Opinion

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:40 PM

Health-care innovation in the Global South

Children die from preventable and treatable conditions like diarrhoea and pneumonia every day, with the developing world accounting for the majority of...

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:24 PM

Breaking Asia’s data drought

Many parts of Asia have been gripped by searing temperatures and the worst drought in decades. Millions of people face shortages of food or water, leading...

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:01 PM

The world’s ins and outs

As the United Kingdom’s debate about whether to withdraw from the European Union has heated up, “in” and “out” have come to define the stark...

Saturday 18/June/2016 22:25 PM

The Gulf States’ expat dividend

How should policymakers in the Middle East’s Gulf States manage their countries’ large expatriate workforces? In Saudi Arabia, foreign nationals account...

Saturday 18/June/2016 21:36 PM

Tribute to Labour Party MP Jo Cox

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...

Saturday 18/June/2016 20:54 PM

Can tourism replace oil income in Oman?

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...

Saturday 18/June/2016 15:34 PM

Coal isn't dying because there's a war on it

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...

Saturday 18/June/2016 15:08 PM

Hate crimes can make it harder to hate

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

Saturday 18/June/2016 14:55 PM

The agony of the Republicans

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...