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Sunday 18/December/2016 22:40 PM

Education needs social enterprise

An estimated quarter-million young people in Syria are missing out on college as a result of the civil war there. Now, thanks to the Institute of...

Sunday 18/December/2016 22:35 PM

Righting China’s property rights

China recently adopted new guidelines to strengthen protection of property rights. The guidelines are an important step toward ensuring long-term economic...

Sunday 18/December/2016 22:17 PM

The age of hyper-uncertainty

The year 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Age of Uncertainty. Forty years is a long time, but it is...

Sunday 18/December/2016 22:08 PM

US, China diplomacy after naval drone

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...

Sunday 18/December/2016 15:05 PM

Tech upgrades just aren't that great anymore

This week, after four and a half years of faithful service, I finally replaced my old laptop. I will not bore you with the litany of troubles that led to...

Saturday 17/December/2016 22:32 PM

How climate action can make America great

Climate change is the single biggest challenge facing humankind. Yet the next president of the United States – the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas...

Saturday 17/December/2016 22:02 PM

Putin hacking US election

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 17/December/2016 15:33 PM

Skilling up Latin America

In the last two decades, Latin America has achieved remarkable social and economic progress. The middle class has grown to historic levels; poverty has been...

Saturday 17/December/2016 14:20 PM

Preventing NATO-Russian escalation

After expressing skepticism of the NATO alliance during his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump is now beginning to craft a foreign policy that could...

Saturday 17/December/2016 14:16 PM

The promise of ethical machines

The prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a source of knotty ethical questions. But the focus has often been on how we, the creators, can...