dubai is doing something right.

check out the difference between dubai in the year 1991 and 2005. amazing.

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a beautiful nightshot :

Dubai’s gross domestic product as of 2006 was US$46 billion. Although Dubai’s economy was built on the back of the oil industry, revenues from oil and natural gas currently account for less than 3% of the emirate’s revenues.

Dubai is an important tourist destination and its port, Jebel Ali, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest man-made harbor in the world. Dubai is also increasingly developing as a hub for service industries such as IT and finance, with the establishment of a new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The government has set up industry-specific free zones throughout the city. Dubai Internet City, combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclave whose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, and IBM, and media organisations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters and AP.

unfourtenatly they are not doing everything right ,

Dubai has over 250,000 foreign laborers, many of whom live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being “less than human”. NPR reports that workers “typically live eight to a room, sending home a portion of their salary to their families, whom they don’t see for years at a time.”

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