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Saudi ‘giga projects’: High ambitions and risks

AFP, Riyadh :From a holographic lion to talking robots and flying taxis, Saudi Arabia has dazzled investors with plans for hi-tech “giga projects”-but sceptics question their viability in an era of cheap oil. The kingdom has revealed plans to build NEOM, a mega project billed as a regional Silicon Valley, in addition to an entertainment city in Riyadh that would rival Walt Disney and the Red Sea project, a reef-fringed resort destination. The blueprints for the projects were on display...

30 Oct 2017, 12:00 am