Exit Expo: Dubai world fair closes in blaze of fireworks


By AGENCY
  • Living
  • Friday, 01 Apr 2022

A file photo of visitors walking at the Al-Wasl Plaza at the Dubai Expo 2020 on Oct 1 last year. Photo: Karim Sahib/AFP

Dubai shuttered Expo 2020 with a colourful closing ceremony punctuated by fireworks yesterday (March 31), leaving a multi-billion dollar mini-city in the desert and heightened expectations for future hosts.

Six months after the delayed opening of the US$7bil (RM29bil), purpose-built site, Christina Aguilera, Norah Jones and cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed at the LCD-lit Al Wasl Dome, Expo's centrepiece, as pyrotechnics lit up the sprawling site.

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