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OMAN Holidays BLOG (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

I enjoyed two art exhibitions this week

2nd Muscat City Centre planned

ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Oman: MAF Shopping Malls, a leading shopping mall developer, plans to open a second City Centre in Muscat in the city's Qurum district by October this year, according to a statement. The fit out of the Carrefour hypermarket, the single largest store occupying 12,552 square metres, has already begun. The Qurum City Centre will be the first mall of its kind in the Qurum commercial area....

• Qurum City Centre to debut this year - Kishor Cariappa

Oman Last stop Nizwa

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Nizwa the interior city.Nizwa Arabic 16061586160816098206 is the largest city in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region in Oman and was the capital of Oman proper. Nizwa is about 140 km 1.5 hours from Muscat. The population is estimated at around 70000 people.Set amid a verdant spread of date palms it is strategically located at the crossroads of routes linking the interior with Muscat.N...

Oman Oasis of Wadi Shab

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Wadi Shab'Wadi' means 'dry river bed' Wadi Shab is actually a wet river bed a beautiful emerald green oasis in the desert.Wadi Shab is wadi in Oman and located between the capital Muscat and the town Sur Oman.It has at least seven pools of emerald green water and is studded with boulders. One of the pools is in a cave where light streams in dramatically from above and there are...

Iran, Oman call for boosting of mutual ties

Irna (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Iranian ambassador to Muscat on Tuesday called for expansion of Iran-Oman ties. In an interview with Oman-based newspaper Al-Shabiba, Morteza Rahimi noted that the recent visit of deputy to Oman Sultan Qaboos, Fahd bin Mahmoud al-Said, is considered was a positive step towards strengthening bilateral ties. He added that during the al-Said's visit some agreements in the fields...

Sohar Open Day on Drugs Optimum Usage

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

According to Oman News: The Health Services Department in the Wilayat of Sohar today organized an Open Health Day titled, "The Optimum Usage of Drugs" at Sohar Poly-clinic.

Beyond Kraft Dinner

small dead animals (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

... like a redneck.Posted by Kate at May 12, 2008 10:39 AMCommentsTry a local resteraunt in small town Oman. I would skip the trip to the powder room though.On business in the country. Just back to Muscat today after an eight hour drive across the desert.Hope you are having a better time than me.Posted by: orvict at I was staying with some friends in Lima on about the fifteenth floor...

Isla Fisher

www.dotspotter.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

Do you love Isla Fisher as much as we do? The red-headed actress has it all - a great career, an adorable newborn daughter, and a funny fiance. And now, the Oman-born, Scottish-blooded, Australian-raised (how's that for international') beauty is getting ready for even more. Isla first popped into our lives in the mid-90s, appearing in soaps and low-key movies. Her big break was in 2004's "I...

Water Supply to Al Awabi Work Starts

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

According to Oman News: The implementing company of water supply to the wilayats of the Southern Batinah region began constructing water tankers according to the approved plans of the major project which is being implemented by the Public Authority for Electricity and Water which its total cost is over RO.

Oman - problems at the border - Shinas, Oman

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Shinas, Oman I tried to cross the border between Fujairah (VAE) and Shinas in Oman. The goal would have been to drive to Hatta an oasis back in VAE. I would have had to pay 240 dirham (about USD 80.-) for a 10 day car insurance althoug I would only have passet through Oman for about 50km. This was too expepnsive and I turned on the border...

International flights delayed

Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

... (EK 533) to Dubai, Ettihad flight (EY 281) to Abu Dhabi, Gulf Air flight (GF 271) to Bahrain, Oman Air flight (WY 828) to Muscat and Kuwait-bound Kuwait Airways flight (KU 352). Three flights were delayed on Friday as the Immigration Department, short of personnel, failed to handle the large number of passengers during the peak hours.The hectic schedule of international flights along...

Maneka Gandhi conferred A.S.G. Jayakar Award

Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

By Aroonim Bhuyan Muscat, May 10 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and green activist Maneka Gandhi has been conferred the A.S.G. Jayakar Award for creating awareness about animal rights, deforestation, climate change and river pollution. India’s ambassador to Oman Anil Wadhwa presented the award at a function here Friday evening in the course of the [...]

KOM's Digital Nation Looks at Secondlife.com

PEIE Mirror (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Second Life , the business world's most rapidly expanding on-line community with a market value of around US$1 billion will be the topic for discussion at Knowledge Oasis Muscat's forthcoming Digital Nation seminar scheduled to be held at the Muscat Inter-Continental Hotel, 7:45pm, Monday 26 May. The seminar delivered by David Wortley, Director, Serious Games Institute , Coventry University...

BBIC 2008 Gets More Backing

PEIE Mirror (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

Young Omanis have the chance to win RO5,000 and 12 months rent free office accommodation in The Knowledge Mine business incubator program if they enter the TKM – Ernst & Young Big Business Idea Competition which was launched recently at Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) by the Park’s Director General, Mohammed Al Maskari and KOM's Head of Marketing, Ibtisam Al Faruji. Al Maskari comments:...

Values for Sustainability and for Education

John Connell (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

I was reminded today in a conversation with a great group of people from Oman's Information Technology Authority (ITA) about the importance of values in education. That reminder took me back to Jonathan Porritt's book Capitalism as if the world matters as well as a previous post of mine on the fundamental values that Porritt [...]

Middle Eastern - Convergence, Broadband and Internet Market 2007

rupali | 01/01/2008

Counties covered: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Broadband, Internet, and Convergence markets in the Middle East. Subjects covered include: Internet and broadband statistics; Government policies and regulatory issues; Broadband technologies; Convergence and...