On the roadside, labourers are building an elaborate 10m-high steel and concrete map of the world topped by giant red characters declaring: "Construction of a New Airport City for the Capital.

在道路两旁，工人们正在搭建一幅精心制作高达10米的钢铁混凝土的世界地图，置顶的是几个巨大的红字：为首都建设新空港城。

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Like most residents of the Philippines' capital, the 18-year-old construction worker was used to heavy rains pelting the city.

像菲律宾首都的大多数居民一样，这个18岁的建筑工人早就习惯于暴雨侵袭城市。

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Like a cheap counterfeiter, Than Shwe tried to imitate the Kings of old by ordering the construction of a replica Shwedagon in the new capital.

像一个卑贱的造假者那样，丹瑞通过下令在新都建造一个大金塔的仿制品来努力模仿古代的帝王。

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Also,Israel will not halt construction in disputed East Jerusalem, which it sees as part of the indivisible capital of the Jewish state.

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The freeze does not include 3,000 Jewish homes already under construction in the West Bank and does not apply to disputed East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seek as the capital of their future state.

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Mr Brown is particularly good on the battle of ideas, symbolised by the construction of two of the capital's landmarks.

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To give a few examples: the small Central American state of Belize was further impoverished by the construction of a new capital, Belmopan, in the 1960s-1970s, whose cost spiralled to four times its original estimate.

ECONOMIST: The pros and cons of capital flight

"I look at it and I'm in wonder, I'm in awe, " says engineer Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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