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...Western contractors’ interest in Ukraine is not without risks....
...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....
...Mr Kulibayev came to western attention when he was revealed as the mystery buyer who in 2007 paid £3m over the list price to buy Sunninghill Park, the royal estate the Queen had given Prince Andrew as a...
...Ukraine’s western backers deny this narrative....
...companies have not done enough given the rapid expansion of their own workforces, and blamed them for pushing out other workers and making the region unaffordable to lower-paid people, including the many contractors...
...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....
...Binladin Group, the Saudi contractor whose chairman Bakr Binladin was caught in the graft dragnet, said on Saturday that some of its shareholders may have handed stakes in the Jeddah-based company over to...
...Erik Prince, the world’s most infamous military contractor, wants his private military forces to give Afghanistan the same treatment he gave Iraq....
...Mr Graham’s conviction in the UAE followed a complaint lodged by Jean-Michel Tissier, a former managing director of Gulmar Group, an underwater engineering contractor in which Oaktree had invested....
...“[Oil] companies stopped taking [additional] space and there has been no requirement to expand government departments,” said Mr Archer....
...The case had come out of a complaint filed in the UAE by Jean-Michel Tissier, a former managing director of Gulmar Group, an underwater engineering contractor that Oaktree had invested in....
...prepared to take further stimulative action if warranted, it will also undoubtedly emphasize that some of the measures it announced in March are only just kicking in or are yet to be enacted,” said Howard Archer...
...Privately owned Cargill purchased the global chocolate business of Archer Daniels Midland, a rival, for $440m, and EWOS of Norway, a salmon feed maker, for €1.35bn including debt....
...Howard Archer, chief eurozone economist at IHS Global Insight, said: “There is also the suspicion that Mr Draghi may have felt unable to deliver as much stimulus as he really wanted to due to objections...
...Since then, the secrets spilled by the former intelligence contractor about the omnivorous eavesdropping conducted by the National Security Agency have allowed China to cynically brush off US complaints....
...complicity of many western technology companies in surveillance....
...This includes a campaign against the Los Angeles police department and a contractor that builds websites for sheriff’s agencies across the US. The financial benefits of stealing data are alluring....
...His inspiration came in August, shortly after fugitive former American security contractor Edward Snowden revealed the pervasive internet surveillance conducted by the US National Security Agency....
...Late last year, China’s decision to reject imports containing another unapproved corn trait caused losses of hundreds of millions of dollars at commodities trading houses globally, including Archer Daniels...
...(Financial Times) Archer Daniels Midland has tried to win the support of wary Australian farmers as its offer to buy GrainCorp faces intensifying political scrutiny in Canberra....
...A spokesman for the consortium, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, says that only the city has the authority to raise rates....
...It was fighting talk from GrainCorp, the Australian grain trader, in its defence against an unsolicited A$2.7bn takeover bid from rival Archer Daniels Midland of the US: record profits, a strategic update...
...(Bloomberg) Graincorp rejects higher ADM bid: Australia’s largest listed agricultural company has rejected an increased offer from Archer Daniels Midland, saying the A$2.8bn ($3bn) bid did not reflect its...
...The Canadian Wheat Board, with sales of $5.1bn in 2010, has enjoyed a monopoly to market wheat and barley from the prairie provinces of western Canada for decades....
...The firm had endured weeks of uncertainty after it was hit by a criminal investigation into its former chairman, the shuttering of its foreign offices, and lawsuits filed by axed staff and contractors....
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