Burj Khalifa – The world’s new Superscraper

Credit where credit is due (pun intended) – Emaar has opened the long-awaited and much hyped Burj Dubai today. Well done guys – you did it!!
In a surprise move Sheikh Mohammed announced a renaming of the tower. It will now be known as the Burj Khalifa, after the president of the United Arab Emirates and [...]

Piers Morgan on Dubai

Shown on ITV1 Thursday, 29 January 2009, 9:00PM
Having just watched the Piers Morgan documentary about Dubai on ITV1, I can report that overall it was a worthwhile one hour of viewing and a welcome break from all the doom and gloom to be found on the box lately.
There was nothing particularly new that we haven’t [...]

Dubai chatter

Job strife
We’ve been speaking to our friends who are long-term residents in Dubai again.
According to word at ground level the number of expat families that have quit Dubai due to job loss over the past year and a half is around 60,000 already, and the pace of departures has been steadily picking up speed [...]

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