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Dubai silence not golden as debt looms, UAE Conglomerates

Dubai’s state-related entities borrowed billions during the boom to buy name brand assets abroad and build iconic landmark projects at home in the hope that investors would come.

While the high-leverage model was sustainable during healthy economic times, the global financial crisis has seen property prices fall more than 50 percent in Dubai and the value of many of the emirate's assets abroad fall sharply.

“Dubai has virtually no oil. Real estate was seen as the big revenue generator and that’s just about dead. They borrowed billions. They need to tell us how they plan to service this debt," an economist in London told Maktoob Business.

This article only proves that my observation (in Chinese) on Dubai was right; at least I share the same opinion with cool-headed media reports.

這篇報導證明我先前對杜拜的觀察是對的,至少跟腦筋清楚的媒體報導一樣。

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Jeremy's Boxxx:當權者一點都不在乎我們

在政治立場或情緒上,我應該算是溫和派的,但最近放水球事件、美牛進口與中科四期環評的新聞,實在令人感到不斷累加的憤怒!我的憤怒心情就像是Michael Jackson的經典歌曲《They Don't Care About Us》一樣,他們真的不在乎我們,這裡的「他們」指的就是政府!

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這三則新聞都不是藍綠的核心爭議,無關統獨,但卻是一再再地無法傾聽小老百姓的聲音,讓人怒不可遏,就如同Michael歌詞裡的一段「告訴我 我的權利而今何在/Tell me what has become of my rights,因為我的渺小讓你視而不見就可以忽視我嗎Am I invisible because you ignore me ?

這篇文章也是我想說的話。最近沒有時間和能力整理這方面的想法,所以直接推薦這篇文章,請關心這些基礎民生議題的朋友去看看。

The Taiwanese government is deceiving people, especially who are in the agriculture prefectures, on issues such as importing potentially hazardous American beef and internal organs, passive attitude to illegal gamling on professional baseball leagues (similar to the Black Sox Scandal in the US) and using farmlands in central Taiwan to assist highly pollutional manufacturing industries (called "Science Park"). We care about these, but the incapable, selfish government doesn't seem to.

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