21.   Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been saying that Malaysia expects to become a major financial hub.

22.   Executions are rare in Bahrain, a generally low-crime island that is a financial hub and home to a U.S. Navy base.

23.   Executions are rare in Bahrain, a generally low-crime Gulf leisure and financial hub as well as home to a key U.S. Navy base.

24.   Government and a private consortium are developing Fort Bonifacio into a financial hub in the capital region.

25.   He said Thursday he understood the financial problems facing Frankfurt but that closing the ballet would be a grave loss to the German financial hub.

26.   Hong Kong is a world-class financial hub glittering with jewelry shops and luxury cars under a glorious skyline.

27.   In a continuing effort to develop Singapore into the premier financial hub of the region, the government announced broad measures Thursday that will liberalize its fund management industry.

28.   It also would mark a significant escalation in the anti-government campaign that intensified last month in this key Gulf financial hub.

29.   It is a financial hub and boasts a relatively open society where women enjoy more rights than in other Gulf countries and where alcohol is readily available.

30.   Most of the banks had lost computer links with their offices in Osaka, a financial hub, and were transporting in documents to reconstruct records.