Happy 2010 to all Dubai Dreams readers
Happy new year to all our readers.
2009 has been a tough year for Dubai, but there are signs that 2010 might be a year of stabilisation or even slight improvement for the troubled emirate – at least Abu Dhabi has finally stepped up to shore up some of Dubai’s debts now.
Anyway here’s to a happier [...]
Abu Dhabi leaves Dubai dangling over debts
It was inevitable really, considering the violence of Sheikh Mohammed’s protestations earlier in the month.
It seems that the other emirates, and Abu Dhabi in particular, may have grown tired of indulging Dubai’s reckless expansion after all. Despite Sheikh Mohammed’s vehement denial that Dubai would be left to sort out its own mess, additional help has [...]
Sheikh Mohammed tells Dubai and Abu Dhabi doubters to shut up
In an unusually frank and forthright outburst, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the UAE, dismissed concerns of a rift between Abu Dhabi and Dubai and insisted that Dubai was well placed to recover from the global credit crunch.
Dubai has been hit hard by the global recession which [...]
The location of Dubai
The city of Dubai lies within the emirate of Dubai, which is one of the seven emirates which together comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Dubai is located in Asia and lies on the Persian Gulf coast of the UAE.
Dubai is on the eastern Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf makes up part of its western border, [...]
The Government of Dubai
As in the USA, the emirates share a common military, political, legal and economic system but individual emirates within the UAE, like American states, have control over their own law enforcement and local facilities.
Like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, due to its population size and wealth, possesses the legislative power of veto over critical matters of [...]