As part of National Day celebrations, the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (Adach) will hold a competition to select the 10 best-decorated cars. Festivities begin at 10am tomorrow with a carnival parade on the Corniche; the judging of cars begins at 4pm.
For the next three days folk-dance groups will perform at Zayed al Adil Centre in Al Bateen, Hilton Park, the Heritage Village at the breakwater, Family Park, Official Park and along the Corniche from 10am until 8.30pm.
The musical Khalifa and Al Watan will be shown along the Corniche near the Federal National Council tomorrow at 8.30pm. There will also be appearances by Arab stars along the Corniche from 10pm. Tomorrow, Aryam, Najwa Karam and Husain al Jasmi will perform, followed by Eidah al Minhali, Hamada Hila, Nancy Ajram and Saber al Ruba'ai on Friday and Mansour Zayed, Hamad al Ameri, Diana Hadad and Khadem al Sahir on Saturday.
In Dubai, Zayed and The Dream, a historical musical, will run for three nights at the Palladium in Media City. Tickets are available at timeouttickets.com.
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Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021
Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”