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MUSCAT, SEPT 15 Climate finance is expected to be one of the key themes of the upcoming Oman Climate Week conference and exhibition, which will take place during February 24-27, 2025 in Muscat, under...

Muscat - Fisheries Development Oman (FDO), the investment arm of Oman Investment Authority (OIA) in the fisheries sector, announced its participation in the upcoming Seventh Global Fishery Forum &...

MUSCAT, SEPT 11 Oman-based cloud kitchen startup IO Kitchens announced that it has raised $2.8 million in seed funding, led by Tanmia Small-Cap Fund. In a statement, Hisham Hasan, CEO and Founder of...

MUSCAT, SEPT 8 The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology announced the conclusion of the first phase of the Oman Drone Competition last week. The competition and training...

MUSCAT: Oman’s first commercial scale saffron cultivation farm project commenced operations at a site in Al Jabal Al Akhdar earlier this week. Saffron Oman aims to introduce the first batch of...

MUSCAT, SEPT 3 The emerging green hydrogen sector in Oman presents various employment and localisation opportunities across all supporting sub-sectors, according to recent remarks by the Minister of...

MUSCAT, SEPT 2 A two-week laboratory aimed at assessing and evaluating the readiness of the green hydrogen ecosystem in Oman, was launched yesterday, September 2, in Muscat. The laboratory was...

MUSCAT: The National Office for Local Content is developing a loyalty programme designed to incentivize the purchase of local products and services, a key official has revealed. Eng Maryam Mohammed...

The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology kicked off yesterday, Monday, August 26, the “Engineer it with AI” competition, under the auspices of the Under-Secretary of...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology has unveiled a programme that enables individuals who have acquired specialised technology certificates to be suitably...

Omani fintech and crowd financing company Mamun announced that it has raised over RO 1 million in Sharia-compliant financing within a span of a year, this week. In a press statement, the company...

MUSCAT: The Rising Omani Startup Programme announced the launch of an accelerator in cooperation with the SME Development Authority (SMEDA) and The Public Establishment for Industrial Estates...

MUSCAT: The AI Economies Initiative, launched by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, will receive RO 15 million in additional funding in 2025, according to the...

MUSCAT, AUGUST 14 The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology will launch a unified open data platform by the end of this year, according to a senior Ministry official. ...

I was exchanging restaurant recommendations with a colleague last week, when she pulled out her phone and shared a local food review account. I gasped. I hated that account. The truth of the matter is...

MUSCAT, AUGUST 13 The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Water Resources, represented by the Directorate General of Fisheries Resource Development, unveiled a programme to enhance artisanal...

MUSCAT, AUGUST 11 The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology has unveiled a personal data protection policy for state administrative units in an effort to “enhance the...

MUSCAT: The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) is currently in the process of developing a licensing and regulatory framework to support the introduction of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services – a short-term...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology is seeking public feedback on the draft of its National Artificial Intelligence Policy – a key framework document that...

MUSCAT: A pilot project combining the use of space data and artificial intelligence to enhance the efficiency of the agricultural sector, has achieved a success rate of 90 per cent, according to an...