1.   As a regional financial hub, few industries are as important here as financial services.

2.   But the scramble continued for people who live in the pricey neighborhoods and the firms that operated in the financial hub.

3.   Despite its uncertain future, it still offers the freest broadcasting base in the region and is the financial hub for both China and Southeast Asia.

4.   In Singapore, the government is struck by a contradictory impulse as it tries to establish Singapore as the communications and financial hub of Southeast Asia.

5.   It is now or never that Beirut will reclaim its place as a Middle East financial hub.

6.   Neighboring Malaysia has similar aims to be a regional financial hub, and that means attracting bond trading.

7.   New York is the financial hub of the universe.

8.   The outcome, according to gulf and American officials, may be a new partnership against terror in a critical Middle Eastern financial hub.

9.   The next year, he was approached about working for the stock exchange, which China hopes will transform Shanghai into a financial hub of Asia.

10.   Periodic clashes also have erupted between security forces and rioters in the streets of Bahrain, an important financial hub and base for the U.S. Navy in the region.