It is owned by a local state-owned company, Nakheel, a subsidiary of Dubai World, and fed with daily shipments by a Chinese state-owned company, COSCO.
Now, with the best will in a two-state world, that job would be far harder.
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As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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Somewhere in the world--a state park in the U.S., most likely--that tree will soak up the carbon dioxide greenhouse gases produced in the operation of that PC.
"We are tremendously excited to be creating a world-class studio in the state of Georgia and are looking forward to working with Pinewood in the many years to come, " said Jim Pace, managing partner of the investment group, River's Rock LLC.
Not only was Castronova rejecting bitcoin as a gaming currency, he was condemning the unregulated virtual world to a gray, inflationary future of State-sanctioned centrally-managed currency roach motels.
He's the deputy newsroom director at China Radio International--that's a state-run news agency that broadcasts around the world.
" To quote Mr. Malkin, "branding elevates the Empire State Building to a world-wide standard of excellence.
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It established a newly centralized nation-state and launched it on a trajectory of economic expansion and world influence.
The pan-Arab satellite television networks -- so different from the sclerotic state broadcasters -- gave Arabs a new window on the world.
The royal wedding, as a semi-state occasion, does not include world leaders outside the Commonwealth -- so Presidents Obama and Sarkozy will have to find alternative diversions for April 29.
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Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
In the real - rather than virtual - world, Washington is known to favour a Palestinian state only as part of a negotiated agreement with Israel, with which it has strong ties.
During the next two centuries Miletus was far more active in colonization than any other city-state in the Greek world, founding a total of thirty cities around the Black Sea and its approaches in the Hellespont and the Sea of Marmara.
"All of them are for a two-state solution, " he told me on BBC World TV's Impact programme.
It was born in 1922, matured after the second world war, and has all the features of a typical state-owned monopoly of the mid-20th century.
For instance, Bayern Munich, one of the best soccer clubs in the world, received a large sum of money for naming its state-of-art stadium Allianz Arena.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
Petrobras, a state-controlled oil giant, and Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, are now being run more to suit government aims than in minority shareholders' interests, says Joseph Harper of Explorador Capital Management, a fund manager.
Since Mr Shourie, a former World Bank economist, took on the job in 2000, 13 state-owned companies have been sold off.
The combination of state-led investment decisions in the emerging world and a parochial focus on price stability in the rich world produced serial asset bubbles rather than efficient capital allocation.
Sixty-four years ago, the United States became the first country in the world to recognize the State of Israel--the realization of a modern day state in the historic homeland of the Jewish People.
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Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is a high-level forum modeled after the World Economic Forum and hosts meetings for heads of state and businesspeople.
With a population nearing 80 million (13th largest in the world), Vietnam has a mere 45, 000 Internet users, according to state-run media.
The statement added the side, who are one of the most successful and widely supported clubs in world football, will continue to progress the "well-advanced plans" for a new, state-of-the-art stadium near to their current home of Anfield.
But no analyst in the world believes that banks can end their addiction to state-supported loans without there being a negative effect on credit provision for households and businesses.
Last week, the mere mention of a strike by workers at Codelco Norte, Chile's state-owned mining group and the world's largest producer of copper, caused prices to surge even higher because of fears that supplies would become shorter still.
Today, too many kids in this city are living just a few El stops, sometimes even just a few blocks, from shiny skyscrapers and leafy parks and world-class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent.
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The plans he's pursued have resulted in a number of initial successes: membership in the World Trade Organization in April 2000, privatization of state-owned industries, such as the phone company, and most impressively, a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. Jordan is only the fourth country in the world to achieve such a feat, following Canada, Mexico and Israel.
The plans he's pursued have resulted in a number of initial successes: membership in the World Trade Organization in April 2000, privatization of state-owned industries such as the phone company and, most impressive, a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. Jordan is only the fourth country in the world to achieve such a feat, following Canada, Mexico and Israel.
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