The genuine leather handwork is considered one of the most prominent handicrafts in the city of Damascus that has been passed from one generation to another over hundreds of years.

In the Centre of Old Damascus, there are several workshops where Damascene handicraftsmen are still making genuine leather handbags and other leather objects manually preserving the traditions of their fathers and forefathers.

Sales of the carpet factory in Sweida last month rose to 147 % of the marketing plan.

Director of the factory, Eng. Khuzama Hamza, told SANA today that 4740 square meters of carpets were marketed during the last month, with a sales rate of 147% of the marketing plan at an amount exceeding 45 million Syrian pounds.

Hamza attributed the demand for buying the products of the factory to the quality and diversity of inscriptions and colors and to the need for carpets with the advent of winter, pointing to the high volume of sales during the current year to 20,000 square meters.

As part of its plan to expand its network of regional and global stations and meet the needs of passengers, Cham Wings Airlines announced today that it will fly its first flights from Damascus International Airport to Berlin Airport in the German capital via Beirut International Airport starting from the fourteenth of this month.

The new station of Cham Wings Airlines comes as part of its strategy to link Damascus with Europe's largest and most dynamic cities, where it will run initially two flights a week at encouraging prices, and it will allow the weight of 30 kilograms per passenger, noting that with the addition of Berlin on the map, flights to Arab, regional and international destinations have exceeded 20.

The monthly shopping festival “ Made In Syria “ kicked off on Sunday with the  Participation of about 100 national industrial companies from  several provinces and different sectors  at Alma Hotel in Lattakia province.

The economic festival’s 95th session is held by Damascus and its countryside Chamber of Commerce.

Talal Kalaji, chairman of the festival’s organizing committee said in a statement to SANA correspondent “The   festival, which will last till the eighth of this month,   offers discounts on many products within the framework of competitiveness with local markets”

Homs,(ST)- The shopping festival (Home- Sweet Home), which was held in the headquarters of the officers club in Homs, seeks to be a marketing outlet for food, detergents and some cosmetics and decorations offered by 22 national companies at competitive prices.

The festival kicked off yesterday and it will last until the sixth of this month. It offers products at discounted prices in order to secure those products for citizens and break the monopoly of traders for these materials.