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Dubai: Companies interested in naming metro stations after their brands still have the chance to do so as 13 out of the 23 stations offered for naming rights by the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) are still up for grabs, said a senior official.

"We have awarded naming rights of 10 stations whereas 13 are still available," added Abdul Mohsin Ebrahim, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the RTA's Strategic and Corporate Governance Agency.

Two major undergournd stations - each in Deira and Bur Dubai (BurJuman) - where the Red and the Green Lines meet are among the stations still available.

The Red and Green lines are also waiting for proper corporate brand names.

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Dubai: Police are investigating the death of a Myanmarese woman, whose body was accidentally found by a construction worker in a manhole in Al Qusais on Sunday.

Colonel Khalil Al Mansouri, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the Myanmarese waitress was reportedly missing for five days.

"One of her male Indian colleagues, who she had a relationship with, is in custody since the day she was reportedly missing as he is the last person to have been suspected with her. We are investigating the cause of death," he told Gulf News.

According to her roommate, the last she saw her friend was on February 15 while on duty. "She left at 4pm alone to meet with her Indian colleague, who is a cook at our workplace."

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Abu Dhabi: The banking and financing system in the world's largest economy - the swing consumer for the globe - the United States, is in crisis and facing limited nationalisation.

Demand for energy is therefore shrinking, depressing crude prices in New York.

For the second week the New York benchmark West Texas Intermediate - the current index used to assess the health of the US economy - reached an intra-day low below $35.00 (Dh128.56)/bbl, to weigh in at $34.13/bbl this week, and $33.55/bbl the previous week.

Each time markets think all the bad news is on the table more emerges and surprises traders. There is so much fear out there that the marginal value of one more market-influencing negative news event is now just as potent as weeks or months ago, when the news was still novel.

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Dubai: The Al Ittihad Road Improvement Project has been delayed by at least six months, Gulf News has learnt.

It means motorists commuting on the busiest highway between Dubai and Sharjah will continue to suffer for another six months.

However, part of the project including the expanded Al Qiyada Interchange (Galadari intersection) and Al Nahda Interhchange (Al Mulla Plaza intersection) is expected to open later this week, giving a little relief to motorists.

"The project is expected to be fully complete by July this year," said a spokesperson of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).

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Sharjah The municipality launched a website last week that enables residents to pay their parking fines online.

The Transport and Freightage Department at Sharjah Municipality activated the service in order to facilitate traffic payments.

Residents can make their inquiries and pay for their parking fines that are issued by the municipality at: www.tfd.ae

According to the annual report of Sharjah Police, the number of traffic violations in 2007 was 894,719. Majority of violations were caused by cars and motorbikes.

Excessive speed detected by radar was responsible for 66 per cent of the traffic violations.