A timeline of events since the global economic crisis began:
2008
- Oct 5:The frenetic expansion of Dubai appears relentless as state-owned Nakheel announces plans for a building more than one kilometre tall, to top world record-holder Burj Dubai, already 688 metres in height and still rising.
- Oct 6: State-owned Meeras unveils proposals for the 95 billion-dollar Jumeirah Gardens city-within-a-city project, to rival Nakheel's flagship Palm Jumeirah artificial islands and The World, a 300-island development.
- Nov 4 - Dubai Mall, a shopping centre with room for 1,200 shops, finally starts trading after the opening was repeatedly delayed from the end of 2006.
- Nov 26: Cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 arrives in Dubai for transformation into a floating hotel.
- Nov 29: The Dubai Financial Market's losses since the start of the year reach 67 percent.
- Nov 30: Nakheel announces it has fired 500 staff and will be scaling back work on some projects. Only one of the three planned