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BYD wins order for another 406 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

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BYD will co-work with Superpolo, a Colombian bus manufacturer, on the body part of the buses for such order. A joint venture between Colombian business group Fanalca and international public transport operator Transdev used BYD’s integrated E-bus solutions to bid and successfully won the tender. Earlier post.)

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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Instead, more than a month after the cruise was abruptly canceled, one couple is stranded in an Istanbul hotel and on the verge of becoming homeless; another woman has moved to Ecuador because she can’t afford to pay her mortgage; and a man, recently diagnosed with cancer, has delayed his treatment because he doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. Everything that we do has the patient in mind.".

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The GM International Operations team is doing a great job expanding our global presence.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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It would also force foreign suppliers to seek other markets for all or part of the exports they previously sent to the U.S. in Russian and Soviet history, Soviet economics, and International economics, and MBA in finance and marketing. If, as seems increasingly likely, the ban on crude exports is lifted, U.S.

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