The first silent pictures in the US were shot in multiple eastern cities.
Food delivery is commonplace in many Asian and Middle Eastern cities, from independent restaurants and local chains to hotels.
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China housing prices have soared over the last five years, especially in the eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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The Front's core issues - immigration, crime, de-industrialisation - resonate less there than in the working class suburbs of northern, southern and eastern cities.
It came about not because New York got green religion, but because the population, unlike that in most of America's other large, old, north-eastern cities, is growing.
The Chinese brewing industry is now growing at a rate of 13% per year, helped by the country's fast-growing economy and greater urbanisation in its eastern cities.
While Middle Eastern cities often replicate European and North American trends, Rainbow Street is a world away from the new-money glamour and in-your-face glitz of Beirut or Dubai.
Mr Kerry's schedule includes meetings foreign ministers and leaders in European capitals including Paris, Rome and Ankara before a tour of the Middle Eastern cities including Cairo, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
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"It's almost unimaginable, the boom that has occurred in these Eastern cities, " says Emil Pocock, a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, whose American Studies department has documented the sizes and amenities of the world's largest malls.
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"China's wealth is spreading beyond the entertainment industry's traditionally big markets in eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and moving further out into second- and third-tier cities, " says Echo Yang, who compiled the list for Forbes China.
In an article on Tuesday in China Daily, reporter Chen Xin interviewed a 35 year old mechanic named Zhang Hongbo who reportedly returned to his hometown Nanchong in Sichuan province for Spring Festival and decided not to go back to his ten year job in Guangzhou, one of the three major Eastern cities.
The latest trend is for foreign investment flows into second and third tier cities rather than the major eastern seaboard cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
The hardy Norway maple is actually the most common in eastern Canadian cities.
Beyond New York City, public transport has been halted in several eastern US cities, and thousands of flights have been grounded.
Meanwhile, more than one in 10 dwellings in the eastern German cities of Chemnitz, Leipzig and Halle were found to be empty.
Eastern Chinese cities have been closing live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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Beijing and major eastern Chinese cities have closed live poultry markets and are taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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Ever since China opened its doors for business in 1978, there have been foreign workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other large Eastern coastal cities.
Eastern Chinese cities have been closing live poultry markets and taking other measures to try to contain the disease which has killed six to date.
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Rising wages, rising inflation, high cost of housing in Eastern China cities and an aging population are all growing concerns for the government, and China investors.
Eastern Chinese cities where most H7N9 cases have been concentrated have closed live poultry markets and are taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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Eastern Chinese cities where most H7N9 cases have been concentrated have also closed live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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Housing prices in the big eastern seaboard cities like Beijing and Shanghai remain high compared to where they were five years ago, but have been coming down month over month due to the current policies that curb lending to the sector and restrict home purchases, especially for non-resident home buyers, foreign investors, and second or third home buyers.
While Europeans coastal cities have invested billions to build storm locks and barriers, Eastern U.S. cities have done relatively little, making them more vulnerable to higher sea levels and storm surges.
Yangtse Evening Post reports "severe" air pollution in Nanjing and other major cities of eastern Jiangsu province.
Several cities in eastern China have suspended trading in live poultry in an effort to contain the problem.
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Cities in eastern China where H7N9 first appeared have been closing live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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The bus offers cheap service to cities on the Eastern Seaboard, and passengers often line up along the streets of Midtown.
Those who provided labour for the housing boom in America (notably Latinos), Ireland (Poles) and China (rural Chinese going to cities on the eastern seaboard) have been among the first to be laid off.
It is a question which must occur to any sentient traveller in the cities of the eastern Mediterranean. where great civilisations have risen, glittered brilliantly, then vanished into kingdoms of broken stone and dust.
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