Sentences with phrase «chinese infrastructure company»

Successful representation of a second globally - ranked Chinese infrastructure company in connection with contested sanctions proceedings by The World Bank, including argument before the Sanctions Board, resulting in no debarment of the company (Sanctions Board Decision No. 88 (Sanctions Case No. 372) issued on June 29, 2016)

Not exact matches

Watpac Civil & Mining has been awarded $ 89.3 million in contracts in the gold mining and road infrastructure sectors, with the largest being with Chinese - owned company Hanking Gold Mining.

The push by the tech sector piggybacks on years of state - driven Chinese investments in infrastructure in Latin America, with a pool of 2,000 companies pouring more than $ 200 billion in the region as of January.

HOUSTON / HONG KONG, April 10 (Reuters)- A Chinese investment firm is attempting to restructure an $ 812 million deal for the U.S. developer of the Alerian MLP Index, which tracks publicly traded energy infrastructure companies, three people familiar with the matter said in recent days, after missing two deadlines to close the deal.

This has included Chinese takeovers of companies in robotics, semiconductors, machine - tools, telecoms, agribusiness, food, as well as infrastructures such as ports, airports, railways and energy utilities.

Worries about charging infrastructure and an official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition may have contributed to the company's lackluster Chinese performance last year, which ended with the resignation of Tesla's China president.

Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has soared from under $ 1 billion in 2008 to $ 35 billion in 2016.2 Examples of Chinese economic activities include: acquisitions of European companies in a variety of strategic fields, most notably in the technology sector; sustained investment into existing critical infrastructure; and the provision of funding for new infrastructure projects.

HOUSTON / HONG KONG A Chinese investment firm is attempting to restructure an $ 812 million deal for the U.S. developer of the Alerian MLP Index, which tracks publicly traded energy infrastructure companies, three people familiar with the matter said in recent days, after missing two deadlines to close the deal.

Investments by Chinese state - owned or state - directed companies have targeted sensitive industries such as nuclear energy, transport infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, and real estate.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

This is most visibly seen in infrastructure, while China also recently surpassed Germany as the main exporter to Russia of machinery.121 Combined with Western sanctions policies that have made Russia a less attractive place to do business, China's growing clout in Russia suggests that Chinese companies are able to undercut Western competitors in Russia.

In May 2015, the Company and Tsinghua Holdings jointly announced a partnership that will bring together the Chinese enterprise technology assets of the Company and Tsinghua University to create a Chinese provider of technology infrastructure.

This has led Chinese companies to look out for early signs of potential problems, and many are particularly wary of new entrants from the West whose infrastructure or product offering may not yet be established in, or tailored to, the Chinese market.

Lo was leading a six - day Hong Kong - Shanghai business mission to Jakarta and Manila in the Philippines to explore the infrastructure needs of the two Asean countries, which Hong Kong and mainland Chinese companies will be incentivised to fulfil under the belt and road scheme.

RW: With the current interest in buying electric cars, plus more wind turbines being built and growing Chinese infrastructure, does this mean the fundamentals are falling into place for rising copper prices and copper company share values?

Critics say Zambia could have taken advantage of the boom by negotiating better terms with Chinese companies, including securing technology transfers or employment for infrastructure projects.

As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.

The multiethnic makeup of Singapore (particularly Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities) together with good health care infrastructure is attracting pharmaceutical companies wishing to do clinical trials — for example GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, Merck, and Schering - Plough.

Their experience in particular in helping Chinese companies make energy investments around the world is a perfect fit with Jones Day's global capabilities in energy, mergers and acquisitions, projects and infrastructure, finance, tax, and many other practice areas,» said Jeff Schlegel, head of Jones Day's Energy Practice.

With a focus on energy and transport infrastructure, the initiative sees Chinese companies work with government and private enterprises in each region to finance and deliver projects.

These innovations are seen to bolster financial infrastructures, especially in emerging regions like Asia — one reason why Chinese firm Holley Group, has chosen to invest a US$ 500,000 round in Everex as its first capital infusion into a tech company in Southeast Asia.

Chinese companies and threat actors are collecting vast stores of psychographic and demographic data that can be leveraged by Big Data machine learning algorithms to produce insights that facilitate information warfare against populations, Counterintelligence operations against Intelligence assets, and precision - targeted attacks against critical infrastructure executives.

Ontology is developed by Chinese blockchain company Onchain; the project is a peer to peer blockchain network that will support cross-chain, cross-system, cross-industry, cross-application, and cross-device infrastructure.

Burr has been a longtime opponent of Huawei and other Chinese telecoms companies in the United States, dating back to at least 2010 when he and other senators advocated blocking Sprint from using Huawei infrastructure in its network.