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PetroChina’s parent company, the China National Petroleum Corporation, and Sinopec are both members of a consortium known as Petrodar that is aiding the Sudanese government in the development of the east African country’s oil industry. The companies’ combined investment in the Sudanese oil industry totals to well over $1 billion, and profits from the industry are a major source of revenue for the Sudanese government...
...pricing agreements. The best solution, says Chan, is the construction of more pathways. China's Internet population alone increased by 30% last year; at current growth rates, China is projected to reach maximum capacity on its current networks by 2008. More cable networks are in the works. One consortium plans to invest $500 million to lay the first transpacific cable directly linking China and the U.S., while another is planning a link between Southeast Asia and the U.S., bypassing Taiwan. Technology is also being developed for "smart" networks that could automatically allocate bandwidth where needed, making disaster recovery faster...
Today, Charlesview still works in the way that it was originally intended by the consortium of religious organizations that established it 35 years...
...understandable - even predictable. Pyongyang signed away its plutonium reprocessing plant and in return was supposed to get a bunch of things in return, including diplomatic recognition from the United States, and two light water reactors for electric power generation from a U.S.-Japanese-South Korean?led consortium. But not much was delivered: The first of the reactors was supposed to have been finished by 2003, but by the year 2000 was nowhere close to being constructed. Only at the tail end of the Clinton Administration was there any real move toward a diplomatic warming, and the Bush Administration quickly made...
...Before the database existed, Fisher says, Harvard had to contact each school individually, a task simplified by the consortium...