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3 injured in gas cylinder blast

SHARJAH - A cooking gas cylinder kept in a cafeteria in the Al Meraijah area in Sharjah exploded yesterday injuring three people, including one seriously, police have said.

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Students avoiding Islamic studies to be failed

DUBAI — Education authorities have directed a private school to fail two siblings in Arabic language and Islamic instruction papers after the students sought exemption from attending those classes, claiming them to be difficult.

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Top doctor calls for stem cell donor registry in UAE

DUBAI - The need to establish a stem cell donor registry in the UAE was stressed by Dr. Patrick Tan, Medical Director of the Haematology and Stem Cell Transplant Centre at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, who has shown that unrelated donor transplants using stem cells or umbilical cord blood for the treatment of Thalassemia and blood cancer is a possibility.

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HCT signs key deal

ABU DHABI — The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) yesterday signed a contract with the GHQ of the UAE Armed Forces to develop a network of Institutes of Applied Technology to ensure that the secondary-level technical education provides the UAE with increasingly skilled workforce it requires.

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‘Salaam’ to build cultural accord

DUBAI - Exchange of students is a critical solution to the burgeoning issue of the cultural divide between the Arab world and the US, feels AIESEC, the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential.

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Dr Tan to speak at Arab Health meet

DUBAI — Dr Patrick Tan, the first in the world to successfully cure a Thalassaemia Major sufferer with a stem cell transplant using unmatched, unrelated donors, will be speaking at two conferences at Arab Health 2005.

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