March 14, 2010

CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) said BESIX Group, in which it has a 50 percent stake, has won a $1.3 billion contract to build a medical centre in Abu Dhabi in a joint venture with South Korea’s Samsung C&T. Belgian construction firm BESIX’s share of the contract is worth $780 million, or 60 percent, OCI said on Sunday, with the remainder of the work due …

CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) said BESIX Group, in which it has a 50 percent stake, has won a $1.3 billion contract to build a medical centre in Abu Dhabi in a joint venture with South Korea’s Samsung C&T. Belgian construction firm BESIX’s share of the contract is worth $780 million, or 60 percent, OCI said on Sunday, with the remainder of the work due …

CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) unit BEXIS Group won a $1.3 billion contract to build a medical centre in a joint venture with Samsung in Abu Dhabi, OCI said on Sunday.

CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) – Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) unit BEXIS Group won a $1.3 billion contract to build a medical centre in a joint venture with Samsung in Abu Dhabi, OCI said on Sunday.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; March 14, 2010: Emaar Middle East, a subsidiary of global property developer Emaar Properties PJSC, developing Jeddah Gate, Emaar Residences at the Fairmont Makkah and Al Khobar Lakes in Saudi Arabia, has awarded the construction contract for the first phase of Al Ghadeer Village, the second residential cluster in Al Khobar Lakes, to Building Construction Company (BCC …

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By Christopher Curry Staff writer The one-fourth of a cent sales tax funding the county’s CHOICES health services program sunsets at the end of 2011, and the possibility has surfaced of another sales tax referendum in 2012 to fund children’s programs – with some of the money raised potentially going toward the construction of a children’s hospital.

New York City has sent out undercover investigators to catch gun dealers violating background check laws. But West Virginia lawmakers want to make it a crime for investigators to conduct such sting operations in West Virginia.