Times of Oman

Dear {NAME} , Please find your daily news [Times of Oman] Morning Edition [Advertise] | [Times of Oman Home] | [Epaper] | [Contact Us] [Oman] [‘Thank you Oman, thank you Sultan Qaboos’] October 4, 2016, 10:10 PM [#OmanPride: ‘Thank you Oman, thank you] [Two females freed from Iran and Yemen after the intervention of Oman have thanked His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.] [The 165 private homes on board the yacht are owned by 142 families from 19 countries around the world, but mostly from the United States, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Australia, and a small percentage come up for resale every year. Photo-Supplied] October 4, 2016, 9:51 PM [Largest residential yacht 'The] [It’s the largest residential yacht in the world, and it is coming to Oman.] [Oman is taking a stand against online blackmailing as the number of reported cases spiked by 100 per cent in 2016 from last year.] October 4, 2016, 6:02 PM [Big jump in cyber blackmail cases in Oman] [Oman is taking a stand against online blackmailing as the number of reported cases spiked by 100 per cent in 2016 from last year.] [Videos] [Rain fell in North Batinah, Buraimi and Dhahirah yesterday afternoon and may extend towards the rest of Al Hajar Mountains.] October 4, 2016, 9:05 PM [Oman Weather: Rains hit the Sultanate] [Rain fell in North Batinah, Buraimi and Dhahirah yesterday afternoon and may extend towards the rest of Al Hajar Mountains.] [Willow, a nearly one-year-old koala living in Australia's Symbio Wildlife Park, is distracted by a butterfly while shooting for an upcoming video for the park] October 4, 2016, 5:56 PM [Koala joey strikes up an unusual friendship] [Willow, a nearly one-year-old koala living in Australia's Symbio Wildlife Park, is distracted by a butterfly while shooting for an...] [Chicago's gun violence is soaring amid a backdrop of poverty and an embattled police force, with homicides this year on track to hit their highest level since 1997] October 4, 2016, 5:32 PM [Chicago, America's murder capital] [Chicago's gun violence is soaring amid a backdrop of poverty and an embattled police force, with homicides this year on track to...] [World] [The country-made Pakistani boat seized by BSF from Ravi river about 60km from Amritsar on Tuesday. Photo - PTI] October 4, 2016, 10:30 PM [Border Security Force seizes Pakistani boat] [An empty Pakistani boat, which drifted into Indian territory, was on Tuesday seized by Border Security Force (BSF) troops from Ravi...] [People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes in the rebel held Karam Houmid neighbourhood in Aleppo, Syria on October 4, 2016. Photo - Reuters ] October 4, 2016, 8:45 PM [Rebels repel Syrian army assault in Southern] [Syrian rebels said on Tuesday they had repelled an army offensive in southern Aleppo as Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded...] [A view of a municipal board building after it was destroyed by Saudi-led air strikes in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen, on October 2, 2016. Photo - Reuters ] October 4, 2016, 8:30 PM [Houthis set conditions for possible Yemen] [Yemen's Houthis toughened demands for the resumption of talks to end the 19-month-old civil war, saying President Abd-Rabbu...] [Business] [Muscat Securities Market has been facing low liquidity with the average daily traded volumes hovering around OMR2 million last month, while the average daily turnover was around OMR4 million since the beginning of the year. Photo – Times file photo] October 4, 2016, 6:04 PM [Muscat bourse set to cut brokerage fee of] [Oman’s stock market, in a move to improve liquidity and trading volumes, will cut cost of transaction of ‘day...] [A sizeable portion of the natural gas in Oman is used by various mega industrial projects, which stood at 15,525MNCM for January-August period of 2016, against 14,536MNCM for the same period last year. Photo – File photo] October 4, 2016, 6:02 PM [Oman’s natural gas production increases 5%] [Natural gas production and imports grew by 4.9 per cent to 27,569 million cubic meters for the first eight months of 2016, compared to...] [IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said that the fund kept its overall global growth forecasts unchanged at 3.1 per cent for 2016 and 3.4 per cent for 2017 after cutting its outlook for five straight quarters. Photo - File] October 4, 2016, 5:59 PM [Global growth will stay weak: IMF] [The Fund warned that further stagnation will fuel more populist sentiment against trade and immigration that would stifle activity,...] [Sports] [Members of Oman team pose for a group after their victory over Qatar in the ICC U-19 World Cup Asian Qualifier Division 2 competition in Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. ] October 4, 2016, 9:09 PM [Oman bow out of ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier] [As in their first match against Thailand, which incidentally is the only other match Oman had won in the tournament, Wasim Ali led from...] [This file photo taken on March 07, 2016 shows Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova speaking at a press conference in downtown Los Angeles, California. Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova hailed the reduction of her two-year doping ban on October 4, 2016 as 'one of my happiest days'. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut her ban imposed by an independent tribunal appointed by the International Tennis Federation for testing positive for meldonium to 15 months. - AFP ] October 4, 2016, 7:40 PM [Tennis: Sharapova can play again in April] [Sharapova, who will now be clear to return from April 26 and can play in three of the year's four grand slams, said she could not...] [AFC President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, left, speaks as Oman Football Association chief Sheikh Salim Al Wahaibi looks on during a press conference at OFA Headquarters on Tuesday. Photo - ISMAIL AL FARSI/Times of Oman] October 4, 2016, 7:27 PM [Asia deserves and will get more slots if] [Sheikh Salman stressed the need for the Asian teams to raise their level of performance to be on par others. On the possibility of...] [Unsubscribe]