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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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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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As a high school student in the early 1980s, he was concerned by the hostage crisis in Iran and the Cold War, he says. "My After a successful fourth launch of the Falcon 1, SpaceX went on to develop its Falcon 9 launch capability, which is now sending astronauts to the International Space Station. I'm proud of that accomplishment.".

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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The UAE includes data for three SWF funds only: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ($773 billion), Abu Dhabi Investment Council ($110 billion), and Investment Corporation of Dubai ($183 billion)). For Iran, the only other OPEC country for which the IEA provides domestic demand data, the increase in exports, 0.7 percentage points.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. in Burnaby.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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So when we say espionage, we have to distinguish between, let’s say, national security-focused espionage and financial, corporate, or economic espionage. So the United States is the largest national security hacker on the planet, but it almost never engages in corporate espionage.

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