC Cricket Committee is current Team India coach Anil Kumble, who pipped Shas-tri to the job after getting nod from high profile Cricket Advi-sory Committee.
“I have already submitted my resignation. There are personal commitments and I have been there for six years,” Shastri said.
The official reason is his busy media commitments as com-mentator, TV expert and col-umnist, but there is intense speculation that the former all-rounder may have resigned as he is yet to come to terms with re-jection that led to a widely pub-licised spat with Saurav Ganguly.
“Just like Saurav, Ravi is also an emotional man at one level. He is yet to come to terms with rejection. Since he became a media representative as BCCI nominee, probably, he is not willing to continue in that post. Also media representative is more of a decorative post in ICC Cricket Committee.” - PTI
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GREAT DAY: Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro returns to Switzerland’s
Stan Wawrinka during their men’s singles second round match. – Reuters
ECSTATIC: USA’s Serena Williams celebrates winning her match
against USA’s Christina McHale. – AFP
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Title contenders Germany look to wriggle out of Italy nightmare
BORDEAUX: Title contenders Germany will come face to face with their ultimate tournament nightmare when they take on Italy in their Euro 2016 quarterfinal in Bordeaux on Saturday.
The world champions have lost every single tournament knock-out game to the Italians going back almost half a century but are con-fident they can end a streak that includes one World Cup final and two semifinals and the Euro 2012 last four. There are signs that it be
Germany’s turn to smile on Satur-day, with the 2014 World Cup win-ners having yet to concede a goal in the tournament.
After topping Group C with two wins and a draw, they quickly dis-posed of Slovakia 3-0 in the round of 16 with an impressive perfor-mance in which their frontline burst into life after three below-par performances. Forward Mario Gomez, initially left on the bench, has now struck once in each of their last two matches and looks set to spearhead their attack again.
“We know that everything will be demanded from us,” said team
manager Oliver Bierhoff. “This is a new game, maybe the Italians are even stronger than in 2012 and we have been warned.
But the game will start from zero for both teams and the past does not interest us.”
Coach Joachim Loew will have a full squad to choose from with Jo-nas Hector having recovered from the flu and captain Bastian Sch-weinsteiger fully fit after playing only a minor role so far following a long-term injury. “I feel Bastian is
ready now. He belongs to the play-ers that Loew can now count on 100 percent,” Bierhoff said.
Antonio Conte’s Italy lack the big names of the past but were among four teams unbeaten in qualifying for the tournament and have kept their momentum going in France, conceding just one goal in their four matches.
Their so-called three-man BBC defence, led by Giorgio Chiellini playing alongside Juventus team-mates Andrea Barzagli and Leon-ardo Bonucci, has been key to their success. “We have the Juve trio who guide us, they’ve not been
winning for five years for noth-ing,” said fellow defender Mattia De Sciglio.
Conte will likely be without midfielder Daniele De Rossi, who picked up a thigh injury in Monday’s 2-0 win over holders Spain. Thiago Motta, his usual replacement, is missing through suspension.
That is unlikely to deter the Ital-ians, according to De Sciglio.
“Conte would be on the pitch with us if he could be,” he said. “He has taught us to fight for every inch. Fighting for every ball is our strength as we do not possess su-perstars.” - Reuters
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QUENCHING THIRST: Italy’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon quenching
thirst at the end of a training session. - AFP
Coach Kumble wants us to take our own decisions, says RahulBENGALURU: Talented Kar-nataka opener Lokesh Rahul is happy that new chief coach Anil Kumble has decided to empower the national team members so that they can take their own de-cisions. Rahul, who is a part of the Indian cricket team set to tour West Indies for a four-Test series, is currently attending the conditioning camp at the Nation-al Cricket Academy under the watchful eyes of Kumble.
“We had a few interactions with him (Kumble) and he has stressed on few things --- he has made it clear that he will let the boys take decision by themselves.
When we have trouble or any queries and we need to ask, we can go up to him and it is wonder-ful set-up,” Rahul told BCCI.TV.
“It’s a great boost for young team like ours to have a legend like Anil Kumble in the team who will mentor and coach us. He is sharing with us the experiences that he has had in his cricketing career,” the 24 year-old said.
“He is somebody who has so much cricketing knowledge and has spent so much time in inter-national cricket. He is an ideal guy for us to look up to. We are looking
forward working with Anil Kum-ble and getting better personally and also as a team,” said Rahul, who has scored 256 runs in 5 Test matches including two centuries against Australia and Sri Lanka respectively. After a successful limited overs tour of Zimbabwe, Rahul got a week long break which he enjoyed relaxing at home.
“It’s little quick, but I did get a couple of days break and spent some time at home. It was a good break for me. It’s unfortunate that the weather has not been on our side and we couldn’t go out there and practice. But we did put in a few hours in indoors and try to get some practice.”
With two Test tons under his belt, it is only natural that Rahul has a liking for the white flan-nels and red ball. No wonder he is looking forward towards his maiden tour of Caribbean.
“Test cricket is always a lot more challenging than the rest of the formats and we enjoy play-ing Tests. It’s been a while since I played a Test (August 2015 vs Sri Lanka) and to see the white clothes again puts a smile on my face,” said the soft-spoken Mangalore lad. — PTI
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Not easy to fill void created due to Dhoni retirement: SahaBENGALURU: India’s specialist Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha said that it is difficult to fill in the void created due to Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni’s retirement from longer version as the former skip-per has been such a proven match-winner for a good period of time.
“After Dhoni bhai’s retirement, filling his place as the wicket-keeper is not an easy task because he has had won many matches for
us. He was a dominant character in world cricket,” Saha told reporters after Indian team’s training ses-sion at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Saha said that in his own style, he is trying to do what Dhoni did best— contribute in team’s cause.
“I am trying to do what Dhoni bhai did for us — that is to win matches with contributions com-ing from his bat as well as by taking catching and effecting stumpings
in crucial situations,” he said.The 31-year-old said that when-
ever he gets an opportunity, he speaks to Dhoni to seek his advice.
“We always talk to each other on every possible opportunity I and Dhoni get. We talk to each other as we did in IPL and India’s Aus-tralia tour. He gave me vital tips on how to keep on bouncy tracks and handle pressure while batting. Not only Dhoni, I also talk to other
players as well,” he added.Replying to a query, Saha said
he would try to do better with the bat in West Indies tour as his per-formance wasn’t good in the last series. “The team has done well in the last one year. We have done well in Australia and Sri Lanka, but my individual progress could have been better and would grab the op-portunity to come up trumps in West Indies,” he stated.
Asked how he plans to cement his place in the team in the ab-sence of Dhoni, Saha said he would try to get some big scores - a good 70-odd consistently to cement his place in the team. “I will try to make a good 70-odd runs to help the team gain advantage over the opposition. If I am successful it will be good for me and the side,” further added. Replying to another question, Saha said he enjoys bat-
ting with lower order batsmen be-cause it helps the side to get some vital runs to put up good total on the scoreboard.
“I like batting with the lower-order because scoring vital runs in crunch situations helps us put up a good total,” he said.
Saha said it is indeed a challenge to keep wickets in different condi-tions and on different tracks be-cause it is a thankless job. - PTI
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MARSEILLE: Iceland’s joint coach Lars Lagerback dismissed suggestions on Friday that his team were just a well-oiled defen-sive unit, pointing out that by play-ing two strikers his side had more potency than some other nations.
The islanders have been the fair-ytale story of Euro 2016, knocking out England in the last 16 to qual-ify for a dream quarter-final with hosts France in Paris on Sunday.
Having scored six goals - as many as France in their four open-ing matches - the tiniest nation in the competition has proved that it can be effective despite having the least possession of the remaining teams in the tournament.
“When we talk of the defensive aspect, we use all our players and sometimes we ask a little too much of our forwards,” Lars lagerback told French daily L’Equipe.
“In football it’s difficult to score goals so if we can keep our oppo-nents from scoring, then we give ourselves every chance of winning. So we’re very organised and each player has a precise role and fulfils it extremely well.”
However, what makes Lager-back’s defensive bloc different to some of the other smaller nations in the tournament such as Albania
or Northern Ireland, is the deci-sion to play with two strikers in a 4-4-2 formation.
Lagerback argued that if his team were as defensive as some
suggest then he would have gone for a 4-5-1 or 5-3-2 system.
Instead he and fellow coach Heimir Hallgrimsson have pushed two men higher up to keep op-
ponents on their toes and quickly break when needed.
Clean billMeanwhile, Iceland have a clean bill of health with captain and long-throw specialist Aron Gunnarsson returning to training on Friday ahead of their European Champi-onship quarterfinal against hosts France on Sunday.
Midfielder Gunnarsson -- whose throw-ins have created two goals for Iceland including one in their win over England on Monday -- sat out of Thursday’s training with a back problem. “He (Gunnars-son) has a little bit of pain coming from his back...and according to the medical team, he shouldn’t do anything yesterday,” Iceland joint-coach Lars Lagerback said.
While his team are injury free, one concern for the coach is the nine players are a booking away from a suspension.
They are Kari Arnason, Birkir Bjarnason, Johann Gudmundsson, Aron Gunnarsson, Hannes Hall-dorsson, Birkir Saevarsson, Kol-beinn Sigthorsson, Gylfi Sigurds-son and Ari Skulason. France have just two players a booking away from a ban, Olivier Giroud and Lau-rent Koscielny. - Reuters
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Two strikers gives Iceland ‘extra bite’
PARIS: France right back Bacary Sagna said he could not imagine the host nation would suffer the same fate as England when they face surprise packages Iceland on Sunday for a place in the European Championship semifinals. “I’m not thinking about defeat,” Sagna told a news conference at France’s training camp outside Paris on Friday. “I’m not planning to go on holidays early. I want to go all the way.”
Sagna, who has played his club football in England for nearly a decade with Arsenal and now Manchester City, said he had been surprised by England’s shock 2-1 defeat by
Iceland in the round of 16.“I thought England would
win because they have a young team with plenty of talent,” he said. “On the other hand, I was quite happy for Iceland because they played really well. They taught Eng-land a lesson and deserve to be where they are.”
The 33-year-old, who has won praise for convincing dis-plays in the tournament, said he was confident Les Bleus would survive Sunday’s tricky test at the Stade de France. “We certainly do not underes-timate Iceland but we belong to the best sides in Europe, we’re among the favourites and we’re at home,” he said. — Reuters
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HERSHEY REJECTS $23B MONDELEZ TAKEOVER OFFERHershey said on Thursday it had rejected a $23 billion takeover bid by Mondelez International that would seek to expand the latter’s limited US footprint and create the world’s largest confectioner. >B3
Dubai to invest $1 billion in transportation to spur growthDUBAI: From commuter trains to highways, Dubai is doubling down on its bet that investments in transportation will spur the emirate’s economy as lower crude prices strain budgets in the oil-dependent Gulf region.
Dubai expects to solicit bids within eight months for road pro-jects worth as much as four billion dirhams ($1.1 billion) as part of a bigger drive to upgrade transport links in the city, Mattar Al Tayer, director general and chairman of its Roads and Transport Author-ity (RTA), said in an interview in the city. His comments followed the awarding on Wednesday of a Dh10.6 billion contract to extend the emirate’s metro-train system as Dubai prepares to host the 2020 World Expo.
“There’s a lot of cuts in pro-jects in neighbouring countries,” Al Mattar said. “Investing in in-frastructure is one of the poli-cies which the Dubai government has taken to steer the economy.” He declined to give details of the planned road improvements.
Dubai is focusing on infrastruc-ture projects amid an economic slowdown triggered partly by a decline in oil prices by about half since 2014. The slide in crude is af-fecting businesses from real estate to hotels, though the city’s econo-my relies less on oil than many of its neighbours. Dubai, the second-largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi, is an international trading, transporta-tion and financial hub.
A group led by Alstom of France
and including Spain’s Acciona and Gulermak of Turkey won a con-tract to extend the metro network by 15 kilometres (9 miles) to the desert site of the 2020 Expo. The RTA has received Dh1.5 billion from the Dubai government’s de-partment of finance to begin work on the extension, Al Tayer said.
The contractors have submitted offers to pay for the metro project, and the department is to decide within six months how to fund it, he said. The RTA expects work on the network to proceed on sched-ule even amid a challenging eco-nomic environment, he said.
To help pay for the transporta-tion upgrades, Dubai’s transport authority is studying whether to increase road tolls within three years, Al Tayer said. — Bloomberg News
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STANDING TALL: Dubai is focusing on infrastructure projects amid an economic slowdown triggered partly by a decline in oil prices by about half since 2014. — Bloomberg file picture
Indian-owned food production firm opens new unit in UAE
DUBAI: An Indian-owned food importing company has launched its new food production facility in the UAE with an investment of $95.2 million.
With the expansion of its pro-duction facility, Arab & India Spic-es (AIS) eyes an annual turnover of Dh1 billion ($272 million) starting from this year.
The new unit in Ajman is built with an investment of Dh350 mil-lion ($95.2 million).
The 70-year-old company is one of the first and largest firms that sources and processes a range of pulses and ground spices in the Gulf.
The company records the larg-est import of pulses, lentils, spices and rice from various sourcing points around the world with hun-dreds of tonnes of foodstuff being imported annually to the GCC.
High-tech plantHarish Kumar Lal Tahiliani, Man-aging Director of Arab & India Spices, said: “This new facility is an extended version of AIS’ exist-ing state-of-the-art food process-ing plant in Ajman. AIS began in a 400 square feet facility in the UAE and now it operates a 400,000 square feet production facility ex-tended gradually, making AIS one of the largest food production and processing facility in the region.”
“The high-tech plant is part of the company’s plans to drive the continued growth of its business in the UAE and expand further into other parts of the Gulf region. AIS has diversified its operations from milling and grinding to process-ing of whole spices and consumer packing,” Tahiliani said. — PTI
A R A B & I N D I A S P I C E S EU should not pressure UK to leave bloc quickly
PRAGUE: European Union lead-ers shouldn’t pressure the UK to leave the bloc quickly following its Brexit vote and should rein in their “arrogant reaction” to the referendum, billionaire Czech Fi-nance Minister Andrej Babis said.
Babis, who said he was “sad” about the looming departure of an ally to non-euro area coun-tries, appealed for more decency in dealing with the UK during an interview in the Prague suburb of Pruhonice on Wednesday.
“It’s like when a marriage is falling apart, and some just slam the door,” said Babis, who sipped a weight-loss concoction at his favourite local restaurant. “We should still act decently, not with emotion and not to tell them to get out quickly.”
The billionaire, whose ANO party became parliament’s sec-ond-largest faction after its first
election in 2013, brushed off the calls for closer EU integration that emerged after the Brexit vote, saying they come from peo-ple living in a “Brussels bubble.” Instead, he said EU leaders need to concentrate on basics such as solving the immigrant crisis, pre-venting the collapse of the Schen-gen passport-free travel area and reforming the bloc so it can deal with Brexit fallout.
“Europe lacks strong leaders — the current leaders don’t seem to be able to reform the EU,” said Babis, 61.
“They have to listen also to
voices from smaller countries. We can’t be the fifth wheel. They can’t decide everything instead of us.”
No euroBabis, who is the most popular politician in the country of 10.5 million, also rejected calls for fast-er expansion of the euro area into countries like the Czech Republic, which, despite being obliged to join as part of EU membership, has no date set for ditching its ko-runa and remains skeptical about the project.
“As long as I am the finance minister, we will never enter the
euro zone because the euro zone is an economic project and it has un-fortunately changed to a political one, as we have seen in the Greek solution,” said Babis, the Czech Republic’s second-richest person with assets including chemical, agriculture and media businesses. “If we ever were to enter the euro zone, I wouldn’t want to guarantee the Greek loans that will never be paid back,” he said.
“The new euro-zone members should have the possibility to ne-gotiate an exemption.“
Following the Brexit vote, a handful of Czech politicians, in-
cluding State Secretary for Euro-pean Affairs Tomas Prouza, have said the country should change its stance on the euro as it “can’t af-ford to remain somewhere on the periphery” of the bloc.
“If we consciously decide not to participate, it will be at the price of endangering our economy and hampering our chances to influ-ence decisions that are vitally im-portant to us,” Prouza, a member of Prime Minister Bohuslav So-botka Social Democrats, said in a phone interview on Thursday.
Adding fuel to fireThe yield on Czech 10-year gov-ernment debt fell one basis point at 2pm on Friday in Prague to 0.44 per cent. The Czech koruna, which the central bank has shack-led in a gain-limiting regime to ward off deflation, was 0.1 per cent weaker at 27.092 against the euro.
The three-party ruling coali-tion has said that setting a date for euro adoption can only be done once a widespread public cam-paign takes place. Echoing fears among other countries such as Poland, who have balked at giving up their independent monetary policies, Babis warned against the idea of creating a two-speed Europe based around those in the euro and those who aren’t. It would fuel extremist groups like those in France and the Nether-lands who have called for copycat referendums in the wake of Brexit, he said.
“A potential split into the euro area and the rest would mean a definite breakup and will only strengthen groups such as Marine Le Pen and Wilders,” he said.
— Bloomberg News
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Abu Dhabi fund denial on 1MDB investments stirs up questionsKUALA LUMPUR: An Abu Dhabi sovereign fund embroiled in a debt dispute with 1Malaysia Develop-ment (1MDB) said it didn’t guar-antee any of the Malaysian state company’s holdings in a Cayman fund, stirring up more questions on investments that amounted to billions of dollars.
International Petroleum Invest-ment Co. (Ipic) is also investigat-ing companies set up outside its group structure and in other ju-risdictions that used variations of the name of its Aabar Investments unit, it said in an exchange filing on Thursday. It had earlier denied ownership of a company known as Aabar, to which 1MDB said it sent $3.5 billion. IPIC didn’t say if the other entities using Aabar’s name were also related to 1MDB.
1MDB is at the centre of probes at home and abroad, including in Switzerland, the US and Singapore as authorities seek to determine if some of the billions of dollars it raised were siphoned off. While it has denied wrongdoing, a report by a Malaysian parliamentary com-mittee in April identified at least $4.2 billion of questionable trans-
actions, including those involving Abu Dhabi companies.
Investigators are faced with a complex web of transactions, some of which involve companies with similar names. Questions over 1MDB and its finances have extended to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was until recently the head of its ad-visory board and who has faced a separate scandal over political do-nations.
Financial guarantees1MDB has “intimated the ex-istence of guarantees” of about $940 million provided by Aabar for units in a Cayman-registered fund owned by 1MDB unit Brazen Sky, and guarantees from Aabar BVI of investments held with various third-party fund manag-ers of about $1.5 billion, IPIC said in a financial statement released Thursday.
In September 2012, 1MDB sold its shares in a venture for $2.32 billion and received units in a Cayman-registered fund man-aged by Bridge Partners, a Hong Kong-based fund manager. 1MDB
said the units were owned by Bra-zen Sky, and held through Swiss bank BSI’s unit in Singapore as custodian. Transcripts of a par-liamentary committee probe of 1MDB showed lawmakers were told by its auditor of an invest-ment guarantee by Aabar.
“Both IPIC and Aabar confirm there is no record of any such guar-antees being provided by Aabar,” IPIC said. “Neither IPIC nor Aabar has received any payments, assets or fund units from Brazen Sky.”
1MDB declined to comment on the IPIC statement. It has said it negotiated “various legal agree-ments” with the previous heads of IPIC and Aabar, and called it a “surprising claim” that neither Gulf company knew of its dealings with Aabar.
Swiss authorities said in April they were investigating two for-mer public officials from the Unit-ed Arab Emirates, who handled Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds that guaranteed 1MDB bonds.
Ipic entered into an agreement with 1MDB in May 2015 to pro-vide the Malaysian fund $1 billion to settle liabilities in exchange for
a transfer of assets, and assume interest obligations on $3.5 bil-lion of debt. That deal included IPIC forgiving $482 million in debt, the financial statement on Thursday showed.
1MDB and Malaysia’s finance ministry “are in default” on the binding term sheet, Ipic said in
April. The tussle between the two companies spilled over to repay-ments on bonds issued by 1MDB, which led to a default in April. Ipic said on Thursday it’s taking a $3.5 billion provision related to guaran-tees it provided on 1MDB debt.
The Abu Dhabi company said last month it’s seeking $6.5 billion
from 1MDB and Malaysia’s finance ministry after they failed to “per-form their obligations, cure their defaults or put forward acceptable proposals” to resolve the disagree-ment. It submitted an arbitration request to a London court and 1MDB said it’ll provide a “robust response” by July 11. — Bloomberg News
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UNDER PROBE: 1MDB is at the centre of probes at home and abroad, including in Switzerland, the US and Singapore as authorities seek to determine if some of the billions of dollars it raised were si-phoned off. — Bloomberg file picture
Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis. — Bloomberg file picture
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US data in June offers hope for manufacturing sector
WASHINGTON: Factory activ-ity in the US Midwest surged to its highest in almost 1-1/2 years in June amid strong gains in new orders and production, offering a ray of hope for the downtrodden manufacturing sector.
While another report on Thurs-day showed an increase in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week, layoffs remained low in June, backing views the labour market remained healthy despite last month’s paltry job gains.
The signs of stability in manu-facturing and low layoffs added to consumer spending data in sug-gesting that economic growth re-gained speed in the second quarter.
But a cloud looms over the economy following Britain’s shock vote last week to leave the European Union. The so-called
Brexit referendum unsettled mar-kets and on Thursday, the Inter-national Monetary Fund said un-certainty over Britain’s departure was the biggest risk to the global economy.
‘unexpected Brexit’“The unexpected Brexit decision could have material influence on how manufacturers view the near-term outlook. It could also impact firms’ hiring decisions over the coming months,” said Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Char-lotte, North Carolina.
The Institute for Supply Man-agement-Chicago said its busi-ness barometer jumped 7.5 points
to 56.8 this month, the highest since January 2015. The increase unwound the prior two months’ declines. A gauge of new orders received by factories in the Mid-west region surged to its highest since October 2014. A measure of backlogged orders was the high-est in more than five years, after contracting for 16 consecutive months. At the same time, manu-facturers reported that produc-tion was at a five-year high and inventories were growing again.
US stocks rose for a third straight day, in line with global markets. The dollar was little changed against a basket of cur-rencies, while prices for US gov-ernment debt rose.
Stuck in a rutWhile the ISM-Chicago survey is volatile, it mirrored similar gains in some other regional factory sur-veys. Both the New York and Phil-adelphia Federal Reserve Banks this month reported rebounds in factory activity in New York state and mid-Atlantic region respec-tively. But their counterparts in Dallas and Richmond reported further slumps in activity.
The Institute for Supply Man-agement is expected to report on Friday that its national factory index was little changed at 51.4 in June. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector, which accounts for about 12 per cent of the US economy.
Despite the improvement in sentiment surveys, data on facto-ry orders, business spending and industrial production have shown manufacturing stuck in a rut since mid-2014 following a surge in the US dollar.
Lower oil pricesManufacturing has also been undermined by lower oil prices which have put pressure on pro-ducers of energy-related equip-ment and efforts by businesses to reduce an inventory overhang have also inflicted pain. In a sepa-rate report, the US Labor Depart-ment said initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 268,000 for the week ended June 25. Claims have now been below 300,000, a threshold associated with a strong jobs market, for 69 consecutive weeks, the longest streak since 1973. The four-week moving average of claims, con-sidered a better measure of la-bor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, was un-changed at 266,750 last week.
“The trend in the claims data has improved since late in May, supporting our view that the sharp weakening in May payrolls overstated any underlying sof-tening in the labour market,” said Daniel Silver, an economist at JP-Morgan in New York.
Nonfarm payrolls increased only 38,000, the smallest gain since September 2010. A Reuters survey of economists forecast payrolls rising 180,000 in June. The Labor Department will pub-lish its June employment report on July 8. — Reuters
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Committed to open UK data centre: Amazon
FRANKFURT: Amazon.com’s cloud computing division remains “committed” to opening a Lon-don data centre by early next year, even after the British public’s vote for the UK to leave the EU. It will also offer local customers the op-tion of hosting data in Germany or Ireland, a company executive said on Thursday.
“Demand for all our services is growing across all Europe. For us it’s business as usual,” Stephen Or-ban, head of enterprise strategy at Amazon Web Services, said in an interview at a customer confer-ence on Thursday in Frankfurt.
Britain’s vote last week to break away from the EU has raised con-cerns about how data-storage regulations in Europe and the UK will evolve. Orban confirmed Amazon’s planned UK data centre would open despite the uncertain-ty, opening later this year or early next as planned. “We’re watching the situation but I can’t speculate how everything is going to unfold,” Orban said. AWS offers data pro-tection agreements that have been approved by the EU’s Article 29 working group and plans to work with “the various different compli-ance rules and regulations” on the Continent, he said.
More complicatedBritain’s decision to leave the EU could make using the planned London centre more complicated for customers if the UK adheres to different rules than the rest of Eu-rope about storing and safeguard-ing data. The Brexit process raises concerns that Europe’s new Gen-eral Data Protection Regulation, approved in April and set to take ef-fect in 2018, will no longer apply in the UK once it leaves the EU. If the UK needs to create its own set of protection rules it could complicate business in Europe for cloud pro-viders such as AWS, Microsoft’s Azure service, and data businesses.
“We were considering using the UK one, mostly for UK customers,” said Charles Phillips, Chief Ex-ecutive of Infor, a New York-based business software company that’s one of AWS’s biggest customers. “It’s less likely given what’s going on. I don’t want to rush in there and then have customers tell us to do something different.”
Dublin centrePhillips, a former high-ranking ex-ecutive at Oracle, said Infor plans to keep hosting British customers’ data from Amazon’s Dublin centre, though he had hoped Amazon’s UK centre would offer faster Web response times.
Orban said European custom-ers that don’t want to tap comput-ing capacity from the upcoming UK cluster of data centres could still host their applications in Amazon’s Frankfurt and Dublin locations. Amazon’s cloud divi-sion, which the company says is on track for $10 billion in revenue this year, rents computing capacity and software that businesses can tap online instead of installing and maintaining their own servers.
— Bloomberg News
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China’s vast factory sector weakens in JuneSYDNEY: China’s vast factory sector flatlined in June as exports shrank and jobs were cut, a worry-ing trend evident across Asia that argues for yet more policy stimu-lus as doubts gather over the po-tency of measures taken so far.
The hard times signalled by a range of surveys was not what the world needed a week after Brit-ain’s vote to leave the European Union condemned that bloc to months, if not years, of political and economic instability.
Most of the responses from manufacturers also preceded the Brexit vote, suggesting July could be even tougher.
“The unimaginable has hap-pened and the UK vote will cast a long shadow over the UK, Europe and global markets for some time to come,” warned Westpac head currency strategist Robert Rennie.
“A structurally weaker pound, a softer euro and weaker global growth beckons.”
Among the many surveys out on Friday, China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) slipped
a tick to 50 in June, dead on the level that is supposed to separate growth from contraction.
One saving grace was the ser-vices sector measure, which nudged up to 53.7 in a positive sign for consumer activity.
More worrying was the Caixin version of the PMI, which covers
a greater share of smaller firms, where the index fell to a four-month trough of 48.6 in June, from 49.2 in May.
“Panellists widely commented that poor market conditions and a drop in new work had led them to cut output,” reported Caixin.
“Data suggested that part of the
weakness stemmed from softer foreign client demand, with new export sales declining for the sev-enth month in a row.”
That had to be a disappoint-ment to Beijing which has resort-ed to ever-looser fiscal and mone-tary policy to support growth and jobs in the world’s second largest economy.
It was a frustration likely shared by the Bank of Japan which found major manufacturers in a morose mood despite all its attempts at aggressive easing.
The reasons were clear in the Markit/Nikkei measure of Ja-pan’s PMI which edged up slightly to 48.1 in June, but stayed in con-tractionary territory for the fourth straight month.
Government data were no better with household spending down for the third month in a row and core consumer prices suffering their biggest annual drop since 2013.
Markets reacted by driving Japanese government bond yields deeper into negative territory. In-vestors now pay 24 basis points
for the privilege of lending Japan money for 10 years, a once un-thinkable condition that is be-coming standard fare.
The news from South Korea was relatively cheery as its PMI reached a six-month high, yet at 50.5 it was just barely into expan-sionary territory.
Indeed, a separate report showed shipments from the world’s sixth-largest exporter fell for an 18th straight month in June.
Likewise, electronics power-house Taiwan reported some im-provement but again growth was only marginal.
India’s PMI did hit a three-month top of 51.7, but it remains an outlier in an Asian region which could face a whole new threat should the Brexit vote her-ald a wider retreat from free trade.
Vaninder Singh, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland in Sin-gapore, noted the region had been the greatest beneficiary of globali-sation and any shift to trade barri-ers or closed borders would hurt Asia the most. — Reuters
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REGAINING SPEED: Signs of stability in manufacturing and low layoffs added to consumer spending
data in suggesting that economic growth regained speed in the second quarter. — Bloomberg file picture
NO CHILD’S PLAY: Workers assemble toy cars at a toy factory in
Jinjiang, southeast China’s Fujian province on Friday. - AFP
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Oracle loses $3b verdict for ditching HP Itanium chipSAN FRANCISCO: Oracle was ordered by a jury to pay $3 billion after finding that billionaire Larry Ellison and his company violated a contract to support software for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) once-promising Itanium chip.
The jury saw the case as clear cut and were swayed by what they saw as efforts by Ellison and for-mer HP Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd to hurt his previous employer, said juror Kyra Knaver, a student at Loyola Marymount Uni-versity in Los Angeles. Ellison lured Hurd to Oracle in 2010 shortly af-ter Hurd resigned amid an inves-tigation into his relationship with a contractor.
Unanimous verdictJurors in state court in San Jose, California, reached the unanimous verdict in less than five hours of de-liberations Thursday, concluding that Oracle’s decision to bail out of an agreement to develop software for the Itanium chip hurt HP’s revenue. Oracle said it will appeal the verdict, which is the largest in
the US this year according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
“Oracle’s decision to stop fu-ture software development on the Itanium server platform in March of 2011 was a clear breach of con-
tract that caused serious damage to HP and our customers,” Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. said in an e-mailed statement.
The decision is the second trial defeat for Oracle in about a month
after the company lost a $9 billion verdict to Google while trying to stake a claim to the search giant’s Android phone business. The $3 billion award, if ultimately paid, would account for 5.4 per cent of
Oracle’s $56 billion cash on hand, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. HP has since sepa-rated two companies, with Hewl-ett Packard Enterprise taking the business under dispute with Ora-cle. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, looking to invest in new ways to win customers, has about $9 bil-lion in cash, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Since it split in November from its sibling company, now HP, its shares have jumped about 10.4 per cent.
Developing softwareIn 2010, Oracle agreed to con-tinue supporting the Itanium chip among other products. Two years later, a judge ruled that Or-acle was contractually obligated to continue developing software for Itanium. Oracle told the jury at this month’s trial that it had re-introduced the platform and would include support for it in future updates.
“Oracle never believed it had a contract to continue to port our software to Itanium indefinitely
and we do not believe so today,” the company said in a statement after the verdict.
Latest software“Oracle has been providing all its latest software for the Itanium systems since the original ruling while HP and Intel stopped devel-oping systems years ago.”
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ar-gued that by abandoning the prod-uct in 2011, the damage was al-ready done.
Diana Garrett, a retired Intel software manager, said her fa-miliarity with chip development helped her to quickly reject Ora-cle’s case. “Their arguments didn’t make sense,” she said. “Pretty much nothing added up.”
The Itanium chip, developed in collaboration between HP and In-tel in 2001, was once touted as ar-chitecture that would be pervasive in the computer industry. The pro-cessor failed to win industry-wide adoption, causing both HP and In-tel to reduce their investment in it.
— Bloomberg News
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Hershey rejects $23 billion Mondelez takeover attempt
NEW YORK: Hershey said on Thursday it had rejected a $23 billion takeover bid by Monde-lez International that would seek to expand the latter’s limited US footprint and create the world’s largest confectioner.
The snub underscores the chal-lenges Mondelez Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld faces in wooing Hershey’s controlling sharehold-er, the Hershey Trust, a $12 billion charity created by the eponymous company’s founder a century ago.
The maker of Hershey’s Kisses and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups saw its shares trade above Monde-lez’s bid of $107 per share in cash and stock, indicating investors ex-pected a new offer.
A merger of two of the world’s top five candy makers would add Hershey’s strong US business to Mondelez’s global footprint.
Earlier, a source said that Mon-delez had sought to provide as-surances to Hershey that it would keep its name and preserve jobs. Mondelez sees little antitrust risk given the limited geographic over-lap of the two companies’ busi-nesses, the source added.
“The board of directors of the company unanimously rejected the indication of interest and de-termined that it provided no basis for further discussion between Mondelez and the company,” Her-
shey said in a statement. Monde-lez, the maker of Oreos cookies, is the second-largest confectionary company globally, while Hershey ranks number five. Their merger would put them in the top place at 18 per cent of the market, ac-cording to market research firm Euromonitor International. The combined company would leap-frog Mars Inc, which has 13.3 per cent of the global market.
A fusion of the two would give Mondelez control over the pro-duction and distribution of Cad-bury brand chocolates in the United States, which Hershey currently holds the license to pro-duce, paying royalties to Monde-lez. It would also give Mondelez the US production and distribu-tion rights for Kit Kat, one of the most popular chocolate brands in the world, which industry sources
said would be a significant boost to Mondelez. Nestle manufactures Kit Kat worldwide, but Hershey has the rights in the United States, paying Nestle royalties from sales. Mondelez’s bid could put pressure on Nestle to consider its own bid for Hershey.
Upon change of control at Her-shey, the license would revert back to Nestle for free, depriving value for a potential acquirer.
Hershey Trust troubleThe bid pits Deerfield, Illinois-based Mondelez against the Her-shey Trust, one of Pennsylvania’s wealthiest charities. The trust has about 81 per cent of Hershey’s vot-ing rights and in 2002 prevented the Hershey, Pennsylvania-based company from being acquired by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co for $12 billion.
Pennsylvania’s attorney gen-
eral also sued to block the Wrigley deal, arguing it would hurt the lo-cal community.
Created by Hershey founder Milton Hershey to provide for the Milton Hershey School, a private school for children from low-in-come families, the trust has been the subject of an investigation re-cently by Pennsylvania’s attorney general over conflicts of interest and mismanagement.
The trust’s chief compliance of-ficer was put on leave last month after a leaked memo showed the board had spent nearly $4 million investigating conflicts of interest and insider-trading accusations against board members. A top trust official was also sacked in May and pled guilty to wire fraud.
Starting pointTigress Financial Partners ana-lyst Philip Van Deusen said he ex-pected the offer price to increase, given the rise in Hershey’s shares.
“I think ($107) is a good starting place,” he said.
Analysts have been skeptical of takeover bids for Hershey in the past.
“The Trust ... is outwardly very committed to keeping the com-pany independent,” Bernstein analyst Alexia Howard said in June last year. “So it’s pretty much impossible for an activist to get involved or for the company to be bought.”
Last year, William Ackman revealed his activist hedge fund Pershing Square had built a stake worth about $5.5 billion in Mon-delez, in what was seen as an at-tempt to push the company to boost earnings or sell itself. — Reuters
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Firms target to tap cleaner fuels in India
NEW DELHI: Refining technolo-gy companies Honeywell UOP and Technip see growth opportunities in India as oil demand booms and the government seeks cleaner fu-els within four years to tackle air pollution.
France’s Technip projects as much as 20 per cent annual sales growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, while UOP India, a unit of New Jersey-based Honeywell International, expects an increase of at least 15 per cent.
“That’s exciting for us,” UOP India’s Managing Director Steven C. Gimre said in an interview near New Delhi on Monday. “We’re in the process of bidding on some projects that are coming up, and we’ve also signed up some pro-jects.”
Technip India’s Senior Vice President Shekhar Balvalli said India is fast-tracking improve-ments at state-run refiners so that petrol and diesel comply with a lo-cal equivalent of European Euro 6 emission standards by April 2020. While refiners plan a Rs288-bil-lion ($4.3-billion) outlay on up-grades, the timeline is aggressive in a nation where infrastructure deadlines have slipped.
Gimre said UOP is tying up with engineers such as Larsen & Tou-bro (L&T) to prefabricate the re-finery units that state-run compa-nies need by 2020, a model that he argued allows for a speedier shift to making cleaner fuel.
India is expected to surpass Ja-pan as the world’s third-largest oil user this year and will be the fastest-growing crude consumer in the world through 2040, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates. — Bloomberg News
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Boeing predicts huge potential market for its mid-size planesCHICAGO: Boeing says the po-tential market for its first all-new passenger jet since the 787 Dream-liner is coming into sharp focus — and it could be huge.
The US planemaker is honing designs for mid-range planes to whisk travellers from New York to London, Sydney to Shanghai or Dubai to Oslo. The aircraft would fill the gap in its product line be-tween the largest single-aisle
737 and smallest widebody 787, a relatively untapped market where Airbus Group is starting to extend its reach.
Boeing estimates that sales could reach between 4,000 and 5,000 middle-of-market jetlin-ers as airlines find new routes for the planes. The US manufacturer would be poised to capitalize, provided it can keep production costs in check and prices reason-
able, said Mike Delaney, general manager of airplane development. He used the term “when,” not “if,” while discussing the prospects for the new aircraft family, which would begin commercial flights next decade.
Recent discussions with 36 air-line customers have given Delaney confidence that Boeing is on the verge of a breakthrough after years spent seeking a replacement for
its out-of-production 757. Mike Sinnett, who heads product devel-opment for the company’s com-mercial planes, has delved into the prices airlines would be willing to pay, and performance they’d ex-pect, for jets that seat between 200 and 270 people with the range to fly about 5,000 nautical miles.
“It is not easy, it is not impos-sible. We are not there yet,” Dela-ney told reporters in a briefing last
month ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow. “But in the last six months Mike’s team has closed the gap pretty good.”
Boeing’s board must still green-light the effort, and the business case is challenging. Analysts have pegged demand more conserva-tively, at around 1,500 planes, said aerospace consultant Kevin Michaels. Developing a clean-sheet design would cost at least
$10 billion, and that’s assuming Boeing avoids the stumbles that delayed the Dreamliner’s 2011 de-but by more than three years.
“The economics are going to be everything because of the entry costs,” said Michaels, managing director of Aerodynamic Advisory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “I think the likely scenario is maybe they get board approval to begin selling it later this year.” — Bloomberg News
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Hennes & Mauritz (H&M),the Swedish fast-fashion chain that
operates H&M stores throughout Europeand the US, suffered its weakest sales
growth in three years in the second quarter. Meanwhile, same-store sales turned negative
in the 15 weeks to June 11 at Debenhams,the British department store chain,
as the hit from the poor weather wascompounded by a knock to consumer
confidence from the looming referendumon whether the UK should leave
the European Union.
ANDREA FELSTED
Two big retailers have laid bare just how bad the clothing market really is.
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the Swedish fast-fashion chain that oper-ates H&M stores through-out Europe and the US,
suffered its weakest sales growth in three years in the second quarter. March and April were "significantly below" forecasts after unseasonably cold weather, it said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, same-store sales turned negative in the 15 weeks to June 11 at Debenhams, the British depart-ment store chain, as the hit from the poor weather was compounded by a knock to consumer confidence from the looming referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union.
Debenhams shares had their worst day this year while H&M's fluctu-ated. Both maintained their discount, measured by their forward price-to-earnings ratio, to their peers. Their outlook is softer than for some big rivals such as Inditex, owner of the Zara clothing store chain, so that dis-count looks justified.
H&M is more exposed than Inditex to the dollar's strength as it buys about 80 per cent of its stock from suppliers in Asia, who are paid in dollars, com-pared with about 35 per cent for In-ditex. The company said the stronger greenback will continue lifting its costs in the third quarter.
It also said stock at the end of the second quarter was up 29 per cent from a year ago, and now accounts for 13.7 per cent of sales, compared with 11.8 per cent previously. That surplus, which it partly attributed to weaker-than-expected sales, suggests further
markdowns to come that could heap pressure on profits.
As for Debenhams, it has already moved into its sale period. So even if a vote for Britain to remain in the EU helps revive consumer spending, or if there's a heatwave that lifts demand for summer clothing, the full effects won't fall through to the bottom line of the current period. Neither M&S nor Next have begun their sales, so they could benefit more from a late boost in spending.
In addition to the factors that were important in the current pe-riod, both H&M and Debenhams highlighted a general weakness in the clothing market over the last few months. As Gadfly has noted, women are simply buying fewer clothes.
A clothing Armageddon has hit Europe and the US, and prospects for retailers hinge on their response.
Inditex is doing well here. Though
sales are still growing strongly, it's nevertheless recognised that it should expand its store base more gradually to lower its costs.
Both H&M and Debenhams recog-nise they need to address the chal-lenging conditions. H&M is invest-ing in the growth of new brands such as Cos and & Other Stories. That's unusual for a clothing retailer, that's normally more concerned with cut-ting costs than actually trying to take sales in a difficult market. But it's the right thing to do because when wom-en buy fewer clothes, they will be in-creasingly choosy when they do so, and these ventures tick both the style and value boxes.
The strategy looks to be paying off, as both brands are doing well. But H&M still faces challenges at its core chain, which is battling against discount rivals such as the ever-expanding Primark.
Debenhams, meanwhile, is trying to tackle a surplus of selling space by filling this with outside brands and restaurants. But incoming chief exec-utive Sergio Bucher should go further, and look at whether he needs so many stores in the first place.
He needs to do this soon, because the company is already seeing a downturn in clothing sales across Britain. The company said recently that across Britain, clothing sales fell four per cent in the 12 weeks to May 8. It said its market share was flat during the period, but that's a fine line to be treading in a diffi-cult market and when their broader sales are down. Investors are right to be cautious.
While the rain and referendum may come and go, the shift in wom-en's shopping patterns looks set to stay for a while.— Bloomberg News
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Review your FridgeDecomposed food left in our fridge attacks us through our sense of smell. The fridge poses a greater challenge than the waste bin and sometimes people won’t even consider clearing it before they leave for the holidays. Mould spores from affected food can build up undetected in your fridge and affect fresh food, so better double check your fridge and throw any food that could potentially rot, during your leave.
Don’t Leave Dirty DishesIf you don’t wash the dishes before you leave on vacation you might be prompted to throw them away when you return! Food gets crusty and seamlessly attaches itself to the dishes. Also, you may want to consider throwing your old sponge away after doing the dishes - they can harbour a huge amount of bacteria after use.
Time to Take Out the TrashIs there anything worse than coming home after the holidays to a horrible smell because you forgot to throw something out, like the garbage? In summer, heat is best friends with bacteria found in the trash, so, before you go on vacation, be sure to remove the plastic bag from the bucket and make sure the bin itself is free from moisture and waste. Also, keep in mind that you should also throw the trash in the bathrooms and do a tour of the house to make sure not to find surprises on your return.
Disinfect your DrainsWhen you leave for holiday and the weather gets hotter, insects can start leaving their homes and invading yours. You may want to consider disinfecting your drains with natu-ral products. Start by letting hot water run through the drains for about 15 seconds. Now the drain is heated, pour a teaspoon of baking
soda in and continue to run hot water for a fur-ther 15 seconds. This should kill the majority of odours. Another option is to pour a cup of vinegar or lemon juice down the drain and let it set for 30 minutes before flushing it down with hot water.
Do the LaundryThe longer clothes stay dirty, the more devel-oped and resistant their odours will become. Bacteria thrives when it is exposed to three things: Organic material, warmth and mois-ture. This makes your dirty clothes the perfect breeding ground for bacteria, so don’t forget to wash dirty clothes, bedsheets and towels, before you leave.
Unplug Electrical AppliancesMost appliances generally consume at least some electricity, when left plugged in. How-
ever, some appliances consume a lot of en-ergy even when on standby mode. The cumu-lative effect of leaving them on and plugged in whilst away will add up. Before leaving on your voyage you should unplug your com-puters and TVs, along with DVD players, TV boxes and all your kitchen appliances. You will be saving yourself money and becoming more eco-friendly.
Leave the AC on When LeavingBefore leaving make sure that you leave your AC on (on low), setting it to turn on once per day for a short amount of time - don’t turn it off. The AC not only cools down the house but also removes humidity that could form due to condensation, preventing mould to spread. It also avoids the overheating of the ambiences, protecting electronic items and furniture to be exposed to high summer temperatures.-Helpling.com
After Ramadan, while preparing to leave for Eid holidays, your bags are packed and you haven’t forgotten anything.
But before you get there you have one last task on your to-do list: Getting the house ready to fend for itself, for some
weeks. It’s time for the pre-vacation clean-up. Here is a list of few things that must be done to ensure a smooth return.
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TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)
17:30 Sinaw 20:50 Daily
TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)
14:30 Nizwa 16:50 Daily
14:30 Yanqul 19:30 Daily
TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)
08:00 Nizwa 10:20 Daily
08:00 Al Araqi 12:30 Daily
TO SUR (ROUTE 55)
07:30 Sur 12:00 Daily
14:30 Sur 18:45 Daily
TO FAHUD - YIBAL (ROUTE 62)
06:30 Fahud 10:30 Daily
06:30 Yibal 11:15 Daily
TO MARMUL-SALALAH (ROUTE 100)
07:00 Salalah 20:00 Daily
10:00 Marmul 20:30 Daily
10:00 Salalah 23:30 Daily
19:00 Salalah 07:40 Daily
TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)
06:00 Marmul 16:50 Daily
SALALAH TO DUBAI (ROUTE 102)
15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily
TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)
06:00 Sohar 08:30 Daily
06:00 Dubai 11:30 Daily
13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur
13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur
15:00 Sohar 17:35 Daily
15:00 Dubai 20:55 Daily
TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)
07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily
07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily
07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily
TO MUSCAT (RUWI)
Dept Destination Arrival Operatingtime time days
FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (ROUTE 36)
05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily
05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily
05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily
TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)
07:00 Sohar 08:55 Daily
07:00 Ruwi 11:40 Daily
13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri
13:00 Sohar 14:55 Daily
13:00 Ruwi 17:40 Daily
13:00 Sohar 19:20 Daily
17:00 Ruwi 22:15 Daily
TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)
07:00 Ruwi 10:25 Daily
TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)
06:00 Nizwa 08:40 Daily
06:00 Ruwi 11:00 Daily
TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)
15:40 Nizwa 17:55 Daily
15:40 Ruwi 20:20 Daily
TO SUR (ROUTE 55)
06:00 Ruwi 10:45 Daily
14:30 Ruwi 19:00 Daily
TO YIBAL - FAHUD (ROUTE 62)
12:30 Fahud 13:15 Daily
12:30 Ruwi 17:30 Daily
TO SALALAH -MARMUL (ROUTE 100)
07:00 Ruwi 19:50 Daily
10:00 Marmul 13:15 Daily
10:00 Ruwi 22:30 Daily
19:00 Ruwi 07:30 Daily
TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)
06:00 Marmul 16:30 Daily
DUBAI TO SALALAH (ROUTE 102)
15:00 Salalah 07:00 Daily
TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)
07:30 Sohar 10:50 Daily
07:30 Ruwi 13:40 Daily
13:00 Sohar 16:15 Thur-Fri
13:00 Ruwi 19:10 Thur-Fri
15:30 Sohar 18:45 Daily
15:30 Ruwi 21:35 Daily
FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH/SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)
16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily
16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily
16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily
CITY CINEMAContact (10 am to 6PM) 24567664 | 68 www.citycinemaoman.netfacebook.com/citycinemaoman
SHATTINow You See Me 2 (2D) (Action | Comedy | Thriller) (PG12) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:00 PMThe Crew (2D) (Action | Adventure | Drama) (PG12) Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Shakurov11:30 PMElvis & Nixon (Comedy | History) (PG12) Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer9:45 PMRabid Dogs (Action | Drama | Thriller) (12+) Cast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix11:30 PMThe Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2D) (Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller) (18+) Cast: Ethan Peck, India Eisley, Natalie Hall9:45 PMGhosthunters (2D) (Comedy | Mystery | Family) (PG) Cast: Liz Fenning, Anna Harr, Stephen Manley11:30 PM
MUSCAT GRAND MALLElvis & Nixon - (2D) (Comedy | History) (PG12)Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer9:30 & 11:30PM (PG12)Elvis & Nixon - (2D) (Comedy | History) (PG12) GOLD CLASS11:15PMThe Crew - (2D) (Action | Adventure | Drama) (PG12) GOLD CLASSCast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey9:00PM
The Crew - (2D) (Action | Adventure | Drama) (PG12)Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Shakurov9:15PMThe Asian Connection - (2D) (Action) (15+)Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp11:45PM
PANORAMA MALLElvis & Nixon - (2D) (Comedy | History) (PG12)Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer9:30 & 11:15PMElvis & Nixon - (2D) (Comedy | History) (PG12) VIP LOUNGE10:30PMRabid Dogs - (2D) (12+) (Action | Drama | Thriller) (PG12) VIP LOUNGECast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix11:45PMThe Jungle Book - (3D) Adventure | Drama| Family) (PG) MX4DCast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
9:15PMThe Crew - (2D) (Action | Adventure | Drama) (PG12)Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte11:15PMNow You See Me 2 - (2D) (Action | Comedy |Thriller ) (PG12)Cast: Michael Jai White, Steven Seagal, Pim Bubear11:30PMUdta Punjab - (2D) (Crime | Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh9:00PMWarcraft - (4D) (Action| Adventure | Fantasy) (PG12)Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster9:15PM
AZAIBA School Bus (Mal) (2D) (Thriller | Drama) (PG) Cast: Aakash Muraleedharan, Angelina Roshan, Kunchacko Boban10:00 PMJackson Durai (Tamil) (2D) (Comedy | Horror) (TBC) Cast: Satyaraj, Sibiraj, Bindhu Madhavi9:15 PM
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Hours To Go (Hindi) (2D) (Thriller) (12+) Cast: Sandeepa Dhar, Shiv Pandit, Vipin Sharma9:15, 11:30 PMUdta Punjab (Hindi) (2D) (Crime | Thriller) Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh9:00, 11:35 PM (PG12) Houseful 3 (Hindi) (2D) (Romance | Comedy) Cast: Akshay Kumar, Jacquline Fernandes, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhishek Bacchan11:45 PM (PG12)
RUWIScreen 1Udta Punjab - (2D) (Crime | Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh10:00PMScreen 2Housefull 3 (2D) (Comedy / Drama) –PG12Cast : Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri, Jacqueline Fernandez10.00 PMScreen 3Te3n (2D) (Hindi | Thriller ) (PG12)Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan10:30PM
SURThe Crew ( Action | Adventure | Drama) Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudute, Sergey Shakurov9:15PM (PG12)Rabid Dogs ( Action ) ( 12+ ) Cast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix.9:15 PMSchool Bus ( Mal | Drama | Thriller ) (PG) Cast Kunchacko Boban, Aakash Muraleed-haran, Angelina Roshan.11:30 PMGhosthunters ( Comedy | Family ( PG ) Cast : Liz Fenning, Anna Harr, Stephen Manley.11:45 PM
SOHARThe Crew - (2D) (Action | Drama) (PG12)Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey9:00 & 11:45PMThe Asian Connection - (2D) (Action) (15+)Cast:Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White, Pim11:45PMUdta Punjab - (2D) (Crime | Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh11:15PM
The Call Up - (2D) (Action | Sci-Fi) (PG12)Cast: Morfydd Clark, Chris Obi9:30PMKammati Paadam - (2D) (Mal| Crime) (12+)Cast: Dulquer Salman, Shaun Romy10:00PMOka Manasu - Telugu (2D) (Romance | Comedy) (TBC)Cast: Niharika Konidela, Naga Shourya, Niharika Konidela9:00 PM
BURAIMISchool Bus PG (Malayalam) (Family | Drama)Cast: Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya, Aparna Gopinath9:00 PMRabid Dogs 12+ (Action | Drama | Thriller)Cast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix11:45 PM Udta Punjab PG12 (Crime | Thriller)Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh11:15 PMGhosthunters PG (Comedy | Family | Fantasy)Cast: Liz Fenning, Anna Harr, Stephen Manley 9:30 PMIntruders 15+ (Drama| Horror | Thriller)Cast: Rory Culkin, Leticia Jimenez, Jack Kesy11:45 PMThe Crew PG12 (Action | Adventure | Drama)Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Shakurov9:15 PM
SALALAHThe Crew (PG12) (Action |Drama) Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey9:00, 11:45 PM Elvis And Nixon (PG12) (Comedy | History) Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex9:30 PMUdta Punjab (PG12) (Thriller | Crime) Cast: Shaid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt11:15 PMRabid Dogs (12+) (Action | Drama | Thriller) Cast: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, 9:15 PMSchool Bus (PG) (Malayalam |Thriller) Cast: Aakash Muraleedharan, Kunchacko Boban11:15 PM
CINEMA SCHEDULE CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 3 YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CINEMA | BOX-OFFICE COUNTER OPENS 30-MINUTES PRIOR TO THE SCREENING OF THE FIRST SHOW
BAHJA CINEMAFilm information 24540856 / Advance Booking
24540855
Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com
The Asian Connection (Action)
Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White, Pim
Bubear
11.45 p.m.
CP No : 1764 (15+)
Intruder (Horror/Thriller)
Cast: Justin Amnet, Steven Beckingham, Teressa
Decher
11.45 p.m.
CP No : 1785 (15+)
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (Fantasy/
Thriller)
Cast: Ethan Peck, India Eisley, Natalia Hall
9.30 p.m.
CP No : 1786 (18+)
Ghosthunters (Comedy / Family/ Fantasy)
Cast: Anke, Milo Parker, Bastian Pastewka
9.30 p.m.
CP No : 1787 (PG)
STAR CINEMAFilm information 24791641 / 24786776
Website: www.isurf.co.om
School Bus ( Mal)( Thriller)
Cast: Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya & Aparna
Gopinath
10-00 PM Cinema Main
Udta Punjab ( Hindi) (Act)
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor & Alia Bhatt
9-30 PM Cinema- 4
Gentleman ( Telugu) ( Drama\ Comedy)
Cast : Nani & Surabhi Thomas
9-45 pm Cinema -3
Jackson Durai (Tamil) ( Horror\Comedy)
Cast: Sibiraj, Sathyaraj & Bindu Madhavi
9-30 pm Cinema -2
Next Change: Sultan (Hindi); Happy Wedding
(Mal)
Programmes are subject to change
@ AZAIBA
School Bus (Mal) (2D) (Thriller | Drama) (PG) Cast: Aakash Muraleedharan, Angelina Roshan, Kunchacko Boban10:00 PM
@ PANORAMA MALL
Elvis & Nixon - (2D) (Comedy | History) (PG12)Cast: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer9:30 & 11:15PM
@ SHATTI
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2D) (Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller) (18+) Cast: Ethan Peck, India Eisley, Natalie Hall9:45 PM
@ BURAIMI
Ghosthunters PG (Comedy | Family | Fantasy)Cast: Liz Fenning, Anna Harr, Stephen Manley 9:30 PM
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LIFESTYLE
FACT FILE
(Exploring History, Science, and Nature)
Winie Ariany
SpidersTHERE are more than 40,000 kinds of spiders living on every continent except Antarctica. These carnivores (meat-eaters) use their fangs and venom to catch and kill their food. Closely related to scorpions and ticks, these eight-leg-ged arachnids are quite helpful to peo-ple because they eat pesky insects. Spiders have two main body parts: The cephalothorax and the abdomen, con-nected by a thin waist called the pedicel. Most spiders have eight eyes, but some have six, four or only two, and some cave species have no eyes. All spiders have the ability to make silk, but not all spiders spin webs. Spiders use their silk for a variety of purposes. Some spin webs or drop lines to catch prey. Others use the silk to line their nests. Spiders leave a trail of silk behind them called a dragline. This is used as a lifeline when they are knocked off their web or other surface. Spiders make silk using their silk glands. Most spiders have five silk glands, and each gland produces a different kind of silk. Some spiders only see light and shadow. Their eyes are considered “simple,” as they don’t have compound lenses like many insects do. Spiders do not have bones. Their bodies are contained in an outer skeleton covered in hairs and spines called an exoskeleton.
Dangerous SpidersSpider bites are rarely deadly, but sever-al species in North America are venom-ous, some more poisonous than others.
The black widow can be found in North America, from Canada to Mexico, and in the West Indies.The brown recluse prefers warmer cli-mates across the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.There are about 900 species of tarantula. These hairy arachnids have a nasty repu-tation, but most are harmless to people. Many dig burrows and live in the ground, but some live in trees.The hobo spider has a nasty, but not fa-tal, bite. It can be found in the northwest part of the United States, western Cana-da and throughout Europe.
ArachnophobiaArachnophobia is the fear of spiders, and one of the more common phobias. Many people do not like spiders, and some tru-ly fear them. This phobia may be rooted in ancient instincts that helped early hu-mans survive.
Did you Know?North America is home to more than 4,000 species of spiders. Spiders liquid-ise their food with digestive enzymes. They have appendages that they use like straws to suck up dinner. Spider silk is made of protein and does not dissolve in water. It is considered to be the world’s strongest natural fibre. Many ancient cultures have used spider silk as bandages. Spider silk protects wounds and has a natural antiseptic that helps prevent infections.—[email protected]
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LIFESTYLES AT U R DAY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6
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Actor, Alcatraz, Alias, August, Awards, Belushi, Brian, Cinema, Clifhangers, Composer, Cruise, Drama, Film,
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Pesci, Prolific, Romance, Samurai, Screen, Seasons, Serials, Six Degrees, Star Trek, Suburbans, Suspense,
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*Tourist visa arranged
Spacious 4BHK with split A/C’S, 4
bathrooms & storeroom, near Church
roundabout, Mumtaz area.
Rent:R.O 575, Contact:99349672
Office for rent in Al Ansab near
bank Muscat. Contact: 99466173
3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.
18 November Street. Near Mars
Hypermarket and The Chedi.
Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or
Residential use. OMR 295/- month.
Call 94477222
Flats for rent, location: Dar-
sait AENT. Contact: 99885957 /
24488075
2 BHK flat near Indian school
Wadi Kabir. Contact – 24714625/
91173997
Villa available –Built up 300m2,
3 bedrooms, sitting, family lounge,
kitchen, 3 toilets, near 100 meters
from Indian School Sohar-
Contact: 26843530, 95856630
2 BHK flat in AL Ghobrah near
Indian school. Contact: 95933961
Studio & 1 BHK flats in Al Khuwair
rent 170/- & 200/-.
Contact: 97616158
3 bedroom well maintained flat (vil-
la type only 2 flats in one bldg) in
Al Khuwair, behind Al Aktham res-
taurant villa no 1839, Way no 3922
block 239. Contact: 99462980
Home for rent (4 bed room), Ruwi.
Contact: 95178248
2 BHK, 1 hall and Mawaleh north
Masjid Sadiq Al Amin. Contact:
99224748 / 99425665
5 Rooms, 2 hall villa 18th Nov road
north Azaiba.
Contact: 99224748 /99425665
One bed room flat for rent near
Indian School Darsait. Contact:
99322363/95453813/95806611
2 BHK, 1 Hall & seating room
Athaibah. Contact: 99224748 /
99425665
Two bedrooms flat behind Ger-
man Embassy nearer to Al Nahdha
hospital. Contact: 99203954
2 Bedroom, 1 sitting room, 1 toilet,
1 kitchen at Darsait.
Contact: 99022487
3 BHK Al Khuwair. R.O 375/-.
Contact: 97799175
1BHK Ghobrah R.O 250/-. Contact:
97799175 /92144045
1.2.3 BHK flats & villas. Contact:
92144045/ 97799175
Flats for rent near Indian school in
Wadi Kabir.
Contact 99777122
1BHK Darsait 200/- R.O.
Contact: 99342661
Store in Mabela industrial area
100m2. Contact: 99342661
2 BHK near Oman House Muttrah.
Contact: 99233116
10 studio apartments & 12 fully
furnished executive apartments
ready for occupation - location at
Falaj Al Qabail -
Contact 22092638 /94532131;
Email: [email protected]
Room for rent one bed room with
separate toilet Qurum, Mars hyper
market building.
Content: 96570147
2 bed rooms flat in Wattaya
OMR 300/-. Contact: 99202602
I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O.
175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/
Very big sitting area/ kitchen
- Villa 1st floor with A/C at Al
Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.
R.O 360/-For families. Contact:
94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm.
Email – [email protected]
1 BHK near Oman house Muttrah.
Contact: 99233116
Shop for good location on main
road behind whole sale Al Amerat
Space 11 MT long, 4 MT wide.
Contact: 92877449
Room with attached bathroom,
sharing, kitchen for executive
bachelor / lady or couple in Wadi
Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid, Please
Contact: 96510226/98404827
2 BHK flat at Darsait behind KIMS
hospital. Contact: 92141514
Villa for rent at Azaiba, near al
Meera hypermarket. 4 Bedrooms,
3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room and
dining room. This will include
curtains and air conditioners.
Sharing is allowed ro.500/-.
Please call 99469203
2 Bed room, 2 bath room, 1 hall
and kitchen behind Bank Muscat
for rent. Contact: 99313533
New flats for rent Muscat
Al Zafarania, split units AC , all
rooms & bed room R.O 200/-,
3 bedroom R.O 300/- negotiable.
Contact: 93393755
House in Darsait, 3 rooms,
1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C.
Contact: 95522405
Single room flat near Jibroo
roundabout on Road Muttrah:
99373290, 24815012
Rooms for rent single rooms with
A/C & bath attached available at
Rex Road Indian bachelor and
family (couple) from 1st July 2016.
Contact: 99116286
Large building with 14 rooms &
big open shed in a compound in
Ghobrah near Mars hypermarket.
Good for staff accommodation and
stores. Please call 98048207 /
99261773
1 BHK fully furnish flat in Hamriya
for short terms. Contact – 99792181
1 BHK flat in Al Khuwair for
2 months. Contact – 99792181
1 Room for sharing accommoda-
tion in Al Khuwair.
Contact - 99792181
3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommoda-
tion in Al Khuwair.
Contact - 99792181
Flats, shops & store for rent in
MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.
Contact: 97293708 / 92433127
Offices and flats in Ghala.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
New villa for rent Al Hail north
neat to Ramez near to Main road
open sitting room with washing
area 3 family hall, dining room
, kitchen with store , laundry
5 BR with bathrooms. Contact:
93387732 / 99259977
2 BHK sea view flat Darsait.
Contact: 95311488
2 BHK specious flat behind Bank
Muscat Wadi Kabir near Indian
School: 99373290, 24815012
Flats in Darsait. Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room,
hall. Contact: 90991079
Flats in Muttrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Flats for rent in Mumtaz,
2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352
building no. 3447 & 3668.
Contact: 90991079
Two bedrooms flat behind Ger-
man Embassy near to Al Nahda
Hospital. Contact: 99209354
Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm
show rooms for rent 400/- R.O.
Contact: 99879939
Fully Furnished apartments in
Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 /
97201688
2000 sqft land with p/cabin,
toilets at YETI. Contact 99221683
/ 92830110
Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.
Contact 94051789 / 97201688
Villa in Al Khuwair, 6 rooms,
living room & hall.
Contact: 91153933
Deluxe two bedroom flat at
Mumtaz area, two bathrooms, good
size living/dining room, modern
kitchen and a guest bathroom.
Contact 99310375
3BHK, 2BHK and 1BHK flats with
split air conditioners are available
for rent in new building in AL Qurum,
near Rose garden. Interested persons
may content on Phone Nos. 95133331
/ 96722449
1 BHK near medical Darsait, Mut-
trah house R.O 180/-
. Contact: 95076261
Villa for rent in South Mabellah,
3 bedrooms, sitting room, family
Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact
92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.
Ruwi office space for rent,
Saravana Bhava Building.
Contact: 95729549
2 BHK with Split A/C in MSQ, Bareeq
Al Shatti, Al Ghobrah near Indian
school. Content: 96708000
1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu
Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense)
Contact: 93202733 / 94771769
New flat for rent separate property
in Al Mawaleh South 3, 3 bedrooms
, 3 bathrooms , hall, Kitchen & store.
All are with A/C split unit.
Contact: Whatsapp 98575157
Flat for rent in Al Mawaleh South
3, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall,
kitchen & store with air condition.
Contact 98575157
2 BHK one bath one toilet separate
near ISM Darsait close to Al Noor
hypermarket and Muscat pharma-
cy. Contact: 99354975 / 99065900
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6 C3
Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789
/ 97201688
Flats in Ghobrah. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
Brand new villas in Al Ansab.
Contact 94051789-97201688
Flats in Al khuwair. Contact 94051789-97201688
Villa for rent at Azaiba, near Al
Meera hypermarket, 4 bedrooms,
3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room
and dining room, this will include
curtains and air conditioners.
RO 520/-. Contact 99469203
Flat for rent 2 BHK in Darsait
North near Indian School about
200 mtrs, rent RO 300/-.
Contact: 94101134
3 BHK flat at Azaiba, Opp. Sultan
Centre. Contact 99261522
Shop for rent at Wadi Kabir Indus-
trial area. Contact: 99888390
Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah
3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen
rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580
1 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury
Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 2
B/R Fully Furnished Luxury
Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 4
B/R Unfurnished Apartment with
attached Split A/C @ Azaiba. For
Short Term or Long Term lease.
Contact: Atlas Real Estate & Rent A
Car LLC : 99249069 / 94617563/
99436312/ 92888376,
Email: [email protected]
2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly
& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly
new building good location Barka
Market. contact 99342661
Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall
4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3
floor 400. Contact 99420346
2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir behind
Pioneer Hotel apartment.
Contact: 99857332 /99261522
Rent flat near Ruwi Badar Al
Sama, 2 bed rooms, attach bath-
room, big hall, and big kitchen.
Contact - 99345137
Rent flat in Wada Adai, one bed
room with toilet, big kitchen, hall
with A/C. Contact 99345137
3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in
Misfah. Contact 99792181
1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small
store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.
Contact 99792181
2 bed rooms flat with hall,
2 bathrooms in Darsait near
Muscat Municipality.
Contact: 92584715/ 24700120
Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,
2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti
Masjid. Contact: 97007934 /
92629232
2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank
Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.
97826454, 24815012.
House in North Al Hail with 3
rooms, living room, hall, 4 toilets
300 RO. Contact 99738881 /
99439568
Warehouse at Wadikabir - total
area 3500 sqm - covered ware-
house (500sqm), office, ac-
commodation (1000sqm), open
area (2000sqm) please contact:
99273774 - 99202278
1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat
Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh
FOR SALE
Dental chairs for sale sparingly
used dental units for sale.
Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.
Kumar 99570284
Shop for sale and electronic Ruwi
high street main road side shop
exit in good reputed building.
Contact: 95238577 / 95178297
Well running computer shop for
sale in Al Seeb Souq near Ooredoo
showroom 30Sqm, 2 shutters.
Contact: 92501276
Dental chair for sale in Salalah.
Contact – 99082092
Laundry / empty shop near
Camellia Café, CBD, Ruwi.
Contact: 92868123 /92841089
Tender Board Construction
Company for lease / Run.
Contact: 92868123 / 92841089
HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering
Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering
wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),
Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,
Steel Fabrication Machinery
(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)
including tools for immediate sale:
Contact 99273774/ 99202278
Luxury Apartments in Boucher
(35) / Ghala / Qurum. Contact
95056808 / 97201688
Shop for sale opp Towell Service
Center, Wadi Kabir.
Contact 99221683
1No brand new containerized
package type STP 100 m3/ day
with blower equipments (suitable
for camps). Serious Buyers may.
Contact: 99445367
Book Shop in a busy shopping
mall for sale, interested parties
please contact 99851255
Single colorful Bed and Sofa for
Sale at Al Khuwair.
Contact 92881849 /
What`s up No 97290565
Steel Scrap materials for im-
mediate sale. Contact: 99273774/
99202278
Space for printing press avail-
able at wadikabir with or without
machinery. Contact 99328430
Almost new beach/ garden
lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.
Photos can be sent 95865457
Restaurant for sale heart of Ruwi.
Contact 93687466
Shop for sale at Ruwi high street.
Contact: 98787853
Urgent sale of steel scrap only
serious buyers kindly contact
+968 96725423
for viewing the items.
Shop for sale near Oman House,
Muttrah. Contact 99024362.
FOR SALESHUTTERING
PLYWOOD
SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM
GSM:92835445,93205253,93205423
MV SALE
FOR RENT
Nissan Pathfinder 2013 No-2 lady
driven KM 50.000 power sterns
auto transmission power window
R.O 6500/- Contact: 99157377
Mitsubishi Outlander 2008 model
4 cylinder, 2.4lt, Metallic grey ,
135000km , excellent condition ,
expat driven , single owner Price
R.O 3.500/- Neg.
Contact: 99330486
1 No. Toyota Hilux (model 2009)
Colour: White / Red (diesel), 1 NO.
Toyota Hiace bus (model 2008)
Colour: White / Red (Diesel). Please
send offer to (desbyrne@omantel.
net.om)
TOYOTA Camry for sale, 2010,
1,00,000 kms, full option, silver
colour, warranty up to Sept 2016,
full showroom service, Indian
expat leaving the country.
Mob 97462122
TOYOTA CAMRY : Good
condition,Colour White, Make
2004, Automatic Transmission,
Done 236000 Kms. #93667236
Audi Q3. Expat lady Dr driven
(Ibra). Excellent condition, Silver
color, done 69000kms.New tyres.
Extended warranty and free ser-
vicing up to feb2018. OMR 9500.
Contact - 97609733
Izuzu 3 ton vehicle model 2013 &
Izuzu 4 ton vehicle model 2008.
Contact: 99719124 /24454550
Mazda Portege 323, 2002 model
for sale. Contact: 99719298
Toyota Corolla, 2010 Model,
134000 Km, good condition at
RO 3350. Call 95230586
Toyota Corolla 1.8xli Automatic
2007 July 113000Kms Expat driv-
en excellent condition RO.2750
Contact: 98924106
Mazda 6, model 2005, company
maintained excellent condition.
Price RO 1250/- Mazda 2, model 2014, 45,000km, for sale.
Price RO 2950/- Call: 95244761
Mazda6, 2.5L (classic model,
2014) expat driven, excellent
condition , 80.000km , mulkiya till
march 2017, RO 5.700 ( Negotia-
ble). Contact: 99415861
Toyota Prado, 2009 model,
6 cylinder, single expat owner
used, white pearl color, km 287k
Contact- 99318152
Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive
Insurance UAE / Oman.
Contact: 96995430
ACC. AVAILABLE
WANTED
Partner / investor 20% - 30%
share transfer running building
construction company.
Contact 93163157
Urgently required looking to
immediately buy used Grit blast-
ing & airless spray equipment 1
No each. Contact: 968 24810930
/ 93203772 / 93203773 /
93203778
IELTS Coaching (academic)
required nearby wadi Kabir area.
Please call on mobile or msg on
Whats up.
Mobile # 92927880/99012165
AVAILABLE
Well spoken, well experienced (Us
base experience) catering staff
available for annual contractual
hiring and immediate mobilization.
Continental cook, Indian cook, south
Indian cook, chapatti Maker, waiter,
kitchen boys cleaner. Contact:
97226179
Party & Wedding equipment rent-
als. Full line, from Tables, Linen
& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,
Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,
Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to
Large Sound Systems and spec-
tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606
2222 for Catering and Croyden
9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
ww.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
Furnished apartment for rent,
two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.
Near Carrefour al-mawalah.
Contact 99336776
Two rooms near khimji supermar-
ket (Darsait). Contact: 92147907
2 BHK villa for rent 600 meters
behind Carrefour / city center
Seeb. Contact: 99311979 (Francis)
Sharing room at Ruwi for R.O 50/-.
Contact: 99385287
One single room available for
executive bachelor at CBO area
fully furnished and WIFI available.
Contact 92779732
Sharing accommodation avail-
able for bachelor / family at Ruwi.
Contact: 99008436
Furnished room with TV, A/C
fridge at Hilat, Al Saad near main
road. Contact: 95714202
Furnished room available with
attached bath and balcony, near
MBD area. Contact: 97636432
Single room executives Wadi
Kabir. Contact: 99336206
Accommodation available in a
villa for south Indian family, one
bedroom, hall, kitchen north
Ghobrah. Contact: 99209160
2 Rooms (furnished) toilet, kitch-
en for small family or bachelor,
Hamriya. Contact: 98335050
Room for rent with sharing, kitch-
en in Al Khuwair behind Burger
King. Contact: 92994415
2 BHK available Mumtaz area
Ruwi. Contact: 99269751
Fully furnished room available
for executive bachelors opp. Star
Cinema. Contact 92886715
Independent room in Qurum /
Hail. Contact: 96229522
Room, bath room for executives in
Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206
One room available in 2BHK in
Al Falaj area for Executive bach-
elor only. Contact 99131742.
Furnished room attached bath
for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj
Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near
Mars hypermarket. Contact:
96202458/96761960
1 BHK appartment for rent in Al
Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque
for rent (next to alkhoud medical
center and squ) MOB: 93913224
Sharing Accommodation avail-
able for working ladies opposite
Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably
Indians. Room with seperate toilet
and sharing kitchen.RO.90.
Contact 96524717
Room with attached bathroom for
a family in Wadi Kabir.
Contact: 97167857
Furnish bedroom with attach
bathroom for executive bachelor.
Contact: 97704794
Room available in Mumtaz area
1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen &
1 room, common bathroom.
Interested please contact
92680041 Mr. Altaf
Room available for Executive
bachelor at Al Hail.
Contact: 96234708
Room with attached bathroom
and sharing kitchen available for
Executive bachelor or small family
at wadikabir. Contact 93049849
BUYING
Bobcat available for rent.
Contact 97623299
Buying cars for cash.
Contact 90202090
SITUATION WANTEDBUSINESS
INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED
Please contact – 95213273Email:
muscatcoff [email protected]
For a successfully Catering Restaurant
Investor cum Partner is required.
Investor with fi xed returns also welcome.
ONE STOP SHOP BUSINESS
SERVICES
Public Relation Service (PRO)
Document Clearance,
Business setup,
Formation new Companies,
LLC Companies,
Investor Visa, Legal Services.
Contact Saleh:
96723485
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms
& hall. Contact: 91763665
2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah
near Oman House.
Contact: 97007934 / 92629232
1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O
100, 2 bedrooms , sharing K& T
R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.
Contact 95154331
Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact
94051789 / 97201688
02 BHK residential flat opposite
to Al Nahdha hospital.
Contact: 99342733 /99795241
Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near
ISM muscat Indian Scoole
Darsate Tel : 00 968 95158570
Plot at Barka next to Germany
College & next to Aramex Com-
pany, next to Bahwan Warehouse,
next to Omasco warehouse 37,074
SQM2 required 0.250 Baiza per
SQM. Contact: 99888390
Labor Camp available with all
facilities near Sohar Port.
Contact: 98050654 / 99015826
5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair,
for Staff Accommodation.
Contact 99792181
2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair &
Ghubra. Contact 99792181
4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.
Contact 99792181
Furnished office (61M2) for sale
/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi
Mosque. Contact: 95611569
LOST
FOR HIRE
New Volvo Trailor available for
rent to UAE every alternative days,
50 ton capacity with reasonable
rent contact.99318152/
email- Ahastco @gmail.com
NRI
Land for Immediate sale 19 cents
residential land at Bakery Junction
near valsala hospital, Thiruvanan-
thapuram, Kerala, India, for sale.
Tar road frontage with lorry access.
Contact: 98469311/96179737
Ready to occupy just completed
3 BHK in Chennai -Pallikkaranai
:1600sqft ,builders lcs city makers
,high quality construction ,
woodwork done, part of 64 apts all
3bhk in 4 blocks gated community
with swimming pool/gym/com-
mon hall/2 car parking. Genuine
buyers call rag @99235815 or
email: [email protected]
NRI Property for Sale: 774Sq .
2 BHK flat with OC ready at Palava
City Casa Rio, Dombivili, Mumbai
Contact : 97003326, 96791085
ACC. WANTED
Mohammod Robiul Islam has
lost Bangladeshi Passport No. AB
7185314. Finder please handover
to ROP
Jamil Khan Khokar has lost
Indian Passport No. F 9955390.
Finder please handover to ROP
Accommodation Wanted for an
Executive Bachelor, Single Flat /
Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir.
Pls call: 93883674 / 98103169
DAILY GUIDEC4 S AT U R D AY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
DRIVER
DESIGNER
ENGI./TECH./MECH.
ENGI./TECHNICIAN
ACCOUNTS
CATERING
BEAUTICIAN
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
SALES / MARKETING
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ARCHITECT
DOMESTIC HELPER
ARCHITECT
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
IT
Tailor shop requires Master Cutter & hand embroidery.
Contact – 99359700
Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-
ence in road construction field).
Contact: 99882127
Email: [email protected]
Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company
with minimum 2 years experience.
Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,
Email: [email protected]
IMMEDIATE - Housemaid wanted for an Indian Family - husband,
wife and 2 girls. Visa, accommoda-
tion and all other requirements
will be provided. Please call me on
92725141.
House maid for Omani family.
Contact: 99773100
Wanted service Technicians for
diesel generators and diesel air
compressors for a fast growing
rental company persons having
thorough knowledge with Perkins
/ Cummins engines,
ELGI compressors with Oman
driving preferred.
Contact: 95443350/95041935
Urgently Require BE civil En-gineer with 2+ years experience
and Omani driving license must ,
Salary R.O300/- Send CV to
Contact: 24565337
Electrician with qualification
and experience.
Contact: Fax: 24727481
Email: [email protected]
Wanted Staff Nurses (Female)
with or without MOH license for
a polyclinic near Sohar. Excellent
salary & accommodation.
Contact – 99006915/
Email - [email protected]
A medical centre is looking to hire immediately a talented Nurse to join our successful team,
required 3 years of experience,
Oman prometric, data flow. Send
your CV to- [email protected] or
Whatsapp - 91254820
Wanted staff nurse with MOH
license, immediate appointment,
to work in a private clinic. Perma-
nent post or locum. All Nationals
can apply. Salary negotiable, free
accommodation available.
Contact – 99048170/ 94870029
Required GP Doctors, gynecology, X ray tech staff nurses. Contact: 99681325 Email:
Wanted for Ibra clinic lab Tech-nicians gynecologist physician lady medical officer MOH license
and NOC needed or prometric with
high score and dataflow.
Contact - 99373493
GP doctor needed for reputed clin-
ic. Preferably with MOH license or
with Dataflow & Paramatics pass
Contact: 95388934
Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately
for a clinic in Suwaiq. #95081010
Email: [email protected]
Wanted Sales Man for an eleva-
tor company 3 yrs exp English
language must has NOC required
send resume to pioneersoverall.
Contact: 968 94496661
Required outdoor Sales/ Market-ing Executive with experience
in selling Technical- Mechanical
products/ building materials &
hardware/ auto parts. Graduate
with Oman license preferred.
Apply to: [email protected] or
fax to: 24799615
Advertising & interior company required Sales Executive with
driving /L send CV to
Require Salesman with D/L for
construction, Ind materials,
hydraulic hoses & fittings.
Contact 99221683 / 92830110
Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive hav-
ing 2-3 years sales experience for
a reputed manufacturing company
in Oman, having its Head Office in
Ruwi. Experience in building mate-
rials is an added advantage. Omani
Driving License and NOC is a must.
Attractive remuneration package.
Apply with photograph to
E-mail: [email protected]
Required female person to work
at the retail shop/Marketing.
Please send your CV on e mail:
Required marketing / PR manager
for a modern restaurant group in
Oman , proficient in illustrator &
Photoshop charismatic , proactive ,
creative & flexible excellent writing
/ Editing skills degree in relevant
area fluent in English. Send CV to
Urgently required south Indian cooks with NOC, having suitable
experienced. Contact: 94268319
/97408945
Email: [email protected]
Shawarma / grill / Salad / Chi-nese, Cook. Contact: 96229522
Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970
WANTED Female Gynaecologist,
Female GP- Two Female Staff Nurse (From India or Pilipino)and One
Female Dental Assist and
Female Lab Technician. With MOH Licence and Data Flow for
Al Saadi Specilised Medical Centre, Musanna.Contact # 92025033,
Email : [email protected]
A foodstuff distribution company in Muscat is looking for an Accountant. The candidate should
have good communication skills,
in depth knowledge of MS office
application & tally. Email us at
A leading cosmetic company in
Muscat is looking for an
Accountant – Email: us on
An Omani Audit firm is seeking audit partner to join the firm, the
candidate should be completed any
certificate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC,
and 4 years’ experience, interested
candidates to submit their CVs to :
Part time Accountant available to
handle all accounts up to finaliza-
tion and audit work.
Contact: 95804210
Indian male B.Com graduate
looking for suitable placement in
accounts, office Administration &
marketing, 12 years experience,
NOC available Oman D/L.
Contact: 95804210
Part time Accountant up to finali-
zation auditing available after
4 pm. Contact: 91126314
Sudanese GIS Analyst hold mas-
ter in RS & GIS Resident have an
experience in accounting & store
management. Contact: 97943738
Indian 20 years well experienced
accounts & finance professional
looking for immediate placement
NOC available. Contact: 94546455
Email: [email protected]
Young Indian male (25) with
B.Com degree on visit visa with
D/L and N.O.C for simple opportu-
nities preferably in accounting.
Contact : 96324484
7 Years experience as Financial
Analyst, MBA in finance. Respon-
sibilities- research contributor,
financial statement analysis,
generating MIS & efficiency report,
managing TAT, business & clients.
On visit visa in Muscat.
Contact- 90191628 / 96175780
Part Time Accounting, Audit
Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly
Reports, Accounting set up for new
companies, GSM: 96975454,
email: [email protected]
Part time accounting workers up
to finalization, on monthly basis &
yearly finalization works.
Contact : 96247295
ACCA qualified professional lady with 5 years experience in finance
management accounts is looking
for a suitable placement NOC can
be Contact: 94521899
28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -
Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/
India experience looking for a
suitable placement.
Contact : 90187483
Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs
experience in MNC’s currently in
Muscat seeking suitable place-
ment in Finance / Admin.
Contact :94743790
Accountant available with NOC,
7 years experience in Oman.
Ready to join immediately.
Contact 98263394
ACCA member with 6 yrs of experi-
ence in Oman looking for a suitable
job in finance. Contact: 99284193
Well experienced Account M.Com
available with NOC, Tally & ERP.
Contact : 99035707
Indian male 34 yrs, M.Com –
Finance with 5 yrs experience in
Accounts in India, presently in
visiting visa looking for a suitable
placement. Contact: 93671785
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA
Finance and marketing with IT
skills, 7+ yrs of experience,
Looking for suitable placement.
contact 94879615,Email-
Construction Company looking for Architect with experience in
Oman. Contact 97192707
Required Beautician for Beauty
Saloon at Ghobrah. Clearance / visa
available. Contact no. 95924910
Beauty salon needs lady for
henna. Contact: 93336061
Indian male 31 chartered account-
ant with 2 years Oman experience
looking for suitable placement NOC
available. Contact: 96357827
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B.COM, MBA 4 years in
Larsen & Toubro total 26 years gulf
experience English, Arabic speaking
driving license NOC available.
Contact: 95588565
Accountant Having 5 Years expe-
rience in reputed companies.
Currently working in Muscat
(NOC AVAILABLE) GSM.91367217
Email [email protected]
Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experi-
ence, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting,
ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing
with auditors. NOC available.
Contact: 92254691/97826674
email: [email protected]
Indian (Male) having 17+years
Experience in Trading & Health-
care seeking senior Position in
Accounts (11 years GCC Experi-
ence)currently on Resident Visa
(NOC Available) and has a valid
Omani Driving Licence. Contact:
91335026; [email protected]
ADMIN
Indian male age 26, Accountant
one year experience in accounts
looking for suitable job. Contact -
Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.
Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415
Qualified and experienced MBA
post graduate with proven work
exposure in Middle East & India,
having more than 5.5 years of rich
experience in accounts , project
coordination and administration in
(3.5 years UAE experience) oil and
gas projects is currently looking for
suitable job. Contact 93953613,
Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in
commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in
accounts/ finance field. On visit
visa. Immediately available.
Contact 92836216 /
Indian male 31 chartered Accountant having 2 years Oman
experience looking for suitable
placement in finance and audit
field NOC available.
Contact: 96357827 Email:
Urgently required a Graphic designer with 2 years experience
in graphic designing, Photoshop,
illustrator. Send CV to
email: [email protected]
Advertising and signboard making company required fresh or
experience Graphic designer send CV to
Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria
University Graduate bachelor of
commerce Diploma of Marketing
professional photographer worked
in PR and social media for 2 years
looking for a job in public relations
media, social media or marketing.
Contact: 96976240
Accountant 8Years Experience with
D/L and NOC. Contact: 97712084
Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE,
Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for a
suitable job in Accounts, Store Keep-
er, Sales etc. Ready to join as early
as possible. Contact: 96988923
email:- [email protected]
Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.
Gsm : 942-888-63
Required Omani Driver
for a restaurant. Contact 95929911
Looking for a full time driver with
valid Omani license. # 95454033
Required urgently driver, experi-
ence Omani or expat drivers with
P.D.O. license. Contact: 98242478
Architect and 3D visualize three
years experience 1.5 in Oman flu-
ent in Arabic and English have Om-
ani driving license looking for job
with consultancy office or interior
design firm. Contact: 94673937
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job, 8 years experience.
GSM : 96075000, Email :
Indian female diploma architect
6 years exp in Oman Engineering
consultancy, valid Oman driving
license. Contact: 96683293 /
97750870
DRIVER
Indian male age 24, B.Com.
Accountant having 2 year experi-
ence and currently in Muscat.
Looking for suitable placement in fi-
nance or Audit. Contact: 90766307
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male 22 , Graduate , Spe-
cialized in Tally ERP 9.0, SAP B 1&
Professional in Indian & Foreign
Accounting (CPIFA) with 1 year
work experience , on visit visa in
Muscat , Contact no:91782545
EDUCATION/TRAINING
A leading chain of franchise restaurant requires
ACCOUNTANT CUM ADMIN
Send your
Urgently required experienced and trained kindergarten Teach-er for a well reputed bilingual
school in Mabela area Muscat
interested and suitable candidates
must reply to
Email: [email protected]
Required English, computer and science female Teachers up to
grad 4. Contact - 95054916,
contact time after 5PM
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Advertising company required Graphic designer knowledge of
designing, Photoshop, illustrator,
coral draw & Salesman with D/L. Send CV to
Contact No: 94771366/ 95338210
Required candidates for following
posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving
license preferred.
Contact 99273774/99202278
MEDICAL
Indian female 33 years with 9.5
years experience (1yr in Oman) as
Executive Secretary, Administra-
tion, Sales Coordinator, and HR
coordinator seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact 97985059
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
With 15 years of gulf experience in
HR- Admin logistics looking for suit-
able position fluent in Arabic & Eng
NOC available. Contact: 95824598
7 yrs Exp Office Admin / HR/
IT Admin, MCA, BCA, MBA NOC
Available, With Driving License PH:
97086686
Indian male 21 yrs Graduate in
business administration (BBA)
with computer knowledge (hard-
ware & software) seeks suitable
employment immediately.
Contact: 98085633 / 98898504
Indian female, MSC more than 6
years Oman experience in office
coordination, administration &
managerial, clerical jobs looking
for a suitable position.
Contact: 91303124
Indian female, 27, MCA, 2 yrs
experience in Administration and
HR in India & Oman. Currently in
family visa seeking suitable jobs
preferably in Muscat. #.99417993
Indian/ 23yrs female/ 5yrs GCC
experience with NOC looking for a
suitable position in HR/Admin
/ Accounts/ BD. Contact 90656997
Indian female with nearly 10 years
of Oman experience in Administra-
tion & HR, seeking suitable place-
ment. NOC available. #99242841
Filipino HRD especialist /
material controller supervisor with
18 yrs experience looking for suit-
able job in Oman. Contact: (+968)
98037142 / (+968) 92659817
Indian female MBA / HR, 2.5
experience seeking suitable job.
Contact: 99257214
Indian female MBA fin & HR now
on visit visa looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 92097764
Supervisor required for Con-
struction Company having Omani
driving license, fresher’s can apply.
Contact: 92888337
Branch Manger required to
manage entire Business.
[email protected] 99110080
Urgently required a Purchase Manager to handle all the procure-
ments for a reputed Ready-mix
concrete Company, having its
branches all over Oman. The
candidate should possess required
experience, product knowledge
and excellent communication
skills. Interested candidates may
send their CV to sndakshin@gmail.
com / Contact: 99256757
IT Engineer, min 4 years experi-
ence in Biometric Attendance Sys-
tem and CCTV camera, preferably
with D/L. Apply to hr@unitedsys-
temsit.com or call 99423442.
Qualified and experience Technician required for the kitch-
en restaurant equipments. Who
can repair hot and cold equip-
ments will be preferred. Contact:
Email: [email protected] /
Fax: 24727481
Care Medical Centre Al Seeb
requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:
Urgently required experienced female Lab Technician, with knowl-
edge of histopathology & cytology,
with MOH release, for a well-known
laboratory in Al Khuwair.
Contact: 95271561/98893034
Testing / Protection Engi-neer with minimum 05 years
of experience and should have
Oman DCRP license, Interested
candidates send resume to
CCTV & Burglar alarm Techni-cian. Urgently looking for an
Expatriate with minimum 5 years
experience with NOC. Email your
CV with recent Photograph to:
Looking for Female Journalistic or advertising & media back-
ground. Contact- 99342237 /
9394 6622/
Email: [email protected]
Driver with light duty license 10
yrs exp. Contact: 94566432
Bangladeshi driver looking for job.
Contact: 97418036
13 years experience driver.
Contact 95068976
Indian Male MBA (UK), 9 years experience in Dubai/London/Mumbai in Management Consulting,
Sales & Marketing, Business Development for Real Estate/Banking
seeks similar placement with D/L.
Contact: 95168205
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6 C5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
HOSPITALITYMISCELLANEOUS PROJECT ENGINEER - CIVIL - 13
years experience in construction at
Oman seeking suitable position -
NOC available - Contact 94427535
Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication
site work with valid Oman driving
license. Contact: 94696192
B.Sc Civil Engineer 7 years gulf
experience total experience 9 years
having GCC D/L seeking for suitable
replacement local release available.
Contact: 98628515/ 98289234
Email: [email protected]
B.E Electrical Engineer, Age 28 yrs.
5.5 yrs experience. 2 yrs in OMAN
as site supervisor/ site engineer,
with valid GCC license.
NOC available. Contact: 95527936
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp
seeks suitable position ina reputed
company. NOC available.
Contact 96789711
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24
with almost 1 year experience as
Production Shift Engineer, has
achieved training on HVAC
Engineering design and has good
hands on software like AutoCAD
and HAP.Currently in Oman on a
visit visa, looking for a suitable
placement.Contact: 95065955
email: [email protected]
Mechanical diploma, Indian male
26, 4 years experienced MEP
supervisor seeks suitable openings
NOC / Release available.
Contact: 97901559
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
Structural buildings marine. Avail-
able NOC release. Contact: 92451323.
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience
in designing, assembling, com-
missioning execution etc having
valid GCC license too looking for a
suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian
male 24 years with 1+years Indian
experience,(Certified in Staad
Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).
Looking for a Suitable position.
Available In Sultanate of Oman
(Muscat) on Visit Visa.
Contact 92157694. E-mail:
An Iraqi civil with more than
30 years experience in (Iraq and
G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C)
available. Contact: 96561306
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, Mechanical
Engineer having 1year experi-
ence, on visit visa looking for
suitable job. Contact:97416564,
Email:[email protected]
Mechanical Engineer with one
year’s experience as Asst. Piping
Engineer having good knowl-
edge of PIPING DESIGNS, PDMS,
SP3D, AUTOCAD, PRO-ENGINEER
WILDFIRE, DS CATIA, JAVA
SCRIPTS etc, looking for suit-
able opportunity. Contact: +968-
99200724/24496072.
BE mechanical Engineer having
6+ years experience in structural
and piping job looking suitable
position. Contact: 96115463
Email: [email protected]
Fresh Engineering graduate M-
Tech in mechanical Automation
and automobile Engineering now in
Oman on visit seeks suitable place-
ment. #95853514 / 98280794
Fresh Engineering graduate B.Tech
mechanical engineering now in
Oman on visit seeks suitable place-
ment. #95853514/98280172
Indian male MBA Finance & Marketing 25 yrs
having 1.9 years of experience Finance & Marketing
Contact: 95206140/ 96992013 Email:
ENGINEER W
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age
33 with 6+ years experience in
GCC in MEP building construc-
tion field (execution and design of
HVAC,firefighting,plumbing),
with D/L, NOC available
Contact 96978380,
Email: [email protected]
Construction Machinery repairs
Engineer, 5 years, driving license,
Contact - 94001961
Agriculture Engineer 2 8rs, with
5 yrsexp in the field of agriculture,
landscaping & irrigation. Since 2
yrs working in different projects.
Having valid UAE driving license.
Currently in Oman (Salalah) on
visit visa. Contact – 94120190 /
Architectural Draftsmen diploma
in construction technology with 6
years experience in drafting and
detailing as per British standard
in Oman with valid Omani license
looking for suitable opportunity
Noc available. Call 94375897.
Autocad works freelance, MEP, Civil
works, Interior, 2d/3d, BOQ etc.
Contact 97103168
Revit, Autocad D/man, expected
salary 200 OMR PH :92279784
Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD
Draftsman with 20 years profes-
sional experience is looking for suit-
able job in Oman. Please Contact:
96489798, (+974) 66653780.
An M (M FWA
I
M F
SAP Business Objects / Data
Warehousing professional. 10
years experience with top IT
global companies (HP and Accen-
ture) in team leading roles. Oman
Family visa. Looking for jobs in
Muscat. Contact: 91487199
BSC Software Engineer 2 years
experience in ASPN. NET, C#, SQI
server, mysql , crystal report, visual
studio , capable of Jave, Php, HTML
and roid looking for suitable vacan-
cy. # 90696220/ 92729744
Indian male ERP Consultant 15
yrs exp, 11 yrs in gulf looking for
IT management jobs, local release,
Oman D/L. Contact: 94618761
Indian female, MCA currently on
family visit visa skills in ASP ,
NET , DBMS, AutoCAD civil seeks
suitable placement NT, Interested
in teaching. Contact: 90417133
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 22 years B.A. Anima-
tion & Graphic Adobe suites and
Maya, seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 90930015 Email:
Female, 31, B.Tech- ECE/CCNA/
GSM, 5 yrs Oman experience in IT
support (AD, exchange, TMG, UNIS
Server admin, In-house apps sup-
port, project placement, Transfer
NOC available. Contact: 95742398
Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15
yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified,
seeking suitable role.NOC Avail-
able. Contact : GSM : 90189284
Email: [email protected]
Indian female M.Sc Computer
Science seeking suitable place-
ment in Muscat area. #98660672
SAP Business Objects / Data
Warehousing professional. 10
years experience with top 5 IT
global companies (HP and Accen-
ture) in team leading roles. Oman
family visa. Looking for jobs in
Muscat. Phone: 91487199
IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years
in Oman 2 years in India.
Contact: 94672759
Indian male 4 years experience in
IT as Programmer / Web Support/
CCNA/ Network on visit visa seek-
ing placement. Contact: 93069694
Email: [email protected]
3 years experience in IT Software
field, seeking suitable jobs.
Contact: 96350234, Email :
Indian male 31yrs old with hotel
management degree, 3 yrs experi-
ence in F&B services at 5 star hotel
Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06 star
cruise liner has butler. Has Oman
driving license. Contact- 99859150.
Electrical Engineer: Indian male
30 years, having 5 years of experi-
ence in industrial automation &
utility maintenance in Indian,
holding valid Oman D/L.
Contact: 92789995 Email:
Indian male BE Mechanical with
11 years experience in Automo-
tive Engineering and Industrial
Maintenance in Oman with valid
driving license seeks suitable job.
On release in Oman-92880593
Civil Engineer B.Tech with 6+
years in supervision designing
planning and QC expert in Mech,
civil software. Contact: 90719263
Project co-odinater & AutoCAD
draftsman Indian male, 8 yrs exp
in Oman in civil, interior, precast-
ing with D/L & NOC.
Contact: 92188496, Email:
Quantity surveyor (B.E Civil) 5+
years experience in buildings
and mosque N.O.C available ready
to join immediately. Contact:
+97826597 / +919171430681
Email: [email protected]
For preparing Civil / MEP Auto CAD drawings.
Contact -93480346.
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer 7 years experience,
Driving license, NOC available.
Contact- 98078095
Electrical Engineer B.Tech, Indian
available in Oman, 2+ years Oman
exp (MEP) Light D/L.
Contact - 93832935
Diploma Civil Engineering (certifi-
cate attested) 6 years Oman experi-
ence as interior work site in charge
/ quantity surveyor NOC/ Release
available.Contact: 93120433
Civil Engr. Diploma 8 yrs exp in
construction & consultancy with
auto cad. D/L.Contact: 93060770
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer, Indian male 4
Years experience in Oman & India.
Looking for Permanent Placement
in Oman. NOC Available, Contact:
+96895984661,+96891455949
Civil Quantity Surveyor with 3yr
UAE experience seeking job.
UAE driving license holder.
Email: [email protected]
+96895641991; +971557969671
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
in Oman as a project engineer for
governmental & private projects.
Contact – 90164912
Young Indian, Engineering in
Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and
Chemical, looking for a challenging
placement in Oman.
Contact 97607000. Email:
Mech. Engineer 10 years GCC
exp automobile / oil & gas / const
project / plant, equip machinery in
charge with driving license NOC.
Contact: 95774585
Bangladeshi looking for job, Mus-
cat experience 4 years. # 96356280
Driver light veh, store keeper,
sales man, shop keeper, supervisor
8 years exp knows English, Arabic,
Hindi. Contact: 91615715
Light driver job exp 4 years, know
Hindi, English, Arabic, Education
B.A. Contact: 98522914
Light Driver / Supervisor Fluent in
English & Arabic, Well knowledge of
Muscat Areas Looking for suitable
placement. Contact Tariq: 97950869
Driver light duty (house or com-
pany) valid Gulf D/L looking job.
Contact- 95175192
Pakistani driver with car Subaru
2004 model. Contact: 99667817
Driver with Electrician 4 years
experience looking for job.
Contact: 97456062
Pakistani driver with 3 years
experience, seeking for placement
familiar with Batinah & Sharqiyah
regions. Contact 99832706
Looking for driver job.
Contact: 99035942 /97383016
Driver with car. Contact:93346085
Looking for job driver. #94158238
Six years experienced light duty
vehicle driver looking for a suit-
able placement. Contact: 96362871
Experience driver 12 years experi-
ence in GCC, seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 93722881
IT
DRIVER
DESIGNER
DIETICIAN
Indian male B.com MBA 4 years in
L &T total 26 years gulf experi-
enced English & Arabic speaking
driving license with NOC.
Contact: 95588565
Indian candidate with 15 years
experience in Facility Manage-
ment (Soft Service) looking for
part time assignments / Consul-
tancy Opportunities.
Contact- 98469311/96179737
27, Indian female B.com gradu-
ate with 4 years experience in
procurement and purchases on
family visa looking for immediate
and suitable placement.
Contact: 95828986
Sudanese 27 yrs BSC in IT having
Omani driving in resident visa
experience in Administration P.R.O
general account and tourism
language Arabic and English.
Contact: 94907717
Email: [email protected]
Indian looking for a job in the
trade 27 years of age for a friendly
college degree. Contact: 96424192
Sudanese male bachelor geology
and mining with 3 years experi-
ence in MUD logging and training
in soil investigation.
Contact: 92956848
BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).
Contact: 92475206 Email:
Indian male 28yrs Bcom 3yrs
exp. in warehouse operations
(including pharmaceutical). Well
knowledge in WMS & ERP, looking
for suitable job. Ph. 95576686,
E: [email protected] (UAE visa
holder, currently in Oman)
Indian male, 28, post graduate,
6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back
office) & credit control with valid
Oman D/L looking for suitable lace-
ments. NOC available. # 92066 523
Interior design supervisor 6 yrs
experience valid Oman license NOC
/ release available.# 92508926
Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc
Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical Mi-
crobiology & 6 months working exp.
in international crop reserch
institute of semi arid crops (ICRISAT)
Looking for suitable job.
Contact 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
MEDICAL
Indian Male with 13 Years Oman
Experience as Assistant Pharma-
cist with Valid MOH License and
Oman D/L is looking for a Suitable
Job in Muscat Area. NOC available.
Please Contact: 92121414
Sri Lankan female qualified in UK
with BSC (Hons) pharmacology and
MSC pharmaceutical science with
management studies having one
year experience in Sir Lanka, look-
ing suitable placement in regulatory
affairs, clinical research / trials,
Pharmacologist, pharmacovigilance
and research. #99550318
Indian female dentist specialized
Endodontist, looking for suitable
placement. Parametric completed.
Contact: 96410448
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
Chief Accountant/Finance Manager
– Indian male, CA Finalist, having
20 years’ experience in Finance,
Accounts, Audit, Finalization of Ac-
counts, preparation of Project Reports
etc., looking for immediate placement.
12 yrs. in Oman in Construction and
Consultancy co., have Omani D/L,
knows Tally. Contact 94041048,
email: [email protected]
Indian male - 8 yrs exp as HSE of-
fice/supervisor -on visit visa- seeks
suitable opening in Sohar - Contact
94532131 / 98317698;
Email: [email protected]
8 Years experienced camp boss
worked in SAOG CO. Looking for
suitable position. NOC available.
Contact - 94298945
Civil Engineer (QS) 2 yrs exp
seeking job UAE D/L.
Contact: +96895641991
Electrical Engineer 5 years
experience substations oil & Gas
water projects fluency in Arabic &
English & English driving license
available. Contact: 99525856
Indian male Civil Engg. 11 years
experience having Omani driving
license, NOC available.
Contact: 95797286
Email: [email protected]
Chemical Engineer with MBA &
experience looking for job.
Contact: 94908977
Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech
(Post Graduate) looking for suita-
ble placement. Contact: 99576846
mail: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer 7 years
experience plumbing firefighting
water pipeline projects fluency in
Arabic and English driving license
available. Contact: 91117089
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job 4 years experience
currently working in Muscat, NOC
available. Contact: 99823368
Electronics & telecommunication
BE Indian male having skills in
electronics communication, net-
working , embedded having 2 years
experience looking for suitable po-
sition available in Oman on family
visit visa. Contact: 93051918 Email:
Indian male, Structural Engineer
looking for job in structural design
field. Having 6 years of experi-
ence in design field. Residing in
Muscat. Contact: 91176187
Email: [email protected]
B.Tech Civil Engineer 2 years
experience on visit seeks urgent
placement. Contact: 98233199
Electrical Engineer with 16 years
experience in switchgear / trans-
former / over head lines & trading,
looking for sales / procurement &
project planning & Execution with
NOC & D/L. Contact: 95994727
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer, young Indian
having almost 2 years experience
looking for a challenging position
seeks suitable position in Oman/
GCC. Please contact 92718490,
Email ID: [email protected]
Indian female dietician with 3
years experience in India seeking
a suitable placement preferable in
Muscat. Contact: 99104209
EDUCATION/TRAINING
ENGG. / SUPERVISOR
Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable place-
ment. # 99739415 / 92091528
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
Indian, 20 years experience in
Oman as personal assistant / office
manager / executive secretary /
administrator / business develop-
ment asst. seeks job change. Release
available. Contact 99168054.
Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coor-
dinator 12 years experience in
Oman in reputed companies, seek
immediate Employment.
Call: 95244761
Looking for part time job Secre-tarial / Data Entry / Documenta-
tion available every day after 5:00
pm Friday / Saturday full day area
preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD /
Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827
Indian female BE, 3 years office
assistant experience, seeking
placement.Contact-90655903
Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc
Looking for suitable job.
Mobile: 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
Electrician, plumber, helper, In-
dian & gulf exp looking job.
Contact - 95175192
Mason, sh/carpenter, steel fitter,
with medical. Contact- 95175192 or
mail, [email protected]
Indian mechanical supervisor (diploma) 17 yrs experience in pet-
rochemical construction (fabrica-
tion erection) in all steel structural
and mechanical jobs, on visit visa
seeks suitable placement.
Contact: 90924467
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) grad-
uate with 3 years of experience in
the fields of BMS and Low current
systems and has good knowledge
about Electronic Security Systems,
currently working in Oman, NOC
Available. Contact:-94737033/
Electrical & Electronics Engr,
knows autocad & revit.
PH: 93837973
Pakistani male Diploma Civil
Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-
ing & mega projects, valid license
Oman. Contact: 98921022
Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+
yrs of exceptional exp in spear
heading strategic planning and
project management initiatives &
executing various high rise resi-
dential & commercial building as
well as roads and highway project
with proficiency in installation,
seeking a challenging position in
a dynamic organization.
Contact 96570891
Indian female 25years M.E (pow-
er electronics) 3years experience
in teaching profession looking for
suitable job. Contact no 97003267
& 94214909
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer (Sudanese)
3 years experience : Fire fighting,
HSE, Design, Production.
Contact: 93642704
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (Indian male)
5 years experience in Oman with
valid Omani driving license & NOC
looking for suitable opportunity.
Contact: 93101283
Sr. Quantity surveyor B.Tech (Civil
Tech) above 8 years (7 years in
Oman) having driving license NOC
available. Contact: 92324791
Senior Land Surveyor 23 yrs
Oman, UAE & Egypt GPS, T.S
Construction roads infrastructure
oil feed electric works OHL, UGC
grid , primary substation process-
ing data. Contact: 95326927 /
92928981
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B-tech 8 years experi-
ence as senior electrical project
engineer / QC engineer on visit
visa seeks suitable placement.
Contact 94094543
Email: [email protected]
Site Supervisor, Diploma in
Civil Engg (cert attested) knows
autocad revit, salary exp: 250
Ph : 92279784
DAILY GUIDEC6 S AT U R D AY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6
Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
Indian male 3.5 yr experience in
Oman sales and purchase having
valid Oman driving license seeking
for suitable job. Contact 91076676
Sales representative with 7 years
experience and valid Oman driving
license, NOC or release avail-
able-99695780
Indian male 26 years of experi-
ence of sales & marketing in surgi-
cal and laboratory equipments.
Looking for good replacement.
Contact – 92015894 / 95774854
Indian female, MBA Marketing
with 4 years experience with
4 years experience with Oman
experience, NOC and D/L looking
for suitable opening with visa.
Contact: 92460623
SALES / MARKETING
Indian Male, MBA marketing 5
yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG
sector, looking for best opportu-
nity. NOC available.
Contact: 96001877
Indian male 33 having 6 yrs exp
in Oman & 4 yes exp in Qatar hav-
ing valid Oman D/L seeks opportu-
nity in sales & business develop-
ment. Contact: 98260607 Email:
35 years male, Lebanese hold-
ing British passport, 10 years
of experience in procurement,
Omani Government tenders, setup
marketing plans & strategies,
importing, Organizing events,
management, have car, NOC avail-
able. Contact 94123939
Email: [email protected]
SITUATION WANTEDCOMPUTER/WEB./ EDUCATION/CLASSES
Karate and self defense classes
at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per
month twice a week Monday and
Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.
Contact: 98294551
Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English
class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi
earn in two monthstion guaranteed
Tel: 95244310
Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking
for job, Have experience in Rent
a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real
Estate/ Customer Care Executive /
Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop
In- Charge. Hard working w/ good
computer and communication skill.
GSM: 97761075
SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
SERVICES
MY
Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont
Maintenance services electric,
plumbing and A/C. Contact:
96524904 /94285064
A/C Maintenance & Servicing,
Fridge, Washing machine & Dish
washer repairing, Painting & Clean-
ing services, Electrical & plumbing.
Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /
24504281
Split unit A/C & window unit A.C
servicing & maintenance.
Contact: 96236476
WE SERVE OMAN
Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC
Contact: 99344723
Cleaning services sofa shampoo,
carpet shampoo, new house, old
house. Contact: 92179395
Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.
Ocean center LLC.
Contact 99344723
Window & split unit A.C servicing
& repairing. Contact: 99557080
Split unit & window unit A.C ser-
vicing & maintenance.
Contact: 93769089 / 95323517
Split & window A/C servicing,
repairing, installation ducted, pack-
age etc. Contact Abbas : 98667326
CAD drawings Archi/ MEP
CAD – comply BIM.
Contact: 91233975
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control &
anti-termite treatment, general
cleaning painting,Plumbing,
Electrical, shifting. Contact Mun-
dhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.
Contact: 24810137, 99450130
House shifting packing. Contact: 99657644/98518013
Water proofing ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
All Maintenance and services
electric, CCTV Camera, Plumbing
A/C service and gas installation,
painting tiles. Contact: 96524904 /
94285064
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,
Contact 99314807/24792998
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of
your marble. Contact 24793614/
99314807
Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance. Contact ABU QA-
BAS- 99320217 /24788722
Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC
Contact 99344723
Pest control Gulfa international.
Contact: 92326955
House shifting. Contact
99708138
Indian Male, 26 M.Com with
4 yrs of Experience in Accounting
& Administration in a Financial
Company in India, seeks suitable
job, Currently in India.
Contact India:-+918907212253
Akhil:-93626288, Email:
Sales 2 years B.Com
male 24 yrs, Indian.
Contact: 00968 94212636
Indian female 29 years Post Grad-
uate with computer Knowledge 2
years of Oman experience in coor-
dinator & 5 years of experience in
customer service, client relation
officer with excellent communica-
tion skill seeks suitable placement.
Contact: 95337665
Oil &gas experienced Indian lady
with 6 years in sales & market-
ing to PDO and having valid
Omani driving license. Contact
96143430/99875919
Indian male 1 yr exp in sales
automotive (TBL) looking for best
opportunity , NOC available.
Contact: 97793879
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Graduate with 18
years of Marketing experience
presently in Oman on family visit
visa, looking for best opportunity.
Contact: 96168687
Email: [email protected]
Indian male graduate, 10 years
experience Oman seeks job in
Sales & Marketing. #92133277
Indian male MBA 5 yrs experience
in Oman and India seeking suitable
position in marketing & sales
NOC available. Contact: 93059175
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 24 B.com, 2years of
experience in sales & admin &
proficient in M.S Office, Excel.
Contact: 98613373
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male MBA, 5 years Build-
ing Materials Project Sales experi-
ence in Oman, NOC available, seek-
ing for placement.
Contact - 90655903,99325544
B. Com 2 years experience in
Sales Marketing Logistics
Accounts and Front office
Contact 95506048
Indian Male, Experienced in
FMCG & other kind of Sales,
looking for suitable placement in
Foodstuff/FMCG Industry with
valid GCC license. Immediately
available. Contact: 94625495.
Indian male 37 years MBA
graduate in marketing with 9yrs of
experience in UAE in field of brand
promotions & marketing with UAE
D/L on a visit seeking suitable
position. Conatct 95792820
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 2 , 2 0 1 6 C7
TOURS
RENT A CAR
25 - 50 seater bus with PDO &
BP specification for monthly rent
& small car with driver. Contact
99839898
Al Ibtisama rent & leasing. Contact: 91374879 / 96627562/
99382001/ 24751177/ 24751188
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with
Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours contact 98029602,
92808636
We arrange tours & accommoda-
tion at all the beautiful places in
Oman. Contact 99839898
SIT. WANTED
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATIONTransportation. Contact: 91703829
Transportation available Ruwi to
Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.
Contact: 91103909
Transportation available Al Khu-
wair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al
Khoud. Drop & pick.
Contact: 95250161
Gulf link rent car get the best rate
daily weekly monthly & long term.
Contact: Tel: 24348106 G.S.M:
98265073 /96023931
Email: [email protected]
Transportation required from
Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon
only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165
Transportation. Contact:96538078
Transportation. Contact 99508282
Transportation. Contact 92015894
Transportation. Contact94510847
Indian male, 25 years old, (exp.)
diploma civil engineer, look-
ing suitable position. Contact:
00919746443745 / 92861980
Electrical Foreman, 25 years ex-
perience, Indian male currently in
Oman looking for suitable position.
Gsm – 96718013 Email:
Indian Male B-Com graduate
2 year experience in various
Fields Valid Oman Driving License.
Looking for any suitable post.
Please contact: 94409500
Indian Male, B.Com + Dip. Logistics
2year experience looking for a job
in Accounts/Logistics Field. Pres-
ently on Visit Visa #93884951
Transportation. available.
For ladies Contact 92430239
GOOD NEWS
FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know
more about Islam, please call:
99425598, 99250777, 99353988,
99253818, 99341395, and
99379133. For ladies: 99415818,
99321360, 99730723
Orvisit:www.islamfact.com
Ayurvedic treatment for joint
pain, backache, paralysis, mas-
sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-
litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,
18 November Street, Azaiba.
Contact: 99639695 / 97397320
Ayurvedic treatment for back-
ache, paralysis, arthritis etc
& massage, All Season (Vaid-
yaratnam). Contact:24475280 /
95371664 / 92504980
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DRIVING
FOR LADIES
MATRIMONIAL
Parent of Palakkad based Hindu
Nair / Menon boy aged 29 star
pooram, under graduate presently
working in Oman seeking alliance
from parents undergraduate /
graduate nair / menon girl age 21-
23 Contact: 99312383 after 7 pm
Christian Evangelical girl, 27, 150
cm. ICWA, M.Com, working in a
MNC Trivandrum. Seeks suitable
proposals. Contact – 96040125/
97889342
Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy
from Mumbai, ACCA working as
a senior accountant in Muscat,
seeks alliance from an Indian
Sunni Muslim family. Contact-
(parent): 96408642 email id:
Maternal uncle of Indian Sunni
Muslim girl aged 21, beautiful, tall
and pursuing M.Sc, Urdu speaking
hailing from Chennai seeks
suitable alliance.
Contact: 97047811
Christian divorce, male 40.
Contact by Whatsapp: 91346321
Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy
from Mumbai, ACCA working as
a senior accountant in Muscat,
seeks alliance from an Indian
Sunni Muslim family. Contact
no. (Parent): 96408642 email id:
Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,
star Magham, B. Tech aeronauti-
cal, administrative professional,
parents in Oman, native Aluva
(ekm). Mob-99550870
Parent of Thrissur based Hindu
Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham
star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-
ing alliance from well employed
Graduates, preferably in Engineer-
ing Contact :96425102
MANPOWER
Manpower available: cleaning
male/female staff, loading unload-
ing and helpers staff available on
contract basis. Contact- 94636086
Home service available, (Threading, facial, waxing,
head massage) R0. 20
Contact 99619409
*Classified Advertisement space booking with
text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s
publication. * Subject to space
availability
Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,
Star Magham, B-Tech Aeronauti-
cal, administrative professional,
parents in Oman, native Aluva
(Ekm). Contact 99550870
Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Mus-
cat. Seeks suitable alliance from
widow/ divorcee/ single.
Contact 96059801.
Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in
Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites
parents/nurses working in Oman.
Contact 968 98267338,
0091 9287215726
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