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  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmood al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, received here yesterday Bilahari Kausikan, Secretary-General of Singapore Foreign Affairs Ministry, who chaired the Singaporean side the 8th political consultation session between the Sultanat

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    Muscat — Ahmed bin Abdullah al Shuhi, Regional Municipalities and Water Resources Minister, yesterday met with directors of the Regional Municipalities at the ministry’s headquarters. During the meeting he highlighted the importance of processing the citizens’ transactions very quickly, as the mini

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — The Majlis Ash’shura’s legal committee yesterday held its 11th meeting for the 4th term at the Majlis Ash’shura’s office under the chairmanship of Abdullah bin Mohammed al Dhahab, Head of the Committee. The meeting approved minutes of the previous meeting and viewed the report of following

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — Shaikh Khalid bin Omar al Marhoon, Civil Service Minister and his delegation left here for Egypt to take part in the 93rd regular meeting of the Executive Council and the 48th meeting of the General Assembly of the Arab Administrative Development Organisation (ARADO). He was seen off by

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — Ahmed bin Yousef al Harthy, Under-secretary of the Foreign Ministry for Diplomatic Affairs, received in his office here yesterday the copy of credentials of Ekaterina Meiering–Mikadze, Ambassador of Georgia to the Sultanate (resident of Kuwait). Al Harthy welcomed the ambassador, wishing h

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — A co-ordination meeting for the broadband in the country will be held today at the Transport and Communications Ministry under the chairmanship of Dr Mohammed bin Ali al Wahaibi, Transport and Communications Ministry's Undersecretary for Communications. The meeting aims at preparing a nati

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — The Omani Society for Writers and Literature in collaboration with the Palestinian Embassy in Muscat will organise today a cultural and art ceremony on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which falls on April 17 every year, at the College of Muscat in the Wilayat of Bausher und

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    NIZWA — The mobile unit team tasked with installing the e-polling system on citizens’ IDs for the Majlis Ash’shura 7th term elections yesterday visited the Directorate-General of Manpower in Al Dakhiliyah Region to install the system on the IDs of the Directorate’s staff. A number of staff and cit

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — Public transport research at Sohar University attracted public transport authorities to confer on the University the coveted Middle East ‘PT X 2 Knowledge and Research Award’ at the 59th UITP World Congress in Dubai recently. Over 2000 delegates from 37 countries par

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2011

    MUSCAT — The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) will hold the next public evening presentation on Sunday, April 24, at 7.30 pm at the Airport Campus in Al Athaiba. Professor Dr Chris Ryan (pictured), Professor of Tourism at the University of Waikato Management School in New Zealand wi