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Tourism certainly has the potential of taking over the burden of powering Oman’s economy and replacing its dependence on income from oil. Oman is the...

I never cease to be amazed how people with an agenda massage facts, or omit them, in order to support their cause. It comes up in the investing world, where...

The shocking murder of British parliament member Jo Cox and the Orlando shootings were both hate crimes that defy political labels, whatever the professed...

This is a grim time for America’s Republican Party. While most of the party’s rank-and-file members have embraced Donald Trump as their presidential...

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Oman has a long tradition of handicrafts making that reflects the culture and heritage of the Sultanate. Even today, the these home-made handicrafts play a...

Pakistan has all that’s required to be a star economy in Asia. From the pristine coastline of Gwadar in the south to the spectacular mountains of the...

The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 metres...

Decades of plodding growth together with the 2008 financial crisis have prompted a seismic shift in economic thinking in much of the world. There is talk of...

The febrile behaviour of financial markets ahead of the United Kingdom’s referendum on June 23 on whether to remain in the European Union shows that the...