Arabic News Weekly Edition for United Arab Emirates, 1/12/1998
Weekly Edition, United Arab Emirates - Week of January 12, 1998
- Efforts underway to tackle UAE oil slick
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have begun clean-up operations to tackle a major oil slick that has hit parts of the country's coastline. United Arab Emirates, Local, 1/16/1998 - UAE reaffirms Palestinian rights
Sheikh Hamdan called upon the international community, especially the peace process co-sponsors, to pressure Israel to stop placing obstacles before the peace process, namely to halt the building of Israeli settlements. United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Politics, 1/15/1998 - Algeria - UAE United Arab Emirates-Algeria, Politics, 1/15/1998
- Gulf oil spill United Arab Emirates, Local, 1/15/1998
- Desalination plant closed United Arab Emirates, Local, 1/14/1998
- Private sector in Dubai is worth $16.2 billion
The number of the private sector establishments is 26,470, in which .05 of the total population work, 7% of those workers are Arabs while 92.5 are non-Arab workers. Male workers represent 93.9% of total manpower. United Arab Emirates, Economics, 1/13/1998