Alstom to sign 1 billion Euro in contracts with China
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The French Group Alstom will sign contracts worth up to 1 billion Euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, French sources with knowledge of the deal revealed to AFP.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - China has muscled in on miner BHP Billiton's  attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto , with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with U.S. group Alcoa  to buy a 12 percent stake in Rio.
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Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco said Friday it and US peer Alcoa have bought a 12-percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, setting up a possible takeover tussle with rival BHP Billiton.
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French engineering company Alstom said Friday it won a development contract with Germany power and gas provider E.on AG to develop a carbon dioxide emissions capture plant in southern Sweden.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australian iron ore company Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (FMG.AU) said Monday it has entered into a contract with China Railway Engineering Corp.
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Swedish car firm Volvo is to buy Japan's Nissan Diesel Motor for $1.1bn, to expand in Asia.
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International mining company BHP Billiton has ratified its largest ever contract to supply iron ore to China. Under a joint venture deal, signed Tuesday in Western Australia, four Chinese steel mills are taking
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Bosch , the world's largest  car parts supplier, wants to expand its business with  manufacturers of cheap cars and garner sales of 1 billion euros  ($1.47 billion) by 2010 from them.
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Struggling French heavy engineering company Alstom signed contracts worth up to one billion euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, the company said.
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BEIJING  - China signed a contract to buy 23 A319, A320 and A321 commercial jets from aircraft manufacturer Airbus in a deal worth close to 1.0 billion euros (1.34 billion dollars).
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Vietnam will get a $1.1bn (Â£542m) loan from the Asian Development Bank to build a highway to mainland China.
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Siemens is to invest 55m euros in a Chinese joint venture to manufacture parts for a new generation of gas turbines.
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PARIS  - China has awarded Alstom more than &#36;1.5 billion Cdn worth of contracts for trains and locomotives, the French engineering giant said Saturday on the first day of a visit there by President Jacques Chirac.
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Bayer, the German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant, has said it planned to invest 1.8 billion dollars (1.4 billion euros) in its new site in Shanghai over the next three years.
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Chinese basketball center Mengke Bateer has agreed to sign a one-year, minimum wage contract with the NBA's New York Knicks, assuming he passes a physical examination, Chinese press reports said.
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German industrial giant Siemens has signed aAÂ£1.86 billion contract to deliver technology services around the world to the BBC, a deal that will see it acquire the broadcaster&#39;s technology subsidiary.
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British automaker MG Rover discussed Saturday a $1.8 billion deal with China&#39;s Shanghai Automotive Corp., the BBC reported. The two companies would set up a new company to produce cars for the Chinese market under the deal.