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Just read an interesting dispatch from Britain's The Observer on the recent jailings of expats in Dubai. We've covered Poppy-gate and other unfortunate brushes with the law in Dubai, but this article really gives you a clear picture of the two worlds ...

By now, you all must be familiar with the Dubai Shopping Festival. In its 12th year running (this year January 24-February 24), for the world it is a shopping wet-dream; the height of splurge -- justified because it's "the best bargain on the ...

It's hard to remember that Dubai is actually a desert. Even though it has a coastline, the interior has always been an arid desert. Of the sick amount of money that Dubai spends on having the tallest, biggest, best stuff, it also spends quite a bit ...

Other than my occasional rant here at Gadling, we almost always talk about Dubai's mind-blowing developments. As much as I think that Dubai's growth, development, and all-round vision is extraordinary, I can't help but wonder: how, in this extended ...

Nothing phases me in Dubai anymore. Anything and everything is possible in this city, so when I read news like this: "Dubai plans self-powered skyscraper with individually rotating floors," I'm quite numb. Opening para: "A $350 million tower to be ...

It has been declared a public holiday in Dubai tomorrow because of Bush's visit. The notice people get? Not even 24-hours. All private and public sectors will be closed, and so will all the main roads. In other words, doing anything tomorrow will ...

The fact that I left Dubai and continually seem to be ranting about the city here might make you think I hate it. Truth is, I don't. I've just had enough of it, and would never want to live there again. The city does have its own charm, something I ...

We've written about QE2 before. The last post was Jeffrey's report that the ship had made it to Dubai with great fanfare. When I read yesterday that the QE2 was to be cut in half, I pictured two halves of this magnificent ocean liner floating around ...

We wrote here on Gadling about Dubai arresting people for having a spec of marijuana on their shoes while transiting through the airport, and then sentencing them to 4-years in Dubai Central Prison. I'm currently in Dubai and in the 3 days that I've ...

This is definitely one of the most innovative promotions I have seen coming out of Dubai: 3-star Arabian Park Hotel in Dubai is offering free meals to anyone who has lost their job because of the credit crunch. The promotion is not only open to ...

This week, Big in Japan is on vacation in the Middle East, and will be bringing you travel news and happenings from this often misunderstood region. Read the news on any given day, and you'll mostly likely hear about the biggest, tallest, and most ...

It is easy to be oblivious to events happening in Dubai, simply because of the number of them happening throughout the year. Most of them are hyped in the media to give you nausea (e.g.GITEX), or they are events that you go to just to be seen ...

Remember the names Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors? They are the two Brits who weren't really a couple until they met at a champagne brunch in Dubai, got drunk, and then proceeded to get frisky on a beach. Before that party, they didn't know each ...

The latest soon-to-sprout architectural bewilderment in Dubai is the Dubai Pearl. It's hard not to be entertained by Dubai's fetish for constructing (well, wanting to construct) rare-shaped buildings: a cube, a chess piece, a tulip, numbers (1 and ...

Sometimes the creativity that blistering hot weather breeds is truly mind-boggling: Pallazo Versace Hotel has decided to create a temperature controlled beach extending out and around its new hotel in Dubai, so that the "top people" (ugh) don't burn ...