China is also securing high technology from Western sources.
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The electricity company appears to be as secretive as its reputation suggested and although the Japanese media are mostly giving the government an easy ride, individuals able to follow western sources are faced with a barrage of conflicting opinions.
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Western intelligence sources have suggested the training could be carried out by US-based private security contractors.
This suggests that there are divisions among the rebels, a notion confirmed by Western intelligence sources.
Western diplomatic sources say they believe some progress was recently made on holding very preliminary discussions between Syrian government and opposition representatives.
Iraqi and western diplomatic sources believe that unless Khomeini can repress Iran's Kurds, serious fighting between Baghdad and the Iraqi Kurds could well start in the autumn.
Both Western and Israeli sources say Israel is holding fire, at the moment, aside from its verbal barrage.
Lebanese security sources, Western diplomats and Syrian rebels say an arms convoy was hit near Lebanon's border.
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We monitor reports about the strikes from the top Western and Pakistani news sources, such as The New York Times, Associated Press, CNN, Reuters, Express Tribune, Dawn, Geo TV and others.
Of the 3, 500km (2, 175 miles) of transmission lines that are needed to carry renewable power from (largely northern) sources to southern and western consumers, just 90km have been built.
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The recruiting of an entirely new group of lenders -- including securities firms, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations and even individuals -- diversifying away from sole reliance on Western governments and commercial banks as sources of funding.
Essentially, it means that just as Western manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with manufacturers in China, so too will Western investors find it increasingly difficult to compete with Chinese sources of capital.
WikiLeaks itself faced a financial blockade coordinated by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Bank of America and Western Union that deprived it of the majority of its donation sources for more than a year.
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He quotes sources as saying that Interior Minister Bismullah Khan was having a meeting with senior Western officials elsewhere in the building when the shooting took place.
Toby Latta, a Russia analyst for Control Risks, points out that the sources of danger in that country can often be pinpointed: acts of violence against western-owned businesses are not usually random.
Her books document the transition from tradition to Western motifs and shapes, among them coffee pots and sugar casters, and also delves into the sources for the armorial pieces for which this Brazilian collector has a special fondness.
Obstacles to Western European dependence on Russian energy supplies have given way to a natural gas infrastructure that relies heavily on such sources.
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