Sources: وكالة الأنباء العمانية (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said has issued a royal directive declaring that, Thursday, May 2, 2013, would be a one-off non-working public holiday in Oman to facilitate the recently-announced change in Oman weekends from the full Islamic weekend to the semi-universal weekend. [full story]