21.   Dubai is the commercial hub of the oil-rich Gulf region.

22.   Dubai, a commercial hub in the Gulf, attracts thousands of Russians every year on shopping sprees to take advantage of low-tax prices.

23.   Efforts will also be made for Taiwan to become an Asian commercial hub by easing financial restrictions and building industrial parks, it said.

24.   From the sprawling commercial hub of Lagos to countless countryside shanties, most Nigerians live without clean water, reliable electricity or even basic health care.

25.   Gunfire could be heard from the cordoned-off Borella area, the commercial hub of Colombo, up to an hour after the explosion.

26.   Ho Chi Minh City is the commercial hub of Vietnam.

27.   In Jamalpur and Gomtipur neighborhoods of Ahmadabad, the commercial hub of Gujarat, mob clashes overnight left at least four people injured.

28.   Israeli soldiers opened access roads to the West Bank town of Ramallah, a commercial hub just north of Jerusalem that had been sealed off the past two days.

29.   Local leaders organized trucks to ferry protesters to Praya, a commercial hub bordered by rice paddies.

30.   Members of the cult had said earlier that some disaster would befall Shinjuku, a commercial hub in northwest Tokyo.