In Chiba, Miss Domoto wants to cancel a land-reclamation project that Tokyo's bureaucrats have been pushing for nearly 30 years.

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Under his leadership the company completed the world's largest brownfield reclamation project.

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We chat about the regime, Suu Kyi, the Irrawaddy delta reclamation project, the difficulty of getting good beef, former drug baron Law Sitt Han.

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Tensions over the battle of the ports have been running high - exacerbated by a land reclamation project just off the coast of Singapore which Malaysia says is affecting the flow and depth of the shipping channel.

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Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.

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If the project does go forward, the federal Bureau of Reclamation estimates that it could be finished in 2003.

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