The Expo will be just like the Olympics, only much bigger and far more exorbitant.
The amateur politician won and the expo was canned, much to the delight of taxpayers.
The expo board's chairwoman, SNP MSP Jean Urquhart, said the housing market was experiencing difficult times.
Following the expo, the properties were to be sold off, or made available to rent.
Of course, the rest of the Expo site is not going to waste either.
China sees the Expo, like the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as a chance to flaunt its strength.
The expo's promoters reckon that only 10% of the 15m expected visitors will come from overseas.
The students created projects while at home and school to be exhibited at the Expo.
The expo is coming to a close on 12 August 2012 with the Yeosu Declaration Forum.
Normally, the two officers would be riding the Expo Line, checking passengers for proof of fare payment.
Now on to the expo floor where we can put some of this hype to the test.
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Even before the Expo, a Sofitel hotel manager I spoke to was concerned about overbuilding in the city.
Ground zero of this is the village of Zhaohang, about 15km (9 miles) east of the expo site.
Some 55, 000 people had to make way for the expo site on the banks of the Huangpu River.
In March, a book about the expo said more exhibitions of its kind should be held in the future.
For the past couple years, the expo has been held in Seville, Spain.
One wonders who is going to fill these rooms once the expo closes at the end of the month.
The Expo is to be held mainly for the 48 Asia-Pacific Member States.
Any disruption to the Expo would have caused China's rulers to lose face, and they do not like losing face.
Publsihed on the Scottish government's website, the book charts the expo's successes and failures before concluding others should be staged.
The Expo 2012 Organizing Committee forecasts that approximately ten million visitors will come to the Expo during the entire period.
During the Expo the authorities let it be known, informally, that any gathering of more than 40 people would be frowned upon.
The logos of the main gaming companies tower over the expo while many people wait in long queues to hear keynote speakers.
The expo, which runs until February, is not open to the public.
In the introduction to the book, Housing Minister Alex Neil congratulates Highland Council and the Highland Housing Alliance for what the expo achieved.
When the projects are finished in 2015, visitors will be able to walk roughly 10km from the Bund over to the Expo site.
The show was packed with attendees and the expo floor was busier than I can remember in the last seven years I have attended.
It will be open during the entire duration of the Expo, hosting events such as a Model UN General Assembly and a musical gala.
Seeming as benign as Casper the Friendly Ghost, these gleaming, motorized white forms welcomed visitors to the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka.
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One of the more interesting products at the expo was Agenda's Linux-based PDA, the VR3, which the company expects to ship in October or November.
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