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SATURDAY, November 28, 2015 / 16 Safar 1437 AH timesofoman.com wtimesofoman.com facebook.com/timesofoman twitter.com/timesofoman blog.timesofoman.com ISO 9001:2008 Certifi ed Company
On the occasion of the 26th National Day
FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN
The Omani youth who look forward to glorious horizons are called upon today to take their ancestors as an example of diligence, hard work, patience, persistence and sustained eff ort. They are also called upon to believe, as they believed, that productive work - no matter how small it is - is a key element in the structure of the nation.
‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’
MINI-BUDGET TARGETS RS40b MORE TAXESPakistan Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar has unveiled contours of two of his major policy initiatives — a mini budget to be introduced in the next couple of days and a fi xed income tax scheme for estranged traders. >A7
Technology to prevent water supply crisis
TARIQ AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Water fl ow disrup-tions could become a thing of the past for citizens and residents, who often had to endure long periods of water shortage dur-ing the summer for known rea-sons, thanks to a new technology implemented by the Public Au-thority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) for the fi rst time.
Hot tapping is a method used for making connections to exist-ing pipes without having to dis-rupt the fl ow of water or oil and without emptying a section of the pipe.
On Sunday, the PAEW com-pleted their two-stage project of connecting pipes from the Al Ghubra pumping station to the main reservoirs of the new Al Ghubra desalination plant; and by using this method, water distri-bution was not disrupted.
“When we needed to con-nect or maintain pipes before, we had to stop the water fl ow to get the work done,” said a PAEW senior offi cial.
“We used this technology for the fi rst time where we are able to fully connect pipes without dis-turbing the fl ow of water,” he add-
ed. Using ‘hot tapping’ makes pipe changing or maintenance more effi cient. The PAEW says that re-pairs which would otherwise take 18 hours to complete, can be done in just eight hours.
Currently, the new Al Ghubra desalination plant is under trial operation and produces an esti-mated 50,000 cubic meters of wa-ter, while the old plant’s produc-tion is being cut down until it is empty. The new Al Ghubra plant is expected to produce 42 million gallons per day once it starts oper-
ating fully on a commercial basis.“The new desalination plant is
under trial operation; with grow-ing production seen at the new plant, and the old plant decreas-ing production until it is empty. The new one will soon operate at its maximum capacity,” said the PAEW offi cial.
When asked about the water crisis situation, he said the crisis is somewhat over and that “we have plenty of water being dis-tributed from the new plant.”
The plant is expected to be-come operational at its maximum capacity in 2016.
Earlier this year, families in Muttrah, Wadi Kabir and Darsait, just to name a few areas, were se-verely aff ected by water shortage during most of the summer. The PAEW in response has dug sev-eral wells in the aff ected areas for more water distribution until the desalination plants started oper-ating commercially. In addition, water merchants have scrambled to the aff ected areas as well.
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Ghubra desalination
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HM sends greetings
Sayyid Shihab to take part in Paris meeting
MUSCAT: His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to president Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania on his country’s In-dependence Day anniversary.
In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sin-cere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the president and his country’s people further progress and prosperity.
His Majesty the Sultan has also sent a cable of greetings to President Bujar Nishani of Al-bania on his country’s National Day. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the president and his country’s people further progress and prosperity. —ONA
MUSCAT: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said will leave, today, for France to represent Oman at the opening of the 21st Interna-tional Conference on Climate, to be held in Paris, from Novem-ber 30 to December 11.
Sayyid Shihab will be ac-companied by Mohammed bin Salim Al Toobi, Minister of En-vironment and Climate Aff airs and Sheikh Humaid bin Ali Al Mani, the Sultanate’s ambassa-dor to France.—ONA
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NEW TECHNOLOGY: Hot tapping is a method used for making
connections to existing pipes without having to disrupt the fl ow
of water or oil and without emptying a section of the pipe. -ONA
Crime rate falls 70% in October, says ROPTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Crime rate in Oman dropped by 70 per cent in Octo-ber, 2015 over the same period in 2014, a senior Royal Oman Police (ROP) offi cial has said.
The fi gure is inclusive of theft and arrests for off ences in all the Oman governorates.
The Director General of Crimi-nal Investigations and Inquiry, Brigadier Salem Al Badi told Al Shabiba, the sister publication of Times of Oman that the number of criminals arrested for robbery in October was 118, including 92 Omanis and 56 foreigners, down from 144 last year.
Theft casesThe number of theft cases in Oc-tober decreased to 176 from 593 last year. He pointed out that the reduction in crime could be at-tributed to ROP offi cers’ eff orts in fi ghting crime in all its forms, as well as the support they re-ceived from the public.
Citizens and residents were also praised by the offi cial for playing a signifi cant role by co-operating and reporting crimes, which helped ROP do their duty.
Al Badi noted that information from the people helped the ROP in foiling several attempts of crime. This refl ected the extent of awareness among Omani citi-zens and the ROP hoped that the public would continue to cooper-ate with the police for the Sultan-ate’s benefi t. He also stated that the ROP’s Directorate General of Investigations and Enquiry will continue with its awareness campaign called “Prevention, Protection and Safety,” which started in 2013.
The campaign aims to cre-ate awareness about diff erent crimes, especially theft. Offi c-ers educate citizens on ways to prevent crime and protect them-selves by engaging them in prac-tical activities to prevent crimi-nal activities from spreading in the future.
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WORLDBangladesh cleric killed in IS attack
2IS militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque
in Bangladesh, that killed a cleric and injured three other people on Thursday. It is the second such attack in a month in the country. >A9
MARKETOman to award $4.5b plastics unit contract
3State-owned Oman Oil Refi neries and Petroleum Industries
Company (Orpic) has fi nalised negotiations with four preferred bidders for $4.5 billion worth of contracts to build a major plastic manufacturing unit called Liwa Plastic Industries Complex in Sohar. The four engineering, procurement and contracting packages will be completed in four years, with plant commissioning expected in 2019, a company statement said on Thursday. >B1
OMANNotices served for hoardings in city
1 In order to give Muscat a face-lift, a large number of fi rms have been served
notices for installing hoardings without taking permission from the Muscat Municipality. While a large number of billboards do not meet safety standards, some others have not taken any permission from the concerned authorities. “The Municipality has the right to remove any illegal or unlicenced hoardings at the expense of the person who installed it,” stated a circular of Muscat Municipality. >A3
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
‘Together build’ volunteers renovate houses of underprivilegedMARWAH MAHMOOD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Have you stumbled upon an old and dilapidated house in Mus-cat that needs serious maintenance?
“Together build,” a group of youth volunteers recently launched a mo-bile application (app) that off ers help to less privileged families in Oman.
The team, which was formed in January 2014, is known for provid-ing free maintenance and furni-ture to insolvent families in addi-tion to renovating homes’ interiors and exterior.
Around 88 volunteers frequently participate in “Together build,” and so far they have successfully re-
paired 14 houses, installed a wide range of furniture and redecorated a school for autistic kids.
“We have received donations, such as used furniture, construction tools and equipment,” said Lujaina Al Raisi, member of the group’s me-dia department.
Anyone can apply to join the team through an online registration form provided in the mobile app, which can be downloaded for free at Google Play.
The app features latest news about the team, multimedia and a ‘Contact us’ page.
The team works in cooperation with the Nedaa and Alrahma teams and is planning to extend its services outside Muscat. “We have plans to
provide free services in the Al Bati-nah and Al Dakhiliyah governorates too,” she stated.
“We also cooperate with a voca-tional training centre for mainte-nance of electrical appliances and furniture,” Al Raisi said while stress-ing that the team is keen on enrolling people with special needs to help in this fi eld.
The team also conducts research for insolvent families in all the wilay-ats near Muscat.
“Together build” also won the fourth place during the “Wayakom” charity competition and has scored the third place among 1,000 com-petitors at the Arab World Charity competition held on the popular TV show Khawater 11.
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TOP TOURIST DESTINATIONWith its magnifi cent old buildings, the costal town of
Barka in the northern part of the Sultanate is emerging
as a top destination for both domestic as well as inter-
national tourists. See also >A2
SERVICE TO NEEDY: The team is known for providing free
maintenance and furniture to insolvent families in addition to
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MESMERISING BARKAWith its magnifi cent old buildings, the costal town
of Barka in the northern part of the Sultanate is
an emerging destination for domestic as well as
international tourists. While the fort there exudes
an old world charm, the place is also known for its
‘halwa’. With Oman’s tourism industry positioned
for long-term growth, resorts like the Al Sawadi
resort and the Al Nahda resort, cater to the needs
of visitors to this picturesque town. These images
clicked by Times of Oman photographers give you
a feel of what the place is all about.
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SULTAN QABOOS MOSQUE IN BIDBID INAUGURATEDAssigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Hinai,
Advisor of the State opened on Friday the Sultan Qaboos Mosque in the Wilayat of Bidbid in
the Governorate of A’Dakhiliyah. The mosque is spread over 92,265 square metres while the
construction area is 6,715 square metres. The main hall of the mosque can accommodate
2,500 persons. The prayer hall for women can accommodate 285 persons. It has a library,
classrooms and two minarets more than 49 metre high. — ONA
Notices to firms over billboards without licence
Times News Service
MUSCAT: In order to give Mus-cat a face-lift, a large number of fi rms have been served notices for installing hoardings without taking any permission from the Muscat Municipality.
While a large number of bill-boards do not meet safety stand-ards, some others have not taken any permission from the concerned authorities.
“The Municipality has the right to remove any illegal/unlicensed hoardings at the expense of the person who installed it,” stated a circular of Muscat Municipality, which was issued recently.
According to the circular, the Muscat Municipality has laid down several types of rules for billboards on ground fl oors and for billboards that are put up on higher fl oors.
“The circular includes guide-lines regarding the hoardings’ location, type, content, language, colour, material to be used to build and technical features,” it said.
It added that real-estate own-ers and brokers should check with the Muscat Municipality before
installing any billboards, which also includes ‘for sale’ and ‘for rent’ signs.
If a fi rm wants to place a hoard-ing on the road corridors or on the roof top, it has to enter into a con-tract with the Municipality.
These measures were adopted in the context of the municipal-ity’s eff orts to streamline the status of commercial advertise-ments in the right of way in Mus-cat, such that they neither impact the safety of road users nor distort
the cityscape. The offi cial said he regularly carries out night time inspections where the lighting of advertisements is evaluated to check whether it has been prop-erly maintained.
In order to further address the issue, the municipality has also given owners of these hoardings a time frame to take action.
For safetyThe move is intended to keep buildings, public spaces and the skyline from looking ugly and to ensure their safety.
“Failure to take action will re-sult in the cancellation of their licences and immediate removal of the hoardings at the expense of the person who installed it,” the offi cial said.
The outdoor advertising indus-try is managed by the Muscat Mu-nicipality, which formulates and implements appropriate guide-lines and policies.
The offi cial also said the ad-vertisement’s content needs to be approved before the hoardings are put up.
While a large
number of billboards
do not meet safety
standards, some
companies have
not taken any
permission from the
Muscat Municipality
Craftsmen honoured at Sultan Qaboos Craft Excellence AwardMUSCAT: His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said super-vised an event organised by the Public Authority for Craft Indus-tries (PACI) at the Oman Inter-national Exhibition Centre on Thursday to honour the winners of the fourth version of the Sultan Qaboos Craft Excellence Award.
The award is aimed at highlight-ing the role of craftsmen and their contribution to the comprehen-sive development process.
Sayyid Shihab said in a state-ment that His Majesty Sultan Qa-boos bin Said had attached a great deal of importance to encouraging and developing these industries.
His Majesty the Sultan had also issued royal directives to es-tablish the Al Ajyal College for a creative generation that would help improve these industries. He added that these annual events encouraged competition among participants for the award. He also stressed the important of com-munication between producers and marketers.
Lucrative businessSayyid Shihab also praised the level that Omani craft industries have reached, adding that the craft industry is a lucrative business in many countries if properly uti-
lised. He noted that the govern-ment has provided craftsmen with all possible subsidies in all fi elds and that the craft production is constantly progressing.
“The craft production in this ex-hibition is a good evidence of the development made by craft indus-tries,” Al Said stated.
Sheikha Aisah bint Khalfan Al-Siyabiyah, the PACI Chairperson and Head of the Main Committee for the Sultan Qaboos Competi-tion for Craft Excellence said the event was held in a bid to recognise the achievements made by partici-pants of the fourth version of the Sultan Qaboos Competition for
Craft Excellence, which witnessed a good turnout by craftsmen from the diff erent parts of the Sultanate.
She also affi rmed that the com-petition has materialised the fu-ture vision for a promising and eff ective sector for comprehensive development.
834 craftsmen participated at the fourth version of the Sultan Qaboos Competition for Craft Ex-cellence, from which 79 craftsmen in the textile, silver-work, ceram-ics and woodwork categories were shortlisted.
Eleven craftsmen were selected for the awards. Of the 12 projects that were submitted in the craft
projects category, three have been selected.
Al Said honoured winners of the competition. In the woodworks category, Saud bin Sulaiman Al Hamimi stood fi rst and won the Sultan Qaboos Cup for Craft Ex-cellence.
In the silverworks category, Fakhriyah bint Said Al Shamsiyah was adjudged fi rst and deserved the Sultan Qaboos Cup for Craft Excellence.
In the textile category, Mahina bint Ali Al-Qariniyah came fi rst and won the Sultan Qaboos Cup for Craft Excellence.
In the ceramics category, the
fi rst prize was withheld. Zuwainah bint Hamoud Al Jadidiyah won the second prize.
In the craft projects category, Al Mafarid Silver Trading, owned by Ahlam bint Abdullah Al-Siyabiyah came in the fi rst place and was awarded the Sultan Qaboos Cup for Craft Excellence.
The ceremony was attended by their highnesses, excellen-cies, honourable members of the State Council, undersecretaries, members of the Majlis Al Shura and members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Sultan-ate, as well as public and private offi cials. -ONA
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GUIDELINES: If a fi rm wants to place a hoarding on the road
corridors or on a roof top, it has to enter into a contract with the
Municipality. – Supplied photo
Sultanate embassy in Seoul celebrates 45th National DayTimes News Service
SEOUL: Omani Embassy in the Republic of Korea recently cel-ebrated the 45th Blessed National Day during a ceremony at Shilla Hotel in the Korean capital, Seoul.
Mohamed Al Harthi, the Oma-ni ambassador to Korea, received senior offi cials who came to con-gratulate him on this occasion including Dr Chung Chin-youb, Minister of Health and Social Care; in addition to some offi -cials from the Korean Ministry of Foreign Aff airs and other govern-ment organisations.
The guests at the ceremony also included members of the Korean parliament, heads of Arab and foreign missions, private sector of-fi cials, businessmen, banking and economic institutions offi cials, journalists and university profes-sors; in addition to representatives of the cultural and civil sectors.
The ceremony began with the playing of Omani Royal Anthem. After that, Omani national songs were played in the hall. During the ceremony, a big panoramic paint-
ing that showcasing the features of Omani historical and civilisa-tional legacy were displayed.
The painting highlighted the landmarks of the Blessed Renais-sance and some Omani tourist attractions. An ice model was dis-played at the entrance of the hall in the form of an Omani dagger and the logo of the 45th National Day.
The Embassy also held an exhi-bition that included a corner for
heritage exhibits, Omani books and leafl ets, in addition to promo-tional tourist brochures. It held another photo exhibition entitled “Features from Oman”.
This exhibition included vari-ous scenes of the historical and heritage legacies; the geological landscape of the Sultanate; tour-ist landmarks and many other photos that refl ect the march of modern Omani Renaissance.
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BLESSED OCCASION: Omani Embassy in the Republic of Korea
recently celebrated the 45th Blessed National Day during a cer-
emony at Shilla Hotel in the Korean capital, Seoul. -Supplied photo
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Muscat Municipality
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BSM celebrates National DayTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Bangladesh School Muscat (BSM) expressed loyalty to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and the Sultanate on the oc-casion of the 45th National Day.
The BSM celebrated the glori-ous day in a befi tting manner. A colourful cultural programme was organised to commemorate the day. The entire school premises was decorated with His Majesty’s pho-tographs and the Sultanate’s fl ag.
Iftakher ul Hasan Chowdhury, Chairman of the Board of Direc-tors, Bangladesh Schools, was the Chief Guest on the occasion. In his speech, he hailed the unparalleled leadership of His Majesty. He also expressed his heartfelt gratitude to His Majesty and prayed for him.
The Chairman said, “The Sul-tanate is one of emerging coun-tries of the world; a place of peace, a place of humanity, a place to live, a place for all.
“Today’s Sultanate represents peace and prosperity, not only in
the Arab, but also the entire world.”“The distinctive leadership of
His Majesty, along with his end-less love and aff ection for the na-tion, has made each and every in-dividual of the country extremely proud. We are also proud to have been able to avail of this opportu-nity to live in such a magnifi cent place – the Sultanate. Long live our beloved and dearest Sultan, long live the Sultanate,” he added.
The grand celebration started with the recitation of a few verses from the Holy Quran, by Isam ul Usama, and translated in English by Faisal Rana. After the national anthem of the Sultanate, followed by that of Bangladesh, Principal Lt Col Mahmud Ul Alam (Retd) PhD offi cially declared the cel-ebrations open.
The architectIn his welcome address, the Prin-cipal paid tributes and expressed loyalty to His Majesty as well as to the Sultanate. He addressed HM as “the architect of the modern Sultanate” and “the global icon of peace and prosperity.”
Muhammad Anwar Uddin, Di-rector of Brach Schools’ Aff airs; M Shahed Shah, Director of Finance; Mosammat Shahada Begum, Di-rector of Cultural Aff airs; Major Nasir Udiin Ahmed (Retd), Direc-tor of Education Aff airs; teachers, staff and the students had gathered at the MP hall of the School to cel-ebrate the glorious day.
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The BSM celebrated the glorious
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Russia, Turkey engage in war of words over plane shooting
B U C H A R E ST/ I STA N B U L : Russia has the right to make a mil-itary response after the downing of a Russian warplane earlier this week by NATO member Turkey, lower house speaker Sergei Nary-shkin said on Friday.
Also on Friday, Turkish Presi-dent Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia not to “play with fi re”, but added he did not want to harm re-lations with Moscow.
Speaking in an interview with Romanian television station Digi24, Naryshkin, who spoke in Russian and was translated by the broadcaster, said: “This is inten-tional murder of our soldiers and this deed must be punished.”
Shooting downThe shooting down of the Russian warplane by the Turkish air force on Tuesday was one of the most serious clashes between a NATO member and Russia, and further complicated international eff orts to battle IS militants. “We know those who did this and they must be judged. At the same time, the re-sponse from the Russian side will surely follow, in line with inter-national law. And aside from this,
Russia has also the right to military response,” added Naryshkin, who was attending a meeting of the Par-liamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PAB-SEC) in Bucharest.
Naryshkin, who said economic measures against Turkey might be on the cards, said Moscow had allocated additional military re-sources on Thursday to boost the security of Russian warplanes.
“Even yesterday, military re-sources were allocated, (for) the S400 Triumph, which is the most advanced missile defence system, with the role to maintain fl ight safety of Russian planes, of our military and air forces whose task is to destroy terrorist infrastruc-ture of the so-called IS and other organisations operating in Syria.”
World leaders have urged both sides to avoid escalation, and Chi-na’s Foreign Ministry added its voice to that on Friday.
On Thursday, Erdogan was quoted as saying, Russia should apologise for violating Turkey’s airspace. Russia has threatened economic retaliation against
Ankara, which Erdogan has dis-missed as “emotional” and “unfi t-ting”. “We very sincerely recom-mend to Russia not to play with fi re,” Erdogan told supporters during a speech in Bayburt, in northeast Turkey. “We really at-tach a lot of importance to our relations with Russia... We don’t want these relations to suff er harm in any way.”
Erdogan said he may speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a climate summit in Paris next week. But Putin has so far refused to contact Erdogan because Anka-ra does not want to apologise for the downing of the jet, Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
Erdogan said Turkey downed the jet as a result of what he called the automatic enforecement of the rules of engagement. “We see Turkey’s unwillingness to simply apologise for the incident with the plane,” Ushakov told report-ers when asked why Putin has re-fused to talk with Erdogan.
Ushakov said the Kremlin had received a request from Ankara regarding a possible meeting be-tween the two leaders at a climate conference in Paris on November 30 and that Putin would be in-formed about it later.
In Paris, Putin will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu to discuss the Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. He will also meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks about Syria and Ukraine, Ushakov said.
Russian Foreign Minister Ser-gei Lavrov said on Friday Moscow had questions whether Turkey had real intentions to fi ght ter-rorism. “We have more and more questions about the activity of Ankara and its real commitment to eradicating terrorism,” Lav-rov told a news conference after meeting his Syrian counterpart Walid Al Moualem in Moscow.
Lavrov also said Moscow would suspend the visa-free regime with Turkey as of January 1, 2016.
Speaking in Stockholm, UN’s top Syria diplomat said downing of a Russian jet risks harming the Syrian peace process. “It certainly did not help... there is a likelihood of it complicating this,” UN envoy Staff an de Mistura said about po-litical negotiations over peace or a ceasefi re. — Reuters
Turkish President
Tayyip Erdogan
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Palestinians ram cars into Israeli soldiers, shot
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Two Palestinians rammed vehicles into Israeli soldiers in separate attacks in the occupied West Bank on Fri-day and were then shot dead, Is-raeli police and military said.
A wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence that began more than eight weeks ago has shown no end in sight. It is the worst unrest since last year’s Gaza war and has prompted talk of a new Palestin-ian uprising, or Intifada, against Israel. Near the city of Hebron, a Palestinian slammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers wounding six, before being shot dead, a mili-tary spokesman said.
A few hours earlier another Palestinian rammed his car into Israeli soldiers at a bus stop near a Jewish settlement, police said. He was shot dead by a civilian and two Israeli soldiers were injured.
BrotherPolice and the Palestinian Health Ministry said the driver was the brother of a man who on Sunday had been shot dead in a similar in-cident nearby.
Almost-daily Palestinian stab-bings, car rammings and shootings, have killed 19 Israelis and one US citizen since October 1 and Israeli forces have killed 93 Palestinians, some of whom were carrying out assaults and others in clashes with police and troops. Many of those killed have been teenagers. The attacks, many of them carried out spontaneously, have been fueled in part by anger over Jewish visits to the Aqsa mosque compound in oc-cupied Jerusalem. — Reuters
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Hollande wins cooperation not coalition against IS in MoscowMOSCOW/BRUSSELS: The leaders of Russia and France avoided each other’s gaze as they made short, stiff statements in the Kremlin on Thursday before talks on countering IS in Syria.
Francois Hollande wants to unite major powers in a single “grand coalition” to fi ght the mili-tants behind the Paris attacks but Vladimir Putin’s air force has mostly hit Western-backed re-bels combating Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
RelaxedBy the end of the evening, Hollande appeared more relaxed and French offi cials were touting a potentially signifi cant advance in cooperation with Moscow.
“It’s major because of the agree-
ment not to strike groups that are fi ghting IS,” a French offi cial said. “What matters is coordination -- the fact that we have a common objective to fi ght IS. It’s the result that matters, destroying IS.”
After a week of talks with the leaders of the United States, Rus-sia, Britain and Germany, Hol-lande has secured increased po-litical and military support for his air campaign against IS, which claimed responsibility for attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers that killed 130 in France’s worst atrocity for decades.
But his goal of turning the two ri-val international military alliances waging a proxy war in Syria into a single broad coalition focused on defeating IS seems a long way off .
It is because US President
Barack Obama is determined to avoid being sucked back into a war in the Middle East, or work-ing militarily with Russia after its annexation of Crimea and support
for Russian-speaking separatists in eastern Ukraine.
A Western diplomat said the Russians gave Hollande their standard line that “we are not wed-
ded to Assad”, but in practice they show no signs of relinquishing him or grooming a successor. In mili-tary terms, Hollande has secured greater intelligence sharing by Washington which is already help-ing France hit more IS targets, as well as promises of refuelling and reconnaissance support from Ger-many and the prospect of Britain joining in air strikes, provided par-liament approves.
Air basesCyprus and Britain off ered to open their east Mediterranean air bases to the French to facilitate air strikes in Syria, while Berlin and other European partners have agreed to send more peacekeepers to Mali to free up French forces there. Po-litically, the president, whose fi rm
response to the Paris attacks has given a small bounce to his record low popularity ratings, won a global wave of sympathy for France. His voice cracked with emotion at a White House news conference when Obama prefaced his remarks by saying in French: “Nous sommes tous francais” (We are all French). What Hollande achieved in Mos-cow remains to be seen.
Putin agreed to share intelli-gence on IS activities and to co-ordinate air strikes to avoid dan-gerous incidents. He also asked Paris to provide a map of forces on the ground fi ghting IS so it could avoid bombing them, according to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. That request highlighted the ambiguity of Moscow’s sup-port. — Reuters
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Tunisia bomber had been arrested, freedTUNIS: The suicide bomber in Tunisia who blew himself up in a bus packed with presidential guards on Tuesday had been ar-rested by police before on sus-picion of militant ties but was released for lack of evidence, a security offi cial said.
Tunisia is struggling to counter militancy since becoming a beacon of democratic change in the region after its 2011 protests that ousted former leader Zine Abidine Ben Ali. Houssem Abdelli, a street ven-dor from an impoverished neigh-bourhood of Tunis, detonated his explosives as presidential guards boarded a bus on Tuesday after-noon on one of the capital’s main boulevards, killing 12 people.
The potential missed opportu-nity to stop a suicide bomber - de-
spite authorities fi nding militant literature in his house and neigh-bours noticing changes in his behaviour over the last few years - shows how security forces are struggling to prevent attacks.
Abdelli’s bus bombing follows massacres targeting a Sousse re-sort hotel and the Bardo national museum in Tunis earlier this year.
Familiar pathLike other homegrown attackers before him and the Tunisians who left to fi ght for militant groups in Iraq and Syria, Abdelli appears to have followed a familiar path from young man who showed few signs of his new violent ideology.
All three of this year’s major attacks in Tunisia have been claimed by IS, the militant group
controlling large parts of Iraq and Syria. All three were carried out by Tunisians who appear to have been radicalised at home or trained in militant camps in Libya.
“This terrorist was arrested by the police and then freed by the justice system for lack of evi-dence,” Interior Ministry security chief Rafi k Chelli told local radio.
Neighbours said Abdelli was arrested in August. Offi cials de-clined to give precise dates for his arrest and release. Tuesday’s at-tack was the fi rst suicide bombing in the capital and forced the gov-ernment to implement a curfew, declare a state of emergency and promise harsh measures to pro-tect against militants returning from war zones.
Authorities said on Friday they had arrested 40 people with sus-pected links to militant groups, and had issued 92 house arrest orders for people suspected of returning from Syria, Iraq and Libya. More than 3,000 Tunisians are now fi ghting for IS or other militant groups in Iraq, Syria and neighbouring Libya.
It was not clear whether Abdelli had left the country to fi ght over-seas or train before he carried out his attack. Police had arrested him after fi nding militant literature in his possession, offi cials said.
Neighbours in his poor district near Tunis’ Ettadhammen area said until a few years ago he en-joyed football enough to earn him-self the nickname “Pele” after the Brazilian star. — Reuters
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Almost-daily Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings, have killed 19 Israelis and one US citizen since October 1 and Israeli forces have killed 93 Palestinians, some of whom were carrying out assaults and others in clashes with police and troops
LETHAL FORCE: A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia’s Defence Ministry on Thursday,
shows a Russian S-400 defence missile system driving out of a cargo plane at Hmeymim airbase in
Syria. – Reuters/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation/Handout
AVOIDING EACH OTHER’S GAZE: French President Francois Hol-
lande, left, and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin leave at the
end of a press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on. – AFP
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Now UP lab fi nds Nestle pasta unsafe
MAU (UP): After Maggi noodles, Nestle’s pasta has now landed in trouble as its samples, tested at a state-owned food testing labora-tory in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, were found to be carrying lead beyond the permis-sible limits, a state government of-fi cial said on Friday.
Nestle was not immediately available for comments over the matter.
Pasta samples collected from Nestle distributor — Sriji Traders — here on June 10 were sent to a government food testing laborato-ry in Lucknow, said Arvind Yadav, Designated Offi cer at Food and Drug Administration Mau.
“After Maggi, the sample of ma-croni pasta was taken from Mau and sent to National Food Analysis Laboratory, Lucknow in which the lead was found to be much more that the permissible limit,” he said.
“According to report received on September 2, they failed the tests,” the offi cer said.
“The standard limit is 2.5 PPM (parts per million) while it has been found to be 6PPM. The letter informing the Nestle company sent at its Modinagar address has come back here undelivered,” Yadav said. Yadav also showed the undelivered letter to media persons.
‘Unsafe food category’He also said: “On the basis of the report this food product now comes under the ‘unsafe food category’”.
“The report has been sent to the FDA Commissioner (Lucknow) on October 12 for sanction to lodge a case and in case it is received it will be fi led in the court of the CJM here,” Yadav said. The offi cial, to questions, said, “It can also lead to banning the product.”
Meanwhile, District Magistrate Vaibhav Srivasatav also said, “The sample which has failed the test is of June and we will taken immedi-ate action on the directives... we are in touch (with the authorities) on phone.” - PTI
E X C E S S L E A D No intention to review the Constitution, assures Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said ‘India fi rst’ is the only religion and Constitution the only ‘holy book’ for his government which is committed to working for all sec-tions and religions, a statement that comes in the midst of a rag-ing debate on intolerance, even as he adopted a conciliatory tone towards Opposition.
He ruled out any review of the Constitution and reached out to the Opposition saying the rul-ing side does not believe in forc-ing decisions through majority but believes in working through consensus.
Replying to a two-day long debate in the Lok Sabha to com-memorate the Constitution Day and the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Modi also rejected the Congress contention that the NDA government was trying to deny credit to or was un-dermining the role of leaders like
Jawaharlal Nehru, to whom he paid rich tributes.
ResolutionThe House later unanimously adopted a resolution hailing the contribution of Ambedkar and other founding fathers of the Con-stitution. With his government facing attack on the issue of ‘in-tolerance’ during the two-day de-bate, he asserted that diversity is the strength of India and it needs to be nurtured.
“For the government, the only ‘dharma’ is ‘India fi rst, the only ‘dharma granth’ (holy book) is the Constitution,” the prime minister asserted in his 70-minute reply to the debate during which opposi-tion members and questioned his “silence” over the issue.
However, Modi did not specifi -cally refer to any recent incidents arising out of intolerance or nor did he touch on the debate that is raging in the country over it.
Modi’s conciliatory tone also
came on a day he had invited Con-gress President Sonia Gandhi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh for tea, in an apparent bid to seek a consensus on issues in Parlia-ment, including passage of the GST bill.
During the debate on Thursday, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said secularism is the “most mis-used” word in Indian politics and sought an end to its abuse.
Congress President Sonia Gan-dhi hit back at the government saying the ideals of Constitution were under attack now and it was a “joke” that those who had no role in the making of the Constitution were now discussing it and de-manding a review.
EmergencyFinance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday utilised the debate in the Rajya Sabha to attack the Con-gress for the imposition of Emer-gency in 1975 by “subverting” the Constitution.
The “dictatorship was at its worst” then as even right to life and liberty was suspended, he said.
“The country will run by the Constitution and it should be run only by the Constitution. India has fundamentally grown on this ideology. The country has the in-ternal energy amassed over thou-sands of years which gives it the stimulus and capacity to deal with crises,” Modi said.
Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar and Nehru repeat-edly, he underlined that the ‘Idea of India’ is refl ected by the aspects like ‘Ahinsa Parmo Dharma (non-violence is supreme duty), ‘Sarv Dharma Sambhav’ (equal respect to all religions) and ‘Vasudev Kutum-bakam’ (entire world is a family).
“Our country has been there for thousands of years. Shortcom-ings do come. Even vices do crop up. But there is something that keeps us going. Even when vices come up, solutions also emerge
from within the society....It is like an ‘auto pilot corrective arrange-ment and this is our strength,” the prime minister.
Asserting that the thrust of his government is on ‘sab ka sath’ (cooperation from all), he said, “no section of the society should lag behind. If any part of the body is paralysed, the body cannot be called healthy. We have to em-power people from all sections, be it any community, region or language.”
Noting that India has 12 reli-gions, 122 languages and 1600 dialects and comprises people who are believers in God as well as athiests, he said, “all should get justice. There should be har-mony.” - PTI
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decisions through
majority but believes
in working through
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CLEARING THE AIR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in
Lok Sabha during the second day of winter session of Parlia-
ment in New Delhi on Friday. - PTI/TV GRAB
CBI probes link between money in Sheena’s account and killingNEW DELHI: Former media baron Peter Mukherjea was on Friday grilled for six hours by the CBI which is trying to ascertain whether funds allegedly siphoned off from the media house founded by him and Indrani Mukherjea were parked in an overseas ac-count of Sheena Bora which re-sulted in a dispute between Ind-rani and her daughter.
CBI sources said the agency questioned Peter on these lines on Friday in diff erent sessions.
They said the agency confront-ed Peter with the Income Tax returns fi led by him and Indrani to ascertain their various invest-ments in India and abroad.
The sources, however, clari-fi ed that at this stage it is diffi cult to nail any one possible motive behind Sheena’s murder and the agency is working on a number of diff erent angles which might have triggered the crime.
Sheena (24), Indrani’s daugh-ter from an earlier marriage, was allegedly killed by her mother, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her former driver Shyamvar Rai in April 2012.
While seeking custody of Pe-ter from Mumbai special court, CBI has claimed that he has told the agency that accounts might have been opened in the name of Sheena by Indrani in banks in Hongkong and Singapore.
According to CBI, the cou-ple’s company 9X Media Pvt Ltd carried out its internal audit in which nine companies having shareholding as on March 2009 were found to have instances of misallocation and siphoning of substantial amounts of funds by Peter and Indrani.
CBI, represented by Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, also told the court that the “money siphoned off from INX (in which Peter and Indrani were partners) dealings was routed to Sheena Bora’s HSBC account in Singa-pore.” The reports of Serious Fraud Investigation Offi ce and
Income Tax and documents of chartered accountants substanti-ate the above facts, CBI said while seeking Peter’s remand.
Lie detector testMeanwhile, the CBI will be carry-ing out lie detector test on Peter in the next couple of days as the agency wants to “verify” claims made in his statements.
CBI sources said that the agen-cy has received the nod from a special court here to subject Pe-ter to polygraph tests which the agency wants to complete in the next couple of days as his remand expires on Monday. - PTI
M Y S T E R I O U S D E A T H
ACCUSED: Peter Mukherjea being produced by the CBI at the Es-
planade court in Mumbai on Thursday in connection with Sheena
Bora murder case. - PTI
NEW DELHI: Top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh on Friday met Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi and are learnt to have discussed key issues, including the GST bill that is pending in Parliament.
The meeting assumes signifi cance as the govern-ment and the Congress are at loggerheads over the passage of crucial legislations and Congress blocking the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill.
In a major reach-out to the main Opposition, the Prime
Minister invited Gandhi and Singh over tea at his Race Course Road residence around 7pm.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Aff airs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu were also present at the meeting.
“Former PM Dr Man-mohan Singh & Congress President Smt.Sonia Gandhi meet PM. Top ministers are present at the meet,” the PMO said in a tweet.
The meeting lasted about 45 minutes. - PTI
PM meets Sonia, Manmohandiscusses passage of GST bill
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India for equitable deal at Paris climate summit
NEW DELHI: India is going to the crucial Paris climate summit with a progressive and proac-tive stance and hopes that “there will be an equitable agreement” including on providing technol-ogy support to the developing na-tions at an aff ordable cost, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday.
“Paris will be a milestone and we are sure that there will be an equitable agreement because In-dia has taken very positive steps not only in renewable but in clean environment, clean energy, clean water, clean air and more greens.
“World has appreciated our IN-DCs (Intended Nationally Deter-mined Contributions). Therefore, I
hope the world will understand the need to allow development space to India,” Javadekar, who will lead the Indian delegation, said.
Javadekar participated in a live interactive ‘Talkathon’ on India’s stand at COP21. He, along with Power Minister Piyush Goel, an-swered netizens’ queries pertain-ing to India’s participation in the upcoming climate meet including the country’s aspirations, out-comes and partnerships.
New technologies“We have diff erent kind of states in our country like 10 coastal states, 10 Himalayan ecology states, 60 islands where people are inhabited and two desert states and due to which our ad-aptation requirements are also varied. And to mitigate the adap-
tation needs as well as building re-silience, we need many new tech-nologies. So, technology support at an aff ordable cost is the most important aspect of CoP21 Paris agreement because if that comes the developing world would be able to take more robust action,” Javadekar said.
Among the netizens who par-ticipated the one-hour session was Congress MP Shashi Tha-roor, who asked about the coun-try’s ability to fi nance the trillions (dollar) required for its INDCs.
“2.5 trillion (US) dollar is the total cost of our action in 10 years.We are today nearly 2.5 trillion dollar economy which we will grow at least triple during this time with 7.5 per cent of growth rate. So it will be great boon for our economy. We will mobilise re-
sources,” Javadekar replied.He said climate change needs
to be addressed in a similar man-ner as HIV/AIDS, noting it could be achieved by selling cheap tech-nologies to developing countries for producing clean energy.
“To fi ght HIV/AIDS, world did arrive at an extraordinary solu-tion to an extraordinary problem and they made available cheaper drugs. Is climate change not as serious as HIV/AIDS? And one solution is that the company who have done research should not go uncompensated and part of Green Climate Fund should be given to them,” he said.
The global climate conference will be held in Paris from Novem-ber 30 to December 11 to achieve a legally-binding universal agree-ment on climate change. - PTI
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Rs225m New Delhi cash heist solved, van driver arrestedNEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Friday arrested the driver who fl ed with Rs225 million stashed in a cash replenishment van here and claimed that they solved “the big-gest misappropriation ever from a cash van in its history”, within 12-hours by recovering the money.
The police arrested the 35-year-old driver identifi ed as Pradeep Shukla from a godown in Okhla Industrial Area which was raided by the police team in the wee hours on Friday.
Nine cash boxes, containing “ap-proximately” Rs225 million have been recovered, said DCP (South-east) M. S. Randhawa.
After the heist, Shukla, had al-legedly taken shelter in a godown of electrical wires in Okhla In-dustrial Area. A source in Delhi Police said that Shukla had spent around Rs11,500 from the stolen amount to pay off for some articles purchased in connection with the heist, roasted chicken for dinner and alcohol.
“Shukla knew the caretaker of the godown and asked him for shel-ter in the night, telling him that he would leave early today. The care-taker was, however, found to have no involvement in the crime,” said a senior police offi cial.
Four cash replenishment vans had taken off from the Vikaspuri branch of Axis Bank with around Rs380 million on Thursday after-noon, of which the van heading south-east (DL-1LK-9189) was carrying around 225 million, said the senior offi cial.
A police source said that the
amount was recorded as Rs100 million, which is the limit of cash transit suggested by the police in view of security.
The discrepancy led to some confusion in the initial phase of the investigation.
According to the police, there were two persons in the van —driver Pradeep Shukla and armed guard Vinay Patel.
On their way to Okhla, Pa-tel asked Shukla to stop the van around 3.40pm for he wanted to relieve himself at the roadside.
Shukla told him that he would wait nearby, but fl ed. Soon he switched off his mobile phone too.Senior police offi cials said that the case was cracked on the basis of human inputs and the entire industrial area at Okhla Phase III was searched intensively, leading the team to Shukla, who was hiding at the electrical wire godown. - PTI
C R I M E
EVENT: School children pose with the India’s Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar (centre, in
pink) after delivering good wishes to the Indian contingent for the Global Climate Conference during
an event in New Delhi, on Friday. - Reuters
Thirsty crops hampering quest for water securityRAMPUR: Pleas by local Indian offi cials for farmers to switch from rice to oilseeds and pulses and protect dangerously low wa-ter levels are falling on deaf ears, and may be further undermined by government policies encourag-ing cultivation of thirsty crops.
Back-to-back droughts for the fi rst time in nearly 30 years mean some rural areas in the north are running out of water for human consumption and agriculture, prompting warnings of serious consequences if urgent action is not taken.
“It is unlikely that India will have another drought next year; three years in a row has never happened before,” said Ashok Gulati, a farm economist who ad-vised the last government.
“But with extreme events in-creasing due to climate change, you never know. If we don’t wake up now then, God forbid, people will leave farming to become la-bourers at railways stations.”
With more than two-thirds of the 1.25 billion population living off the land, water scarcity could aff ect the majority and hit long term food supplies. As world lead-ers meet in Paris next week to agree a deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, India says climate change is already hurting the agri-culture and water sectors, and the impact is amplifi ed by poverty and a heavy reliance on farming. Lo-cally, offi cials are trying to change farming habits and enforce strict-er rules on water usage.
“We are encouraging crop di-versifi cation; we are going for pulses,” said Amit Kishore, chief development offi cer in Rampur, a farm belt city in the northern
state of Uttar Pradesh.“We have been trying to con-
vince farmers to shift to horticul-ture as well, but the uptake has not been satisfactory.”
Four out of Rampur’s six ad-ministrative areas are so-called “dark zones”, with 80 per cent or more of groundwater exhausted.
In those zones, the practice of boring wells has been banned this fi scal year. Without urgent action, the region risks going the way of Punjab and Haryana, two parched states where the groundwater has sunk even further.
Some farmers in those states now need to dig 300 feet (91 me-tres) for water, compared to fi ve feet (1.5 metres) in the 1960s, ac-cording to research by a local gov-ernment scientist. Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi has urged farmers to use water wisely, advo-cating a “per drop, more crop” ap-proach that includes water-sav-ing methods like drip irrigation.
Yet his 18-month-old govern-
ment has also boosted incentives to grow water-intensive rice, wheat and sugarcane that India exports, at the expense of crops like oilseeds or pulses that it has to import.
Rice sellsLittle wonder some farmers in the northern farming belt are ignor-ing the advice of local offi cials.
“We grow rice because that is what sells,” said Babu Ram Saini, standing by a pond in Jiwai Jadid village in Rampur.
“Productivity for lentils is so low that we’ll not be able to sus-tain ourselves without massive government support,” he said.
Some experts are advocating tougher measures to force more effi cient use of water. Wastage is encouraged by the supply of free or subsidized power which boosts politicians’ popularity.
“We have been trying to tell farmers that if you continue growing rice, more places are go-ing to become dark zones,” said V.K. Mishra, a regional head of the Central Soil Salinity Research In-stitute in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. “We should make a law that you can’t grow rice in areas where the water table is very low.”
Rice covers 62 per cent of Pun-jab’s area under cultivation, up from 10 per cent in 1970.
The expansion of rice has been similar in neighbouring Haryana.
Though the droughts have hit crops, India still produces more rice, wheat and sugar than it con-sumes, drawing accusations from the World Trade Organization that stockpiling to provide cheap grain to the poor unfairly distorts trade. - Reuters
R U N N I N G O U T O F W A T E R
SCARCITY: A women uses a
hand-pump to fi ll drinking wa-
ter on the outskirts of Amritsar
in the northern Indian state of
Punjab. - Reuters
Kerala for hartal
regulation bill
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led UDF govern-ment in south Indian state Kerala has decided to introduce and pass a special bill intending to curb har-tals (strikes) in the state.
Titled as State Hartal Regula-tion Bill, the bill is expected to be passed in the coming Assembly session, beginning from Novem-ber 30. - PTI
C U R B S T R I K E S
NABBED: Police with arrested
driver Pradeep Shukla of a Delhi
cash transit van who had alleg-
edly stolen Rs225 million on
Thursday. - PTI
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China assures Pakistan of help to join nuclear suppliers club
ISLAMABAD: China has assured that if India is allowed to get the membership of the Nuclear Sup-pliers Group (NSG) it will go all out to ensure that Pakistan also joins the group. The assurance was given to Islamabad during the visit of a high-level delegation headed by President Mamnoon Hussain to Beijing recently.
“The issue was discussed at length and Pakistan highlighted its point of view saying that it has equal right to join the group for ful-fi lling its requirement for peaceful use of nuclear technology,” diplo-matic sources said.
Pakistan took the plea that if it is deprived of the NSG membership and India is allowed to join it then it will be discrimination and lead to creating an imbalance in the region.
“China, being member of the group and holding the veto power, assured Pakistan that it will take all measures so that it also be-comes the member of the NSG,” they said, adding, “If India is al-lowed to join NSG and Pakistan is deprived of the membership of the group, Beijing will veto the move to block Indian entry.”
“The NSG chairman has re-cently visited New Delhi and held meeting with India,” observed a se-curity analyst. - Express Tribune
N U C L E A R T E C H N O L O G Y Planned mini-budget targets Rs40 billion additional taxes
ISLAMABAD: Federal minis-ter for fi nance Ishaq Dar has un-veiled the broad contours of two of his major policy initiatives — a mini budget to be introduced in the next couple of days and a fi xed income tax scheme for estranged traders in a bid to bring them into the tax net.
While speaking in a meeting of the National Assembly Stand-ing Committee on Finance, Dar also rejected the suggestions that rupee be devalued by 10 per cent against the United States dol-lar. “The idea that the Pakistani rupee against the greenback was overvalued by at least 10 per cent is an imported one and pushed by someone else,” he said, while taking a jibe at the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) without explicitly naming it. “I have told them in front of the prime minis-ter that the market forces deter-mine the value of the currency and we cannot intervene to devalue it on their desire,” he added.
Rupee-dollar rate“The rupee is actually underval-ued by at least 8 per cent,” said Dar, while terming the current rupee-dollar parity of Rs105.5 to a dollar ‘manipulated by a handful of speculators.’
Dar also used the forum to pre-pare ground for the upcoming mini-budget to raise roughly Rs40 billion extra taxes over the IMF demand. The government has to announce the additional meas-
ures before November 30.He tried to link anticipated
increase in hundreds of regula-tory duties on imported items to improve the country’s external fi -nances position. “Despite overall reduction in imports, the imports of luxury goods have signifi cantly increased and the government is seriously considering managing this trend,” said Dar, adding that one obvious option was to in-crease duties.
The government is likely to increase duties currently cov-ered under Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) 568 besides taking other measures.Dar said due to
reduction in commodity prices, the government was expecting $3 billion to $4 billion decrease in the import bill but that is not ma-terialising due to increase in im-ports of luxury goods. He termed imported cheese and butter as ‘luxury goods’.
Estranged tradersDar also hinted at announcing a special scheme for traders to bring them into the tax net, as the busi-ness community is not ready to come into the tax net despite the government’s imposition of 0.3 per cent withholding tax (WHT) on banking transactions.
“I am prepared to have a sepa-rate block of new assesses (in-come tax return fi lers) who will be off ered to come into the tax net by paying a nominal fi xed income tax, may be up to Rs25,000,” said Dar. He said the fi xed tax rate will depend upon the size and location of the shop.
He said the fi xed tax will be still less than the amount traders are currently paying in bribes to the lower staff of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and to the lawyers to keep the tax authorities away.
He said in case no agreement is reached with the traders, the gov-ernment might further extend the
date for fi ling income tax returns, which is currently set at Novem-ber 30. But, he added, if the traders accepted his off er, at least 5 mil-lion new people could come in the tax net against the current level of less than 1 million total income tax fi lers.
“A group of traders wants to whiten hidden assets by exploit-ing the opportunity but they should know that it is not a tax am-nesty scheme,” he said. “During negotiations the traders admitted that they had parallel-undisclosed bank accounts in the names of their drivers and cooks.”
He said if the traders agree to his proposal, the government might bring a Bill in the Parliament to give legal cover to the scheme.
The fi nance minister also shared plan to settle the outstanding tax refunds of roughly Rs200 billion. “All the refunds cannot be cleared in one-go as these will carry impli-cations on the net revenue collec-tion and shares of provinces will also be suppressed.” – Express Tribune
Finance minister has unveiled broad
contours of two of his major policy initiatives
— a mini budget to be introduced soon and
a fi xed income tax scheme for estranged
traders in a bid to bring them into the tax net
Court orders re-investigation in Musharraf treason caseISLAMABAD: A three-member special court on Friday ordered re-investigation into the treason trial of former military ruler Gen-eral (retired) Pervez Musharraf.
After sweeping to power in 2013, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) con-stituted a three-member special court to try General Musharraf for allegedly subverting the Con-stitution in November 2007.
Musharraf’s lawyer Farogh Nasim had asked the court a broader joint investigation team must be constituted for the inves-tigation of the case “as they don’t trust the federal government.” The court asked the investigation team to submit its progress report in by December 17.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Akram Sheikh argued the federal govern-
ment was the same for all; how-ever, it was Musharraf who failed to cooperate with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) dur-ing the process of investigation,
despite repeated notices.
Review petition“The federal government will fi le a review petition against Islamabad High Court’s verdict in this case,” Sheikh said, adding “FIA has re-fused to re-investigate the case for reasons that the agency’s dignity was not protected in the courts and comments were made against the investigation.”
In April 2014, the special court formally charged Musharraf for imposing emergency rule in the country in 2007.
The former president appeared before the three-judge bench, re-jecting all charges against him.
According to the prosecution, March 31, 2014 marked the ‘fi rst day’ of Musharraf’s trial as he was fi nally indicted. – Express Tribune
C O U R T C A S E
Government’s goal is to have 100m bank accounts by 2025KARACHI: Pakistan will have as many as 100 million bank ac-counts by 2025, said Tameer Mi-crofi nance Bank chief executive offi cer Nadeem Hussain, while addressing a summit of business leaders on Thursday.
He said eff ective banking regu-lations and better coordination among diff erent stakeholders had made Pakistan one of the few coun-tries where a bank account could be opened in just one minute.
“Thanks to the concept of the one-minute bank account, the industry is opening close to a mil-lion accounts a month,” he said.
There were a total of 41.7 mil-lion bank accounts in Pakistan at the end of last fi scal year, accord-ing to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). More than 31.3 million ac-counts, or 75 per cent of all bank accounts, belonged to the person-
al accounts category. The SBP has recently modifi ed the regulatory framework to quicken the bank account-opening process with the help of the national database authority.
“NADRA is the real-time on-line depository of the biometric impressions of close to 100 mil-lion people,” Hussain said, adding that utilising its database had so far resulted in eight million one-minute accounts.
50 million mark by 2020The industry expects 50 million accounts by 2020 and 100 mil-lion accounts by 2025. Assuming the average balance of Rs1,000 in these accounts, Hussain said these accounts will bring as much as Rs100 billion back into the banking system.
It will also make access to cred-
it possible for people and small businesses that are currently un-able to borrow from commercial banks, he noted. “A bank account is the centre of gravity for fi nan-cial inclusion,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Lucky Cement CEO Muhammad Ali Tabba said his group had plans to invest $1.8 billion in the next four years. “The economy and the security situation are on an im-proving trajectory. The feel-good factor is prevailing,” he said.
Urging people to “believe in Pakistan,” Tabba said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be a game-changer for the economy. “I think $46 bil-lion investment will materialise and transform Pakistan into a major economic hub.” The CPEC will bring development and pros-perity, he said. - Express Tribune
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Ishaq Dar, federal minister for
fi nance. – Express Tribune
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After a 30-year hiatus, international coor-dination of macroeconomic policy seems to be back on policymakers’ agendas. The
reason is understandable: growth remains anaemic in most countries, and many fear the US Federal Re-serve’s impending interest-rate hike. Unfortunately, the reasons why coordination fell into abeyance are still with us. The heyday of international policy coordination, from 1978 to 1987, began with a G-7 summit in Bonn in 1978 and included the 1985 Plaza Accord. But doubts about the benefi ts of such co-operation persisted. The Germans, for example, re-gretted having agreed to joint fi scal expansion at the Bonn summit, because refl ation turned out to be the wrong objective in the infl ation-plagued late 1970s.
Similarly, the Japanese came to regret the ap-preciated yen after the Plaza Accord succeeded in bringing down an overvalued dollar.
Moreover, emerging-market countries’ represen-tation in global governance did not keep pace with the increasingly signifi cant role of their economies and currencies. These countries’ very success thus became an obstacle to policy coordination.
The eff ort to revive international coordination began in response to the 2008 global fi nancial cri-sis. The larger emerging-market countries acquired more representation when the G-20 succeeded the G-7 as the preeminent global economic grouping. G-20 leaders agreed on coordinated expansion-ary policies at their London summit in April 2009. Then they agreed in Seoul in 2010 to give emerging-market countries quota shares in the International Monetary Fund that would be more commensurate with their economic weight. (The US Congress, to its shame, has yet to pass the necessary legislation.)
Since then, many calls for coordination have la-mented the outbreak of “currency wars,” otherwise known as competitive depreciation – an old phe-nomenon that recalls the tit-for-tat devaluations of the 1930s. Now, as then, the fear is that if all coun-tries try to depreciate their currency to gain export competitiveness and boost their economies, all will fail.This concern has been refl ected, for example, in complaints about intervention by China and other emerging markets to prevent currency appreciation.
Likewise, successive rounds of quantitative eas-ing by the US Federal Reserve in 2009-2014, the Bank of Japan since 2013, and the European Central Bank since earlier this year, resulted in deprecia-
tions of the dollar, yen, and euro, respectively.The most recent set of calls for coordination arise
from fears – articulated, for example, by Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India – that the Fed will not adequately take into account the ad-verse impact on emerging-market economies when it raises interest rates. The US has led some inter-national attempts to address competitive deprecia-tion, including an agreement among G-7 ministers in February 2013 to refrain from foreign-exchange intervention and a November 2015 side agreement to the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership to address cur-rency manipulation. But critics are agitating for a stronger agreement backed up by the threat of trade sanctions. Attempting to use game theory to inter-pret the various calls for coordination is revealing, though not in the way that game theorists assume. The players often do not think they are playing the same game. For example, when the US urges Ger-man fi scal stimulus – as at it did in Bonn in 1978, in London in 2009, and at the G-20’s Brisbane summit in 2014 – it has in mind the “locomotive game,” in which fi scal stimulus has positive “spillover eff ects” on its trading partners.
The global economy will do better if the major countries – each afraid to undertake fi scal expansion on its own, for fear of worsening its trade balance – agree to act together to pull it out of recession and up to speed. Germans, by contrast, think they are play-ing a “discipline game.” They view budget defi cits as creating negative spillover eff ects for neighbours, owing, for example, to the moral hazard of bailouts. Their idea of a cooperative equilibrium is the Eu-ropean Union’s 2013 “fi scal compact,” under which euro members agreed yet again to rules for limiting their budget defi cits.
The most recent example of this “dialogue of the deaf” occurred in Europe, from January to July 2015. Month after month, the Greek government and its eurozone partners sat at the board, one side thinking the game was checkers and the other think-ing it was chess. Interpretations vary no less when it comes to monetary policy. Some believe that mon-etary expansion in one country shifts the trade bal-ance against its partners, owing to the exchange-rate eff ect; others believe that any adverse eff ect on trade balances is off set by higher spending. Offi cials would often be better advised to improve their own poli-cies, before they tell others what to do. Otherwise, calls for international cooperation may do more harm than good. – Project Syndicate
Raising US military aid to Philippines a wrong move This refers to the news that the US raising its military aid to the Phi-lippines. It seems Washington wants to destabilise the whole world. With his policies of intereference, President Barack Obama has
proven to be worse than his predecessor George Bush. It is strange that world lea-ders and public still expect neutrality from this leader.— David Lewinsky, Muttrah
Gun violence is US’s top export This refers to the video showing the killing of a black teen in Chicago. It seems to me that mass media is unnecessarily focussing on blacks. It is well known America has a soaring homicide rate. With its Wild West culture predominant in US, debates on regarding gun control and violence against specifi c community is superfl uous. US’s role in global warfare proves violence is its biggest export. — Suad Mahruk, Ruwi
Insane hobbies aff ect healthThis refers to the video ‘Man in China eats 2 kilogrammes of chillies a day’. As I watched
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Bangladesh cleric killed in attack claimed by IS group
DHAKA: IS militant group has claimed responsibility for an at-tack on a mosque in Bangladesh on Thursday, killing a cleric and wounding three other people, the second attack in a month.
Witnesses said three young men stormed into the mosque in north-western Bogra district and shot at worshippers indiscriminately dur-ing prayers. “The attackers entered the mosque and opened fi re on the devotees after locking the main gate and then fl ed immediately after the shooting,” police offi cial Ahsan Habib said.
Two picked upTwo people from two nearby vil-lages had been picked up for ques-tioning about the attack, another police offi cer Arifur Rahman said. SITE monitoring service said that IS had claimed responsibility for the attack, just as it did for the previous bombing on the biggest shrine in the country.
Bangladesh has seen a rise in violence in recent months, with two foreigners, four secular writ-ers and a publisher killed this year.
Australia said on Friday that
it had given permission to fami-lies of government staff posted in Bangladesh to return home, say-ing there was a threat to Austral-ian and Western interests in the country. It also said in a travel advice posted on the foreign min-istry’s website that it planned to withdraw all Australian govern-ment-funded volunteers in Bang-ladesh by December 31.
“There is reliable information
to suggest that militants may be planning to target Australian and Western interests in Bangladesh,” it said. Last month Australia can-celled a cricket tour of Bangladesh although it played a soccer qualifi -er game in Dhaka on November 17.
Tensions have rising in Bangla-desh since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched a crackdown on militants, putting several lead-ers on trial for war crimes com-
mitted during the 1971 war.About a dozen priests in the
north have also received death threats, a week after an Italian doctor working as a missionary was shot and wounded, police said on Thursday. “We have already stepped up security around the churches,” local police chief Ab-dullah Al Faruk said.
Bangladesh’s government has rejected IS claims of involve-
ment in the attacks and says lo-cal militants are involved. Critics say the government is whipping up a climate of fear to go after its political rivals.
Earlier on Thursday, police said they had killed a top militant sus-pected to have masterminded the October 24 attack on the shrine in Dhaka. They said he was the military chief of a banned under-ground militant group. — Reuters
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Pope Francis warns Kenyan youths against ‘sweet lure of corruption’NAIROBI: Pope Francis urged young Kenyans on Friday not to suc-cumb to the sweet lure of corrup-tion, and urged them to help those tempted by “fanatical” ideologies.
Scrapping a prepared script, the Latin American pope addressed a packed Nairobi stadium with the down-to-earth and spontaneous style. “The spirit of evil takes us to a lack of unity. It takes to tribalism, corruption and drugs. It takes us to destruction out of fanaticism,” the pope said, urging young people not to give in to these vices.
“Let’s hold hands together, let’s stand up as a sign against bad trib-alism,” he said, grasping the hands of two young people on stage.
Tribal loyalties often trump po-litical allegiances in Kenya, and some other African nations, some-times sparking violence.
After being welcomed into the stadium with rapturous singing and dancing, including by Presi-dent Uhuru Kenyatta, the fi rst lady and clergy, the pope was cheered throughout his speech.
The president reshuffl ed his cabinet this week after several ministers were embroiled in cor-ruption allegations.
Corruption “is like sugar, sweet, we like, it’s easy,” Francis said. “Also in the Vatican there are cases of corruption.
“Please, don’t develop that taste for that sugar which is called cor-ruption.”
In Kenya, the target of a spate of deadly attacks by militants, the pope has called for inter-faith dia-
logue, said Almighty’s name can never be invoked to justify vio-lence, and urged world leaders to tackle climate change.
Social dangerLack of education and work was a “social danger”, pushing some to radical ideologies.
“Almighty is much stronger than any recruitment campaign,” he said, adding youths should help potential victims by bringing them into groups or even asking them “to come and watch some foot-ball... Don’t allow them to remain on their own.”
“That’s what comes to me now, spontaneously,” he said.
Several praised his words. “The message that stood out from the pope was the one about corruption and tribalism,” said student Win-nie Sankale, 20.
Francis, known as “the slum bishop” before becoming pope because of frequent visits to the shantytowns of Buenos Aires, had earlier visited Nairobi’s Kan-gemi district, a neighbourhood of potholed roads, open sewers and rough shacks.
Addressing slum dwellers, char-ity workers and clergy in a small
church that lies a few hundred me-tres from smart apartments and gated residential compounds, the pope spoke of the “dreadful injus-tice of urban exclusion”.
“These are wounds infl icted by minorities who cling to power and wealth, who selfi shly squan-der while a growing majority is forced to fl ee to abandoned, fi lthy and run-down peripheries,” he said, urging African governments to provide basic amenities. After Kenya, the fi rst leg of his Africa tour, the pope travels to Uganda on Friday and the Central African Re-public on Sunday. — Reuters
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2,000 hold protest in Turkey over journalists’ arrest ISTANBUL: Around 2,000 peo-ple protested on Friday over the arrest of two prominent jour-nalists on charges of espionage and terrorist propaganda, a case that has revived long-standing criticism of Turkey’s record on press freedom under President Tayyip Erdogan.
A court on Thursday ordered the arrest of editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper Can Dundar and reporter Erdem Gul over the publication of footage purporting to show the state in-telligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. The United States said it was “very con-cerned” and opposition politi-cians fi ercely criticised the move.
“Journalism is being put on trial with these arrests and the Turkish press is being intimi-dated,” Utku Cakirozer, a deputy from the main opposition CHP and a former chief editor of Cum-huriyet, told Reuters.
Crowds turned out in Istan-bul, with some chanting “Mur-derer Erdogan” and accusing the ruling AK Party he founded of collaborating with IS militant group. Some demonstrators held up Friday’s edition of Cumhuri-yet, which carried the headline “Black day for the press”.
“All opposition press organisa-tions that are abiding by the eth-ics of journalism and trying to do their journalism are under threat and under attack,” Figen Yuksek-
dag, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, said at the protest. “This dark opera-tion aimed at covering the crimes that those trucks carried and the crimes which are continuing to be committed will not be suc-cessful,” she added.
The video footage, released in May, purported to show Turkish police opening crates of weap-ons and ammunition bound for Syria on the back of state security agency (MIT) trucks.
Publication of the story at the time prompted President Tayyip Erdogan to vow revenge, say-ing those behind it would “pay a heavy price” for the story.
There was a similar protest in the capital Ankara and the US Embassy also commented on the detentions.
“We are very concerned by the arrests of Can Dundar and Er-dem Gul and what appears to be yet another media outlet under pressure,” the US Embassy said on Twitter. “We hope the Turkish courts and authorities will up-hold the fundamental principle of media freedom enshrined in the Turkish Constitution.”
European diplomats are meas-ured in their criticism of media freedom in Turkey and Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule, recognising the West needs An-kara’s help on the migrant crisis and as an ally in the US-led coali-tion against IS. — Reuters
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Chinese rights activist jailed for six years
HONG KONG: A prominent Chi-nese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years impris-onment on Friday by a court in southern China, amid a continu-ing crackdown on human rights advocates across the country, his lawyer said.
Two other activists, Liu Yu-andong and Sun Desheng, were sentenced to three years and two-and-a-half years respectively, ac-cording to Guo’s lawyer, Zhang Lei.
Guo and Sun had been accused of “gathering crowds to disturb social order” during a nearly week-long peaceful demonstration outside the gates of a newspaper, the Southern Weekly, in January 2013. The pro-test called on authorities to respect media freedoms amid a censorship row. “He wasn’t guilty of anything at all. This sentence is unaccepta-ble and unfair,” Zhang told Reuters by telephone after attending the court on Friday. Guo had previously been jailed for nearly fi ve years for his grassroots activism.
Guo, 48, whose real name is Yang Maodong, had been detained by Chinese authorities for over two years before sentencing, with his trial stuck in limbo due to de-lays and a boycott by his lawyers last year to protest what they called procedural violations. Chi-nese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei, asked why Guo had been jailed and if China was worried about international reaction to the case, said: “China is a country with rule of law. A Chinese court han-dled this case in accordance with the law. Outsiders should respect China’s judicial sovereignty.”
Court offi cials did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.
As with previous hearings for Guo, and other rights activists in Guanghzou, the area around the court was blocked off and heavily policed. — Reuters
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PAIN AND GRIEF: Komela Begum, the wife of Moazzem Hossain, 70, who died after unidentifi ed gunman open fi re in a mosque, reacts at
her home in Bogra, some 200 kms from the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Friday. – AFP
WARM WELCOME: Kenyans gather to welcome the Pope at the Kasarani Sports Stadium in Nairobi on
Friday. – AFP
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The case of the Oscar-winning director, Roman Polanski now 82, who holds Polish and French citizenship, has been an international cause celebre for nearly four decades after the crime, with some demanding harsh punishment and others urging the case be let go.
France pays tribute to 130 victims of Paris attacks
PARIS: France paid tribute on Friday to the 130 mostly young people killed while they were en-joying themselves in Paris two weeks ago by gunmen and suicide bombers in the most deadly at-tacks the nation has seen since World War II.
Blue-white-and-red French fl ags hung from the windows of public buildings and private homes as hundreds of survivors and rela-tives of the dead joined political leaders for a remembrance cer-emony at the military museum Les Invalides in the capital. The militant group IS has claimed re-sponsibility for the November 13 attacks, which targeted cafes, res-taurants, a sports stadium and a rock concert. More than 350 peo-ple were wounded and nearly 100 of them remain in hospital.
Defi ant speechUnder a wintry sky, the names and ages of the 130 victims were read out. A majority were under 35 and they came from all over France and from 17 other countries. In
a poignant but defi ant speech, President Francois Hollande vowed to destroy IS and urged his compatriots to help combat the group simply by continuing to go to bars, restaurants and cultural and sporting events and to enjoy the simple pleasures he said the militants hated.
“I solemnly promise you all that France will do everything to de-feat the army of fanatics who have committed these crimes, that she will act tirelessly to protect her children,” he said.
“The terrorists want to divide us, to oppose us, to pit us against one another. They will fail. They have the cult of death, we have the love of life,” he said.
Hollande said the November 13 attacks were part of a chain stretching back to the Septem-ber 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and he noted that many other countries - including, this month alone, Mali and Tunisia - had been hit by militant groups.
Most of the assailants in the Paris attacks killed themselves
using suicide vests or were killed by police but French and Belgian authorities are still hunting oth-ers suspected of involvement or possibly plotting new attacks. Last week the French parliament backed a three-month extension of a state of emergency declared immediately after the attacks to allow security forces greater scope in combating militant groups.
France has also stepped up its aerial bombing campaign of IS targets in Syria. This week, Hol-lande held separate talks with the
leaders of the United States, Rus-sia, Britain, Germany and Italy on how to crush the militants.
“We will defeat this enemy. To-gether. With our forces, those of the republic. With our arms, those of democracy. With our institu-tions, with international law,” a sombre Hollande said.
The November 13 attacks came 11 months after militants killed 17 people in Paris, most of them at the offi ces of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and at a ko-sher supermarket. — Reuters
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Court decision not to extradite Polanski to US confirmed
KRAKOW (POLAND): A Pol-ish court’s decision to deny the extradition of fi lm-maker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 conviction became legally binding on Friday after an ap-pellate prosecutor’s offi ce said it found no justifi cation to appeal it.
The case of the Oscar-winning director, now 82, who holds Pol-ish and French citizenship, has been an international cause cel-ebre nearly four decades after the crime, with some demanding harsh punishment and others urg-ing the case be let go.
“Speaking for Polanski, I can say that we feel a great relief that this case has ended,” Jan Olszewski, one of Polanski’s lawyers said. “And this means that it will be pos-sible for Polanski to start making a planned fi lm in Poland.”
The appellate prosecutor’s of-fi ce in the city of Krakow said in a statement on Friday that its analy-sis of the evidence collected in the case showed the earlier court de-cision on denying extradition had been correct. This means Poland’s decision not to extradite Polan-ski has become legally binding and cannot be appealed again.
The United States had request-ed Polanski’s extradition from Po-land after he made a high-profi le appearance in Warsaw in 2014. The fi lmmaker lives in Paris but he also has an apartment in Kra-kow, southern Poland. Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to having physical relation with a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot in Los Angeles. The fi lm director served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain. He fl ed the United States the fol-lowing year to Britain and then to France, believing the judge hear-ing his case could overrule the deal and put him in jail for years. — Reuters
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16% rise in Amazon forest destruction in 2015SAO PAULO: The destruction of Brazil’s Amazon forest, the world’s largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 per cent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings.
Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July released on Thursday showed that 5,831 square km (2,251 square miles) of forests were cleared in the Brazil-ian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico. The data released by the environment ministry on Thursday confi rmed preliminary information released by environ-mental institutions recently that were showing an increase in defor-estation after a fall seen in 2014.
Sensitive momentIt comes at a sensitive moment for the Brazilian government as countries around the world gather in Paris to discuss a new global climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Defor-estation makes up to around 15 per cent of world’s heat-trapping gases, more than the entire trans-port sector. A strong increase in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil’s top grains and livestock producer, was the main factor behind the increase. Landowners in Mato
Grosso cleared around 1,500 square kilometers (Km2) of for-ests, compared to around 1,000 Km2 in 2014. “It was a surprise, particularly the increase in Mato Grosso”, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira told reporters in Brasilia.
“Pressure for more logging is again strong and coming from ag-riculture and livestock activities,” she said.
Besides being a giant carbon sink, the Amazon is a biodiversity sanctuary, holding myriad species yet to be studied, so any increase in deforestation usually sparks criticism from environmentalists.
The government often launches police operations to fi ght illegal loggers, but environmental groups say more is needed.
Teixeira said she has called gov-ernors in the states that had the biggest increases in deforestation to discuss the situation.
They would be asked to present evaluations explaining why defor-estation increased. Despite the jump this year, the cleared area is still much smaller than in the past, as the country managed to sharply reduce Amazon’s destruction since it began tracking deforesta-tion in 2004, when almost 30,000 Km2 of forest were lost. — Reuters
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Moscow cuts coal supplies to Kiev as row over Crimea escalatesKIEV: Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Ukrain-ian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament on Friday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-an-nexed Crimea.
Demchyshyn said pro-Russian separatists who control coal mines in eastern Ukraine had also halted coal supplies. He said Kiev had one month of its own coal supplies left and was seeking alternative sup-plies from South Africa.
Restricted“Coal supplies have been restrict-ed from uncontrolled territory (Donbass) and from Russia,” said Demchyshyn.
“Right now our power stations have enough coal reserves in stor-age to last for at least one month.
But in the long-term problematic questions will arise,” said Ukrain-ian energy minister .
PunishmentRussian Energy Minister Alexan-der Novak said on Tuesday that Russia might cut coal supplies to punish Ukraine for what he said was its deliberate refusal to help rebuild power lines to Crimea, which were blown up by unknown saboteurs.
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in March last year, plung-ing relations between the one-time allies into crisis.
Minor repair work has been carried out on the sabotaged py-lons and power lines in southern Ukraine which supply Crimea, but none of the four pylons which were destroyed are operational.
Ukraine depends on coal to ful-
fi l around 44 percent of its power needs. Nuclear energy makes up about the same proportion, with the rest of its needs being met by renewable sources.
Demchyshyn said two ships car-rying coal from South Africa were en route to Ukraine and would dock in December with around 250,000 tonnes of coal.
Taken together with Ukraine’s own coal reserves of about 1 mil-lion tonnes, he said Kiev had enough coal to ensure the stable functioning of its energy system for 45-50 days. He said Ukraine was in talks with South Africa about further coal supplies.
Ukraine earlier this week said it was halting gas purchases from Russia. Demchyshyn said Ukraine had 16.5 billion cubic metres of its own gas in reserve, enough for the winter heating season. — Reuters
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NATIONDAL DAY HOMAGE: French fl ags hang from windows of a building near the Invalides in Paris, France, on Friday. French Presi-
dent Francois Hollande called on all citizens to hang the national fl ag from their windows to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris at-
tacks during a national day of homage. – Reuters
DEFORESTATION: An aerial view of a deforested plot of the Amazon at the Bom Futuro National For-
est in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, on September 3, 2015.– Reuters fi les
Thousands displaced in off ensive
BANGKOK: A Myanmar military off ensive against ethnic rebels in the country’s east has uprooted more than 10,000 people, rights groups said, accusing the army of bombing schools and temples, fi r-ing on civilians and raping women.
Since October 6, the army has shelled six villages, shot and in-jured three people, and fi red on 17 villagers who are now missing, ac-cording to activists in Shan state.
The Shan Human Rights Founda-tion has documented eight cases of sexual violence since April 2015, in-cluding a 32-year-old woman gang-raped by 10 soldiers on November 5 while her husband was tied up un-der their farm hut in Ke See town-ship. “We are very concerned that there has been no public condemna-tion by the international communi-ty about these war crimes and these attacks on civilians,” rights activist Charm Tong told the Thomson Reu-ters Foundation.
The Myanmar government did not respond to requests for com-ment about the fi ghting in Shan state. Shan state, which borders Thailand, Laos and China, is rich in resources and the site of three hydroelectric dam projects. — Reuters
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POWER CUT: Ravshan, a Crimean Tatar, is refl ected in a mirror as he eats while using a burning oil
lamp due to a power cut inside his house in the village of Strogonovka, Simferopol district, Crimea, on
Thursday. – Reuters
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Seven-star Ashwin wrecks Proteas, India clinch series
NAGPUR: Ravichandran Ashwin led South Africa’s rout on a spin-ners’ paradise as India romped to a 124-run victory with more than two days to spare in the third Test to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series on Friday.
The off -spinner claimed seven second innings wickets while leg-spinner Amit Mishra grabbed the remaining three as South Africa, chasing 310 to stay alive in the contest, folded for 185.
The setback also meant South Africa, currently the top ranked team in this format, succumbed to their fi rst away test series defeat since 2006.
“It’s very pleasing indeed, espe-cially after South Africa own the T20 and the one-day series here,” Virat Kohli said after sealing his fi rst home Test series victory as India captain. “They are a tough side to beat. Sealing the series in Nagpur feels very good.”
Ashwin, who had claimed fi ve wickets in the fi rst innings, made the most of the turning track at the VCA Stadium, dismissing Dean Elgar (18) and AB de Villiers (nine) in the morning to peg back South Africa.
South Africa skipper Hashim Amla dug in to negate the spin, playing with soft hands so edges did not carry to slip, while Faf du Plessis used his feet well against the spinners. In a Test match that saw 32 wickets tumble on the fi rst two days, the pair showed grit and determination to thwart the Indi-an bowlers for more than 46 overs
with the biggest partnership in the low-scoring contest.
The duo survived numerous leg-before and bat-pad catch appeals before Mishra ended the 72-run stand that unhinged the visitors.
Amla off ered an edge off the top half of his bat to perish in gully and in Mishra’s next over, Du Ples-sis lost his stump to a ball that kept low. Both batsmen contributed 39 runs each. “Mishra showed great character in that tough phase to get Hashim out fi rst and then Du Ples-sis in back-to-back overs. That was the turning point for us,” Kohli said.
Ashwin then returned to mow
down the Proteas tail to fi nish with a match haul of 12 wickets that also earned him the man-of-the-match award.
“To be quite honest we could have got bowled out for 100 (in the second innings), there were lot of plays-and-misses and chances that could have gone to hand,” Amla said with characteristic candour.
“We tried to dig deep as long as we can. For me the biggest thing was whether you win or lose, do it as honourably as possible,” the Proteas skipper said after his team were beaten inside three days for the sec-ond time in the series. - Reuters
The off -spinner
claimed seven second
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leg-spinner Amit
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South Africa, chasing
310 to stay alive
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India 1st innings: 215 (S. Harmer 4-78) South Africa 1st innings: 79 (R. Ashwin 5-32, R. Jadeja 4-33) India 2nd innings: 173 (I. Tahir 5-38) South Africa 2nd innings:D. Elgar c Pujara b Ashwin 18S. van Zyl c Ro. Sharma b Ashwin 5I. Tahir lbw b Mishra 8H. Amla c Kohli b Mishra 39A. de Villiers lbw b Ashwin 9F. du Plessis b Mishra 39J. Duminy lbw b Ashwin 19D. Vilas c Saha b Ashwin 12
S. Harmer not out 8K. Rabada c Kohli b Ashwin 6M. Morkel b Ashwin 4 Extras (b-9, lb-5, nb-4) 18Total (all out, 89.5 overs) 185Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-29, 3-40, 4-58, 5-130, 6-135, 7-164, 8-167, 9-177, 10-185Bowling: I. Sharma 15-6-20-0 (nb-4), R. Ashwin 29.5-7-66-7, R. Jadeja 25-12-34-0, A. Mishra 20-2-51-3Umpires: Ian Gould and Bruce Oxenford TV umpire: Anil Chaudhary Match referee: Jeff Crowe
S C O R E B O A R D
NAGPUR: Having won back-to-back Test series against Sri Lanka and now South Africa, Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Friday said ace spinner Ravi-chandran Ashwin has been the reason behind the team’s recent success in the longer format. Kohli was lavish in his praise for the premier off -spin-ner. “Ashwin is a world-class spinner, he stepped up in a big way for us, even in Sri Lanka.
He is been one of the main reasons why we are able to win back-to-back series. He is a consistent performer for us. It’s a pleasure to have someone like Ashwin in the side,” Kohli said after the match.
Ashwin received the Man of the Match award for his career-best fi gures of 7-66 and said it was hard work picking wickets even on a favourable track. — PTI
Kohli pours praise on Ashwin
Bowlers dominate on debut of day-night TestADELAIDE: New Zealand’s pacemen struck back with two late wickets under the fl oodlights at Adelaide Oval but Australia’s bowlers shined in the sun as the inaugural day-night Test opened on Friday.
Batsmen had spoken of the pink ball with trepidation in the leadup to the historic match and 12 wick-ets tumbled in front of a festive crowd of 47,441.
After winning the toss, New Zealand squandered a positive start with a rash of poor shot se-lection to be dismissed cheaply for 202 in the twilight early in the late session of the third and fi nal Test.
Pacemen Tim Southee and Doug Bracewell removed Aus-tralia’s openers but captain Steve Smith (24 not out) and Adam Vog-es (nine) dug in to guide the hosts to 54-2 at the close of play under an inky black sky.
Australia, 1-0 up in the series, took the leading role in nudging a 138-year-old format into prime-time hours so it was fi tting that the hosts held a slender advantage at the close.
Their satisfaction was tem-pered, however, with an injury to pace spearhead Mitchell Starc who limped off late in the middle session to have scans.
Having carried an ankle in-jury for months, he was the pick of their bowlers with 3-24, but was clearly in discomfort from the fi rst ball after New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum
won the toss and elected to bat.New Zealand crumbled in the
middle session, losing three wick-ets for four runs in 11 balls, with opener Tom Latham, Ross Taylor and McCullum all falling through loose shots.
Spinner Nathan Lyon triggered the rout when Latham bottom-edged to Peter Nevill to be out for 50, the wicketkeeper snaffl ing a fi ne catch with the edge of his glove.
Taylor holed out for 21 with an unsightly drive off Peter Siddle that sent an inside edge through to Nevill.
McCullum showed no interest in a patient captain’s knock and was caught behind for four slash-ing wildly at Starc.
Spin-bowling all-rounder
Mitchell Santner, a surprise se-lection in place of seamer Matt Henry, showed some resilience but Starc returned to bowl him for 31 before exiting the fi eld.
Starc had captured the prized wicket of Kane Williamson for 22 with a trademark searing yorker, setting the tone for a tough day for New Zealand’s batsmen.
Josh Hazlewood was the fi rst to strike, trapping opener Martin Guptill lbw for one run in his sec-ond over.
He fi nished with 3-66, with Pe-ter Siddle taking 2-54, his second wicket bringing up 200 in Tests.
Latham became the fi rst to reg-ister a half-century in day-night cricket before he was caught be-hind off Lyon for 50. - Reuters
P I N K R E V O L U T I O N
New Zealand 1st innings M. Guptill lbw b Hazlewood 1T. Latham c Nevill b Lyon 50K. Williamson lbw b Starc 22R. Taylor c Nevill b Siddle 21B. McCullum c Nevill b Starc 4M. Santner b Starc 31B. Watling c Smith b Hazlewood 29M. Craig b Lyon 11D. Bracewell c Burns b Siddle 11T. Southee c Warner b Hazlewood 16T. Boult not out 2Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-2) 4Total (all out, 65.2 overs) 202Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-59, 3-94, 4-98, 5-98, 6-142, 7-164, 8-184, 9-194, 10-202Bowling: M. Starc 9-3-24-3, J. Hazle-wood 17.2-2-66-3, P. Siddle 17-5-54-2, N. Lyon 15-1-42-2, M. Marsh 5-1-12-0 (nb-1, w-2), S. Smith 2-0-3-0
Australia 1st inningsJ. Burns b Bracewell 14D. Warner c Southee b Boult 1S. Smith not out 24A. Voges not out 9 Extras (b-4, lb-1, w-1) 6Total (for 2 wickets, 22 overs) 54Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-34To bat: S. Marsh, M. Marsh, P. Nevill, P. Siddle, M. Starc, J. Hazlewood, N. Lyon Bowling: T. Southee 7-0-16-0, T. Boult 6-2-15-1 (w-1), D. Bracewell 5-2-6-1, M. Santner 4-0-12-0
Umpires: Richard Illingworth and Sundaram Ravi TV umpire: Nigel Llong Match referee: Roshan Mahanama
S C O R E B O A R D
CELEBRATION: New Zealand’s paceman Doug Bracewell, centre,
celebrates the wicket of Australia’s Joe Burns with teammates
during the fi rst day-night cricket Test match at Adelaide Oval. – AFP
Chelsea ‘is back’
LONDON: League champions Chelsea are getting their confi -dence back after winning back-to-back games, says defender Cesar Azpilicueta. The Blues downed Norwich City 1-0 in the Premier League and then produced 4-0 victory over Mac-cabi Tel Aviv in the Champions League on Tuesday. — Reuters
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Rindom crowned champion of Laser Radial Women’s Worlds
MUSCAT: Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark was crowned the over-all champion of the Laser Radial Women’s World Championship, organised by Oman Sail at Al Mus-sanah. The world championship concluded on Thursday and Rin-dom representing Horsens Sejlklub in Jutland clinched the event from Netherland’s Marit Bouwmeester.
Both of them fi nished on equal points, but two fi rst places in the overall rankings was enough to break the tie in Rindom’s favour.
According to release published on sail-world.com, Rindom was on top form right from the start at this event. Rindom came to Oman fresh from victory at Semaine Olympique Francaise La Rochelle in October, and a win at the La-ser Europa Cup in Denmark in the summer.
“It is an amazing feeling to be confi rmed world champion. I can hardly believe it. Thankfully I was able to discard today’s poor result!” she said as she stepped ashore.
There is little rest for the new world champion though. “I have one week at home then I am off to Rio for training, followed by Mi-ami for the next World Cup so it is full on for me from now on.”
Rindom was enthusiastic about Al Mussanah as a world champi-onship venue: “It is a perfect place for a championship, great launch-ing and plenty of room for every-body and, most importantly, the conditions are great for sailing.”
Light, shifty conditions and fl eets eager to start resulted in a succession of general recalls in both Gold and Silver fl eets. The Gold fl eet managed just one race before the 15:00 time limit and Sil-ver was unable to start at all.
DisappointedBouwmeester (NED), 2014 World Champion and 2012 Olympic sil-ver medalist was naturally disap-pointed about losing her title but a fourth place was enough to retain silver. Evi Van Acker (BEL) repre-
senting the Royal Belgian Sailing Club, and ranked world number one, also had a less than satisfac-tory day.
“It was a frustrating day, I think I was on the wrong side on the fi rst upwind and, although I caught up a lot on the fi rst downwind, I then went up the right side of the beat, and the wind came completely from the left so I lost out there too.
“Overall though, it’s been a
great week of sailing with a real mix of conditions which is perfect for this sort of regatta.”
As well as Rindom’s success of being crowned world champion, the star of the show in fi nal day’s sole race was reigning Olympic champion – Lily Xu (CHN). This 28-year-old sailor from Shanghai, now UK based who has been off the racing scene for two years with back and knee injury, demonstrat-
ed her light wind skills by winning the fi nal race.
From a pin-end of the line start, Xu read the shifts well and had a good fi rst beat. She pulled up the fl eet from third on the fi nal round and led fellow Chinese sailor and closest rival, Dongshuang Zhang, across the line. “The conditions were perfect for me because that is what I am most into. I am glad that most of my feeling is still there. One month ago I wouldn’t even have been able to fi nish one race in strong winds. The best I could manage was a club race in Wey-mouth with amateur sailors so I am glad to be where I am now,” said Xu. ‘The fi tness is just a matter of time and with eight months I am quite confi dent I can compete for a place at the Rio Olympics.”
Closing ceremonyThe prize giving ceremony took place at Al Mussanah Sports City in the presence of Dr Muna bint Fahad Al Said, Assistant Vice Chancellor of International Co-operation at Sultan Qaboos Uni-versity, and Maitha Al Mahrouqi Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Chairwoman of Oman Sail.
Incredible qualityAlso present was David Graham, Oman Sail CEO, who, in his closing speech said that hosting major in-ternational events in the Sultanate helps to build the country’s profi le and the eff ects of this champion-ship will be visible in Oman for many years to come.
“The quality of sailing on show has been incredible, with fi erce competition every single day.
“It is an honour to have wel-comed Olympic Champions, med-allists, World Champions, the cur-rent world number one and many of the sailors who will be lining up in Rio next summer.”
Countries qualifi ed for the Rio Olympics are Japan, Australia, Turkey and Argentina.
Overall results (top 10) : Gold — 1. Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) 40pts; 2. Marit Bouwmeester (NED) 40pts; 3. Evi Van Acker (BEL) 44pts; 4. Tuula Tenkanen (FIN) 49pts; 5. Josefi n Ols-son (SWE) 53pts; 6. Lijia Xu (CHN) 84pts; 7. Alison Young (GBR) 101pts; 8. Manami Doi (JPN) 104pts; 9. Maxime Jonker (NED) 110pts; 10. Erika Reineke (USA) 110pts.
Silver — 1. Line Flem Høst (NOR) 81pts; 2. Isabella Bertold (CAN) 108pts; 3. Andrea Aldana (GUA) 109pts; 4. Susannah Pyatt (NZL) 115pts; 5. An-nalise Murphy (IRL) 125pts; 6. Odile Ginaid (BRA).
Countries, which
qualifi ed for the Rio
Olympics are Japan,
Australia, Turkey
and Argentina
ALL WINNERS: The medal winners of the Laser Radial Women’s World Championship with Oman Sail offi cials and special guests Dr
Muna bint Fahad Al Said, Assistant Vice Chancellor of International Cooperation at Sultan Qaboos University, and Maitha Al Mahrouqi
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Chairwoman of Oman Sail. – ONA
Oman Skating
Championship
today at OAA
MUSCAT: Fahad Abdullah Al Raisi, director-general of Sports Development and Welfare at Ministry of Sports Aff airs , will inaugurate the Oman Skating Championship at the Oman Au-tomobile Club on Saturday. The event is being organised by the Excellence Performance.
Excellence Performance, a small but successful company that has been striving to organ-ise unique sports events that en-courage Omani youth as well as promote the country as a tourist destination, is making an at-tempt to introduce roller skat-ing as an ‘organised sport’ by hosting an international event right in Oman.
The championship will com-prise three races — an 8km men’s race, an 8km women’s race and a 3km fun race.
In the fi rst two categories, which are open to those above 12 years and above, the top fi ve fi nishers will receive awards while the top 50 in the fun race will received medals. There will also be associated programmes, including a ‘free style show’.
Meanwhile, the Excellence Performance and Oman Athlet-ic Association (OAA) have de-cided to host a new event - Mus-cat 2 Miles race, during the day.
The running race will be 3.2km and will be open to top 50 national athletes, who per-formed well during the 2014/15 season in local and internation-al events.
The top three fi nishers will receive special awards.
S K A T I N G
Rosberg fastest as Mercedes dominateABU DHABI: Nico Rosberg knocked triple world champion team mate Lewis Hamilton off the top of the Abu Dhabi timesheets as Mercedes dominated the fi nal Friday practice session of the For-mula One season.
The German, runner-up in a championship already won by Hamilton, lapped with a best time of one minute 41.983 seconds un-der the Yas Marina fl oodlights.
Hamilton, winner in Abu Dhabi last year after Rosberg secured pole position, had been quickest in the afternoon session by 0.141 with a time of 1:43.754 but ended the day 0.138 slower.
Organisers are also making much of the connection between the number 44 on Hamilton’s car and the 44th National Day anni-versary next week of the founding of the United Arab Emirates.
Another victory would also be the 44th of the Briton’s career and
he is determined to end the year on a high. So too is Rosberg, who is chasing his third successive win and sixth pole position in a row.
The Mercedes duo, who will also be chasing a record 12th one-two of the season in Sunday’s race,
were comfortably ahead of the rest.
Mexican Sergio Perez was an impressive third in the evening practice for Force India but still 0.627 off the pace and complaining at the end of the session that his
car’s glowing brakes had gone.Kimi Raikkonen was third fast-
est in the fi rst session with Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat fourth and sandwiched between the two Fer-raris with Sebastian Vettel fi fth in both sessions.
Lotus passed scrutineering, after being granted a waiver on Thursday due to the late arrival of their cars in the paddock due to ongoing fi nancial troubles, but still had a diffi cult session.
British reserve driver Jolyon Palmer, who is due to replace de-parting Frenchman Romain Gros-jean next season, had to sit out all but the fi nal 12 minutes as the team worked to fi x a water leak on his car.
Grosjean did 27 laps in the later session. Spanish rookie Carlos Sainz parked his Toro Rosso by the side of the track with half an hour to go after being told to turn the en-gine off . - Reuters
F O R M U L A O N E
Fatma-Olga clinch Rabat doubles crownMUSCAT: Oman’s Fatma Al Nab-hani and Olga Parres Azcoita of Spain combined well to win the doubles title of the $10,000 Rabat ITF Tournament in Morocco on Friday. However, Fatma could not proceed into the fi nal of the sin-gles event losing the semifi nals to Romania’s Cristina Adamescu 6-4, 6-1 in an early encounter on Friday.
Top seed Fatma had stormed into the semifi nals on Thursday beating eighth seed Catherine Chantraine of Belgium 6-2, 6-4
in the quarterfi nal. However, the highlight was Fatma’s combina-tion with Olga.
The duo had advanced into the semifi nals of the doubles beating Slovakian pair of Pia Brglez and Sara Palcic 6-4, 6-0.
Later Fatma-Olga pair defeated Catherine Chantraine-Deborah Kerfs in the semifi nal 6-3, 6-4.
Later in the fi nal, the Oman-Spain duo overcame Tholey Lea of France and Tona Miriana of Italy 7-6, 7-5 to clinch the title.
T E N N I S
ANOTHER TITLE: Oman’s tennis ace Fatma Al Nabhani.
FASTEST IN PRACTICE: Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s German
driver Nico Rosberg drives during practice at the Yas Marina. – AFP
Kolkata in semis
KOLKATA: A hat-trick from Canadian striker Iain Hume not only gave three points to Atletico de Kolkata (ATK) but also ensured a semifi nal berth for the defending champions as they beat FC Pune City 4-1 in an Indian Super League (ISL) match at the Salt Lake stadium here on Friday.
Hume scored in the ninth, 47th and the 83rd minutes to complete his second hat-trick of the edition while Serbian strik-er Dejan Lekic added another in injury time.
Adrian Mutu pulled a conso-lation goal back for the visitors in the 86th minute.
With the win Atletico re-main atop the standings with 23 points from 13 games whereas Pune are still sixth on the points table with 15 points from 12 outings. - IANS
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Argentina thrash India
RAIPUR: A brace from drag-fl ick specialist Gonzalo Peil-lat helped Argentina thrash India 3-0 in the Hockey World League (HWL) Final opener at the 3,500-seater Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Sta-dium here on Friday.
In the fi rst Pool B match, young defender Peillat scored a brace in the third and 60th minute while Joaquin Menini scored in the 24th minute to hand the visitors a comfortable victory. — IANS
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PFIZER MISSION PAYS OFF FOR GUGGENHEIM’S ‘DEAL KING’Alan Schwartz’s strategy paid off handsomely when Guggenheim was named lead adviser for one of the biggest deals in history — Viagra-maker Pfi zer’s $160 billion acquisition of Botox-maker Allergan. >B4
Foreign trade drags down UK’s economic recovery
LONDON: Foreign trade put the biggest drag on record on British economic growth last quarter, as a weakening global economy and surging demand for imports slowed Britain’s recovery from the fi nancial crisis, data showed on Friday.
The economy grew 0.5 per cent in the third quarter, the Offi ce for National Statistics (ONO) said, confi rming a preliminary read-ing and slowing from 0.7 per cent growth between April and June.
Global weakeningThe slowdown refl ects a global weakening led by emerging mar-kets such as China, while export-ers have struggled with the rise in sterling this year.
But the data was in line with a forecast in a Reuters poll, and sterling edged up against the euro and dollar on the day, reducing some of its earlier losses.
Consumer spending remained strong. But trade lopped 1.5 per-centage points off the economic
expansion from July to Septem-ber. That marked the biggest quar-terly drag on gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) growth since records began in 1997 and a sharp turna-round from the second quarter when trade boosted GDP.
Imports surged by the most in nearly 10 years, up 5.5 per cent from the second quarter and over-shadowing a much weaker rise in exports.
Overall the economy grew 2.3 per cent compared with the same
period a year ago, down from 2.4 per cent in the second quarter and lower than 2.9 per cent growth for all of 2014, when Britain out-paced all other major advanced economies.
Scott Bowman, an economist with Capital Economics, said he expected the slowdown to be tem-porary despite the obstacles posed by Britain’s planned referendum on its membership of the Euro-pean Union and the government’s squeeze on public spending.
Finance minister George Os-borne on Wednesday spelled out tough spending cuts for several government departments, al-though they were not as severe as some had expected.
Despite concerns about the global economy, business invest-ment rose 2.2 per cent in the three months to September and was up 6.6 per cent on the year, fi gures likely to be welcomed by policy-makers who want to see a more balanced recovery.
Keep on spendingBritain has relied on consum-ers to drive much of its growth since 2013 and consumer spend-ing remained strong, growing 0.8 per cent for the third consecutive quarter. It was up 3.1 per cent from a year earlier, matching the fastest
growth rate since late 2007, before the fi nancial crisis. Households have benefi ted this year from a pick-up in wages while infl ation has hovered around zero and in-terest rates remain at a record low.
The Bank of England, which is considering when to start raising interest rates, has said it expects GDP growth in the third quarter to be revised up to 0.6 per cent.
It is forecasting 2015 growth of 2.7 per cent.
That might prove optimistic, based on the latest data and Brit-ain’s offi cial growth forecasts which were confi rmed this week at 2.4 per cent for 2015.
Services output, the largest part of the economy, rose by 0.7 per cent on the quarter, unchanged from the initial reading.
Industrial production edged up 0.2 per cent but manufacturing output fell 0.4 per cent in the quar-ter, its third consecutive quarterly decline, accentuating the unbal-anced nature of the recovery.
Two surveys earlier on Friday also showed the dip in the eco-nomic mood as consumer morale slipped to its lowest level in six months in November and growth among services companies cooled. Growth in house prices slowed too, mortgage lender Na-tionwide said. — Reuters
Slowdown refl ects
a global weakening
led by emerging
markets such
as China, while
exporters have
struggled with
the rise in pound
sterling this year
SPLINTER: THE WOODEN CONCEPT CAR“Splinter” concept car, made 90 per cent of wood composites, designed by Joe Harmon, at the Essen Motor Show in Essen, Ger-
many, on Friday. Splinter has 4,6 liter V8 engine, its long 4,6 meter with a six-speed gearbox. But main characteristic of this car
is that its made from plywood, MDF and maple. It weighs 1,134 kg, 240 kg less than the lightweight Porsche 911 GT3. - Reuters
Oman to award $4.5b contract for plastics plantTimes News Service
MUSCAT: State-owned Oman Oil Refi neries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has fi nalised negotiations with four preferred bidders for $4.5 bil-lion worth of contracts to build a major plastic manufacturing unit called Liwa Plastic Industries Complex in Sohar.
The four engineering, procure-ment and contracting packages will be completed in four years, with plant commissioning ex-pected in 2019, a company state-ment said on Thursday.
Four packagesAmong the four packages, a joint venture of Chicago Bridge & Iron Co of the United States and Taiwan’s CTCI will be awarded the contract for a steam cracker and utilities. Chicago Bridge & Iron on November 23 said that contract would be worth about $2.8 billion.
Italy’s Tecnimont will get a contract for plastics units, a con-sortium of South Korea’s GS En-gineering and Construction and Japan’s Mitsui & Co a contract for natural gas liquids extraction
facilities, and India’s Punj Lloyd a contract for building a pipeline between Fahud and Sohar, the Orpic statement added. Musab Al Mahruqi, chief executive offi cer of Orpic, anticipatessigning of the EPC contracts and fi nancing agreements by the end of the year.
“The Liwa Plastics Industries Complex Project is not only a nationally signifi cant industrial project,(but also) it will be the largest project in the downstream oil and gas industry in Oman.”
“We are concluding discus-sions with export credit agencies, commercial banks and other rele-vant authorities and we expect to fi nalise the project funding plan by the end of the year enabling us to award the respective EPC con-tracts,” Al Mahruqi added.
With the global market for plastics increasing, the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex will fi rmly position Orpic and Oman as a recognised player in the in-ternational petrochemicals mar-ketplace – enabling Oman, for the fi rst time, to produce polyethyl-ene, the form of plastic that rates highest in terms of global de-mand and increased the current production of polypropylene.
L I W A P L A S T I C I N D U S T R I E S C O M P L E X
CAUSE OF WORRY: Trade lopped 1.5 percentage points off the eco-
nomic expansion from July to September. — Bloomberg fi le picture
Southeast Asian countries report strong growthJAKARTA: Stronger-than-ex-pected growth in some Southeast Asian economies has sparked op-timism the worst of a slowdown may be over, but high debt and weak exports make sustaining the momentum a challenge for policy-makers as US interest rates go up.
The Philippines wrapped up the region’s third-quarter GDP perfor-mance on Thursday with annual growth of six per cent, up from 5.8 per cent in the second quarter.
Annual growth also picked up in Indonesia and Thailand, the re-gion’s two largest economies, tak-ing weighted average growth in the region of some 500 million people with a combined GDP of $2.2 tril-lion to 4.2 per cent, according to Capital Economics.
Offi cials from Bangkok to Ja-karta have been quick to seize on
the improved growth numbers and consumer confi dence as evidence the worst slowdown since the 2009 crisis is over.
“We think growth in the third quarter is a turning point,” said Indonesian central bank Governor Agus Martowardojo.
China’s slowdownChina’s slowdown and recession in Japan, both leading markets for the region, high consumer and corporate debt at home and the risk of more market ructions when the US raises interest rates, are all clouding prospects ahead.
“It’s too early to call a trough,” said economist Joseph Incalca-terra at HSBC in Singapore.
“We forecast growth in the fourth quarter to be weaker just about everywhere.”
Indonesia’s exports in the third quarter fell 0.7 per cent from a year earlier, but external demand still contributed 1.2 percentage points to the economy’s 4.7 per cent growth as imports tumbled by 6.1 per cent.
In Thailand, the external sec-tor’s large contribution to the economy’s 2.9 per cent expan-sion was mostly due to a drop in imports, as investment shrank for the fi rst time since early 2014. Without the lift from net exports, Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy would have grown by just 0.1 per cent. Net exports dragged on Singapore’s performance, but it still grew 1.9 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier helped by spending on its 50th anniver-sary celebrations and a boost from inventories. — Reuters
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GDP GROWTH: Philippines wrapped up the region’s third-quarter
GDP performance on Thursday with annual growth of six per
cent, up from 5.8 per cent in the second quarter. - Bloomberg fi le picture
Black Friday crowds thin after US stores open
P I T T S BU R G H /C H I CAG O : Crowds were thin at US stores and shopping malls in the early hours of Friday, initial spot checks showed, as shoppers responded to early Black Friday discounts with a mix of enthusiasm and caution.
Many shoppers headed out to stores on Thanksgiving evening, a month before Christmas, refl ect-ing the new normal in US holiday shopping, which was traditionally kicked off the next day, Black Fri-day. In an eff ort to attract the most eager holiday shoppers and fend off competition from Amazon.com, US retailers have increas-ingly extended their holiday deals by opening stores on the evening of Thanksgiving.
‘Good but not great’“It’s still early, and from what we are seeing so far the crowds are good but not great,” Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, said late on Thursday. The retail consultancy had 18 members studying customer traf-fi c in diff erent parts of the country.
Milagros Munez, 39, a law clerk, was shopping for toys at the Target store in New York’s Harlem neigh-borhood. “We actually came early this morning to miss the crowds. Now that some stores are open all night, I feel like more people go in the evening.”
The Macy’s store at Water Tow-er Place mall in Chicago saw thin crowds in the early hours of Friday after a fairly busy Thanksgiving evening, store associates said.
Nia Darrell, a 23-year-old stu-dent, was shopping for coats and handbags at the store with two friends.
“I shopped online yesterday and picked up most of what I wanted,” she said.” I’m out because Black Friday is more like a tradition but the discounts are similar even on-line this year.”
Shoppers in the United States spent more than $1 billion online, 22-per cent more than last year, between midnight and 5pm ET on Thursday, according to the Adobe Digital Index, which tracked 100 million visits to 4,500 US retail sites. Many stores around the country were full on Thanksgiv-ing evening. Local media reported brawling shoppers at a packed Kentucky mall on Thursday even-ing, forcing a police offi cer to inter-vene and break up the fi ght. — Reuters
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India’s green bonds issuance of $1b a welcome fi rst stepMUMBAI: Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi needs to invest $200 billion in seven years to clean In-dia’s fi lthy air, cut greenhouse gas-es and build wind and solar farms. Issuance of more than $1 billion of green bonds has been a welcome fi rst step.
IDBI Bank this week became the nation’s third issuer of notes whose proceeds will be used for clean energy projects, raising $350 million from overseas investors. Demand was almost triple that amount even as global green bonds gained just 0.78 per cent through October, compared with 6.2 per cent a year earlier, in a Bank of America Merrill Lynch index.
Modi’s 2022 investment tar-get supports his plan to steer the world’s second-most populous na-tion’s dependence on fossil fuels toward renewable sources. About 70 per cent of the outlay will be funded by debt, according to clean energy researcher Mercom Capi-tal Group. Global green bond is-suance is expected to surpass $40 billion this year, about 10 per cent more than in 2014, according to
Moody’s Investors Service.“The potential for green bonds
in the country is tremendous,” NS Venkatesh, Mumbai-based chief fi nancial offi cer at IDBI Bank said in a phone interview on November 24. “IDBI has a pipeline of about $2 billion for funding eligible green projects.”
Mumbai-based Yes Bank is-
sued India’s inaugural green bond in February to raise Rs10 bil-lion ($150 million), followed by a Rs3.2 billion private sale in Au-gust, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. State-controlled Export-Import Bank of India of-fered the fi rst dollar-denomi-nated issuance in March to raise $500 million.
IDBI’s sale makes India the sec-ond-largest issuer of green bonds behind Australia in the Asia-Pacif-ic region, where a total of $4.2 bil-lion have been off ered. The lender received about $1 billion of orders for its fi ve-year bond sale at a yield premium of 255 basis points more than US Treasuries. That compares with average spreads
of 296 basis points for all Indian issuers, according to JPMorgan Chase indexes.
Others are beefi ng up the green bond pipeline. NTPC, India’s larg-est electricity producer, is seek-ing central bank approval for a planned $1 billion sale of global notes, its fi nance director said in September.
Yes Bank is returning to green bonds with a $500 million note to be listed on the London Stock Ex-change next year.
Global appetite“Green bonds have an appetite globally as funding renewable en-ergy initiatives is seen mitigating challenges posed by global warm-ing and climate change,” said Ajeet Agarwal, New Delhi-based fi nance director at Rural Electrifi cation Corp., the third- biggest issuer of rupee bonds this year.
At the climate talks in Paris next week, developing nations are look-ing for Modi to champion their interests in winning funds to miti-gate the worst eff ects of climate change. Richer countries includ-
ing the US are wary India could end up scuttling any deal. While a new website is providing round-the- clock updates on “Green In-dia,” Modi has set a target for re-ducing emissions that’s so low that the world’s third-largest polluter will meet it without committing to anything new.
The summit is also an oppor-tunity for Modi to claim his spot among the world’s top states-men. By making 32 overseas trips since taking offi ce in May 2014, he has won about $160 billion in pledges for loans and invest-ment from global companies of all kinds. That’s more than $8 billion a month on average, which may give environmental issuers and inves-tors optimism for the long-term.
“I see green bond issuance picking up in 2016,” Nirav Dalal, Mumbai-based group president and senior managing director for fi nancial markets at Yes Bank said in a phone interview on November 24. “The ability and willingness of banks to fi nance and build up more green assets will be the driver for future issuance.” — Bloomberg News
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ECB risks chasing own tail on bond buying programme
BRUSSELS: European Central Bank (ECB) risks staying one step behind the market, even if it low-ers its deposit rate next week.
A 10 basis-point cut to the mi-nus 0.2 per cent rate, which acts as a fl oor for the ECB’s bond-buying plan, would at a stroke make $373 billion more securities available for the programme.
History suggests that amount could quickly evaporate.
The institution is already get-ting a preview of the likely reac-tion. About $453 billion of secu-
rities that are eligible in maturity terms have dropped below minus 0.3 per cent since its last meeting, according to the Bloomberg Euro-zone Sovereign Bond Index.
With the eff ectiveness of the central bank’s policy measures at stake, the institution may fi nd it-self in a vicious circle of having to keep cutting rates to free up more securities, only for bond investors to keep on pushing yields down even further.
“The benefi t of further depos-it-rate cuts on the availability of
bonds will be at best temporary,” said Richard McGuire, head of rates strategy at Rabobank Inter-national in London. “The ECB risks running to catch up with itself on this and won’t be able to buy any bonds at the front end of the core- market curves.”
It probably makes more sense for the ECB to abandon the depos-it rate fl oor, McGuire said.
Yields across the region have fallen to fresh records this week, and bonds with maturities as far out as 2020 now yield less than
the deposit rate. The securities have been boosted as speculation intensifi es that the ECB will ex-tend stimulus next month to pre-vent too-low infl ation becoming entrenched.
Germany’s yield rate fallsGermany’s two-year yield dropped to a record minus 0.426 per cent on Friday and was at minus 0.42 per cent at 8:03am London time. The yield on simi-lar-maturity Finnish notes fell to minus 0.384 per cent and Spain’s
slid to minus 0.047 per cent, both all-time lows.
Fully pricedA cut of 10 basis points to the euro area’s deposit rate is fully priced in, according to futures data com-piled by Bloomberg, while some banks including Rabobank Inter-national and DZ Bank predict a bigger move. The ECB may also extend or expand its quantitative-easing programme.
With such measures likely to weaken the euro, some central banks, such as those in Switzer-land and Denmark, may increase their intervention through core bond purchases to minimise the eff ect on their own currencies, ac-cording to Commerzbank. Latest data from Germany’s sovereign-debt agency showed central banks bought 51.6 billion euros ($54.8 billion) more of the nation’s bonds than they sold in the fi rst half of 2015, a 31 per cent increase from a year earlier. “There is an ele-ment of competitive devaluation here, and some central banks are explicit about this,” said Mohit Kumar, head of rates strategy at Credit Agricole’s corporate and investment bank unit in London. “The main benefi t of negative in-terest rates for the euro zone is a weak currency. The impact on the availability of QE-eligible bonds however is limited.” — Bloomberg News
A 10 basis-point
cut to the minus
0.2 per cent rate,
which acts as a fl oor
for the ECB’s bond-
buying plan, would
at a stroke make
$373 billion more
securities available
for the programme.
History suggests
that amount could
quickly evaporate.
China stocks tumble most since summer
SHANGHAI: Chinese shares sank more than fi ve per cent on Friday in their biggest drop since this summer’s rout after Reuters reported the stock regulator had widened its probe on brokerages to include the country’s fourth-biggest securities fi rm.
The sharp drop in afternoon trade highlights the volatility of China’s markets ahead of an ex-pected decision by the Interna-tional Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday on whether to include the yuan currency in its global re-serve basket.
China Haitong Securities is un-der investigation by the China Se-curities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reu-ters, following similar probes into two other domestic brokers.
Being probedThe brokerage later confi rmed the news, saying in a statement published on the Shanghai stock exchange that it is being probed for possible violation of securities regulations.
Little has emerged as to the spe-cifi c reasons for the probes, but Gu Yongtao, an analyst at Cinda Securities, said the regulator could be trying to get a better grip on leveraged trading after a near full-blown market crash a few months ago.
“We think the purpose of the probes is to bring all businesses re-lated to stock fi nancing to the table so that regulators can have a clear picture of the leverage situation,” he said, adding it is likely an exten-sion of an ongoing clean-up in ille-gal margin trading. — Reuters
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Economy showing recovery signs
BOLOGNA: Italy’s economy shows signs of recovering, but that does not mean its structural problems have been solved, Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco said on Thursday.
Italy economy grew slowly in the fi rst three quarters of the year after three years of contraction. The government forecasts gross domestic product will grow 0.9 percent for the full year.
Speaking at an economic con-ference in Bologna, Visco said there were “weak signs of a re-covery in output and jobs,” but warned against any complacency.
“We must not read into this cy-clical rebound an indication that the growth problems of Italy’s economy are resolved,” he said.
Italy has failed to adapt to glo-balisation and digital technol-ogy, Visco said. Its companies
responded to cheap imports from China by cutting costs rather than investing in technology, he said, which over time led to stag-nant productivity and a loss of competitiveness. The euro zone’s third largest economy has barely grown on average in the last 15 years, while public debt has risen to a record high of 133 percent of output, the largest in the euro zone after Greece’s. — Reuters
I T A L Y
CLEAN INITIATIVE: India’s 2022 investment target supports the plan to steer the world’s second-
most populous nation’s dependence on fossil fuels toward renewable sources. - Bloomberg News
STIMULAS PLAN: Securities have been boosted as speculation intensifi es that the ECB will extend
stimulus next month to prevent ‘too-low’ infl ation becoming entrenched. - Bloomberg fi le picture
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Airbus pursues Saudi Arabia’s A380 plane orderDUBAI: Airbus Group is aim-ing to seal a prospective Saudi order for the A380 superjumbo by pitching a new 615-seat, two-class version it says would be the ideal congestion-buster for car-rying pilgrims to Mecca.
The European planemaker has off ered Saudi Arabian Airlines, known as Saudia, the high-densi-ty layout to be pioneered by lead-ing A380 customer Emirates on its Copenhagen route next week, Habib Fekih, its head of sales for the Middle East, said in an inter-view. Just a “handful” of high-ca-pacity double-deckers could help ease pressure on Saudi infra-structure “by many folds,” Fekih said in Dubai. Before this year, the densest A380 layout — also at Emirates — featured 517 seats.
Saudia Chief Executive Offi cer Abdul Mohsen Jonaid said last month that he was evaluating the A380 as part of a plan to swell the fl eet to 200 planes by 2020 from 119 now in order to add fl ights at the new Jeddah airport opening in 2017. The carrier declined to comment further on Fekih’s com-ments on Thursday.
Second-hand marketLeasing fi rm Amedeo, the only new A380 buyer in the past three years, said it’s involved in campaigns to fi nd new users for superjumbos due to become available second-hand and views the plane as the best option for meeting the levels of demand fac-ing Saudia on Mecca and Umrah pilgrimages.
Amedeo aims to create a used-
A380 market by 2018 involving aircraft released from Dubai-based Emirates and Singapore Airlines, the model’s fi rst opera-tor, Mark Lapidus, the lessor’s CEO, said in a separate interview.
Traffi c linked to the year-round Umrah is expected to increase 10-fold to 60 million people by 2018, based on the number of vi-sas the Saudi authorities plan to issue, Lapidus said.
Airbus’s higher-capacity A380 features 58 business seats and 120 in economy on the top deck, plus 437 in economy below, based on the Emirates layout. Air Aus-tral, which serves the island of Reunion, shows no sign of taking two A380s in an 840- berth lay-out after a strategy change, while Transaero Airlines of Russia, which specifi ed a 652-seat plan for four jets, has ceased fl ying.
Airbus sales chief John Leahy said this month at the Dubai Air Show that the company is in ne-gotiations to sell as many as 32 A380s to two airlines, with one looking at as many as 20 aircraft and the other 10 to 12. The num-ber of planes involved and the fact that they’d be new would ap-pear to rule out Saudia as of the potential buyers. Leahy said the orders might be secured this year, though deals could equally come in 2016. — Bloomberg New
A V I A T I O N LG Display to spend $8.7b on new factory
SEOUL: Apple supplier LG Dis-play will spend more than 10 tril-lion won ($8.7 billion) on building a new plant and expanding pro-duction of a newer type of display that can be used to cut power use, make thinner devices and show brighter colours. Shares rose.
The factory will produce organic light-emitting diode displays for larger TVs, smartwatches and au-tomotive displays and is targeted to start in the fi rst half of 2018, Seoul-based LG Display said on Friday. The technology has been touted as a possible replacement for the liquid-crystal displays used in smartphones. Apple plans to adopt OLED for iPhones from 2018, the Nikkei newspaper re-
ported on Thursday without at-tribution. “Today’s announcement implies that the potential timing of Apple’s adoption of OLED screens is set,” said Claire Kim, an analyst at Daishin Securities in Seoul.
LG Display said in August it planned to spend about 10 trillion won over three years to develop the advanced screens, which of-fer a brighter, sharper picture than LCDs. The panels also save space and power because they do not need a backlight. Slowing sales of LCDs is hastening a push into OLEDs for smartphones and wearable devices.
The investment intensifi es the company’s rivalry with Samsung Display, the dominant maker of
OLED panels for smartphones. Samsung supplies the ultra-thin screens to Apple’s key competitor Samsung Electronics and to Chi-nese phone makers. Apple’s de-mand for the panels will be strong enough to support more than one big maker, Kim said.
“I don’t think the P10 plant alone will entirely cover Apple de-vices only, so Apple has to turn to Samsung to secure stable produc-tion,” she said.
LG Display shares rose 2.2 per cent in Seoul to 25,700 won, nar-rowing the decline this year to 24 per cent. The benchmark Kospi index has risen 5.9 per cent.
Apple is LG Display’s biggest customer, accounting for about
25 per cent of sales, according to Bloomberg supply chain analysis. The South Korean company last month reported a 30 per cent de-cline in third-quarter operating profi t as prices and demand fell.
A group of 200 employees at Samsung Display, which already provides OLED screens for the Apple Watch, created a stan-dalone team working exclusively on screens for Apple products, people with direct knowledge of the matter said in April.
The two South Korean makers are the biggest producers of OLED screens, while Universal Display Corp. controls patents on some of the most advanced materials used in the displays. — Bloomberg News
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Rio Tinto in talks for sales from bauxite mineMELBOURNE: Rio Tinto Group, the world’s second-biggest miner, is advancing talks with po-tential customers in China for its new $1.9 billion bauxite project in Australia that will be built to meet growing demand in the world’s most populous nation.
The Amrun project, near Weipa in Queensland state, includes a bauxite mine, processing facilities and port, and will have initial pro-duction of about 22.8 million met-ric tonnes a year, London-based Rio said on Friday in a statement. Output and shipping is due to start in the fi rst half of 2019.
“We are seeing a great interest by a number of Chinese players,” Alf Barrios, Rio’s chief execu-tive offi cer of aluminium, said on Friday in a phone interview from Brisbane. “We have a number of conversations that have been progressing now for a number of months and some of them are quite advanced. Now the board has approved the project, we are in a position to be making fi rm commitments.” Producers are adding new bauxite capacity as China’s imports surged 49 per cent to 6.8 million metric tonnes in September, the highest since January 2014, according to cus-toms data. The Amrun project will be “signifi cant in helping to meet growing bauxite demand from China,” CEO Sam Walsh said in the statement.
Win advantageAs with its iron ore operations in Western Australia, Rio can win an advantage in bauxite be-cause of the nation’s proximity to China, Mark Pervan, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group’s head of commodity research in Melbourne, said by phone. “It’s a
very low cost commodity, so it’s all about the transportation and the quality mix.”
Bauxite is mined near the sur-face and refi ned into alumina, an intermediate product that’s further refi ned into aluminum, the metal used in cans and win-dow frames.
China’s imports may more than double to 104 million tonnes a year by 2025, Alumina said in an August 19 fi ling, citing CM Group research. Consumption of domes-
tic bauxite will peak in China in 2019, while refi neries in Henan and Shanxi provinces are forecast to be converted to utilize import-ed bauxite, the Melbourne-based company said.
Rising exportsBauxite exports from Australia will grow at an average annual rate of 11 per cent through 2020 on rising international demand, according to Australia’s Depart-ment of Industry and Science.
Exports will rise to 21.3 million tonnes in the year to June 30 as Australia helps to meet the sup-ply gap in China following Indo-nesia’s decision to ban the export of raw ore, the department said in September.
While Malaysia is currently the top exporter of bauxite to China, it won’t be able to compete long term with Australian producers, Rio’s Barrios said in the interview. China’s imports from Malaysia were 2.17 million tonnes in Oc-
tober, compared to 1.34 million tonnes from Australia, according to customs data.
“Malaysia has been playing a signifi cant role recently, but we all know that Malaysia has quite limited resources,” he said. “At this level of production, it may last only another three or four years.” Malaysia’s current known reserves of bauxite may last about fi ve years, according to the na-tion’s Minerals and Geoscience Department. — Bloomberg News
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VITAL RESOURCE: Bauxite exports from Australia will grow at an average annual rate of 11 per cent through 2020 on rising interna-
tional demand, according to Australia’s Department of Industry and Science. - Bloomberg fi le picture
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Mis-selling risks grow
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI: Chinese insurers are on a hir-ing binge, recruiting an army of agents to sell their products to a burgeoning middle class, but the risk of mis-selling by inexpe-rienced agents on commission could prove costly to the industry.
In an immature market with less than half the penetration of the US, and about a quarter of Ja-pan’s, China’s insurers tapped the rising demand mainly by selling through banks, until regulators
curtailed that channel last year over concerns that inexperienced customers assumed the products were as safe as bank deposits.
That triggered the recruitment drive as insurers needed direct access to customers to keep the $290 billion market growing. China Life Insurance increased its salesforce by 28 per cent to nearly a million in the six months to June, while next in line, Ping An, swelled its sales ranks by 25 per cent to 800,000. — Reuters
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HSBC to close India’s private banking operations
MUMBAI: HSBC Holdings will close down its private banking business in India and transfer about 70 staff following a strategic review of the operations, people familiar with the matter said.
The lender will move employees from the Indian private banking arm to the Premier banking busi-ness under HSBC’s retail bank, the people said, asking not to be iden-tifi ed as the information is private. HSBC confi rmed in an e-mailed statement it decided to shut the global private banking operations in India and will off er clients the choice to move to its Premier busi-ness where appropriate.
Chief Executive Offi cer Stuart Gulliver, 56, unveiled a three-year plan in June to pare back HSBC’s sprawling global network, shut money-losing businesses and eliminate as many as 25,000 jobs after compliance costs surged. Other European lenders including Credit Suisse Group and Deutsche Bank are also cutting thousands of jobs as they adapt to tougher regu-latory demands on capital.
The changes are expected to be completed in the fi rst quarter of 2016, according to the statement, which didn’t detail the number of aff ected employees. HSBC’s head-count in the country, including its back-offi ce operations, will remain at around 32,000, the people said.
HSBC’s private banking busi-ness targeted customers with a relationship balance of at least $1 million, while its Premier bank-ing operations focus on customers with Rs2.5 million, according to the people. — Bloomberg News
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Alan Schwartz knows how to play a long game. The executive chairman of boutique investment bank
Guggenheim Partners spent al-most 20 years cultivating Pfi zer boss Ian Read as a client.
His strategy paid off handsome-ly when Guggenheim was named lead adviser for one of the biggest deals in history — Viagra-maker Pfi zer’s $160 billion acquisition of Botox-maker Allergan.
Schwartz, 65, had been work-ing with Read since 2013 to fi nd a European-registered company with which US fi rm Pfi zer could combine and shift its headquarters to a country with a lower tax rate, so-called inverting.
But their relationship stretches far further back, to the late 1990s, when Schwartz was a banker at Bear Stearns and Read was an ex-ecutive working his way up at Pfi z-er, according to three people who have worked with Schwartz.
Such ties with key executives partly explain why small invest-
ment boutiques like Guggenheim can sometimes trump full-service investment banks such as Bank of America for advisory roles on mega-deals.
Getting close to people in busi-ness development is very much part of the playbook of Schwartz, who has also spent the last two decades working closely with the likes of Verizon, Walt Disney and Cablevision.
He works with operational man-agers on a long-term basis — with-out doing deals — to discuss strat-egy and cultivate trust, according to the sources. Then, when they reach positions of power and an M&A opportunity comes up, an advisory role is the prize. Guggen-heim, whose partners rarely speak publicly, declined to comment.
‘Codeword: Pony’The dealmaker was fi rst noticed by Pfi zer executives in the late 1990s, when he started presenting them with dossiers of possible takeover targets, according to one of the sources. In 2000 Pfi zer decided
to buy Warner Lambert, a com-pany Schwartz was advising. Since then the US company has used Schwartz on many of their deals.
He led negotiations on Pfi zer’s $15 billion acquisition of Hospira this year, and before that he ad-vised on their $60 billion takeo-ver of Pharmacia in 2003. He also played a key role on the $16.6 billion sale of Pfi zer’s consumer healthcare unit to Johnson & Johnson in 2006 and helped the fi rm on the $2.4 billion sale of its Capsugel pill unit in 2011.
The close ties he had cultivat-ed with Pfi zer and Read paid off most spectacularly recently when Guggenheim was named lead ad-viser on the Allergan deal — which ranks as the second-biggest M&A transaction ever.
Schwartz was the last CEO of Bear Stearns before it was sold to JPMorgan Chase in 2008, and the following year he joined Guggen-heim, which is based in New York and Chicago.
Wall Street veterans who know Schwartz describe him as a mas-terful adviser who uses his strate-gic insight and dealmaking skills, rather than wining and dining, to cultivate company executives.
“He has an ability to immerse himself in the details of a com-pany’s business, the competitive landscape and a potential transac-tion while simultaneously framing these issues in the big picture as a consigliere to CEOs,” said Flexis Capital Managing Partner Louis Friedman, a former Bear Stearns investment banker who worked with Schwartz for years.
Schwartz and other bankers working for Pfi zer in its negotia-tions with Allergan would refer to the merger project as “Pony” in written communications to keep its identity secret, according to one of the sources. His main coun-terpart on the Allergan side was Steve Frank, co-head of global healthcare investment banking at JPMorgan. Pfi zer’s acquisition of Allergan will be fi nanced mostly with Pfi zer’s stock, so Guggenheim was not handicapped by its limited ability to provide debt fi nancing compared with bigger rivals. In addition to Guggenheim as top ad-viser, Goldman Sachs Group, Cen-terview Partners Holdings LLC and Moelis & Co also advised on the deal.
TeamworkAlthough Schwartz’s previous at-tempt at inverting Pfi zer had been unsuccessful, it led to him hir-ing an investment banker, a move that helped cement Guggenheim’s relationship with the drugmaker. Schwartz advised Pfi zer last year when it approached Britain’s As-traZeneca Plc about a 70-billion-pound ($106 billion) bid, only for it to be snubbed. Also advising Pfi zer however was Bank of Amer-ica Corp’s executive vice chair-man of corporate and investment banking, Fares Noujaim, who Schwartz subsequently recruited to Guggenheim.
Noujaim, 52, is a Lebanese-American banker who had moved up through the ranks at Bear Stearns. In 2008, before moving to Bank of America, he was vice
chairman of Bear Stearns’ board of directors while Schwartz was the bank’s CEO. Noujaim’s departure last year cost Bank of America its close relationship with Pfi zer as the bank was no longer included in its advisory line-up.
Pfi zer and Bank of America de-clined to comment.
Guggenheim was launched in 1999 by Peter Lawson-Johnston Sr, a great-grandson of gold min-ing magnate and New York mu-seum founder Solomon Guggen-heim. He injected $30 million of family money to fund the fi rm’s operations in investment man-agement, investment banking and insurance services.
But it was only when Schwartz joined that the fi rm focused on building its advisory business and winning major investment bank-ing assignments. For each deal, Schwartz typically surrounds himself with a team of fi ve to 10 people. Guggenheim was at the bottom of U.S. M&A league table rankings between 2010 and 2012, but entered the top 10 in 2013 with 17 deals. The Pfi zer deal moves Guggenheim to No. 12 from 18 in the worldwide M&A league table. It ranked 45 this time last year.
Guggenheim and Pfi zer’s three other advisers will share between $125 million and $150 million in fees on the Allergan deal, accord-ing to a separate source familiar with the matter. “This deal is only the latest step in a series of long-lasting relationships with big cor-porations that often lead to mega-deals,” said another source close to Guggenheim. — Reuters
TWO-DECADE PFIZER MISSION PAYS OFF FOR GUGGENHEIM’S ‘DEAL KING’
Alan Schwartz's strategy paid off
handsomely when Guggenheim was named
lead adviser for one of the biggest deals in
history — Viagra-maker Pfi zer’s $160 billion
acquisition of Botox-maker Allergan
He has an ability to
immerse himself in the
details of a company’s
business, the competitive
landscape and a potential
transaction while
simultaneously framing
these issues in the big
picture as a consigliere to
chief executive officers
Louis FriedmanFlexis Capital Managing Partner
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FamilySECTIONB L I F E STY L E S AT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 5
While sleep is important for adults, it’s even more important for growing
children and aff ects their perfor-mance in school, sports, and in family life.
Sleep is at the centre of a healthy lifestyle. Although diet and exer-cise are generally what come to mind fi rst when thinking about health, proper sleep is essential to realising the benefi ts of a healthy diet and exercise routine.
Living a healthy lifestyle has become a topic of particular im-portance to me and my family, says actress, author and TV host Ali-son Sweeney. “As an ambassador for Sleep Number for the past two
years, I’ve learned just how impor-tant sleep is to our overall health, well-being and performance.”
Children who followed bedtime rules averaged an hour more of sleep a night, helping them con-centrate and perform better in school, according to a 2014 study by the National Sleep Foundation.
Children need much more sleep than most people realise, and the quality of sleep is equally as impor-tant as the quantity.
Most Americans think children need only nine hours of sleep each night, according to a recent sur-vey by Wakefi eld Research. While eight or more hours are ideal for an adult, the recommended amount
for children 5 to 11 years old is ac-tually 10-11 hours per night.
Recently, my children began sleeping on the new SleepIQ Kids bed from Sleep Number, a smart bed for smart children, says Sweeney. “I love how the SleepIQ technology allows me to know not just how long my children slept, but how well they slept. And if they aren’t sleeping well, it tells me and we can make changes. As they continue to grow, the bed gives me the ability to adjust the fi rm-ness to keep up with their chang-ing comfort needs.” Many parents know the diffi culties that come with trying to get children to go to sleep. You’ve probably heard the
common excuses such as, “I have a stuff y nose”or “there are monsters under my bed” as a way to stay up just a little longer.
With the SleepIQ Kids bed, how-ever, those excuses are something of the past, because it includes multiple smart features, including a head tilt for reading or comfort-ing stuff y heads, under-bed light-ing and even a monster detector.
Back to school is the perfect time to start practising healthy sleep habits for the whole family.
A successful day starts with a good night’s sleep, so help your lit-tle ones get to sleep tonight so they can take on the world tomorrow.—Courtesy Brandpoint
A Child's Success Starts With a Good Night’s SleepHelp your children get a good night’s sleep with these tips
• Most importantly, try to keep bedtime a fun experience. Avoid using “Go to your room” and an early bedtime as punish-ments, as this equates bedtime to a negative.
Here Are a Few Ways You Can Help Stop the Stall at Bedtime:
• Keep a bedtime routine for your children, even on the weekends.
• One hour before it’s time to go to bed, put all electronics away to help their bodies wind down. Use that time to spend together as a family, possibly reading before bed.
• Try tracking your childrens’ sleep and help them monitor their daily activities to see how these aff ect their rest.
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Rehman lazed on his bed. The summer vacation was soon coming to an end and he wanted to relish the late hours
sleeping for a few more days. Once the school would start there would be no respite from the morning alarm.
Mrs Rizvi, Rehman’s mom, re-minded him about the pending sci-ence project that he had to do for his holiday homework. Rehman scowled hearing his mum’s reso-nant reminder. He was in no mood to study.
“Mum, don’t worry. I will fi nish my work before the school starts. But today I want to do something diff erent and interesting,” he said.
Mrs Rizvi understood her son’s plight. The long summer vacation had left him bored.
Most of his friends had gone on a holiday and he hardly had anything to do. “Why don’t you do some col-ouring? You love doing that isn’t it?”
“Yes mum, but I am done with it. Now I need to do something diff er-ent,” Rehman said in a complain-ing tone. Mrs Rizvi’s face suddenly brightened. “I have a brilliant idea son,” she said in all excitement. “Why don’t you learn cooking,” she said. Rehman was all in splits. “Cooking and I? Are you joking mum? What a ‘girlie’ idea it is?” Be-
fore Rehman could say anything fur-ther Mrs Rizvi interrupted. “There’s no such thing as a girl’s job or a boy’s job. If a girl can learn to fi x up a car then a boy too should acquire culi-nary skills. Don’t you think so?”
Rehman pondered. “Mum is right. Nowadays there are so many men chefs in the hotel industry.” Sud-denly fi nding his mum’s idea inter-esting Rehman wanted to try his hand in cooking.
“Rehman, how about doing some
baking?” Rehman’s eyes widened. “Oh, yes, Mum. I want to bake a yummy dark chocolate cake.
“Wash your hands fi rst and then join me,” Mrs Rizvi called after Reh-man, who had already reached near the washbasin. It was going to be his fi rst experience in the kitchen. He watched his mum arrange all the in-gredients.
“Cake makes every memory a lit-tle sweeter,” Mrs Rizvi said while whisking the fl our and butter. She
reminisced how as a child she and her dad would try out new fl avours of cake. “Rehman, you can whip the cocoa powder if you’d like. Go to the refrigerator and get the bottle out.”
Rehman opened the refrigerator door and grabbed hold of the bottle, but before he could realise it the bot-tle went right out of his hands and fell on the fl oor with a thud.
Hearing the noise Mrs Rizvi rushed out of the kitchen. “What happened Rehman, how did it fall?”
“Mom, I didn’t mean to spill it, but the cleaner had shifted the table in the wrong position. So I stumbled and the bottle slipped,” Rehman argued. Mrs Rizvi wasn’t angry with her son, but didn’t like the way Rehman made an excuse. “It’s ok Rehman. There’s no need for you to make excuses. We all make mistakes. Now come and help me in cleaning up the mess,” said Mrs Rizvi.
“We won’t be able to bake the cake today, isn’t it,” Rehman sighed. “Don’t worry. I have a spare bottle,” Mrs Rizvi assured her son.
The cake mix was soon ready and Mrs Rizvi put the mix in the pre-heated oven.
Suddenly the phone rang and Mrs Rizvi hurried to receive the call. Before leaving she told Rehman to keep a watch on the oven.
“Rehman, I will be back after my shower. Don’t forget to keep a check on the oven.” Rehman stared at the oven for a while, but soon got impa-tient. He thought of a big chocolate cake, with cream drizzling all over it. His mouth watered at the thought and he couldn’t wait further.
“I am sure the cake is ready by now. Let me taste it before mum re-turns,” he thought.
He switched off the oven and took out the baking tray. “Hmmm, the aroma is so good.” Rehman took a
knife and thought of having a slice, but the moment he tried cutting it, the sticky chocolate cake mix crum-bled. “Oh dear, what do I do now? Mum will get very angry. I will again put it for baking,” Rehman thought. He randomly selected a time and re-started the oven.
After an hour Mrs Rizvi came down snuffl ing. “Something seems to be burning Rehman,” she asked. Rehman pretended to know noth-ing. Mrs Rizvi rushed to the oven to see a charred cake.
“How did this happen? I remem-ber I had set the time and tempera-ture right,” she thought. “Rehman by any chance did you do anything in my absence,” she asked. “I think something is wrong with the oven,” he quickly stuttered in defence.
“Stop making excuses Rehman. If you have made a mistake you should accept it. Nothing is wrong with the oven and it’s perfectly functioning.”
Rehman felt bad for being ticked off , but he also knew that he was at a fault. During lunch Rehman told his father about how he dropped the co-coa bottle and then spoilt the cake. Mrs Rizvi was relieved to fi nd her son acknowledging his mistake.
That night a surprise was wait-ing for Rehman at the dinner ta-ble. A big dark chocolate cake that Mrs Rizvi had made for her dear son. —[email protected]
Admit When You Make a Mistake
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LIFESTYLES AT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 5
All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically,
diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.
The leftover word spells the Teleword.
How to playFill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.
Answer to previous puzzle
SOLUTION
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Adapt, Al Capone, Alcohol, Atlantic, Back Rooms, Book, Bootlegging, Boss, Buscemi, City, Corruption, Dealer,
Elias, Enoch, Gangsters, High, Hire, Hotel, Illegal, Lavish, Luciano, Lucky, Main, Mark, Mobster, Move,
Nightclubs, Nucky, Patten, Piers, Poor, Prohibition, Protegee, Rule, Scorcese, Sheriffs, Show, Terence, Theme,
Thompson, Wahlberg, Weigh. Answer: New Jersey
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Children’s Poetry
Seeing Oman Through My Eyes
Sidra MusheerGrade VIIIIndian School Sohar
Look at these mountains so tallThey make your eyes pop outand almost fall.Look at these lush green landsWhich were once a desertfull of sand.
Look at these beachesHow clean they are.Look at these oceansThey stretch so far.
Look at these landscapesso mesmerisingAnd the people utterly polite.The cleanliness completely captivatingThe peoples’ minds so alight.This is my beautiful country OmanAll hail to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
Send your contributions for Children’s Poetry to [email protected]
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FOR RENT
1BHK near medical Darsait
Muttrah house R.O 175/- & 2 BHK
R.O 220/-. Contact: 98748925
Showroom for rent at Wadi Kabir
perfectly suitable for travels,
money exchange, Auto parts up
holster advertising materials.
Contact: 94143636
Flats for rent in Wadi Kabir.
Contact: 99376454
1BHK fl at near Hamriya hotel.
Contact: 96500860
4 BHK villa for rent Al Khuwair
650/- O.R Contact: 94232344
2 BHK Honda road Ruwi.
Contact: 99224748 /99332297
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DAILY GUIDE
Room, kitchen & bath in north
Ghobrah include E/W & AC split
200/- R.O.
Contact: 92811110
Excellent offi ce 5 rooms Al Khu-
wair O.A. Bank building 850/-R.O.
Contact: 94232344
Flats in Qurum, Al Wallaj,
3 rooms, Majlis, dining room,
kitchen, 3 bathrooms.
Contact: 98044421
2 BHK with spilt A/C in W.K behind
Sana fashion. Contact: 96708000
1 BHK with split A/C in Darsait
opposite Muscat Municipality.
Contact: 96708000
Indian school Darsait (ISD), 2BHK
Spacious fl ats, ground fl oor air
conditioners provided , OMR 350/-
including full maintenance . Ideal
for south Indian families.
Contact: 99076557
Beautiful villa directly on beach in
best location in Shatti Qurum 1800
OMR. Contact: 95887572
One / two, B/R RES / Comm. direct-
ly from own ER near medical college
Bausher. Contact: 92158031
2 BHK in Al Meera MKT building in
Al Khuwair available. Rent RO420.
Contact 94047434
House for rent in AL Amerat oppo-
site offi ce Justice, 3rooms, Majlis
, 4 toilets, living room ,food hall &
kitchen. Contact: 99252494
5 BHK villa at Mabela 7 for Rent.
Contact: 99428221/ 99269912
A Bedroom along with separate
bathroom available for rent for an
Executive Bachelor in Al Khuwair
(near Zawawi Mosque).
Contact 92138451
5B/R villa in Mumtaz area and 4
B/R villas in Mawalah next to the
wave for rent. Contact: 97296105
Flat available for rent 2 bedrooms
hall, 2 toilets, 1 kitchen & balcony
with proper sun light & ventilator
location or Mabela north very close
to Indian school AL Seeb rent R.O
230/-. Contact: 99432496
1.2 BHK M.B.D. Contact: 92144045
1BHK Darsait I.S.D school R.O 225/-
Contact: 92144045
House in Al Khoud commercial dis-
trict, 4rooms, Majlis, 2 kitchens,
3 bathrooms. Contact: 98044421
Furnished rooms attached bath for
Indian bachelor Al Falaj area - Ruwi
& for lady in Wadi Kabir near Mars
Hypermarket -
Contact 96202458/96761960
1BHK new bldg with A/C curtains
near Khimji mart MBD. Contact:
99061408 /99024039
Furnished offi ce, accommodation
available Walja. Contact: 96246625
2.3 BHK Ghobrah R.O 350/- / 400/-.
Contact: 92144045
1BHK Mumtaz R.O 250/-.
Contact: 92144045
1.2.3 BHK fl ats 8 villas.
Contact: 97799175
1BHK fl at near Star Cinema 220/-.
Contact 99358589 /95570288
Shops in AL Amerat industrial area
near shell station.
Contact: 98044421
2BHK near Oman house behind
Khimji, H.O. Contact: 95865686
1BHK fl at Darsait near
MCT Municipality 220/-.
Contact: 99342661
2 & 3 BHK Al Khuwair.
Contact: 99024730
Flat for Rent 1/2 BHK Flat at Mut-
trah, near Oman fl our mills, 10 min.
from Corniche.Equipped with split
unit ACs, internet points, free-to-air
dish connection, CCTV monitored,
basement parking. Rent RO.250/350
per month. Contact: 99229263;
93221054; 95215289
New villa at Mawalah south 5 bed
room, family hall, Majlis, bath.
Contact: 99332367
Villa in Arjan complex near Seeb
stadium 4BHK, 1 living room,
1 majles, 1 extra room in ground
fl oor. Contact 93219597
NEW FLAT FOR RENT1/2 BHK Flat at Mutt rah, near Oman fl our mills, 10 min. from corniche.
equipped with split unit ACs, internet points, free-to-air dish connecti on, CCTV
monitored, basement parking. Rent RO.250/350 (Negoti able) per month.
Contact : 99229263; 93221054; 95215289
Sohar: 3BHK AND 4BHK FLATS, R.O 200 and R.O 215 respectively.
(New Building with CCTV camera
with Split A/C). Contact: 99881426 /
92123699
AVAILABLEFOR RENT
100 Sq Mts Showroom On Ground Floor at Darvesh Building,
Near Royal Hospital.Contact Person
Mr. Mudassir : 99314330Mr. Sajeev : 98157340
Room for rent near Al Dasar Ruwi.
Contact 99797645/ 92099367
Villa for rent 4 BHK, plus 1 sitting
room and 1 extra servant room at
18 November road behind
Oman Oil. Contact: 99373290/
24815012
2 BHK with spilt /AC in MSQ oppo-
site AL Fair. Contact: 96708000
Coff ee shop for rent Jifnain.
Contact: 93340597
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 5 C3
FOR SALE FOR SALE
FOR RENT
Running furniture showroom for urgent sale.
Ladies beauty parlor sale at Mutt rah.
Contact - 91135930
Flat for rent in Amerat two bed-
room, one hall. Contact: 91141097
2 Bedroom centrally air condi-
tioned fl at in CBD, Central bank
area. # 24714625/ 94460790
2 Bedrooms fl at with hall, 2 bath-
rooms in Darsait near Muscat Mu-
nicipality. # 92584715 /24700120
Spacious separate room with A/c
and Bed, for non-cooking Asian
bachelor, behind Shell fi lling
station, Ghobrah round about.
Contact: 94263390
New pent house 219 meters,
3 bedrooms Each own toilet , serv-
ant room with toilet laundry area ,
kitchen with store elevator avail-
able AL Khuwair 39 rent R.O 575/-
family only. Contact: 99207840
2 B/R Apartment Executive Fully
Furnished @ Al Khuwair 33
1 B/R Apartment Executive Fully
Furnished @ Al Khuwair 33
1 B/R Flat - Fully Furnished @
Salalah Near New Lulu.
2 B/R Flat - Fully Furnished
American standard @ Salalah.
5 B/R Villa - Fully Furnished @
Madinat Al Ilam, 5 B/R Villa - Un-
furnished @ Madinat Al Ilam
5 B/R Villa - Unfurnished @
Al Mawalah North Brand New
Please Contact: Atlas Real Estate
& Rent A Car LLC. 24834888,
99249069 / 92888376 92888374
Email: [email protected]
2BHK Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti
mosque. Contact: 97007934/
92629232
6 shops in South Mawalah
Contact: 96420432
Studio in souk Al Khoud behind
of Al Ahali bank with 2 BR toilet+
kitchen in 2 fl oor 160RO.
Contact 99738881
Flats and shops for rent in Ruwi
Honda road Mumtaz area. Contact:
97293708 /92433127
New fl ats for rent Darsait Al Sahel.
Contact: 99311525 / 92533356
Villa with 5 rooms, two sitting
rooms, 5 toilets and kitchen at
Al Hail North. Contact: 91130875
Flat for rent at Wadi Al Kabir next
Al Hassan.co, 2 bedroom, 3 WS,
1 sitting room. Contact: 99210008
600 SQT commercial fl at for rent
opposite Oman fl ourmill Darsait
more details. Contact: 91214849/
99364735
3 Bedroom fl at at Al Khuwair.
Contact: 99447257/97014234
Coff ee shop for rent Jifnain.
Contact: 93340597
Single BHK fl at available in Honda
road Ruwi. Contact - 24833972/
24833974/99367448
Used supermarket gondolas,
shelvings. Contact: 97752395
Fully equipped running café for sale
at Wadi Al Kabir. Contact: 99636550
Curtains green colour 2 x 2.70MTS,
7 nos, almost new R.O 45 no bar-
gains Qurum. Contact: 95865457
Coff ee shop Mabela industrial area
for sale. Contact: 92253080
Running dental clinic in Quriyat for
sale Contact: 96534564
Beauty Salon for urgent sale in
Azaiba prime location behind
Al Fardan building. With sponsor and
1 staff and 1 ready visa clearance.
Call: 95318629 / 95169411
Ladies saloon with 2 staff for sale in
Mawalah. Contact 94197589
Printing Press for sale at Musanah.
Contact – 99645150
Sale house & offi ce furniture & elec-
tronic items. Contact : 99834373/
96642500/22010080
For Sale Luxury Apartments in
Bousher (35) -Contact 95056808-
97201688
Running barber shop for sale in
Ruwi with all equipments.
Contact: 99343735
For sale 8 Apartments (Total area
850 SQM approximate) in “Bait Al
Noor” occupying two full fl oors
(7th and 8th fl oors). The building
is opposite to GMC car showroom
facing the main road (Sultan Qaboos
Road). Excellent location for best
visibility of signboard for any
corporate. Contact 94194071
for details.
For Sale: Equipped carpentry work-
shop with 10 working employees at
Sohar. Contact: 95728453
For sale Fully Furnished apart-
ments in Bousher (35) - 95056808-
97201688
A running restaurant for sale near
Oman oil petrol Pump Al Uqdah
(Barka). Contact: 99059013
For Rent Flats in Darsait -
94051789-97201688
For Rent Flats in Ghala Heights -
94051789-97201688
For Rent Flats in Wadi Kabir -
94051789-97201688
For Rent Fully Furnished
apartments in Boucher (35) -
94051789-97201688
For Rent fl ats in Muttrah-
Contact – 94051789-97201688
Offi ces for Rent Gala-
Contact –94051789-97201688
For Rent Duplex villa in Qurum
29- 94051789-97201688
3BHK Qurum P.D.O light 350/-.
Contact: 99342661
For Rent Offi ces & Showrooms in
Al Khoud- 94051789-97201688
For Rent offi ces in Qurum op-
posite city center- 94051789-
97201688
1000 SQ mtrs industrial land for
rent in Ghala suitable for ware
house workshop etc. Contact:
24700120 /92584715
For Rent Mini Furnished Apart-
ment in Qurum- 94051789-
97201688
For Rent Flats in Mawalah
south-94051789-97201688
For Rent brand new villas in
Al Ansab- 94051789-97201688
For Rent Offi ces & Showrooms in
Muttrah -94051789-97201688
2 BHK fl at available for rent in
Darsait. Contact: 99357586
RESTAURANT/ CAFÉ FOR SALE
An established and functi oning restaurant/ café
available for sale in prime locati on at Qurum.
Well –furnished and equipped
for instant launch. Please contact:
95126949
SERVICES REQUIRED IN OMAN
We are looking for a suitable sub-contractor to carry out installation and supervision of
GRP Sectional Water tanks. Interested parties may contact by e-mail :
[email protected] or call 99104461
FOR SALE2013 Model Mitsubishi Diesel tanker in good condition is to be sold on the maximum off er.Mileage :- 28,000 kmContact -Mr. Mohan 93214717/93214707
GENERAL ELECTRONICS SERVICES LLC
CONTACT: 99627299 / 93327841
BRING HOME - LIVE MUSIC & CINEMA
HOME THEATER&
KARAOKE
FOR HIRE WITH OPERATORS1. Back Hoe Loaders (Shovels): 5 Nos2. 10 Tons Vibratory Roller Compactor: 1 No.3. 42 Mtrs. Concrete Pump Putzmeister: 1 No.4. 45 Cbm Tippers: 2 Nos5. 50 M height, 50 Boom tower cranes: 5 Nos.
Please contact – Mr. Ravi on 96529679Email – [email protected] / [email protected]
Beauty parlor for sale Muttrah.
Contact: 93142676
For sale villas in Al Khoud -
95056808-97201688
ACC. AVAILABLE
ACC. AVAILABLE
LOST
CHANGE OF NAME
Single room bathroom in Darsait R.O
140/-. Contact: 93289652
Large room with separate bathroom,
sharing available in Al Khuwair.
Contact - 95250161
Sharing room available for family
/executive bachelor, near Oman
house. Contact: 96753740
Room with bath for executive bach-
elor near A/C fl at, hotel.
Contact: 99643845
Furnished rooms attached bath for
Indian bachelor in Al Falaj
Ruwi & lady in Wadi Kabir.
Contact 96202458 /96761960
Furnished single rooms available
for executive bachelors at Ruwi.
Contact: 98049288
Bed space / sharing accommodation
available for executive bachelor near
to Mars hypermarket Wadi Kabir.
Contact: 93137816
Single room for expat Indian bach-
elors near Al Aktham restaurant
Al khuwair for RO 120. Water and
electricity included.
Contact : 98803261
Big room available near Hamriya
R/A for Muslim couple / small family
/ Executive bachelor rent 150/- per
month including W+ E.
Contact : 99495131
1 Bedroom with attached Bath, fully
furnished, separate entrance at
Mabela for ladies only.
Contact : 99634841
ACC. WANTED
Sharing Accommodation Required
for Non cooking Executive Lady in
Darsait /Ruwi/Wadikabir.
Contact 99360615
Kholil Murshid Miah has lost
Bangladeshi Passport No. AC
7191226. Finder please handover
to ROP
Mohammad Shamim Miah has
lost Bangladeshi Passport No. E
1553984. Finder please handover
to ROP
Bayt Al-Eaz Lalaiemar L.L.C Com-pany which is recorded under the
commercial register in directorate
general for trade industry number
1050014 is going to change its
name to Honest Hands Technical
Services International L.L.C Com-
pany.This is to inform anybody
who concerns about that.
1 Bedroom with bathroom available
for rent. Only Indian female.
Contact - 92394614
Single bid room with attached bath,
separate entrance, Honda road near
NBO for ex bachelors.
Contact: 91410434
Flats available in Ruwi at 150/- &
100/- including electricity & water.
Contact: 99491798
1BHK fully furnished spacious for
rent CBD, ideal for family or two
bachelors easy access to Main road
near Sheraton hotel with all
electronics & furniture.
Contact: 96444400 /5pm -10pm
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sitting
room, Kitchen & store including
utilities bills at Al hail.
Contact 92817777
Furnished sharing accommodation
in ruwi near O.K. Center for non-
cooking indian bachelor.
Gsm 9880-5474
Omar Farooq Mohammed Mustafa has lost Bangladeshi
Passport No. C 1124097. Finder
please handover to ROP
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SITUATION WANTEDSIT. WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
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DOMESTIC HELP
CATERINGLAWYER
ADMIN ENGINEER/TECH/MECH
DRIVER
MEDICAL
MEDICAL
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ARCHITECT
SALES / MARKETING
ADMIN
Wanted Nurse and Omani Re-ceptionist for a well established
dental centre in Mawalah South.
Contact – 93431024/ Email –
Urgently required Philipina Nurse with MOH license at pro-
metric parsed. Contact: 99724013
A reputed Wellness Center is
looking for MOH licensed or Pro-metric Passed Physiotherapist, Nurse and Occupational therapy. Please send your CV to :
Wanted female Gynecologist, female
Staff Nurse – 2 no., Dental Asst, female
Lab Tech from India or Filipino with
MOH license & data flow for Al Saadi
Specialized Medical Centre in Mussana.
Contact 92025033, [email protected]
WANTEDCivil Engineer (Building Construction)
2 Nos
Qualification: BE in Civil Engineering
Electro Mechanical Engineer (Building
Services)1 No.
Qualification: BE in Electrical or
Mechanical Engineering
Send detailed resume to
MISCELLANEOUS
Required Aggressive Sales Execu-tive with B.Com /BBA. Preference to
bilingual applicants with experience
in luxury products. Interested
candidates please send CV to
Sales man / Interior Designer wanted for prestigious interior
design and offi ce furniture Supply
Company. Experience and drivers
license needed excellent
remuneration package.
Email: [email protected]
Media Company needs sales male /female not required experience,
only to have good knowledge on
Muscat area, having driving license.
Having some knowledge on
designs) send CV to:
magicfi [email protected]
Egyptian woman resident has
considerable experience in the
administration and secretarial
executive for companies.
Contact: 97221126
Male BBA graduate 5 years admin
HR document controller purchaser
account assistant (tally) experience
NOC. Contact: 97015178
Legal advisor (Egyptian)| experi-
ence in international arbitra-
tion, contracts and labor law
and administration looking for a
company. Contact: 99664890
Senior HR , professional MBA ,
12 yr GCC experience at manage-
rial recruitment, administration
, policy formulator working with
a leading construction co (4000
plus employees) looking for a im-
mediate change over , NOC avail-
able. Contact: 94017306
Email: [email protected]
10 years Gulf & 4 years Oman ex-
perience in HR / Admin & logistics
fl uent in Arabic / English with D/L
looking for suitable position.
Contact 95824598
MBA (HR & marketing) & B.Com,
Indian male 28 yrs, 2 years exp
in Qatar having Oman driving
license, currently on family visa in
Salalah (NOC available.
Contact: 98138376 Email:
Looking for Executi ve Sales
and Sales Engineers with experience in
earthmoving equipments, cruchers, quarry & mining
industry. Email:
Urgently required for a reputed
company in Oman (Tyre, Battery &
Lubricant division) Sr. Executives/Executive-5 nos (Sohar, Nizwa &
Muscat), Techno Commercial Pro-fessional-5nos, Driver (Omani)-1no.
Required minimum 3-5 yrs experi-
ence in the same fi eld with market
exposure holding valid Omani driv-
ing license or GCC. Kindly fwd your
CV’s to [email protected]
Contact: (+968)93891700
ENGLISH TEACHERSWANTED IMMEDIATELY
FOR VARIOUS LOCATIONSMUSCAT | IBRI | SOHAR | NIZWA
SALALAH | BARKA | BURAIMIKHABOURAH | KHASAB
92325542 | 93657915 | [email protected]
BEAUTY
Urgently wanted Lady Beautician
at Sur call after 10 am
Contact: 99771763.
Branded salon in Muscat requires a beautician with skills of: Mani-
cure, Pedicure, Nails techniques,
Massage, Facial and waxing.
Contact- 98500222
Full time living House maid required for an Indian female in
Al Ghobrah. Contact: 97084023
Urgently required a Kerala House maid for small family (2 members)
aged around 40-45 visa available.
Contact: 99324343
Small Omani family in Muscat
requires an educated House maid. Contact – 98500222
Required experienced part / full time house keeper for company
CEO. Contact: 98458542
Need excellent cook & housekeep-er. Contact Whatsapp: 95887572
We are looking for Chief Finan-cial Offi cer, Male 40- 45 years old,
Bachelor of Science in Account-
ancy with 5 - 15 yrs. of experience.
Contact: +968 24702133
Email: [email protected]
1. Service Administrator: A qualifi ed Electro/Automobile/Electric Diploma holder with minimum 2 years’ experience on deskjobs such as preparing
quotation, supplier correspondence, warranty claims etc. Age between 25 – 30.2. Accountant:
A qualifi ed B.Com/M.Com/C.A. Inter accountant with minimum 4 years’ experience in accounting with banking knowledge.
Age between 25-30.Attractive Salary and terms Off ered
VACANCY
Candidates with NOC or on visit visa can apply, please drop your CV at [email protected]
VACANCIES FOR HEAVY DUTY TRUCK DRIVERS
An excellent grade internati onal company is looking for Heavy Duty Truck Drivers
with valid Omani Driving Licence and NOC. Please send your CV with copy of valid Omani Driving
Licence and a copy of NOC.Fax number 24480417
Email: [email protected]
1. Electrical Engineer (B.tech with relevant experience in MEP works (Gulf experience preferred)2. Accounts Manager - (CA with minimum 5-10 years gulf experience)3. Purchase Manager (Degree with minimum 5-10 years gulf experience in constructi on fi eld. D/L preferred)4. Recepti onist (Omani Nati onal) (Knowledge in MS offi ce and good communicati on skill in English)5. HR Manager (5-10 years gulf experience in enti re HR functi ons and policies)6. Driver (Omani Nati onal) - Driver required for 3 ton pickup (Full ti me)
URGENTLY REQUIRED
Send detailed resume to [email protected]:99845439
SECT. /OFFICE
Personal Assistant, 5yrs experi-
ence in Oman or GCC. MBA or
equivalent. Part-time preferred.
Call 95364625.
We are looking for Experienced Omani Receptionists and Omani PRO (Public Relation Offi cer) for
our organization
Ayaan Healthcare centre.
Contact – 93676708
Email: [email protected]
Chief Financial Offi cer (CFO)
Looking for dynamic and talented individuals to join our team in
Oman for the position of Chief Financial Offi cer.
with at least 5 years experience in the relevant fi eld for a group of
companies associated with Petroleum,please apply, with confi dence and
send your [email protected]
A reputable law fi rm in Oman is seeking an
Account/Administrative Assistant
required:- Accounting experience required - Administrative experience required- Computer literate- Willing to learn
Please send your cv to [email protected]
ASSISTANT RETAIL MANAGER
Use the email -recruitment@afl aggroup.com
• To support GM in developing Muscat based stores• 5 years past Retail store operations experience • Omani or Expatriate (must have NOC if moving jobs)• Full Time or Part Time (fl exible hours )• Omani Driving License • Team player & good communicator• Written & spoken English
REQUIRED A SUPERVISOR
For Travel Agency with minimum 5 years’ experience in the
Sales, marketi ng and Ticketi ng, with Oman Driving License,
Interested candidates can send their CV to:
Urgently Required One General Cook (Experience in Indian/
Chinese) for Hotel Apartment –
Tel: 99797170 / Fax : 24490735
Email – [email protected]
Engineering consultancy offi ce looking for Architect with experi-
ence in Oman (portfolio needed)
[email protected] 96649374 -
99441122
Urgently required Omani Nation-als P.R.O & Merchandiser cum driver & 3 Ton truck drivers. Please send your resume to
Contact: 99348211/93203550
A reputed construction company in Muscat urgently requires the
following candidates (Omani Nationals only) Civil Engineer & P.R.O & light duty driver. Send C.V to [email protected]
or call 99344896
Instrumentation & controls Technician with 2-3 years experi-
ence preferably in water sector
and having valid driving license
Send CV to [email protected] or
call Ph:+968 99450811
Indian female, MBA HR & Finance,
having 1 year experience, seeking
suitable placement. Currently in
Oman. Contact: 96052366.
Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in
commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in ac-
counts/ fi nance fi eld. On visit visa.
Immediately available.
Contact – 92836216 /
12 years of Oman experienced
chief accountant looking for suit-
able position. Contact: 99513082
Chief Accountant 25 years expe-
rienced, for the last 7 years work-
ing as Chief Accountant seeks
immediate placement.
Contact: 95598477/98803439
ACCA affi liate, fresher, Indian
male, valid driving license, look-
ing for full time employment in
Accounting and Finance, also
open to other opportunities,
Contact +968 91291520,
Email: [email protected]
Sr. Accountant ( CA- inter) Indian
male 31 years having 9 years
experience in fi nance & accounts
looking for suitable placement.
NOC available and valid Oman
D/L. Contact: 94108678 Email:
Indian male highly resulted orient-
ed and self driven CA Inter qualifi ed
accountant with over more than
14 years of experience in auditing,
fi nance and accounts seeks place-
ment. Contact: 93405047
Finance controller 15 years
experience in Oman contracting,
consultancy, trading oil & gas
tourism IT etc project fi nancing
feasibility ERP cost control.
Contact: 98571309
Male Indian with 7 years experi-
ence in accounting & 6 years expe-
rience in sales and marketing very
good knowledge of tally currently
in Muscat on a visit visa.
Contact: 96148427
Email: [email protected]
Experienced Female Senior
Accountant looking for suitable
alternative. Contact: 99849325
Sr. accountant M.com (fi nance)
2 yrs in Oman seeking suitable
placement NOC Available with
immediate joining.# 92404608
Email: jin_75@rediff muil.com
Indian male, 23 years, MBA fi -
nance MNC 2 years experience in
accounts, currently in Oman seek-
ing for suitable position. Contact:
Yahya Manager 96930855
Indian female 28yrs, B.com, 7yrs
call center/accounts/admin/
marketing experience, currently
on visit, seek suitable placement.
Contact Rashmi 96746698.
ACCA member / B.com (3.7 years
experience) looking accounts /
audit job. Contact: 97769145
Email: [email protected]
Part time accounting, also contact
for auditing, tax reports and feasi-
bility study – 91044655
Indain male Accountant, 8 years
experience 4 years In dubai,4 yrs
in Muscat. Additional knwoledge
in JDE and Tally.9, NOC available
ready to join immediately.
Contact: 95364896 /92912347
Email: [email protected]
WASTE MANAGEMENT AND WATER TREATMENT
SPECIALIST Looking for dynamic and talented
individuals to join our team in Oman for the position of
“waste management and water treatment specialist”
with at least 5 years experience in the relevant fi eld.
And one in-house specialist [email protected]
VACANCIES FORHEAVY DUTY TRUCK
DRIVERSA excellent grade company is looking for heavy duty
truck driver with valid driving license (Oman/ Dubai)
Please send CV with copy of license.
Fax: 24817276 Mob: 93728515
Email: [email protected]
VACANCYOil Service Company is
looking for Finance Manager: HSE Manager &
HR Specialist With relevant experience in
oil industry.Contact:
Urgently required Admin / Accountant with minimum
4 years experience with valid
Omani driving should be fl uent in
Ms Offi ce applications and tally.
Fax: 24564459
Email: [email protected]
Wanted heavy driver. Contact: 91770195
Heavy duty driver with valid
driving license and experience.
Contact: 94107090 or 95398929
Email: alkharusi.international@
gmail.com
Wanted driver. Contact 91025698
Seeking a well experienced diploma Engineer (electrical) with
valid Oman driving license kindly.
Contact: 99288664
Engineering consultancy fi rm in
Sur looking for graduate Civil Engineers. Interested candidates apply to
babupj@ gmail.com
or call 99318205
Instrumentation & controls Technician with 2-3 years
experience preferably in water
sector and having valid driving
license Send CV to
call Ph:+968 99450811
HVAC Technician with GCC
experience in installation of spilt /
package ducted AC Units, ducting
design ETC. Contact: 93214193
Email CV:
Civil Engineer with minimum fi ve
years, PDO Experience, earth work
and building construction (PDO
driving license preferred.
Please send CV to
Contact: 99150203/91404425
Medical CARE Centre, Al Seeb,
requires General Practitioners and
Pharmacist, Please Mail CV-
or call 97884856.
Required General Physician, Gynecology, Lab Technician & Pharmacists. Contact: 95133572
Email: [email protected]
Store keeper with minimum 5
years experience, should have
experience in handling offi ce
furniture and fl uency in tally & bar
coding software etc. Interested
candidates can apply by mail:
fax: 24818818
Freelance services of accounting,
auditing, taxation and feasibility
report - 91720465
28/ male MBA – fi nance /B.com –
accountant with 4 years of Dubai
/ India experience looking for a
suitable placement.
Contact: 90187483 Email:
Accountant job wanted 8 years
experience 5 years in Indian 3
years in Oman knowledge of tally
ERP- 9 NOC available.
Contact: 91162503
Indian lady, bachelor degree in
Preparatory Programme (BPP)
and Bachelor of Commerce
(BCom), completed training
course in MS Word, Excel, Power
Point and Outlook from KTI look-
ing for full time / part time job
opportunity in Oman.
Contact 92437568, 96795853,
Email: [email protected]
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with
13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman
in manufacturing, trading &
contracting Cos, capable of
handling all accounting, fi nance,
banking, L/C, import, export &
fi nalization seeks placement. NOC
Available. Call+968-98932752,
mail:[email protected]
Indian female 5+ yrs Oman exp in
Accounts tally looking for suitable
placement in W.K to Qurum area.
Contact: 95580416
Part time accountant services
from senior accountant M.com
15 years Oman exp.
Contact: 97441960
Accountant Indian female having
5 years exp in fi nalization, audit
and administration in GCC pres-
ently in Muscat seeking suitable
position. Contact 97323574
Email: sreeja@[email protected]
MEP Engineer with minimum fi ve
years PDO / ministry experience.
Please send CV to
Contact: 99150203/91404425
A REPUTED COMPANY INOMAN URGENTLY REQUIRED
DEBT COLLECTORCandidates interested and
having worked in same fi eld with minimum 5 years
experience may apply with CV giving full details by Email
We prefer Omani Nati onal.Valid Oman driving License is must.
A group of well reputed Private Schools associated with Cambridge Programs in
Muscat – Sultanate of Oman Requires following teaching posts:
WELL QUALIFIED TEACHERS for IGCSE & CIP for (English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, IT, lab assistant for Chemistry and
Physics) - MSc / BSc and M.Ed / B.Ed with (IELTs / TOFEL) and at least 3 years of teaching
experience with attested documents.
Mail your CV at: [email protected]
Required urgently an Indian Legal Consultant /Lawyer for
a reputed Law Firm in Muscat &
Sohar. Candidates should have 5-7
years experience as Legal Consult-
ant/Lawyer with good knowledge
of Computer & should be fl uent in
English. Email C V to
[email protected] or contact
99153620 between 8am to 5.30pm
Wanted GP Doctor with MOH
license, job location in muscat with
good salary and benifi ts. Drop ur cv
B.com, 25 years male, 3 years exp
release available on visa, seeks
placement accounts / comm. Asst.
Contact: 94693593
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 5 C5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
DRIVER
ARCHITECT
HOSPITALITY
DRIVER
ADMIN
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
CATERING
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN
Egyptian male B.S degree tourism
& hotels (10 years experience)
2 in Oman in hotels management
have Oman driving license
looking for suitable job.
Contact: 91695779
Email: [email protected]
Indian male/31yrs with hotel
management degree, 03 yrs ex-
perience in F&B services at 5 star
hotel Dubai & 05 yrs in American
6 star cruise liner as Butler. Has
Oman driving license.
Contact no 91135371
Dutch male qualifi ed commer-
cial pilot (Faa-ME-IR certifi ed) is
looking for job openings in middle
east. [email protected]
Indian male 24, B.Tech electri-
cal & electronics engineer and
P.G. Diploma in automation &
SCADA with 2 years experience
Kerala electricity board, looking
for suitable placement. Contact:
95340253 /92914336 Email:
Indian male 21, B.Tech, Mech
Engineering + quantity analyzer/
controller looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 92914336/
96585010
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male 23yrs Fresh Me-
chanical Engineer presently on a
visit visa looking for placements
in service/sales/purchase/
project engineer.
Contact Ajith 91791724
Indian 30 yrs B.E civil Engineer
8 year experience with Oman D/L
& NOC available.
Contact: 95962450 Email:
B.E civil Engineer having 11 years
experience with NOC looking for
job. Contact: 95690780
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 24, B.E. Civil Eng’g
with 2 years experience as Struc-
tural Engineer looking for suitable
job in Muscat. 97355352
Indian male 27yrs, mechanical
engineer (energy engineering
M.Tech & HVAC diploma) with
4 yrs experience on visit visa,
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 98791735
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 25 years diploma in
mechanical engineering having 2.5
years experience in piping fabrica-
tion, plumping and fi re fi ghting
knowledge in AutoCAD seeking
suitable placement.
Contact 92733482
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer graduated
from Caledonian college Oman
with NDT Level 2 ( ASNT ) and
solid works looking for suitable
placement currently on family
visit visa having valid Oman D/L.
Contact: 95990677
Email: [email protected]
BE Electrical with 14 years experi-
ence in projects & maintenance
industry and power sector up to
132 KV, NOC & DL available.
Ph: 99015463 / +919447249212 ;
email: abhi_lash2@rediff mail.com
Sri Lankan Engineer (27 Years
old) – B.Sc Engineering (Hon)
Mining / Geotechnical Presently
in Muscat, 1.5 years experi-
ence.91295802 /
Indian Male, Mechanical Engineer
having 1year experience, on visit
visa looking for suitable job.
Contact: 97416564,
Email:[email protected]
Indian male B.Tech electrical
2 years experience seeks place-
ment. Contact: 93570984 Email:
Engineer Mechanical (BR) Indian
male, with NDT Level 2 (ASNT),
works, 2 years above experience
(as mechanical QC Engineer and
SME Engineer) seeking suitable
placement (on visit visa). Contact:
90249803 / 00919446048596
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer diploma holder 1
years experience site supervision
level 2, 2D, 3D Revit languages
English, Malayalam and Hindi
Tamil looking challenging career.
Contact: 98058242
Email: [email protected]
B.Sc in Civil Engineer 12 yrs exp
in Dubai and South Africa on
construction and infrastructure
having Dubai license currently on
visit looking suitable position.
Contact: 91206763
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, 24 yrs
Indian male, 2yrs experience (L+T
Port) as maintenance Engineer
sear citing for a suitable job on
visit visa. Contact: +968 92685011
Email: srinathvijayanavs@gmail.
com
Experienced Light Duty Driver,
Fluent in English, Arabic Well
knowledge of Oman Areas Seeking
Suitable placement 97950869
Looking for driving job. Contact
98219182
Driver looking for job. #91354803
Light driver, looking for job.
Contact: 98372745/99090362
Light driver. Contact: 95084826
Looking for Job driving.
Contact: 97418036
Driving with car, looking for job.
Contact: 97095200
Driver with new car looking for
job.contact: 95873286
Heavy duty driver (Exp 3years)
seeking suitable job. #91372623
Pakistan male light vehicle driver
8 yrs GCC exp looking for job.
Contact: 96393805
Driver (light & heavy duty) valid
gulf /Indian) looking job.
Contact: 95175192
Creative Designer with 8+ years
experience in web, graphic, video
editing, outsourcing looking for a
suitable placement in a reputed
company. Contact 97276004
25 years male BA. English ,
Qualifi ed as mast in digital
animation having 5 yrs ex in
character animation special-
ized Auto Desk mago and motion
building software knowledge,
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 97917357
Professional architect 3ds max
(interior, exterior) looking for pri-
vate work. Contact: 96041201
Architect (B. Arch) 5 years experi-
ence seeking job. Contact 96146645
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B.Tech IT 3 years
experience windows / Ulinux /
network administration on visit
visa. Contact: 93311963
Email: [email protected]
Experienced female D. Arch Engg
seeking job AutoCAD (2D, 3D), 3D
Max, and revit Photoshop.
Contact: 98907341
Email: [email protected]
Female seeking job in graphic de-
signing, admin, MS offi ce Photoshop,
CorelDraw, 3D Max.
Contact: 94536117
Email: [email protected]
Female 26, B.E in computer
science, having 4 years MNC
experience as software developer,
seeking suitable position in
Muscat. Contact: 96784320
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B.Tech (E& C) MCSE,
CCNA having 1.5 years of
experience seeks job.
Contact 99257702 Email:
Indian male MC.A 2 years
experience in software knowledge
of Java ASP Net,
network in techno park Kerala.
Contact: 99210940
Male 31 Years, IT 6 year’s online
marketing experience in India
seeks suitable placement.
Contact-91175265
Net work Engineer with
experience degree in computer
science, CCNA, MCSA.
Contact: 92346191
Age 28 years experience 2years
& 8 month in IT accounting
technical skill, java, J.S.P tally
Peachtree M.S excel, SQL ,Working
java programmer India , account-
ant , Dubai ,Qualifi cation MCA,
B.C.A mathematic visit visa.
Contact: 95673451
Indian female, MCA, Oracle
& ACL certifi ed, 5+ years of experi-
ence in Data Analysis,
IT Administration, Accounting and
Offi ce Administration etc. holds
valid Oman driving license,
seeking suitable opening.
Mob: 98579241.
B.Tech Computer Science fresh
graduate looking for suitable job.
Android application marketing
services. Valid D/L also available.
Contact 91024385
IT Indian male B.Tech computers,
networking 1 years experience in
Database support on visit.
Contact: 96376061
Email: [email protected]
Cooks (Arabic Indian) gulf exp
looking job. Contact: 99531802
EDUCATION
M.Tech Civil, certifi cate attested,
Indian, 18.8 year experience seeks
suitable position.
Contact: 98327311
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer 11 years experience
in construction, having driving
license & NOC. Contact: 94194399
Email: [email protected]
Indian male , 29 yrs electrical
design engineer , having 5 years
of gulf experience in oil & gas /
construction fi eld specialization
in load calculations cable sizing
& selection, earthing , transformer
selection etc having GCC valid li-
cense , looking for an suitable job.
Contact: 00968-98052942
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer 13 years ex-
perience HV/ LV in Oman 5 years,
Oman valid D/L to NOC.
Contact: + 0091- 9946570903
Email: [email protected]
Ref: no-Oman 97095094
American female Master’s TESOL
12 yrs teaching exp. EFL Curricu-
lum Developer & Teacher Trainer.
Professional Development Specialist
& Educational Activity Coordinator.
Available February 1st 2016.
Email: [email protected]
Contact: 99630244
Indian female M.SC B.Ed, 3 years
experience looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 94420033
Email: [email protected]
Indian Female B.Ed. and B.C.A. and
IELTS certifi ed with 5yr U.A.E. exp.
and 6 months Oman exp. in teaching
primary and secondary students
looking for a teacher’s job.
Email: [email protected].
Mob. 97384206.
Three years driving experience in
Muscat language known English,
Arabic, and Hindi, Bengali.
Contact 97462781
Light duty driver looking for job.
Contact: 93131542
Indian male driver 3yrs experi-
ence seeking for suitable placemen.
Contact: 93663493
Light duty driver looking for job.
Contact: 98356230
Indian female M.Tech in electron-
ics Engg 2 yrs industrial exp in
IT & robotics research seeking
opportunities in academy or in-
dustry.Contact: 91306841,Email:
Sudanese female Electrical
Engineer graduated with distinc-
tion excellent knowledge and
interested in protection.
Contact: 98133281
Electrical Engineer Indian male
29 years, having 5 years of experi-
ence in industrial automation and
utility maintenance in India (MRF
Tyres) seeking suitable place-
ment. Contact: 92789995 Email:
Civil Engineer 6 yrs Exp in Oman
with license. Contact: 98975528
Mechanic Tractor Diesel Engines
& Hydraulic, 25 years Experience
in Multinational Companies.
Contact - 91685048
Indian female M.Tech (electri-
cal power system) having gulf
experience in family visa seeking
suitable placements in Oman.
Contact: 91001194 /94306164
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
in Oman as a project engineer for
governmental & private projects.
Contact – 90164912
B.E civil Engineer having 5
years experience in Oman with
construction companies need
suitable placement.
Contact: 98180524
Civil Engineer (4 years ) hav-
ing total 5 years experience in
building construction ( 2 years , 8
months in Oman) looking for suit-
able placement D/L available.
Contact: 94450270
B.E Biomedical Engineer 5 years
experience in the subfi eld (hospi-
tal / company) looking for suita-
ble placement. Contact 92084807
Email: bonnygeorge1005@gmail.
com
IT
Well experienced team available to provide feasibility reports & business solutions, product
development, risk management methods for startups, progressive,
defunct operations. Creating of ERP modules.
Contact - 93343251 Email: profi [email protected]
A result oriented professional B.E.(Mech), 30+ years experience in
Oil & Gas Projects, Fabricati on, R & M and Services. Seeking job as
GM, CEO, Country Head. NOC & immediate availability.
Phone : +91 9773828663, Email : [email protected]
Qualifi cation B.com accounting
BE mechanical engineer course
completed experience 17 years
HR administration, parches store,
quality assurance.
Contact: 93820512 Email:
Indian male MBA graduate (HR)
with 19 years of gulf experience
(6 years in Oman) seeking suit-
able job can join immediately
with NOC. Contact: 99103763
/99519841
Indian male - 25 years - MBA
(HR & marketing) with one year
experience on visit visa look-
ing preferably for suitable HR/
ADMIN / marketing jobs .contact :
Mr. Harish Ravindranathan / mail
ID : [email protected]
/ 90189964
5 years of experience in software
and 1yr in administrator looking
for any software of any offi ce suit-
able jobs or any work from home
jobs. Contact: 91711326 Email:
Female Indian 9+ yrs experience
in administration customer sup-
port offi ce coordination with good
computer skill now on visit visa
looking for suitable openings.
Contact: 99285440
Indian female, Masters in HR,
having 4 + years Oman experience
in media management and HR,
looking for openings in HR, Educa-
tion, Admin, Corporate communi-
cations. Contact 98252030
Indian male MBA- UK 18 yrs Gulf
exp in Administration/ HR & Pub-
lic relationship. Fluent in Arabic/
English with D/L. Looking for suit-
able position. Contact - 99897280
Indian Female, MBA-HR having
8+ experience in Administration/
HR, Customer Support, Offi ce
Coordinator with good Computer
skill, Now on Visit Visa, looking
for suitable position. Contact:
90196235
26 yrs male, MBA, 3+ years experi-
ence in Administration in MNC,
seeks suitable placement.
Contact 95041201
Email: [email protected]
MISCELLANEOUS
SALES / MARKETING
12 years of experience in Oman;
marketing strategies & operations,
logistics, government tenders, public
relations & dealing with international
companies -4 years of experience
in UK, engineering CNC & industrial
areas, have dual nationality, fl uent in
English & Arabic speaking and writ-
ing , (I can travel abroad easily with-
out visa, for fi nalizing business or any
other purpose). Contact: 94123939
07 years Dubai 02 years Oman
experience in sales marketing MBA
in marketing diploma in marketing
with Dubai, Oman driving license
studied in S.E.O online sales & mar-
keting E-commerce looking for job.
Contact: 97367321
Indian male 25 age, MBA market-
ing (fresher) PGDM (HR) fl uency
in English, Arabic, Hindi looking
for suitable job currently in Oman
on visit visa. Contact: 97127799
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 26, 4 years experi-
ence in sales and marketing D/L ,
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 95137733
Email: [email protected]
Purchase experienced 8 years in
Construction Company Indian male
45 yrs, release & D/L available.
Contact: 90268183 / 96987234
Indian male 29 , BHM , 6 years
overall 3 yrs in Oman in sales with
D/L NOC available to join immedi-
ately. Contact: 92594055
Indian male MBA, 8 years experi-
ence in hospitality industry sales
& marketing looking for suitable
job now in visit visa. # 92115860
Indian male, 26 years, B. Pharm
graduate having 3 years experience
in marketing / sales looking for a
suitable job. Contact: 94145992
Email: syedanasmustafa1989@
gmail.com
Indian male, MBA with 8 yrs expe-
rience in sales and marketing with
Omani D/L , NOC available.
Contact: 96746107
Sales Engineer 5 years experi-
ence looking for a placement.
Contact: 91411043
Indian male MBA marketing 2
years Oman experience with valid
Oman driving license looking for
a suitable position NOC available.
Contact: 91202335
Email: [email protected]
Sales Manager having 12 years
experience M.B.A in sales & mar-
keting having valid GCC driving li-
cense seeking suitable placement,
NOC available. Contact: 98125226
Indian male, 25 yrs, 1 year experi-
ence in auditing and 10 month in
sales. Currently on visit visa seek-
ing suitable placement.
Contact 97142538
Indian Male 32, MBA (Marketing &
Finance) with 10 years experience
in Marketing of Banking Products
& Insurance Industry. Seeking for
a Job in Oman. Contact: 93576980,
97750460
Email: [email protected]
Marketing Executive/Merchan-
diser, Omani License, BA 8 years
Experience in Multinational
Groups. Contact 97601343
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
Mason, SH / carpenter, steel fi tter
gulf & Indian exp looking job.
Contact: 95175192
Electrician, plumber (exp gulf / In-
dian) looking job. Contact 95175192
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
MEDICAL
MISCELLANEOUS
The Business Development Man-
ager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years
Inside and outside Oman follow-
ing activities: construction(Very
strong and qualifi ed to bringing
business for civil work Or any
type of the construction work for
many million per year with a good
experience in pricing and collect
payment and cash management of
the company & marketing projects
& investments& tenders & real
estate. Contact: - 92385033
MBA (marketing) with 17 years
experience in freight forwarding/
logistics industry in GCC & Oman.
Presently working as branch
manager in Muscat. Looking for a
suitable position. Release and NOC
available. Contact: 99856331
Manager Finance, M.Com/MBA
-thorough knowledge & more than
20 years of experience with start-up
skills. Group consolidation and audit.
: Bank dealing for corporate credit/
funding.: Ability to handle Group
of companies on professional way.
Contact: 00968-91279373,
20 yrs experienced MEP Manager seeks suitable placement
NOC available. Contact: 97892269
Manager MBA (Finance) 13+ yrs
experience in Oman with knowledge
of fi nance admin purchase logistics
costing looking for suitable position
with D/L. Contact : 93826090
Email: [email protected]
The Business Development Manager, Iraqi, Experience 15
Years Inside and outside Oman
following activities: tenders& real
estate& construction & marketing
projects& investments& trans-
portation & Marine services&
companies management& develop
business. Contact :- 92385033
Indian male with 9 years experi-
ence in business development
looking for suitable placement NOC
available. Contact: 92573230
GP doctor with MOH license and
PDO experience seeks job off er.
Contact-96528807
An experienced Indian male GP
with MOH license and NOC, looking
for good placements in the capital
areas only. Pl contact 96386388
Arabic male general practitioner
with MOH license looking for a
suitable placement in Muscat.
Contact: 95618680
Indian female , M.com gradate , 7
years of experience in Oman in ac-
counts administration , secretarial
and sales coordination with valid
Omani driving license , looking for a
suitable placement. # 95134495
Purchase Offi cer with 8 years exp
in Oman having D/L & NOC looking
for urgently placement. # 96174564
email: [email protected]
Graduate, computer literate, experi-
enced in sales, credit control,
accounts, omani d/l , seeks suitable
placement. Gsm 9880-5474
Indian male, 27 years SAP –
CRM certifi ed associate fresher
P.G (English) having 5 years of
experience in marketing, com-
munication and designing on visit,
seeks suitable placement. Contact:
90196845 Email: joshjk99@gmail.
com Web: www.joshjk.net
Indian male B.SC graduate having
experience of 30 years in inspec-
tion, testify and QA – Industrial
technical textiles and tyre indus-
try. Currently in Oman with visit-
ing visa. Contact: 93375690
B.E Civil (fi rst class) site / project
Engineer with 3 years of experience
in residential building projects Ms.
Offi ce AutoCAD on visit visa valid
till Dec 2nd (week), looking for a
suitable job. Contact: 96692175
Email Id: [email protected]
Indian male B.Com Graduate looking
for job in admin sales or account-
ant with valid Oman driving license
ready to join. Contact: 98093949
Indian female, 26, M.sc biotech-
nology now in family visa seeks
suitable placement. Contact:
95210498/ 99850321/93093466
Omani national with bachelor in
management looking for suitable
placement please call: 91908052 or
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, Msc Electronics, Dip in hardware & networking Engg (Exchange server 2010,
CCNA & MCITP) WITH 2 YRS EXP INCLUDING GCC. Exp in networking, IT support 7 server support. (MCITP Certifi cation id: 9408340) Valid Saudi D/L. Now in Muscat on visit visa,
looking for suitable job. Contact – 96133981
Email: [email protected]
Sales & Marketing executive MBA
with 3 years of experience looking
for suitable placement.
Contact: 91345727
Indian male 42, 20 years experi-
ence building material sales man
sales manager seeks suitable
placement NOC available.
Contact: 97457331
Indian homeopathic doctor, 34
years, 8 years experience in medi-
cal industry, seeking job as insur-
ance medical offi cer / heath care.
Contact: 92428547
Email: [email protected]
Indian 32 years completed M.A.
English, having three years expe-
rience in teaching fi led searching
for the suitable job.
Contact: 99869535 Email:
DAILY GUIDEC6 S AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 5
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with
Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours contact 98029602,
92808636
TOURS
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
ABDULHAKIM AL BIMANI TRADING & CONTRACTOR
Expert in Shipping cargo by sea & air to Zanzibar, Pemba, Dar es Salam in Tanzania, Burundi, Th e Philippines,
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.Reasonable price.
Contact: 97440625/95416662Email: [email protected]
*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject to space availability
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SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
A/C maintenance, installation spilt
A.C and maintenance window A/C
and ducted and package the reunites.
Contact: Asad Abbas 98667326
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,
Contact 99314807/24792998
Debt collection services your
money we collect value com-
mercial services. Fax: 00968-
24783669 Contact: 00968-
2479815 /00968- 24701422
/00968- 94665476 Email:
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control & anti-ter-
mite treatment, general cleaning
painting,Plumbing, Electrical,
shifting. Contact Mundhir
Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.
Contact: 24810137, 99450130
Window & split unit A.C servicing &
repairing. Contact: 99557080
Split & window unit A.C servicing &
maintenance. Contact: 96236476
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of
your marble. Contact 24793614/
99314807
Window & split unit A.C ser-
vicing & maintenance. Contact
93769089 / 95323517
Split & window A/c servicing &
maintenance. Contact: 93769089 /
95323517
Cleaning & carpet shampooing, Ocean Center LLC.
Contact: 99884591
Pest control treatments. Ocean Center LLC.
Contact: 99344723
House shifting. Contact:
99657644/98518013
Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance. contact ABU QABAS-
99320217 /24788722
WEBSITE
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
CLASSES
IELTS & TOEFL
Academic / General
Target Band 8
TQT Institute.
Ph #
24480800 / 99347202
Classes for bakery, cup cakes, icing
decorations. Contact: 96202458
/96761960
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
COMPUTER
SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,
Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.
Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020
Classes for Spoken EnglishTOEFL / GRE / GMAT / SAT
Excellent Guidance and Coaching Satisfaction Guaranteed
IELTS PREPARATION Target Band 8.0
EAGLES INSTITUTE92325542 | 93657915 | 93657917 | Email: [email protected]
NRI
Plot with three BHK in Calicut
city, Kerala for details.
Contact: 99735584
Plot, properties for sale in Prime
location in Pune.
Contact: +918390982975
Available on rent 2 Bedroom fur-
nished fl at in Koregaon Park, Pune
and Maharashtra, India.
Contact: 99374187.
11 Cent land with house for sale,
Ernakulum dist 14 km from airport
Contact: 91101457
2BHK 1100SQMT fl at with 300
SQMT Terrace allotted parking with
luxury amenities for sale in Dona
Paula Panjim Goa Indian price 95
lakes. Contact: 0091-9823674576 /
00968- 97488872
Ayurvedic treatment for joint
pain, backache, paralysis, massage
steambath, obesity, Spondylitis,
Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,
18 November Street Azaiba.
Contact: 99639695 / 98342990
Ayurvedic treatment for backache,
paralysis, arthritis etc & massage,
All Season (Vaidyaratnam).
Contact 24475280 / 95371664 /
92504980
www.siddhayur.com
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
GOOD NEWS
GOOD NEWS
MANPOWER
SITUATION WANT-
ED
BUSINESS
An investor requested in a print-
ing press in Muscat.
Contact: 99498949
MANPOWER Tile Masons, Masons, Electricians, Plumbers, False Ceiling / Gypsum Works and Carpenters required
immediately on Labor supply basis.Interested parti es please contact
GSM: 96775023 / 96775024
TRANSPORTATION
Muttrah to Bausher. Contact:
99022790/24712088
Transportation. Contact:
96538078
Transportation. Contact
99508282
Transportation. Contact: 95190627
Transportation available Ruwi to
Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.
Contact: 91103909
MATRIMONIAL
Nair boy 25 years diploma civil
protect Engineer 166 cm working
Muscat. Contact: 91978472
35 Christian male, LLB, working as
project executive divorce.
Contact: 97413778
35 years Bombay based Sunni
Muslim divorcee girl (Degree
holder) seeking alliance.
Contact: 92886145
Suitable match for punjabi ,sikh,
ramgharia girl, 1982 born, 5”5”,
bachelor of design.
Contact- 00968 98581868,
Indian male christian 40yrs.
working in muscat.looking for life
partner.divorced or single.
Contact :91429811
Keralite R.C. Boy, 30yrs, 161cm,
MBA (Finance) Working in
Oman seeking suitable alliance.
Contact: 92290247 /
97302978
Seeking alliance for our son
from Muslim families. Interested
families Contact: 99889590
MV SALE
Mitsubishi lancer 92 model very
good running condition RE GN up
to 6/11/2016 R.O 500/-.
Contact: 92545269
BMW 318/ 2003 for sale.
Contact 96364990
Ford focus, automatic, 2010
model, silver colour, expat driven,
58000 kms, dealer serviced, regis-
tration till sep 2016, price ro 2750.
Contact- 93207590
Nissan Altima 2.55, 2012
excellent condition agency
maintained. Contact: 97717152
Tucson automatic 2009 model
black color very good conduction
registration up to 2016 price R.O
2950/-. Contact: 98196845
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rentals.
Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirt-
ing, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery,
Crockery, Glassware, Chafi ng Dishes,
Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound
Systems and spectacular lighting.
Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering
and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound &
Light. ww.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
Available offi ce space in Prime
location on 18th November Street,
Azaiba Kindly. Contact: 99288664
*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done
till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject to space
availability
RENT A CAR
Best Rates for Saloon. Tel: 99826300 / 97869042,
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 &
cleaning services, electrical &
plumbing. Contact: 99447257
/97014234 / 24504281
DRIVING
Learn driving with professional.
Contact: 94022250
Luxurious villas in a Gated community with all the modern facili�es at
Vakathanam By-Pass (MC road-NH 220)Web: www.royalcastles.inemail: [email protected]
+968 92855909, +91 9961 11 9988
royal castles royal castles vakathanam, kottayamvakathanam, kottayam
Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
DAILY GUIDEEmail: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624