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Elderly UAE national women in Khor Fakkan have been urging young girls to pick up the threads of traditional handicrafts. They claim the art is dying because local women are no longer interested in reviving it.

A total of new 117 companies began operations in the Fujairah Free Zone in 2004, an increase of 30 per cent over 2003, an official said.

Shaikh Hamad Bin Saif Al Sharqi, Deputy Ruler of Fujairah, yesterday inaugurated a new branch of Emirates Bank in Fujairah.