Sentences with phrase «country as their hub»

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Japanese port city Fukuoka has been growing its reputation as a start - up hub under the leadership of Mayor Soichiro Takashima and is now the country's designated regulatory sandbox for start - ups.

The new contender for Silicon Valley North has displaced Waterloo, Ont., as the country's innovation hub, playing host to some of the biggest names in Canada's booming technology sector.

The Singapore dollar makes up 0.02 percent of daily global bitcoin trading volume but the country has emerged as a hub for ICOs.

Revolut praised the country as «one of the most exciting fintech hubs in Europe right now» in a statement last year announcing they were applying for a banking license there.

LONDON — Lithuania is betting that Brexit can help it become a global fintech hub, as the Eastern European country seeks to attract British companies setting up subsidiaries in the EU.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted a «summer of hell» for commuters as scheduled repairs force a partial shutdown of the busiest passenger train hub in the country from July 10 through Sept. 1, or longer if work falls behind schedule.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan has opened a vast and elaborate port on the shores of the Caspian Sea that the county hopes will improve its export prospects and establish the country as a regional hub connecting Europe and Asia.

Their departure means gains for technology hubs in other countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, the report points out.

Seattle is gaining major steam as the country's leading tech hub, with Amazon's recent surge, the Redfin IPO and Microsoft's re-emergence.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

Countries from Bahrain to Egypt have moved rapidly to provide the necessary infrastructure as «regional hubs» to capitalize on industry momentum, albeit the legislative frameworks are in certain cases still in flux.

About to open the new Gahcho Kué mine in the Northwest Territories, De Beers decided Cowtown was a better logistical hub for its operations there and at the Victor mine in northern Ontario, as well as for exploration activities across the country, says De Beers Canada CEO Kim Truter.

Many other European banks are considering Frankfurt, the country's main financial hub and the home of the European Central Bank, as the preferred destination.

Lloyds, which declined to comment, is the only major British retail lender without a subsidiary in another EU country and it would be the first major lender to commit to Berlin as a hub to access the rest of the continent after Britain quits the EU.

The «May 11 Factory» where North Korea says it is producing smartphones has been promoted as the country's hub for research, development and production of high - tech electronics.

One key thing Chile did to help attract international attention as a start - up hub was open its doors to foreign entrepreneurs as other countries were shutting theirs, said Sebastian Vidal, executive director of Start - Up Chile.

From an early stage, the powers that be in Mexico were set on developing their country as a startup hub.

While over 140 startup assistance organizations (such as business incubators, accelerators, and hubs) operate in the country, high - growth companies like Shopify and Hootsuite did not participate in Canadian programs.

The remote workforce tools are helping to propagate all of this to the country as we speak with the right people to help build the next hubs at the right times in the right places.

«Start - Up Chile has positioned the country as the entrepreneurial hub of Latam, creating links with professionals from over 100 different countries»

TD is only the latest global financial firm to choose Dublin as its post-Brexit EU hub, joining 15 others that have announced their intentions to set up or expand their operations in Ireland in the first half of 2017, according to IDA Ireland, which promotes foreign direct investment into the country.

The larger objective of this subtle but far - reaching change is to encourage greater foreign investments in services, and to position India as a hub for exporting services to third - country markets.

He said that Kansas City's reputation as an innovation hub is starting to get recognized around the country.

As the next stage of development, the company plans to launch 10 to 12 hubs across the country.

A recovery in advanced economies may help President Benigno Aquino achieve his goal of bolstering growth to as much as 8.5 per cent by 2016 as he transforms the country into a manufacturing hub.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Miles Beale, chief executive of the UK's Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA), was in Hong Kong last week to host its first trade tasting in the Asian wine trading hub, bringing along a range of English sparkling wines and British gins, as the country plans to expand its export market.

Canadian exhibitor Hanspeter W. Stutz, President of Grand Pré Wines Limited, confirmed the views of many international exhibitors: «I believe that Singapore is a strong hub for wines and spirits in this region and a great market to launch our products in, as a starting point to increasingly bring them to more countries here.

NIH launched the CTSA program in 2006 to fund clinical and translational research hubs at institutions around the country, which are individually known as CTSAs.

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

For example, Honolulu stands out in the Internet Atlas as an important hub because of its mid-Pacific location, used to link countries across the ocean.

The Young Inventors headquarters?a colorful room overflowing with files and books and overlooking a garden «for inspiration,» as Swift notes?acts as a resource hub for local chapters in other cities and countries, which operate their own events.

As the second largest economy in the EU and one of the largest financial hubs in the world, the UK was one of the countries hit the hardest by the Great Recession in 2008.

As the sole Tier - 1 computing facility for ATLAS in the United States and the largest ATLAS computing center worldwide Brookhaven provides a large portion of the overall computing resources for U.S. collaborators and serves as the central hub for storing, processing, and distributing ATLAS experimental data among scientists across the countrAs the sole Tier - 1 computing facility for ATLAS in the United States and the largest ATLAS computing center worldwide Brookhaven provides a large portion of the overall computing resources for U.S. collaborators and serves as the central hub for storing, processing, and distributing ATLAS experimental data among scientists across the countras the central hub for storing, processing, and distributing ATLAS experimental data among scientists across the country.

The Dutch government says its central location and excellent connections at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport make it an ideal hub; it also suggests that the Netherlands deserves EMA as «compensation» because the country's economy will be harder hit by Brexit than most.

«The Pennsylvania Cancer and Regenerative Medicine Research Center will function as a hub - and - spoke model for regenerative medical inquiry, spearheading research and collaborating with similar centers around the country and the world,» said Pestell.

Last Friday, the hubs had a work event at a local country club as a kickoff for a weekend golf tournament they were playing in.

As a dating site designed for career - minded singles in the US, we have a presence in major cities and commuter hubs all across the country.

As the capital, London is the country's hub for thousands of smart, modern, independent people.

Academic dimension: Morocco is an economically prosperous and politically stable country that serves as a hub and a model of development in the MENA and EuroMed regions.

Morocco is an economically prosperous and politically stable country that serves as a hub and a model of development in the MENA and EuroMed regions.

Abstract: Across the country, states are pushing to close their small rural schools with the mistaken hope of saving money, in spite of overwhelming evidence that smaller schools are beneficial for students, and that they frequently function as the glue that binds together small communities, serving as their economic and social hub.

The College would become recognized as the hub of middle school education in the country, and UF education professor William Alexander as the «father of the middle school.»

Ontario stands out as Canada's economic hub and in addition is has often been hailed as one of the best places to live in the country.

Tainan has always been in the shadows of Taipei and Taichung, but as Taiwan's oldest city and the country's cultural hub, it's a destination intrepid travelers are beginning to set their eyes on.

Although Guatemala City replaced Antigua as the capital of the country, Antigua remains a hub of tourist activity, attracting millions of visitors from all over the world.

Centrally located, the charming cosmopolitan city of San Jose (the capital), which the locals fondly refer to as Chepe, is the cultural hub of Costa Rica and the country's largest city.

This helped to develop the country itself as this area became a shipping hub.

Further growth is predicted as Avianca Brazil and the other Star Alliance carriers serving the country will connect more passengers through the main Brazilian hubs in São Paulo — Guarulhos, Rio de Janeiro — Galeão and Brasilia.

It has served as an important hub throughout the country's history, with a river...