Muscat, Oct 29 (ONA) --- The ITU Arab Regional Cybersecurity Centre (ARCC) affiliated to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in cooperation with the Ministry of Technology and Communications, organized the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and ITU-ARCC Symposium and the 11th Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC-CERT) Annual Conference at the Kempinski Hotel, Muscat today. Nineteen speakers and 150 participants from 37 member states of the ...
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Muscat, Oct 29 (ONA) --- The Gulf Committee for Tobacco Control met today at the W Hotel Muscat in the presence of the undersecretary members states. The Committee met on the sidelines of the 5th Meeting of the GCC Ministers of Health Committee and the 82nd Conference of the GCC Council of Ministers of Health. The meeting reviewed the final report and recommendations of economics of tobacco in the GCC countries. The Meeting also discussed a number of topics including setting a gulf target to ...
Muscat, Oct 28 (ONA) --- Sayyid Shehab bin Tariq al-Said, Adviser to His Majesty the Sultan, today inaugurated the Regional Cybersecurity Week, organized by ITU Arab Regional Cybersecurity Centre (ARCC) affiliated to International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in cooperation with the Ministry of Technology and Communications. The week runs till October 31st with the participation of 600 specialists and 49 speakers from 45 countries around the world. The conference included ...
London, Oct 23 (ONA) --- A new study suggests that a switch to 100% organic food production in England and Wales would see an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions. While going fully organic would produce fewer direct emissions than conventional farming, researchers say it would limit food production. As a result, more imports would be needed, resulting in up to five times more land being used ...
Harare, Oct 22 (ONA) --- At least 55 elephants have starved to death in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park over the past two months amid a severe drought. The drought has massively reduced crop levels in Zimbabwe. A third of the population is reportedly in need of food aid in the midst of an ongoing economic crisis. In August, a World Food Programme report said two million people were at risk of starvation in the country. Some of the elephants were reportedly found within 50 metres ...
Manama, Oct.15 (ONA) ---- The Sultanate, represented by the National Commission for Combating Human Trafficking (NCCHT), participates in the Government Forum to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Middle East, currently being held in Manama, Bahrain. The delegation is headed by Issa bin Hamad al-Azri, undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice, NCCHT in the Sultanate, and a number of officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Royal Oman Police. The forum, which runs until October 16th, aims to discuss the challenges of ...
Muscat, Oct 14 (ONA) --- Information Technology Authority (ITA) and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) renewed the cooperation agreement signed between the two parties to cooperate and coordinate in the area of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Dr. Ali BIN Saud Al-Bimani, SQU Vice Chancellor and Dr. Salim Al-Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA signed the agreement. The agreement entails executing a joint project aimed to build and enhance the culture of FOSS and to encourage using them in entrepreneurship, academic and applied research, and ...
Muscat, Oct 14 (ONA) --- Dr. Nora Orabah Haddad, Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Sultanate said that FAO and countries around the world celebrate World Food Day every year on the on the 16th of October, the day that the FAO was found 74 years ago. She added in an interview with Oman News Agency (ONA) that FAO country offices, in collaboration with governments and other partners commemorate this this day in various ways to call for action to end hunger and other forms of malnutrition and ensure food security ...
Tokyo, Oct 13 (ONA) --- Japan has deployed tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers after one of the strongest storms in years hit, killing at least 18 people. Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo yesterday (Saturday), moving north and bringing severe flooding. Thirteen people are missing from the storm, public broadcaster NHK said. In central Nagano ...
California, Oct 10 (ONA) --- A tool Google offered in the US to help cities measure pollution and emissions levels is now available in Europe. It compiles transport and building data from Google Maps with publicly available information about emissions Google will initially offer the tool to Birmingham, Manchester, Wolverhampton and Coventry, Dublin and Copenhagen. It plans to add more cities on ...
Muscat, Oct 9 (ONA) --- The GCC Assistant Secretariat Sector, the Office of the Advisory Body of the GCC Supreme Council and the Office of the GCC Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva won the ISO 9001: 2015 Certificate in institutional quality management. The Office of the GCC Advisory Body today marked the occasion with a celebration held under the patronage of Dr. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani, GCC Secretary General, who praised the exerted efforts to improve the sectors of the ...
Barka, Oct.05 (ONA) ---- Al Sawadi village, located in the wilayat of Barka, the Governorate of South Al Batinah, is one of the beautiful coastal villages in the Sultanate because of its various tourist landmarks that attract visitors from all regions to enjoy it. There are seven islands in Al Sawadi village that are seen by visitors from afar with wonderful peaks floating on the sea, which can be reached by boats that are run citizens working in this profession of transporting visitors to these islands in a short period of time. Al Sawadi Beach has gained fame ...
Seoul, Oct 3 (ONA) --- Six people were killed when typhoon Mitag passed through the country, South Korea’s government said. Mitag, the 18th typhoon this year, brought heavy rains in southern parts of the country. The toll was six dead and four injured, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said. Some of the six were underneath collapsed structures and others drowned, it said. More than 100 houses and other ...
London, Oct 2 (ONA) --- There are 1.85 billion, billion tonnes of carbon on Earth, with more than 99% of it resident beneath our feet. Scientists from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) project have spent 10 years assessing the "reservoirs and fluxes" of the chemical element. In other words, they worked out where carbon is held and in what form, and how it moves through the Earth system. The findings could help understand the ...
New Delhi, Sep 30 (ONA) --- Heavy rains have killed at least 113 people in India’s Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said today, as flood waters swamped a major city, inundated hospital wards and forced the evacuation of inmates from a jail. India’s monsoon season that begins in June usually starts to retreat by early September, but heavy rains have continued across parts of the country this year, triggering ...
Cairo, Sept 2 (ONA) --- Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saidi, Minister of Health was elected today as the President of Supreme Council of the Arab Board of Health Specializations (ABHS). The election carried out during the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Arab Board of Health Specializations (ABHS), which commenced today at the Secretariat-General of the Arab League Headquarters in Cairo. The Sultanate is participating in this meeting by a delegation headed by Dr. Ahmed bin ...
<p>Muscat, June 30 (ONA) --- Nama Group and the Environment Society of Oman (ESO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to organize a Green Innovation ECO-Thon. Eng. Omar Al Wahaibi, Group CEO, signed the MoU on behalf of Nama Group and Dareen Mehdi Jaaffar, board member at ESO, signed on behalf of the Society.</p> <p>The initiative’s main objective is to encourage Omani youth to tackle environmental challenges in the Sultanate. Based on the MoU, the ESO will implement the initiative that targets 100 students from colleges and universities to work on ...
<p>Muscat, July 7 (ONA) --- Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), represented by the college of Engineering, signed a cooperation program with Nafath Renewable Energy for building capacity and developing engineering capabilities that helps in designing and manufacturing of solar and electrical car systems. The cooperation program was signed by Prof. Amer Al Rawas, SQU’s Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Community Services and Eng. Abdullah Al Saidi, Chief Executive Officer of Nafath Renewable Energy. This program is a result of the cooperation efforts ...
Muscat, July 8 (ONA) --- The 4-day second stage of converting graduation projects in 4th Industrial revolution technologies into startups (Upgrade) was launched at the HQs' of The Research Council (TRC). The third version of Upgrade witnessed a large turnout in registration. The number of registered projects reached (125) from 16 academic institutions in the Sultanate and one academic institution from outside. (71) projects have qualified for the second stage, including (181) ...