U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency on his first day back in office framed fossil fuel production as a geopolitical weapon. “Energy dominance” — flooding global markets with American oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) — would reassert American power, undercut China’s clean-technology leverage and discipline allies into dependence. Eighteen months […]
MUSCAT: The Ministry of Economy on Wednesday received a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), currently visiting the Sultanate of Oman. The two sides exchanged views about key developments related to the national economy and prospects for the growth of the Omani economy, notably in non-oil sectors. They discussed the most prominent […]
“Right,” I lie, when the lady beside me at a pottery studio (run by an Omani mother of two) in Muscat says Michael Jackson’s music is not from our generation. She gives me a look with her big eyes. Did she mean just Billie Jean and Thriller, I wonder? Sunlight, candles and calming music fill […]
MUSCAT, JUNE 10 International investors are increasingly viewing Oman as a strategic platform for growth in renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, tourism and innovation, reflecting growing confidence in the Sultanate of Oman’s long-term economic vision and investment environment. This was the key message emerging from a panel discussion held during the Future Fund Oman (FFO) investment […]
Apple unveiled an artificial intelligence overhaul for the iPhone on Monday, turning to Google for help two years after the company stumbled on a first attempt. The presentation marked Apple CEO Tim Cook’s final appearance at the company’s annual Worldwide developers conference — Cook will cede the reins to longtime executive John Ternus in September. […]
Muscat: Oman’s next phase of artificial intelligence growth will depend less on applications and more on the infrastructure needed to host, secure and scale them locally, a senior Otech official said.Hassan Al Lawati said Otech, the fully owned technology arm of Omantel, is expanding its cloud, data centre, cybersecurity and AI computing capabilities as government […]
In periods of international tension, it is usually the loudest voices that dominate the headlines. Yet history rarely turns on noise alone. More often, stability has depended on quieter actors — countries willing to keep channels open when others stop listening, and to preserve space for diplomacy precisely when it appears to be failing. Few […]
MANAMA: Prince Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, received on Wednesday Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Foreign Minister, along with the Foreign Ministers of the GCC. This took place within the framework of the foreign ministers’ participation in the 167th session of the GCC Ministerial […]
Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions. Sea ice expanded across the North Atlantic, reaching as far south as the Shetland Islands. Glaciers began to regrow in the Scottish Highlands, while winter temperatures across […]
MUSCAT, JUNE 10 The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) Shanxi Institute, a leading international engineering and infrastructure contractor, has announced that its Oman subsidiary has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the Mawarid Wind Turbine Manufacturing Project at the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD) in southeastern Oman. As EPC general […]
