The Abu Dhabi Police has announced that the 10th auction of distinguished plates’ numbers will take a place on June 7 at 3.30 pm.
According to Lt. Col. Abdul Rahman Mohammad Ali Al Kamali, Director of the Privatisation and Investment Department at the ADP GHQ, number 14 will be the main number in the auction.
The other [...]

Emirates Auction holds the record for the top ten most expensive license plates sold worldwide, after Plate 9 sold for a record Dh15.4 million at Saturday’s auction in Abu Dhabi.
“We now dominate the Top Ten chart after bumping off Hong Kong’s six-million-dirham Plate 9,” announced Abdulla Matar Al Mannaei, Managing Director of Emirates Auction, which [...]

Christie’s fourth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art held in Dubai tonight (30 April 2008) sold for a total of $20,062,850/ AED 73,630,660 / €12,952,576, bringing the collective total for sales this week to $40,142,150 / AED 147,321,691 /€25,915,772. The results demonstrate the quality and rarity of the works which were offered for sale [...]

An auction organised by Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority for 57 special registration plates has fetched over $9.8m. Plate number 50 G fetched the highest bid, going for $926,000. A similar auction in Abu Dhabi in February saw plate number 1 fetch over $14.2m.

Christie’s took over $20 million at its fourth auction in Dubai. Most of the works were by Arab and Iranian artists, with six works by Iranian artists dominating seven of the top lots.
Iranian artist Parviz Tanavaoli’s The Wall (Oh Persepolis), a nearly 6-foot-high bronze sculpture covered in hieroglyphics, broke the auction record for a Middle [...]