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...Citi was supposed to be a company where it mattered that a wealthy private client in the U.S. was doing business with the same Citi that was trading euro futures in Dubai. This would not have worked even in a world where every manager could see the breadth of the entire company and executives were never territorial. And Citi did not have either of those advantages...
...Women unfamiliar with rugby culture needn't worry. A Girl's Guide to Rugby accompanies each book; it doesn't just explain the meaning of offside and line-outs but also provides information about where to view matches - they can jet off to Dubai for the International Rugby Sevens or catch the Tri Nations tournament in Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Readers will find out about rugby's various positions through the stories too. In The Prince's Waitress Wife, Holly encounters the word hooker and exclaims to the prince, "I can't believe they named a rugby position...
What Global Warming? Dubai is reportedly building the world's first refrigerated beach; heat-absorbing pipes running under the sand will keep the surface of the beach from getting too hot, and giant wind-blowers will cool suntanners. The idea is to prevent the wealthy guests of the neighboring Palazzo Versace hotel from burning their delicate feet on the searing hot sand. If all else fails, they can always go back to that centuries-old device - shoes. (See 10 things to do in Dubai...
...depiction of the Philippines' experience with overseas migration captures what I have seen in many parts of the country. Most of the newly constructed concrete homes you find in rural areas are built from remittances; people point to the homes and describe them as "from Saudi," "from Dubai," "from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say, "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalization and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary...
...this era of globalization, many trading corporations have pressured their respective governments to take action. The gulf also contains a very profitable tourist route for high-end cruises. On Tuesday, the 246 passengers aboard the cruise ship MS Columbus, owned by the German firm Hapag-Lloyd, were flown to Dubai in order to avoid the danger zone. The secretary-general of the German tourist federation, Hans-Gustav Koch, claimed that in order to cope with the pirates, “We want escorts.” Both the U.S.’s diplomatic initiative...