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Tuesday 29/March/2016 16:49 PM

The Girls in Green

The Girls in Green have done the country proud. They carried Pakistan’s banner and will now return home with the particular honour of having defeated...

Tuesday 29/March/2016 16:14 PM

Testing Republicans' love of guns

Beneath a photograph of an AR-15 with all the trimmings, an online petition calling for the open carry of firearms at the Republican National Convention in...

Monday 28/March/2016 17:06 PM

Oman: The historical gateway of the Gulf

When the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launched a global appeal in 1990 to reexamine the ancient Silk Road, the...

Monday 28/March/2016 16:50 PM

Trump is a very European strongman

US politics today presents, to this foreign observer at least, a very un-American spectacle. A country originally built on immigration is awash with popular...

Monday 28/March/2016 16:42 PM

China’s economic identity crisis

Unlike the West, where former US pesident George H.W. Bush once mockingly referred to “the vision thing,” China takes economic strategy very seriously....

Monday 28/March/2016 16:21 PM

Oman’s Big Show exhibition begins

Oman’s biggest exhibition for building, construction and interior design kicked-off at the Oman International Exhibition Center in Seeb today. Exhbibitors...