ON a remote site at the edge of the Gulf of Oman, thousands of migrant workers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are at work in 40°C heat, toiling in shifts from dawn until nightfall to build a new city, a multibillion-dollar project backed by Oman’s oil-rich government that has an unusual partner: former US President Donald Trump.
Trump’s name is plastered on signs at the entrance of the project and in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in Muscat, the nearby capital of Oman, where a team of sales agents is invoking his name to help sell luxury villas at prices of up to US$13mil, mostly targeting super-rich buyers from around the world, including from Russia, Iran and India.