Saudi Arabia leads the way with a total of 23 projects valued at $25.6 billion, including the $6 billion Makkah-Madinah Railway Link which is currently under tender for construction.
Toyota closed 12 plants, a spokeswoman said. Its profit will be cut by ¥6 billion ($AUD73 million or NZD$99.6 million) for each day of lost operations. Nissan and Honda could each lose ¥2 billion a day after closing plants, Goldman Sachs estimates. Sony and Toshiba have also shut plants.
Developed specifically for cold drink application, the new product is aimed at all markets where cocoa drinks are prepared with cold milk as well as hot applications.
South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines are countries stepping up their efforts to increase the screening of products, the report said, citing Reuters.
Citing the state news agency WAM, the report said, the Gulf state has hooked up with the Union Cooperative Society supermarket chain to cut prices on two varieties of rice and Arabic bread. The reduction would run from April 1 to the end of the year.
The price index, jointly published by the Ministry of Transport and the government of east China's Zhejiang province, would mainly monitor the trading prices of second-hand ships, said Gong Yinjiao, president of major indexer - Zhejiang Shipping Exchange Market Co.
The WTO ruled that US parallel anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties imposed on four Chinese imports -- standard steel pipes, rectangular steel pipes, off-road tires and laminated woven sacks -- are inconsistent with WTO rules.
Don Everitt, marketing manager for New Zealand King Salmon, told Radio New Zealand that the company was still taking orders from Japan, where it exports around 800 tonnes of salmon a year, but expected disruption.
Domestic and long-haul fares will go up about 7% and tickets to Australia and the Pacific will cost about 8% more to "recover jet fuel cost".
The increase will see one-way "flexiplus" fares from Auckland to Christchurch go up from $256 to $274, and "works deluxe" fares from Auckland to Sydney from $380 to $410.
In what the company says is “the first and only software of its kind in the world” No Major Drama (www.nomajordrama.com) (NMD) offers an internet-based tool that enables users to create personalised rankings of majors available for Bachelor (under-graduate) degrees in the US and Canada. Each user’s ranking of majors is based on their own personal selection criteria, related to their skills and interest and their own personal weights on the criteria.
Kenya launched two new tea clones last year that are tougher in drought. The research foundation said the two, TRFK 371/3 and TRFK 430/90, yield about 50% more and enhance profitability on better quality.
According to general manager Juan José Villasante, Unifrutti will invest US$12 million to boost production capacity and modernize four of its eight production centers in Teno, Linderos, Requínoa and Copiapó.
The review is being conducted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI) using an independent panel. It will focus on access to and uptake of R&D by the sector.
