Aug 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, News, Russia, Western Europe
Moscow Times State gas giant Gazprom is making Latin America its new priority market and is increasing its involvement in the region. In addition to projects in Bolivia and Venezuela, Gazprom is intensifying negotiations with Wintershall to buy into the German...
Aug 7, 2013 | Africa, China, East Asia, News, Western Europe
(Reuters) – Italian oil and gas group Eni said on Friday it had completed the sale of 28.57 percent of Eni East Africa to China’s CNPC at a previously agreed price of $4.21 billion. Eni East Africa holds 70 percent in the Area 4 gas field off the coast of...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News
Shanghai Daily 6 Aug. 2013 CHINA completed 102 merger & acquisition transactions in July, a surge of 59.4 percent from a month earlier, according to an industry report. The value of the 86 M&A deals that revealed their transaction figures totaled US$3.05...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, Western Europe
BBC News A Coventry manufacturing firm has been bought for £30m by a partnership between a Chinese automotive supplier and a Shropshire company. Covpress, in Canley, makes body panels for the likes of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and employs more than 450 people. Shandong...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News, North America
Bloomberg Hanergy Holding Group Ltd., the Chinese clean-power producer, acquired the U.S. photovoltaic manufacturer Global Solar Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, its third purchase in a year of a thin-film panel maker. Global Solar joins Miasole Inc., which...
Aug 7, 2013 | China, East Asia, News
Bloomberg 07 Aug. 2013 Yue Xiu Group, a trading arm of China’s Guangzhou city government, is considering a bid for Hong Kong family-run lender Chong Hing Bank Ltd., according to a person familiar with the matter. While talks are at an early stage, Yue Xiu is arranging...
