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...keeping conflict at bay. Schools and hospitals have reopened. Tax receipts are up. Bureaucracy is down. U.N. sanctions on diamond and timber exports have been lifted. Liberia is attracting foreign investment in iron ore, timber, palm oil and construction. Though steel giant Arcelor Mittal recently mothballed a $1.5 billion project to reopen an iron-ore mine and rebuild a railway in the eastern interior, Liberia has signed a deal with Sime Darby of Malaysia for an $800 million, 20-year concession to a 494,000-acre (200,000 hectare) combined palm-oil and rubber plantation. Earlier this year...
...middle of a business project, but I have doubts and fear of failing. How can I overcome this? Javier Hernandez GUADALAJARA, MEXICO...
...publicly chided U.S. Olympic officials. "We were aware that the USOC had been considering a new 'Olympic broadcast network,' but we have never been presented with a plan, and we had assumed that we would have an opportunity to discuss unresolved questions together before the project moved forward," the IOC said in a statement. "It is for this reason that the IOC is disappointed that the USOC acted unilaterally and, in our view, in haste by announcing their plans before we had a chance to consider the ramifications." The IOC also said that the network "raises complex legal and contractual...
...port project at Hambantota - that's a massive new Chinese project. It's a Sri Lankan project. China helped us. It's a commercial loan. Hambantota is my area, and it had been neglected for so many years. It's my duty, my obligation to develop that area. We must develop not only Colombo, but other districts...
...Although the 2,050-mile (3,300 km) pipeline is still at least six years away, officials hailed the "new silk road" for finally bringing some balance to the E.U.'s energy security. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the Nabucco project "is of crucial importance for Europe's energy security and its policy of diversification of gas supplies and transport routes...