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Winners announced for Oman Today Photography Competition
The photographic talents of the residents of the sultanate were highlighted yet again as winners of the Oman Today Photography Competition 2007 were felicitated at a ceremony held at Bait al Baranda on April 21. The competition, sponsored by Oman Mobile, HSBC and Photo Centre, drew an impressive 1,350 images from participants across the sultanate, competing in different categories.
The winners in different categories received their prizes from H E Ali Sunaidy, Minister of Sports Affairs; Saleh Zakwani, publisher of Apex Press and Publishing; and managing editor Mohana Prabhakar.
|Winners of the Oman Today Photography Competition 2007
Faces of Oman
1 winner – Herschel Mair
2 winner – Es’haq al Rawahi
3 winner – Anna Mair
Heritage & Culture
1 winner – Bala Krishnan
2 winner – Herschel Mair
3 winner – Isabelle Bourier-Whittaker
Wildlife & Nature
1 winner – Anna Mair
2 winner – Baqer Mohd Juma
3 winner – Mohammed al Mahrazi
Oman in Action
1 winner – Bala Krishnan
2 winner – Shibu Pallath
3 winner – Jaap Croese
Underwater
1 winner – Dan McEvoy
2 winner – Bala Krishnan
3 winner – Bill Malcolm
Open Category
1 winner – Adam al Ghafri
2 winner – Alenja von Winterfeld
3 winner – Mazin al Alawi
Lessons from the past
Workshop on corporate training blends the ancient with the modern
What do ancient battlefields and modern
enterprises have in common? Plenty, according to playwright, director and corporate trainer, Sanjay Srinivas, who was in Muscat recently to hold a series of management workshops. The three one-day workshops for upper-middle level management from a variety of enterprises in the sultanate were part of an Infoline initiative. Sameer Gupta, executive vice president, Infoline, explained at the beginning of the event how corporate training was emerging as a key tool to improve team dynamics, spirit and, ultimately a company’s bottomline, in a global era where competitiveness as well as liberalisation are driving economic growth.
More than 120 middle and upper-middle level managers, spread across multiple sectors covering telecom, banking, construction and travel and tourism, participated in the three workshops. The corporate training workshops were based on the play Chanakyashastra that has been directed by Srinivas and presented to audiences in India. The play was also staged in Muscat in March, 2007, to a large audience comprising over 800 people at the Palm Gardens at InterContinental Muscat.
Top priority for safety
First Road Safety Week organised in Oman
The first Road Safety Week was organised from April 23-29 in Oman as a part of the fourth United Nations Road Safety Resolution. The resolution had called upon countries to organise the Road Safety Week on a local scale.
Dr Wahid al Kharusi, head of Khoula Hospital and convenor of the Road Safety Week in Oman, emphasised at the launch event that traffic safety was not just a transport issue, but also a public health issue. Says Dr Kharusi about the matter, “This is everybody’s problem.”
Due to road safety negligence, including instances of speeding, 1.2mn people die on the roads every year, worldwide. The figures for Oman are indeed alarming. According to ROP statistics and a survey carried out by Al Mustadaama, in the first two weeks of 2007, 120 people were killed and 1,456 injured, in a total of 1,730 car accidents.
The theme of 2007’s event was ‘Youths on the Roads’ as the age group most affected by road safety issue is children. According to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures, about 1,045 children die daily on the world’s roads.
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