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AvtoVAZ launches 3 concepts at Moscow Motor Show; collaboration with Renault-Nissan

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AvtoVAZ, the largest automaker based in Russia, a part of Rostec Corporation, introduced three new LADA concept cars at the Moscow International Motor Show 2014. While international sales declined in recent years, Russia was able to export more than 38,000 assembly kits to Egypt between 2002 and 2013.

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Geely exports more than 100,000 vehicles in 2012; 164% year-on-year growth

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In 2007, Geely signed a joint venture with the British taxi manufacturer Manganese Bronze which saw the two companies produce the TX range of taxis in Shanghai, which are sold in the local Chinese market and also to international markets including the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia.

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The Suez chokepoint

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The US Energy Information Administration recently updated its brief on world oil transit chokepoints—one of which is Egypt’s Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is an artificial waterway in Egypt extending from Port Said to Suez, connecting the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea—a distance of 120 miles.

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, had also forecast that “ climate change will challenge the traditional assumption that past hydrological experience provides a good guide to future conditions. ”. This risk is rarely reflected in corporate sustainability reports or security filings. Electronics.

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