It's unclear, but rumors put it in the hands of a Chinese construction firm.
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Chinese construction, South African telephony, and soon an Israeli solar-power venture are but some of the multinational involvements.
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In addition to their management and construction expertise, Chinese construction companies are also bringing Chinese equipment to East Africa.
This impacted Caterpillar and other companies such as Komatsu and Sany Heavy that operate in the Chinese construction industry.
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But their chief concern at the moment is the security of a Chinese construction firm which is building a hydro-power project on the Indus river in the Dubair area of Kohistan.
At a time when most Asian investors were focusing on high-growth markets close to home, he was nurturing contacts and making introductions between Chinese construction and engineering companies and Gulf contractors and officials.
The most visible link with China for both Tanzania and Kenya is in infrastructure development, where it seems that Chinese construction companies are building all of the new roads and major buildings in the two countries.
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There are nearly a dozen plans to dam the lower Mekong, and Chinese state construction companies want to be involved.
He sends Chinese architectural and construction teams abroad to study stadiums in Europe, South America and, with the World Cup construction boom, in South Africa.
First Solar is now looking to work with someone else on the 30-megawatt project, which still requires a final approval from the Chinese government before construction could begin.
He is too busy scraping a livelihood as a middleman for immigrants supplying Senegalese with cheap bags to hawk on fancy streets, or delivering Chinese workers to construction sites, and oiling the process with payoffs to the cops.
Chinese officials decreed the construction of most of the infrastructure built in the last three years because they wanted to create GDP.
If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
The existing output supplies not only Nike but insulation used in Chinese refrigerators and in building construction.
Now, the jobs have run out in some parts of the country, wages have declined, and some greenhorns are looking beyond the Chinese community for work in construction and agriculture.
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The document proposed that Chinese partner Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Co. agree to the transfer of the extra cost from Hopewell's balance sheet to that of the project in the form of shareholder loans.
You can travel for hours though pristine terrain and only occasionally be jolted from your reverie by turning a bend in the river to be confronted by the raw scar of a Chinese-financed dam under construction.
In others, traditional Chinese joinery patterns used in wood construction were mimicked in masonry.
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"Chinese migrants or former labourers on construction sites are opening shops, using their contacts to get cheap goods from China, " he says.
Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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The graph would include little spikes marking the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction and jewelry, Chinese gunpowder and paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
One of those disputes is with the major construction contractor, a Chinese company called Metallurgical Corporation of China, another is with Clive Palmer, the self-made Australian millionaire with a plan to build a replica of Titanic, the unsinkable passenger liner that claimed 1502 lives when it sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.
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Possibly the sensibilities of Chinese investors had been hardened by revelations contained in the prospectus of an earlier Chinese initial offering, that of China Construction Bank.
Protests against construction of new factories show the Chinese public understands this very well far better than the American elites who like to praise China's government as a green model.
In February, he announced that construction will soon commence in a Chinese shipyard on a replica of the famously doomed ocean liner Titanic that could set sail in 2016.
The system is currently under construction in Russia, underwritten with substantial Chinese financial support.
Chinese ambassador to Zambia Li Qiangmin assured that the construction of the stadium would be completed before 2010.
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The signing ceremony follows a visit by a Chinese delegation to carry out feasibility studies at the construction site.
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