Muscat: The Supreme Committee confirmed its decision about the start of the academic year for all schools in Oman on Sunday 1 November, and on the conclusion of a partial curfew at 5am on Saturday ... ( read original story ...)
Oman’s ruler approves fiscal plan to diversify revenue
Oman's sultan has approved a medium-term fiscal plan to make government finances sustainable, state media said on Thursday, as the coronavirus crisis and low oil prices batter state coffers. Adds ... ( read original story ...)
Oman discusses replacing foreigners with locals in government companies – ONA
Oman's labour minister discussed plans for replacing foreign workers with Omani workers in government-run companies on Wednesday, state news agency ONA said. ( read original story ...)
Oman says may struggle to grow oil reserves and production
Oman is facing a long-term slowdown in oil production, with limited future growth in reserves, its ministry of finance said in a prospectus for a sovereign bond issue. The document, circulated among ... ( read original story ...)
Turkmenistan: Drop Charges, Free Wrongfully Imprisoned Lawyer
Turkmenistan’s authorities should immediately and unconditionally release a lawyer imprisoned on bogus charges that app ... ( read original story ...)
Turkmenistan forecasts total revenues, expenditures of country’s financial plan for 2021
Karabakh conflict should be settled on issues of boundary lines, sovereignty issues - US Ambassador to NATO Politics 13:23 ... ( read original story ...)
Protesters wanted change but Lebanon’s elite picks veteran Saad Hariri to lead crisis-wracked country
Saad Hariri, who was toppled in a popular uprising nearly one year ago, has been designated prime minister in parliamentary consultations on Thursday. ( read original story ...)
Lebanon crisis: Saad Hariri returns as PM a year after protests
Saad Hariri says he will enact reforms to unlock the foreign aid Lebanon badly needs Lebanon's political parties have chosen Saad Hariri to be prime minister, a year after he stepped down in the face ... ( read original story ...)
Hariri to return to head Lebanon’s Cabinet with slim support
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has began crucial consultations with lawmakers to name a new prime minister who is expected to lead the country out of dire political and economic crises ... ( read original story ...)
Laos: Authorities force Christians to flee their homes, live in woods for refusing to renounce Christ
Authorities in the Lao province of Salavan chased seven Christians from their homes, forcing them to live in makeshift huts in the woods because they refused to renounce their faith. ( read original story ...)