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Business hubs: More than just business in KL, DC and Tel Aviv

Published: February 4 2008 07:12 | Last updated: February 4 2008 07:12

Kuala Lumpur
By William Barnes

How to get there
Only a fifth of the 87 Chinese prospectors sent to look for tin in the jungle where the Klang and Gombok rivers meet survived in 1857 to lay modest foundations for what is now the cosmopolitan city of Kuala Lumpur.

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