Sep 8, 2008
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The volume of non-oil direct foreign trade of Dubai, the commercial and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reached 296.6 billion dirhams (80.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2008, up 54 percent over the same period of 2007. The figures were released by the statistics department of the Dubai World, a holding company that manages a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai...
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