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Article: D'you buy Dubai?
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- New Straits Times
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- November 1, 2008
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Andrew Wong
New Straits Times
11-01-2008
D'you buy Dubai?
Byline: Andrew Wong
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Property
Column: Prop talk
IT'S the world's largest theme park, sporting almost everything that developers can imagine. The world's bestest hotel; the world's tallest tower; the world's longest indoor ski slope; and soon, the world's largest retail mall at 20 million square feet. This is all in the Burj, the modern side of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates - and the result of what oil money can do when concentrated on 4,114 square kilometres of sand instead of being spread all over the world.
In the days preceding my visit to the city a fortnight ago to cover the tie-up between local ...