Correspondents say that Phan Thanh Hai's blog covered various sensitive issues in Vietnam, including a dispute with China over maritime boundaries, controversial bauxite projects, a scandal around a debt-laden state-owned shipbuilder and case studies of famous dissidents.

BBC: Vietnamese bloggers deny charges, third in leniency bid

Shipbuilder OSX and coal mining firm CCX likely to be delisted.

FORBES: Connect

When news came that the contract would probably be scrapped because the bidding process was flawed, Mobile had a parade anyway to cheer an Australian shipbuilder, a Singaporean aerospace company and a giant new ThyssenKrupp steel plant, among others.

ECONOMIST: Foreign investment

But it's part of what lies behind the exasperated tone to the statement from the Clyde shipbuilder unions, effectively saying (I paraphrase and perhaps exaggerate a bit): "grow up, both sides, it's our jobs at stake, and there's other stuff going on besides your constitutional obsessions".

BBC: Fog on the Clyde

Since then it has bought Litton Industries and Newport News to become the world's largest naval shipbuilder.

ECONOMIST: America's defence companies are turning dual-purpose

Mississippi Gulf Coast has beautiful beaches, the nation's largest shipbuilder, a giant NASA rocket test complex, a huge oil refinery, air force and naval bases and a dozen casinos.

FORBES: Biloxi Blues