Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...History records that 19th century US railway companies, which owned networks and conducted commerce on them, were broken up as monopolies....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...Mr Jones, a lawyer who was less well known than Mr Moore, won a stunning victory over the controversial former Alabama chief justice who is a local household name....
...Construction, Power Construction Corp of China, Shimao Property, Metallurgical Corp of China, Bank of China Aviation, and China Eastern Airlines....
...Harvey, which started as a hurricane and developed into a tropical storm, is expected to dump yet more rain on eastern Texas and western Louisiana, having already set a mainland US record for a tropical...
...At the port of Laem Chabang on Thailand’s eastern seaboard, the sun beats down on a busy six-lane highway and a railway freight line....
...“The last and perhaps most important factor is the huge offering of assets from Lava Jato, suddenly everything is for sale, from ports and highways to airports and railways,” says Mr Ma....
...(FT) Life and death in Eastern Ukraine One family’s attempt to navigate the bureaucracy of reporting the destruction of their home by shelling shows the suffering and banality of life in eastern Ukraine...
...Just as railways helped to accelerate the industrial revolution in the 19th century, so technology and data developments are transforming the asset management industry in the 21st century....
...But in reality, it’s less about the two cents and more about the $50bn he has on the line – that being the estimated value of business interests in retail, water supply, railway and telecommunications sectors...
...The island’s shinkansen high-speed railway was suspended and its two main motorways were cut in several places by landslides. Nothing abnormal was reported at any nuclear plant....
...A week ago I was tapping out this column on a spiffy Japan Railways bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo....
...Urban Development for Y78bn ($760m), as the Dallas-based group had comfortably beaten rival offers from Fortress Investment Group (Y73.4bn), the US group, and a regional domestic operator, Nankai Electric Railway...
...bank, people familiar with the matter said, to respond to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s inquiry into the bank’s hiring of a son of a former Chinese banking regulator and daughter of a Chinese railway...
...In some cases, China has also embarked on joint ventures rather than sole ownership: In the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) cobalt sector for instance, China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC)...
...at odds with statements from both Downing Street and Patrick McLoughlin, the transport secretary, saying no minister was at fault for the cancellation of the contract to run the UK’s busiest intercity railway...
...Georgian Railway has said it is one of the world’s most profitable railway operators, although the sector’s lack of transparency makes it difficult to verify the claim....
...The IPO will not be the first attempt to privatise Georgian Railways....
...This situation will shift as China builds more railways, and more ultrahigh-voltage power lines that will transport power mines to distant cities....
...over Iran strike China should open up markets to investors, Inside Business Sina: great expectations, Lex China: a tale of two mountains, Notebook From elsewhere: Gauging Russian mood on trans-Siberian railway...
...Earlier this month, for example, Russian Railways placed a €2bn ($2.7bn) train order with Siemens and its Russian joint venture partner....
...Activist investor Audley Capital has called for the board of Walter Energy to put the Alabama-based coal miner up for sale, in a letter made public on Monday....
...The country is rich in undeveloped resources such as copper and gold – and with plans to roll out railways in the next five years, analysts believe this could be a big growth story....
...While we have grown used to free wireless internet access in coffee shops, airports, railway stations and even parks, many hotels persist in charging....
...Its portfolio companies span a range of sectors such as agriculture, river transport, cement, construction, oil exploration and energy distribution, and includes a railway line....
International Edition