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...Alongside one of south-east Asia’s leading packaging businesses, it operates large cement and petrochemicals units that have been hit by falling regional consumption, exports and construction due to the...
...After all, what does Siam Cement — a Thai high-flyer of the early 1990s — have in common with WorldCom, KB Home, Citigroup, Vale, and Sany Heavy Industry, the Chinese construction equipment maker?...
...As for construction, it was buying abroad even before Chinese exports surged....
...after it emerged that Mr Charoen, the Thai drinks magnate, was in talks with Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and its insurance arm about buying their stakes in United Engineers, one of Singapore’s oldest construction...
...The Thai tycoon and son of a former Bangkok street trader is moving even now for his latest foreign target: United Engineers, a respected Singaporean construction company that did much of the rebuilding...
...Sirivadhanabhakdi is again on the acquisition trail in southeast Asia, talking with Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and its insurance arm about buying their stakes in United Engineers, one of Singapore’s oldest construction...
...Mota-Engil, Portugal’s largest construction group, said in June it would list its Africa subsidiary in London, but withdrew the offer later after tepid demand....
...All of its projects up to 2,000MW are either completed or under construction. Greenko’s shares closed the week at 170p, 13 per cent higher than at the start of the month....
...Local resident groups, which have fiercely opposed the construction of a new third runway, welcomed the introduction of a noise league table....
...(Financial Times) Bill Gates has made a big bet on the recovery of Spain’s construction sector by becoming the second-largest shareholder in FCC, a Spanish builder hit hard by the collapse of a decade-long...
...Kristis Hassapis, an associate professor of economics at the University of Cyprus, was tipped to become BoC’s new chairman, while Dmitry Chichikashvili, president of Insigma Group, a Moscow-based construction...
...To reinvigorate the island’s struggling construction sector, incentives for building new golf courses are being prepared and some restrictions on construction in urban areas would be lifted, Mr Anastasiades...
...The Shanghai Composite closed 2.9 per cent higher, with construction-related groups leading the way, headed by Sany Heavy Industry (up 10 per cent)....
...minutes after receiving clearance from the UK’s Financial Services Authority for its $2.2bn acquisition of the London Metal Exchange. http://on.ft.com/U5EFhU CCB issues ‘dim-sum’ bonds in London China Construction...
...Production, Thailand’s biggest publicly traded oil and gas explorer, will raise about $3 billion in the nation’s biggest equity offering. http://bloom.bg/SiMGCF CCB issues ‘dim-sum’ bonds in London China Construction...
...all PCL, according to data from Knight Frank....
...The point is that buying PCL is more about safe havens than happy homes: chart the yield on PCL against gilt yields and you will see they match up rather nicely....
...Ecobank think so: However, Shell will more than likely trump any competitive bid, having already commenced discussions with the Mozambique government over LNG plant construction....
...The plant is part of the preliminary development of the $56bn-plus Dawei special economic zone being led by Italian-Thai Development, Thailand’s largest construction company....
...The first phase of construction has caused some displacement of villagers and prompted the rebel Karen National Union to launch efforts to impede road construction in the area....
...“However, they will be quite different from the more traditional PCL locations. Until now prime areas have had big houses, relatively large amounts of space, parks or squares....
...Visiting the port now, you can’t drive along the seafront because of construction work barring the roads at every turn....
...Komatsu and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the Japanese heavy equipment manufacturers, both report big increases in net profits....
...China Merchants Bank fell 1.4 per cent to Rmb12.80 while China Construction Bank shed 0.4 per cent to Rmb4.88. The Shanghai Composite index dropped 0.7 per cent to 2,796.98....
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