RO to expand adult and children’s emergency departments
Interview by Yousef bin Salem al HabsiMUSCAT: The Royal Hospital unveiled plans to expand its adult and children’s emergency departments and laboratories, and to add 900 additional…
Oman’s skies to witness aphelion on Monday
Muscat: Earth will reach aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun in its annual orbit, tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. Oman time. At that moment, the distance between the centers of Earth a…
Teen social media restrictions remain inconclusive
Many countries have started to implement a limit on the use of social media for children under 16. It began with Australia in 2025, followed by other countries who are now in the p…
PDO signs RO 3.5 million social investment deals
BUSINESS REPORTERMUSCAT, JULY 5Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has signed nine social investment agreements worth RO 3.5 million to expand education, healthcare, youth development…
Oman’s Q1 GDP rises 2.6% to RO 9.7 billion
MUSCAT: Oman’s economy grew by 2.6 per cent in real terms during the first quarter of 2026, with gross domestic product at constant prices reaching RO 9.685 billion, supported by s…
Oman plans four 1 GW mega solar projects
MUSCAT, JULY 5As many as four mega solar PV-based Independent Power Projects (IPPs) are planned for implementation across key locations in the Sultanate of Oman, starting from 2028…
From rubble to music: Gaza’s Oud repairman
In a modest makeshift workshop tucked inside the crowded Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the soft sound of an oud echoes through the ruins of war.Surrounded by wooden pallet…
A football anthem from Nadeem
The World Cup has inspired many celebrations, and among them is Omani musician Nadeem al Balushi’s energetic anthem, One Game, One World, a song that captures the excitement and un…
Shielding the seas: Oman’s Coastguard on high alert
MUSCAT: Across 3,165 km of Oman coastline, the vigilant eyes of the coastguard police remain wide awake to safeguard the Sultanate of Oman’s territorial waters. Extending from the…
EA records first-ever breeding of Chestnut Sparrowhawk in Al Buraim
Muscat: The Environment Authority in Al Buraimi Governorate has documented, for the first time in the governorate, the breeding of the Chestnut Sparrowhawk, locally known as “al Ba…