Been to Dubai recently? Ever been there? It is a bit strange. Sort of Disney & Vegas with a high emphasis on the overdone, ill-conceived and just plain bad. The new Singapore? Well, not likely Still, not a bad oasis for business, if one has to be in the neighborhood and flying in on Emirates First Class, ah, now that is flying!...........http://www.ired.com/news/mkt/dubai.htm
Dubai attempts to present itself as a kind of fairy tale, a place of Arab magic, an oasis of camels and sheiks and a cluster of luxury hotels where no day goes by without a golf tournament or swanky horse races. (minus any jews, of course)
But Dubai these days is mostly a noisy, rough, unkempt city -- one of the world's largest construction sites. Construction work is going on throughout most of the urbanized coastal strip, and the jackhammers can still be heard from the terraces of seaside hotels at night.
Photo Gallery: Dubai's Many Contradictions - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
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