A new cafe for women only has opened at the Ajman University Campus at the Fujairah Trade Centre. Open to all women, especially female students, "Le Cafe" is attracting a large number of national and expatriate women.

Abdul Rahman Al Bigishi, a national businessman who set up the coffee shop, said: "We felt that women in Fujairah, especially the women students studying at the Ajman University Campus here, needed a place where they could rest between their lectures, and could spend some time with other women customers,"

He said that his cafe was very important for the women of Fujairah who are mostly conservative.

"When we opened the coffee shop, we began receiving only expatriate women, but after a while national women started flocking after they realised that it is a very convenient place where women and university students could meet over a cup of tea," Al Bigishi said.

"We are also planning to open a big Internet cafe for women only."