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A privatised Shaw Brothers would also allow Ms Fong to carry out a property deal that she was unable to do a few months ago.

The government still retains a "golden share" in the privatised group and was reluctant to see parts of it sold to foreigners.

Some $90m was seized from the New York trustee with which shares of a privatised Argentine bank had been deposited.

All this has led to a reappraisal of whether state banks should be fully privatised in the long term.

Tanzania was glad to secure the services of a British-led consortium to run the newly privatised water system in its capital, Dar es Salaam.

"The bank should be privatised as soon as possible but we should be prudent not to see foreign capital take it over. "

The business's operations were initially entrusted to the head of a privatised engineering firm from the mainland, Wu Yang.

I remember an illuminating conversation with a senior executive of a recently privatised water company.

And though the cost of working out bad debts was around 2% of GDP, all that and more was recouped when the banks were privatised.

Between them, they grabbed most of the country's natural resources and other privatised assets.

A series of publicised accidents on Britain's railways led to a panic overreaction by the privatised track operator, Railtrack.

"I thought the canal should have been privatised, but I was wrong, " says Felipe Chapman, an economist in Panama City.

Beijing pulled its banks out of near-insolvency earlier this decade, then partially privatised the recapitalised lenders.

The regulator in at least one privatised industry, water, has already made this move.

Adviser, Paul Sweeney, warned that Aer Lingus will eventually lose its landing slots at Heathrow Airport if the company is privatised.

China is leading an Asian surge, with its privatised companies keen to seize on the state's insatiable demand for old energy.

He fears the way SOEs are being privatised might create an oligarchy of a wealthy elite controlling the country's resources, as in Russia.

But the queue at "New Day" , one of dozens of newly privatised stations in Yangon, the former capital, is a sign of progress.

Since the late 1990s, urban China has privatised housing, a commodity once exclusively in the hands of the state.

Most were partially privatised over the past two decades, letting in a small proportion of outside shareholders.

Lined up behind the coal company, scores of other state companies are ripe to be privatised.

Many European countries, as well as New Zealand and Japan, have already privatised or liberalised their postal services.

Following next month's listing of AgBank, China will boast four big partially privatised banks that are sprucing up their product offerings.

Foreign investors in privatised utilities have been harassed, deterring others.

It has a privatised pensions system and education vouchers that allow the affluent to top up state provision.

Power plants were privatised and a competitive internal electricity market was set up.

Moreover, the French and Italian governments often retain important stakes in privatised utilities, so the scope for obstruction is vast.

The coal industry was finally privatised in December 1994 to create a firm named "R. J. B. Mining" , now known as UK Coal.

When China privatised its big three energy companies and big banks, it courted western oil majors and financial institutions to take stakes.

China privatised most small-scale state companies in many sectors and allowed the creation of private enterprises.

Managers of newly privatised industries tend to lay off workers as their focus shifts from empire-building to profit maximisation.

This legal trick forms the basis of the current dispute between Danone and Zong's now privatised family company.

However, the partially privatised Coal India could be much more productive.

Asia's attraction is its spectacular growth (see chart 2) privatised. Many of these firms now prefer to list at home.

The economy was thrown open to foreign trade and investment, and many state industries were privatised.

Once the privatised bank and life-insurance firm compete in the market, those funds will be launched into uncharted waters.

That process has continued, particularly the snapping up of privatised land in the former Soviet Union.

The latest lobbying push comes from the oil ministry, via part-privatised Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

An alternative to worse public universities, however, is quasi-privatised ones.

But more British bulk data have been wholly or partially privatised.

CSN, a large steelmaker, was founded by the Brazilian government in 1941, privatised in the early 1990s and has flourished since.

Rather, it was a staid state-owned firm until it was privatised in 1997.

Privatised again in 1999, the mine is now owned by Volcan, a Peruvian company.

The well-known "tragedy of the commons" argument is that such resources are overexploited unless privatised or controlled by government.

Airlines grouch that landing fees always rise at privatised airports.

Market shifts can liberate previously unobtainable resources, such as the privatised steel mills that formed the foundation of Mittal Steel.

Talking about public transport, the PAP government should not have privatised the bus and MRT services in the first place.

Mr Putin has hinted that more state companies will, sooner or later, be privatised.

Latin American governments renegotiated more than 50% of contracts with privatised water companies in the 1990s.

When it comes to electricity, the starting point is different: the industry was privatised in 1990.

Although these entities have gained a lot of attention outside China, they account for perhaps 1% of privatised companies.

The government slashed red tape, privatised everything from hotels to hospitals and used the money to build new roads.

And he has told state-run corporations they will be privatised, replacing many of their bosses with his loyalists.

On December 30th JAL's shares plunged by 24% to their lowest point since the firm was fully privatised in 1987.

When it privatised the line in 1999, the government of President Alberto Fujimori was eager to attract foreign investment.

But they have all flourished because they were privatised, to a degree, and forced to compete with foreign firms in the 1990s.

It is pushing Japan Post, the recently privatised postal service, to convert its fleet of 21, 000 delivery vehicles to electric cars.

In 1987 it bought more than 20% of British Petroleum, then recently privatised.

After 1989, VEB Carl Zeiss was privatised and over half of the 30, 000 staff it employed in the town were laid off.

The result is that certain types of diplomacy are becoming privatised.

Japan Post, privatised only last year, remains one of the biggest deposit takers in the world.

There the housing market has been in effect privatised for a decade.

CNAC is being delisted and privatised following the sale of its core asset, a 43 per cent stake in Hong Kong-based carrier DragonAir.

Embraer, set up in 1969 as an aspiring national aircraft-maker by Brazil's military government and privatised in 1994, has

the withdrawal of the state from the ownership and subsidisation of many industries and businesses which are becoming privatised;

But two points are clear: Telmex is an extremely profitable privatised quasi-monopoly;

Several factories shut during a three-year ordering hiatus when the rail network was ineptly privatised in the 1990s;