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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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Saudi Gazette

1 hr middot

The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

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Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

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historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

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look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and

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expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people

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Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui

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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Yesterday at 430pm middot

Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

waters that are subject to territorial disputes with its neighbours Take a

look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

East China Sea and South China Sea

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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and

rescue its economy

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Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER

Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK

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15 hrs middot

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expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people

GOOGL

Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui

shared DawateIslamis video Hamara Madani Maqsad

Hamara Madani Maqsad - Mujhey Apni aur Sari Duniya Ke Logon Ki Islah Ki

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All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal

Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

Write a comment

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1 hr middot

The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Yesterday at 430pm middot

Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

waters that are subject to territorial disputes with its neighbours Take a

look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

East China Sea and South China Sea

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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and

rescue its economy

Watch more on httpajeme1nhDuRN

Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER

Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK

(MPACUK)

15 hrs middot

MI5 accused in further case of complicity in torture -iENGAGE

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Infographic Ukraines much-anticipated presidential elections are due to

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Makkah mega project unveiled

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Makkah mega project unveiledThe gov ernment plans to spend SR1 60 billion ov er the next 20 y ears to

expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people

GOOGL

Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui

shared DawateIslamis video Hamara Madani Maqsad

Hamara Madani Maqsad - Mujhey Apni aur Sari Duniya Ke Logon Ki Islah Ki

Koshish Karni Hai

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امرأة

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All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal

Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad

أخطر مغامرة بطلتھا امرأة

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Mutlabs photo

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

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There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

Write a comment

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1 hr middot

The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Yesterday at 430pm middot

Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

waters that are subject to territorial disputes with its neighbours Take a

look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

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Can Afghanistan harness a fortune in unexploited precious stones and

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Afghanistans hidden gemsAL JAZEERA ENGLISH | BY PEOPLE AND POWER

Mir Omer via Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK

(MPACUK)

15 hrs middot

MI5 accused in further case of complicity in torture -iENGAGE

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expand Makkah with a new residential area for 800000 people

GOOGL

Tahir Attari Qadri Ahmedabad and Muhammad Sarfaraz Siddiqui

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Hamara Madani Maqsad - Mujhey Apni aur Sari Duniya Ke Logon Ki Islah Ki

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9 hrs middot

All i noticed she was wearing a GoPro Muhammad Umer Faisal

Qayoom Waseem Ahmad Shumail Mohyuddin Basir Ahmad

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

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A snippet of an article about Dubai from the Independent

There are three different Dubais all swirling around each other There are the

expats there are the Emiratis headed by Sheikh Mohammed and then there is the

foreign underclass who built the city and are trapped here They are hidden in plainview You see them everywhere in dirt-caked blue uniforms being shouted at by

their superiors like a chain gang ndash but you are trained not to look It is like a mantra

the Sheikh built the city The Sheikh built the city Workers What workers

Every evening the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are

bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town where theyare quarantined away Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on

cattle trucks but the expats complained this was unsightly so now they are shunted

on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat They sweat

like sponges being slowly wrung out

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete

buildings Some 300000 men live piled up here in a place whose name in Hindimeans City of Gold In the first camp I stop at ndash riven with the smell of sewage and

sweat ndash the men huddle around eager to tell someone anyone what is happening

to them

Sahinal Monir a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh To get you here

they tell you Dubai is heaven Then you get here and realise it is hell he says Four

years ago an employment agent arrived in Sahinals village in SouthernBangladesh He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could

earn 40000 takka a month (pound400) just for working nine-to-five on construction

projects It was a place where they would be given great accommodation great

food and treated well All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220000 takka

(pound2300) for the work visa ndash a fee theyd pay off in the first six months easy SoSahinal sold his family land and took out a loan from the local lender to head to

this paradise

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport his passport was taken from him by his

construction company He has not seen it since He was told brusquely that from

now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat ndash where western

tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer when it hits55 degrees ndash for 500 dirhams a month (pound90) less than a quarter of the wage he

was promised If you dont like it the company told him go home But how can I go

home You have my passport and I have no money for the ticket he said Well

then youd better get to work they replied

Sahinal was in a panic His family back home ndash his son daughter wife and parents

ndash were waiting for money excited that their boy had finally made it But he was goingto have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here ndash and

all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh

He shows me his room It is a tiny poky concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds

where he lives with 11 other men All his belongings are piled onto his bunk three

shirts a spare pair of trousers and a cellphone The room stinks because thelavatories in the corner of the camp ndash holes in the ground ndash are backed up with

excrement and clouds of black flies There is no air conditioning or fans so the heat

is unbearable You cannot sleep All you do is sweat and scratch all night At the

height of summer people sleep on the floor on the roof anywhere where they can

pray for a moment of breeze

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isnt properly desalinatedit tastes of salt It makes us sick but we have nothing else to drink he says

The work is the worst in the world he says You have to carry 50kg bricks and

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

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Interactive May 2014 has seen China rapidly escalating its presence in

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look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

East China Sea and South China Sea

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15 hrs middot

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blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable This heat ndash it is like nothing else

You sweat so much you cant pee not for days or weeks Its like all the liquid comes

out through your skin and you stink You become dizzy and sick but you arent

allowed to stop except for an hour in the afternoon You know if you drop anything orslip you could die If you take time off sick your wages are docked and you are

trapped here even longer

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower where he builds

upwards into the sky into the heat He doesnt know its name In his four years

here he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame except as he constructs it floor-

by-floorIs he angry He is quiet for a long time Here nobody shows their anger You cant

You get put in jail for a long time then deported Last year some workers went on

strike after they were not given their wages for four months The Dubai police

surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out

and back to work

The ringleaders were imprisoned I try a different question does Sohinal regretcoming All the men look down awkwardly How can we think about that We are

trapped If we start to think about regrets He lets the sentence trail off Eventually

another worker breaks the silence by adding I miss my country my family and my

land We can grow food in Bangladesh Here nothing grows Just oil and buildings

Since the recession hit they say the electricity has been cut off in dozens of thecamps and the men have not been paid for months Their companies have

disappeared with their passports and their pay We have been robbed of everything

Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh the loan sharks will demand we repay

our loans immediately and when we cant well be sent to prison

This is all supposed to be illegal Employers are meant to pay on time never take

your passport give you breaks in the heat ndash but I met nobody who said it happensNot one These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying with the

complicity of the Dubai authorities

Sahinal could well die out here A British man who used to work on construction

projects told me Theres a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the

construction sites but theyre not reported Theyre described as accidents Even

then their families arent free they simply inherit the debts A Human Rights Watchstudy found there is a cover-up of the true extent of deaths from heat exhaustion

overwork and suicide but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their

nationals in 2005 alone After this figure was leaked the consulates were told to

stop counting

At night in the dusk I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrapetogether what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits They down it in one

ferocious gulp It helps you to feel numb Sohinal says through a stinging throat In

the distance the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands oblivious

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1 hr middot

The disregard shown for the cityrsquos history has proven to be polarizing with

opponents saying the expansion plans include an inconsiderate removal of

historical artifacts from the time of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be

upon him) while proponents say the artifacts may lead to lsquobidrsquoahrsquo

(innovation in religious matters) and therefore should be destroyed

anyway Al-Riyadh daily reported

Destroying history mdash Conflicting opinions on MadinahartifactsThe tone of truth and moderation

SAUDIGAZETTECOMSA | BY SAUDI GAZETTE

Ahmad Raza posted a video to Muhammad Imran Maliks

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Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

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look httpajeme1jFtYW0

Interactive South China Sea disputesAl Jazeera looks at the row between China and its neighbours ov er islands in

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