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...Current Percentage of overall power production: 2.9% Percentage by 2010: 5% MAJOR PROJECTS: The 4,000-km West-East gas pipeline is expected to begin delivering 5,000 cubic meters of gas annually from next year from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta area. Anxious to clean up its sooty air in time to host the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has purchased some 1,800 buses that run on compressed natural...
...bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket attacks. Oil on Troubled Waters NIGERIA A truce between the government and Niger Delta rebels calmed fears of regional unrest that had helped send oil prices spiraling to more than $50 per bbl. The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force said it would disarm after the government agreed to discuss its demands for greater regional autonomy and a share of oil wealth. The NDPVF...
...tape as evidence that allies of the U.S. have been left behind in the jungles of Southeast Asia, victims of a regime that sees them as armed bandits. And so-in a summer marked by memories of veterans of the swift-boat campaigns in the Mekong Delta and protests by the Montagnards in Vietnam itself-the Vietnam War, that suppurating sore that never heals, will ooze one more trail of bile and despair...
...even after announcements last week that they are fining Shell a combined $150 million for "unprecedented misconduct," in the words of the FSA. And Nigeria's Senate passed a resolution calling on the company to pay $1.5 billion for environmental and health hazards it allegedly caused in the Niger Delta. But with Shell stock at about $7.30 a share in London , or just over 11 times its estimated earnings this year, and other Big Oil stocks such as BP and Exxon Mobil trading closer to 14 times earnings, that suggests: buy. "We can't help but think there...
...Setting the Record Straight Military Ranking In "The Making of John Kerry" [July 12], we incorrectly said Kerry returned home from Vietnam "with the rank of captain." When he was the officer in command of a Swift patrol boat in the Mekong Delta, Kerry would have been addressed as captain by his crew, but his official Navy rank in 1969, when he came back from Vietnam, was lieutenant junior grade...