Sharjah has been officially named as a WHO Healthy City, during the visit of senior officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Joining the WHO Healthy Cities programme in 2012, Sharjah has been able to meet 88 percent of the 80 programme criteria, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to be accredited as a WHO Healthy City. The WHO Healthy ...

Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (Sharjah RTA) has announced that it will replace 767 of its taxi cabs over the next six months, at a cost of AED 42.75 million (US$ 11.6 million). Sharjah Taxi’s fleet has grown from 720 cabs in 2012 to 1,540 this year, transporting an estimated 16.2 million people per annum and accounting for nearly 30 ...

Sharjah’s Al Bait Hotel, which is currently under construction, has won the Interior Design of the Year – Hotels Category at this year’s 2015 Commercial Interior Design Awards, organised by Commercial Interior Design magazine. The designers of the new hotel interior, Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ), also walked away from the event with an award for their work on JA Manafaru ...