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...The carmaker, which has turned away from building petrol-fuelled vehicles to concentrate on EVs, is building a factory in North Carolina and has opened showrooms across the US west coast....
...It set up a network of showrooms on the US west coast and last month broke ground on a delayed factory in North Carolina....
...A PwC partner who acted as an adviser to the Australian government passed information about upcoming laws to colleagues, who used it to tout for business on the US West Coast, according to internal emails...
...What if the car goes rogue and drives into the Pacific? Driverless cars demand faith in tech. Luckily, San Francisco is just the city for that....
...The Los Angeles-based asset manager has a secured loan to a sprawling tourism resort on the Yellow Sea coast called “Venice” that would allow it to take control of the land in the event of a default, according...
...The move by the US distressed debt specialist — which now controls the sprawling “Venice” residential development on the Yellow Sea coast near Shanghai — is a first for an international investor affected...
...Currently less than 20 per cent of Facebook’s revenues come from the Asia-Pacific region, in part because India’s online advertising market is comparatively small....
...Here on the remote west coast, escapists find a place where they can forge new lives, and harried royals can hope for a quieter family life....
...Mary Leung, head of advocacy for Asia Pacific at the CFA Institute, the global body for investment professionals, says: “We are seeing increasing engagement between investors and companies and it would be...
...Two reports on the shortfall of gas on the east coast of Australia released on Monday showed the shortfall would be “considerably higher than that estimated six months ago”....
...In Asia Pacific equities, futures tip Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index to open flat, while Tokyo’s Topix is set to gain 0.2 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is expected to shed 0.1 per cent when trading begins...
..., which received a boost from a hurricane headed for the Texas coast....
..., the capital of the US oil and gas industry and one of the country’s busiest ports, was hit by deadly flooding over the weekend as Tropical Storm Harvey caused torrential rains along much of the Texas coast...
...cargoes of petrol had been booked or were being negotiated so far this week, well up on the usual volume, and traders were asking for flexibility to deliver either to the Atlantic seaboard or the Gulf Coast...
...Plans to build three new reactors at Moorside, close to the existing Sellafield nuclear site on the Cumbrian coast, are facing mounting uncertainty because of the financial crisis at Toshiba, the Japanese...
...In 2006, Freescale Semiconductor was taken private by a consortium of Blackstone, Carlyle, Permira and Texas Pacific Group for $17.6bn, just before its orders plummeted....
...Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) is in talks about joining the NuGen consortium planning a £10bn plant at Moorside on the Cumbrian coast alongside existing owners Toshiba of Japan and Engie of France...
...To fight Somali pirates off the coast of Africa. jamil.anderlini@ft.com...
...Trafigura has also made big investments in Colombia, including the establishment of a number of river terminals to help move commodities down the country’s inland waterways for export on the coast....
...senior US defence official told the Financial Times that US naval vessels of the Bahrain-based Navcent command had started accompanying US-flagged vessels when they transited the narrow strait past Iran’s coast...
...They were instead bought by middlemen who then shipped them to Tianjin — a 26-day journey from US west coast ports and 45 days from the east coast....
...We were heading up the California coast and our first destination was Ocean Mesa, a campground 20 miles north of Santa Barbara....
...World Bank’s International Finance Corporation jointly made a $340m loan to Niko Resources, a Canadian company that is a joint venture partner to Reliance Industries and BP in a giant gas project off the coast...
...The IEA reckons around 300,000 b/d were moved into floating storage in October, bringing the total volumes unsold on ships to 37m barrels of oil, some located off the coast of China....
...This is a move away from resources-to-coast type projects, instead looking to develop “resource corridors” that promote domestic and regional markets for Africa’s oil and mineral resources....
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