He was close to Central TV's licence renewal bid.
In sought-after leafy areas like Bukit Timah, which is close to central Singapore, such homes can easily rent for as much as 23,250 dollars a month.
The campus is close to central London Tube stations, 10 minutes by Underground from the Eurostar and less than an hour's travel from London airports.
The dramatically beautiful island of Evia, with green mountains rising up from the coastline, is so close to central Greece that it's often assumed to be a peninsula.
The two-bedroom property in Barnsbury, North London, has three floors, a garden and is located close to central Underground stations, including King's Cross St Pancreas.
Living close to central London, I could have got there in no time, but it would have needed the England front five to drag me there.
A more modest choice is the Vondelhof Guesthouse (2 Puccini Street; 264-61-248-320; www.vondelhof.com), a pleasant bed-and-breakfast with a small pool and a dozen rooms off a central leafy courtyard, close to central Windhoek.
"Faced with massive uncertainty, economists have, for the most part, stuck to simple rules of thumb: growth is likely to come back to its long-term trend, while inflation is likely to be close to central banks' arbitrarily defined targets.
