Dubai: The last auction of the distinguished vehicle number plate for the year 2007 fetched Dh16.37million for the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).
Distinguished number G-10000 was highest bid and was sold for Dh990,000. A total of 54 plate numbers were sold in the auction held in a hotel in Dubai.
Numbers G-50000 and G-70000 got [...]

The fifth lot of number plates will go under the hammer on January 12 at the Emirates Palace hotel, and will include sought-after numbers such as 11111, 40000, 990, 9900 and 656, state news agency Wam reported.
A total of 100 numbers will be up for auction, including 32 two digit numbers, 34 four digit numbers [...]

Swiss authorities have blocked the sale of an ancient clay tablet, thought to have been smuggled from Iraq, on the internet auction site eBay.
A German archaeologist spotted the 4,000-tear-old tablet on eBay’s Swiss site. It is carved with cuneiform - one of the oldest known types of writing.
Swiss authorities were alerted and eBay stopped the [...]

Christie’s will be holding its fourth series of auctions in Dubai in spring 2008.
Christie’s is now accepting consignment of pieces for its forthcoming sales to be staged at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel - Contemporary Jewels & Watches - on April 29 and International Modern & Contemporary Art on April 30, 2008.
“Christie’s has now fully [...]

 A classic car belonging to Hollywood star Sharon Stone helped to raise three million dollars for an AIDS charity in an auction during Dubai’s fourth international film festival, a statement from the charity said on Tuesday.
The star-studded event late on Monday at a luxury desert resort saw Stone’s 1961 Lincoln Continental sell to an unidentified [...]

A newspaper said Egypt’s Orascom Telecom , the fourth-largest Arab mobile operator by market value, has been put up for sale, but the company denied the report.
 
The Sunday Times said informal discussion over the future of Orascom have already been held with Deutsche Telekom , while other possible buyers include Vodafone , Spain’s Telefonica and [...]

More than 550 people from 47 countries registered to bid on site, online and in a live auction simulcast in the Netherlands when Ritchie Bros. conducted a large unreserved auction in Dubai on November 26 & 27, 2007. More than 2,100 equipment items for the construction, transportation and other industries were sold in the auction, [...]