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...“In Israel, anything newly built has to take account of existing landmarks,” says Aby Rosen, co-founder and principal of RFR Holding LLC, which was responsible for converting a 19th-century French hospital...
...Some government officials want Rio to pay more than $300m of withholding taxes on income it has received from Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the Mongolian holding company that owns the mine....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...What else we’re reading US-China: Washington revives plans for rare earths industry As relations deteriorate, Washington is resurrecting Mountain Pass, in California’s Mojave desert, which until the 1980s...
...Shares in Coffee Day Enterprises, the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed holding company, fell 20 per cent on Wednesday....
...By the end of February a Virgin Hotel will open in San Francisco and a Virgin Galactic space aircraft hopes to make its second test flight from California’s Mojave desert to the edge of space....
...This week, however, Waymo — now a sister company of Google, under holding group Alphabet — said it was finally ready for the real thing....
...Akoya, which is one of Damac’s largest villa community projects under construction in the Dubai desert, is based around a Trump golf club, which includes a par-71 course and a spa....
...a project to melt and reshape aluminium at the site in the high Mojave desert....
...The listing arrived in the midst of a crisis for the Virgin Group, after the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo broke up high above the Mojave Desert, killing one pilot and seriously injuring another....
...Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, suggested that the wreckage in the Mojave Desert might represent the demise not only of an individual aircraft and man but of the wider...
...In October, the endeavour was rocked by the fatal crash of a spaceship in the Mojave desert in the US, killing a test pilot....
...Gas-rich Qatar is investing heavily overseas as the desert Gulf state seeks to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons....
...An official at the QIA declined to comment and Qatar Holding, its direct investment arm, also declined to comment....
...Even though Dubai’s desert hinterland is littered with half-built projects, this prime land may be able to generate significant cash for the government – as could other projects....
...Maturities that were spooking investors this year – including Dubai Holding, Dubai International Financial Centre and the Jebel Ali Free Zone – have passed without panic....
...The Mojave desert in the US south-west might seem a strange place to look for the effects of the eurozone’s economic crisis....
...Qatar Holding said on Tuesday it wanted better terms in the merger of Glencore, the commodities trader, with Xstrata, the miner in which the Qatari fund owns almost 11 per cent....
...In Washington, the Smithsonian American Art Museum is holding an exhibition that explores the history of video games “as an artistic medium”....
...The company was also supported by shareholder loans of about £30m from Mr Caring, Mr Jones, and his wife, the BBC Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young....
...Many of the disputed land deals that have paralysed the Egyptian property industry concern the bare desert plateaux to the west and east of Cairo....
...With the Mojave desert, its poppies in rare colourful bloom, just minutes away by air, there were endless opportunities for practising precision manoeuvres away from people who might be offended by the distant...
...They, in turn, would be seduced by the ease of sedentary life and succumb to another generation of desert warriors, creating an endless circle of renewal....
...There was a touch of the absurd about the grand unveiling of Sir Richard Branson’s tourist spacecraft in the Mojave desert of California earlier this week....
...Formed in 2004, its investment arms led the emirate’s international buying spree to recycle the funds generated by developing swaths of Dubai desert....
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