11.   Today, Tangshan is again a prosperous industrial city.

12.   With a well-educated population and abundant farmland nearby, Hebron has historically been the most prosperous city on the West Bank.

13.   Like much of inland Portugal, it was drained of life by a decades-long exodus to more prosperous cities by the sea.

14.   Mayor Chen Shui-bian insisted on the crackdown, saying Taipei is a prosperous city where the prostitutes could obtain more decent jobs.

15.   The worst results came in Weimar, a city in former East Germany, and Lausanne, a highly prosperous Swiss city.

16.   These areas are already switching to vegetable and fruit production to meet rising demand from prosperous coastal cities like Shanghai.

17.   In a speech over the weekend, Goh denounced persistent Western criticism of Singapore, a prosperous city state which discourages political opposition and press criticism.

18.   But the goal of restoring this once prosperous city still appears to be far away.

19.   Singapore, a prosperous city state of three million people where dissent is discouraged in favour of consensus and national stability, reacts strongly to foreign criticism.