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Many doubted whether the King of Macao would be able to modernise a family empire accustomed to operating in a vacuum.

A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.

Rapid economic growth and a desire to modernise agriculture is stimulating demand for pork and high-quality breeding pigs.

Such skills, however, do not mean that the newcomers will modernise the party or democratise Chinese politics.

One of the forgotten victims of the financial crash was the project to "modernise" the Tory party.

Thus discussion focused on different ways to modernise, but did not question the goal itself.

As for Europe, it says that the bloc needs to sort out a common defence strategy and modernise its economy - arguments still made today.

Over the next two decades appetite for metals is likely to double as China and India urbanise and modernise.

It started with a plan to modernise and a determination to do so faster that ever before.

Yes, Yes, a girl. But I can see that the world has changed, and one must. . . modernise.

The state may be weak, but in his view society is strong, which both holds the place together and frustrates attempts to modernise it.

Another big idea, again offered with an envious eye to China, is to modernise America's creaking infrastructure.

He was not close to Barwick and felt he lacked the necessary business skills to modernise the organisation.

Shifting the rural population into big cities is the only way for the nation to modernise.

Such a change would require the economy to modernise in many ways .

Before the Arab spring his attempts to modernise the economy enriched a coterie of his cronies but did little for ordinary Syrians.

Dai lives are changing as towns get bigger and modernise, but the Water Splashing Festival is still celebrated by all.

Of course, much else must be done as well, notably to modernise China's primitive financial systems.

If it works, it would help to modernise the entire economy.

Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.

Default would not absolve it of the need to overhaul its institutions and modernise its economy.

He urged the country to modernise the "primitive" Soviet-era economy with its reliance on oil and gas.

Our local postmen appear to do a conscientious job but the organisation urgently needs to modernise and scrap archaic working practices.

Perhaps the biggest cause of Latin America's low productivity is lack of credit that would allow businesses to expand and modernise.

In the long term Mr Putin's refusal to modernise his country will weaken Russia.

Indeed, the billions of euros flooding from Brussels to modernise infrastructure and public services often prove a fount of corruption.

The argument centres on a deal struck in 2007 to modernise the company.

The Labour government of Tony Blair wanted to modernise the EMRS used by the National Health Service in England and Wales.

But Hogg counters: "Our aim is to modernise and globalise traditional Chinese medicine. "

Do something first, something that would illustrate your readiness to modernise the country and move it forward.

And it will up to the player to modernise, improve and build up their army.

A report by the IMF in March detailed Iran's plans to extend VAT and to modernise the tax system more broadly.

Without proper political competition, Russia is destined to waste its resources and cannot modernise.

Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghan finance minister, argues that the real answer is not to find alternative crops but to modernise the economy.

One is a failure to modernise European armies for expeditionary operations; the other is a failure of political will.

In a bid to modernise an opaque legal system, it introduced juries in 2008, restricted to trials for the most serious crimes.

With Mr Medvedev watching from the sidelines, Mr Putin pledged to tackle inflation, cut oil taxes and modernise the economy.

Mr Guriev suggests that the reason Russia has failed to modernise is that its ruling class can pocket rents from things as they are.

China, the world's main producer of traditional and herbal medicines, has launched an international project to modernise the sector.

But their cash and know-how could help modernise Indian farming and move crops faster from fields to shopping baskets.

Meanwhile, big initiatives are being undertaken to modernise China's agriculture.

It is a risky endeavour which, done badly, will make a mockery of the Western effort to stabilise and modernise the place.

A bill to modernise unemployment insurance has already passed the House of Representatives, though it languishes in the Senate.

Since then, America has constantly called on European armies to modernise themselves, but progress has been slow.

Chinese people have maintained their faith in Chinese medicine - despite the country's race to modernise.

Second, modernise the economy and neutralise the "resource curse" .

The Russians argue that extending the lease will allow it to modernise the fleet.

that means they have as big an interest in co-operating to modernise the rules as in competing to impose their own standards.

The Russian Army's need to modernise its arms and equipment also creates many opportunities for market development.

Local leaders have ambitious plans to develop new port facilities and hotels, and to modernise the dry dock.

China is entitled to modernise its armed forces and protect its security interests.

In short, Mr Simsek still has much work to do to modernise and reform Turkey's economy.

Consequently, to focus only on new regulation would fall short: we must also modernise the regulatory system and authorities in the US.

The first option has its logic: why let a repressive, demeaning system modernise itself slowly?

We must also fundamentally reform and modernise our regulatory architecture and authorities.

They decided not to modernise the Victorian decor.

"What De Gucht is doing is looking for ways to modernise and strengthen EU trade policy. "

Japan and South Korea invested heavily in universities to modernise their economies in the past and China is doing the same.

Mr Medvedev has spearheaded a drive to modernise Russia during his term in office.

China has raised more than Rmb45bn ($6. 1bn) in its biggest ever bond deal as part of plans to modernise its railways.

In February the stimulus package allotted $11 billion to modernise the grid.

The knee-jerk assumption of globalisation, he argues, is that as countries modernise they take on western characteristics.

"We need 20 years to modernise our economy and all we ask for is external stability while we do so, " he says.

"We are helping Shanghai as much as possible to modernise the market, " Mr Tsang said.

In 2005 Venezuela's government gave Cuba a contract to modernise its identity-card system.

We need to modernise multilateralism to steer towards a new monetary system.

If not, Russia's plans to modernise its economy will be undermined before they have begun.

In the course of 2010 we will continue our efforts to modernise the economy, encouraging innovation and diversification.

The Chinese defence minister visited just before the elections to agree to modernise Kenya's armed forces.

China also badly needs international expertise and technology to modernise its creaky market infrastructure.

In some ways, SASAC aims to modernise its enterprises.

In order to modernise Russia, Mr Chubais argues, political liberalisation is desirable, but not essential.

The common conviction of nearly all these commentators is that no country can modernise without following a western path.

In India, it is that failure to modernise the country's creaking infrastructure will choke off growth.

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