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...Russian records suggest it has shipped about $2.1mn of goods to Orlan LLC — a St Petersburg company that is a self-described fishing equipment supplier....
...In addition, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been unable or unwilling to supply him with the crude his refinery needs, although Dangote insists it is only a matter of weeks before oil starts...
...The 2008 financial crisis provided a lucrative opening for boutique operators like Centerview as corporations began to rethink getting their M&A advice from the same sprawling financial institutions peddling...
...Chinese state-backed investors such as the State Administration of Foreign Assets and China Investment Corporation....
...In June last year, China North Industries Corporation, a major state-owned defence contractor, sent 1,000 “civilian long-range hunting rifles” to Techcrim, a Russian arms manufacturer, according to customs...
...I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. My guest this week is Jason Matheny, president of the Rand Corporation in California....
...But it was Iraq’s marshlands, among the largest wetland ecosystems in western Eurasia, that felt beyond redemption....
...As a contractor, Adani Enterprises mined 27.7mn metric tonnes of coal during the financial year ending in 2022, a 58 per cent jump on the previous year....
...What government wants There’s a contradiction at the heart of many western governments’ approach to the fossil fuel industry since the start of the crisis....
...“A centralisation is taking place,” said Soldatov. “Corporations are being turned into ministries.”...
...China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, a state-owned contractor, set up a local presence in 2015....
...“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” said Samuel Charap, a Russia expert at the Rand Corporation, a US-based think-tank, ahead of the Biden-Putin call....
...China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), a state-owned military contractor, developed the IJOP system....
...When flying taxi start-up Archer announced a February deal to go public in a $3.8bn deal with a Spac backed by US investment banker Ken Moelis, it projected that its revenue would increase by more than $12bn...
...(FT) Argentina debt proposal Bondholders have put forward a new proposal to restructure $65bn in Argentina’s foreign debt....
...The consultancy pitched itself as a firm that could help small and midsized companies expand across the US and into foreign markets....
...A large portion of the emirate’s outstanding bonds are held by the Investment Corporation of Dubai, a sovereign fund which owns high-quality assets, such as Emirates airline, and stakes in lender Emirates...
...Serbia is one of a string of countries along Europe’s eastern and south-eastern flank to have shown an interest in projects at the western end of China’s transcontinental Belt and Road Initiative....
...It provides roughly 90 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange and more than half of government revenues....
...Cobham’s pioneering air-to-air refuelling technology is used on all western fast jets and is regarded by many as a national strategic asset that shouldn’t easily be handed over to a foreign buyer....
...The UK, like much of Western Europe, needs to reposition itself post the pandemic, in a changing and growing global economy....
...Mr Kachikwu said the state energy company, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, had already entered into renegotiations with Shell, which in 2023 will be the first company to see a contract expire...
...“The city has too many contractors for the volume of upcoming work and is witnessing a survival of the fittest competition [between companies],” he adds....
...Just look, for example, at the (in)famous “great firewall of China”, the cyber screening system that Beijing uses to keep out unwanted foreign internet content....
...Over the past decade, Chinese state banks and contractors have helped build a 186km rail line between the cities of Abuja and Kaduna, with another line between Lagos and the northern city of Kano under construction...
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