Bacolod natives speak about the Oriental capital, Dumaguete (pronounced doo-mah-GEH-tay), about 100 miles southeast, as if it were almost as far off as Manila, 300 miles and several islands away.
A Soviet vision of a model Oriental capital was built around the market village of Dushanbe — pleasant and leafy, if dull, with a wide central avenue, pastel-colored buildings, the standard apartment blocks and some grand monuments meant to be honored from afar.
In her novels, Manning described Bucharest as being on the margins of European civilisation, "a strange, half-Oriental capital" that was "primitive, bug-ridden and brutal", whose citizens were peasants, whatever their wealth or status.
By Michelle Marrion MBUJI MAYI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 26 February 2013 – The roads I travel to get to the Matempu diamond mine, nestled in the Bakwa Tshimuna area of Kasai Oriental's capital city Mbuji Mayi, are precarious – ambiguous and muddy, with deep, sinking holes in the red earth from which young faces peek out.
Chef Ja, formerly of the Mandarin Oriental in the Thai capital, opened this place barely a year ago and is particularly hot (in more than one sense) on spankingly fresh salads.
In areas where roads were washed out, the government sent seagoing vessels to take relief goods to remote coastal areas from the provincial capital of Davao Oriental, Mati.
Mbuji-Mayi is the capital of Kasaï-Oriental (Eastern Kasai) province and Congo's diamond centre.
When Baghdad fell to the reinforcements in 1917, she moved up to the capital and was eventually appointed Cox's oriental secretary, responsible for relations with the Arab population.
Last year, after a bid for such a bank led by Newbridge Capital, an American private-equity firm, was rejected, Oriental Bank of Commerce, a profitable state bank, had to step in.
His four favorite Chinese stocks -- each of which he thinks offers at least 10%to20%0% capital appreciation over the next 12 months -- are New Oriental Education, which teaches English to the Chinese; China Communications Construction, the country's largest construction company; China Nepstar Chain Drugstore, the Walgreen's of China, and Fuel Tech, which removes pollutants from coal-fire plants.
In 1776 the Banda Oriental became part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the capital of which was Buenos Aires; however, Montevideo was still allowed to send shipments directly to Spain rather than clearing them first at Buenos Aires.
