These ripples are part of Singapore's transformation from a micro-managed melting pot into a cosmopolitan city-state.
Mozambique's capital, Maputo is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city bursting with lively sidewalk cafes and jazz venues.
The seeds of mistrust between the two largest communities in India's most cosmopolitan city had been firmly planted.
"But it will also reflect the fact that London is an international, cosmopolitan city, " the Migrants' Rights Network spokesman said.
It is still quite rare to see black people even in the Polish capital Warsaw, Poland's most cosmopolitan city, the BBC's Adam Easton reports.
They also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, and then in Istanbul, the capital of the vast Ottoman Turkish Empire, in 1554.
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Living here means not only surviving, but learning to appreciate the daily tumult, epic traffic and seasonal monsoons, while enjoying life in the most cosmopolitan city on the subcontinent.
These days, Perth is a vibrant cosmopolitan city which still enjoys Mediterranean climate and rightly claims to offer more hours of sunshine than any other Australian state capital.
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Images of a confident, cosmopolitan city coping extremely well with the Olympics and enjoying the event have been beamed across the globe, replacing the shameful scenes of rioting last summer.
Sandy Alderson has a clear vision as to how the Mets should be rebuilt and will rewrite the definition of what it takes to win on an economical budget in a major cosmopolitan city.
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In the wake of the Madoff scandal and other well-documented financial woes, Alderson will have to run the baseball operations as if the Mets were based in a Midwestern city on a fixed budget instead of a major cosmopolitan city with a blank checkbook.
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The most cosmopolitan city in Africa, Jo' burg has always been thoroughly multicultural, but a wave of xenophobic attacks in May 2008 highlighted the tension between locals and the huge number of African immigrants who have moved to the city, attracted by its relative economic vigor.
Shanghai, a cosmopolitan world city decades before the Communist takeover of the country, expanded almost 50% since 2000.
Its social conservatism has limited its appeal in cosmopolitan Mexico City, where the mayor, the PRD's Marcelo Ebrard, has legalised gay adoption.
Tour Sarajevo (often called the Jerusalem of Eastern Europe), a cosmopolitan European city with a unique Eastern twist and get some awesome hiking under your boots.
An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.
He and Lu, both from the remote northwestern province of Xinjiang, chose to live and base their office in the city of Hangzhou, rather than cosmopolitan Shanghai two hours away, because of the lakeside city's age-old connection to Chinese literature and art.
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This was necessary given Singapore's cosmopolitan nature as a gateway city and the demands of its international clientele.
Every night something is going on and the city feels totally cosmopolitan - it's a celebration of something huge.
Garajinstanbul, an international non-profit performing arts center, reflects the city's cosmopolitan bent.
The attacks I believe were as much assaults on what they share, the idea of the secular, cosmopolitan, free and tolerant city, as they were on the citadels of American monied and military power.
The city is once again flourishing, cosmopolitan and experiencing a building boom.
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Among the city's advantages are a cosmopolitan crowd and a vibrant dance-music culture, spawned in part by the popularity of the drug ecstasy.
Eisner's words are likely to provide some comfort for those in Hong Kong who fear the city is losing some of the special cosmopolitan flavor that had once made it such an attractive place to live.
While a recent inflow of migrants from eastern Europe has restored to Salonika some of its old diversity, not much in today's spanking modern city reminds the visitor of a rich, cosmopolitan past: only the ghosts evoked by an occasional Jewish or Ottoman building, if you are sensitive to that kind of thing.
Rather, the difference reflected the more open, cosmopolitan, "Europe-friendly" feelings of people in the capital city, compared to the more traditional values of the countryside, with its nostalgia for Sweden's "separate identity".
But it also reflects a cosmopolitan tradition that has long been part of the character of this diverse Mediterranean port city, a thriving trading center for thousands of years and a place where 18 officially recognized religious sects live -- most of the time -- in a state of respectful coexistence.
New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets, and it can be hard to imagine any service or facility the city is lacking.
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