Its 350, 000 residents live in seven distinct districts, each with its own commercial centre.
At least 600 people have died this year in gun battles in Karachi, Pakistan's chief port and commercial centre.
Karachi, the country's main port and commercial centre, is still rent by violence.
Last autumn, he had imposed direct rule by the central government, primarily to bring order to violence-prone Karachi, the country's commercial centre.
Officials have been trying to protect the commercial centre of Bangkok after flooding spread to northern districts of the city earlier this month.
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Thought to have once been a commercial centre for trade, only 10% of the Lost City has been excavated by archaeologists, giving it an eerie, haunted atmosphere.
Behind the autonomy proposal lies long resentment in a commercial centre at what it sees as the squandering of its wealth by metropolitan bureaucrats.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
South of this overwhelming commercial and entertainment centre, Tokyo begins to take on a more moneyed polish.
World War II brought construction to a halt, but in the 1950s, EUR was revitalised into a busy commercial and residential centre with stark, travertine buildings, axially-planned street planning and looming columns.
Last January, Hebron's 120, 000 Palestinians were asked to sanction an agreement whereby the city's commercial and religious centre (plus 20, 000 Palestinians) is ruled by the Israeli army in order to protect 400 Jewish settlers and religious students who, over the past 20 years, have squatted illegally in their midst.
Campaigners fighting to save the centre in Greenock assembled commercial and leisure craft near the Navy Buildings in Greenock.
The centre has been funded by commercial and public-sector contributions.
The centre of world economic and commercial activity from about the eighth and ninth centuries until around the dawn of the 18th century was the area encompassed by the Islamic empires, India, Southeast Asia and the coastal areas of China.
In Gujarat, for example, Ahmedabad, the commercial capital, is riot prone but Surat, a textile centre, is not.
The county council is already working with a commercial developer to transform the site into a hotel, heritage centre, restaurants and apartments.
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For other types of commercial property it might mean something different: a great logistics centre with a long lease, for instance, might be near a motorway and nothing much else.
He said Mayor of London Boris Johnson would work with the boroughs to develop plans that may include redeveloping land for commercial use, improving transport infrastructure in Tottenham and establishing Croydon as a retail centre.
Cycling through the Historic Centre becomes a kaleidoscopic journey, a surreal succession of sombre colonial structures, frenetic commercial activity and feathered Aztec dancers.
By the same token, a route that links Disney World, a convention centre, two airports and two of Florida's biggest cities sounds like a reasonable commercial proposition, especially when the federal government is paying most of the bill.
But even if Saadiyat succeeds in a commercial sense, that will not make it a regional let alone a global financial centre.
Call centre staff in Swansea work for its new business, customer services and renewals departments, plus commercial vehicle insurance business Gladiator.
Blackstone , a private-equity group, added to its expanding commercial-property portfolio by joining Brookfield , a Toronto-based property firm that owns the World Financial Centre in New York, to buy Trizec Properties and its Canadian holding company.
New zones, such as the commercial and financial hub of Zuidas in south Amsterdam, are attracting Dutch companies who are relocating from the city centre, plus international corporations and their employees.
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