Asma Ali Zain

DUBAI — Community Welfare Attaches (CWAs) posted in the Pakistan Consulate in Dubai will soon set up a systematic mechanism for enhancing manpower export from Pakistan so as to explore job opportunities for them.

DUBAI — Qamar Ali Khan, a Pakistani from Peshawar, was just 26-year-old when he was arrested for smuggling drugs and subsequently awarded death sentence by the UAE government in 1994. Now 10 years after his imprisonment, his aged mother and youngest brother have arrived in Dubai to plead with the government to grant him freedom.

DUBAI — Repainted a beige and white colour, the public transport buses plying between the emirates of Dubai and Sharjah hit the roads yesterday.

DUBAI — Debuting and aiming to attract the widest possible range of exhibitors, the British pavilion is set to dazzle the visitors to the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF), set to start in mid of January 2005.

DUBAI — Transplants are going to become obsolete in another five years as stem cells will repair damaged organs and regenerate them, said Pakistani Professor Doctor Adibul Hassan Rizvi, the only individual to win the Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services 2003-2004 among other well deserved organisations.

DUBAI — The Dubai Transport Corporation (DTC) receives 10,000 calls a day from customers calling for a taxi while it has the capacity to deal with 3,000 calls only, said Obaid Al Mulla, Director-General of Dubai Transport Corporation (DTC).

DUBAI — Expatriate students searching for affordable medical and engineering education can now avail of the opportunity offered by Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences (SSCMS) for Girls and Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) based in Karachi, Pakistan.

DUBAI — Located near the lakes at the Global Village, the South African Pavilion will emerge re-vamped and re-designed at the Dubai Shopping Festival 2005.

DUBAI — The Central Bank of the UAE yesterday issued a letter of apology to all UAE Switch member banks over the technical glitch that hit the bank ATMs late on the evening of December 2.

SHARJAH — A major inflow of people from Dubai after the recent hike in rents has created a shortage of one- and two-bedroom apartments in the emirate of Sharjah.