Few weeks after the successful opening of Qurum branch, Burger king opened their 2nd branch in Oman Oil petrol station in Al Hail.

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There are many complaints about the lack of shopping destinations in Oman, but to all the shopaholics, here is the list of the shopping malls that are going to open one after another starting from the late months of this year!
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Under the auspices of his Excellency Eng. Ahmad bin Hassan Al Theeb, undersecretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the official opening of Oman International Sayyarat Company was held in the company’s showroom in Al Khoudh with the participation of the shareholders’ representatives and potential/interested customers.

More information & photos after the break.

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On behalf of the Omani Government, His Excellency Dr. Khamis bin Mubarak Al Alawi, Minister of Transportation, has signed 23 contracts in the field of roads, civil aviation and ports. The contracts add up to a total of 103 million Rials.

H.E. Khamis bin Mubarak Al Alawi and Dr. P. Mohammed Ali, Vice Chairman of Galfar Engineering

H.E. Khamis bin Mubarak Al Alawi and E. Fuad bin Abdullah Al Kindi, Managing Director of Ibn Khaldun Almadaen.

Among these contracts were 5 contracts related to the development plan of the airports in Oman:
- A contract with Gulfar Engineering and contractors amounting 40,500,000 Rials for the construction of Ras Al Hadd Airport (phase 2).
- A contract with Ibn Khaldun Almadaen Engineering Consultants amounting 2,833,760 Rials for consultancy services of Al Duqum Airport supervision.
- A contract with National Insurance Company amounting 2,116,108 Rials for a third-party insurance of Muscat International Airport and Salalah Airport.
- A contract with NATS Company amounting 442,190 Rials for the redesigning and planning of air ways in Oman (المسارات الجوية للأجواء العمانية)
- A contract with INECO and Traid Oman Consultants International Engineering Consultants in association with GOP amounting 174,221 Rials for the consultancy services for the construction site of Musandam local airport.

Article in Al-Watan Daily Newspaper (Arabic).

Oman Sail’s team Masirah, the Extreme Sailing Series Europe iShares cup champion last year, has finished the final day of the Muscat stage of the Extreme Sailing Series Asia in third place (first place overall in the Muscat stage), which adds six points atop it’s original 12 at the begging of the stage to give it a 7 point lead on Team China, and granting it the champion of the series title for the Extreme Sailing Series Asia. This means that Masirah is now the champion for both the European & Asia versions of Extreme Sailing Series.

The team suffered low positions and bad results in the first two days of the Muscat leg but managed a comeback and maintained good results, especially in day four,  to finish first place in Muscat. The final day saw Masirah, in encouragingly windy environment, battle with Team China for the final points for both the day, stage, and championship. The team managed to finish first twice, in the second and third races of the day, with Team China grabbing equally important second place finishes on both, but while Team China finished Muscat in it’s favour, the championship finished to Masirah’s.

The Wave, the other Oman Sail team, grabbed second place in Muscat, and maintained a high and steady position in the leader boards throughout the five days of racing. A second place in Muscat also grants them an overall second place in the championship with a shared 11 points with Team China. Well done to them.

Congratulations to the Oman Sail team : (Masirah) Pete Cumming, Leigh McMillan, Mark Bulkely, Nasser Al Mashari. (The Wave) Paul Campbell-Jones, Allistar Richardson, Greg Homman, & Khamis Al-Anbouri

More details, pictures, and final leaderboards when available.

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Red Bull Extreme Sailing has maintained it’s lead on the leaderboards on day 2 of the Muscat leg of the Extreme Sailing Series Asia. Grabbing first place once, second three times, and a lonely last in the six courses of day 2 has once again put them provisionally on the top of overall leaderboard with 47 points.

Six points behind, is The Wave, Oman who managed to grab first place twice and repalce Team China as second place on the leaderboards. No such luck however, can be said for the current event leader Masirah who have only managed a 2nd place in the last course.

Masirah, previously hoping for a hattrick clean sweep after Hong Kong & Singapore, will now surely not disregard Red Bull a threat given their come back in Singapore from the disappointing racing in Hong Kong.

The team had started well, but a penalty early in the day sent their luck tripping for it’s remainder. Agreeably, an altogether more upbeat day with more shift and slides in the leaderboard. We remain hopeful for a Masirah comeback on day 3.

Best of luck to our boys.

More pictures & provisional leader board after the break

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