SALALAH: Planning a visit to Wadi Darbat will soon become much simpler, with Darbat Cabins preparing to introduce advance online reservations through an Omani-developed digital booking platform. For many families and tourists, a trip to Wadi Darbat begins with practical questions: Are cabins available? How much do they cost? Can they be booked before arriving? […]
BUSINESS REPORTER MUSCAT, JULY 8 Oman Investment Authority (OIA) and the Jordanian Social Security Investment Fund (SSIF) have signed an agreement to launch the Omani-Jordanian strategic partnership to mark the beginning of a new phase of joint investment cooperation between the two brotherly countries and to enhance the established historical ties and growing economic relations […]
OpenAI said its latest powerful artificial intelligence model series will be released to the public on Thursday, as the US government reportedly approved a broader launch. The company’s new GPT-5.6 offerings and other cutting-edge AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos series, have drawn concern over their supposedly unprecedented ability to identify weaknesses in code that hackers […]
Muscat: Oman Investment Authority (OIA) and Jordan’s Social Security Investment Fund (SSIF) have signed an agreement to establish an Omani-Jordanian investment company with a capital of RO 38.5 million, marking the beginning of a new era of joint investment cooperation between the two countries and further strengthening their long-standing historical ties and growing economic relations. […]
MUSCAT: The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) will launch an interactive data management application codenamed ‘Artaj’ (great gates), which serves as a coordination portal for the State’s Administrative Apparatus or a central data repository project. The inaugural ceremony will be held in Muscat on Wednesday this week (June 24, 2026). The initiative is […]
Muscat: Major banks in the Sultanate of Oman have indicated that they will be launching the Maal debit and credit cards. This Central Bank of Oman-initiated local card, to be launched in cooperation with six local banks, aims to strengthen the national payments system and the independence of the financial infrastructure. Bank Muscat, Sohar International, […]
Muscat – The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has announced the approved fee structure for the national payment card “Maal” consumer Debit and Prepaid card. The announcement of the “Maal” card fee structure comes in conjunction with the announcement of the pilot launch of the card on November 20, coinciding with the celebration of Oman’s […]
Cape Canaveral: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket unleashed a massive fireball into the sky as it exploded during a test on Thursday, in the latest blow to billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space ambitions. Footage shows the towering rocket erupt in an inferno, followed by a mushroom cloud of smoke as bystanders gathered to watch the launch […]
