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DUBAI: Oman will shift to a Friday-Saturday weekend to align itself more closely with banking and trade elsewhere in the world, its ruler H M Sultan Qaboos bin Said announced yesterday. At present Oman, like neighbouring Saudi Arabia, follows a Thursday-Friday weekend. But other countries in the Gulf take off on Friday and Saturday, and many Omani financial institutions including the stock market have already moved to that schedule.
The change will take effect on May 1, state news agency ONA quoted Sultan Qaboos as saying. He also ordered that the public and private sectors should take equal religious and national holidays. REUTERS
