New projects eat into public beaches

ABU DHABI — Hotels and real estate projects along the country's 700-km coastline, dotted with numerous islands, are slowly encroaching upon public beaches.

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Plastic elastic

The Armed Forces National Club opened on Monday night its third annual National Exhibition for Plastic Arts. The 10-day display of paintings, sculptures, calligraphy and antiques is organised under the patronage of Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan...

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UAE team braces for hot air balloon contest in Japan

ABU DHABI — The FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship will be held in Tochigi, Japan from November 18 till 26. About 70 teams from all over the world are expected to take part in the event and UAE's only hot air balloon team too is participating in this biggest competition.

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40 sacks of garbage collected in 2 hours

ABU DHABI — Seventy employees from the capital’s municipality, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Millennium Hotel participated in a joint action to clean Ras Al Akhdar, the main public beach in Abu Dhabi.

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New showbiz production company set up

ABU DHABI — Showbiz celebrities from around the Gulf area gathered at the Al Raha Beach Hotel on Thursday night to celebrate the birth of Columbia Production, a new company dedicated to the entertainment world.

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EAD Spellathon to cover waste management too

ABU DHABI — The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has announced that starting from this academic year it has introduced the concept of waste management to students aged 12 and 13 under its Enviro-Spellathon environmental education programme.

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