Alongside the opulent residential blocks towering over its palm-fringed beaches , recife has 600 favelas ( slums ) , and its lagoons are fetid with untreated sewage .
富裕居民区高耸在迷人的海滩旁边，累西腓有600个贫民窟，而且它的环礁湖充斥着恶臭的未处理废水。
Beneath the opulent facade , however , shanghai was known forvice : not only opium , but also gambling and prostitution . Little changed aftersun yat-sen 's republic of china supplanted the qing dynasty in 1912 .
Beijing : contrary to their opulent look with sprawling campuses , most of the universities in china are running in huge losses raking up a total debt of usd 40.69 billion until last year , an official has said .
An opulent soap in which a female detective ( meagan good ) returns to the wealthy family in which she grew up - only she 's undercover as the maid 's daughter - to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend .
Then there are india 's ' palaces on wheels ' , the opulent former railcars of princes and maharajas , now pressed into service for the paying public .
