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Arabia's field of dreams:
(Economist article): A TROPICAL sun slides into the sea behind the palm
trees and white sand of Jumeirah beach. As darkness falls, the lights of
offshore construction machinery emerge a few hundred metres offshore.
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Dubai
ranks 25th among world's expensive metros:
Confirming what many residents
have long suspected, a worldwide survey has placed Dubai among the top 25 most
expensive cities, jumping almost 50 places from last year.....
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15pc
children in UAE obese, malnourished:
DUBAI — A Unicef study released in
May 2006 has brought to light that more than 15 per cent of children in the
UAE suffer from lack of body nutrients and are consequently both obese and
malnourished at the same time.
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The Burj Al Arab: A
towering Arabian Fantasy: With its unique billowing sail-shaped
structure and opulent interior design, Burj Al Arab is rapidly
gaining icon status in Dubai.
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Demon drives harassed man to
court: Judges
are due to hear a bizarre case of demon possession in which a man is
claiming his ex-wife cast a spell on him and his sister, afflicting them
with mysterious illnesses.
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Distraught worker threatens
self immolation: Abdul Sattar wanted to go home to Pakistan with the Dh 5,000 in
back pay he believed was due him. But when his employer allegedly
refused to give him neither his money nor his passport, Abdul Sattar
took drastic action: he threatened self-immolation in public.
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The Flying Falcon: On January
10 on Gulf Air flight 508 from Bahrain to Dubai my wife and daughter found themselves seated next to a passenger carrying
a
live falcon on his arm. It was not caged, but merely hooded and
restricted only by the normal falconer's thongs.
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Conmen
target alcohol buyers
in Ajman:
Blackmailers are
targeting people buying alcohol in Ajman and demanding huge sums of money in
return for not calling the police, expatriates have said.
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Dubai
Yesteryears:
A time when business meant a living, not the road
to fortune.
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US urges changes in
UAE's company law:
Dubai: The UAE should
liberalise foreign direct investment rules to improve the local business
environment and should aim to complete a free trade agreement with the US in
months, a US trade official said yesterday (14th November 2006).....
