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Abidjan: Rice is fast becoming West Africa’s preferred food. After four decades of importing the staple, the region now aims to grow enough rice to meet...

London: Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben Van Beurden spelled out his main goal last week — surpass Exxon Mobil to become the best-performing...

London: The oil and gas industry will cut $1 trillion from planned spending on exploration and development because of the slump in prices, leading to slower...

Muscat: Moody's Investors Service has assigned a definitive Baa1 rating to the Government of Oman's US dollar bond issuance. The issuance consisted...

Muscat: Ooredoo is set to start the trial of an innovative new telecommunications technology that addresses the anticipated surge in demand for data for...

Muscat: Investors in the Bahrain Bourse are expected to see greater liquidity in future after a new fund was launched on Wednesday with the aim of enhancing...

Muscat: Standards and specifications for food and other products were discussed at a meeting yesterday. The discussion took place when the Social Committee...

Muscat: The value of traded contracts in real estate sector reached OMR261,574,446 by the end of May 2016 while the collected fees stood at OMR5,871,321,...

Muscat: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, said the existing cooperation between the...

Muscat: An Omani national has gone missing in Saudi Arabia. Speaking to the Times of Oman, Ibrahim Al Kharousi, working as the Omani Haj Attache in Saudi...