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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...