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...It’s worth remembering that capitalism’s titans including Jamie Dimon, Stephen Schwarzman and David Solomon were back at Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” conference last month....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...Branson, 70, is scheduled to reach the edge of space over the New Mexico desert early on Sunday morning local time, riding on the VSS Unity....
...Rio Tinto is set to start face-to-face negotiations with the government of Mongolia as its seeks to complete the $6.75bn expansion of a huge copper project in the Gobi desert....
...Instead it owns 50.8 per cent of TRQ, which in turn owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...In 2017, a Bill Gates-run investment company spent $80m on a piece of Arizona desert land to build a “smart city”, tentatively called Belmont....
...Oyu Tolgoi LLC said in statement: The Tavan Tolgoi Power Project currently lacks a lead investor to develop a viable technical and commercial proposal for Oyu Tolgoi to consider and it is unable to secure...
...Members of the public taking part in a Waymo trial in the desert city in the US south-west will be able to summon the vehicles through a ride-hailing app “in the next few months”, the company said....
...It has raised concerns about due process in the kingdom at a time when executives were studying proposals to invest in some of the heir-apparent’s grandiose projects, not least a $500bn city in the desert...
...An air of unreality hung in the air two weeks ago as Waymo — the company that began life as Google’s driverless car project — lifted the lid on its secretive testing facility in California’s agricultural...
...In the early 1980s, Sharif travelled deep into the Hatta desert outside Dubai where he presented startling live art works — sometimes jumping in the sand or tying rocks together — to a handful of friends...
...On the outskirts of Phoenix, where fairways and greens cover the desert landscape, the fortunes of golf and the housing market are closely linked....
...Rio gave the green light to the expansion of the deposit in the South Gobi desert last month....
...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....
...project of small, entrepreneurial space companies....
...Driving them are two cowboys in Stetsons, checked shirts and spurs. Behind soar the magnificent snow-capped Ruby Mountains....
...far from the arrondissements of Paris in the deserts of Qatar....
...With 8 per cent of the world’s proven oil reserves, Abu Dhabi is not about to desert the fossil fuel business any time soon, he says....
...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....
...At this month’s annual real estate exhibition, developers unveiled plans for a replica Taj Mahal in the desert outskirts of the city, near half-built towers that stand as windswept reminders of the real...
...Moreover, the outlook for Xstrata’s ambitious greenfield expansion projects has dimmed, amid continuing capital cost inflation and rising geopolitical risk in key markets....
...The band was asked to play a festival in Berlin last July that celebrated music from the world’s deserts....
...There might be an old jukebox at the back, and a table with a couple of Stetson-hatted cowpokes drinking tequila....
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