Great idea! now we will be able to see the city's dirty laundry hanging from every window. Probably can get myself some decent free threads on windy days

It's really a good news and step forward .Dubai is a good place to visit .

Remove cages - residents feel exposed - fit burglar alarms - alarms will inevitably malfunction, result: Ever more noise pollution. Alternatively: more 'security guards' (thugs) walking around with evil looking sticks.

Sounds like a good year to be a burglar...

Would that all the petrol-powered cars would be replaced by electric scooters or electric cars! An old-fashioned electric trolley system would be good, too.

i have no great desire to visit Dubai but could be a useful layover for Europe if it was Emirates rather than China Eastern. Eg Kunming > Dubai > London.
A couple of hours in the "worst of a sick system" to change planes would surely be bearable!

What's with all the hate for Dubai? It's not like Shanghai, or New York were beacons of virtue and great places to visit when they were being built on slave labor.

Furthermore, who else than stupid Chinese package group or "nouveau riche" could enjoy holiday in Dubai?
Anyone who doubt about it, should make some research about tourism in Dubai. It remains what it si, a vain attempt to make something of nothing, in the middle of nowhere

definitely good time to start this flight!
Dubai personifies the worst of a sick system. As well as, soon, the country from where the flight originates.

Where's Sandra's (formerly The Box II) on this list? One of my top picks this year, to be sure, despite the somewhat out of the way location...

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Me thinks he have a point :-)

Just because the government does something does not mean it is wrong (or right for that matter).

They saved an innocent girl's life. Any society would have done it.

if only it could be Emirates rather than China Eastern.

i'm quite sure, if he's put into the *right* prison, he won't even make three years. *snicker*

No one deserves death penalty.