Opinion

Sunday 24/April/2016 16:54 PM

Time for debt reduction in Greece

Once again, Greece is at an inflection point. With its cash balances severely stressed, it seems unlikely to be able to pay the cascading debt payments that...

Sunday 24/April/2016 16:35 PM

Asia’s water woes

Asia’s water woes are worsening. Already the world’s driest continent in per capita terms, Asia now faces a severe drought that has parched a vast...

Sunday 24/April/2016 16:24 PM

Japan’s new business language is English

Five years ago, I stood before several thousand mostly native Japanese speakers and addressed them in English. From now on, I told them, Rakuten –...

Saturday 23/April/2016 20:11 PM

Oman needs to develop the skills of youth

Oman has a large demographic window of opportunity in the youth population but the Sultanate needs to accelerate its efforts for the socio-economic...

Saturday 23/April/2016 16:36 PM

The migration superpowers

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless...

Friday 22/April/2016 17:29 PM

Oman's image of pacific grandeur

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. His passing bell was tolled...