British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
And long-term foreign direct investment in plant and machinery, much of it linked to privatisation, is playing a more important role.
By Saturday afternoon, 685 Algerian workers at the plant and 107 foreign workers had been freed, Algerian state media said.
Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.
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The fact that the target of the attack was a gas plant operated in part by foreign companies may have made Algeria particularly keen to tackle the problem on its own terms.
It accuses Obama of taking the old industrial belt on a "wild ride" that will lead to more plant shutdowns and increased outsourcing to foreign factories.
In the wake of the Malian upheaval and the recent hostage crisis in neighbouring Algeria - where militants seized a gas plant, killing at least 37 foreign workers - it is no longer forgotten.
The breakthrough came when their foreign ministers signed an accord setting out how the plant and the river would be environmentally monitored.
The plant employed 790 people, including 134 foreign workers, Sallal said Monday.
Forty-eight foreign workers were killed following a siege at the In Amenas plant on 16 January.
Ford, for instance, exports car stereos made at a plant next to Sao Paulo airport and earns itself enough foreign currency to win the right to import its larger (European-made) models at lower tariffs.
No foreign reporters are thought to have been given access to the In Amenas plant.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said the terrorists had tried to blow up the plant on Saturday but managed only to start a small fire.
Skilled workers and political stability have attracted foreign investment, such as an Intel silicon-chip factory (the only plant of its kind in Latin America), and a pharmaceutical plant.
The plant is run by Algeria's state oil company, in cooperation with foreign firms such as Norway's Statoil and Britain's BP -- and as such, employed workers from several foreign countries.
U.S. Navy barges have been carrying fresh water to Fukushima Daiichi, and Tokyo's foreign ministry has asked Russia about using a Japanese-built ship outfitted as a floating decontamination plant.
The plant in eastern Algeria is run by the state oil company, in cooperation with foreign firms such as Norway's Statoil and Britain's BP -- and as such, employed workers from several foreign countries.
Although part of China's growth has been fueled by foreign direct investment, it is internal capital that has driven a surge in property, infrastructure and plant capacity.
Since 1993, when Mercedes built its first passenger-vehicle plant in the United States in Vance, Alabama, the state has focused on attracting foreign-owned companies, of which it now has over 300.
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