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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Life after visa ban
MUSCAT: The Ministry of Manpower has announced that it has stopped issuing visas to companies engaged in the following activities: Import and export, cleaning, barber shop, laundry, electronic repair, garbage cleaning and selling, textile shops, mobile GSM shops, health clubs, … Continue reading
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Restaurant review: The Great Kabab Factory
The Great Kabab Factory (TGKF) is located in Al Khuwair, diagonally opposite to Badr Al Sama Hospital. Basically a signature restaurant group from India, TGKF has now diversified into Gulf and has outlets in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. In … Continue reading
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Salalah in pictures
These photos were clicked during our trip to Salalah last week. Ain Arzat is a confluence of several natural springs. C for camels. Everywhere, we would bump into these animals. Local drivers flash hazard lights and bring their vehicles to … Continue reading
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Salalah tidbits
* Omani women are very traditional in Salalah; their faces are covered most of the time. * Saudi royal family members and ministers stay for months together in Salalah, obviously to beat the heat back home. Majority of visitors are … Continue reading
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Archaic vision, amateurish service
A few days back, we flew to Salalah to check out the Khareef festival and other attractions nearby. For the first time, I had the misfortune of traveling by Oman Air, which according to me is the most horrible airline … Continue reading
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Two-wheeler Schumis
These teenage kids zip around the roads between Wadi Kabir, Ruwi and Muttrah areas in the evenings, and cause a great bit of inconvenience to car drivers. Most of the time, they trespass into the highway and cause a flutter … Continue reading
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Ghazal…gazelle…guzzle
A report in Oman Tribune says: Ali Bin Amir Al Kiyumi, Director-General of Nature Conservation in the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, said the decision is concerned with conservation of the wildlife species especially the endangered Arab Ghazal in … Continue reading
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BLOG EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Shruti Dilip, Miss India Worldwide contestant from Oman
She made headlines in Oman when she made it to the finals of the Femina Miss India 2008 finals in Mumbai earlier this year. Shruti Dilip, the 22-year-old bio-technology engineer from Muscat, has not looked back since. Last week, she … Continue reading
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Why Ali Al-Habsi hates Ribas?
(Left to right): Ali Al-Habsi and Julio Cesar Ribas. (Source: Internet) According to our sources in the Uruguayan media, erstwhile coach of Oman football team, Julio Cesar Ribas, has gone around saying Al Al-Habsi didn’t want to train hard, as … Continue reading
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