Asia Africa Intelligence Wire articles from March 2002, page 3

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Tower Semiconductor to advance 3rd, 4th Fab 2 milestones payments.
March 31, 2002... Byline: Globes correspondent Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TSEM; TASE: TOWER) today announced it has entered into agreements with SanDisk (Nasdaq:SNDK), Alliance (Nasdaq:ALSC) and Macronix (Nasdaq:MXICY), and with its equity partners,...

FISHERMAN DROWNS IN GORDON'S BAY, PERLEMOEN SEIZED.
March 31, 2002... After the drowning of a fisherman and the rescue of two others off Gordon's Bay in the early hours of Sunday, the Western Cape department of sea fisheries has seized 63 perlemoen (abalone) found aboard the men's boat. Police spokesman Captain...

CRANE COLLAPSES, FOUR ESCAPE INJURY.
March 31, 2002... Four people escaped serious injury at East London's Harbour Festival on Sunday when a 60-ton crane inexplicably toppled into the water at the pit area for development boats. The incident resulted in a delay of about 45 minutes to the start...

THORNYCROFT RELEASED.
March 31, 2002... Journalist Peta Thornycroft -- who was arrested in Zimbabwe on charges of violating the country's new media law -- was released on Sunday night, her lawyer said. Tapiwanashe Kujinga told Sapa that Thornycroft was released after the police...

[0] THORNYCROFT RELEASED.
March 31, 2002... (SUBS: REPEATS OUR ZIM-4TH-LD-MEDIA TO FIX SLUG) Journalist Peta Thornycroft -- who was arrested in Zimbabwe on charges of violating the country's new media law -- was released on Sunday night, her lawyer said. Tapiwanashe Kujinga told Sapa...

Powder Metallurgy: Full mixing underway at Ancorsteel Powders.
March 31, 2002... (From Chemical Business NewsBase: Powder Metallurgy) Ancorsteel Powders GmbH is now conducting full mixing operations at its ferrous metal powder facility in Huckeswagen, Germany following the installation of 5-tonne and 10-tonne mixers....

Materials World: WRAP acting at the double.
March 31, 2002... (From Chemical Business NewsBase: Materials World) The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has reported a major grant that aims to increase the recycling of post consumer plastic bottles. At present, only 3% of the 500,000 waste...

Focus on Pigments: Most pigment prices fail to keep pace with inflation while carbon black prices rise twice as fast. [2 tables].
March 31, 2002... (From Chemical Business NewsBase: Focus on Pigments) Pigment prices have woefully failed to keep pace with the CPI during the 1992-2001 period. The rise in the index for titaniun dioxide pigments, 1.3%/y, was only half that of the CPI....

WOMAN DIES IN ACCIDENT OUTSIDE KOFFIEFONTEIN.
March 30, 2002... A woman died in an car accident between Fouriesmith and Koffiefontein in the southern Free State on Saturday, police said. The woman's 72-year-old father was driving the vehicle on a gravel road when it overturned at a curve about 30km...

MAN FINDS WIFE'S BODY IN SOUTHERN FREE STATE.
March 30, 2002... A 50-year-old woman's body was found by her husband at the couple's home in Wepener in the southern Free State on Friday night, police said on Saturday. Richard Marte found Olga Marte's blood covered body around 11pm, Captain Sam Makhele...

ECOWAS sanctions Liberian rebel group, LURD.
March 30, 2002... Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Ministers of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council ended their 8th meeting in Dakar, Senegal late Friday, slapping a travel ban to and residence within Community member States, against the leadership of the...

ECOWAS in solidarity with Arafat over Israeli attacks.
March 30, 2002... Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council has expressed "dismay that Israeli army tanks have taken up positions within a few metres of the offices of the Palestinian Authority, thereby posing a serious threat to the life...

WHO supports Regional Health Institute in Benin.
March 30, 2002... Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - WHO Regional Director for Africa, Ebrahim Samba, has pledged the Organisation's continued assistance to, and collaboration with, the Regional Institute of Public Health (IRSP) in Ouidah, some 45-Km south-west of...

Electoral Commission unprepared for Nigeria's Council polls.
March 30, 2002... Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is not ready for local Council polls, despite a Supreme Court ruling paving the way for the elections to be held this year, INEC officials said. The...

Nigerian athletes injured in clash with police.
March 30, 2002... Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least five athletes from Nigeria's south-western Ondo State were injured Thursday in a clash with police during a protest against some officials of the State's Sports Council, the private daily Guardian newspaper...

Obasanjo doubts implementation of Nigeria's 2002 budget.
March 30, 2002... Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday that a combination of economic factors might militate against the successful implementation of the 2002 budget as it was recently passed by the National Assembly....

East Africa supports Hayatou for FIFA presidency.
March 30, 2002... Byline: David Jagongo, PANA Correspondent Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As they promised earlier in the month, East African soccer administrators said they remain undaunted to support Cameroon's Issa Hayatou in the FIFA presidential elections...

Bomb explosion in Algeria kills two, injures 18.
March 30, 2002... Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - At least two persons were killed and 18 others got wounded, three seriously, when two locally-made bombs exploded Friday morning in front of a market in Ouled-Aich, in the suburb of Blida, (50km west of Algiers). ...

NSE Equities Trading Declines.
March 30, 2002... Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Equities trading at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) declined this week, as a total 152.3 million shares worth 1.14 billion naira were exchanged in 7,114 deals, against 100.3 million shares valued at 1.17 billion...

Mali denounces Israeli attacks against Palestinians.
March 30, 2002... In a statement issued on Friday in Bamako, the government demanded an immediate cessation of the barbaric acts against the Palestinian people, and called for a dialogue and negotiation leading to resumption of the Middle East peace process....

Angolan Armed Forces, UNITA sign cease-fire.
March 30, 2002... Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and UNITA Saturday afternoon signed a cease-fire agreement in Lwena city in Moxico province under a Memorandum of Understanding complementary to the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan press...

Nigerian President Adamant On Rewards To Athletes.
March 30, 2002... Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Despite widespread criticisms of his administration's policy of not rewarding national athletes who excel at international sports competitions with material gifts, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo said Saturday...

25 candidates brace to contest presidency in Mali.
March 30, 2002... Bamako, Mali (PANA) - At the Friday midnight deadline for presidential hopefuls vying in the April elections to submit their applications, Mali's constitutional court registered 25 candidates. They include an independent female candidate,...

Financial crunch affects Togolese weekly.
March 30, 2002... Lome, Togo (PANA) - The Togolese weekly 'Crocodile' is hit by a financial crunch that prevented it from hitting the newsstand in Lome with its regular Thursday issue. Its manager, Francis Pedro Amunzun confirmed the paper's financial...

Donors pledge $637 million for road network in UEMOA.
March 30, 2002... Lome, Togo (PANA) - Donors have pledged to initially commit 480 billion CFA francs (over 637 million US dollars) for the first five-year phase of the infrastructure and road transport community programme in the West African Monetary and...

South Africa Dash Botswana's Castle Cup Hopes.
March 30, 2002... Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana's hopes of a rare soccer win were dashed Saturday when they were out-slugged 5-4 by South Africa in post-match penalty shoot-outs in the Cosafa Castle Cup. The painful defeat in Gaborone meant that the...

Chad begins campaign for legislative elections.
March 30, 2002... N'djamena, Chad (PANA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby has signed a decree for the beginning and closing of campaigns legislative elections scheduled in April, the state public radio announced in N'djamena. Consequently, campaigns...

Mali gets female as rural development minister.
March 30, 2002... Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare Saturday appointed Ms Kaidama Mariam Sidibe as Rural Development minister, to replace Ahmed El Madani Diallo, who resigned to contest the 28 April presidential election. Ms...

Niamey hosts communication policy workshop Monday.
March 30, 2002... Journalists and communicators from 13-member states of ECOWAS, (the Economic Community of West African States) are expected to share experiences with FAO representatives at the workshop, it said. Participants will also be drilled in...

Rights group strikes alarm over of arrests in Liberia.
March 30, 2002... Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - A coalition of nineteen human rights groups in Liberia Saturday called on President Charles Taylor to halt the current wave of arrests in the country. In a statement, the Liberia Coalition of Human Rights...

Tanzania rushes maize donation to Malawi.
March 30, 2002... Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania this week rushed a 2,000-tonne maize donation to Malawi, to help the country contain a potentially serious food situation, which has left over 100 people dead and up to seven million more facing...

RUF leader Foday Sankoh is out of Elections Contest.
March 30, 2002... Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leone's National Electoral Commission Saturday said detained rebel leader Foday Sankoh "is ineligible" to stand as presidential candidate for the newly registered Revolutionary United Front Party...

Kadhafi wants extraordinary Arab summit on Middle East.
March 30, 2002... Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Officialdom in the Arab world are overtaken by events in Palestine, the guide of the Libyan revolution, Col. Moammar Kadhafi was quoted as declaring on the Qatari satellite channel "Al-Jazira" late Friday. Kadhafi...

Over 5 million Malians to vote in presidential election.
March 30, 2002... Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A total of 5.746.202 voters will participate in Mali's forthcoming presidential election slated 28 April, according to statistics of the general delegation of elections (DGE). The director of the organ in the charge...

Mauritius proposes inter-Malagasy dialogue.
March 30, 2002... Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius is willing to host an inter-Malagasy dialogue gathering Madagascar's incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka and self-proclaimed president Marc Ravalomanana, Foreign minister Anil Gayan told journalists...

Somali Government Castigate Italy Over Stand.
March 30, 2002... Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The Somali Transitional Government (TNG) Saturday lashed out at the Italian Government over the latter's recent statement that it does not recognise the transitional authority in the Horn of Africa country. In...

Libyans demonstrate against Israeli violence.
March 30, 2002... Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Tens of thousands of Libyans on Saturday took the streets of Tripoli to protest against the siege of the headquarters of Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat. He is still surrounded by Israeli soldiers...

Tanzania papers slam police force after robbery.
March 30, 2002... Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A robbery at a police station in Dar es Salaam, in which 25,000 US dollars in policemen's wages was stolen, was a key attraction to Tanzanian newsmen this week, as the press zoomed in on what was believed to...

[0] LEISURENET EXECUTIVES ARRESTED IN CAPE TOWN.
March 30, 2002... (CHANGING SLUG) Two chief executives from LeisureNet, the holding company of the former Health and Racquet Club gym group, were arrested by the elite crime busting unit, the Scorpions, in Cape Town on Saturday evening. Scorpions spokesman...

[0] LEISURENET EXECUTIVES ARRESTED IN CAPE TOWN.
March 30, 2002... (CORRECTS SPELLING OF "GARDENER" TO "GARDINER") Two chief executives from LeisureNet, the holding company of the former Health and Racquet Club gym group, were arrested by the elite crime busting unit, the Scorpions, in Cape Town on Saturday...

MBEKI APPROACHED BY ARAFAT TO INTERVENE IN MIDEAST CONFLICT.
March 30, 2002... President Thabo Mbeki was approached by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, SABC radio news reported on Saturday night. Mbeki denounced what he termed the "attack on Palestine by Israel," and...

TWO ZIM MEN ARRESTED AFTER ARMED ROBBERY IN JHB.
March 30, 2002... Two Zimbabwean illegal immigrants were arrested after an armed robbery at a supermarket in Fairlands, Johannesburg on Saturday, police said. Five armed robbers entered the store and demanded the customers lay down on the floor and the cash...

MAN KILLED IN MAMELODI AFTER PLAYING WITH GUN.
March 30, 2002... A 30-year-old man was shot and killed in Mamelodi near Pretoria on Friday after he and a friend were playing with their guns, Gauteng police said on Saturday. Alfred Mzisa, 30, and his 40-year-old friend were playing with their .38 fire arms...

ZIM FARMER BEATEN WITH CHAIN.
March 30, 2002... War veterans allegedly assaulted a farmer and two of his workers on a Mashonda farm in southern Harare on Friday, the Commercial Farmers Union reported on Saturday. Spokeswoman Jenni Williams said the farmer, Charlie Brans was allegedly...

MAN ARRESTED AFTER DEMANDING TO BUY LIQUOR.
March 30, 2002... A 30-year-old Mpumalanga man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly shooting a man in Mamelodi near Pretoria, Gauteng Police said. The man was visiting people in Mamelodi when he stopped at the house of Pieter Mpaketsane, 40, and demanded to...

BOY FOUND DEAD IN DIEPSLOOT SHACK.
March 30, 2002... A 13-year-old boy was found dead in a shack in Diepsloot near Pretoria on Saturday, police said. Sibusiso Botha was found by a man who was staying in the shack with his two brothers, Inspector Percy Morokane said. Botha was last seen going to...

ECAPE: MAN STABBED TO DEATH IN HOFMEYER.
March 30, 2002... A 30-year-old man was stabbed to death at Hofmeyr on Friday, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday. The man was involved in an argument when he was stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors, Inspector Stefanie Smith said on Saturday. He died...

SUMMIT WEBSITE CORRECTED.
March 30, 2002... The United Nations on Saturday welcomed corrections made to SA's website for the World Summit on Sustainable Development by the Johannesburg World Summit Company (JOWSCO). According to media reports the website was inaccurate and an...

PE MAN KILLED AFTER HITTING COW.
March 30, 2002... A 42-year-old motorcyclist was killed and his girl-friend was lightly injured when their motorcycle collided with a cow on the N2 highway near Grahamstown on Friday, Eastern Cape said. Michael van Heerden from Kraggakamma, Port Elizabeth was...

THREE KILLED ON UMTATA ROADS.
March 30, 2002... Three people were killed in two separate accidents on the R61 between Umtata and Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, SABC radio reported. Two women -- both in their mid-twenties -- were killed when the taxi in which they travelling...

LEISURENET EXECUTIVES ARRESTED IN CAPE TOWN.
March 30, 2002... Two chief executives from LeisureNet, the holding company of the former Health and Racquet Club gym group, were arrested by the elite crime busting unit, the Scorpions, in Cape Town on Saturday evening. Scorpions spokesman Sipho Ngwema told...

U.A.E.: Zayed confers on telephone with Prince Abdullah.
March 30, 2002... President H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan yesterday telephoned Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Head of the National Guard, and reviewed with him latest developments in the Palestinian territories,...

U.A.E.: UAE RCS provides schooling necessities to Afghan refugees.
March 30, 2002... The UAE Red Crescent Society, RCS, is according considerable attention to the Afghan refugees in the RCS camp in Chaman on the Pakistani Afghan borders. The RCS has built a school inside the camp which is made up of four large size tents, in...

U.A.E.: Mohammed Charity to be build Emirates village in Kosovo.
March 30, 2002... Ahmed Hassan Al Rostumani, head of the Projects Committee of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charity and Humanitarian Organisation, today said that the Organisation's future projects in Kosovo included the building of a housing complex...

U.A.E.: Underground water production reached over 9 billion gallons in 2001.
March 30, 2002... The total production of underground water during the year 2001 reached over 9 billion gallons, according to the annual report of the Federal Water and Electricity Authority. The report said that Water and Electricity Authority was running...

U.A.E.: Hamdan forms panel to muster financial resources for RCS.
March 30, 2002... Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS) Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan today issued a decree forming a financial resources development committee, to muster resources for the charity...

U.A.E.: Sharjah aviation aims at reducing margin of error to zero.
March 30, 2002... The General Civil Aviation Authority is in the process of installing a state-of-the-art secondary surveillance radar for the Sharjah flight information region (FIR). "Following implementation of a similar system in Taref in Abu Dhabi last...

U.A.E.: DSF will sign off in style with fireworks.
March 30, 2002... The fireworks displays that have been charming visitors and residents alike on each day of the Dubai Shopping Festival are set to make and exit on March 31 with a 10 minute finale over the Global Village using some new effects, not seen...

EXPECTED MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR TOMORROW : 2002-03-31.
March 30, 2002... ISSUED AT 16:00 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 06:00 SAST TOMORROW MIN MAX Pretoria 15 28 Johannesburg 12 27 Vereeniging 10 28 Nelspruit 15 28 Ermelo 11 24 Witbank 11 26 Standerton 12 25 Skukuza 18...

THE REGIONAL WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW: 2002-03-31.
March 30, 2002... ISSUED AT 16:00 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE. THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 06:00 SAST. GAUTENG: Fine and warm. The expected UVB sunburn index in Pretoria: Very Dangerous. MPUMALANGA: Partly cloudy and warm but fine and cool...

TRAVELLERS WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW: 2002-03-31.
March 30, 2002... ISSUED AT 16:00 SAST BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE. THIS FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED AT 04:30 SAST. PRETORIA: Fine. Minimum/Maximum: 15/28 C. The expected UVB sunburn index in Pretoria: Dangerous. JOHANNESBURG: Fine. Minimum/Maximum:...

atlarge Israel Palestine mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities, and for both sides to move immediately toward a cease-fire. Norway proposed the resolution, which calls for Israel to leave...

religion.
March 30, 2002... Vatican officials say Pope John Paul is well enough to preside over a Saturday evening vigil service and Easter Mass on Sunday, despite sitting out a number of services earlier this week because of ill health. A special altar will be erected...

atlarge Israel Palestine.
March 30, 2002... Israeli forces have surrounded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat inside his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli troops took over most of the compound Friday, using tanks and bulldozers to blast through the walls. At least six...

atlarge Israel unitedstates.
March 30, 2002... State Department - The United States says Israel has given it assurances it has no intention of harming or capturing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The Bush administration is blaming Chairman Arafat for failing to stop terrorism,...

atlarge world.
March 30, 2002... A soon-to-be-released U.S. government report says New York's World Trade Center twin towers withstood the initial impact of two hijacked jetliners but that intense fires contributed to the towers' collapse. News reports Friday said the study...

Israel Palestine.
March 30, 2002... Jersusalem - Israeli tanks have plowed into Yasser Arafat's West Bank office compound in Ramallah and heavy fighting was reported there all day Friday. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared the Palestinian leader an enemy and says he will...

atlarge religion islam mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... Pacific Rim Bureau - Representatives from the world's Muslim states will meet in Malaysia for three days next week in a bid to counter what they say is a false perception that links Islam to terrorism. The conference plans to debate a...

atlarge religion islam mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... Pacific Rim Bureau - Representatives from the world's Muslim states will meet in Malaysia for three days next week in a bid to counter what they say is a false perception that links Islam to terrorism. The conference plans to debate a...

Oman/business Oman.
March 30, 2002... MUSCAT - One of the challenges faced by the government is to direct youths, who are coming out of educational institutions every year, to take up gainful employment. Recent studies found that employment opportunities exist in the country. But...

Oman/business bizheadlines.
March 30, 2002... MUSCAT - Countdown to Oman's E-Business Week from 27 April to 1 May, 2002 has started with a formal presentation on the conference by 'Intevents' and other organisers at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry before the Omani e- business...

sports.
March 30, 2002... MUSCAT - Yusuf bin Saud al Kharani of Private Missions claimed the top honours in the Royal Oman Police (ROP) 12-km marathon with a time of 38:33 held from Al Hail to Azaiba beach yesterday. Abdulla bin Hassan al Balushi of Muscat...

sports.
March 30, 2002... MUSCAT - Suleiman al Alawi capped a superb season to emerge victorious in the Ministries 5km race, the final race of the Winter Series Championship conducted by the Muscat Road Runners here recently. Suleiman had a timing of 18.16 seconds in...

atlarge Israel Lebanon.
March 30, 2002... BEIRUT, LEBANON - Lebanon, as chair of the Arab summit, condemned Israel's quote "barbarous war" against the Palestinians and called for United Nations, US, Russian and European Union intervention. Lebanon said Israel stormed into Ramallah in...

atlarge Lebanon Palestine mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... BEIRUT, LEBANON - Hizbollah Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah said the peace plan Arab leaders adopted in Beirut has already failed because Sharon refuses to pull out from occupied Arab lands. Nasrallah who held talks with Sudanese...

Iraq education.
March 30, 2002... Damascus - The Iraqi authorities have apprehended four Arab students in Baghdad on charges of espionage. The students relatives told Iraq Press that Iraqi security services stormed a student dormitory in the heart of Baghdad and confiscated...

atlarge media mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... Ramallah - A TV cameraman from the Egyptian Nile TV camera crew was wounded by gunshots from Israeli troops. At least one bullet struck cameraman Carlos Handal in the mouth. He managed to stop and get out of the van - which was marked with...

newswire Israel Lebanon atlarge mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... Beirut, Lebanon (MENO) Lebanese resistance forces Hezbollah launched an attack on an Israeli post on the Sheba'a Farms on the Lebanese-Israeli border at around 12:00 noon local time (0900GMT) The source said that Israeli troops carried out...

newswire Palestine atlarge mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... Jerusalem (MENO)- Palestinian National Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's last mobile phone is reportedly out of power, making him lose contact with the outside world, a Palestinian official said Saturday. Arafat, who is currently besieged by...

commentary atlarge mainheadlines.
March 30, 2002... How much longer can Ariel Sharon pretend that he's fighting in the "war against terror"? How much longer are we supposed to believe this nonsense? How much longer can the Americans remain so gutlessly silent in the face of a vicious conflict...

newswire Israel Palestine atlarge.
March 30, 2002... Beirut, Lebanon (MENO) - The European Union (EU) demanded Israel on Friday to end attacks against the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The petition of the 15-nation European bloc is contained...

atlarge Palestine.
March 30, 2002... WASHINGTON: Despite the continuing Israeli attack on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's office in Ramallah, US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he has received assurances from Israel that the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will not...

commentary unitedstates.
March 30, 2002... In an attempt to destroy the Saudi Peace Proposal at the March 26th Arab Summit, fifty-two United States Senators signed a letter to President Bush five days earlier, on March 21st, telling him not to allow Vice President Cheney to meet with...

UAE/business bizheadlines.
March 30, 2002... ABU DHABI - A dedicated re-export zone for Dubai's automobile spare parts trade will be set up in Al Aweer. Land totalling 12 million square foot for the 'Dubai Auto Parts City' have already been allotted by the Dubai Government. The prime...