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DIPMF to highlight Expo 2020 projects

  Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is set to hold the 4th edition of the Dubai International Project Management Forum (DIPMF) from November 20-21, 2017, in collaboration with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Emaar Properties and the Project Management Institute (PMI). ‘Making a Difference’ has been endorsed as a theme of this year’s event; which will ...

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Ministry warns over use of ethyl chloride spray

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention issued a circular warning about the dangers of misusing ethyl chloride spray, which has recently gained interest among adolescent students who have been purchasing it from various social networking sites, e-commerce websites, private pharmacies and speciality stores. The circular states that the substance is a local anaesthetic that affects the central ...

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Where funeral is a predatory business

  PORT-AU-PRINCE / AP Aspasie Tanis lives hand-to-mouth on the edge of eviction in the best of times, scraping out a living selling packets of spaghetti and cookies outside her low-slung concrete shack in Haiti’s capital. Now the death of her father by stroke threatens to send her into a lifetime of debt. The distraught single mother is frantically seeking loans ...

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