Observers in the region, and in Washington, think that if the Xayaburi project were to go ahead, the next dams in Laos will be built by Chinese companies, taking China deeper into South-East Asia.

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The AP1000 from Westinghouse (now owned by Toshiba) is being built in China and America, and the EPR from Areva, a French company resulting from a merger between French and German nuclear-plant-builders, in China, Finland and France.

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Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.

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Electricity is to be provided first from China, then by a purpose-built power plant.

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In China, app makers face competition from local apps built by companies like Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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In China, app makers face competition from local apps built by companies like Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sina Corp.

WSJ: For App Makers, China Is Untapped and Untamed

China is testing the waters with an array of reactors built by its own government and companies like Areva, Westinghouse and Canada's AECL. Russia, which also controls its nuclear industry--and has recently consolidated its oil and gas industries--is also planning a broad expansion of reactors in what appears to be a play to become an energy superpower.

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Meanwhile, the four Lada-class diesel-electric submarines will be jointly designed and built by both countries, with two of them to be built in Russia and the other two in China.

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