More monitors lure crowds at Wharf Holdings' huge Times Square complex in commercial hub Causeway Bay.
Observers also question whether elections can take place safely in the sprawling mega-city of Karachi, Pakistan's main commercial hub.
The building, in Savar, a commercial hub just north of Dhaka, "did not receive planning permission, " Mr. Mannan said.
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Fighting also raged in and around the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its main commercial hub, they said.
China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.
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One reason the U.S. and many other countries maintain substantial consular staff in the city is its role as a commercial hub for the region.
He says residents of Aleppo, a northern city regarded as the country's commercial hub, will know what to expect if they have seen what happened in Damascus.
Few Syrians now dare to drive on the country's main artery, the highway from the capital north to Aleppo, a commercial hub, fearing ambushes on the road.
Still, the choice of Dubai, a commercial hub with friendly ties to the West, as a venue for the assassination has discomfited some Israelis in intelligence circles.
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But in Bahrain police are still engaged in near-daily fights with protesters, mainly in the rundown Shia villages that surround the wealthy commercial hub of Manama, the capital.
In Sydney, Australia's commercial hub, frustration over the dearth of investment in the congested transport system helped deliver swathes of suburban seats in former Labor strongholds to the conservative Liberal-National coalition.
Timbuktu was a thriving commercial hub and a center of Islamic scholarship in the 14th and 15th centuries, and it's home to three clay mosques that date back more than 700 years.
Salvage workers said they had reached the basement of the building in Savar, a commercial hub about 10 miles north of the capital Dhaka, and were unlikely to recover significant numbers of new bodies.
Dubai welcomes business from China to set up here and take advantage of its role as a regional trading and commercial hub, His Excellency Mohammed Al Shaibani, CEO of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, said at press conference ahead of the opening of the Forbes Global CEO Conference today.
Stamford is one of five cities in Connecticut with a population above 100, 000 and has gradually emerged as a critical commercial and financial hub over the last few years.
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.
The Transport Committee (at 4.35pm) has a session following up its research on the commercial viability of a new hub airport to replace Heathrow.
Israel could be to its region what Germany has been to Europe, the hub of a robust commercial zone where a rising tide lifts all boats.
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Yin's Chongqin Lifan Industry Group is already the number three investor in the Chongqing City Commercial Bank, headquartered in China's motorcycle manufacturing hub, but he's looking to put more money into the industry.
Thus did he open the entire western U.S. to commercial development and secure Chicagos role as the nations future rail hub.
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