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Thursday 16/June/2016 09:16 AM

So to speak: A real test of your faith

Perhaps it is time to reflect on our achievements during Ramadan, now that the Holy Month has begun. Do we care enough to reach for the needy or we just go...

Wednesday 15/June/2016 22:41 PM

Venezuela crisis

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Wednesday 15/June/2016 16:15 PM

Ships have gotten too big

In December, the quarter-mile-long Benjamin Franklin became the largest cargo ship ever to dock at a US port. Five more mega-vessels were supposed to...

Wednesday 15/June/2016 15:46 PM

Learning from Namibia

Sandwiched between Angola and South Africa, Namibia suffered mightily during the long struggle against apartheid. Yet, since winning independence from South...

Tuesday 14/June/2016 22:56 PM

Rethinking Robin Hood

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor. National development agencies, multilateral...

Tuesday 14/June/2016 22:51 PM

Bridging the infrastructure gap

Every day, millions of people across the developed and developing world inch through gridlock or squeeze into packed subway cars to get to and from work....

Tuesday 14/June/2016 22:45 PM

Learning from Namibia

Sandwiched between Angola and South Africa, Namibia suffered mightily during the long struggle against apartheid. Yet, since winning independence from South...

Tuesday 14/June/2016 21:41 PM

China and US cyber security talks

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Tuesday 14/June/2016 15:26 PM

Saving our drowning humanity

In the last week of May, at least 1,050 migrants and asylum-seekers died in the Mediterranean Sea, victims of the international community’s unwillingness...

Tuesday 14/June/2016 15:06 PM

Financial scarcity amid plenty

With interest rates at all-time lows and central banks buying everything that moves, the world is awash with credit. Yet, paradoxically, a dangerous...