Tent City Moving to Shanghai for Global Expo (AN)

Arab News, 12/05/2008

The tent city of Mina has been selected from 226 nominations for exhibition at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai. It is one of 55 city projects that will be featured as an examples of Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA). "“Saudi Arabia was the only Asian Arab country to win a place in the expo,” said Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Asheikh, deputy minister of municipal and rural affairs for town planning and the Kingdom’s representative to World Expo 2010."