The Emirates Businesswomen's Award 2004, a joint initiative of Shell Markets (Middle East) Ltd and the Dubai Quality Group - and now in its second year - honoured two winners at a gala ceremony held in Dubai on 30th May at the Burj Al Arab hotel.

Maha Jalal Al Noubani, a Jordanian and Vice President of Al Jalal Electrical Trading Establishment, Sharjah, and Dr Dorothy Fernandes, an Indian who works as a Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist for Prime Medical Centre and is a visiting consultant at the American, Welcare, Iranian and Belhoul International hospitals in Dubai, were selected as the winners following a rigorous assessment process by the judging panel.

The civil engineering team of Al Naboodah Contracting, working on Dubai International Airport's new extension, recently celebrated a company record that may well turn out to be a world record. In a single day, 6,518 tonnes of asphalt was produced by the company's three asphalt plants and laid over an area of 32,500 square metres - the equivalent of 4.5 kilometres of standard road way.