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SALALAH, March 16 - Amid unconfirmed reports of panic buying by the residents following coronavirus fears and unfounded alarm of supply chain getting affected, the Public Authority for Consumer...

SALALAH: Amid unconfirmed reports of panic buying by the residents following coronavirus fears and unfounded alarm of supply chain getting affected, the Public Authority for Consumer Protection (PACP)...

Oman is an archaeological wonder that stores several archaeological sites dating back to ancient times and varying historical eras. It has monuments, ruins, castles and forts that tell the stories of...

SALALAH, MARCH 8 - With the setting up of Arab Centre for Artificial Limbs in Salalah there is some light at the end of the tunnel for the Yemeni war victims who have lost their legs or hands. The...

SALALAH, March 2 - Dhofar municipality launched a three-month cleaning campaign on Monday. The campaign would cover environmental sanitation as well as vector control in Salalah, Taqah and Mirbat. An...

SALALAH, March 1 - Dhofar Municipality held an interactive session with its employees with a view to fulfilling people’s the civic aspirations, as the speakers focused on the session’s theme of...

Muscat, March 1 - The Directorate-General of Health Services in Dhofar held a meeting to review monitoring and surveillance measures for coronavirus (COVID-19). Members of the administrative and...

SALALAH: People have their own ways to pay tribute and express loyalty. Hamed Farazh Abdulsamad Bahajjaj’s solidarity with the nation and loyalty to its leaders came through artworks of his own...

SALALAH, Feb 26 - Does the large scale development of Salalah taking away its identity of the ‘coconut city’ of the Gulf? This is a question a section of people are asking and discussing after...

SALALAH, Feb 24 - Salalah is not conducive to locust attack mainly due to its climatic condition. The desert locusts need rain as well as dry climate for breeding. The humid condition of Salalah is...

This is a typical case of passion turning into profession and finally a success story for many others to emulate. For any other people nine years may pass like day and night, some entertainment, some...

With its first collaboration in Oman the Club Framissima has created lots of interest for destination Oman among the French tourists. Soon after noticing demand for Salalah destination from among the...

It matters when someone travels from Paris to Salalah and tells “Oman’s roads are the best” in course of her four-and-a-half months journey. In her challenging road journey, her attention was...

Charters from Poland and France are the latest additions in the Salalah charter business that is bringing tourists from as many as six countries on weekly basis. Tour operators handling the charter...

MONSOON SEASON Salalah derives its mass appeal from three months of the Monsoon Season, which is popular as Khareef among the locals and the GCC nationals. This is the time between July to...

When most of the people hide themselves in woolen jackets during the chilly winter, a section of them take out their equipment and roam around in search of places which can offer them the best view of...

Residents of Salalah woke up to a cold, windy and dusty Monday morning due to sudden change in weather that brought the minimum temperature down by four degrees, to 16 degrees Celsius. Due to severe...

College of Health Sciences, Dhofar Governorate, honoured 36 students with bachelor’s degree in Nursing at a ceremony held at Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex for Culture and Entertainment on Wednesday...

Salalah: Easy things leave some hard ways of learning. One such example is chit funds, which are informal agreements between a set of people or a group who agree to deposit a certain amount of money...

Easy things leave some hard ways of learning. One such example is chit funds, which are informal agreements between a set of people or a group. The group members agree to deposit a certain amount of...