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Drug dealers are targeting kids through the Internet, the Sharjah Police chief warned yesterday. "Kids today use the Internet a lot and gangsters know that. They are using it to get new addicts."

Many Ajman school kids suffer health problems

Double-decker bus service to Salalah soon

Summer is ripe time for food poisoning

Ramadan is a good time to give up smoking, say young people hooked to the habit. In a bid to bolster the resolve, the Sharjah Medical District has announced free checkups throughout the holy month.

The lack of shops and other entertainment facilities around Khalid Lagoon has badly affected the business of cruise boats.

A fire gutted the famous Sharjah Dhow Restaurant docked in Khalid Lagoon.

A border checkpoint set up at Hatta recently for the Dubai 2003 meeting has been made permanent. Bus passengers from Oman will not get UAE visit visas at the border and have to apply for them earlier.

New dhow planned to replace the vessel destroyed by fire

People urged to cut down on excessive buying

A new feeder road at Industrial Area Number 5 is becoming a death trap, workers at nearby plants have warned.

Cabbies who ply their trade from Sharjah to Dubai say they are "worried and don't know what they will do" after the emirate's transport department gradually starts to take over the running of taxis from October.