Muscat: Since its launch 20 years ago, the Al Mouj Muscat project has attracted RO880 million in foreign direct investment, while its total revenues have exceeded RO1 billion, with daily transactions averaging around RO385,000. An economic study conducted by a specialized company to measure the project’s economic and social impact revealed that Almouj, Muscat’s contribution […]
MUSCAT: The Ministry of Labour opened the third edition of its Labour Forum in Salalah with the launch of a national policy on employment, at a point when the government is working towards 60,000 jobs for Omanis this year and 300,000 over the five-year plan period. The forum is part of its ongoing efforts to […]
Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and […]
HONG KONG — China’s economy last quarter grew at the slowest rate in three years, reflecting a broader slump that the country’s leaders signaled earlier this year when they set the lowest growth target in more than three decades. On Wednesday, the National Bureau of Statistics said the economy expanded by 4.3% in the second […]
A ten-year anniversary is a good opportunity to look back on an important decision. Whether that was a marriage, a career move or a decision to leave the EU, a decade feels like an important moment for reflection. When the UK voted (narrowly) for Brexit on June 23 2016, nobody really knew what would happen […]
MASIRAH: Specialists from the Environment Authority’s centre in the Wilayat of Masirah, Al Sharqiyah South Governorate, recently spotted a loggerhead female turtle during regular monitoring of the beach in Al Aijah area on the island. Ghassi bin Hamad al Farsi, Supervisor of the Environmental Monitoring Department at the Authority’s Environment Centre in Masirah, said that […]
The landmark Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia went out of business after the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in 1976. Bettmann/Bettman Collection via Getty Images Soon after Philadelphia hosted America’s bicentennial celebrations in late July 1976, more than 200 attendees of the American Legion Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia fell ill with pneumonia symptoms, including fever, […]
More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over the aeons into a fossil made of a complex assemblage of different chemicals and minerals. And in new research published in […]
More than 2.6 million Canadians work for themselves, and according to an annual RBC poll conducted in 2025, 59 per cent of Canadians aspire to own a business — the highest level since 2017. The appeal is understandable. A recent poll found that nearly two-thirds of people feel they have plateaued at work and see […]
While many men are remembered as heroes of political struggles, women seldom get enough attention. Vesta Smith is a good example. She fought for South Africa’s liberation from white minority rule, called apartheid. Historian Maria Suriano has written a biography of this activist. With the 50th anniversary of the momentous 1976 Soweto youth uprising in […]
