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...difficult and maybe even unhelpful situation." For the moment, Europe seems to be taking a back seat to Asia. Mark Malloch Brown, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, said the U.N. had commitments for 3,500 additional troops to deploy within the next two weeks, with firm promises from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal. But Europe will likely get on board soon. On Friday, Italy's government formally agreed to participate once there are precise rules of engagement. "We don't hide the difficulties," said Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, "but our country has to respond to the United...
...these machines to test it in two villages, 75 kilometers apart, last year in Bangladesh. And I thought, "Wow, it's going to run on cow dung, there will be all sorts of issues. We'll send engineers, and if we can get any data..." Any data? Those machines ran flawlessly around the clock. Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into...
...From relatively small beginnings less than a decade ago, when it established Mobinil in Egypt, Orascom, which trades on the Cairo-Alexandria stock exchange but is controlled by Sawiris' Rome-based parent company, Weather Investments, became a major presence throughout the Middle East. Sawiris also moved into Pakistan and Bangladesh before he revealed the full extent of his global ambition last year with a risky, leveraged $15 billion takeover of Wind, an Italian cell-phone network--Europe's largest private-equity buyout and the biggest investment ever made on the Continent by an emerging-market dealmaker. "Globalization," he says, cocking...
...That same desire to market to, and invest in, some of the world's poorest countries is behind Tata's affinity for Bangladesh and Africa. Tata group recently finalized a $3 billion power, steel and coal deal in Bangladesh, the biggest investment in that country's history. In South Africa, the group has investments in mining, tourism and engine manufacturing. There is an instant-coffee plant in Uganda, a bus factory in Senegal and a phosphate plant in Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create...
...taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...