companies
... century, the uninhabited atoll was officially claimed by the US in 1857. Both US and British companies mined for guano deposits until about 1890. In 1935, a short-lived attempt at colonization ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
companies
... the Eurasian Economic Community (EurASEC), both organizations dominated by Russia. Uzbek authorities have accused US and other foreign companies operating in Uzbekistan of violating Uzbek tax laws and have frozen their assets
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html
companies
... continues to expand construction of facilities in the Spratly Islands; in March 2005, the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam signed a joint accord to conduct marine seismic activities ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/i_ti.html
companions
... at establishing the island as a penal colony (1788-1814 and 1825-55) were ultimately abandoned. In 1856, the island was resettled by Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions
www.exxun.com/NorfolkIsland/a_fg.html
companions
... in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn was the first Pacific island to become a British colony (in 1838) and today ...
www.exxun.com/PitcairnIslands/a_fg.html
companions
... fated attempt to cross Antarctica on foot. He returned some 20 months later with a few companions in a small boat and arranged a successful rescue for the rest of his crew ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/a_fg.html
company
... until 2005; demand outstripped capacity, prices were high, and services poor; Telecom Namibia, through an Angolan company, became the first private licensed operator in Angola's fixed-line telephone network; Angola Telecom ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/f_cm.html
Company
... future industrial development. Oil production under the first of these PSAs, with the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, began in November 1997. A consortium of Western oil companies began pumping 1 million barrels ...
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/e_ec.html
company
... telecommunications, water, electricity, and agriculture though the government annulled the privatization of Benin's state cotton company in November 2007 after the discovery of irregularities in the bidding process. The Paris Club ...
www.exxun.com/Benin/e_ec.html
company
... foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company, which was made the sole exporter of natural gas. The law also required that the ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/e_ec.html
company
1 (plus 1 cable company) (1997)
www.exxun.com/BritishVirginIslands/f_cm.html
Company
... extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era; quality has improved; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/f_cm.html
company
... the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, fostered ...
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/f_cm.html
company
... a comprehensive restructuring of the economy - including elimination of price controls, privatization of the state banana company, and tax increases - to address Dominica's economic and financial crisis of 2001-02 and to ...
www.exxun.com/Dominica/e_ec.html
company
... free trade negotiations with the US. These measures, combined with chronic underinvestment in the state oil company, Petroecuador, led to a drop in petroleum production in 2007. PALACIO's successor, Rafael CORREA ...
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
company
... mining projects. Despite difficulties for international companies in working with the Eritrean government, a Canadian mining company signed a contract with the GSE in 2007 and plans to begin mineral extraction in ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
company
... center from 1843 to 1914. In 1928, a spiny lobster cannery was established, but when the company went bankrupt in 1931, seven workers were abandoned. Only two survived until 1934 when rescue ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
Company
90,000 kWh; note - from Israeli Electric Company (2005)
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
company
general assessment: NA domestic: Israeli company BEZEK and the Palestinian company PALTEL are responsible for fixed line services; the Palestinian JAWAL company provides cellular services international: country code - 970 (2004)
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/f_cm.html
company
... during the past decade were macroeconomic stagnation, the declining level of investment in plant and equipment, company restructuring, flat domestic consumption, structural rigidities in the labor market, lack of competition in the ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/e_ec.html
company
general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of Guatemala domestic: state-owned telecommunications company privatized in the late 1990s opening the way for competition; fixed-line teledensity 11 per 100 ...
www.exxun.com/Guatemala/f_cm.html
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