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Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, opens and is...
The thanks came in the form of a naming ceremony, Dubai's ruler renamed the previously-known Burj Dubai the Burj Khalifa.
Just last month the tower's namesake and leader of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, bailed out indebted Dubai to the tune of $10bn - £6.13bn.
Dubai Metro is great but could be improved…
I have been riding the Metro pretty much since it was launched this year...
South Asian El Dorado: Is the locus shifting to Abu Dhabi?...
Evidence of the misery the global economic slowdown has heaped on a city that dizzyingly grew in the last ten years can be seen while traveling in the spankingly new driver-less elevated Dubai metro that traverses a distance of 53 km and runs along many of Dubai high-rises, buildings and malls.
Guard is charged with forging Metro work visas
An Egyptian security guard was charged at the Criminal Court of First Instance yesterday with forging three Dubai Metro work visas.
Global outcry over Dubai World restructuring is exaggerated
About 75 per cent of the $20b bond has already been subscribed
Dubai’s tram project is on track
Alstom, the French rail firm, says it will lay the first tracks in December for the Al Sufouh tram project in Dubai, a Dh4 billion (US1.08bn) mass transit system running from Dubai Marina to the Mall of the Emirates.
