Want to keep your cool and your cash in Dubai? This glorious megatropolis of mind-boggling architecture is perched on the edge of a hostile desert, so you’ll be tempted to live it up at the resorts, arcades and waterparks – but it still pays to venture beyond the hotel pool. Here are some of our [...]
Last week, the owners of Dubai World requested a six-month extension on paying off its debts. Hot on the heels of that announcement, the government of Dubai stated that it would not pay the Dubai World balances, as it wasn’t the state’s responsibility to bail out a private corporation.
These revelations sent global stock markets plunging, [...]
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