Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dubai's Multi-million-dollar Extravaganza Party

Crisis? What crisis? Dubai hotel to throw 20 mln dlr party
AFP
Dubai is throwing a multi-million-dollar extravaganza on Thursday to launch a luxury hotel on an artificial palm-shaped island, despite the bite from the global financial crisis.
More than 2,000 world celebrities are due to attend the event which has been dubbed by the local press as "the party of the decade." ...

GOLD Coast Developer Sunland Group Negotiating Purchase of Two High Rise Development Sites -- in Abu Dhabi and Qatar

Sunland looks past Dubai horizon
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
GOLD Coast developer Sunland Group is negotiating to purchase two high rise development sites -- one in Abu Dhabi and one in Qatar -- as it diversifies outside the overheated Dubai property market. ...

Dubai Won't Set up State-funded Loan Facility

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai, the second-biggest of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, is not in talks with the federal government on setting up a state-funded loan facility for its companies, a government official said. ...