OMAN’S government is  steering the construction sector ahead this year with about a third of the country’s budget  earmarked for development projects. This strategy is in line with the sultanate’s efforts to enhance standards of living and its eighth five-year plan, which sets aside 37.

Link for the Oman projects at a glance:

THE first opera house of its kind in the Gulf region was recently inaugurated in Oman, 10 years after the country’s ruler Sultan Qaboos gave the go-ahead for the project. And now, construction work is nearing completion on an adjoining retail development known as The Opera Galleria, which will complement the project.