Dubai ruler announces new mega city project

Posted by: KHANH Sunday, 2 December 2012 4:33 PM[UAE] - France

its so true that people all over the world know about DUBAI and its has been centuries that dubai is famous for doing business ,, almost a century ago indian businessmen they used to do business between dubai and india so is today
DUBAI MEANS BUSINESS

Posted by: ILYAS AHMAD Sunday, 2 December 2012 11:09 AM[UAE] - uae

Let us not forget that the name Dubai is more popular than UAE among masses living in different countries. They think Dubai is name of a country. For those who are living inside UAE, Dubai is a place of attraction.
Before 1974 all emirates were equal. Today if dubai is far ahead from other emirates means some body has worked hard for it.

Wether the money used in building dubai is their own or loan, it is used for dubai and we can see it. Rulers will come and go but these buildings and roads are not gonna die. They will remind us the the then ruler of dubai.
Shk Muhammad keep building dubai as much as u can for your people and for us the outsiders who earn here.

Posted by: Woohoo Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:25 PM[UAE] - US

It doesn't take a genius to see all these lovely announcements leading up to National day :) Imagine what will be announced on December 2nd :O

Posted by: FactsAndFun Friday, 30 November 2012 11:20 AM[UAE] - UAE

Yes, you spotted the pattern.
We will get one more at least regarding Emiratisation next week. It has been like this for the last few years at least. The people who are supposed to hire will post telling that this will not happen and those who should be hired will post accusing the first group of being ungrateful, cynical and jealous and refusing to acknowledge how valuable they are.
You can see the ra-ra brigade getting weaker every passing year, but still there.
It was fun for a few years but now it gets boring though.

Posted by: nascar Thursday, 29 November 2012 1:51 PM[UAE] - ind

Really like Dubai, but would love to see the following in Dubai;
1. 10 affordable world class universities, 500 Ph.d. students coming out every year
2. a solid industrial base, with at least an oil refinery and a steel mill fully operated by Emiratis and no govt support
3. few good R&D institutes
4. few think tanks
5. move towards self-sustainability on food, essential items.
6. a finished goods import deletion program where products are at least assembled in country, cars

Posted by: ProtectionismIsNotFun Thursday, 29 November 2012 3:51 PM[UAE] - UAE

1) World class universities are expensive by definition. Even if you think of IIT/IIM the cost of admission is high (you pay in advance in the form of tuition and other concepts)
2) There is overcapacity in steel production, and the UAE woudl need to import the ore and has little use for the steel, adding extra transportation costs. Why would you want to set up such a money losing venture? To keep emiratis busy, cheaper to send a cheque every month. Seriously
3) How do you want to have good R&D when you have no solid academic foundation? This country is a long, long way from that. Unless of course you want to bring foreign experts... do you see a conflict with the emiratisation goals?
4) You must be seriously kidding. Think tanks... wow
5) The UAE/GCC countries will need to buy most of their food abroad unless they are happy to go back to dates and camel milk. It is actually the most effective thing for them to do
6) Yes right what the world needs, more car assembly capacity

Posted by: procan Thursday, 29 November 2012 3:33 PM[UAE] - canada

Excellent list nascar, very thoughtful would not take much to add a few more to that wish list good work.

Posted by: Who you fooling Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:29 AM[UAE] - UAE

All these huge projects in the pipeline costing all these billions, yet its still too much to ask for some water in the swimming pools in Discovery Gardens after 6 years of paying service charge for them!! I suppose I will just wait and go for a swim in the new Arabian channel.