The Chinese company signed an agreement with the Ecuadorian government where the former obtained 50% of the profits.
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But in January 2011 the Scottish and Chinese governments signed a deal to allow the export of Scottish salmon into the Asian giant's market for the first time.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva flew to China in November, and signed an agreement with Chinese government officials to promote Thai soaps and exempt them from foreign-content quotas that state regulators there sometimes slap on broadcasters.
In exchange, the Chinese oil firm signed a letter of intent with BP Amoco calling for the establishment of a gas-marketing joint venture in eastern China.
And the U.S. Department of Energy has signed several agreements with the Chinese to promote energy efficiency in the industrial sector, biofuels development and more efficient autos.
Some 197 Chinese companies have signed up.
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White said that his company and the Chinese authorities have already signed three other agreements relating to Houston InterWeb Design's products, with announcements relating to those agreements upcoming within two weeks.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
When one newcomer, MediaZone, started a Web site to send prime-time shows from China to Chinese expats living abroad, it signed on with Akamai.
Chinese airlines had already paid nonrefundable deposits and signed contracts for the jets, most of them as far back as 2007.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
And he notes that Mesa Air Group, which operates primarily as a contract carrier throughout the U.S., recently signed a joint venture agreement with Shenzhen Airlines to create a Chinese regional airline.
One partner of this initiative is the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who in 2005 signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO through the Joint Research Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Archaeology.
Retaining ownership of his brand, O'Neal signed an agreement with ACI International, a Los Angeles distributor and marketer of Chinese-made-footwear labels like LA Gear.
The accord was for 1 million tons and was signed by Canpotex, a marketing compay for Saskatchewan potash producers, and the Chinese agency Sinofert.
The alliance agreement was signed on Friday, according to a report in the China Business News, a Chinese daily newspaper.
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Sinopec, the Chinese oil giant, and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed an agreement to explore oil in Zavareh, Kashan, 205 kilometers south of Tehran.
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