Afkar Ali Ahmed

DUBAI — Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent 10 emergency workers to major tsunami-hit countries.

DUBAI — The first Islamic satellite, expected to be used in the crescent sighting, will go into orbit in 15 months’ time, with the launch planed for 2006, according to Dr Omar Al Khateeb, Head of Research and Fatwa Section, who represented the UAE at the Satellite committee meeting held in Cairo on December 21.

DUBAI — A Filipina who converted to Islam a year ago claimed that she was recently terminated from her job for wearing ‘hijab’. But her employer insists he did so due to her ‘rude’ behaviour with clients. Maria Jina, whose Muslim name is Fatima, was told by her manager that she should stop wearing the ‘hijab’ soon after Ramadan. When she insisted on wearing the ‘hijab’, the manager she claimed terminated her. In her action, Fatima, who was employed with Emsons Department Store as sales personnel for eight years, says that this termination was unlawful.

The Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) branch office in Ajman will soon move to a new premises located in the centre of the city where it can be easily accessible to the public.

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AJMAN — The new Central Fruit and Vegetable Market of Al Humaidiyah in Ajman which was constructed by Ajman Municipality will be opened to the public in less than two months.

AJMAN — Residents here are crying foul over littering and dumping of garbage bags outside the waste containers placed by the Ajman Municipality near every residential blocks, demanding strict action by the government bodies concerned against those involved in anti-environment practices.

AJMAN — As part of its expansion project aimed at enhancing the public services and maintaining security, Ajman Police Department will soon announce the inauguration of a new larger premises of its Operation Section which is located in the centre of the city to be easily accessable to public.

DUBAI — Cases of Hijab discrimination in employment against Muslim women, who have recently converted to Islam, have become common in the UAE.

DUBAI/SHARJAH/ AJMAN — Once found at known shops only, the famous Omani halwa (popular Omani sweets) is now available on the main roads, thanks to the unlicensed trucks coming all the way from Oman to illegally sell these sweets in Ajman, Sharjah and Dubai.

AJMAN — Magnetic technology has been introduced in more than 20 farms and gardens in residential complexes in various areas of Ajman with a view to enhancing production and boosting civic body's efforts to beautify the emirate and spread greenery.