According to WSPA, confusion in the laws and inconsistent sentencing has helped make London a global hub for the trade in threatened species.
Many low-cost car producers have set up shop in India, and McKinsey believes it could become a global hub for small-car production the way the U.S. is for pickups.
It argued that the UK could be a global hub for the video games and special effects industries - but only if its education system got its act together.
Twenty years ago it was a run-down city in a developing country which barely registered on the economic Richter scale, let alone as a global hub for air travel.
In the end, three of the ideas were chosen for implementation, and work is already underway on one of them: To position Iceland as a global hub for green energy investment.
Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Less populist, Tim Clark, president of Emirates, which has ordered 45 planes to fulfil its ambitions of establishing Dubai as a new global hub, says that business and first-class passengers will enter through separate doors to an exclusive upper deck.
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By deploying so many large, economical aircraft from a vast base, open around the clock and halfway between Europe and Asia, Emirates could in effect run a global hub, reducing European airports to a feeder role and impoverishing their associated flag carriers.
The Davies commission will publish an interim report by the end of 2013, with ideas on how to improve the use of existing runway capacity over the next five years and an assessment of what is needed to maintain the UK's global hub status.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the deal highlighted the "North Sea's position as a global energy hub".
Silicon Valley will remain the global tech hub followed by China though innovation centers in clusters around the world will matter more.
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Houston isn't only the world's energy capital but also boasts the world's largest medical center and, along with Dallas, has become a major corporate and global transportation hub.
Casino operators have increasingly seen their revenues coming from Asia, at the expense of Las Vegas, which was overtaken by Macau in 2006 as the global gambling hub.
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With the joint venture strategically based in China, the global manufacturing hub, we believe the company is eying robust growth in shipments from this division and consequently higher margins.
You'd do even better if you could link the north directly into Heathrow Airport, where the diminishing air links to the north of Britain are a growing problem of connectivity with this global aviation hub.
Takeda and Astellas have both moved their global research and development hub to America.
To see the breadth of those countries represented in that room is to see how NATO has truly become a hub of global security.
Public policy played a critical role in planning the right roads, rail lines and ports that positioned Chicago as a global transportation and logistics hub 50 years ago.
"The whole central European region will be the next hub for the global business community", he said.
Yeandle said that many respondents felt finance is so global that a linked trading hub is required in each main time zone.
We all know that the internet has matured into the hub of the modern global marketplace.
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It will be another reminder that NATO is truly a hub of a network of global security partners.
The investment is "part of Huawei's long term commitment to position its operations in India as a hub for the company's global operations, " said Ross Gan, a spokesman from the Shenzhen-based company.
The takeover stoked fear among global security experts that Mali could become a new hub for terrorism.
Those events stoked fear among global security experts that Mali could become a new hub for terrorism.
Friday's statement could also be reassuring to global businesses who have helped turn Chongqing into a manufacturing hub in recent years and have been relying on the city's massive infrastructure improvements.
An increasingly dynamic city, Seoul is an exemplary hub of technology and engineering as South Korea achieves global greatness with brands such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai.
In other words, Silicon Valley has yielded to global forces, but it remains vital in manufacturing because it s still the hub.
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