Dubai / Emirates Business As the UAE dirham completes its 44th year on May 19, the currency celebrates its unified form representing the seven emirates after undergoing several transformations. The 1973 born banknotes began their journey in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100, displaying the watermark of an Arabian horse – which was later changed to falcon, the …

Dubai / WAM Following up on the agreement signed last month, the Dubai Municipality9 (DM) supplied 700 Dubai Lamps to the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). With the aim of promoting Dubai Lamp, the municipality had signed several agreements with a number of government and private organisations, as well as strategic partners including the RTA. This is the first batch …

Bloomberg Shale explorers pushing to expand oil production are struggling to find enough fracking crews after thousands of workers were dismissed during the crude rout. Independent US drillers underspent their first-quarter budgets by as much as $2.5 billion collectively, largely because they couldn’t find enough fracking crews to handle all the planned work, according to Infill Thinking LLC, a research …