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Founded 1975 . Volume 41 No. | Pages . Baisas 200 . Subscription OMR63 | ISO 9001:2008 Certifi ed Company | Chairman/Editor-in-Chief: Mohamed Issa Al Zadjali | Printed & Published by Muscat Media Group
085010 1200106July 16, 2016 11 Shawwal 1437 AH
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To Senior State Offi cials, 1978
FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN
An offi cial position is a duty and a responsibility rather than a means of acquiring power and infl uence.
‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’
HM’S GREETINGS TO MAYMUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of congratulations to Theresa May on being sworn in as Prime Minister of the UK. In his cable, His Majesty has expressed his sincere congratulations and best wishes of good health, happiness and success to May for further progress and prosperity for the British people, wishing the good relations binding the two countries further progress. -ONA
Oman grapples with shortage of teachersTARIQ ZIAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: A shortage of teachers in the Sultanate is a cause for con-cern as there is roughly only one teacher for every 100 students, ac-cording to Ministry of Education’s statistics.
Last month, the Shura Council held a meeting with the Minister of Education, Madiha Al Shaibani, where a member expressed his concern over the ‘excessive’ num-ber of students in one class in a government school, which had 30 students per class.
The rapid increase of students and a high birth rate has triggered demand for more teachers to be hired in the education sector.
According to Alpen Capital’s Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Education Sector Report 2016, it is forecast that there will be 1,115,486 students by 2020.
In general, there will be a 3.6 per cent increase in the number of stu-
dents in the GCC by 2020, which will jump from 12.6 million to 15 million. In terms of annualised growth during 2015 to 2020, the number of students in Oman, Qa-tar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are projected to grow faster than the other member nations,” read the report. >A2
H I G H R A T I O O F S T U D E N T S
ROP’s air support for safe travel to SalalahTARIQ ZIAD AL [email protected]
DHOFAR: Royal Oman Police (ROP) is prepared to off er its ser-vices, ensure the safety of public, as well as provide tips for safe travels as the Khareef season in Salalah began on Friday.
The road to Salalah can be a daunting one as several people have either been critically in-jured or lost their lives due to overspeeding or fatigue over the past few years and the ROP is prepared to prevent, or at least minimise the losses this year by taking a step further.
The ROP’s Air Wing in the Al Wusta Governorate has dis-patched helicopters to provide air support along the road leading to the Dhofar Governorate and will notify ground units about dangerous overtaking from trav-ellers, the presence of sand dunes and for transporting the injured if an accident takes place.
“The helicopters are equipped with medical equipment to ad-minister fi rst aid to the injured on the way to the nearest hospital as they will patrol the route from the Wilayat of Adam to the Wilayat of Thumrait and report any dan-gerous overtaking or sand dunes present at the operations centre at the Al Wusta ROP,” said the police. They added that they will also report any break down of ve-hicles en route.>A2
K H A R E E F S E A S O N
PAKISTANMalala shocked
2Dozens of schoolgirls broke down in front of Malala Yousafzai. >A7
MARKETUK needs stimulus
3The Bank of England needs to act promptly to boost the economy.>B1
OMANRestaurant damaged in gas cylinder blast
1A restaurant in Al Khuwair was damaged after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen, the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) said on Friday. >A2
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
A3Bustling Saham fi sh market
The increase of students and
a high birth rate has triggered
demand for more teachers.
DEEBA HASAN MOBIN MATHEW BLESSON
MUSCAT: Floral tributes were laid outside the French Embassy in Muscat as Omanis sent their love to the people of France in the wake of a truck attack that claimed
84 lives in Nice. Flowers laid at the gates of the embassy had a simple yet heartfelt message: “Stay strong. Pray for Nice. From Oman people. We love you. We love peace.”
At least 84 people died - 10 of them children - and scores more
were injured when a white heavy goods truck careered through thousands of people gathered to celebrate Bastille Day in the coast-al city popular with tourists from all over the world.
French, Americans, British and
Australians were among the casu-alties. A spokesman for the French embassy said no Omanis or French expats living in Oman were cur-rently known to be caught up in what has been labelled as a “mon-strous act” by French President
Francois Hollande.The French ambassador in
Oman, Roland Dubertrand said: “I am very touched, and very moved, because I see that in front of the embassy we received some fl owers and messages of solidarity by the
Omani people and others living in Oman, so that is really for us a mark of solidarity for France.”
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a Tunisian reportedly living in Nice on a visa and known to French police, drove two km along the packed Promenade des Anglais in Nice, at 11pm local time, zig-zag-ging as he drove to mow down as many people as possible, accord-ing to witnesses. Video shows the truck moving from right to left as it careers down the road.
Police offi cers chased the truck on foot and the front of the vehicle he used was peppered with bullet holes. Offi cers shot him dead as he came to a halt and pulled out a gun, according to authorities.
The drive lasted just a few min-utes but Bouhlel left 84 people dead and dozens injured, many in a critical condition and 50 of them children. >A2
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Tributes were paid
to the terror attack
victims at the French
embassy in Oman
with the message
of solidarity for the
French people in
this hour of grief
TERROR STRUCK: An image grab obtained from the Instagram account of GA Morrow, shows people running away from the scene of an attack in Nice during Bastille Day on Thursday. -AFP
‘Stay strong. Pray for Nice. From Oman, We love you’
Bastille Day celebration in the coastal city of Nice turned into a nightmare for the tourists of many nationalities
Celebration turns into a nightmare Many killed in terror attack Three-day mourning declaredMore than 84 people died and scores were injured when a Tunisian ploughed his truck into the crowd
French President Francois Hollande has declared three days of mourning and extended the state of emergency
HOMAGE: Floral tributes laid outside the French Embassy in Mus-
cat. – Jun Estrada
MUSCAT: Oman on Friday condemned Thursday’s deadly terror attack in the French resort city of Nice in which 84 people died when a trucker drove into a crowd of people watching the Bastille Day fi reworks.
“We condemn in the
strongest terms what appears to be a horrifi c terrorist attack in Nice, which killed and wounded scores of innocents. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed, and we wish a full recovery for the injured,” the Foreign Ministry said. -ONA
Oman condemns Nice attack
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OMANThe Sultanate has a long and proud maritime heritage and as a fi shing and a farming town located between Al Khaboura and Sohar in the Al Batinah Region, Saham has its own place in it.
Saham fi sh market >A3
Diffi cult to hire qualifi ed teachers in Sultanate
However, in Oman (and the GCC), with the increased num-ber of students and lack of schools, it is equally diffi cult to hire qualifi ed teachers, especial-ly nationals in private and inter-national schools.
“The shortage of teachers in the region is the second highest in the world due to an overall dearth of teachers globally, coupled with a low pool of nationals inclined towards pursuing teaching as a profession in the GCC,” the report emphasised.
“Moreover, the dependence on expatriates, who are transient by nature, is further challenging this availability,” it added.
The increase in the number of students would mean an increase in schools, as well as the need for more teachers in the Sultanate. International and private schools are also gaining popularity among parents as more opt to send their children to these schools, consid-ering its bilingual curriculum and high quality of education; and as students increase, more schools will be needed.
“Omani families continue to seek an education for their chil-dren, which will leave them bilin-gual and with an understanding of the international business cul-ture, and the coping skills neces-sary to succeed in the global are-
na,” said Danny Harrison, chief executive offi cer of Al Omania Education Services.
“The market needs are diverse, and whilst the number of bilin-gual international school models are growing and attracting in-vestment, there is also expansion in the purely foreign curriculum schools. Consequently, there is a lot of jostling for market share and the schools that consistently deliver quality education will enjoy long term fruits. On the fl ip side, the region has seen the demise of a number of operators, who over-promise and under-deliver with catastrophic conse-quences,” he added.
D E A R T H O F T E A C H E R S
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“After going on their patrol, the helicopter will head back to base in Al Wusta ROP and will take off again if there are any reports of accidents,” said the ROP. The ROP has issued safety tips for those, who are planning to travel via land, as well as basic rules of thumb while driving.
They have advised travel-lers to perform any necessary maintenance to their engine, check the engine oil, belt, fans and tyres. Travellers must ensure if their water coolant is adequate and make sure their windshield wipers and rear wipers (if available) are working properly.
The ROP has also asked travellers to carry essential items, such as a tow rope, digging equipment, wooden boards, extra water, extra keys and make sure a fi re ex-tinguisher is available. “The trip to Dhofar is hundreds of kilometres, especially for GCC nationals, so it requires the traveller to be prepared, alert and careful along this road,” said the ROP.
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for travel
Restaurant damaged in gas cylinder blast
Staff Reporter
MUSCAT: A restaurant in Al Khuwair was damaged after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen, the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) said on Friday. No cau-salities have been reported.
According to the PACDA, the cars parked outside the restau-rant were also damaged due to the explosion.
“The blast took place in Al Khu-wair, resulting in the collapse of some parts of the building and
damage to some cars near the res-taurant,” added PACDA in a tweet.
Many people were seen gath-ered near the building to catch a glimpse of the restaurant that was damaged during the explosion.
Loud explosionMeanwhile, bystanders said they heard a loud, deafening noise on Friday morning.
“We rushed to the place imme-diately and what we saw was shat-tered pieces of glass, damaged ve-hicles and a completely destroyed restaurant,” said a bystander.
“We received a call in the morn-ing and we rushed to the site with-in 10 minutes after which the area was evacuated.
“The explosion took place at around 8:20 am,” said a PACDA offi cial.
LeakageAccording to the offi cial, leakage of cooking gas was the primary cause of the explosion.
Although no casualties have been reported, the restaurant and parts of the adjoining building have been destroyed.
The blast took
place in Al Khuwair,
resulting in the
collapse of some
parts of the building
and damage to some
cars parked nearby
COLLAPSED BUILDING: Leakage of cooking gas was the primary cause of the explosion, according to sources. – Supplied picture
Two bags trigger alert at Salalah airportTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Two suspicious suit-cases set off an evacuation pro-cedure at Salalah Airport on Thursday morning. However, on inspection it was found that the bag contained clothes, Royal Oman Police (ROP) reported.
“Following regular procedures
and after inspecting the two aban-doned bags, it turned out that they had personal clothes inside them,” ROP said in a tweet.
The luggage was found on Thursday morning at the depar-tures building’s entrance, the Oman Airports Management Company said, adding that fl ights resumed after the threat was over.
R O P
‘France to continue
fi ght against terror’
Witnesses spoke of people be-ing told to “run away” by po-lice as shots rang out across the promenade.
French President Francois Hol-lande has declared three days of mourning and extended the state of emergency, which was due to be lifted on July 26, by another three months. This is the third attack in France in less than two years, al-though the country’s intelligence services had no information on the driver and local reports suggest he was depressed after a marriage split.
The French ambassador said he was touched by the fl oral ges-ture and said a book of condolence would be opened at the embassy in the coming days.
The ambassador had hosted a Bastille Day celebration in Mus-cat just hours before the truck barrelled through the main prom-enade in Nice, southern France, and its driver began mowing down scores of people who had gathered for a fi reworks display to com-memorate Bastille Day on Thurs-day evening.
Dubertrand said: “Our Presi-dent, François Hollande, con-demns very strongly this horrifi c attack and he says that, as French people, we will always stand up together against terrorism and we will continue the fi ght, because it’s the third time now that we are being attacked in our nation territory.
“The fi rst was in January 2015 with Charlie Hebdo and the second was in Paris in November. Now, again, more than 80 have died in Nice. Of course, the investiga-tion is going on about the attacker and the motive and so on, but the French authority condemns this act and wants really to react and to fi ght against these terrorist attacks happening in France.
“It is very important because it is a diffi cult moment for us, and since this morning you have people who bring fl owers and write messages of solidarity, so we are really very moved by these marks of solidarity by Omanis and non-Omanis.
“For the moment we have no in-dication that there will be family of victims from Nice in Oman, but we will investigate this because we are in contact with the French community in Oman, but for the moment, we don’t have this type of element.
“We will open a register, a book of condolences, in the embassy during the coming week.”
Other French citizens living and working in the Sultanate were ap-palled by the news. Philippe Da Costa, a French resident work-ing in Oman, said: “I was really shocked when I came to know what happened in Nice. France was under strong vigilance during the European Cup but it happened
on the National Day. Terrorists’ aim is to hurt our country’s val-ues but they will never succeed. We will always defend our rights and values obtained through our long history.
“Unfortunately, these sad events start to be common and I can’t ac-cept that for my children. Some of my Omani friends called me to apologise. I thank them but I really want to emphasise the fact that terrorists are not Muslims. Islam is a religion of love, tolerance and peace which provides good values for people. Terrorists can’t be con-sidered as Muslims. My wishes go to the French citizens and vic-tims’ families.”
Melanie, a French resident who also works in Oman, said, “France is not the only country aff ected re-cently but it has really been a diffi -cult year for our country. I am just lacking words now; I prefer to pray for the families aff ected. More than anger, it’s just a deep feeling of sadness and we feel helpless.”
Sophie, Rooms Division Man-ager at Muscat Hills Resort,says, “My heart goes out to the victims and families of this horrible in-cident. Bastille Day is a symbol of freedom for France and to be targeted on such a day is a great off ense.”
Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, told local media that about 10 children were among those killed and a further 18 have been criti-cally injured.
Fondation Lenval, the children’s hospital in Nice, says it has treated some 50 children and adolescents, including two who died during or after surgery, the Associated Press news agency reports. Its spokes-person Stephanie Simpson is quoted as saying the injuries in-cluded fractures and head injuries.
The French President said about 50 people were still fi ghting for the lives following the attack.
“About 50 people are in an ab-solute urgency between life and death,” Hollande said after visiting victims at a hospital in the French Riviera city.
He added that there were a lot of foreigners and children among the dead and warned that the fi ght against extremist groups would be long because they would continue to try to strike at Western values.
India’s ambassador to Oman, In-dra Mani Pandey, said he felt “im-mensely pained” to learn of the at-tack. “My prayers are with injured and deceased people,” he added.
In January 2015, a commando murdered cartoonists at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, police offi cers and Jewish hostag-es. In November, suicide bombers killed 130 in a series of co-ordinat-ed attacks in Paris. [email protected]@timesofoman.com
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SALALAH TOURISM FESTIVAL STARTSSalalah Tourism Festival 2016 was launched at the
Municipality Entertainment Centre yesterday under the
theme of Oman Love and Harmony. — ONA
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THE KILLER TRUCK: Investigators at the scene of the attack near the heavy truck that ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores who were celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on Thursday on the
Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, on Friday. – Reuters
World leaders unite in horror at Nice carnage, vow to fight terror
ULAANBAATAR/MOSCOW: World leaders united in horror and pledged their determination to fi ght terrorism on Friday after a truck attack on a Bastille Day crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killed 84 people.
US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and European and Asian leaders meeting for a summit in Mon-golia joined in condemnation of what they called a terrorist attack in messages to French President Francois Hollande.
Police sources said the truck was driven by a 31-year Tunisian-born Frenchman known to authorities for petty crime but not radicalism, who was eventually shot dead after an exchange of gunfi re with police.
Dozens more people were in-jured. The dead included foreign tourists and students.
ShockEuropean Council President Don-ald Tusk, speaking in the Mongo-lian capital Ulaanbaatar, captured the global shock when he spoke of the “tragic paradox that the sub-ject of #NiceAttack was the people celebrating liberty, equality and fraternity”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on the sidelines of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Mongolia: “All of us who have come together at the ASEM sum-mit are united in our feeling of dis-belief at the attack of mass murder in Nice.”
New British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose country has
just upset Paris and other Euro-pean capitals by voting to leave the European Union, said Britain stood “shoulder to shoulder” with France.
Putin, whose relations with the West have been strained over Rus-sian actions in Ukraine and Syria, went on Russian television to con-vey his condolences to Hollande after apparently being unable to reach him by telephone.
“Dear Francois, Russia knows what terror is and the threats that it creates for all of us. Our people have more than once encountered similar tragedies and is deeply aff ected by the incident, sympa-thises with the French people, and feels solidarity with them,” he said, adding that Russian citizens were among the victims in Nice.
In France itself, far-right Na-tional Front leader Marine Le Pen, expected to do well in next year’s presidential election, faulted the country’s response to past attacks.
“The war on the scourge of fun-damentalism has not begun. It is urgent now that it be declared,” she said on Twitter.
In the Middle East, many mes-sages of sympathy and condem-nation were laced with domestic agendas.
Turkish President Tayyip Er-dogan, whose country was hit just days ago by a coordinated gun and
bomb attack on Istanbul airport by suspected IS militants, said Turks could understand what France and the French people were going through. In an apparent swipe at EU countries that disapprove of Ankara’s crackdown on Kurdish separatist fi ghters, Erdogan said: “We expect those who act incon-sistently in the face of terror to draw necessary lessons from the most recent attack in France.”
The European Union is trying to persuade Ankara to narrow the scope of its sweeping anti-terror laws as one of the conditions for granting visa-free travel to Turks. Brussels wants to avoid journal-ists, academics and opposition politicians being prosecuted for expressing peaceful opinions on the Kurdish issue.
Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body condemned the French attack but said it should not distract the world from “the crimes of the Syr-ian regime”.
Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu, whose settle-ment policies on Palestinian land have been criticised by France and other foreign countries, said Israel stood ready “to help the French government fi ght this evil until it is defeated”.
Italy, Spain, Germany, Brit-ain and Belgium, all of which are neighbours of France, held sepa-
rate meetings to review their own security after the Nice attack, which came just after the French had successfully hosted the Euro 2016 soccer tournament and launched a massive security op-eration during it.
Security boostedGermany said it had boosted bor-der controls at airports as well as road and rail crossings into France in response, as did Italy.
Britain and Belgium said their threat level was already severe, indicating they regard an attack is “highly likely”.
It was the third time that France has been hit in 18 months, follow-ing the attacks on satirical news-paper Charlie Hebdo and a su-permarket in January 2015 and a wave of gun and bomb assaults in November on a concert hall, res-taurants and the national soccer stadium.
Last month, a knife attacker killed two French police offi cers in their home before being shot deal by police. He uploaded a ma-cabre video on the scene of the murders pledging allegiance to IS and warning the French that hard-liners would take the fi ght to their homes and their homeland just as the French military was doing by participating in air strikes on IS targets in Syria and Iraq. — Reuters
US President Barack
Obama, Russian
President Vladimir
Putin and European
and Asian leaders
condemned what
they called a terrorist
attack in messages
to French President
Francois Hollande
PAYING TRIBUTE: People off er tributes near the scene where a truck ran into a crowd in Nice, France,
on Friday. – Reuters
A MINUTE OF SILENCE: Fans of the French Davis Cup team
observe a minute of silence for the victims of the attack in Nice
during the International Tennis Federation Davis Cup quarter-fi -
nals opening ceremony on Friday in Trinec, Czech Republic. – AFP
TIGHT SECURITY: French soldiers, part of “Operation Vigipirate”,
patrol near the Galeries Lafayette in Paris on Friday, a day after
the attack in Nice. – AFP
PAIN AND GRIEF: People react near the scene where a truck ran
into a crowd in Nice, France, on Friday. – Reuters
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Aden governor convoy targeted by car bomb
ADEN: The governor of the southern Yemeni city of Aden sur-vived a car bomb attack targeting his convoy on Friday, security of-fi cials and eyewitnesses said.
A parked car detonated as Aida-roos Al Zubaidi and vehicles car-rying his bodyguards and retinue drove in the Inma area. One sol-dier was injured, medics said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
A civil war has raged for over a year in the impoverished Arabian
Peninsula nation, and security chaos has gripped the port city - temporary seat of Yemen’s embat-tled government.
Zubaidi was appointed gover-nor of Aden after his predecessor was killed in a car bombing on De-
cember 6 claimed by IS, the latest attack by the new Yemen branch of the militant group against gov-ernment targets.
Assassins have tried several times before to kill him in car bomb blasts.
IS has stepped up operations since the outbreak of civil war in Yemen, emerging as a forceful rival to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the main mili-tant group in the country in recent years. — Reuters
A parked car
detonated as
Aidaroos Al Zubaidi
and vehicles carrying
his bodyguards and
retinue drove in
the Inma area. One
soldier was injured,
medics said
ATTEMPT ON LIFE: People gather at the site of a car bomb attack that targeted the convoy of Aida-
roos Al Zubaidi, the governor of the southern port city of Aden, Yemen on Friday. — Reuters/Stringer
US probes expose fraud and bribery in Syrian aid responseANKARA: US investigations have exposed bribery and fraud in Syr-ian aid programmes, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said, rais-ing concern about profi teering in the humanitarian sector.
In a statement to a US House of Representatives committee on Thursday, USAID Inspector Gen-eral Ann Calvaresi Barr said in-
vestigations, some ongoing, raised worries about USAID’s oversight.
The United States has contrib-uted billions of dollars in aid to the Syria crisis.
The most common fraud in-volved collusion between compa-nies selling humanitarian supplies and staff of USAID’s local partners who accepted bribes or kickbacks in exchange for help in winning a
contract, investigations found.There were also cases when aid
items were substituted for cheaper alternatives, resulting in infl ated billing. In one case, a Turkish ven-dor delivered food ration kits with salt instead of lentils.
Because of the urgency to de-liver aid to people in Syria, some of USAID’s partners used “less than full and open competition
to carry out large-scale procure-ments of food and non-food items”, Barr said.
They also failed to properly in-spect deliveries, she said, citing a case where the partner accepted food packages based on weight, not content, only to fi nd some cheaper quality food had been substituted.
Since February 2015, USAID has received 116 allegations of
procurement fraud, theft and brib-ery, a signifi cant increase on the number of complaints made the year before.
So far, six USAID programmes have been suspended, ten people working for its partners have been fi red and 15 people or companies involved in bidding schemes have been suspended or disbarred, Barr said, leading to more than $11.5
million in savings. Almost one-fi fth of complaints the offi ce of the inspector general received related to diversions to militant groups.
USAID found there had been no reports of diversion to IS this year, from 13 cases last year, but reports of supplies lost to an Al Qaeda off -shoot, Jabhat Al Nusra, have in-creased to fi ve this year, from three in 2015. — Reuters
C O N T R O V E R S Y
Sadr fans return to Baghdad streetsBAGHDAD: Thousands of sup-porters of powerful majority sect cleric Moqtada Al Sadr fi lled a central Baghdad square on Friday, disregarding government pleas to scrap protests it said would dis-tract from the war against IS.
The demonstration ended a respite from street actions which in April and May saw protesters storm Baghdad’s heavily-fortifi ed Green Zone government district twice, hampering parliament for weeks and causing several deaths.
Sadr’s followers have returned with familiar demands to fi ght corruption and overhaul a gov-erning system based on ethnic, sectarian and party quotas.
Prime Minister Haider Al Aba-di has failed to implement a cabi-net reshuffl e he promised months ago as part of reforms.
The protests have at times boosted Abadi in his bid to replace ministers chosen on the basis of political affi liation with inde-pendent technocrats, but he has said more recently they risk un-dermining the military’s push to kick IS out of its northern Mosul stronghold.
Activity in much of Baghdad crawled to a halt overnight as se-curity forces deployed ahead of the demonstration, following a military parade in central Bagh-dad marking a national holiday.
Sadr visited Tahrir Square briefl y on Wednesday wearing military fatigues instead of his
usual clerical robe and turban, raising fears of a possible con-frontation.
Abadi then toured several secu-rity checkpoints late on Thursday in an apparent attempt to bol-ster his image amid a rising wave of public outcry with residents blaming the government for fail-ing to provide security.
Emotions in Baghdad are still raw following a suicide bombing in the central Karrada district on
July 3, claimed by IS, that killed at least 292 people, making it one of the worst among the hundreds of such attacks carried out in Iraq since US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein 13 years ago.
IS has been turning increasing-ly to suicide bombings, which US and Iraqi offi cials have touted as proof that battlefi eld setbacks are weakening the extemiists, though critics say the militants still pose a long-term threat.
A media offi ce linked to the military issued a statement on Thursday calling Friday’s protests “unlicensed” and threatening to deal with armed demonstrators as “terrorists”.
Sadr supporters pledged to car-ry on with the protest but prom-ised it would be peaceful.
There were no reports of seri-ous violence several hours into the demonstration, after which people began to withdraw. — Reuters
C O R R U P T I O N
FURIOUS: Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr shout slogans during a protest against corrup-
tion at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, on Friday. — Reuters
UN calls on Kuwait to amend anti-terror DNA testing lawGENEVA: A UN human rights watchdog called on Kuwait on Fri-day to amend a counter-terrorism law requiring nationwide compul-sory DNA testing, saying that it was disproportionate and violated the right to privacy.
Any testing should be limited to individuals suspected of hav-ing committed serious crimes and only after a court order, the 18 independent experts said after reviewing Kuwait’s record in up-holding civil and political rights.
In July 2015, Kuwait’s parlia-ment adopted a law put forward by the Interior Ministry to create a DNA registry of Kuwaiti nation-als and residents living in the Gulf state. The law, which the panel said also applied to tourists, im-poses a one-year prison term and a fi ne on those who refused to pro-vide samples.
RestrictionsThe law “imposes unnecessary and disproportionate restrictions on the right to privacy”, the UN Human Rights Committee said.“We... asked them to amend it to ensure that DNA collection is lim-ited, only on the basis of individu-als suspected of having committed serious crimes and on the basis of a court order,” panel member Sa-
rah Cleveland told a news briefi ng.“Part of the reason the com-
mittee is very concerned about it is because of the prospect of copycat laws by other countries,” she said.” It’s certainly the fi rst time our committee has seen such a law.”
Necessary court warrantJamal Alghunaim, Kuwait’s am-bassador to the United Nations in Geneva who led the government delegation, told the panel last month that the law was due to ter-rorist threats.
The database could not be dis-closed without a necessary court warrant and anyone who did so would be sentenced to three years of prison, he said, according to a UN summary. A year ago Kuwait, home to several US military bas-es, suff ered its deadliest militant attack in decades when a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up inside a packed minority sect mosque, killing 27 people.
IS claimed responsibility.State news agency KUNA said
this month Kuwait foiled three planned IS attacks on the country, including a plot to blow up a mi-nority sect mosque, after launch-ing raids that resulted in the arrest of militants. — Reuters
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156 return home from South Sudan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/NEW DELHI: The fi rst batch of 156 people, including nine wom-en and three children, evacuated from war-torn South Sudan ar-rived in India on Friday on board an Air Force plane.
The C-17 plane from South Su-dan’s capital city Juba with Minis-ter of State for External Aff airs V K Singh escorting the evacuees, in-cluding two Nepali citizens, made a brief halt in Thiruvanathapuram where passengers from the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu disembarked before leaving
for Delhi. The Indian Air Force (IAF) plane landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Friday morning.
“The fl ight from South Sudan has landed in Delhi. My colleague Shri Vijay Goyal is at the airport to receive them,” External Aff airs
Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Friday.
“I welcome our brothers and sis-ters on their safe return from strife torn South Sudan. Your country is always with you in hour of crisis,” Swaraj said in another tweet.
She expressed her gratitude
to the Indian Air Force and its offi cers for safe evacuation of Indian nationals from the strife-torn territory.
“Our heartfelt gratitude to the Indian Air Force and their brave offi cers who carried out this mis-sion,” the External Aff airs Minis-
ter said in her tweet. “I appreciate my MEA offi cers, Indian Ambas-sador to South Sudan and his team for their meticulous work,” she further tweeted.
There were over 550 Indians in Juba and another 150 in areas where the oil wells are located.
MEA Spokesperson Vikas Swarup had on Thursday said that the aim is to evacuate all the In-dian nationals who have expressed their interest in leaving.
HurdleThe evacuation exercise faced a hurdle when several Indians, af-ter registering with the External Aff airs Ministry for leaving South Sudan, refused to return, despite an appeal by Swaraj on Twitter asking them to move out.
“When we landed, 156 came out with us. There were 30-40 people who had already booked their tick-ets when the commercial fl ights started and 300 people did not want to be evacuated due to their busi-ness concerns and other activities.
There are nine women and three children among those evacuated,” Singh told reporters at Thiru-vanathapuram airport.
On those who turned down the government’s plea to be evacuated, Singh said, “We tried to convince them. I suppose business comes fi rst, life comes later (for them)....”
“After fi ghting broke out in Juba and its outskirts, our aim was to evacuate our people who were in
danger. As per our information, there were 550 plus people in Juba itself with another 150 Indians in areas where the oil wells are,” he added. Singh said he had met Vice President of South Sudan on the situation there.
The C-17 aircraft was brought via Uganda and the minister also met Ugandan Prime Minister Ru-hakana Rugunda who on his part assured India of all help.
South Sudan is witnessing heavy fi ghting between former rebels and government soldiers in several parts of the city.
Kerala Power minister Kadak-kampally Surendran and Thiru-vananthapuram district collector Biju Prabhakar were among those who received the travel weary passengers when they arrived in the city.
Southern Railway and IRCTC provided free train tickets to the Indians who arrived by a special IAF fl ight from South Sudan early this morning.
S S Jagannathan, General Man-ager and Sam Joseph, Deputy Gen-eral Manager, IRCTC were present at the airport to provide all help to the passengers.
Free train tickets with con-fi rmed reservations and accom-modation were provided to two of the evacuees from Kerala for their onward journey to their respective destinations and 15 others from neighbouring states, a railway press release said. — PTI
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Protesters defy curfew in KashmirSRINAGAR: Many parts of In-dian-administered Kashmir on Friday saw clashes as mobs de-fi ed curfew to indulge in stone-pelting, along with which a police station was attacked with grenade and fi ring, leaving 15 people, in-cluding eight security personnel, injured in the incidents.
Due to trouble in Kashmir, the Amarnath yatra continued to be suspended for the second con-secutive day.
Authorities had imposed cur-few in all the 10 districts of Kash-mir valley apprehending trouble since it was the fi rst Friday after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant commander Burhan Wani on this day last week.
However, mobs defi ed curfew at many places, including in Baram-ulla, Sopore town, Rafi abad, Ban-dipora district, Kulgam district and Pulwama district, a police offi cial said, adding 10 people, in-cluding three security personnel, were injured in these incidents.
A patrol party of security forces was attacked by a mob with stones at Delina in Baramulla district this morning, injuring three secu-rity personnel, the offi cial said.
In retaliation, security forces opened fi re in which three civil-ians were injured. Condition of all the injured is stated to be stable, he added.
A mob indulged in stone-pelting in Sopore and in the retaliatory ac-tion, four persons sustained pellet
injuries. Yaripora area of Kulgam in south Kashmir saw a grenade attack followed by fi ring on a po-lice station during stone-pelting, resulting in injuries to fi ve police personnel, the offi cial said. “Some-one from the mob hurled a grenade towards the police personnel dur-ing stone pelting on police station Yaripora. The grenade attack was followed by fi ring also,” he said.
Police has been saying that mil-itants merge with stone- pelters to carry out attacks on security personnel, using civilians as a shield. Curfew had been imposed as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order in the val-ley where 36 people have died and
over 3100 others, including 1500 security personnel, injured in the week-long clashes following Burhan’s killing in an encounter in Tral. The decision to impose cur-few was taken as there were ap-prehensions that vested interests might exploit the large gatherings at Friday prayers to instigate fresh violence, an offi cial said.
Due to curfew, prayers could not be off ered in many prominent mosques in the valley.
The mosques where prayers could not be off ered included the historic Jamia Masjid, Naqsh-band Sahib shrine and Dastageer Sahib shrine in Srinagar.
Police and paramilitary per-
sonnel were deployed in strength across the valley for strict imple-mentation of the prohibitory or-ders, the offi cial said.
Authorities had also pulled the plug on mobile telephone services in the valley to prevent any ru-mour-mongering.”Only postpaid connections of BSNL are work-ing,” the offi cial said.
Although the offi cial did not as-sign any reason for allowing the BSNL postpaid connections, it is believed that the comparatively small number of mobile phones were kept functional as most of the government and police offi -cials use this service.
Mobile Internet services con-tinued to remain suspended for the seventh day on Friday while trains are also off the tracks in the valley as a precautionary measure. Violent protests rocked Indian-administered Kashmir last weekend following killing of Burhan Wani and two of his asso-ciated in an encounter with secu-rity forces on July 8 in Kokernag area of Anantnag district.
In the ensuing clashes with se-curity forces, 36 people, includ-ing a cop have been killed while 3140 people, including 1500 se-curity force personnel, have been injured. Normal life has remained paralysed since Saturday in In-dian-administered Kashmir on account of separatist sponsored-strike and curfew- like restric-tions imposed by authorities. — PTI
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Zakir says no plans to return to India this year, rejects chargesMUMBAI: Controversial preacher Zakir Naik, facing mul-tiple probes over his alleged pro-vocative speeches, on Friday said he has no plans to return to India this year even as he claimed his remarks were “blown out of con-text” and that he has never in-spired any terror activity.
The televangelist, who had can-celled Press meets thrice citing pressure from authorities of the venues where they were planned, had a lengthy interaction with media via Skype from Saudi Ara-bia, rubbishing the charge that his sermons had inspired terror ac-tivity, including the Dhaka attack.
Stating that he is a “messen-ger of peace”, Naik said, “Killing innocent people is prohibited in Islam and I condemn all terrorist attacks” and that he is a victim of media trial with his statements being blown out of context.
Referring to the footage of some of his speeches shown by media following the Dhaka carnage, he said, “Indian media is running a trial against me because of un-verifi ed reports. Half sentences
being shown, clips being doctored and statements being shown out of context to malign me.”
“It is unethical for the media to not take my answers on face value and doubt me. There are two thousand sentences in which I condemned terrorism...there may be ten sentences in which one may take out a double mean-ing...videos are being doctored for ulterior motives...,” he said.
To a query on the probe by Mumbai police into his speeches, he said, “So far no offi cial govern-ment agency has approached me in the last 8-9 days to ask me to cooperate in their investigations. If they do, I will welcome it. I have never had any problems with gov-ernments or police in the past. I am willing to cooperate with any investigation agency.”
“There are some people in Is-lam misguiding people in the name of paradise after death. People are inspired by Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)...but he nev-er said that innocent should be killed. Similarly I never said kill innocent humans,” Naik asserted.
Naik also spoke in detail about his travel plans. “As per my plans I will come back to the country next year. I was not supposed to come back to India this year, I have real-ised it is easier to answer queries on skype or video conferencing. I am not running away but I have been very busy meeting impor-tant personalities. I am available to authorities but as per my plan I will come back next year,” he said.
“Whenever I come to holy city of Mecca, I return only after a couple of months. But seeing the media trial of mine, I was ready to come for one-and-half days...but when I heard hotels are not welcoming, I thought of taking it on Skype. Why should I change my plans because of media trial,” he added.
Naik also maintained that no government agency has so far ap-proached him to join investigation in connection with charges lev-elled against. “I am willing to co-operate with any probe agency if they approach me,” he said. He also claimed that he had even addressed IPS offi cers in the past. — PTI
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SAFE ARRIVAL: People, who were evacuated from South Sudan, walk after disembarking from an In-
dian Air Force aircraft after their arrival at an airport in New Delhi on Friday. – Reuters
STRICT CONTROL: A man shows medicine to a policeman after he
was stopped during a curfew in Srinagar on Wednesday. – Reuters
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PAKISTANS AT U R DAY, J U LY 1 6, 2 0 1 6
DIPLOMACY Pakistan’s Foreign Aff airs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, left, is
greeted by Mongolia’s President Tsakhiagiin Elbe-
gdorj, right, as he arrives for the 11th Asia-Europe
Meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Friday. — Reuters/
Mark Schiefelbein/Pool
‘Hate speech falling after crackdown’LAHORE: A crackdown on Pa-kistan mosques which use loud-speakers to blare out incendiary language against minorities has been cut down hate speech in the largest province of Punjab, the po-lice chief said.
Punjab, which has a popula-tion of about 100 million, has historically struggled to curb sec-tarian violence and hate speech by fi rebrand clerics. The rise of religious diff erences in Pakistan has alarmed offi cials who worry stoking of animosity could further destabilise the nation.
The crackdown on hate crime began in December 2014 after militants from the Pakistani Tali-ban killed more than 150 people
in a Peshawar school, including 134 children. Critics, however, say much more could be done.
Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, the police inspector general for Pun-jab, said about 9,500 cases were brought against those spouting
hate speech via loudspeakers.“The misuse of that sound sys-
tem has come to an end,” Sukhera told Reuters in an interview.”That, to me, is a big success.”
Sukhera said such mosques have been put under surveillance,
while off ensive material has been removed from city walls and ad-vertising boards.
Representatives of minority groups confi rmed mosques in La-hore and other big cities in Punjab had largely stopped.
Peter Jacob, Director National Commission for Justice and Peace, added that hate speech continues on social media and is plastered to rickshaws and public buses.
Sukhera said the crackdown on radical groups such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, had helped reduce crime in Punjab. The murder rate in 2015 fell 26 per cent to 4,522 from2014. The number of “terrorism/sui-cide/sectarian” incidents declined 56 per cent, he added. — Reuters
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Malala shocked as crying Burundi girls recall rape while fleeing war
MAHAMA (RWANDA): More than a dozen schoolgirls broke down in tears as one told Malala Yousafzai about the rapes they experienced and witnessed while fl eeing to Rwanda in 2015 to es-cape fi ghting in Burundi.
The 19-year-old Pakistani edu-cation activist was visibly moved by the sobbing Burundian refu-gees.
“It’s extremely shocking,” the world’s youngest Nobel laureate, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Rwanda’s Mahama refugee camp.
“It’s very tragic their stories, very moving and emotional.”
Burundi has been mired in a year-long crisis that has killed more than 450 people and forced 270,000 to fl ee since President Pierre Nkurunziza pursued and won a third term.
Opponents said his move violat-ed the constitution and a deal that ended a civil war in 2005.
Ange-Mireille Ndikumwenayo was on a bus heading to Rwanda in May 2015 when she saw two girls being gang raped by the roadside.
“They tried to run and asked for help but no one could help them because they had guns,” said the 20-year-old, referring to the Im-bonerakure, the ruling party’s
youth wing which rights groups say has attacked and tortured gov-ernment opponents, charges it de-nies. “It broke my heart.”
Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, compared the girls to his daughter, recalling how she had cried when she heard on the radio in 2009 that the Taliban in Paki-stan had issued an edict banning girls from attending school.
“She cried as you cry,” he said during a visit to the camp on Thursday.”But you know, fi rst you cry, then you scream and then you shout and raise your voice for your rights... When there is night, there is a dawn.”
The majority of the 50,000 Bu-rundian refugees living in Maha-ma camp in southeastern Rwanda are children.
There are about 12 new arrivals
each day, said the United Nations refugee agency’s (UNHCR) Paul Kenya, head of Kirehe fi eld offi ce, often children travelling alone.
“Some are being asked now to join the political party and the mi-litia and they are refusing and then they are forced to fl ee,” he said.
People whose families are known to have fl ed to Rwanda of-ten fall under suspicion and have to leave as well, he said.
Almost 65 per cent of Mahama’s refugees come from Burundi’s bor-der province of Kirundo as road-blocks make it diffi cult for people living further south to leave the country, he said.
“They were being beaten to explain why they were fl eeing,” he said.”They were accused of being spies.”
Relations between Rwanda and
Burundi are tense following a re-port to the UN Security Council that accused Rwanda of training and fi nancing Burundian rebels, charges Rwanda denies.
The Burundi crisis has sparked concerns it could spiral into an ethnic confl ict in a region where memories of neighbouring Rwan-da’s 1994 genocide are fresh.
The report said the rebels, in-cluding six children, said they had been recruited in Mahama camp, an issue that Yousafzai raised on Wednesday with Rwandan Presi-dent Paul Kagame.
“It is their age to get education... not (to be) sent back as fi ghters to their country,” she said.
UNHCR’s Rwanda representa-tive, Azam Saber, said his staff had received reports of forced recruitment among refugees, al-
though they had not witnessed it themselves. “In order to be a safer site, we need to keep children and adolescents busy either in school or outside school,” he said, adding that he has asked the International Olympic Committee to provide the children with football and basket-ball pitches.
Ange-Mireille Ndikumwenayo, who witnessed the roadside gang rape, told Yousafzai how girls who gave birth after being raped felt they could not step back inside a classroom.
“It’s shameful to speak up and say that you have been raped,” she said, dressed in a blue shirt and black skirt like her class-mates seated on a wooden bench behind her.
Ndikumwenayo became a moth-er three years ago but returned to
school with the dream of becoming a journalist to draw attention to violence against women and girls.
She is now in her fi nal year at Paysannat School, on a hill just outside the camp. Eight out of ten of the school’s 12,000 students are refugees, who study together with local Rwandan children.
“To learn with these Rwandan children can alleviate the stress of life that they can have,” said Rwan-da’s minister for refugee aff airs, Seraphine Mukantabana, herself a former refugee.
“They think that life can contin-ue even if they are in exile.”
University in refugee campThe world’s fi rst university in a refugee camp opened in Kiziba camp in western Rwanda in 2015, home to 17,000 Congolese refu-gees, some of whom have been in exile for 20 years.
The students study online and with visiting professors from the Rwandan capital, Kigali. “We will be establishing the second ever university in a refugee camp in Mahama very soon,” the UNHCR’s Saber told Yousafzai. — Thomson Reuters
Foundation
Burundi has been
mired in a year-long
crisis that has killed
more than 450 people
and forced 270,000
to fl ee since President
Pierre Nkurunziza
pursued and
won a third term
VOICING CONCERNED: Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai talks to Burundian refugee girls at the Mahama refugee
camp, Rwanda,on Thursday. — Reuters
Malala’s father, Ziauddin
Yousafzai, compared
the girls to his daughter,
recalling how she had cried
when she heard on the radio
in 2009 that the Taliban
in Pakistan had issued
an edict banning girls
from attending school
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Government given 12 days to appoint poll body membersISLAMABAD: The top court has given the federation till July 27 to appoint the four new provincial members of the election com-mission in place of the four who retired last month.
On Thursday, a three-judge apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali took up the suo motu case over the dysfunctional Election Com-mission of Pakistan, whose mem-bers retired more than a month ago on June 12.
Additional Attorney General (AAG) Waqar Rana, represent-ing the federation, told the judges that consultations for the ap-pointment of new members were under way with the opposition leaders in view of the 22nd Con-stitutional Amendment, which was passed on June 10.
The chief justice observed that the institution had been left use-less without the appointment of new members.
“We are not concerned with the consultation between opposi-
tion and the ruling party leaders. Enough is enough,” he said.
The top judge questioned why the government waited for com-pletion of the terms of the ECP members as new members should have been appointed before June 12 in the fi rst place.
“We won’t allow you (the gov-ernment) to play with this as it is hampering the whole institution,” he noted.
The AAG assured the court the ECP members would be appoint-ed before July 27.
The chief justice said the purpose of the suo motu notice was that the election commis-sion should not remain non-functional. The hearing was then adjourned till the fi rst week of August.
The same bench hearing the implementation of election re-forms judgment directed the ECP to consult all the political parties on its proposals and submit a de-tailed report on the next hearing.
The ECP secretary told the
court that the commission had drafted some proposals for bring-ing about electoral reforms.
The election body has proposed banning wall chalking, posters and banners, billboards, public rallies during elections and al-lowing only corner meetings. To eff ectively control, monitor elec-tion expenses and curb corrupt practices, there shall be a single bank account opened only for the purpose of elections.
Mandatory complianceThe ECP has also suggested that a new code of conduct should re-quire mandatory compliance of all political parties and contest-ing candidates, failing which the ECP may declare an election void for illegal practices in violation of Article 218(3) of the Constitution.
The ECP secretary told the SC all these proposals would be shared with major political par-ties for achieving consensus to formulate a model code of con-duct. — Express Tribune
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Global cooperation as a life-and-death issueJim O’Neill
The uncertainty generated by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the Eu-ropean Union – which has sent shock-
waves through global markets – has been domi-nating headlines. But, as we prepare to face new political trials, we must not lose sight of the chal-lenges we already face, especially global health challenges like the rise of antimicrobial resist-ance (AMR), which has no regard for economic performance or political stability.
As it stands, an estimated 700,000 people are losing their lives to drug-resistant infections each year. By 2050, this fi gure could skyrocket to ten million per year, at a cumulative cost to world GDP of $100 trillion.
To avoid that outcome, in May the Review on AMR that I lead published its strategy for tack-ling such infections, laying out proposals to ensure the development of the necessary new antibiotics, and to use existing antibiotics more effi ciently in humans and agriculture. Of the ten major interventions we proposed, four are par-ticularly important:Launch a global campaign, tailored for diff erent regions, to improve public awareness of AMR.Address the market failure in the development of new antibiotics by introducing lump-sum mar-ket-entry rewards to developers of successful new drugs, while ensuring global access.Advance innovation and improve use of diagnostic technology to support more effi cient use of antibiotics.Implement country-level targets focused on reducing unnecessary use of antibiotics in agricul-ture and humans.
With our fi nal report complete, the Review will now continue to make the international case for action directly to political leaders. For exam-ple, in my capacity as the Review’s Chairman, I recently discussed our recommendations at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, and with United Nations and United States policymakers in New York and Washington, DC.
In these discussions, policymakers’ growing awareness of the danger posed by AMR stood out. Just two years ago, the topic of drug-resistant in-fections would usually be met with questions like “What is AMR?” or, “Why would a fi nance minis-ter take charge of a health crisis?”
Few understood the scale and multifaceted na-ture of the challenge, and thus the need for a com-
prehensive approach. I asked myself similar ques-tions when British prime minister David Cameron fi rst asked me to lead the Review on AMR.
The situation has changed considerably since then. Policymakers from countries with a wide variety of economic and political systems are en-gaging on the AMR problem, with some countries already taking steps to tackle it. All of this pro-vides grounds for hope that 2016 may be the year when real change gets underway.
But hope is one thing; action is another. While high-level meetings and speeches about AMR send the right message, they will mean nothing if we do not manage to translate the current mo-mentum into concrete action, beginning at the G20 and UN meetings this September. And while my most recent discussions suggest that agree-ments are likely to be reached at both of these meetings, it is far from certain that they will match the scale of the problem.
At the G20, the needed agreement should fo-cus on developing a global mechanism to re-invigorate the market for new antibiotics that are globally aff ordable, accessible, and used as effi ciently as possible.
At the UN, the goal should be to turn the man-tra of “access, not excess” into a reality, with an agreement to reduce the unnecessary use of an-tibiotics in agriculture, and to spearhead a global awareness campaign. Increased funding for re-search and development of new antibiotics and diagnostics to fi ght AMR is also vital.
Crucially, the agreements must have teeth. Countries should set their own objectives to fi t their particular circumstances and needs, but there must be some provisions to ensure that all are pulling their weight. For starters, eff orts to fi ght AMR should be incorporated into broad-er economic-development strategies, includ-ing the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Moreover, progress should be measured, not only so that policymakers, companies, and health systems can be held accountable, but also so that others can emulate their successes. To this end, we may need new metrics for calculating the im-pact of AMR. — Project Syndicate
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Stop interfering and hyping South China Sea issue: China tells Japan
ULAANBAATAR: Chinese Pre-mier Li Keqiang told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday that his country should stop interfering and hyping up the South China Sea issue, as the dis-pute took centre stage at a key re-gional summit in Mongolia.
China has refused to recognise Tuesday’s ruling by an arbitration court in The Hague invalidating China’s vast claims in the South China Sea and did not take part in the proceedings. It has reacted an-grily to calls by Western countries and Japan for the decision to be adhered to.
Meeting in the Mongolian capi-tal Ulaanbaatar, Li told Abe that China’s stance on the South China Sea was completely in line with in-ternational law, state news agency Xinhua reported.
“Japan is not a state directly in-volved in the South China Sea is-sue, and thus should exercise cau-tion in its own words and deeds, and stop hyping up and interfer-ing”, Li said, according to Xinhua.
Respect rulesJapan’s Kyodo news agency said Abe told Li that a rules-based international order must be re-spected. The agency also said Abe and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had agreed the ruling must be observed.
Japanese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Yasuhisa Kawamura said Abe “reiterated the fundamen-tal positions regarding the South China Sea” in his meeting with Li. “The situation of the South China Sea is the concern of the interna-tional community. The tribunal award of 12 July is fi nal and legally binding on the parties to the dis-pute,” Kawamura told reporters.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually.
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philip-pines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims.
Speaking at the meeting of Asian and European offi cials in Mongolia, Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said Ma-nila “strongly affi rms its respect for the milestone decision” while reiterating his call for “restraint
and sobriety”. China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday said Beijing’s position on the case had the sup-port of Laos, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional bloc long dogged by discord over how to deal with China’s maritime as-sertiveness.
The verdict was discussed on Thursday between Li and Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Si-soulith ahead a regional summit in Mongolia. “Thongloun said that Laos supports China’s position, and is willing to work with China to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea region,” the ministry said in a statement.
The statement did not elabo-rate. Laos’ foreign ministry did not responded to Reuters’ request for comment and its state media made no mention of Thongloun’s
comments to Li. Land-locked Laos, which is boosting economic ties with China, will be hosting a security meeting later this month at which the South China Sea is expected to dominate. ASEAN has not issued a statement about the ruling and its members have not said why.
China’s Foreign Ministry later said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had told Li that Cambo-dia would uphold a “fair and objec-tive stance” on the South China Sea issue and work to maintain friendly China-ASEAN relations, according to a statement.
Asked about Cambodia’s posi-tion, Foreign Aff airs Minister Prak Sokhonn told Reuters: “We are not involved in this arbitration case and just wish to stand by our policy of neutrality.”
The court decision invalidating
China’s claims was a “crowning glory” that renews faith in inter-national law, the Philippines’ top lawyer said on Friday, in Manila’s strongest comment yet on its sweeping win.
The remarks by Solicitor General Jose Calida follow two days of carefully calibrated re-sponses from the Philippines and are almost certain to irritate China further.
Manila has so far been keen not to rock the boat in the hope of starting dialogue towards Beijing allowing it to exercise what the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled were its sover-eign maritime rights.
“It confi rms that no one state can claim virtually an entire sea. The award is a historic win not only for the Philippines... it renews humanity’s faith in a rules based
global order,” Calida told a forum.“The award opens a horizon of
possibilities for all stakeholders. The award is a crowning glory of international law.”
China has previously said it has widespread support for its rejec-tion of the case but many countries have stuck to cautious comments about resolving disputes peace-fully and respecting international laws. Philippine President Rod-rigo Duterte ended his unusual silence at a private function late on Thursday and said he wanted dialogue with China and was con-sidering sending former President Fidel Ramos to Beijing to get the ball rolling. “War is not an option,” he said. “So, what is the other side? - Peaceful talk.”
Immediately after the ruling, the normally brash and outspoken Du-terte privately told his ministers to be magnanimous and not to pique Beijing, according to one minister.
But the cautious tone appears to be changing in the Philippines, where there are signs of public disgruntlement with the subdued government response to a deci-sion that most of the country was celebrating.
The United States, a key Philip-pines’ ally, is urging Asian nations not to move aggressively to capi-talize on the court ruling, accord-ing to US administration offi cials.
The chief of its naval opera-tions, Admiral John Richardson, will discuss the South China Sea among other issues when he meets China’s navy commander, Admi-ral Wu Shengli, from Sunday on a three-day trip to “improve mutual understanding”, according to a US Navy statement.
Chinese state media on Friday reported again that China aims to launch a series of off shore nu-clear power platforms to pro-mote development in the South China Sea. Experts said little pro-gress had been made on the plan, which would likely stoke further tensions. — Reuters
Philippines offi cial
hailed court ruling
‘historic victory’ as
Beijing said Laos,
Cambodia support its
position on legal case
South Koreans protesting over THAAD system block PM’s bus
SEOUL: South Koreans protest-ing against a plan to deploy a US missile defence system in their district blocked a minibus carry-ing the prime minister for several hours on Friday, preventing him from leaving an offi ce.
The government announced on Wednesday that the southeastern county of Seongju had been chosen as the site for a Terminal High Al-titude Area Defence (THAAD) bat-tery aimed at countering what it sees as the threat from North Korea’s missile and nuclear programme.
Protesters threw eggs and plas-tic water bottles at Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn as he spoke on the steps of the county offi ce to apolo-gise for not briefi ng residents ear-lier, TV footage showed. Security guards used boards and umbrellas to shield Hwang and he was quick-ly taken inside the building. When he tried to leave the compound, a crowd of several hundred with a tractor blocked his vehicle. — Reuters
A N G R Y R E A C T I O N
North Korea defector confesses to child kidnap plotSEOUL: A North Korean defec-tor who had lived in South Korea has been arrested in the North for conspiring with Seoul’s spy agency to kidnap North Korean children, the North’s offi cial me-dia reported on Wednesday.
The 53-year-old man, identifi ed as Ko Hyon-chol, confessed to try-ing to kidnap two North Korean orphan girls and take them to the South, the KCNA news agency reported. The confession came during a news conference in the North’s capital, Pyongyang.
“I confess to being involved in anti-Republic conspiracy after being taken in by puppet intel-ligence service gangsters and the extra serious crime of abducting minors, although it ended in an at-tempted crime,” KCNA quoted Ko as saying.
Ko said he was sent by South Korea’s National Intelligence Ser-vice (NIS) to the Chinese border city of Dandong to kidnap orphans from North Korea, according to KCNA.
Earlier, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported Ko saying he was off ered $10,000
for each child. The North Korean news agency cited Ko as saying South Korea’s NIS had told him kidnapped North Korean children would be put up for adoption in other countries, including Can-ada. Ko was arrested after cross-ing a river into North Korea from China in May, KCNA said.
The NIS denied any involve-ment in the reported case.
South Korea’s Unifi cation Min-istry, which handles relations with the North, said in a state-ment it regretted that the North had arrested a South Korean na-tional and used him for what it described as propaganda.
Ko said he fl ed from North Ko-rea in 2013 and stayed in China for about a year before arriving in South Korea in 2014, lured by NIS agents operating in China near the border with the North.
The report comes after North Korea accused the NIS of abduct-ing 13 people who worked in a res-taurant run by the North in China in April. The South Korean gov-ernment has said the 12 women and one man had chosen to come to the South. — Reuters
C O N S P I R I N G W I T H S E O U L ’ S S P Y A G E N C Y
Nearly one in 10 children do not go to school worldwide: ReportNEW YORK: Some 263 million children worldwide, nearly one in 10, do not go to school, posing a daunting hurdle to the United Na-tions’ eff orts to educate all children by 2030, the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO reported on Friday.
The number is “staggering,” yet marks an improvement from 2000 when some 374 million children did not attend school, UNESCO said. Many children out of school live in areas of confl ict, others are girls living in societies that do not advocate educating females and others live in countries that do not make secondary school compul-sory, the report said.
Children in their late teens are four times more likely to be out of school than younger children, it said. “Our focus must be on inclu-sion from the earliest age and right through the learning cycle, on poli-
cies that address the barriers at every stage, with special attention to girls who still face the greatest disadvantage,” said UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement.
UN member nations last year adopted a set of global goals for 2030 that included a call for chil-dren around the world to complete primary and secondary school. “These new fi ndings show the hard
work ahead if we are to reach this goal,” Bokova said.
Armed confl ict poses a major barrier to education, UNESCO said. Around the world, 22 million out-of-school children of primary education age live in confl ict areas, it said.
Also, many children not in school live in sub-Saharan Africa, where three out of fi ve children of secondary school age are not in classes, it said. UNESCO said while primary and lower second-ary education are compulsory in nearly every country, upper sec-ondary school is not. Also, it said older children are often of legal working age. It said globally 15 mil-lion girls of primary school age will never attend classes compared with about 10 million boys, and more than half those girls live in sub-Saharan Africa. — Reuters
S T A G G E R I N G N U M B E R
MAJOR BARRIER: Many children out of school live in areas of confl ict, others are girls living in socie-
ties that do not advocate educating females and others live in countries that do not make secondary
school compulsory, the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO reported on Friday. – AFP
Armed conflict poses
a major barrier to
education: UNESCO
BRINKMANSHIP: A woman walking past a poster of the South China Sea, with the slogan at the bottom “China’s territory, never to yield an
inch of our ground” on a street in Weifang, east China’s Shandong province. – AFP
CONSPIRACY: Ko Hyon-chol, who has been arrested for conspiring with South Korea’s spy
agency, attends a news conference at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang in Pyongyang
on Friday. – KCNA/via Reuters
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REVELRY People swing on a ride in the midway during the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Thursday. — Reuters
Argentines bang pots to protest soaring utility bills
BUENOS AIRES: Thousands of Argentines banged pots and marched through public squares in the rain on Thursday to protest steep hikes to basic services after President Maur-cio Macri slashed subsidies for utilities.
The demonstration marked the fi rst “cacerolazo” in center-right Macri’s government, evok-ing memories of the pot-bang-ing protests staged by struggling Argentines during the country’s economic meltdown at the start of the century.
Over 1,000% jumpMacri announced plans for higher utility rates shortly af-ter taking offi ce in December, part of an austerity plan to trim billions in subsidies from the fi scal defi cit.
But with wages stagnant and scant job prospects in an economy mired in recession, many Argentines say they can-not aff ord to pay utility bills that in some cases have jumped by more than 1,000 per cent.
“It’s abusive, it’s completely excessive,” said Fernando Mon-ton, a 39-year-old print shop employee who says 30 per cent of his salary now goes to pay-ing for gas, electricity and water fees. — Reuters
S U B S I D I E S S L A S H E D
Trump names Pence as his running mate
WASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump announced Indi-ana Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate on Friday, putting a seasoned conservative politician at his side who could help rally more party loyalists behind his White House bid.
Republican sources said on Thursday that Trump had de-cided on Pence, but the campaign had not confi rmed this until now.
Trump had postponed a Friday event to announce his decision following the deadly truck attack in France.
Viewed as a safe pair of hands, Pence, 57, has diverging views with Trump on his proposed Mus-lim ban and trade, and is more so-cially conservative.
But he could help unify Repub-licans left divided by Trump’s campaign to win the party presi-dential nomination for the No-vember 8 election.
“I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.,” Trump said in a tweet.
Trump had faced a midday deadline to announce Pence be-cause the governor had to declare by then whether he would be on the ballot in his home state for re-election.
Trump, a New York business-man who has never held elected offi ce, had chosen Pence from a short list that included two other fi nalists, former House of Rep-resentatives Speaker Newt Gin-grich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
In a Fox News interview on Thursday night, Trump said
Pence had done a great job in In-diana and that of all the people he had interviewed for the job, “there’s nobody that agrees with me fully on everything.”
His choice was slammed by the campaign of Democratic presi-dential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“By picking Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump has doubled down on some of his most disturbing beliefs by choos-ing an incredibly divisive and un-popular running mate known for supporting discriminatory poli-tics and failed economic policies that favour millionaires and cor-porations over working families,” said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Trump said on Thursday he postponed his planned announce-
ment on Friday out of respect for the victims in Nice, France.
An attacker in a heavy truck drove into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores more in what President Francois Hol-lande called a terrorist act.
Trump, 70, is set to be formally nominated as the party’s candi-date for the presidential election at the convention in Cleveland.
Traditionally, the vice presi-dential choice is used to build en-thusiasm among party loyalists.
The Republican National Com-mittee expects the convention to draw 50,000 people to Cleveland and US authorities were prepar-ing for the possibility of violence - whether from demonstrators or planned attacks. — Reuters
Viewed as a safe
pair of hands,
Indiana Governor
Mike Pence, 57, has
diverging views
with Republican
Donald Trump on his
proposed Muslim
ban and trade, and
is more socially
conservative
TEAMING UP: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, and Indiana Governor Mike
Pence, left, wave to the crowd before addressing the crowd during a campaign stop at the Grand Park
Events Center in Westfi eld, Indiana, on Tuesday. — Reuters/John Sommers II/Files
May seeks UK consensus in bid to appease ScotsEDINBURGH: Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that Britain would not trigger formal divorce talks with the European Union until a “UK approach” had been agreed, bidding to appease Scots who strongly oppose Brexit.
May made the comment after meeting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, head of the pro-inde-pendence Scottish government which says pro-EU Scots should not be dragged out against their will and has been looking at ways to keep Scotland in the bloc.
Scotland voted by 62-38 per cent to stay in the European Union in the June 23 referendum while the United Kingdom as a whole voted 52-48 per cent to leave, a result which Sturgeon has said made the prospect of another vote on Scot-tish independence “highly likely”.
“I have already said that I won’t be triggering Article 50 until I think that we have a UK approach and objectives for negotiations - I think it is important that we estab-lish that before we trigger Article 50,” May said, referring to the pro-cedure through which a country would withdraw from the EU.
May said her decision to visit Sturgeon on her own turf less than 48 hours after taking offi ce underlined her determination to keep Scotland in the United King-dom after the Brexit vote had re-vived the issue of independence, which Scots rejected in a 2014 referendum.
Sturgeon has said she will ex-plore all possibilities for keeping Scotland in the EU and May, who herself had backed the campaign to remain in the bloc, said she wanted the Scottish government to be involved in the Brexit talks.
“I will listen to any options they bring forward.
I’ve been very clear with the
fi rst minister today that I want the Scottish government to be fully engaged in our discussions,” May said. “I want to get the best possi-ble deal for the whole of the United Kingdom.”
While European leaders have urged Britain to start formal dis-cussions over an EU exit quick-ly, May has said Britain would not trigger Article 50 this year, and needed a clear negotiating stance fi rst.
Delay divorceScotland’s position could further delay divorce talks as, under de-volution rules, the parliaments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are required to consent to any EU exit, according to a report by the House of Lords. Sturgeon said last month that Scotland’s parliament would consider block-ing such legislation if necessary to protect Scottish interests.
She has also repeatedly warned that Scotland could split from the United Kingdom should that be the only way for it to remain in the EU.
Scots rejected independence by 55-45 per cent in the referendum two years ago, but since then Stur-geon’s Scottish National Party has gone from strength to strength, winning 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats in the British parliament in the 2015 election.
Sturgeon, who met several EU leaders in Brussels days after the referendum, said she was pleased May was willing to consider the Scottish government’s options as part of the overall negotiations over the terms of Britain’s exit.
But she said it would be incon-ceivable for a British prime min-ister to block a referendum if the Scottish parliament voted to hold one. — Reuters
B R E X I T F A L L O U T
CONVERGENCE: New British Prime Minister Theresa May meeting
First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon at Bute House in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, on Friday. — Reuters/James Glossop/Pool
More Europe-bound migrants may be dying in Sahara than at seaGENEVA: African migrants try-ing to reach Europe may well be dying in greater numbers in the Sahara desert than the thousands who have drowned in the Medi-terranean Sea, a migration track-ing organisation said on Friday.
A report by 4mi, an affi liate of the Danish Refugee Council, said it had witness testimony suggest-
ing that the sea crossing - where many have also been rescued by European coast guards - may be less risky than the earlier stage of their odyssey through de-sert where many may vanish without trace.
“Migrants and refugees from the Horn of Africa arriving in Lib-ya, Egypt or Europe consistently
indicate that even more people might die while crossing the Sa-hara Desert than while crossing the Mediterranean, but reliable data on migrant deaths on land routes have so far been unavail-able,” the report said.
Interviews with over 1,300 mi-grants between 2014 and 2016 provided information about 1,245
deaths of people on the move in Libya, Sudan and Egypt com-bined, it said.
Estimate“The relatively small number of migrants interviewed... suggests the 1,245 fi gure is a conservative estimate of those who actually perished.” — Reuters
F L E E I N G F R O M C O N F L I C T
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Yasir Shah scalps five to keep Pakistan in front at Lord’s
LONDON: Five-star Yasir Shah had England reeling on the sec-ond day of the Lord’s Test after Pakistan were all out for 339 in the fi rst innings.
Leg spinner Yasir Shah carved out 5 for 64 to ensure Pakistan stayed ahead at stumps after two days of play.
England were 253 for 7, trailing by 86 runs on Friday. However, much of the focus was on Moham-med Amir’s return to Test cricket.
To be recalled Amir was impli-cated for spot-fi xing in 2010, and was handed a fi ve-year ban and a jail term.
Though he did pick up the wick-et of Alastair Cook (81) in his third attempt after two chances were shelled, it was Yasir, returning to the side after his own brush with the International Cricket Council authorities for testing positive for a banned substance, that outshone his teammate and earned his place on the Lord’s honour board.
It was an exceptional perfor-mance given that it was a day two
surface, and the last legspinner to take a fi ve-for at Lord’s was Paki-stan’s Mushtaq Ahmed in 1996. Yasir was also the fi rst legspinner to take a fi ve-for in the fi rst innings at Lord’s since India’s B S Chan-drasekhar in 1967.
Yasir scythed through England’s middle order grabbing the wickets of Joe Root (48), James Vince (16), Gary Ballance (6), Jonny Bairstow (29) and Moeen Ali (23).
Muted receptionMohammed Amir got a muted re-ception at Lord’s on the second day of the fi rst Test on Friday as he bowled for the fi rst time in a Test since being banned for spot-fi xing.
The left-handed pace bowler, who served half of a six-month prison sentence and was banned for fi ve years for deliberately bowl-
ing no-balls against England at the same ground in 2010, was unlucky not to mark his fi rst spell back with a wicket.
He was treated to a few shouts of ‘no-ball’ from the crowd after his fi rst delivery, but his return to Pa-kistan’s bowling attack otherwise passed largely without incident.
Earlier, England all-rounder Chris Woakes notched his fi rst fi ve-wicket test haul to restrict the visitors to a fi rst innings total of 339.
Woakes, who ended the in-nings with fi gures of 6-70, struck twice in the same over to pick up the wickets of Sarfraz Ahmed and Wahab Riaz, and leave the visitors reeling.
Sarfraz, who was just starting to cut loose, smashed a shortish delivery straight down the throat
of James Vince at backward point before Woakes struck again al-most immediately.
He sent a lovely ball veering past the edge of the incoming Riaz’s bat, before splaying the stumps with his next delivery to send the batsman back to the pavilion with a duck.
Stuart Broad bowled Misbah-ul-Haq in the next over to leave Pakistan on 316 for nine, and the skipper walked off to an ovation from the ground in recognition of his fi ne knock. The 42-year-old be-came the oldest player in 82 years to score a test century on Thursday with an unbeaten 110, but fi nished on 114 after adding just four runs on Friday.
Broad then enticed Amir, who was greeted with a ripple of ap-plause as he came out to bat, to edge the ball to Joe Root at slip on 12, as he fi nished the fi rst innings on 3-71.
Broad, who smashed his highest test score of 169 in that 2010 se-
ries, gave a smile but did not speak to Amir who was Pakistan’s last man out.
The tourists drew blood soon af-ter the changeover when England opener Alex Hales edged an im-peccable outswinger from Rahat Ali to Azhar Ali at third slip in the second over.
That brought an early introudc-tion for Joe Root, whose elevation to number three dominated head-lines in the build-up.
It was England captain Alastair Cook, though, who made the brighter start, fi nding the bound-ary three times in a single over from Rahat to race to 35 from 31 deliveries.
Cook rode his luck at times and was fortunate to survive being dropped by Mohammed Hafeez in the seventh over to deny Amir a wicket on his return.
Root chipped in with fi ve bound-aries of his own to reach 23 and help steer England to 64 for one at lunch. - Agencies
Mohammed Amir got
a muted reception at
Lord’s on the second
day of the fi rst Test
on Friday as he
bowled for the fi rst
time in a Test since
being banned
for spot-fi xing
Jake Ball eager to prove critics wrongLONDON: Fast bowler Jake Ball hoped that his performance on his Test debut against Pakistan would help silence those critics who questioned his inclusion in the team.
The 25-year-old, who was brought in to replace injured James Anderson, looked threat-ening early on, and was duly re-warded in his second spell when he trapped Azhar Ali lbw to pick up his fi rst international wicket.
Ball fi nished with fi gures of one for 51 in 19 overs at the end of the fi rst day’s play.
“People were sending me mes-sages the day before and the ad-vice was to enjoy it,” Ball told British media.
“I took that into today (Thurs-day) and hopefully proved to peo-ple I can play test cricket.”
Ball also credited his county team mate Stuart Broad and uncle, England’s wicketkeeping coach Bruce French, for helping him to settle down nerves on the fi rst day.
“Getting my cap from Bruce set-tled me down,” Ball added.
“He told me how proud the whole family are of me and to re-ceive it from my uncle was an ex-tra special moment. It was nice, he was holding back the tears.
“As for settling in, it was nice to
have Stuart (Broad) there at mid-on and off , talking me through it and keeping me calm.”
Ball was unlucky not to have picked up his fi rst wicket ear-lier in the day’s play, as Pakistan opener Shan Masood survived an lbw review.
“(The review, second ball) looked pretty close where I was. I was probably a bit caught in the moment but we all agreed and it was a bit unfortunate. Had we got that, it would have been worth it.
“With the wicket, I was very anxious when I fi rst saw it -- I thought it might be slipping down. To see it just clipping was a real relief.” - Reuters
D E B U T A N T
DEBUT WICKET: Jake Ball cel-
ebrates his fi rst Test wicket.
England to begin Test series in India at Rajkot
NEW DELHI: Rajkot and Vi-sakhapatnam will host their fi rst ever Test respectively when India play their fi ve-Test series against England starting No-vember 9. The BCCI announced the dates of the series compris-ing fi ve Tests, three ODIS and as many T20 Internationals from November to February.
Rajkot will host the fi rst Test of the series from November 9-13, followed by the second Test in Visakhapatnam from November 17-21. The teams then travel for the third Test at Mohali from November 26-30.
The remaining two games will be played in Mumbai and Chennai, from December 8-12 and 16-20 respectively.
Full Itinerary: 1st Test: November 9-13 (Rajkot), 2nd Test: November 17-21 (Visakhapatnam), 3rd Test: November 26-30 (Mohali), 4th Test: December 8-12 (Mumbai), 5th Test: December 16-20 (Chennai).
1st ODI: January 15 (Pune), 2nd ODI: January 19 (Cuttack), 3rd ODI: January 22 (Kolkata).
T20Is: 1st T20I: January 26 (Kan-pur), 2nd T20I: January 29 (Nagpur), 3rd T20I: February 1 (Bengaluru). - PTI
T O U R
NEW DELHI: Bolstered by Aus-tralian Open triumph, India ace shuttler Saina Nehwal says she is now working on her half smashes under the watchful eyes of coach Vimal Kumar to get closer to the goal of winning a gold medal at next month’s Rio Olympics.
“The victory in Australia came at just the right time. I was really looking forward for some change and nothing boosts confi dence like winning. I needed a win to keep believing that I am on the right track,” the 26-year-old told PTI.
“I am working hard on my half smashes to get closer to my goals. It is wonderful to win Australian Open prior to the Olympics. It is very satisfying to beat two world champions and a junior world champion in one tournament,” added the girl from Hyderabad
who clinched the Australian title last month.
Set to play in her third Olym-pics, Saina said she is completely fi t and the key will be to “reach the peak” in that particular week.
“I take each tournament as it comes. Rio Olympics will also be like any other games. My ap-proach to the game is very posi-tive and I would like to keep it like that and focus on my game. I feel that on the day that I am 100 percent fi t, I have the potential to defeat anyone,” said the London Olympics bronze medallist.
“I feel I am fi t. I am running nice-ly. At the end of the day, it’s impor-tant that you reach the peak and play your best during that particu-lar week. That’s what will count ul-timately and will be the key.”
It has been a year and a half that
Saina has been training under Vi-mal Kumar in Bangalore and she said the former national coach was the one who made her believe that she can be a champion.
“Vimal Sir’s infl uence is the biggest change. I really want to thank him for making me believe every day that I am a champion, I can be number one.
“Vimal Sir is helping me work on my half smashes and get closer to my goals,” said Saina, who had reached the World No. 1 under Vi-mal’s guidance last year.
“It’s not easy to play at the high-est level. I would like to give my best and like all the players my goal is also to come back with a gold medal. It’s a big contingent going from India this time, so we hope to have a triumphant return with lots of medals.” - PTI
B A D M I N T O N
Working on my half smashes to get closer to my goal,says Saina
Pakistan buys bulletproof buses to woo back teamsISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has bought four bulletproof buses as it tries to convince other teams to shed their security apprehensions and visit the country.
Pakistan has largely been shunned by teams since 2009 when gunmen attacked a bus car-rying Sri Lankan cricketers, injur-ing six players and killing six secu-rity personnel and two civilians.
The incident has forced Paki-stan to play their ‘home’ matches at the United Arab Emirates and the country has since remained starved of international cricket at
home, barring Zimbabwe’s limit-ed-overs tour in 2015.
“We have bought these four Coaster buses as part of our ef-forts to revive international crick-et in the country,” a PCB spokes-man told ESPNcricinfo.
Hugh expectations“There will be high expectations from teams willing to visit Paki-stan and we want to ensure that we provide them with the best possible arrangements.
“Having these bulletproof ve-hicles would play a major part in convincing teams (about secu-
rity arrangements).” The spokes-man said PCB wanted to host the fi nal of the Pakistan Super League, the inaugural edition of which was held in UAE earlier this year.
“We have to have discussions with the (overseas) players about their safety and security and I think this new addition in our security facilities will defi nitely give us an edge,” the PCB pokes-man said.
“Our ultimate goal is to revive international cricket, and we are doing our best to make sure we can.” - Reuters
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Pakistan 1st inningsM. Hafeez c Bairstow b Woakes 40S. Masood c Bairstow b Woakes 7A. Ali lbw b Ball 7Y. Khan c Ali b Broad 33Misbah-ul Haq b Broad 114A. Shafi q c Bairstow b Woakes 73R. Ali b Woakes 0S. Ahmed c Vince b Woakes 25W. Riaz b Woakes 0M. Amir c Root b Broad 12Y. Shah not out 11Extras (b-4, lb-10, nb-1, w-2) 17Total (all out, 99.2 overs) 339Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-51, 3-77, 4-134, 5-282, 6-282, 7-310, 8-310, 9-316, 10-339Bowling: S. Broad 27.2-9-71-3 (w-1), J. Ball 19-5-51-1(w-1), C. Woakes 24-7-70-6, S. Finn 21-2-86-0, M. Ali 7-0-46-0 (nb-1), J. Vince 1-0-1-0
England 1st inningsA. Cook b Amir 81A. Hales c A. Ali b R. Ali 6J. Root c Hafeez b Shah 48J. Vince lbw b Shah 16G. Ballance lbw b Shah 6J. Bairstow b Shah 29M. Ali lbw b Shah 23C. Woakes not out 31S. Broad not out 11Extras (nb-2) 2Total (for 7 wickets, 71 overs) 253Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-118, 3-139, 4-147, G. Ballance, 5-173, 6-193, 7-232To bat: J. Ball, S. FinnBowling: M. Amir 18-2-65-1, R. Ali 14-1-68-1, W. Riaz 14-0-56-0 (nb-2), Y. Shah 25-5-64-5Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena, Joel WilsonTV umpire: Rod TuckerMatch referee: Richie Richardson
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RICH HAUL: Pakistan’s Yasir Shah celebrates taking one of the fi ve
wickets. – Reuters
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LAHORE: Pakistan’s sporting de-cline has left the vast South Asian nation that once prided itself on producing the world’s best hockey and squash players facing up to an Olympics for which none of its athletes have qualifi ed.
While cricket remains a wildly popular game in Pakistan, a nation of almost 200 million people, most other sports have shrunk in popu-larity as the successes of the 1980s and early 1990s have become a dis-tant memory.
In dilapidated gyms and crumbling sports fi elds Paki-stani athletes lament the dated equipment and obsolete training methods which leave them strug-gling against foreign foes who ad-here to the latest science-based techniques.
Female athletes have an even bigger mountain to climb: most young girls in the deeply con-servative nation are pressured by their families to stop exercising in public, while those with fam-ily backing face the wrath of their
communities. “We are behind the rest of the world,” said Inam Butt, a Pakistani wrestling champion who won gold at the 2010 Common-wealth Games. “Our budget, train-ing and facilities are just nothing. How can we compete?”
Butt, like other athletes, says the future will remain bleak until Pa-kistan’s government starts pour-ing money into sport.
The seven participants due to represent Pakistan at next month’s Rio Olympics have all been given wildcard entries and stand “no chance” of winning medals, ac-cording to Arif Hasan, the Pakistan Olympic Association president.
“They are more or less going for the participation and gaining the experience. Let’s hope next time will be better,” he said.
1980s training methodsThose in charge of promoting sport in Pakistan despair.
The grassroots system is almost non-existent, children in schools rarely play a sport which is not
cricket, and top athletes seldom compete against the world’s best as cash-strapped federations can-not aff ord to send them abroad.
Waqar Ahmed, deputy direc-tor of the Pakistan Sports Board, said federations also cannot aff ord to hire top coaches familiar with scientifi c training techniques and end up relying on Pakistani train-ers with “obsolete” methods from the 1980s.
“Athletes are really frustrated because... the coaches are not lit-erate and they have been teaching what they were taught 30 years back,” he said. “Without infrastruc-ture we can do a lot, but without the techniques you cannot win.”
The demise of hockey, Pakistan’s
national sport, has been painful to watch for an older generation who prospered during the halcyon days between 1960 and 1994, when Pa-kistan regularly won Olympic gold medals and world championships.
Tahir Zaman, Pakistan hockey team coach, said the lack of gov-ernment support means many young athletes no longer see a fu-ture in sports like hockey where top players get $10 per day.
Pakistani cricketers, by con-trast, are paid $5,000 monthly re-tainers and make a fortune from sponsorship deals.
“The attraction is not there any-more. The (government) is not off ering regular jobs for players,” said Zaman, who won a bronze
playing for Pakistan at the 1992 Olympics.
At Lahore’s empty 45,000-seat hockey stadium, Pakistani hockey player Hassan Anwar, 21, said that as a teenager his family begged him: “please don’t play hockey if you want a bright future”.
The demise of hockey has been mirrored by the decline in the Pa-kistani squash scene, where young players know all about 1980s leg-end Jahangir Khan - considered the greatest ever squash player - but none match his bravura on the court.
Pakistan’s best known squash player is Maria Toorpakay Wazir, ranked 65 in the world, felt safe to train abroad.
Pakistan Olympic chief Hasan says societal “barriers are com-ing down” for women but many female athletes rue the slow pace of change.
At 16, Neelam Riaz’s fi rst love was cycling, but her father banned her from training on roads as men would stare at her. In response, she
took up karate to learn how to fend off men and eventually stumbled on weightlifting.
“Usually in Pakistan girls are discouraged from sports, and often coaches push back,” said Riaz, 25, who last year became a national champion and Paki-stan’s fi rst female weightlifter to compete abroad.
“Now my family is happy with me doing weightlifting.”
In a dimly lit Lahore gym, where paint peels off walls, windows are shattered and cobwebs cling to a damp ceiling, Riaz is tutoring 16-year-old Iqra Chanzaib, who is new to weightlifting.
Chanzaib wanted to play bas-ketball, but the only hoop near her house was out in the open and full of boys, so one of her pious broth-ers protested. She then opted for weightlifting, indoors.
“There are plenty of girls like me but they cannot come because of family pressures. My own friends want to come but their families stop them,” she said. - Reuters
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Pakistan sport hits low point with qualifying debacle
HOCKEY TRAINING: Pakistan hockey players train at the Gaddafi
fi eld hockey stadium in Lahore. – Reuters
India’s Vijender confident of blowing away Kerry’s ‘Hope’
NEW DELHI: Undefeated in what has been a fast-rising profes-sional career, Indian boxing star Vijender Singh will take on Welsh-born Australian Kerry Hope in his maiden title bout for the vacant WBO Asia Pacifi c super middle-weight belt here tomorrow.
The 30-year-old Indian, who has won all his six pro bouts after turning pro via knockouts, will be up against his most experienced
and accomplished rival so far as Hope is a former WBCC European champion with 23-7 win-loss re-cord. “I can’t wait for tomorrow (Saturday). I am fi ghting in Delhi after six years, Commonwealth Games being the last time and I am very excited about it,” said Vi-jender after the offi cial weigh-in and face off with Kerry.
None of Vijender’s opponents so far have quite matched up to him but Hope promises to be a tough
customer. “I have trained very hard and I can see that he hasn’t. So I am very confi dent,” Hope, who weighed 74.9kg, said.
“We will see tomorrow (Satur-day) night,” came Vijender’s reply as he refused to be drawn into a verbal spat before the fi ght.
The Indian came in at 75.7kg in the offi cial weigh in. The fi ght night will feature seven other undercard bouts, comprising boxers from the Indian Boxing Council’s stable and
two Thai invites. One of the seven fi ghts will be a women’s exhibition bout, featuring boxers from the MC Mary Kom’s academy.
An August gathering of sporting legends, politicians and Bollywood celebrities will be in full attend-ance at the Thyagaraj stadium which is expected to draw a size-able number of fans as well.
Kapil Dev, Yuvraj Singh, Viren-der Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Gau-tam Gambhir will be in attendance
from the cricketing world.Besides Mary Kom and double
Olympic medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar will also witness the fi ght.
The stars of Bollywood that will add to the glam quotient of the event are Irfan Khan, Randeep Hooda, Neha Dhupia, Diljit Dos-anjh, Rannvijay, Baadshah, Jimmy Shergil and Raghu among others.
Other prominent personalities who are expected to attend the event are Finance Minister of Haryana Captain Abhimanyu Singh, Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar, Congress Vice Presi-dent Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gan-dhi, BJP President Amit Shah, Un-ion Minister Smriti Irani, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Rajiv Shukla, Baba Ramdev and Anirudh Chaudhary.
Should he win, Vijender would get a crack at the top-15 of WBO world rankings. “It will open the door for world title bouts, so that would be a progession for me,” said Vijender.
“This bout will open the doors to bigger things in life,” added Hope.
The crowd will be a factor for both the boxers. While Vijender would look for inspiration, Hope said he would draw from the hostility.
“Let them cheer all they want, he is not winning,” Hope said, a statement which only drew a grin from the composed Indian, who hardly ever lets emotion show on his face. - PTI
The 30-year-old
Indian, who has won
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after turning pro
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is a former WBCC
European championGAME ON: Indian boxer Vijender Singh and Australia’s Kerry Hope face off at the weigh-in ceremony
on the eve of their fi ght for the WBO Asia Pacifi c Super Middleweight Championship, in New Delhi. – PTI
Oman defeat US, Egypt but stumble against BahrainMUSCAT: Oman on Friday ex-perienced mixed fortunes in the Consolation Round of the Interna-tional Handball Federation (IHF) World Beach Handball Champion-ship at Budapest.
According to information re-ceived here, Oman who fi nished fourth in the Group B behind Croa-tia, Spain and Hungary in that or-der, were forced to play in the Con-solation Round of the tournament,
after they lost to Hungary 0-2 (13-22, 14-25) late on Thursday.
In the fi rst match on Friday, Oman did well to notch yet an-other victory, their fourth of the tournament, having beaten Spain, Uruguay, Australia and the United States. The match against US was tough and went to the wire with the Oman subduing the Americans through penalty shoot out.
Oman won the match 2-1 with
the scoreline reading 17-16, 16-24, 8-6 after a gruelling three-setter.
However, Oman went down to Bahrain in a tightened up schedule due the bad weather.
Bahrain blanked Oman 2-10 (26-19 and 18-12).
In the third match of the day, Oman once again emerged win-ners, this time against Egypt.
Oman defeated Egypt 2-0 (15-14, 19-14) to notch their fi fth win.
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Dumoulin wins stage, Froome extends lead
VALLON PONT-D’ARC: Chris Froome turned the screw on his Tour de France rivals when he took second place in Friday’s windswept individual time trial behind Tom Du-moulin as the race continued under heightened security and in a low-key mood after the deadly Nice attack.
Organisers had debated whether the stage should be cancelled and offi cials observed a minute’s silence before the fi rst rider went down the ramp. There was another minute of silence at the podium ceremony after the stage. Dutchman Du-moulin (Giant-Alpecin) clocked 50 minutes 15 seconds, beating Froome by 1:03.
The Briton, however, extend-ed his overall race lead to 1:47 over Dutchman Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo), who moved up to second but lost 51 seconds to the Team Sky rider.
Froome’s compatriot Adam Yates (Orica-Bike Exchange) dropped from second to third, 2:45 off the pace after battling strong head and crosswinds.
Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) lost 2:04 on the day to Froome, to slip from third to fourth overall, 2:59 off the pace ahead of a gruelling fi nal week in the Alps. The 13th stage of the signature event of the country’s sporting summer began at 0805 GMT, with its publicity caravan — usually playing loud music to energise the thousands lining the route — silenced for the day.
A gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into a crowd celebrating France’s na-tional day in the southern city late on Thursday, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores in what President Francois Hol-lande called a terrorist act.
“I woke up this morning and learnt something terrible had happened. It’s an extremely sad day. So it was a stage with two sides,” said Dumoulin following his second stage win. — Reuters
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Samsung in talks to buy stake in China electric-car makerSEOUL: Samsung Electron-ics, the world’s largest maker of phones and memory chips, said it’s in talks with BYD about invest-ing in the Chinese electric-car manufacturer. Details including the size of the investment will be disclosed when they’re confi rmed, Samsung said on Friday in an e-mailed statement. The investment in BYD, backed by Warren Buf-fett’s Berkshire Hathaway, would bolster Samsung’s semiconductor business for cars, the South Ko-rean company said.
Pushing forward talksBYD said Samsung has been ac-tively pushing forward talks about buying its shares in a private place-ment. Talks are still underway, the Chinese company said, denying a
report by the Korea Economic Dai-ly that an agreement was reached to acquire a 4 per cent stake.
Battery makersSamsung is pursuing the invest-ment after its affi liate was among foreign battery makers left off a list of suppliers approved by China, where sales of electric vehicles are surging and the government has sped up construction of charging points.
The talks with BYD also add to the global trend of technology companies and automakers col-laborating as car buyers increas-ingly demand more advanced pow-ertrains and features that improve connectivity and safety.
“It puts Samsung into the elec-tric-vehicle subsystem supply
chain for a key Chinese electric vehicle and battery manufacturer,” said Bill Russo, a Shanghai-based managing director at Gao Feng Advisory “BYD gets a technology innovation pipeline partner with a reputable brand.”
BYD rose as much as 5.7 per cent, its biggest intraday gain since March 29. The shares traded at HK$50.80, up 4.3 per cent, as of 1:47pm in Hong Kong. Samsung Electronics climbed 1.2 per cent in Seoul trading.
Electric vehiclesChina surpassed the US as the largest market for electric vehicles last year. The government wants sales of what it calls new-energy vehicles to exceed 3 million units a year by 2025. Deliveries of new-
energy vehicles more than doubled to about 170,000 units in the fi rst half of the year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
BYD won approval from the Chinese government in Febru-ary to raise as much as 15 billion yuan through additional share sale to help fund expansion of its production of batteries for new-energy vehicles and product de-velopment. The company has six months to sell the shares after winning approval. — Bloomberg News
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READY FOR THE ROAD: An employee stands next to a BYD Qin hy-
brid electric vehicle. — Bloomberg fi le picture
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US consumer prices and retail sales rose in June
WASHINGTON: The cost of living in the US rose in June, pro-pelled by a rebound in fuel prices and sustained gains in rents that is driving infl ation closer to the Federal Reserve’s goal.
The consumer-price index (CPI) climbed 0.2 per cent for a second month, Labor Depart-ment fi gures showed on Friday in Washington.
A second consecutive decrease in food costs held it below the me-dian forecast of 82 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, which called for a 0.3 per cent advance.
Steadying energy costs and the dissipating infl uence of the strong dollar will stoke price pres-sures more broadly and enable companies to regain the ability
to charge their customers more. Faster infl ation underpinned by an improving economy and a healthy job market would also enable the Fed to resume raising interest rates.
“We’re starting to see upward pressure on the infl ation num-bers,” Jim O’Sullivan, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, said before the re-port. “It reinforces the case for the Fed to resume tightening, though they’re highly risk averse right now.”
A report from the Commerce Department showed retail sales June rose 0.6 per cent, more than projected and showing consum-ers propelled a rebound in growth during the second quarter.
Bloomberg survey estimates for the consumer price index ranged from a gain of 0.1 per cent to 0.4 per cent.
Year-to-yearPrices increased one per cent in the 12 months ended in June, the same as in the prior month.
The core CPI measure, which excludes volatile food and fuel costs, also rose 0.2 per cent for a third month. It increased 2.3 per cent from June 2015, up from 2.2 per cent in the prior 12-month period and matching the largest year-to-year advance of the economic expansion that began in 2009.
Energy costs increased 1.3 per cent from a month earlier, the re-
port showed. Food prices dropped 0.1 per cent.
Expenses for shelter climbed 0.3 per cent, driven up by rents and hotel rates. Increases in med-ical care, education and airline fares also contributed to the ad-vance in core prices.
The cost for services exclud-ing rents climbed just 0.1 per cent in June, the smallest gain since January.
Higher prices for shelter, in-cluding rents and hotel rates, have been helping to prop up infl ation, while cheaper energy bills and the stronger dollar were exerting downward pressure last year.
The Fed’s preferred gauge of infl ation, which is the Commerce Department’s personal consump-
tion expenditures measure, hasn’t matched the central bank’s 2 per cent goal since April 2012.
CPI gaugeThe CPI is the broadest of three price gauges from the Labor De-partment because it includes all goods and services. About 60 per cent of the index covers prices consumers pay for services from medical visits to airline fares, movie tickets and rents.
The cost of living dented pay-checks in June, a separate re-port from the Labor Department showed on Friday. Hourly earn-ings adjusted for infl ation fell 0.2 per cent from the prior month. They rose 1.5 per cent over the past 12 months. — Bloomberg News
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UK needs prompt, muscular stimulus: Bank of England’s chief economist
LONDON: The Bank of England (BoE) needs to act “promptly as well as muscularly” to stimulate the economy and boost confi -dence, its chief economist said on Friday, a day after the central bank upset markets by not cutting rates.
In his fi rst speech since Britain voted last month to leave the Euro-pean Union, Andrew Haldane said the BoE needed to come up with a “package of mutually-complemen-tary monetary policy easing meas-ures” in time for a rate-setting meeting on August 4.
“This monetary response, if it is to buttress expectations and confi -dence, needs I think to be delivered promptly as well as muscularly. By promptly I mean next month,” he said.
Sterling fell almost a cent against the US dollar after the speech, re-versing some of the gains made af-
ter Thursday’s surprise decision to keep rates on hold.
Investment bank J.P. Morgan changed its forecast for British in-terest rates after Haldane’s speech, predicting the BoE would cut rates to zero next month, rather than to 0.25 per cent.
Only one BoE policymaker, Ger-tjan Vlieghe, voted to cut rates this week, but most others said looser policy was likely to be needed at next month’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting (MPC), once they had better forecasts for the economy.
Haldane did not off er any de-tail on what form this loosening should take, and whether it would go beyond the interest rate cuts and government bond purchases the central bank pursued during and after the global fi nancial crisis.
More innovative measures —
such as purchases of private-sec-tor assets or incentives for banks to lend — would need approval from Britain’s new fi nance min-ister, Philip Hammond, who re-placed George Osborne in a post-referendum reshuffl e.
J.P. Morgan economist Allan Monks said he expected the BoE to buy 75 billion pounds ($100 billion) more government bonds, and either extend its Funding for Lending Scheme, which off ers banks cheap credit, or buy corpo-rate bonds again as it briefl y did in the fi nancial crisis.
“This would pretty much leave the monetary cupboard bare un-less Carney overcomes his objec-tions to negative rates. For now we do not think that will happen,” Monks said, adding he also expect-ed Hammond to suspend planned public spending cuts.
“Sledgehammer” tacticsHaldane said the central bank should err on the side of respond-ing too aggressively, given poten-tial doubts about the eff ectiveness of monetary policy at boosting de-mand when British interest rates are already close to zero.
“I would rather run the risk of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut than taking a miniature rock hammer to tunnel my way out of prison,” he said — though he added that he would keep in mind the risks of “ever-larger doses of the monetary medicine”.
BoE Governor Mark Carney has said that — unlike the European Central Bank (ECB) — he would be unwilling to cut interest rates below zero because of the damage it would do to banks’ profi ts and ability to lend.
Carney has also said the cen-
tral bank would be unable to fully off set the economic damage from leaving the EU, and that while it could infl uence the supply and price of lending, there was less it could do to aff ect demand.
Haldane said Britain’s economy could slow materially in the com-ing quarters, but he did not see a crash.
“While the past few weeks have been a drama, there is no reason to expect this to turn into a crisis, or at least a fi nancial one,” he said.
Businesses were more likely to “trim and singe” rather than “slash and burn” hiring and investment plans, he added. Sterling’s sharp fall since the EU vote meant it was possible consumer price infl ation — just 0.3 per cent in May — could overshoot the central bank’s 2 per cent target in the foreseeable fu-ture, Haldane said. — Reuters
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US, China clash over market economy status
GENEVA: The United States warned China on Thursday that it had not done enough to qualify for market economy status, especially in steel and aluminium, sowing the seeds for a trade battle between Washington and Beijing at the end of 2016.
Upon China’s admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, it was told by other mem-bers that they would not use its published, state-controlled prices to judge whether or not it was “dumping” exports unfairly in their markets, but rather “sur-rogate” prices refl ecting what it should be charging without state subsidies.
That was written into its WTO membership agreement in a clause that would expire after 15 years, on Dec. 11, 2016.
Chinese exportIf the United States, European Un-ion, and other WTO members be-gin to take Chinese export prices at face value, it will be much hard-er for them to challenge China’s cheap exports.
US trade diplomat Chris Wilson told the WTO meeting that the ex-piry of the clause did not require other WTO members to automati-cally grant China market economy status on Dec. 11.
Instead, China must establish under each WTO member coun-try’s domestic law that it is a mar-ket economy, he said, according to an outline of his remarks seen by Reuters.
“Second, there is little doubt that China’s market reforms have fallen short of the expectations that were held by many members when China joined the WTO,” he said.
“This is particularly evident in the steel and aluminum industries where China’s pervasive inter-ventions have led to a signifi cant overcapacity of global supply that is threatening the viability of com-petitive fi rms in these industries around the world.” — Reuters
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Andrew Haldane.
— Bloomberg fi le picture
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China’s growth steadies as lending, spending pick up
BEIJING: China’s growth sta-bilised as lending and consumer spending picked up, suggesting the economy is responding to stepped up policy support.
Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 6.7 per cent in the second quarter from a year earlier, com-pared with 6.6 per cent seen by economists Bloomberg surveyed and in line with the govern-ment’s growth target of at least 6.5 per cent for the full year. In-dustrial output and retail data for June beat estimates, investment slowed, and a report from the central bank showed the broadest measure of new credit beat all 29 analyst forecasts.
A credit surge and housing re-covery this year have propped up growth, while raising questions about the sustainability of the debt-fuelled expansion. Friday’s data blast suggests the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) doesn’t need to boost support for the world’s sec-ond-largest economy after holding the benchmark interest rate at a re-cord low since October and cutting
the required-reserve ratio for big banks in February.
Economy remains stable“The Chinese economy remains stable,” Larry Hu, head of China economics at Macquarie Securi-ties in Hong Kong, wrote in a note. “It makes no sense to ease policy at this moment, given the current growth momentum.”
Bloomberg’s monthly GDP tracker increased for a second month, indicating a 7.13 per cent pace of expansion in June.
Nomura Holdings raised its full-year growth estimate to 6.5 per cent from 6 per cent, citing the stronger-than-expected second quarter. Chief China economist Zhao Yang also reduced his fore-cast for the number of reserve-ra-tio cuts this year to two from three
while maintaining his estimate the PBOC will lower the main rate by 25 basis points.
The Shanghai Composite Index closed near a three-month high and posted a third straight weekly advance. The yuan advanced.
Consumption contributed 73.4 per cent to economic growth in the fi rst half, up from about 60 per cent a year earlier, the statistics authority said.
“Consumer spending has prov-en more resilient,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian eco-nomic research at HSBC Hold-ings in Hong Kong. “China is also weathering the external drag bet-ter than feared, with generous stimulus oiling the wheels of the domestic economy.”
June readings show the econo-my gained momentum as the quar-
ter went on. Industrial production climbed 6.2 per cent in June from a year earlier, compared to 6 per cent in May and economists’ esti-mates for 5.9 per cent. Retail sales rose 10.6 per cent, compared to the median estimate of 9.9 per cent.
Fixed-asset investment slowed to 9 per cent in the January-June period versus economists’ expec-tation for 9.4 per cent. Aggregate fi nancing was 1.63 trillion yuan ($244 billion) in June, compared with an estimate for 1.1 trillion yuan in a Bloomberg survey. China’s Communist Party lead-ers plan to double the size of the economy by 2020 from 2010, and maintain a minimum aver-age growth level of 6.5 per cent through 2020.
To achieve those targets, they’re seeking to stoke new growth driv-
ers based on innovation and ser-vices, as they root out overcapac-ity in traditional sectors like coal and steel.
But with private investment growth stalling, the state is having to fall back on its old playbook of revving up investment.
Meantime, the pace of property development investment eased after policy makers sought to rein in price growth in the nation’s biggest cities, while recent fl oods pose headwinds.
‘Complex and grim’The economic environment re-mains “complex and grim,” a spokesman for the National Bu-reau of Statistics said at a briefi ng after the data release.Bright spots include a steady labour market, with the survey-based jobless rate for big cities stable at about 5.2 per cent, and faster growth in the technology in-dustry, he said, adding that easing factory-gate defl ation has helped company profi ts.
The GDP defl ator — the diff er-ence between the headline growth rate, adjusted for infl ation, and unadjusted nominal growth — rose, adding to evidence that pric-es have turned a corner after four years of producer-price defl ation.
The People’s Bank of China has held its lending rate at a record low 4.35 per cent since October and cut its reserve-requirement ratio for major banks, with the latest reduction in February to 17 per cent. For companies with renewed pricing power, a higher GDP defl ator means lower real borrowing costs.
“China hasn’t collapsed,” Bill Adams, a senior international economist at PNC Financial Ser-vices Group in Pittsburgh, wrote in a recent note. “While its econ-omy continues to face daunting challenges in the transition away from export- and investment-led growth, the doomsday predictions for the Chinese economy look like stopped clocks.” — Bloomberg News
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Air freight is
giving the cargo
industry trouble
FRANKFURT: Here’s a fact bound to upset anyone who’s ever been forced to pay an airline a hefty excess baggage fee: on long-haul fl ights, there’s a fair chance the hold in the plane’s belly isn’t close to being full.
Passenger air travel is booming — but in freight, growth in capacity has outpaced tepid demand. For airlines, freight companies and aircraft manufacturers that means lost revenue and wasted capital. Removing this surplus is essential but it won’t be painless.
Transporting goods by air is many times more costly than put-ting them on a ship, so tends to be reserved for time-sensitive or high-value products like pharma-ceuticals. Although it represents just one per cent of global trade by tonnage, air freight accounts for more than one third of the value. Your new iPhone probably took the plane to reach the Apple Store.
The old industry rule of thumb holds that air freight grows twice as fast as GDP. Since the global fi nancial crisis that relationship has come unstuck. Average an-nual air cargo traffi c growth was a paltry 1.5 per cent between 2010 and 2015, while passenger air traf-fi c increased 6 per cent a year in that period.
Trade remains sluggishGlobal trade remains sluggish and supply chains are getting shorter. Goods are increasingly produced where they are sold. With contain-er shipping rates also plunging to record lows, some goods are being sent by sea instead.
But that’s not all. Airlines typi-cally try hard to match passenger seat capacity with expected de-mand —but they haven’t applied nearly as much rigor to adding cargo space.
Airlines are adding lots of new passenger jets, and modern wide-bodied aircraft hold far more freight than their predecessors. The recent entry into service of Airbus’s A350 will only worsen the problem. — Bloomberg News
A V I A T I O N
RECORD LOW LENDING: The People’s Bank of China has held its lending rate at a record low 4.35 per
cent since October. — Bloomberg fi le picture
Singapore stock market reopens as CEO apologises for halt that riled the tradersSINGAPORE: Singapore Ex-change reopened its stock market after a disruption shut trading early on Thursday, prompting an apology from Chief Executive Of-fi cer Loh Boon Chye.
Southeast Asia’s biggest bourse was forced to halt stock trading at 11:38am local time on Thursday because of a technical malfunc-tion, and it failed to follow through on two pledges to reopen. The benchmark Straits Times Index climbed 0.9 per cent as of 9:42am on Friday, tracking gains in Asian stocks. Shares of the exchange operator, also known as SGX, in-creased 0.1 per cent.
Loh, whose one-year anniver-sary as CEO was on Thursday, replaced Magnus Bocker just a few months after the Swede was forced into a public apology in the wake of two trading disruptions in the space of a month. Those mis-haps led to a reprimand from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The latest breakdown was at least the third malfunction at the ex-change operator in the past year, after a near two-hour disruption in derivatives trading in August and a one-hour halt in October.
“People are still going through the indigestion of yesterday,” said Nicholas Teo, a trading strate-gist at KGI Fraser Securities Pte
in Singapore. “Some back offi ces worked through the night, and I’m sure SGX did as well. If I’m SGX, I would probably be happy with a light day in order not to strain the systems.”
SGX twice notifi ed brokers on Thursday that it was planning to reopen, once targeting 2pm and then 4pm, but on both occasions failed to restart trading.
The exchange detected a tech-nology issue early in the day that
aff ected its trade confi rmation process and so it moved to a sec-ondary system, it said on Friday. But duplicate and missing trade confi rmation messages were seen in that system. “We sincerely apol-ogise for the market disruption,” Loh said in the Friday statement. “Our recovery time has to be better and we must minimise downtime for market participants.”
MAS said on Thursday that it was closely monitoring the situ-
ation. The malfunction exceeded the regulator’s acceptable maxi-mum unscheduled downtime for fi nancial institutions of four hours in any 12-month period.
“It’s not a great start for the CEO,” said Alan Richardson, a Hong Kong-based fund manager at Samsung Asset Management, which holds SGX shares. “These kinds of glitches shouldn’t be hap-pening with such frequency in an international fi nancial center.”
The exchange hosted at least three calls during Thursday after-noon, one of which involved raised voices from some participants, ac-cording to two people who asked not to be named because the talks were private. About fi ve minutes before the scheduled 4pm start, brokers demanded SGX cancel the reopen because they were worried about a disorderly market, said the people. One of the issues was that diff erent parties were seeing diff erent data. Thursday’s events left some market participants con-fused and unhappy. One trader at a Singapore-based fi rm said they had positions they couldn’t exit be-cause of the abrupt close. The trad-er, who asked not to be named so as not to jeopardise relationships with SGX, said they were having problems with their orders as early as 10am. — Bloomberg News
S T R A I T S T I M E S I N D E X
Brazil now considers WTO challenge to Bombardier fundingBRASILIA: Brazil may launch a trade challenge against Canada over state funding to struggling planemaker Bombardier that could hurt Brazilian rival Em-braer, Foreign Minister Jose Ser-ra told Reuters on Thursday.
Serra, a former presidential candidate who took over the min-istry two months ago, said a $1 billion investment in Bombardier from the province of Quebec was a “subsidy” and gave the com-pany an unfair advantage against Embraer.
“We are studying opening (a challenge) again as in the past,” Serra said in an interview.
“Why the need for that subsidy from Quebec?”
It was the fi rst time a senior Brazilian offi cial has publicly ac-knowledged the possibility of a challenge to the Canadian state funding at the World Trade Or-ganisation (WTO).
A new dispute at the WTO would again pit two of the world’s biggest planemakers and stoke tensions between major econo-mies fi ghting for a piece of the global trade market at a time of sluggish growth.
Brazil is reeling from one of its worst economic recessions in
generations that has cost nearly two million jobs in the last year.
Quebec decided to buy a near 50-per cent stake in the long-delayed CSeries jet programme, which is billions of dollars over-budget.
The investment will be made in two installments of $500 mil-lion, the fi rst on June 30 and the second Sept. 1, according to deal inked by both sides on June 23.
Bombardier is also in talks with the Canadian federal gov-ernment over a possible invest-ment in the aircraft programme.
Embraer has threatened to challenge the state funding, which it says gives Bombardier an unfair advantage in sales cam-paigns where its new CSeries is up against Embraer’s E-Jets.
Brazil and Canada have locked horns repeatedly at the WTO over the past two decades regard-ing state support for Embraer and Bombardier, the world’s big-gest commercial planemakers after powerhouses Boeing Co and Airbus Group. Any dispute over Canadian aid to Bombardier this time could also drag Boeing and Airbus, whose planes would com-pete with the CSeries passenger jet. — Reuters
W O R L D T R A D E O R G A N I S A T I O N
DISRUPTION: Southeast Asia’s biggest bourse was forced to halt
stock trading at 11:38am local time on Thursday because of a tech-
nical malfunction. — Bloomberg fi le picture
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Analysts predict 8.9% drop in Ericsson’s salesSTOCKHOLM: Ericsson Chief Executive Offi cer Hans Vestberg has had a hard time competing against rivals Huawei Technolo-gies and Nokia in a market for wireless gear that’s declining after carriers built their fourth-genera-tion mobile networks in many ma-ture markets.
Ahead of Ericsson’s second-quarter results on July 19, ana-lysts predict an 8.9 per cent drop in sales and a 22 per cent fall in net income on average. With revenue and profi tability under constant pressure and capital tied up in China, the company’s “progressive” dividend policy may be at risk, Carnegie analyst Lena Osterberg wrote in a July 7 note to clients.
Half-way through his seventh year at the helm of the Swedish company, Vestberg is fending off criticism from shareholders over sluggish share performance and more recently on how the compa-ny informed the market of probes into alleged corruption in Asia and Europe.
Ericsson’s current cost-cutting plan is meant to produce about 9 billion kronor ($1 billion) in an-nual savings in 2017, compared with three years earlier. But Vest-berg is under pressure to quicken the pace, and Ericsson could out-line additional measures next week, according to analysts at Ke-pler Cheuvreux led by SebastienSztabowicz.
To reshape the company, Vest-
berg sold Ericsson’s stake in its phone joint venture with Sony and closed down a chip venture with STMicroelectronics in 2013 to focus on infrastructure and
software. In November, Ericsson partnered with Cisco Systems to let both companies sell more com-plete network systems.
Ericsson continues to spend heavily to deliver advanced net-work management, data analyt-ics and cloud technology and fend off rivals, especially with the development of speedier fi fth-generation wireless gear. At about 200 billion kronor since Vestberg started as CEO in 2010, cumula-tive R&D spending is approach-ing the company’s market value, with the lion’s share going to soft-ware development, according to the company.
Ericsson has also invested to expand beyond networking gear. Vestberg bought Telcordia Tech-
nologies for $1.15 billion in 2012 and Mediaroom for about $200 million to tap into new growth streams such as billing and inter-net-based TV. The infrastructure market for 2G, 3G and 4G wire-less networks is forecast to drop to $24.7 billion in 2020 from $47.9 billion in 2015, according to IHS.
“Ericsson is caught in a diffi -cult technology transition where spending on 4G wireless infra-structure is declining, while in-vestment in new 5G technology has yet to ramp up,” John Butler, a senior analyst at Bloomberg Intel-ligence, said. “They’re not stum-bling on technology, but the reality is that until the 5G market really takes off in earnest, they’re going to be pressured.” — Bloomberg News
T E L E C O M
Swatch shares decline 14% as profi ts and sales plunge
ZURICH: Swatch Group shares plunged as the watchmaker re-ported a collapse in fi rst-half profi t, showing how the malaise in the luxury market has spread from Hong Kong to other top markets such as France and Switzerland.
The stock fell as much as 14 per cent in Zurich as the Swiss maker of Omega and Tissot timepieces said earnings slid 50 per cent to 60 per cent. Analysts expected a 22 per cent drop in net income. Sales also missed estimates, fall-ing 12 per cent. “Investor confi -dence will be shaken,” said Rene Weber, an analyst at Bank Vonto-bel in Zurich. He estimates the operating profi t margin fell to 9 per cent from 18 per cent, which is either a “disaster” or represents one-time charges.
Chief Executive Offi cer Nick Hayek is under pressure as he re-fuses to clamp down on costs, ar-guing that cutting prices, freezing investments or eliminating jobs would be counterproductive in the long-term. Thursday’s attack on a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, where at least 80 people died, is another blow to luxury demand on the continent, making Asians and Americans think twice about trav-elling to Europe.
“Swatch particularly hasn’t adjusted its cost base and that is why it is suff ering from such huge negative leverage,” said Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux in Zurich. The company may be losing market share because it’s not helping retailers by buying back unsold inventory or lowering prices, he said. Reducing the fi xed cost base in fi ne watchmaking is harder than in most industries be-cause fi nding skilled craftsmen is diffi cult. Hayek has said he wants to avoid job cuts because he’ll need those employees when the mar-ket improves. That contrasts with Richemont, which is cutting about 100 jobs at the Swiss watchmaking operations of Cartier, Vacheron Constantin and Piaget.
Swatch’s Tissot brand may have been one of the worst performers, partially because it’s in a price seg-ment that competes directly with smartwatches from Apple and oth-ers, according to Vontobel’s Weber.
The warning pulled shares of other luxury-goods makers lower. Richemont declined as much as 6.1 per cent, while LVMH, the maker of Hublot and TAG Heuer watches, dropped 1.7 per cent in Paris. Ker-ing, whose brands include Ulysse Nardin, declined 1.9 per cent.
Switzerland’s watch exports have dropped for 11 consecu-tive months. In the fi ve months through May, they declined 9.5 per cent. — Bloomberg News
F I R S T - H A L F R E S U L T S
Infosys cuts sales outlook as firms slash IT spending
BANGALORE: Infosys cut its annual sales forecast as compa-nies worldwide rein in IT spend-ing and shift to cloud-based soft-ware services, sending its shares lower.
Asia’s second-most valuable ex-porter of software services is now predicting 10.8 per cent to 12.3 per cent growth in US dollar terms for the year ending March, down from a previous 11.8 per cent to 13.8 per cent. Its stock had slid more than 8 per cent as of 10:42am in Mumbai.
Infosys and its rivals are under pressure as economic uncertainty prompts corporations and gov-ernment agencies to tighten their belts. The proliferation of custom-
isable internet-based software is also eroding appetite for the sort of outsourcing that the company specialises in. Chief Operating Of-fi cer U.B. Pravin Rao has warned of a bumpy fi scal 2017.
“The numbers are disappoint-ing and they are going to face a challenge getting back to the driv-er’s seat in the remaining three quarters,” said Thomas George, a Bangalore-based senior vice pres-ident at CyberMedia Research. “
It’s not a very encouraging fu-ture guidance and we can’t even
write this off as a one-off weak performance.”
Rising global volatilityRising global volatility, intensi-fying competition and Britain’s decision to depart the European Union is fueling uncertainty for Infosys’ industry. Worldwide IT spending is forecast to be fl at in 2016, according to Gartner.
The reduced outlook came after Infosys posted fi rst quarter sales that lagged estimates. Revenue for the period was Rs167.8 billion,
compared with analysts’ projec-tions for Rs170.3 billion.
“Global IT spending growth is best described as lackluster,” John-David Lovelock, a research vice-president at Gartner, said before the results were released. Businesses looking to save are instead turning to technology such as internet-based software, eschewing the traditional options that Infosys provides.
“It is precisely this new breadth of alternatives to traditional IT that will fundamentally reshape
what is bought, who buys it and how much will be spent.”
Reviving growth has been a fo-cus for CEO Vishal Sikka, who’s been training employees to think creatively about clients’ needs and driving investments in areas from cloud computing to data analytics.
The company is reporting results after larger rival Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) posted quarterly profi t that beat estimates. Infosys reported a 13 per cent rise in fi rst-quarter net income. — Bloomberg News
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Fiat Chrysler plans new factories for $1bNEW YORK: Fiat Chrysler Au-tomobiles said it will spend $1.05 billion to prepare two U.S. facto-ries to produce a pair of Jeep sport utility vehicles, creating a total of about 1,000 jobs.
The investments include $700 million in Toledo, Ohio, and $350 million in Belvidere, Illinois, the company’s FCA US unit said in a statement on Thursday.
Jeep WranglerThe Toledo North plant, which will build the next-generation Jeep Wrangler, will add about 700 jobs, the company said. At the Illinois facility, the automaker plans to increase the workforce by about 300 people as Belvidere takes over output of the Jeep Cherokee from Toledo.
Jeep has been the driving force in Fiat Chrysler’s steady increase in US sales. The brand’s deliver-ies in the fi rst half climbed 17 per cent from a year earlier and accounted for 41 per cent of the 1.15 million cars and light trucks
that the automaker sold in the US. Fiat Chrysler said that retooling the two plants will “support the future growth of the Jeep brand.”
Belvidere now makes the Dodge Dart small car and the Jeep Com-pass and Patriot models. That
production will end in September and December, respectively, and output of the Cherokee will be-gin next year, the company said. Fiat Chrysler didn’t say when the Toledo North factory will start building the revamped Wrangler.
The automaker said the plans are subject to formal approval of state and local incentives. Fiat Chrysler said that since 2009, it has announced investments of more than $6.8 billion and added more than 23,500 jobs in its US operations. — Bloomberg News
A U T O M O T I V E
Hans Vestberg. — Blooberg fi le picture
INTENSIYING COMPETITION: Rising global volatility, intensifying competition and Britain’s decision to depart the European Union is
fueling uncertainty for Infosys’ industry. — Bloomberg fi le picture
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JAIVEER Arya wipes sweat from his brow as he squats in the shade and watches work-ers weigh his wheat crop at a grain market in India’s
northern Haryana state. He’s hoping for a good price from exporters.
Unseen in Arya’s 850 kilograms of wheat is about 128 kilograms of wa-ter that’s embedded within the food. Arya and millions of farmers like him in India account for about 2.5 per cent of global agriculture exports, meaning that a large amount of water embedded in produce is shipped overseas and lost for good by a nation still emerging from one of its worst droughts in decades.
“We export agriculture products without any thought,” said Prashant Goswami, director and climate scien-tist at CSIR-National Institute of Sci-ence, Technology and Development Studies in New Delhi. “When water is embedded in a product that’s exported, it’s lost forever. That’s a bigger danger for our water.”
Goswami estimates India could ex-haust available water supplies in less than 1,000 years because of net exports of food such as rice and wheat.
He argues offi cials must change farming policies to turn the defi cit in trade in embedded water into a sur-plus. Growing demand from industry and the nation’s 1.3 billion people is also adding pressure for better man-agement of the resource.
India — the world’s top rice exporter
— shipped agricultural commodities worth more than 2.6 trillion rupees ($39 billion) overseas in 2013-2014, government data show.
The nation exported about 25 cubic kilometres of water embedded in its agricultural exports in 2010. That’s enough water to meet the needs of nearly 13 million people.
Hundreds of millions of people in India grappled this year with one of the country’s worst droughts in decades, following two years of poor rainfall and the onset of intense summer heat.
The June-September monsoon is bringing some relief, but a longer-term challenge looms from competition for supplies. Arya, 44, grows both rice and wheat in his 10-acre holding near the border of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh states. Another common crop in the region is water-intensive sugar cane.
Speaking at the market in May, Arya said he draws water from a 170-foot well for irrigation, fi ve times deeper than when his father tilled the farm. He added that he’s had to bore deeper three times in the last fi ve years.
Unseen depletionPolicies that eff ectively provide farm-ers with free water as well as free electricity to run pumps are stoking over-exploitation, according to Ashok Gulati, an agriculture economist and former chief of India’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
“Who has seen the future?” he asked.
“Farmers can’t see how much water’s being depleted underground.”
India is one of the world’s biggest users of groundwater, and the World Resources Institute estimates more than half of the nation faces high water stress. A 2009 study by the University of California, Irvine, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-tion showed groundwater depletion in northwestern India from 2002 to 2008 was equivalent to a net loss triple the capacity of Lake Mead, the largest man-made reservoir in the US.
Import fl ood?One possible policy step for Asia’s No. 3 economy is to curb sugar cane subsi-dies and abolish levies on imports of the sweetener, to encourage farmers to grow crops that need less water, Gulati said. “Let imports fl ood the market,” he said.
India could learn from China, ac-cording to Goswami, who’s published his work on embedded water in the journal Nature along with co-author Shiv Narayan Nishad, a mathemati-cian at the M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences in Bengaluru.
China imports more water-inten-sive produce while exporting food that uses less water, their research shows.
“Policy makers need to sit down and ensure that we import food in such a way that we bring in more water,” Goswami said.
“The world is no longer innocent of this virtual water trade.” — Bloomberg News
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Dubai-based top photographer
Jef Anog reveals the ten best-
kept secrets for capturing a
picture-perfect summer vacation
Whether you choose to fl y outside the country or opt to do a road trip within the country, everyone will be aiming to
captivate these beautiful moments with our loved ones, families, and friends.
Images are very important to our lives as some-times it is the only thing that never changes, photog-raphy freezes time and even after many years, we get to treasure these special moments captured by one single click,” says Jef Anog, a Dubai-based fashion photographer who is known for working with famous celebrities such as Haleema Boland and Alina Blinova and fashion designers in the land such as Michael Cinco and Ezra Santos and whose images has become the covers of numerous maga-zines and publications. “This is the reason why we need to learn the basic tips and secrets of photogra-phy aside from the fact that everyone is now in love with taking photos and selfi es of their vacations, food, friends, families and ourselves,” Jef added.
Here are the top 10 best-kept secrets of a profes-sional photography that neophytes and everyone who loves taking pictures can learn from.
1. See the LightPhotography is all about lighting. Pay attention to how much light you have and the sources of it. Learning how to see the light is essential to develop your skills in photography. Being able to determine the direction, temperature, and intensity of the available light will help you know how to position your subject and which camera settings to use. If you are going to shoot outdoor using the sun as your main light source, be cautious not to take photos of a person when the sun is at their back. However, if you’re taking a photo in front of a stunning tower and you’re unlucky to move in another position you can use the camera’s fl ash or a refl ector to fi ll in shadows.
2. Right Camera ModeYour camera has diff erent shooting modes, rang-ing from manual operation to very specifi c scene modes. If you’re into sport or any activity with fast movements you can use Shutter Priority (“S”) mode and put at least 1/125 second to freeze the action. If you are in low light situations, you can use Aperture Priority (“A”) and put the widest aperture (smallest F number) to make sure more light is entering the lens as possible. Try to avoid using Automatic or P mode, since it does not give you much control over the exposure.
3. Compose Your ImagesI think the heart of a photograph is its composition—how you compose or place diff erent elements in the single frame. The easiest way is to follow the Rule of Thirds, imagine four lines, two lying horizontally across the image and two vertical creating nine even squares. Try and align the subject along these lines and intersections and it will give you a more dramat-ic interesting shot than the boring centred subject. Most of the cameras have a rule of thirds grid overlay that you can activate when shooting.
4. Use Simple BackgroundsIt is a very simple approach that works perfectly in digital photography. You just need to decide what needs to be in the frame and avoid anything that is a distraction. Choose background with neutral col-ours and simple patterns as much as possible. This is very important especially when you place the model off centre.
5. Sense of DepthIf you are into beautiful sceneries or landscape pho-tographs, you defi nitely want your viewer to feel like
they are also present in that place. Create a sense of depth by using a small aperture of f/16 or smaller so that everything in the image is sharp. Placing an ob-ject or person in the foreground gives a sense of scale and emphasises how far away the distance is. Use a tripod if possible because small aperture usually re-quires a slower shutter speed.
6. The White BalancePaying attention to the white balance settings will give you a more stunning image with accurate col-ours. If the white balance is even slightly off , it can produce a highly noticeable bluish or reddish shade appear in an overall picture. In order to set the cor-rect white balance, fi rst is to take a picture of a white piece of paper or a gray card. Second, tell your cam-era which neutral image corresponds to the cor-rect white balance. It all depends on the camera make and model you’re using, but the basic process is pretty much the same. Go the main menu, pick white balance, and then pick man-ual. Under manual white balance, there’s an option to use a reference shot from your camera’s memory. Pick that one, and then fi nd the image you just took. Your white balance is now calibrated for the situa-tion right in front of you.
7. Use Flash WiselySometimes using fl ash in an indoor shoot results harsh and unnatural portraits. Therefore, there are var-ious ways you can take an image indoors without too much harsh lighting. First, use the widest aperture as possible – this way more ‘light’ will reach the sen-sor and you will have a nice blurred background. Also, you need to set the ISO range from ISO 800 to 1600. Using a tripod or an I.S. (Image Sta-bilisation) lens is also a great way to avoid blur. And fi nally, adding just a little bit of fl ash, ‘light’ makes it possible to fi ll in shadows and will give you a more natural-looking photo. You can also point the fl ash at the ceiling or a side wall and bounce the fl ash onto the model to get signifi cantly softer and more fl attering light.
8. Use a TripodA tripod only takes seconds to erect and adjust, yet it can support your cam-era in the perfect position for however long you wish, helping you to take great images. Using a tripod will allow you to set up framing, and can come in handy — along with your camera’s self-timer — for getting that shot of you in front of an iconic tower.
9. Consider a Retouch It is not “cheating” if you retouch your images. Getting your photos right in-camera is the main goal, but it is not a crime if you do a bit of retouch-ing. Performing some very basic editing on a photo can help improve its quality drastically. Cropping a bit can help with composition, and you can also ro-tate a photo so that horizon lines are straight. Con-sider using a free photo editing programme like Pixlr, GIMP or Picasa for your photos.
10. Quality over QuantityIt is very important to choose the best from the best in your set of images. You can take hundreds of pho-tos of one perfect subject but don’t fl ood your social media accounts by uploading all of those images. You should spend some time going through your shots to select the best and eliminate photos that may be out of focus or poorly composed. It’s always good to show just one image or two for your viewers not to get bored going through multiple images with almost the same composition. – Infi nity8
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06:30 Sohar 08:50 Daily
06:30 Buraimi 11:00 Daily
08:00 Buraimi 14:30 Daily via Ibri
13:00 Sohar 15:45 Daily
13:00 Buraimi 17:40 Daily
16.00 Sohar 18.35 Daily
16.00 Buraimi 20:20 Daily
TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)
17:30 Sinaw 20:50 Daily
TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)
14:30 Nizwa 16:50 Daily
14:30 Yanqul 19:30 Daily
TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)
08:00 Nizwa 10:20 Daily
08:00 Al Araqi 12:30 Daily
TO SUR (ROUTE 55)
07:30 Sur 12:00 Daily
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10:00 Marmul 20:30 Daily
10:00 Salalah 23:30 Daily
19:00 Salalah 07:40 Daily
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15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily
TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)
06:00 Sohar 08:30 Daily
06:00 Dubai 11:30 Daily
13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur
13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur
15:00 Sohar 17:35 Daily
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07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily
07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily
07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily
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05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily
05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily
TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)
07:00 Sohar 08:55 Daily
07:00 Ruwi 11:40 Daily
13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri
13:00 Sohar 14:55 Daily
13:00 Ruwi 17:40 Daily
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17:00 Ruwi 22:15 Daily
TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)
07:00 Ruwi 10:25 Daily
TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)
06:00 Nizwa 08:40 Daily
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TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)
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06:00 Ruwi 10:45 Daily
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15:00 Salalah 07:00 Daily
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15:30 Sohar 18:45 Daily
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Some plants and animals use a chemical process called bioluminescence to glow in the
dark. Other creatures and substances, including man-made products, are fl uorescent and glow when a black light is shone on them. The fi refl y and glow worm are probably the most famous bioluminescent insects. Sev-eral species of scorpions glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. Many plastic toys glow under ultra-violet light. The moon jellyfi sh is one of sev-eral jellyfi sh that are bioluminescent. Many species of coral, a close relative of jellyfi sh, are bioluminescent. There are several species of fungi that glow in the night. The anglerfi sh has a light-producing organ called a photophore that it uses to attract prey.
Black lightsBlack lights work because when UV light waves hit an object that contains phosphors, it will naturally fl uoresce, or glow. Black lights will not give you a sunburn, but long-term exposure can damage the skin, so some people
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Solving crimesMany bodily fl uids contain fl uorescent molecules. Forensic scientists may use ultraviolet lights at crime scenes to detect blood or other substances that might otherwise be undetectable. Blood by itself does not glow under a black light, but if it comes into contact with a fl uorescent chemical called luminol, it glows blue when exposed to UV light.
LuminescenceLuminescence is a process that occurs when a substance emits light without heat.
FluorescenceFluorescence is a type of lumines-cence that takes place in atoms or molecules. The atoms or molecules emit visible light when there is a supply of excited energy. Fluorescent substances absorb ultraviolet light and then glow when they re-emit it.
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BioluminescenceSome plants and animals give off light in a process called bioluminescence. These creatures have a special enzyme called luciferase and a pigment called luciferin that converts stored energy into light without creating heat.
ChemiluminescenceChemiluminescence is the emission of light (luminescence) due to a chemi-cal reaction. Glowsticks or lightsticks emit light as a result of chemilumi-nescence. This tends to be a two-part reaction in which energy is released (by bending the stick) and then used to excite a coloured fl uorescent dye.—[email protected]
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diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.
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How to playFill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.
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Accomplish, Adjust, Appointments, Assign, Choice, Comfort, Courage, Daily, Easier, Flexibility, Folder, Frame,
Free, Goal, Guide, Improve, Inner, Invest, Kids, Learning, Leisure, Lists, Love, Manage, Organizing, Overcome,
Plans, Play, Post, Recognize, Reminders, Role, Routine, Save, Share, Simple, Solve, Term, Times, Tracking,
Weekly, Year, Yoga. Answer: Calendar
CLUE: SCHEDULING YOUR LIFE SOLUTION: 8 LETTERS
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18 November Street. Near Mars
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Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or
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Flats for rent, location: Dar-
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Shop for rent good location main
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Flats shops for rent in Ruwi, MBD,
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Contact: 97293708 / 92433127
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Contact: 92447365
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3 room + 3 toilets, RO 230.
Contact 99738881 / 99420346
Penthouse for rent consists of
2 BR, 1 hall, housemaid room, 3
toilets, KTC with split unit monthly
rent R.O 270/- , 12Cheques, loca-
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Contact Abdullah: 99445880
Villa available –Built up 300m2,
3 bedrooms, sitting, family lounge,
kitchen, 3 toilets, near 100 meters
from Indian School Sohar-
Contact: 26843530, 95856630
3 bedroom well maintained fl at
(villa type only 2 fl ats in one bldg)
in Al Khuwair, behind Al Aktham
restaurant villa no 1839,
Way no 3922 block 239.
Contact: 99462980
2 Bedroom, 1 sitting room, 1 toilet,
1 kitchen at Darsait.
Contact: 99022487
1BHK near medical Darsait R.O 175/-.
Contact: 95076261
2 bedrooms fl ats R.O 370/- & one
bedroom fl at R.O 325/- in South
Ghubra, behind Asalah Bhawan
building. Contact: 96202490
One & two bedroom apartments
available for rent close to the
Avenues mall, opposite Panorama
Mall at South Ghubra. Contact:
99833747 / 24562526
6 Bedroom villas available for rent
at Al Hail North close to the wave,
common swimming pool & GYM
available. Contact: 24562526 /
99833747
Two fl ats in Al Wadi Al Kabeer
near to the Al Kuwaiti Mosque.
Contact: 99425958
Apartment for rent in Darsait:
3 bedrooms plus two bathrooms.
Contact : 99459342
Land 2500m2 with p/cabins at
Yitti. Contact 99221683
Studio fl at for rent at Al Hail.
Contact 92817777
Flat with 2 room + kitchen +hall,
3 toilets in al Quram Breeiq Al
Shatti RO 650.Contact 99738881 /
99314314
1,2,3 BHK fl ats & villas. Contact: 91760884
3BHK Al Khuwair R.O. 350/-.
Contact: 91760884 / 92144045
2BHK Darsait R.O 315/-.
Contact: 91760884 / 92144045
1BHK Mumtaz R.O 225/-.
Contact: 92144045 / 91760884
1 &2 BHK Ghubra 250/- , 275/-
& 300/-.Contact: 92144045 /
91750884
110 SQM shop for rent next to
Honda Signal light.
Contact: 99061408 / 99024039
Flats for rent near Indian School
in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122
I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O.
175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/
Very big sitting area/ kitchen
- Villa 1st fl oor with A/C at Al
Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.
R.O 360/-For families. Contact:
94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm.
Email – [email protected]
1 BHK fully furnish fl at in Hamriya
for short terms. Contact – 99792181
5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair,
for Staff Accommodation.
Contact 99792181
1 Room for sharing accommoda-
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Contact - 99792181
3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommoda-
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Contact - 99792181
1 BHK fl at in Al Khuwair for
2 months. Contact – 99792181
Flats, shops & store for rent in
MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.
Contact: 97293708 / 92433127
Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room,
hall. Contact: 90991079
Flats for rent in Mumtaz,
2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352
building no. 3447 & 3668.
Contact: 90991079
Two bedrooms fl at behind Ger-
man Embassy near to Al Nahda
Hospital. Contact: 99209354
Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm
show rooms for rent 400/- R.O.
Contact: 99879939
Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah
3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen
rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580
Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms
& hall. Contact: 91763665
2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly
& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly
new building good location Barka
Market. contact 99342661
Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall
4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3
fl oor 400. Contact 99420346
Offi ce with economical rent in CBD
area. Contact: 92466268
2 BHK Wadi Kabir 260/- R.O &
270/- R.O with A/C.
Contact : 99024730
1& 2 BHK Ruwi & Al Khuwair.
Contact: 99024730
C.B.D 1 & 2 BHK. Contact: 99024730
Staff accommodation in Ghala
13 rooms & bathrooms.
Contact: 97616158
Studio fl ats in Al Khuwair.
Contact: 97616158
Ground fl oor fl at in South Al Hail
consisting 3 rooms, 3 bathrooms,
kitchen, hall parking, location near
Al Hail Hypermarket.
Contact: 92602050 / 93214010
Flat for rent Wadi Al Kabir.
Contact: 99379950 / 92925173
For rent in Al Bustan area two
apartments each apartment
consists of 2 bedrooms, 2 bath-
rooms, living room & kitchen.
Contact: 92384572
2 BHK fl at at Wadi Kabir 2 bath-
rooms with split A/Cs near Indian
Kindergarten School.
Contact: 99367627
Flats for rent South Al Mabela.
Contact: 95233117 / 95230355
House in Darsait, 3 rooms, 1 bath-
room, kitchen with A/C.
Contact: 95522405
2 BHK at Mawaleh North near
Masjid Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact : 99224748 / 99425665
2BHK fl at for rent in Wattaya
behind Honda Showroom very
spacious at RO 250 only.
Contact 97880278
New 2B/R behind bank Muscat,
Bausher directly from owner.
Contact: 92158031
1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu
Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense)
Contact: 93202733 / 94771769
WANTED
Urgently required looking to
immediately buy used Grit blasting
& airless spray equipment 1 No each.
Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772
/ 93203773 / 93203778
IELTS Coaching (academic)
required nearby wadi Kabir area.
Please call on mobile or
msg on Whats up.
Mobile # 92927880/99012165
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rent-
als. Full line, from Tables, Linen
& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,
Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,
Chafi ng Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to
Large Sound Systems and spec-
tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606
2222 for Catering and Croyden
9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
ww.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
BUYING
Bobcat available for rent.
Contact 97623299
Buying cars for cash.
Contact 90202090
Flat for rent in Al Mawaleh South
3, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall,
kitchen & store with air condition.
Contact 98575157
1000 sqm Industrial plot
compound wall & two room at
Misfah I/A. Contact: 99342733
Commercial/Residential land
(24000 sqm) at Izz for lease.
Contact 92334696
Ruwi offi ce space for rent,
Saravana Bhava Building.
Contact: 95729549
5 rooms, 2 hall villa 18th Road at
North Azaiba. Contact: 99224748 /
99425665
1 BHK, 1 hall Al Khoudh.
Contact: 99224748 / 99425665
2BHK, 1Hall and sitting room Azai-
ba. Contact: 99224748 / 99425665
1 Bed room, bathroom & kitchen
in Al Hail South R.O 120/- monthly.
Contact: 93993354
Apartment 2 bed room, sitting
room at Al Ansab R.O 280/- month-
ly. Contact: 93993354
Villa in Al Khuwair 6 bed rooms,
2 halls & sitting room R.O 700/-
monthly. Contact: 93993354
2 bed rooms fl at with hall,
2 bathrooms in Darsait near
Muscat Municipality.
Contact: 92584715/ 24700120
3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in
Misfah. Contact 99792181
1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small
store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.
Contact 99792181
Labor Camp available with all
facilities near Sohar Port.
Contact: 98050654 / 99015826
Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM
muscat Indian Scoole
Darsate Tel : 00 968 95158570
Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,
2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti
Masjid. Contact 97007934 /
92629232
2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank
Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.
97826454, 24815012.
1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat
Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh
near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.
Contact: 99224748 / 99332297
2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah
near Oman House.
Contact: 97007934 / 92629232
Spacious 3 BHK apartment + store
room with split A/C Al Seeb, Mab-
elah South near Goat market,
near Expressway R.O 320
negotiable. Contact: 96920789 /
98309890
Luxury fully furnished 2 bedroom
fl at at Al Khuwair, for short or
long term lease contract. Contact
Atlas Real Estate & Rent A Car LLC.
Contact 99436312 /92888376 /
94617563, tel: 24833848
1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,
2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O
200/- in AL Khuwair.
Contact 95154331
Warehouse at Wadikabir - total
area 3500 sqm - covered ware-
house (500sqm), offi ce,
accommodation (1000sqm),
open area (2000sqm) please
contact: 99273774 - 99202278
Furnished offi ce (61M2) for sale
/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi
Mosque. Contact: 95611569
2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair &
Ghubra. Contact 99792181
4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.
Contact 99792181
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6 C3
FOR SALE
Dental chairs for sale sparingly
used dental units for sale.
Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.
Kumar 99570284
Coff ee shop Shawarma & Grill in the
prime location at Masamal Shatti Al
Qurum for sale. Only serious buyers
can Contact: 94034778
A medical clinic located in Al Am-
erat is for sale. Interested parties can
contact 92704439.
For sale brand new 4D ultra sound
machine with in the warranty.
Iinterested candidates
Contact: 91274373 / 99062817
Coff ee shop with tandoor & six
visa, clearance in prime location in
Ghubra for sale R.O 7000/-. Contact
urgently 99803363 / 94959572
HD Scaff oldings, Shuttering
Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering
wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),
Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,
Steel Fabrication Machinery
(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)
including tools for immediate sale:
Contact 99273774/ 99202278
1No brand new containerized
package type STP 100 m3/ day
with blower equipments (suitable
for camps). Serious Buyers may.
Contact: 99445367
Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale
at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /
What`s up No 97290565
Steel Scrap materials for immedi-
ate sale. # 99273774/ 99202278
Space for printing press avail-
able at wadikabir with or without
machinery. Contact 99328430
Urgent sale of steel scrap only
serious buyers kindly contact
96725423 for viewing the items.
Restaurant for sale heart of Ruwi.
Contact 93687466
Almost new beach/ garden
lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.
Photos can be sent 95865457
Shop for sale near Oman House,
Muttrah. Contact 99024362.
FOR SALESHUTTERING
PLYWOOD
SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM
GSM:92835445,93205253,93205423
MV SALE
Prado 2009 No. 2 agency Oman
Excellent condition automatic,
Color white and beige inside
7000/- required a comprehensive
negotiated price, Oman and the
United Arab Emirates
No. communicate 95532608
Mazda 2; 2013 ; 4 Door Hatch-
back ; Grey color ; Low Mileage :
4350 Kms; Single Expat Driven;
Excellent Condition; Price: 3000
OMR(Negotiable).
Contact 99857123
TOYOTA CAMRY : Good
condition,Colour White, Make
2004, Automatic Transmission,
Done 236000 Kms.
Contact: 93667236
TOYOTA Camry for sale, 2010,
1,00,000 kms, full option, silver
colour, warranty up to Sept 2016,
full showroom service, Indian
expat leaving the country.
Mob 97462122
Toyota Corolla 2006, 1.3, full auto-
matic Expat driven.
Contact 99045803
ACC. AVAILABLE
Furnished apartment for rent,
two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.
Near Carrefour al-mawalah.
Contact 99336776
Single room with common bath-
room and kitchen is available for
rent in al khuwair near al Aktham
restaurant. # 99562884 / 99786172
Furnished room with bath room
available in Ruwi (close to Qaboos
Masjid) looking for Keralites
Executive bachelor Rent: R.O 100/-.
Contact: 92683045
Fully furnished two bed fl at for 4
- 6 months rent available, location
KFC building, Wadi Kabir, Ruwi.
Contact: 98763645 / 93894257
Furnished rooms with kitchen at
Ruwi. # 91214897 / 98049288.
One single room available for
executive bachelor at CBO area
fully furnished and WIFI available.
Contact 92779732
Room, bath room for executives in
Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206
Room with attached bathroom for a
family in Wadi Kabir. # 97167857
Furnished room attached bath
for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj
Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near
Mars hypermarket. Contact:
96202458/96761960
1 BHK appartment for rent in Al
Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque
for rent (next to alkhoud medical
center and squ) MOB: 93913224
Sharing Accommodation available
for working ladies opposite Al Na-
dhah Hospital. Preferably Indians.
Room with seperate toilet and shar-
ing kitchen.RO.90. #96524717
Furnish bedroom with attach
bathroom for executive bachelor.
Contact: 97704794
Room with attached bathroom
and sharing kitchen available for
Executive bachelor or small family
at wadikabir. Contact 93049849
Room available for Executive
bachelor at Al Hail.#96234708
ACC. WANTED
Accommodation Wanted for an
Executive Bachelor, Single Flat /
Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir.
Pls call: 93883674 / 98103169
SITUATION WANT-BUSINESS
INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED
Please contact – 95213273Email:
muscatcoff [email protected]
For a successfully Catering Restaurant
Investor cum Partner is required.
Investor with fi xed returns also welcome.
WEB, ERP and Business Intel-
ligence (BI) creation and manage-
ment at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
FOR HIRE
JCB 426 TOOL CARRIER with
Operator available.
Contact 92334696
DRIVING
NOTICE
30 years running clinic in Seeb .
We have Gynecology department.
If anybody interested to run the
department under sponsorship can
Contact: 96644371
Room available in Mumtaz area
1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1
room, common bathroom. Interested
please contact 92680041 Mr. Altaf
Sharing accommodation
near ISD. Contact: 99657340
ACC. AVAILABLE
RENT A CAR
Gulf link rent car get the best rate
daily weekly monthly & long term.
Contact: Tel: 24348106 G.S.M:
98265073 /96023931
Email: gulfl [email protected]
25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP
specifi cation for monthly rent &
small car with driver.
CONTACT 99839898
Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive
Insurance UAE / Oman.
Contact: 96995430
Assad & Munther Trading Co. Assos, registered at Industry &
Commerce department,
Al Sharqiyah South Governorate,
under No. (1248809) announces
that it intends to modify its trade
name to : Nujum Al wafi Almu-
tamayiza Trade Assos. Whoever
has any objection on the same
should submit his reasons for such
objection to Industry & Commerce
Department, Al Sharqiyah South
Governorate .
MV SALE
DAILY GUIDEC4 S AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
DRIVER
ENG./TECHNICIAN
ACCOUNTS
ADVOCATE
ADMIN
CATERING
SALES / MARKETING
ARCHITECT
ENGG. / TECH./MECH.
DOMESTIC HELPER
DOMESTIC HELPER
IT
Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company
with minimum 2 years experience.
Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,
Email: [email protected]
House maid for Omani family.
Contact: 99773100
Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970
Wanted experienced Assistant Finance Manager, Salesman (Ce-
ramic, Sanitary, doors, furniture),
purchase Executive for a building
material showroom. Send CV to
An Omani Audit fi rm is seeking audit partner to join the fi rm, the
candidate should be completed any
certifi cate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC,
and 4 years’ experience, interested
candidates to submit their CVs to :
Indian male 26 years, looking for
an opportunity as HSE Offi ce / Jr.
Accountant, presently working in
Oman (2Y) & worked in oil & gas
shut down projects (Dubai). NOC
available. Contact: 95486674
MPA- MBA Master of professional
Accounting - Master of Business
Administration 26 years, Indian
male looking for an accounting job
& recently graduated from James
Cook University Brisbane,
Australia currently in Oman.
Contact: 96038898
Indian female M.Com DCA having
10+ years experience in account-
ant & administration in Oman, with
Oman driving license seeking suit-
able job. Contact: 91609799
Accountant Pakistani female with
more than 2 years experience up
to fi nalization tally & accounts re-
ceivables & payables having Oman
D/L. Contact: +968 95287396 mail:
Srilankan female, 26 yrs, B.Sc,
Mgt Degree, 4 yrs experience as
Accounts & Admin Executive,
looking for a suitable placement in
Accounts, Finance or Administra-
tion fi elds. Contact 92544237 /
99640850
Accountant B.Com Indian male 10
yrs experience in Oman with D/L &
NOC, local change is available spe-
cialized in Tally ERP9 & focus up
to fi nalization. Contact: 99622639
Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs
experience in MNC’s currently in
Muscat seeking suitable place-
ment in Finance / Admin.
Contact :94743790
7 Years experience as Financial
Analyst, MBA in fi nance. Respon-
sibilities- research contributor,
fi nancial statement analysis,
generating MIS & effi ciency report,
managing TAT, business & clients.
On visit visa in Muscat.
Contact- 90191628 / 96175780
Part time accounting workers up
to fi nalization, on monthly basis &
yearly fi nalization works.
Contact : 96247295
Accountant 8Years Experience
with D/L and NOC.
Contact: 97712084
Accountant available with NOC,
7 years experience in Oman.
Ready to join immediately.
Contact 98263394
Indian Keralite, B.Com, male 25
yrs, 1.5 yrs exp.,looking for suitable
job in Muscat currently on visiting
visa. Contact: 90931930
Email: [email protected]
Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria
University Graduate bachelor of
commerce Diploma of Marketing
professional photographer worked
in PR and social media for 2 years
looking for a job in public relations
media, social media or marketing.
Contact: 96976240
Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA
Finance and marketing with IT
skills, 7+ yrs of experience,
Looking for suitable placement.
contact 94879615,Email-
IND female 12 years exp in
Banking, insurance customer
service secretarial skills analysis
communication, client handling,
coordination, Team handling,
qualifi cation, M.Com looking suit-
able position current visit visa.
Contact: 95166496
Chief / Senior Accountant, having
12 years Oman experience looking
for a job NOC / Release with D/L
available. Contact: 97385562
Indian female 24 yrs, MBA
fi nance B.Com Computer currently
on family visa looking for suitable
placements. Contact: 93839846
Email: [email protected]
Part Time Accounting, Audit
Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly
Reports, Accounting set up for new
companies, GSM : 96975454,
email: [email protected]
Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experience,
MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting,
ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing
with auditors. NOC available.
Contact: 92254691/97826674
email: [email protected]
Indian male/ B.Com/MBA /4 years
in Larsen & Toubro/ total 26 years/
Gulf experience English, Arabic
speaking with driving license/
NOC available. Contact: 95588565
ADMIN
Indian (Male) having 17+years
Experience in Trading & Health-
care seeking senior Position in
Accounts (11 years GCC Experi-
ence)currently on Resident Visa
(NOC Available) and has a valid
Omani Driving Licence. Contact:
91335026; [email protected]
AutoCAD Draughtsman with 7 years
experience in Oman in Civil & MEP
with D/L & NOC. Contact: 97059394
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Civil Engineer 1.6 yrs
exp, having Omani D/L, looking for
suitable position. NOC available.
Contact – 92157694 /
Indian male, 25 yrs Mechanical
Engineer 5 years experience in
power & petro chemicals sector
looking for suitable placement
on visit visa. Contact: 90807760
Email: [email protected]
Indian, 30 years, M.E thermal,
B.E Mech Engg , 8 years experience
at Management posts.
Contact: 90465607
Mechanical Engineer have 3
years experience in air condition-
ing (HVAC), fi re fi ghting system.
Contact: 94906447 / 96654019
B.Tech Engineer with 6 years
experience & expert in AutoCAD,
PDMS & other, 3D software’s (NOC
Available) Contact: 93735166
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer (B.SC) with
1 year experience currently seek-
ing job on 3 month visit.
Contact: 91791568
Architectural Engineer ( B- Arch)
25 yrs Pakistani female 4 yrs expe-
rience Architecture & Construction
teaching certifi ed AutoCAD 3D,
Max , Photoshop , 3D Sketch up
looking for job in Oman, visit visa.
Contact: 96654925 / 99107804
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer, Indian male more
than 18 years experience in
construction & consultancy,
looking for suitable position.
Contact: 92319009
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (B.Tech) with 10
years experience in Oman as a Pro-
ject Engineer for public & private
sector projects seeking suitable
position, having valid driving li-
cense. NOC available. #95992820
Email: [email protected]
Driver with sales with 5 yrs in
Oman Diploma in Mechanical
looking suitable job in Oman for
preference Sohar N.O.C available.
Contact : 96953996
Diploma Civil Engineer Indian
male, 14 yrs GCC experience, valid
Oman D/L, NOC available, seeking
suitable placement. #99794456
Civil Engineer 8 years experience,
Driving license, NOC, 98078095.
Available fresh Mechanical Engineer with Oman driving license.
Contact: 97792809 / 99417584
Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.
Gsm : 942-888-63
Required Omani Driver
for a restaurant. Contact 95929911 Senior Architect, Indian male 15
years exp having D/L NOC, looking
for suitable position.
Contact: 92319009 Email:
Junior Architect (female), from
NIT looking for a suitable place-
ment. Contact: 99329289
Architect Engineer seeking for
suitable job, 8 years experience.
GSM : 96075000, Email :
EDUCATION/TRAINING
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Mathematics Lecturer , Indian
Female, M Sc Mathematics from a
Prestigious University, B.Ed quali-
fi ed, distinction holder with 7 yrs
teaching experience in colleges.
Contact: 91360147.
Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable place-
ment. #99739415 / 92091528
Required English, computer and science female Teachers up to
grad 4. Contact - 95054916,
contact time after 5PM
MEDICAL
MEDICAL
Indian male MBA, BCA 2 yrs exp
as HR co-ordinator, & off er docu-
mentation specialist.
Contact : 93060770, Email: vi-
25 BBA Male Administration offi cer,
HR, Procurement, accounts,
5 years experience with NOC.
Contact 91329571
Indian Female, MBA-HR having
8+ experience in Administration/
HR, Customer Support, Offi ce Coor-
dinator with good Computer skill,
Now on Visit Visa,looking for suit-
able position. Contact: 90196235
With 15 years of gulf experience in
HR- Admin logistics looking for suit-
able position fl uent in Arabic & Eng
NOC available. Contact: 95824598
Indian male, 20 years experience
in Oman as personal assistant / Ex-
ecutive Offi ce Manager / Executive
Secretary / Administration/ busi-
ness development asst with Omani
driving license & valid visa. local
release available – 99168054
Indian female with nearly 10 years
of experience in Administration and
HR , in an oil industry company ,
seeking for a suitable placement .
NOC available. Contact: 99242841
Pakistani male MA (Economics)
with 13yrs Experience in Ad-
ministration, Procurement, HR &
Accounts for suitable placement
call@92639838
Education M.B.A (HR) experience
1 year & 11 months exp. in HR,
24 yrs. Contact: 98746259
Indian male with 11 years experi-
ence in Data Entry, Admin / HR
currently on Visit visa from 9 to 23
July seeking suitable job.
Contact 95669937
7 yrs Exp Offi ce Admin / HR/
IT Admin, MCA, BCA, MBA NOC
Available, With Driving License
PH: 97086686
Filipino HRD especialist / mate-
rial controller supervisor with 18
yrs experience looking for suit-
able job in Oman. Contact: (+968)
98037142 / (+968) 92659817
Care Medical Centre Al Seeb
requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:
Require Engineer with oil & Gas
experience profi cient in Man-
agement reporting to CEO, NOC
required for Expat. Send your CV
Required Electrical B.Tech with 5
years of Oman experience & D/L.
Electrical with ITI - Industrial &
MEDC license. Contact: 99454425
Light driver. Contact: 96252524
Driver 3 years experience.
Contact: 96420742
Driver job needed. Contact: 94435912
Job Wanted driver available with
Car 1 year experience.
Contact: 97118292
Male driver exp. 1 year.
Contact 96938315 / 91895932
Looking for driving job. Contact: 94706179
Search job as light driver, experi-
ence 3 years language Hindi, Eng-
lish, Arabic. Contact: 97941771
Looking for driving job light
2 years exp. Contact: 91625977
Looking for job light vehicle
driver. Contact : 94554216
Light Duty Driver looking for driv-
ing job. Contact: 00968 97671459
L/D having 5 years exp in Oman
seeks job. Contact: 94608755
Looking for driving job. Contact: 91122145 / 95992137
Light duty driver, 1 yr experience
seeks placement. Contact: 94284645
Light Driver / Supervisor Fluent
in English & Arabic, Well knowl-
edge of Muscat Areas Looking for
suitable placement.
Contact Tariq: 97950869
DRIVER
MISCELLANEOUS
Required candidates for following
posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving
license preferred.
Contact 99273774/99202278
Physiotherapist male and female
required to a clinic in Azaiba.
Contact 99470550
A private clinic in Oman requires a Pharmacist (Indian preferably).
Salary negotiable interested
candidates kindly mail their
resumes / CV with contact details
or call 00968 90990851
General Practitioner with MBBS
degree, Prometric passes &
datafl ow completed, wants to join
any hospital or polyclinic in and
around Muscat, Sohar or Salalah.
Contact [email protected],
960775 9159
GP doctor needed for reputed clin-
ic. Preferably with MOH license or
with Datafl ow & Paramatics pass
Contact: 95388934
ACCA member with 6 yrs of expe-
rience in Oman looking for a suit-
able job in fi nance. # 99284193
Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE,
Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for a
suitable job in Accounts, Store Keep-
er, Sales etc. Ready to join as early
as possible. Contact: 96988923
email:- [email protected]
28/male/MBA - fi nance/B.Com -
Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/
India experience looking for a
suitable placement. #90187483
Indian Male 22 , Graduate , Spe-
cialized in Tally ERP 9.0, SAP B 1&
Professional in Indian & Foreign
Accounting (CPIFA) with 1 year
work experience , on visit visa in
Muscat , Contact no:91782545
Tailor shop requires Master Cut-ter & hand embroidery. Contact
– 99359700
Immediate requirement
cast aluminum, Stainless steel,
window glass, MS, Factory Site Engineer, Supervisor, Cast Alu-minum fabricator, SS fabricator, (Cast Aluminum), Site Worker, Stainless Steel Tig Welder buff -ing & polisher, Site Supervisor, Cast Aluminum molders. Send
CVs to [email protected] or
Wahtsapp 99197060 / 98046537
Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-
ence in road construction fi eld).
Contact: 99882127
Email: [email protected]
SKILLED / UNSKILLED
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
Autocad works / Boq. freelance /
part time, exp team in Civil, MEP,
HVAC, 2d, 3d, interior.
Contact : 97103168
Architectural Draftsmen diploma
in construction technology with 6
years experience in drafting and
detailing as per British standard
in Oman with valid Omani license
looking for suitable opportunity
Noc available. Call 94375897.
Revit, Autocad D/man, expected
salary 200 OMR PH :92279784
Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD
Draftsman with 20 years profes-
sional experience is looking for
suitable job in Oman. Please Con-
tact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.
DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN
Carpentry and Aluminum work-
shop located at Muscat looking for Marketing Executive with GCC
driving license & NOC. Send C.V to
Required following candidates
in a reputed company in Oman
Sales Person (Indoor & outdoor) , Accountants, Logistic Incharge, Visual Merchandiser. Contact: 95175354 or
email: [email protected]
Urgently required a ‘Purchase Manager’ to handle all the pro-
curements for a reputed Ready-
mix concrete Company, having
its branches all over Oman. The
candidate should possess required
experience, product knowledge
and excellent communication
skills. Interested candidates may
send their CV to sndakshin@gmail.
com / Contact: 99256757
Required marketing / PR manager
for a modern restaurant group in
Oman , profi cient in illustrator &
Photoshop charismatic , proac-
tive , creative & fl exible excellent
writing / Editing skills degree in
relevant area fl uent in English.
Send CV to
Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive hav-
ing 2-3 years sales experience for
a reputed manufacturing company
in Oman, having its Head Offi ce in
Ruwi. Experience in building mate-
rials is an added advantage. Omani
Driving License and NOC is a must.
Attractive remuneration package.
Apply with photograph to
E-mail: [email protected]
Wanted Indian female law
Graduated to join advocacy offi ce.
Contact: 92303603 Email:
lawyeroffi [email protected]
Looking for job as an Offi ce boy /
light driving. Contact: 94640906
Required Offi ce Assistant with
driving license present in Oman
175+ 25 + accommodation.
Contact: 99454425
Wanted Staff Nurse for
a dermatology clinic in Muscat .
Must have MOH license and NOC.
Attractive salary off ered. Email:
Wanted Doctor, Nurse for clinic
at Saham permanent or locum.
Contact : 92260496
Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technicianand pharmacologist immediately
for a clinic in Suwaiq.
Contact 95081010
Email: [email protected]
A medical centre is looking to hire immediately a talented Nurse to join our successful team,
required 3 years of experience,
Oman prometric, data fl ow. Send
your CV to- [email protected] or
Whatsapp - 91254820
Indian male age 26, Accountant
one year experience in accounts
looking for suitable job. Contact -
Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.
Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415
Qualifi ed and experienced MBA
post graduate with proven work
exposure in Middle East & India,
having more than 5.5 years of rich
experience in accounts , project
coordination and administration in
(3.5 years UAE experience) oil and
gas projects is currently looking for
suitable job. Contact 93953613,
Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in
commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in
accounts/ fi nance fi eld. On visit
visa. Immediately available.
Contact 92836216 /
Excellent Grade Constructi on Company
Requires the following. 1. Finance Manager 2. Internal Auditor 3. Chief Accountant 4. Senior Accountant
Working experience not less than 10 years.
Interested Candidates send CV to below email.
Indian male age 24, B.Com.
Accountant having 2 year
experience and currently in
Muscat. Looking for suitable
placement in fi nance or Audit.
Contact: 90766307
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male MBA (UK), 9 years experience in Dubai/London/Mumbai in Management Consulting,
Sales & Marketing, Business Development for Real Estate/Banking
seeks similar placement with D/L.
Contact: 95168205
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6 C5
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
ENGG. / TECH./MECH. MISCELLANEOUS
Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication
site work with valid Oman driving
license. Contact: 94696192
Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp
seeks suitable position ina reputed
company. NOC available.
Contact 96789711
B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24
with almost 1 year experience as
Production Shift Engineer, has
achieved training on HVAC
Engineering design and has good
hands on software like AutoCAD
and HAP.Currently in Oman on a
visit visa, looking for a suitable
placement.Contact: 95065955
email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
Structural buildings marine. Avail-
able NOC release. Contact: 92451323.
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience
in designing, assembling, com-
missioning execution etc having
valid GCC license too looking for a
suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942
Email: [email protected]
Construction Machinery repairs
Engineer, 5 years, driving license,
Contact - 94001961
An MBA (Marketi ng and Finance)With SAP erp and accounts(SAP Certi fi ed), diploma in
lnternati onal Financial Reporti ngStandards (IAAP-UK), peach tree
accounti ng and considerable experience seeks suitable placement
Gsm: +968 98103247
Aft er BCom (Offi ce management and secretarial practi ce) Graduati on with
SAP ERP and Accounts (SAP Certi fi ed), diploma in Internati onal Financial
Reporti ng Standards (IAAP-UK), peach tree accounti ng and considerable
experience seeks suitable placement.
Gsm:+958 98103250
An MBA (Marketi ng and Finance)
IT
Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Look-
ing for job, Have experience in
Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics /
Real Estate/ Customer Care Execu-
tive / Sale Executive & Marketing/
Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/
good computer and communica-
tion skill. GSM: 97761075
Filipino Graphic Designer / I.T. look-
ing for a suitable job with 10 years
experience. Very good in Photoshop,
Illustrator, InDesign, Photography,
Knowledge in CCTV & Access
Controls. Pls. Call 95098512.
Nebosh, IOSH Occupational
Management safety on family visit
looking for suitable position Con-
tact: 98686090 / 98423284
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, 28, post graduate,
6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back
offi ce) & credit control with valid
Oman D/L looking for suitable lace-
ments. NOC available.
Contact: 92066 523
Sudanese male bachelor geology
and mining with 3 years experi-
ence in MUD logging and training
in soil investigation.
Contact: 92956848
BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).
Contact: 92475206 Email:
Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc
Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical
Microbiology & 6 months working
exp. in international crop reserch
institute of semi arid crops
(ICRISAT) Looking for suitable job.
Contact 92619048,
Email: [email protected]
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
Chief Accountant/Finance Man-ager – Indian male, CA Finalist,
having 20 years’ experience in Fi-
nance, Accounts, Audit, Finalization
of Accounts, preparation of Project
Reports etc., looking for immediate
placement. 12 yrs. in Oman in
Construction and Consultancy co.,
have Omani D/L, knows Tally.
Contact 94041048,
email: [email protected]
Male - 44, MBA /CIM (UK) qualifi ed
business Manager in FMCG with
3 years’ experience across Oman
and 10 years in GCC looking for
a suitable position.
Contact -99160550
Diploma Civil Engineer 12 years
work experience & 2 years in
Oman, currently on visit visa
certifi cate attested seeks suitable
placement Contact:
00968-92360709 Email:
Degree Indian male FMCG work-
ing 2 yrs at Dubai, Mobile repair-
ing, 2 yrs at India D/L. Contact:
95797971 / 90214432
Email: [email protected]
Electrical & Electronics Engr,
knows autocad & revit.
PH: 93837973
Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)
Indian male with 1 year experience
on visit visa looking for job,
qualifi cation in QA - QC, HVAC &
Piping Engineering.
Contact: 90510800 Email:
Electrical Engineer Indian with
4 years experience presently in
Oman family visit visa.
Contact: +968 – 90921140
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, 27 years
experience in mechanical work,
expert in hydraulic and pneumatic
system, expert in plastic indus-
try, juice industry, and all type of
mechanical machine.
Contact: 99663174 & Email:
Engineer, with Oman Driving li-
cense seeks job. Contact: 98007513
Iraqi Civil Engineer with 30 years
experience looking for a job, N.O.C
available. Contact: 96561306
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer B.Tech with 6+
years in supervision designing
planning and QC expert in Mech,
civil software. Contact: 90719263
Power Systems Engineer experi-
ence in digsilent, Cymcap & Etap,
Graduation with distinction.
Contact: 98133281
Indian, 30 yrs, male B.E (Electri-
cal Eng) Project Engr & Design
Engr total experience 6 years Gulf
experience 1 year, 2 months, NOC
Available. Contact: 97225924
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (Indian male)
5 years experience in Oman with
valid Omani driving license & NOC
looking for suitable opportunity.
Contact: 93101283
Site Supervisor, Diploma in
Civil Engg (cert attested) knows
autocad revit, salary exp: 250
Ph : 92279784
Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs
of exceptional exp in spear head-
ing strategic planning and project
management initiatives & execut-
ing various high rise residential
& commercial building as well as
roads and highway project with
profi ciency in installation,
seeking a challenging position in a
dynamic organization.
Contact 96570891
Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)
Indian male with 2 year experi-
ence, AREA OF INTEREST Work on
Oil Rigs, Work as an QA/QC
inspector, Ultrasonic testing,
Radiographic testing.
Contact: +91 9567526566
Email: [email protected]
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
HOSPITALITY
Sales/offi ce coordinator, Indian
male 27 yrs bsc.5yrs experience.
Contact 90649152
Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordi-
nator 12 years experience in Oman
in reputed companies,
seek immediate Employment.
Call: 95244761
Looking for part time job Secre-tarial / Data Entry / Documenta-
tion available every day after 5:00
pm Friday / Saturday full day area
preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD /
Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827
SALES / MARKETING
SALES / MARKETING
MEDICAL
Resident in Oman 18 years, 10 years
experience in setup marketing plans
and strategies, sales, import & logis-
tics, procurement, Omani govern-
ment tenders, organizing projects &
events, import fi reworks for festivals,
NOC available, have car. #94123939.
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 3.5 years experience
in handling key accounts looking
for similar sales job, valid Oman
diving license and NOC available.
Contact: 94974767
Indian expat MBA, more than 12
yrs of Sales and Marketing experi-
ence in Oman market, good in
Arabic and having driving license
looking for a suitable position.
Contact: 98908634
U.S. National, 10 yrs experience in
customer service, fl uent in English,
Bachelors degree in Business Admin,
Management, MS Offi ce, word,
excel, typing with driving license
seeks suitable placement. Contact
98038438, [email protected]
Indian male Graduate, 10 years
experience Oman seeks job in
Sales & Marketing.
Contact: 92133277
Indian male 13 years & 1 year Oman
experience in Sales & marketing
(automotive) NOC & D/L available.
Contact: 91395728
Pakistani male 30 yrs BBA graduate
8 yrs exp in sales & marketing hav-
ing 3 yrs UK exp & 5 yrs in Pakistan
presently available in Oman on visit
visa, seeking for suitable placement.
Contact : 95474705,
Email: [email protected]
BBA male Graduate seeking
suitable job holds valid license
currently under family visa.
Contact: 97853013
Indian male 26, BBA Graduate 3.5
years experience in Sales having
valid Omani driving license seeks
opportunity in sales and marketing,
NOC available. Contact: 94743988
Email: [email protected]
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
B.Tech Instrumentation & control
(Engineer) (course completed) on
family visit experience as control
room operator / plant operator
looking for suitable position.
Contact: 98686090 / 98423284
Email: [email protected]
Diploma in Civil Engineer looking
for job. Contact : 93148323
Administrator, 30 yrs experience as Offi ce Manager Project
Executive Secretary, document Controller, Commercial Offi cer with driving license on release.
Contact -97281023 / 90631567
Young, female, diploma in aviation,
hospitality, travel management,
with family visit visa, seeks suitable
placement in airlines / hospitality /
company. Gsm 9259-2487
Indian male 31yrs old with hotel
management degree, 03 yrs ex-
perience in F&B services at 5 star
hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American
06 star cruiseliner has butler.
Has Oman driving license.
Contact No 99859150.
Indian Male, B.Tech IT, 4 years
Oman Experience in IT & NET-
WORKING, holding Oman D/L,
seeks suitable placement. NOC
available. Contact: 92462578
Indian male 35 yrs, 13 years
experience in IT & Marketing look-
ing for suitable job, having valid
Omani D/L. Contact: 92488424
Bachelor Business Management
holder, Electrical I.T.I holder 7+
years experience in F.M.C.G line,
7 years experience in sharp valid
driving license. Contact: 98545572
/ 98271036
Indian male 3 years experience in
IT as Linux Administrator & 1 year
experience in Amazon EC2 Cloud
at WIPRO technologies Bangalore
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 92889678
Email: [email protected]
Indian female, bachelors in IT
with CGPA of 8.3%, pursuing
CCNA & doing Masters in IT, good
knowledge in networking & Web
designing. Contact: 94909075
Indian female M.Sc Computer
Science seeking suitable place-
ment in Muscat area.
Contact 98660672
IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years
in Oman 2 years in India.
Contact: 94672759
Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15
yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certifi ed,
seeking suitable role.NOC Avail-
able. Contact : GSM : 90189284
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 4 years experience in
IT as Programmer / Web Support/
CCNA/ Network on visit visa seek-
ing placement. Contact: 93069694
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, M.Com , 7 years
oman experience in the fi eld of
accounts and valid oman driving
license & NOC . Good knowledge
in SAP,Tally, oracle , MS offi ce and
Excel seeks suitable placement.
Contact 92859733
Indian male 33 yrs, MBA-HR,
worked on Recruitments, Training,
OD, PMS, Site-HR, Omanisation and
development plans of nationals
,10.yrs exp. seeking a job.NOC avl.
Contact 94179499
Indian Female 10 years exp as
cook in Oman, South Indian & Guja-
rati special .looking for job,
Contact 95795971
Fire & Safety Technician, 22 Years
old, Indian expatriate seeking for
a suitable placement. 2 years of
experience. Ready for immediate
joining. Please Contact :
+968-97682273, Email:
MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION
ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience
in production industry, B tech in
Mech engg, Profi ciency in Auto-
CAD, Primavera certifi ed, Contact
Mob 00919895233155
Indian female 23 ORACLE ERP
Technical consultant 2+exp skills:
oaf, forms reports and bipublisher.
Contact - 91156571 email:
Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female
looking for a suitable placement.
Contact: 96906534 / 99014885,
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Nurse with 6.5 years
experience prometric completed
with 66% looking for a suitable job
presently available in Oman on
visit visa.
Contact: 98275068 / 93519957
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian
male 24 years with 1+years Indian
experience,(Certifi ed in Staad Pro/
Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).Looking
for a Suitable position. Available In
Sultanate of Oman (Muscat) on Visit
Visa. #92157694. E-mail:
An Iraqi civil with more than
30 years experience in (Iraq and
G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C)
available. Contact: 96561306
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, Mechanical
Engineer having 1year experi-
ence, on visit visa looking for
suitable job. Contact:97416564,
Email:[email protected]
Civil Engineer 8 years experience
in Oman as a project engineer for
governmental & private projects.
Contact – 90164912
Young Indian, Engineering in
Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and
Chemical, looking for a challenging
placement in Oman.
Contact 97607000. Email:
Electrical Engineer with 8 years
Experience Looking for a suitable
job. (Driving License and NOC
available). Ph#91293519,
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, B.Tech in Electron-
ics & Communication Engineering
having 2 years of Sales experi-
ence looking for suitable position
currently in Oman on visit visa.
Contact: 97932879 Email:
BE mechanical Engineer having
6+ years experience in structural
and piping job looking suitable
position. Contact: 96115463
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B-tech 8 years experi-
ence as senior electrical project
engineer / QC engineer on visit
visa seeks suitable placement.
Contact 94094543
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer: Indian male
30 years, having 5 years of experi-
ence in industrial automation &
utility maintenance in Indian,
holding valid Oman D/L.
Contact: 92789995 Email:
Indian male BE Mechanical with
11 years experience in Automo-
tive Engineering and Industrial
Maintenance in Oman with valid
driving license seeks suitable job.
On release in Oman-92880593
Indian male 24 Engineering
Graduate in Mechanical, being a
fresher searching for a suitable
placement to grow up my career.
Contact: 97277067
Email: [email protected]
Project co-odinater & AutoCAD
draftsman Indian male, 8 yrs exp
in Oman in civil, interior, precast-
ing with D/L & NOC. #92188496,
Email: [email protected]
Quantity surveyor (B.E Civil) 5+
years experience in buildings
and mosque N.O.C available ready
to join immediately. Contact:
+97826597 / +919171430681
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, Structural Engineer
looking for job in structural design
fi eld. Having 6 years of experi-
ence in design fi eld. Residing in
Muscat. Contact: 91176187
Email: [email protected]
Civil Engineer, young Indian
having almost 2 years experience
looking for a challenging position
seeks suitable position in Oman/
GCC. Please contact 92718490,
Email ID: [email protected]
Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) gradu-
ate with 3 years of experience in
the fi elds of BMS and Low current
systems and has good knowledge
about Electronic Security Systems,
currently working in Oman, NOC
Available. Contact:- 94737033/
Pakistani male Diploma Civil
Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-
ing & mega projects, valid license
Oman. Contact: 98921022
16 years experienced Chartered Accountant
(Sri Lankan) looking for a suitable post.
NOC available.
FINANCE MANAGER
Email : [email protected]
Mobile: 92194926
Male, Electrical Engineer, 4 years
of experience in India /Oman. NOC
available. Contact Mob: 94579857,
Email: [email protected],
Indian Male, 22, Diploma in
Automobile Engineering (DC),
Experience In Restaurant Manage-
ment and in sales looking for
suitable position.
Contact: 90801420,
Email: [email protected]
Mathematics Lecturer Indian Fe-
male, M. Phil in Mathematics with
5 years of experience in school
and colleges. Now in Oman on Visit
Visa. Contact- 92119428,
96714746
Indian female 23 Oracle ERP tech-
nical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf,
forms & reports, bipublisher
email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail.
com, Contact: 91156571
Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years,
Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in
Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum ap-
proved, Experienced in EPIC Pro-
jects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel
structures. Ph-00974 66772193
Mail: [email protected].
4 Years experience as Electronics
Service Engineer. Knowledge in all
type of Electronics items, looking
for suitable placement.
GSM- 99105043
Female Architect on visiting visa,
two years’ experience, graduated
from School of Planning and Archi-
tecture (under MHRD). Profi cient
in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup
and creative visualization. Email
Contact 00968-94057427.
Indian male, 28 YEARS Msc Bed
Chemistry 2 years, experience In
Teaching In India seeking suitable
Job. Mob No-00919505671750,
Email;[email protected]
Indian male 24 yrs, B.Com 3 years
exp in Marketing (Advertising
fi rm) having valid Omani D/L look-
ing for suitable placement NOC
available. Contact: 98983247
Indian Male, 26 M.Com with
4 yrs of Experience in Accounting
& Administration in a Financial
Company in India, seeks suitable
job, Currently in India.
Contact India:-+918907212253
Akhil:-93626288, Email:
Indian male 1 yr exp in sales
automotive (TBL) looking for best
opportunity , NOC available.
Contact: 97793879
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 26 years of experi-
ence of sales & marketing in surgi-
cal and laboratory equipments.
Looking for good replacement.
Contact – 92015894 / 95774854
Indian male Graduate with 18
years of Marketing experience
presently in Oman on family visit
visa, looking for best opportunity.
Contact: 96168687
Email: [email protected]
Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs
exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG
sector, looking for best opportunity.
NOC available. Contact: 96001877
Indian female 29 years Post Grad-
uate with computer Knowledge 2
years of Oman experience in coor-
dinator & 5 years of experience in
customer service, client relation
offi cer with excellent communica-
tion skill seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 95337665
Indian male 37 years MBA gradu-
ate in marketing with 9yrs of
experience in UAE in fi eld of brand
promotions & marketing with UAE
D/L on a visit seeking suitable
position. Conatct 95792820
Indian Male, Post graduate with
10yrs experience in Gulf & 4.6yrs
in Oil & Gas experience with SAP
and ERP exposure. Finalization,
MIS, Auditing, Budgeting, AP &AR,
Tax, etc., with Oman D/L seeking
suitable placement. NOC available.
Contact: 91743376
Pakistani Male, Land Surveyor
with work experience in Dubai
Seeks suitable job in Oman.
Contact 94347288
Indian Male, 23, BBA graduate,
fresher, looking for a job in sales
(indoor). No driving license.
Contact: 94032041 Mail:
Indian male MBA Finance & Marketing 26 yrs
having 1.9 years of experience in Finance & Marketing
Contact: 95206140/ 96992013 Email:
INDIAN male, 33 yrs, BSC
Chemistry 8years, experience
as Medical Representative
In Zydus company in India,
seeking suitable Job.
Contact -00919505671750,
Email;[email protected]
Electronic Systems Engineer (UK
Graduate) with skills in Robotics,
Programming Languages, IC, PCB
Design seeking suitable position.
Indian female on Visit Visa.
Contact: 97848075
Indian male, Civil Engineer (Diploma) having 5Year exp. in
oman both construction &Consul-
tancy with valid oman D/L,
seeking suitable job.
Contact: 96057857,
Email Id: srsakku&gmail.Com
Indian male 28yrs Bcom 3yrs
exp. in warehouse operations
(including pharmaceutical). Well
knowledge in WMS & ERP, looking
for suitable job. Ph. 95576686,
E: [email protected] (UAE visa
holder, currently in Oman)
DAILY GUIDEC6 S AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking
for job, Have experience in Rent
a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real
Estate/ Customer Care Executive /
Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop
In- Charge. Hard working w/ good
computer and communication skill.
GSM: 97761075
Chief Accountant, well experi-
enced available.#95598477
Indian male 27 yrs, MBA fi nance
with 4 years experience currently
in Muscat on visit visa seeking suit-
able placement in fi nance / admin.
Contact: 90921724
Indian male 43 yrs accountant pres-
ently on tourist visa looking for suit-
able placement in a company 18yrs
experience in managing fi nance in
Indian and abroad. Contact 90190648
Indian female having D/L with 12
years experience in corporate / retail
sales & B/D. Looking for a suitable
job in training / IT / Education com-
panies. Contact: 91751077
Email: [email protected]
Indian male Accountant 2.5 years
exp in Oman with valid D/L NOC
available. Contact: 98870112
Sales & Marketing executive MBA
with 3 years exp , 6 months exp in
Oman with NOC , looking for suitable
placement. Contact: 91345727
Sales & Marketing Executive In-
dian national with valid Omani D/L
with good command of languages,
18 yrs exp in Middle East. Looking
for suitable placement.
Contact - 98103829
Indian male 1.5 yrs exp a sales &
merchandising in Oman looking
for best opportunity NOC available.
Contact: 93039342
Indian male 5+ years of experience
as a sales & marketing executive
with valid Oman D/L. #95434902
Indian female MCA having 3 yrs
experience in teaching looking
for any suitable job in reputed
organic station on visit skilled in
programming language VB, JAVA
,C,C,TT & also WEB development.
Contact 90595322
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Indian
Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experi-
ence in Projects of Tanks, Boilers
and Steel structures Aware of int.
Standards, B.Tech in Mech engg.
Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail.
com, Mob-00917350860889
Indian female MCA, seeking
placement in IT, Admin.
Contact: 94133849
Fresh Mechanical Engineer B.Tech
with Omani driving license on visit,
seeking suitable placement. Con-
tact:: 99417584 / 97792809
Indian male, 24 yrs Civil Engineer-
ing Graduate, on visit visa looking
for a suitable placement. Contact:
92724814
Indian male, 25 years old, (exp.)
Civil Engineer diploma, look-
ing suitable position. Contact:
00919746443745 / 92861980
Indian, Keralite, female, M.Com,
Montessori trained now on family
visa seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 93101269
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Foreman, 25 years ex-
perience, Indian male currently in
Oman looking for suitable position.
Gsm – 96718013 Email:
Indian Male B-Com graduate
2 year experience in various
Fields Valid Oman Driving License.
Looking for any suitable post.
Please contact: 94409500
Indian Male, B.Com + Dip. Logistics
2year experience looking for a job
in Accounts/Logistics Field. Pres-
ently on Visit Visa
Contact 93884951
Email:[email protected]
Indian male 25 years- BE- Com-
puter Engineer with CISA and
CCNA, having 3 years work experi-
ence in Oman, valid Omani driving
license, seeking for suitable place-
ment in IT companies or Audit
companies for IT Audit job,
NOC can be obtained.
Contact:99253011
4years and 7months experienced
Female seeking job related to Offi ce
Job, Data Entry and Desktop Ad-
ministration. Completed diploma in
Computer Science.
Contact: 94653264
Master in Aeronautical engineer-
ing (PhD) having 4 years experi-
ence. Seeking job in universities,
colleges, schools and industries.
Contact 98259462
Indian Male 30 year GCC driving
license and past experience as
project coordinator looking for a
suitable position. Project coordina-
tion, Sales executive, marketing ex-
ecutive or any other suitable post.
Contact -97070427
Master in Aeronautical Engineer-
ing (PhD) having 4 years experi-
ence. Seeking job in universities,
colleges, schools and industries.
Contact 98259462
Qualifi ed banking & Accounts
management profesional seeking
suitable job opportunities. Current-
ly working in India with ICIC Bank.
Email: sheemoljohn@rediff mail.com
Contact# 919755550181
Mechanical Engineer 3 years of
experience in HVAC mechanical
engineer one year experience in
Auto Cad B.E (mechanical engi-
neering) revit mep, auto cad, stcw,
huet.mobile: +97430384909
email: [email protected]
Indian Male 24 years, HSE , 3
years Experienced as WELDING
SUPERVISOR, PIPE FITTER, NON-
DESTRUCTIVE TEST, ASNT-NDT
level II, per SNT-TC-LA (Radio-
graphic Testing (RT)Penetrate
testing (PT) Magnetic Particle
Testing(MT)Ultrasonic Testing
(UT)RTFI, looking for a suitable
job. Contact 99334770
Indian Male, 22, Experienced,
Looking for job in sales (no DL).
Contact: 90801420; Email:
Part- Time Accountant, well expe-
rience senior accountant, doing all
type of accounting works, Finaliza-
tion, Budgeting available.
Contact: 98803439
Indian male 21, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com ) having 2 years of
experience in cash counter (Na-
tional trading & spare parts)looking
for a suitable placement on a visit
visa. Contact 95919647, 94245753/
Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate,
fresher, no D/L, looking for a suit-
able job. Contact: 94032041; Email:
Project Engineer, Mechanical In-
dian Male, 26 years 3 Years experi-
ence in Projects of Tanks, Boilers
and Steel structures Aware of int.
Standards B.Tech in Mech engg
Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail.
com Mob-00917350860889
25, Indian female (BCA- Com-
puter Application). 1yr experience
as teacher and graphic designer.
Knowledge in Photoshop, illustra-
tor, in design. Looking for suitable
job in offi ce administration, teach-
ing and graphic designing.
Contact - 98426509
Filipino Cabin steward / Linen
vallet is looking for suitable job in
Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or
email: [email protected]
Indian male Administrative
offi cer Four years experience in
same fi eld. Well known MS offi ce
tools, Specialization in handling
back offi ce operations, inter of-
fi ce correspondence, confi dential
mails, Quotations, Monthly billing.
Searching for suitable job in Oman.
Contact: +91 9750572088/ E-mail
Indian Driver, with Oman driving
license having 10 years experience
in Oman, looking for suitable posi-
tions. Contact-91519047
Indian male network cabling tech-
nician (19-years gulf experience)
seeking for suitable placement.
Contact: 0091-8089909265
(India)
email: [email protected]
HSE Engineer, Indian male 5 years
experience in Oil & Gas. Working
in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,
& NDT Certifi ed, M Tech in HSE.
+91 9867016808
Indian male MBA, 24 yrs having
experience in Sales & marketing
seeks suitable placement.
Contact GSM: 93833563
email: [email protected].
Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Grad-
uate more than 1 year experienced
in accounts planning to come for
a family visit in oman seeking
for a suitable placement.
Contact 99334770/ 99743709
Indian male 33 years, B.Com, hav-
ing 6 years experience in Oman.
Tally & ERP looking for suitable
placement.
Mobile no :98492921
Accountant male Indian, 2 years
experience, doing accounts in tally
& excel seeks suitable job.
EMAIL – [email protected],
Contact +91 7373387282
Indian male (B.E) Quality Control-
ler and Supervising. 3 year good
working experience. Better knowl-
edge in quality control technique.
Searching for suitable job. Mail:
Contact: GSM : +91 9786418033 /
968 91894487
Regin Accountant male Indian,
2 years experience doing accounts
in tally and excel searching for
suitable job. No : +91 7373387282
EMAIL – [email protected],
Indian male, 25 yrs, more than
5 years experience in Dubai, Look-
ing for a suitable placement for jobs
related to sales, marketing, coordi-
nation and support. #95140445,
Mechanical Engineer, Indian,
(B.E.) on visit visa, seeking suit-
able post. Contact no: 99534733
email: [email protected]
Economics Specialist: Female ,
MA & M.Phil/PhD_ in ECONOMICS .
10 years experience Banking/Lec-
turer/Customer Service/Trainer
currently Looking for job
Call: 97457248
Female Architect on visiting visa,
two years’ experience, gradu-
ated from School of Planning and
Architecture (under MHRD). Profi -
cient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup
and creative visualization. Email
Contact 00968-94057427.
Economist: Female, MA & M. Phil/
PhD_ in ECONOMICS. 10 years
experience Banking/Lecturer/
Customer Service/Trainer,
currently looking for job
contact: 97457248
Indian Architectural Engi-neer with 2.5 yrs experience in
architectural consultancy fi rms,
currently on visit visa, looking for
suitable placement Contact no:
+96894955793
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 2 years of
experience in purchase (supply
chain management) looking for a
suitable placement presently on
a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /
97351786 / E-mail:
Indian Female 23 Years, Post
Graduated in Sanskrit (language),
Seeking for Suitable Jobs, (Teach-
ing or Clerical), Knowledge in MS
Offi ce, Good Communication Skill
Contact 96141317, 94614317, E-
mail: [email protected]
Indian male electrician (EEE),
2 years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail id ; antonyajin15@gmail.
com, Contact; 918148336160 /
918300136160
Indian male Electrician(EEE)
2 years good working experience
searching for suitable job. mail ;
Contact; 918148336160 /
918300136160
Indian male 33 yrs, MBA - HR, worked on
Recruitments,Training,Site-HR,
Omanisation and development
plans of nationals ,10 yrs exp.
Seeking a job.NOC avl.
Contact 94179499
Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate,
Fresher, on visit visa looking for
job in sales/marketing.
Contact - 94032041; Email -
Indian male 25, Graduate in
commerce (B.com) having 4 years
of experience in Offi ce Admin-
istration (admin) looking for a
suitable placement presently on
a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /
97351786 E-mail:
Indian male, 30.System admin-
istrator/desktop support profes-
sional.5 years of GCC exp.
Visa status: visit (Dubai)
mob: 00971565598176/
Indian male, 26 years 3 Years’
experience in Projects of Tanks,
Boilers and Steel structures
Aware of int. Standards, B tech in
Mech Engg. Contact-
Mob-00917350860889
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 4 years of
experience in same fi eld looking
for a suitable placement presently
on a visit visa. Contact : 93979084
/ 97351786, E-mail :
Indian male 25, Graduate in com-
merce (B.com) having 2 years of
experience in same fi eld looking
for a suitable placement presently
on a visit visa.Contact 93979084 /
97351786, mail:
Indian male Electrician(EEE ).
Two years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail id ; antonyajin15@gmail.
com, Name; Antony Ajin.
G : 918148336160 /
918300136160
Female Architect on visiting visa,
two years’ experience, gradu-
ated from School of Planning and
Architecture (under MHRD). Profi -
cient in AutoCAD,
Google Sketchup and creative
visualization. Email
Contact 00968-94057427.
Sudanese male, 5 years experi-
ence in supply chain (warehouse
management, logistics and pro-
curement) Contact : 90644186
Indian female , M.B.A, 8 Yrs of
Experience in Oil and Gas industry,
Trading & contracting companies.
working as an Unit Manager for
MNC, HR Coordinator and Offi ce
admin for local companies.
seeking suitable placement
immediately. Contact
99179709.
Indian male, 44 Years, Plumbing
Supervisor, holding Omani Driving
license, having 14 Years of experi-
ence in Oman and 8 years in India.
Looking for suitable placement.
Contact - 95154414
Email- pthariff @yahoo.com
B.E (Mechanical) 12 years
industrial sales, 1 year Muscat
experience, presently in India ,
immediately ready to join. Contact
:917338899372 , email id :
Indian male 4 years experience in
IT as programmer / Web support
/ CCNA / Network on visit visa
seeking placement. #93069694
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer 2 years
experience as HVAC design &
drafting, CAD, MEP Engg.
Contact: 90150913
Civil Engineer with 6+ years in
Supervision designing & Q.C ex-
pert in much civil softwares,
NOC available. Contact: 90719263
Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years
experience marine mechanical
fi tter 2 yrs experience.#93674847
Indian male 24 years dynamic &
professional B.Tech (Mech. Engg)
with 1 year experience working on
BPCL project in India seeks open-
ing for suitable post, currently in
Oman. #: 93672286 / 97772272
Mechanical Engineer experience
maintenance of pumping stations
production line machinery turbine
for power plant good communica-
tions skills, planning follow up Engi-
neer projects HSE awareness trained
multiple design software looking for
job. # 949064473 / 96654019
DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6 C7
TOURS
SITUATION WANTEDCARGO
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with
Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours contact 98029602,
92808636
MANPOWER
SIT.WANTED
Manpower available: cleaning
male/female staff , loading unloading
and helpers staff available on con-
tract basis. Contact- 94636086
MATRIMONIALMATRIMONIAL
Muscat born and brought-up,
Palakkad, Ezhuthachan Girl, 23,
Pooyam, pursuing Final MBA,
Coimbatore. Contact 99639965,
Hindu Ezhava boy 27 years, work-
ing in Ministry of defense seeking
for good alliance.
Contact : 93365778 , 93365939
Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs
divorcee working in Muscat. Seeks
suitable alliance from widow/ divor-
cee/ single.Contact 96059801.
SITUATION WANTEDCOMPUTER/WEB./ EDUCATION/CLASSES
Karate and self defense classes
at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per
month twice a week Monday and
Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.
Contact: 98294551
Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English
class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi
• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed
Tel: 95244310
GOOD NEWS
Ayurvedic treatments & massage
– Ayurvedic Clinic Al Khuwair.
Contact 97263637 / 93309131
Ayurvedic treatment for back-
ache, paralysis, arthritis etc
& massage, All Season (Vaid-
yaratnam). Contact:24475280 /
95371664 / 92504980
www.siddhayur.com
Parent of Thrissur based Hindu
Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham
star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-
ing alliance from well employed
Graduates, preferably in Engineer-
ing Contact :96425102
Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in
Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites
parents/nurses working in Oman.
Contact 968 98267338,
0091 9287215726
Indian Male, 24, B.Com Graduate
with 1 year experience in Oman
looking for a job in accounting.
Contact – 96619348
Indian male electrician(EEE ).
Two years good working experi-
ence searching for suitable job.
Gmail ; [email protected].
Antony Ajin.G, Contact:
91 8148336160 / 91 8300136160
Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) gradu-
ate with 3 years of experience in the
fi elds of BMS ,Low current systems
and has good knowledge of HV and
LV, currently working in Oman, NOC
Available. Contact : 94737033, mail :
Indian male, M.Com, 7 years
Oman experience in the fi eld of
accounts and valid oman driving
license & NOC. Good knowledge in
SAP, Tally, Oracle, MS offi ce and
Excel seeks suitable placement.
Contact 92859733
Indian Male, Post graduate with
10yrs experience in gulf & 4.6yrs
in Oil & Gas experience with SAP
and ERP exposure. Finalisation,
MIS, Auditing, Budgeting, AP &AR,
Tax, etc., with Oman D/L seeking
suitable placement. NOC available.
Contact: 91743376
Sri Lankan female, 27 years,
qualifi ed English Language pro-
fessional with 6 years of lecturing,
managerial, marketing experi-
ence, seeking suitable position in
education industry. Contact (+968)
93017330, (+968) 98445287/
Sr. Accountant, WITH Oman D/L
& 8.5 yrs exp, 7.5 yrs Oman & 1 yr
India in manufacturing, trading
& contracting Cos, independently
handling all accounting, fi nance,
banking, L/C, import, export & fi na-
lization seeks placement,
B.E. (Mechanical) 12years in-
dustrial sales one year Muscat
experience, Presently in India,
Immediately ready to join. Contact
:917338899372 , email id :
IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,
MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT,
valid Omani D/L seeking suitable
placement in IT/Network/Server
support/Retail sales.
Contact 91496939
Looking for a part time accounting
job, additional experience in admin
& store - purchase. #99196621
ACCA affi liate, B.Sc Degree holder,
3 years experience in audit and
fi nance at Big 6, Male, Looking for
suitable placement. NOC release
available. Contact:95140445,
Indian Male 47 years MBA-Oper-
ations Management with total 25
Yrs exp inclusive of 9 yrs in Oil &
Gas sector in Oman, having valid
Omani D/L & NOC available , seeks
challenging position in SCM/
Logistics/ Procurement in any
Sector. GSM-94236414.
Mail id – [email protected]
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation.Contact: 94510847
Transportation available Al Khuwair, Ghobrah, Azaiba,
Al Hail & Al Khoud. Drop & pick.
Contact 95250161
Transportation available Ruwi to
Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.
Contact: 91103909
Transportation. Contact 99508282
Transportation required from
Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon
only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165
Transportation. Contact
92015894
Transportation. available. (Ruwi)
Contact 92430239
We arrange tours & accommoda-
tion at all the beautiful places in
Oman. Contact 99839898
Transportation. Contact
94510847
C8 S AT U R D AY, J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 6
DAILY GUIDEEmail: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
FOR LADIES
Off er!! Treading Gold Facial &
Pedicure just for 10 RO, (Home ser-
vice available) Contact 99619409
SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,
Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.
Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020
Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning ti les /
Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.
Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.CA/C Maintenance & Servicing,
Fridge, Washing machine & Dish
washer repairing, Painting & Clean-
ing services, Electrical & plumbing.
Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /
24504281
Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC
Contact: 99344723
Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,
Contact 99314807/24792998
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your
marble. #24793614/ 99314807
WE SERVE OMAN
Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont
Maintenance services electric,
plumbing and A/C. Contact:
96524904 /94285064
CAD drawings Archi/ MEP
CAD – comply BIM.
Contact: 91233975
House shifting. Contact
99708138
Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC
Contact 99344723
Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.
Ocean center LLC.
Contact 99344723
House shifting packing. Contact: 99657644/98518013
All Maintenance and services
electric, CCTV Camera, Plumbing,
A/C service and gas installation,
painting tiles. Contact: 96524904
/ 94285064
For any 3d signboard, acrylic
works with painting please
contact us on 90786240
or follow us in
instagram: silver_concepts
Window & split unit A.C servicing
& repairing. Contact: 99557080
Split unit & window unit A.C ser-
vicing & maintenance. #96236476
Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-
ing & maintenance.
Contact: 95323517 / 93769089
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control &
anti-termite treatment, general
cleaning painting,Plumbing,
Electrical, shifting.
Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi
trading. L.L.C.
Contact: 24810137, 99450130
Pest control Gulfa international.
Contact: 92326955
Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS-
99320217 /24788722