Attempts to modernise Ethiopia's farming sector have sparked further controversy.
|
|
This easy life led to a complacent refusal to modernise.
|
|
He is not waiting for the government to modernise it.
|
|
Today's populists and nationalists could revive and modernise that fervour.
|
|
And of course our goal is to develop and modernise this.
|
|
But certainly Asian countries are competing to modernise their military forces.
|
|
Yangon is filled with international advisers eager to help the country modernise.
|
|
He has invested huge sums to modernise the petrochemicals and refining business.
|
|
He was not trying to modernise his world but to save it.
|
|
Gulf economies need to modernise and diversify away from oil and gas.
|
|
They had lots of people trying to streamline and modernise the plant.
|
|
Unions need to modernise themselves to prove more relevant to the members.
|
|
China has helped modernise Iran's armed forces and sold it civil nuclear technology.
|
|
At the very least, it shows that Mr Kim is willing to modernise.
|
|
But they seem determined to use them as tools to modernise their economies.
|
|
It could also be an impetus for China to modernise its financial system.
|
|
Yet despite its mostly dreadful rulers, the vast land did begin to modernise.
|
|
The Chao Phraya promenade is part of a wider effort to modernise Bangkok.
|
|
She supported Mr Cameron's later efforts to detoxify and modernise the party's image.
|
|
Brexit has re-defined the Conservative Party — undoing all the efforts to modernise it.
|
|
The worst would be the end of his ambitions to modernise and transform France.
|
|
As state-owned British Steel, it was often starved of investment to modernise plants.
|
|
Mr González suggests partners could take joint ownership of refineries and help modernise them.
|
|
This focused on increasing China's efforts to modernise and revitalise its vast farming sector.
|
|
Perhaps the proceeds of the IPO will help modernise the Saudi economy; perhaps not.
|
|
Whether Emperor Naruhito wants or would be able to modernise his role is uncertain.
|
|
Muhammad bin Salman, the young crown prince, is trying to modernise the conservative Muslim kingdom.
|
|
The ministry says it is spending over £700m to modernise the courts and tribunal services.
|
|
Of course the challenge is to modernise and adapt it, and that will take some time.
|
|
Trade has helped Mexico modernise, with big implications for a third area of the relationship: migration.
|
|
The worst, however, would be the end of his laudable ambitions to modernise and transform France.
|
|
Overbond, a startup based in Toronto, is seeking to modernise this process using statistical forecasting methods.
|
|
Ms Vestager has given ground with a package to "modernise" how the EU evaluates such largesse.
|
|
It said Belgrade should reform institutions to support private-sector-led growth and modernise tax administration.
|
|
Many of the problems faced by Tibetans are common in traditional pastoral cultures as they modernise.
|
|
The missile tests have practical value for the North Korean military's efforts to modernise its arsenal.
|
|
"The new law could be seen as part of the PLA's [efforts] to modernise," Song said.
|
|
But Mr Lacalle Pou has kept his rhetoric temperate, stressing his promise to modernise the police.
|
|
This blossoming trade has helped Mexico modernise, with big implications for another aspect of the relationship: migration.
|
|
The review, by Mark Farmer, head of Cast, a construction consultancy, is ominously entitled "Modernise or Die".
|
|
The defence minister has battled against all sorts of inertia in her bid to modernise the Bundeswehr.
|
|
Mr López Obrador has at times opposed the measures earlier governments have taken to modernise the economy.
|
|
He has sent a bill to modernise the police to congress, and plans another for the army.
|
|
The group has undertaken a project to modernise this platform, expand its functionality and improve operational efficiencies.
|
|
She was a capable families minister and has pushed to modernise Germany's armed forces (with patchy results).
|
|
Banks are closing branches to cut costs and modernise as more nimble digital lenders grow in popularity.
|
|
He said the chain planned to invest to modernise around 288.0 of its 280 outlets in Germany.
|
|
His successor Deng Xiaoping sought to modernise China, and encouraged bright, young Chinese to leave for Western universities.
|
|
But doubts persist about whether Ukraine has the political will to modernise its economy and tackle entrenched corruption.
|
|
Customer facilitiesIn recent years, the Indian government has been trying to modernise the railways by upgrading its technology.
|
|
But attendees on Tuesday said the turnout was impressive and reflected reforms to modernise the largest Arab economy.
|
|
The Treasury has granted Prasa 41.5 billion rand over the next three years to modernise the rail network.
|
|
"President Trump has said he wants the WTO to modernise, and I agree," Truss said in the speech.
|
|
Also, more money should be spent to modernise the EU economy rather than on preserving agriculture, they say.
|
|
A central part of that has been to reform and modernise state champion ADNOC and attract foreign investment.
|
|
More broadly, the government seems to realise that it needs to take bolder steps to modernise the economy.
|
|
This is a problem that David Cameron, with all his attempts to modernise the Tory party, failed to solve.
|
|
An attempt to use the windfall from the commodity boom to modernise the state and its economy fell flat.
|
|
Its task is to find a way to modernise German in a way that is "comprehensible, legible and sayable".
|
|
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, a quango helping farmers to modernise, is funding experiments in automated broccoli-harvesting.
|
|
To modernise the pieces, the pendants are paired with Burmese jade and beaded charms strung along Rhodium-plated chains.
|
|
But as cameras proliferate and electronics shrink, the temptation to modernise the sign-stealing process is growing ever stronger.
|
|
"It could be a great opportunity for it to undertake the needed reforms to modernise the economy," he said.
|
|
In response, both FedEx and UPS are investing large sums to modernise their fleets and expand their delivery hubs.
|
|
Solberg said the government would seek to cut the country's carbon emissions, boost security and help modernise the economy.
|
|
The DoE says it is considering whether it needs to modernise its test so that it becomes harder to game.
|
|
Given how slow the Federal Aviation Administration has been to modernise the system, that claim may well have some merit.
|
|
He was put in charge of "open government"—an initiative to modernise government affairs by transforming them into electronic form.
|
|
Ethiopia could require as much as $2.2 billion to modernise its creaking, overburdened telecoms sector, Eyob told Reuters last week.
|
|
Advocates of mando único claim that states can modernise police forces, co-ordinate them better and give them more money.
|
|
Government will also modernise its guidance on electronic ID verification with the aim of supporting tech for accessing financial services.
|
|
He will then have a chance to use the final term he is allowed in office to modernise Argentina's economy.
|
|
Many other WTO members addressed the meeting, mostly acknowledging China's efforts to modernise its policies and urging it to continue.
|
|
She had a brief to modernise the central bank's management as it took on wide-ranging responsibilities for financial services.
|
|
Its earlier denial was a blow for the kingdom as it looks to modernise its economy and improve ties with banks.
|
|
He is a fierce critic of corruption, and of reforms introduced by Mr Peña to modernise the economy and Mexican schools.
|
|
Peter Marcus of World Steel Dynamics, a research firm, praises Mr Trump for stimulating "massive investment that will modernise the industry".
|
|
It has gradually lost business to Asian shipbuilders, such as South Korea, missing opportunities to modernise and produce more sophisticated vessels.
|
|
Here, he explains, is a five-year plan to modernise fish-farming in Rakhine—or rather, what is left of it.
|
|
This year, the government launched a "Stop Smog" scheme to help poorer Poles modernise their houses' insulation, thereby reducing energy consumption.
|
|
To appeal to the middle class, Mr Aliyev is trying to modernise the country while maintaining a tight grip on politics.
|
|
Paraguay's president, Horacio Cartes, who belongs to the Colorado party, once led by Stroessner, has tried to modernise the dictator's framework.
|
|
Mr Cartes's attempt to modernise Stroessner's model has met resistance from his own Colorado party, which has a majority in congress.
|
|
The new chief would also have control over funding for the military, which is struggling to modernise its Soviet-era equipment.
|
|
It also intends to modernise its guidance on electronic ID verification with the aim of supporting technology for accessing financial services.
|
|
If Greece is going to enjoy a sustained virtuous circle, Mitsotakis will have to be bold and really modernise the country.
|
|
In Persia, meanwhile, Abbas Mirza, a charismatic prince, drew on French and British help to modernise an army run on medieval lines.
|
|
The question of whether to modernise German or to cleave to its gendered traditions is just one battle in a culture war.
|
|
In 2017, Auchan launched a three-year plan to modernise its hypermarkets, accelerate online expansion and focus more on smaller convenience stores.
|
|
But China's trajectory also raises a bigger question: no country has yet been able to modernise its economy without becoming a democracy.
|
|
Volkswagen truck brand Scania said it will invest 1.4 billion reais (1.13 million euros) to modernise its Brazilian factory near Sao Paulo.
|
|
Hatzidakis has called the planned sale "a cash injection" for PPC and a way to modernise Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO).
|
|
Can the top ranks of the civil service modernise the bureaucracy, so that everything it does drives Hong Kong towards a better future?
|
|
The federal government promised at the end of 2016 to spend an extra 1.2bn reais ($370m) quickly to build and modernise state prisons.
|
|
Altmaier launched a committee of antitrust experts last year to modernise German and European competition law with the goal of safeguarding Germany's competitiveness.
|
|
He said that a public listing for the NSE would allow it to fully "modernise", but that the practicalities were still being decided.
|
|
Jesse Gary of Century Aluminium says his firm is planning to invest over $100m to expand and modernise its production facilities in Kentucky.
|
|
Prince Muhammad has laid out a sweeping agenda that aims to wean the kingdom off oil, modernise the economy and attract foreign investment.
|
|
Katsuyuki Yakushiji of Toyo University in Tokyo reckons Akihito hopes his abdication will spark a debate about how to modernise the imperial family.
|
|
As part of efforts to modernise state-owned Codelco, about 200 employees lost their jobs at the company in July, a source said.
|
|
Russia has shown little interest in Mr Stoltenberg's plan to modernise the Vienna Document, an ageing agreement on military transparency and information exchange.
|
|
They are also applying whizzy digital tools, from the mobile internet to cloud computing, in order to help charities to modernise their operations.
|
|
I hope there is space, which we didn't manage seven years ago, to really modernise in cohesion policy, agricultural funds and regional funds.
|
|
The government has said it plans to use some of the proceeds from the concession to modernise debt-ridden state railway operator BDZ.
|
|
On Wednesday, Wolfgang Link, chief executive of the business in Europe, said Hudson's Bay planned to modernise around 20 Kaufhof stores in 2018.
|
|
Britain should modernise its "outdated" equality laws regulating gender change and allow gender self-declaration, the committee said after an inquiry into transgender equality.
|
|
They seem receptive to China's claim that it is merely attempting to modernise Uighur beliefs (though in reality Chinese actions go far beyond that).
|
|
This is putting enormous pressure on MNCs to modify and modernise their supply chains to keep pace with advancing innovations and evolving consumer preferences.
|
|
However, despite recognising the need to modernise, the union's efforts to improve their services are stymied by a lack of investment from the government.
|
|
Its leader, Rahul Gandhi, although a much-derided dynast, has helped modernise the party a little, raising its profile on social media, for example.
|
|
And so they are trying to modernise, to hide their least presentable side, and that seems to me to be a positive sign, too.
|
|
China's stated ambition to modernise its People's Liberation Army by 2035 was "supported by defence spending that has been on a relentlessly upward trajectory".
|
|
Moreover, a second big rescue within two decades would make it harder for China to modernise its banks, leaving them reliant on the state.
|
|
Last year the UK government called for proposals for reinvigorating high streets, announcing a £675M Future High Streets Fund to help modernise high streets.
|
|
China's stated ambition to modernise its People's Liberation Army by 2035 was "supported by defense spending that has been on a relentlessly upward trajectory".
|
|
Fifor, 47, has overseen the large-scale acquisition of military equipment and hardware to modernise Romania's army, including Patriot missiles from the United States.
|
|
"The reason why the contract is being introduced is to modernise the benchmark as we are moving to containers," the first trade source said.
|
|
Tribalism has played a huge part in the success of the Taliban, and seriously hindered the government in their attempts to progress and modernise.
|
|
Officials have spent more than a century vowing to modernise China, promoting reforms that—certainly in the past 40 years—often demand the world's admiration.
|
|
In 2017, at the behest of the Bundeskartellamt, the competition watchdog, it made several tweaks to the law to modernise it for the digital age.
|
|
He and his powerful attorney-general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, have sought to modernise Fiji and defuse tensions between indigenous Fijians and those of Indian descent.
|
|
In the long drive to modernise Ireland, the equality laws of the European Union, and the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR), have been vital.
|
|
India has been trying to modernise its military to narrow the gap with China but defence expenditure has been largely stagnant, making for slow procurement.
|
|
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - IBM said on Wednesday it will acquire EZSource, an Israel-based application discovery company, to help developers modernise mainframe applications for digital business.
|
|
The plan to ease requirements for foreign investors is part of a string of steps in the past two years to modernise the Saudi market.
|
|
The plan will be a key part of the European Union country's plan to modernise its military, benefiting from a gradual increase in annual spending.
|
|
The third trend is specific to Syngenta: China's government wants to modernise its farms and to own the intellectual property involved, for example seed patents.
|
|
However, Czech Coal, owned by tycoon Pavel Tykac, wanted to buy the plant now so that it can modernise it to meet stricter emissions' rules.
|
|
This sea is also home to the Isle of Man, an island that is quietly fighting a battle to modernise its highly restrictive abortion laws.
|
|
The Italian government sees the development of an ultrafast internet network as a top priority to modernise the country's phone infrastructure and to support business.
|
|
Last month, Electrolux said it was putting a $250 million investment to expand and modernise its Springfield, Tennessee plant on hold due to rising steel prices.
|
|
The overall impression is of an organisation that wants to modernise state firms, but which is struggling to reconcile goals that appear to be fundamentally contradictory.
|
|
But he believes that its real decline began 30 years earlier, when a reforming prime minister, Sean Lemass, undertook to modernise Ireland's stagnant and rural economy.
|
|
Saudi Arabia's social reforms—including the decision earlier this month to let women drive cars—are part of an attempt to modernise the economy (see video).
|
|
In 25 Huawei was chosen by BT, a formerly state-owned telecoms company, to be part of a £1173bn ($2117bn) contract to modernise Britain's phone network.
|
|
The renewed U.S. clampdown caused a crash of Iran's currency, rampant inflation and a flight of foreign investors desperately needed by Tehran to modernise its economy.
|
|
In order to improve its results, Auchan has launched a plan to modernise its hypermarkets, accelerate its online expansion and focus more on smaller convenience stores.
|
|
The conjunction of a fall in oil prices, a geopolitical crisis and a hyperactive prince afford a once-in-a-generation chance to modernise the country.
|
|
But since launching the campaign to modernise the island's abortion laws in April, women have begun sharing their stories of how the law has affected them.
|
|
Since sanctions were lifted last year under a 2015 multinational nuclear deal, Iran has signed contracts with foreign firms to repair and modernise its oil refineries.
|
|
Last month M&S reported a 5.4 percent decline in underlying pretax profit for the 2017-13043 year and said it had to modernise rapidly to survive.
|
|
Advocates of river transport hope it will not take the shutdown of a critical lock for months to focus minds on the investments needed to modernise waterways.
|
|
The second was to show that China's less industrialised regions can modernise without the dirty factories that have left urban areas elsewhere in China choking in smog.
|
|
The funds raised will help pay for its ambitious "Smart Cities" project that aims to modernise 100 cities by 2020, including by improving water supply and transportation.
|
|
The tried-and-tested way for an economy to modernise is to accumulate all of these, requiring a lengthy period in which investment grows faster than GDP.
|
|
On the other hand, she was warning her party of its "nasty" reputation, three years before Mr Cameron became leader and set about trying to modernise it.
|
|
Should Russia modernise by following the Western path towards civil rights and representative government, or should it try to lock in stability by holding fast against them?
|
|
Von der Leyen said that European countries should be ready to modernise the almost 70 years old military alliance and split its financing in a fairer manner.
|
|
Her struggles to modernise the armed forces cause some to question her competence: "Germany's weakest minister", sneered Martin Schulz, a German former president of the European Parliament.
|
|
The European Union's biggest wheat producer must also modernise to the tune of 14 billion euros ($17 billion) over 15 years, the French wheat growers' group AGPB said.
|
|
The constitution was just another archaic part of public life to modernise according to the dehistoricised dictates of the age—or to mess with for short-term advantage.
|
|
Just 32, he has gathered unprecedented power and is attempting to ram through an ambitious social and economic agenda to modernise the country and wean it off oil.
|
|
It's the first agreement reached by negotiators of the European Parliament, the Member States and the European Commission related to the latter's proposal to modernise EU copyright rules.
|
|
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde emphasised that "the first priority should be to resolve the current trade tensions" while working to modernise international trading rules.
|
|
In some states, such as New York, regulators are considering new ways to value the electricity that rooftop panels generate, as part of efforts to modernise the grid.
|
|
Royal Mail's prospects hinge on its ability to cut costs and modernise operations to gain a larger share of the parcels market in light of declining letter volumes.
|
|
Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, is trying to modernise after years of underinvestment and has reduced layers of management, upgraded technology and cut its property bill.
|
|
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have since repeatedly urged Algeria to reform the underdeveloped banking sector and modernise its stock exchange to help attract investment.
|
|
He said Uber had paid the province around C$7 million ($5.68 million) in fees during the pilot which would fund efforts to modernise the province's taxi industry.
|
|
To cope with changing shopping habits, the group has also launched a plan to modernise its hypermarkets, accelerate its online expansion and focus more on smaller convenience stores.
|
|
"The German industry players are benefiting from a robust economy in the global race to modernise industry," Norbert Stein, chairman of the VDMA's robotics and automation association, said.
|
|
Atlantia is waiting for a reply from the Italian government over proposals it has made to modernise the motorways it runs, the group's chief executive said on Friday.
|
|
He sought as president to reduce unemployment and cut public debt, and steered France into Europe's monetary union, but did little to modernise the economy or the state.
|
|
The country's lower-tier cities have been broadly driving price gains in the overall market this year, partly due to China's long-term campaign to modernise housing developments.
|
|
Fox said the government was working with the banking sector to find a solution for Iranian payments, and that Britain was well-placed to help private Iranian banks modernise.
|
|
So China's policymakers may well conclude increased import dependence is a price worth paying in the short term to secure more space to modernise the country's economy and military.
|
|
Corruption is a crucial reason why the country has been outpaced by its former communist peers in the drive to modernise and bring living standards closer to the West.
|
|
Kremer said Raytheon was convinced that Patriot offered Germany a more reliable and proven system that would also be cheaper to operate and modernise in the future than MEADS.
|
|
But Macron has all but won the war over the SNCF, delivering a powerful blow in his campaign to modernise France's labour force and end a long economic malaise.
|
|
David Cameron carefully tempered his drive to modernise the Tory Party with minority- and gay-friendly policies with a promise to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands annually.
|
|
Backing down over the SNCF would raise questions over his ability to deliver a raft of other social and economic reforms that he argues are vital to modernise France.
|
|
His administration, run by technocrats and specialist advisors, sought to open up the economy to the international markets and modernise a financial sector that had been lagging for years.
|
|
Royal Mail Plc dropped 06003 percent after warning it faced slightly higher than expected costs to modernise its operations in what it said was an extremely competitive domestic market.
|
|
Moscow has described its own military deployments as being either defensive and a direct response to NATO, or as part of a sweeping programme to modernise its armed forces.
|
|
It pits President Mauricio Macri, a reformer who has failed to modernise Argentina's economy, against Alberto Fernández, whose Peronist movement is the reason the country needs so much reform.
|
|
As part of En+'s environmental, social and governance presentation, the Russian aluminium firm said it would spend $850 million to modernise power plants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
|
|
Etisalat Nigeria signed a $1.2 billion medium-term facility with 13 Nigerian banks in 2013, which it used to refinance an existing $650 million loan and modernise its network.
|
|
The problem revolves around delays and cost overruns in building seven of the 17 hospitals under a public private partnership (PPP) model promoted by Ankara to modernise health care.
|
|
Brash and unafraid to take on the moneyed elite, he was widely admired for his no-nonsense drive to modernise a chaotic city long plagued by traffic and flooding.
|
|
The chief executive of European missile maker MBDA is returning to Airbus as head of strategy as the planemaker seeks to modernise its factories and explore future options in defence.
|
|
While the treaty allows each side to modernise its nuclear forces, the transparency it brings means both can do so without making what Mr Pifer calls "costly worst-case assumptions".
|
|
While the treaty permits each side to modernise their nuclear forces, the transparency it brings means they can do so without making what Mr Pifer calls "costly worst-case assumptions".
|
|
This week the kingdom held an investment conference in Riyadh to discuss its drive to modernise its economy, although it was overshadowed by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist.
|
|
The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday it was offering up to 6 million barrels of crude from national emergency stocks to raise funds to modernise U.S. strategic oil reserves.
|
|
He has also pledged to modernise the economy and cut red tape, especially a Byzantine legal and regulatory system long seen as one of the main hurdles to foreign investment.
|
|
SHANGHAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China has signed a deal with SF Holding to help modernise the logistics network of the country's air force, the express delivery company said on Wednesday.
|
|
China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier left its northeastern port to begin sea trials on Sunday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country's efforts to modernise its military.
|
|
Many world leaders have already visited Cuba as it has in recent years sought to improve relations with the West, modernise its centrally planned economy and attract more foreign investment.
|
|
China's stated ambition is to modernise its People's Liberation Army by 2035, improve its air force and push into new technologies including very high speed cruise missiles and artificial intelligence.
|
|
The European Union needs a strategic relationship with Turkey, including in defence matters, and should modernise its post-Cold War relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.
|
|
Moscow, which has backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an eight-year-long war, has previously said it plans to expand and modernise the port's facilities for its fleet.
|
|
Manila needs additional funding to upgrade and modernise its ageing infrastructure in order to lift its growth rate to as much as 8 percent, create more jobs and reduce poverty.
|
|
"This is the first time since the Reagan era where the United States has been motivated to modernise its war-fighting architecture, its technologies," says Michael Griffin, the Pentagon's technology chief.
|
|
"They need to modernise and try to compete with China, the way we compete with rice-producing countries like Thailand," he says, ignoring the role tariffs play in nobbling the competition.
|
|
It pledged to invest another 2.3 billion euros to clean up and modernise the plant but said it wanted to cut 5,500 jobs out of a total of 14,000 by 2023.
|
|
Felipe was proclaimed king in a low-key ceremony and has worked to modernise the monarchy, paring down the royal family's formal members and taking duties away from his two sisters.
|
|
France faces a first wave of rolling railway strikes on Tuesday that are expected to bring travel chaos in a test of President Emmanuel Macron's resolve to modernise the French economy.
|
|
SARAJEVO, March 28 (Reuters) - Montenegro's power utility EPCG said it would make an offer for a controlling stake in the Balkan country's biggest coal mine (RUP), which it wants to modernise.
|
|
Pullinger told Reuters the bank eventually wants spending as a proportion of income to drop into the 40s from 52.4 percent currently, and that it had to modernise and find efficiencies.
|
|
The sale proceeds will also help fund 100 million euros in investment in La Halle over three years, and a further 10 million in Caroll to modernise stores and expand online.
|
|
Charles Voegele, which has lost money five years in a row, has been one of the hardest hit, as the difficult environment stalled its efforts to modernise and deliver on turnaround plans.
|
|
LONDON, Aug 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victoria's Secret has hired Valentina Sampaio as its first transgender model, her agent said on Tuesday, as the struggling lingerie brand seeks to modernise its image.
|
|
Across Asia, governments here keen to modernise their cities increasingly view street vendors and informal markets as a hindrance, and as usurpers of public spaces meant for formal businesses and wealthy residents.
|
|
They promise to loosen rules on working time, modernise the welfare system, raise the retirement age and curb public spending, which consumes 57% of GDP, second only to Finland among OECD countries.
|
|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, acknowledging the seriousness of the issue, launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission after he came to power in 2014 to modernise sanitation in the country.
|
|
EPCG has said that it would modernise the facility's sole coal-fired power plant Pljevlja to increase its output, trim pollution and bring it in line with the European Union's environmental standards.
|
|
Macron won power in May pledging to modernise France, and has pushed through other reforms, including cuts in wealth tax and an easing of job protection laws, with little trouble so far.
|
|
SINGAPORE, June 19 (Reuters) - Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd has provisionally ordered up to six Boeing Co 777 freighters, the companies said on Wednesday, as the carrier attempts to modernise its cargo fleet.
|
|
Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, is trying to modernise after years of underinvestment and has taken steps such as reducing layers of management, upgrading its technology and selling off property.
|
|
Under President Xi Jinping, China has expanded its arms industry and restructured the military as Beijing seeks to modernise its armed forces by 2035 so that they are "world class" by 2049.
|
|
Below are some of the key deals the state oil company has announced since 6003, part of Abu Dhabi's plans to reform and modernise the economy and ADNOC, the emirate's crown jewel.
|
|
NABU was established in 2014 as part of Ukraine's reform drive under which it promised to root out graft and modernise the economy in exchange for billions of dollars in international funding.
|
|
Abiy promised to open the economy to private investment when he took office in 2018, aiming to modernise banking and telecoms and help provide jobs for more of Ethiopia's 105 million people.
|
|
Moreover, the government's plans to modernise the economy and partly privatise Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, depend to some extent on higher oil prices, says Bhushan Bahree of IHS Markit, a consultancy.
|
|
Duterte has pledged to modernise the country's airports, roads, railways and ports through a six-year $180-billion, "Build, Build, Build" initiative to attract much-needed foreign direct investment and lift economic growth.
|
|
India's defence purchases from the United States have reached $303 billion since 2007 as it has pivoted away from traditional supplier Russia, looking to modernise its military and narrow the gap with China.
|
|
But he said existing imports of South American beef at full tariffs showed the French meat industry had failed to modernise, allowing imported beef to claim 70 percent of restaurant demand in France.
|
|
We can fix and modernise NAFTA because even the Mexicans agree with that, and I actually think the Canadian portion, with timber and the like, are harder than the Mexican portions of NAFTA.
|
|
BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) - China's top corruption watchdog admonished the state-owned enterprise regulator on Thursday for failing to effectively promote reform, as Beijing attempts to modernise the country's lumbering public sector companies.
|
|
The refinery acquisition and increased cooperation between the two companies were seen as key for Sonatrach's efforts to modernise its business and reduce reliance on fuel imports under Chief Executive Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour.
|
|
The showdown reflects broader conflicts inside the Roman Catholic Church, with Pope Francis facing concerted opposition to his efforts to modernise the Holy See and gently unravel the legacy of his conservative predecessors.
|
|
The Philippines is in the midst of a five-year, 125 billion peso ($2.5 billion) plan to modernise its ill-equipped armed forces, acquiring new boats, planes, helicopters, rifles, radars and communication equipment.
|
|
Adds Peter Duffy, interim CEO of Just Eat, in a statement: Working with City Pantry to accelerate its mission to improve and modernise the workplace dining experience is a great opportunity for Just Eat.
|
|
The country is now trying to work out how to modernise its language at a time when traditional gender identities are blurring and Facebook, for example, lets its users choose between 60 gender labels.
|
|
Another American foe, Iran, tried to modernise its airline sector after Barack Obama, then president, agreed in 2015 to remove many of the sanctions imposed on it in return for curbing its nuclear programme.
|
|
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who came to power last December after the death of strongman leader Islam Karimov - an opponent of market reforms - has pledged to modernise the $70 billion economy and attract foreign investment.
|
|
Hence the B2 Stealth bomber programme, to force the USSR to modernise its air defences, and Ronald Reagan's strategic defence initiative ("Star Wars"), to strain to the utmost Soviet investment in its missile shield.
|
|
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr declined comment on a report in the magazine Der Spiegel that Germany was moving toward approval of a Turkish request for Rheinmetall to upgrade and modernise its Leopard tanks.
|
|
Merkel, accompanied by a delegation of German business executives, welcomed Argentina's current more open policies and said Germany could be a good partner for Argentina as it sought to rebuild its infrastructure and modernise.
|
|
Foreign defence manufacturers are looking to the South Asian country as one of the most promising markets for weapons in the coming decade, with India predicted to spend $250 billion to modernise its military.
|
|
The university, which is open about its Christian affiliation, says its sole mission is to help North Korea's future elite learn the skills to modernise the isolated country and engage with the outside world.
|
|
The privatisation campaign is part of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's broader reform drive aiming to modernise and open up Uzbekistan's economy which was run under a Soviet-style command system by his predecessor Islam Karimov.
|
|
Shares in the group's Brazilian unit rose on Wednesday after a Brazilian Senate committee passed a bill that will modernise the country's telecommunications law and boost companies in the sector by restricting asset sales.
|
|
The Russian Navy also operates a military facility at Tartus, Russia's only naval foothold in the Mediterranean, and Moscow has previously said it plans to expand and modernise the port's facilities for its fleet.
|
|
Public ownership of stadiums is common in Italy but leaves clubs unable to modernise their facilities and make money from mega-stores and restaurants, as do the likes of Manchester United and Bayern Munich.
|
|
Roy Gori, who was appointed chief executive of the Toronto-based insurer last October, has expressed his desire to modernise the business with technology, once saying the insurance industry was "still in the dark ages".
|
|
Canada rejoined the talks to modernise the 24-year-old NAFTA after Mexico and the United States announced a bilateral trade deal on Monday, which had helped global equities begin the week on stronger footing.
|
|
There has been much talk since then about the Academy's efforts to modernise and diversify, but this was the first year that Hollywood no longer appeared to be the domain of old, white, American men.
|
|
Over the past couple of decades more than 21990 countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, have privatised (or at least "commercialised") their ATC services, freeing them to innovate and modernise without government interference.
|
|
Moreover, electronification is just one facet of how bond trading is being dragged into the 22016st century, with banks and investors exploring myriad ways to modernise the entire fixed income market — as Abbie attests to.
|
|
The council announced plans in 2005 to raze the Aylesbury, home to more than 7,22015 people, rather than modernise, saying redevelopment would replace poor quality housing in the sought-after central part of the city.
|
|
Canada rejoined the talks to modernise the NAFTA pact after Mexico and the United States announced a bilateral trade deal earlier in the last week, which lifted demand for global risk assets including Japanese equities.
|
|
Cash flow has been a point of contention for the market, and was pulled to the forefront after Royal Mail warned last month that it faced slightly higher than expected costs to modernise its operations.
|
|
OTTAWA, March 28 (Reuters) - Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator said on Wednesday that there is still quite a bit of work to be done at the three-nation talks to modernise North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
|
|
Canada rejoined the talks to modernise the 24-year-old NAFTA after Mexico and the United States announced a bilateral trade deal on Monday, which had helped global equities begin the week on the front foot.
|
|
Brash and unafraid to take on the moneyed elite, Purnama - popularly known by his Chinese nickname 'Ahok' - was widely admired for his no-nonsense drive to modernise a chaotic city long plagued by traffic and flooding.
|
|
Mr Renzi and his advisers are convinced Italy's woes are institutional, that under the current system structural reforms will be thwarted by vested interests, and that only a government with wider powers can modernise the country.
|
|
But for businessmen and bankers who have flocked to pay homage to the 33-year-old Prince Muhammad ever since, in 2016, he set out his "Vision 453" to modernise the economy, the optics are dreadful.
|
|
"This mission could be seen as a real test of the PLA's joint operation capability since the military was overhauled," Zhou said, referring to reforms in the last few years to streamline and modernise the PLA.
|
|
The market, which started life in Edward Lloyd's coffee house in 1688, still operates on a face-to-face basis in its City of London building and is seen needing to modernise and upgrade its technology.
|
|
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown modernised the Labour Party and went on to modernise the state, giving the Bank of England its freedom, devolving power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and spring-cleaning government departments.
|
|
The project at the Pancevo refinery is part of the second phase of a Gazprom Neft programme to modernise NIS's refining capacity, which has been ongoing since 2009 and is expected to be completed in 2019.
|
|
Japan's first squadron of F-35s has just become operational at the Misawa air base and the government plans to buy 87 of the stealth fighters to modernise its air defences as China's military power grows.
|
|
The company has undergone significant changes in the nearly four years that Danielson has been at the helm, cutting thousands of staff, reshuffling management, and embarking on a drive to modernise and automate its manufacturing plants.
|
|
UIA is in the process of trying to modernise its fleet and has ordered three Boeing 737 MAX aircraft which it has not yet taken delivery of due to continuing safety concerns over the MAX project.
|
|
In addition AZ's capex remains elevated (plateauing at 10.1% of total product sales in 2016) as the group continues to invest in its Cambridge headquarters and modernise its manufacturing sites with a focus on biologic agents.
|
|
In addition AZ's capex remains heavy (after peaking at 10.1% of total product sales in 2016) as the group continues to invest in its Cambridge headquarters and modernise its manufacturing sites with a focus on biological agents.
|
|
BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) - China will eliminate more than 95 percent of its open air grains storage by 2020, according to a government document, as it seeks to clamp down on waste and modernise its agriculture sector.
|
|
Two decades ago a project to modernise the museum with funds from the World Bank flopped, reportedly because the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which houses it, refused to turn the museum into an independent trust.
|
|
Despite a sustained drive to upgrade and modernise Russia's armed forces, President Vladimir Putin has had to tighten purse strings following a sharp decline in global oil prices and the need to prioritise some domestic spending programmes.
|
|
Royal Mail was the worst performer on the day after UBS cuts its rating to "sell" from "neutral", saying the company would continue to see sub-market growth in parcel volume due to its need to modernise.
|
|
The economy ministry said on Friday it had agreed to finance a government feasibility study into a high-speed rail link between Chennai and Mysore, and had also discussed a project to modernise the Chennai-Hyderabad route.
|
|
Japan's first squadron of F-35s has just become operational at Misawa, and the government plans to buy 87 of the stealth fighters to modernise its air defences as neighbouring China and Russia upgrade their military forces.
|
|
Indian government sources say the Rafale deal is politically done, paving the way for Hollande's visit, though the country's longstanding efforts to modernise its air force have been peppered with delays and premature hopes of a deal.
|
|
M&S revised its strategy in November, two months after retail veteran Archie Norman joined as chairman, saying it needed further changes to modernise the clothing and homeware supply chain to reduce costs and make it faster.
|
|
It is over-dependent on oil and gas exports; it is failing to secure enough investment to modernise its ageing infrastructure; and productivity is struggling to keep up with wage growth driven by a shrinking labour force.
|
|
The former state-owned monopoly is battling competition from new entrants and former customers such as Amazon, which has started its own delivery system, as it seeks to modernise and regain business in the overcrowded parcels market.
|
|
In 2014, South Africa announced a 50 billion rand ($3.74 billion) locomotive supply contract, its largest ever, to four companies, including Canada's Bombardier, in a push to modernise its fleet and support its road-to-rail migration.
|
|
In an extremely competitive domestic postal and parcel market, Royal Mail's prospects hinge on its ability to cut costs and modernise operations to gain a larger share of the parcels market in light of declining letter volumes.
|
|
With a population of 100 million, Ethiopia is one of the world's last major closed telecoms markets but may need up to $2.2 billion to modernise its infrastructure, State Minister of Finance Eyob Tekalign Tolina told Reuters.
|
|
As Asian cities expand and modernise, authorities often view street food vendors as a hindrance to progress and target them for forced evictions, although some cities have made efforts to accommodate them and help raise sanitation standards.
|
|
Karimov has been succeeded by his former prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and the EBRD's return will encourage reformists who want to modernise the country's $70 billion a year economy, still run largely in the Soviet command style.
|
|
Vision 2030 is effectively a plan to modernise and diversify the Saudi economy by taking steps that include exploiting untapped mineral reserves, boosting its position in the pantheon of global trade, and increasing revenues from religious tourism.
|
|
SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Islamic institutions in Bahrain and Malaysia said on Thursday they would develop a ratings scheme for Islamic endowments, or awqaf, as part of efforts to modernise the sector and unlock large pools of capital.
|
|
We had hoped you would also continue to modernise our party so that it could reach out and broaden its appeal to younger voters and to embrace and reflect the diversity of the communities we seek to represent.
|
|
Jim Mattis acted as an unpaid adviser to the UAE on how best to modernise its military before he became US defence secretary, and is credited with coining the phrase "little Sparta" to describe the nation's military prowess.
|
|
ADDIS ABABA, July 18 (Reuters) - Ethiopia plans to offer shares to private investors in its road-building and maintenance projects, its finance minister said on Tuesday, the latest step to open up and modernise the state-led economy.
|
|
"We cannot say no to their request," he said, adding that the government would consider it within the context of the overall cocoa trade and its commitments to modernise the sector to create jobs and enhance farmers' welfare.
|
|
VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe, May 18 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe needs up to $11 billion to modernise its mines and boost production to maximum capacity over the next five years, the head of the country's Chamber of Mines said on Friday.
|
|
KIEV, April 103 (Reuters) - Ukrainian economic growth could slow to below 2 percent in 2018 and 2019, underperforming expectations, if the government does not take steps to modernise its economy and eliminate corruption, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
|
|
Ursula von der Leyen, who has been defence minister since 2013, has battled to modernise the German armed forces, but they still suffer from problems with equipment and remain detached from the country's wider foreign, security and aid strategies.
|
|
This is unfair to a defence minister who has fought to modernise the Bundeswehr and has moved fast to erase the last reminders of the 1940s (for example, by removing the names of Wehrmacht officers from over 20 barracks).
|
|
Train staff last week kicked off three months of nationwide rolling strikes in a dispute over the government's planned overhaul of state-run rail firm SNCF, in the biggest challenge yet to Macron's attempts to modernise the French economy.
|
|
Aside from banking stocks, pressure on the index came from Rio Tinto, which fell as much as 1.9 percent after it trimmed its 2017 iron ore guidance 2017 due to bad weather and work to modernise its rail lines.
|
|
Chief executive officers of banks in Egypt, including those in the private sector, will have to step down after nine years as part of measures to modernise the sector and "inject new blood", Egypt's central bank said on Thursday.
|
|
He said Greece had to carry on with reforms to free up resources to modernise its economy, to invest, to do tax reforms, and to restore public spending that has been compressed to exceptionally low level during the crisis.
|
|
KIEV, Aug 183 (Reuters) - Ukraine, preparing for a possible cut in Russian gas supplies, has agreed with neighbouring Moldova to modernise their border gas metering stations so it can receive gas from Romania, Ukraine's gas transport company Ukrtransgaz said on Monday.
|
|
At the same time the Commission is pushing for an update to modernise EU consumer rules — and is hoping to get the backing of the European Parliament and member states, via the European Council, which is needed to reform EU law.
|
|
"We are trying to privatise some equity of some of the companies we have ... It is not because of a shortage of finances, but because we want to modernise the system itself," he said in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
|
|
Electrolux and rival Whirlpool are facing higher costs due to Washington's trade war with Beijing and Electrolux has hiked prices and is pursuing an 8 billion crown plan to modernise its South American and U.S. plants to offset the blow.
|
|
Part of his plan has been to modernise the armed forces, with a $720 billion weapons-renewal programme in 2010; part to use the media to turn Russia into a fortress against a hostile West; and part to intervene abroad.
|
|
Delays in implementing reforms have held up disbursement of funding under the present programme, which expires in the first quarter next year, and raised concern about Ukraine's willingness to modernise the economy and root out corruption as elections approach in 20193.
|
|
A discussion is expected this week but don't expect action soon: ECB board members have hinted they don't see an immediate reason to introduce tiered rates and view some of the industry's troubles as it struggles to consolidate and modernise as self-inflicted.
|
|
One of the sources said the bids were either acquisition offers involving buying out the creditors and leaving SMG debt free, or offers to restructure the debt by taking shares in the company, injecting capital and providing funds to modernise SMG's fleet.
|
|
NAIROBI, May 8 (Reuters) - Kenya plans to modernise an old railway track to link a newer line to neighbouring Uganda at a cost of $210 million, with funding from an unidentified private backer rather than building another modern one with Chinese money.
|
|
Stalin's assault on the Ukrainian peasantry marked the third in a series of attempts to modernise the inherited agrarian order, following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and prime minister Pyotr Stolypin's attempt in 1912 to transform former serfs into yeoman farmers.
|
|
To help modernise the sector and "inject new blood", chief executives of public and private banks as well as the heads of foreign banks operating in Egypt would have to step down after nine years, the central bank said in a statement.
|
|
In terms of socio-economic prep for AI-fueled transformations coming to the job market the Commission says it's encouraging Member States to "modernise their education and training systems and support labour market transitions, building on the European Pillar of Social Rights".
|
|
The 40-year-old came to power last May on a promise to shake up Europe's second-biggest economy, in a bid to modernise some of France's creaking institutions and spur jobs growth, and Macron has so far liberalised labour regulations for instance.
|
|
He has not yet carried out due diligence on the business which includes the huge Port Talbot plant in south Wales but said that site could be saved if the giant blast furnaces were replaced under a plan to modernise the operations.
|
|
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who was present at the event, has promised to usher in the golden age of infrastructure through a six-year, $180 billion spending spree and has sought Chinese investment to modernise and build airports, roads, railways and ports.
|
|
NATO member Bulgaria has said it wants to seal a deal by the year-end to acquire eight new or secondhand fighter jets between 2018 and 2022 in order to modernise its fleet and improve its compliance with the military alliance's standards.
|
|
At the age of 19, he made the seven-week journey to Russia to take up a post at the St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences, which the emperor, Peter the Great, had set up as part of his plan to modernise Russia.
|
|
In one sign of ongoing cooperation, the U.S. Air Force flew B-52 bombers from the U.S. mainland to train with British and Norwegian allies for almost a month in October at a time when China and Russia continue to modernise their militaries.
|
|
Smoliy is widely seen as a safe pair of hands due to his 26 years of experience in the banking sector and work as deputy governor during the bank's drive to modernise the banking system after a pro-European uprising in 2013-14.
|
|
Now, as China pushes ahead with industrialisation of the world's largest hog herd, part of a 30-year effort to modernise its farm sector and create wealth in rural areas, companies are experimenting with high-rise housing for pigs despite the costs.
|
|
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as defence minister on Sunday as part of a cabinet reshuffle, as he seeks to get economic growth back on track and modernise the armed forces before national elections in 2019.
|
|
LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Vodafone said it would partner with Iranian internet company HiWeb to help it modernise its mobile network and IT infrastructure, making the British mobile phone group the latest western company to operate in Iran after sanctions were lifted.
|
|
India is expected to spend $250 billion over the next decade to modernise its armed forces, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also said new deals must involve a share of local production to help the country grow its nascent defence industry.
|
|
ORBAN ON HOLD The commission has been pondering for months over the possible recovery of EU funds after an investigation by the European Anti-Fraud Office last year found serious irregularities and a conflict of interest in projects to modernise street lamps in Hungarian towns.
|
|
In its IPO prospectus, the company said recent changes to trading mechanisms, to modernise the platform and align with international standards, were "untested and there can be no assurance that they will adequately facilitate the listing of and expected high trading volume in the shares".
|
|
KIGALI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - MTN Rwanda, the biggest telecoms operator in the East African nation, is close to sealing a deal for a 50 billion franc ($56.29 million) syndicated loan to be used to modernise its network, its chief financial officer said on Thursday.
|
|
The former investment banker won the 2017 election with 66.1 percent of the vote on a reformist project to modernise the eurozone's second-largest power, but many voters ranging from conservative pensioners to low-income workers complain his policies mostly benefit companies and the rich.
|
|
The Saudi index was down 0.2 percent after 45 minutes of trade as 89 shares declined while 54 rose, including telecommunications firm Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), up 0.2 percent after saying it had signed an agreement with Nokia , Huawei and Ericsson to modernise its network.
|
|
Increasingly diverse green campaigners argue there's Only so much oil in the ground; Nigerian fuel pricing edged closer to something sensible (Na oil); and our Europe section asked whether the oil-rich autocracy of Azerbaijan can modernise (Azerbaijani diva Nigar Jamal says Herhalde, or "I suppose").
|
|
In 2007 Mrs Merkel, along with other European leaders, in effect slammed the door shut for Turkey's ambitions to join the EU. At that time Mr Erdogan, then prime minister, was still claiming to modernise Turkey and bring it into line with EU norms on civil liberties.
|
|
But at the same time, we have seen a fair amount of stress in the industry, caused by the oversupply of inventory in the market, which puts pressure on prices; and some of the biggest and most established players getting hit hard trying to modernise their businesses.
|
|
Strong growth since Macron became president has given the former investment banker a tailwind as he seeks to modernise the euro zone's second biggest economy, and his government will be keen to maintain that economic momentum at a time of growing domestic discontent towards his reform agenda.
|
|
Many South African lenders registered flat or minimal growth in their domestic retail banks, and large traditional lenders have been shuttering branches and cutting jobs in a bid to modernise their operations and bring costs down to compete with a host of new, digital-only rivals.
|
|
The bigger picture here is that the new wave of computing and technology has a lot of coding and other time-consuming processes behind it, and Amazon wants to be the one to modernise and simplify that — thereby becoming the default platform for creating applications on that new tech.
|
|
Mr López Obrador has been an unremitting opponent of measures to modernise the economy, from the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada, which took effect in 1994, to the opening up of the energy market to private investors under Mr Peña in 2014.
|
|
Last week the ATP announced that the event would serve as a proving ground for several innovations meant to modernise the sport and speed up play, including mid-match coaching, relaxed rules for spectators, an abbreviated warm-up, a shot clock, no-let serving and a new scoring system.
|
|
His supporters argue that he needed to arrogate more power to himself in order to modernise the country's society and economy—proposing the sale of shares in the national oil company, for instance, to raise money to invest in a post-oil future, and liberalising the position of women.
|
|
JK: Well, it may be true that traditional parties haven't managed to modernise themselves, but also, the world has changed, it's more open, thanks to social media, for instance, people can get lots of news, lots of fake news, too, and people-, and the society has become more individual.
|
|
IFC will bring in $125 million in the first round, the company said in statement here L&T Finance, a part of India's stressed non-banking financial companies (NBFC), will use IFC's funds to expand its farm equipment finance book by giving loans to farmers to buy equipment and modernise farming.
|
|
Some feel intimidated by his intellect: when Ahmet Davutoğlu, the former Turkish prime minister, spoke of a new German-Turkish alliance Mr Altmaier immediately ruminated on the German generals, Colmar von der Goltz and Liman von Sanders, who had helped the Ottoman sultan modernise his army in the early 20th century.
|
|
The project expands a 42.6-km long rail line connecting two towns in the north of Croatia - Krizevci and Koprivnica - with the Hungarian border and is part of bigger plan to modernise the rail line shipping cargo from the so-called Mediterranean corridor to central Europe via the port of Rijeka.
|
|
"We think (the) US trade spat with China is not just about bringing manufacturing and jobs back to the US, strategically the US is not happy with the approach China has taken in order (to) modernise itself," Catril added, noting that one of the key sticking points is intellectual property rights.
|
|
Alitalia has struggled to modernise in recent years, and while the chickens born of some poor past decisions came home to roost quite some time ago, their squawks have now grown so loud at the company's headquarters inside Rome's Fiumicino airport that they threaten to drown out the roar of jet engines.
|
|
The EIB, which is the European Union's lending arm, on Friday agreed to offer a 20-year loan facility of 100 million euros to PPC, as part of an approved facility of 255 million euros to help it modernise HEDNO and build more than 7,000 km of new medium and low voltage power lines in Greece.
|
|
Specifically, Grab said it and SoftBank met with Indonesian government officials and have agreed to use the money to help modernise the country's transportation infrastructure and economy with the development of an electronic vehicle "ecosystem", new geo-mapping solutions, and the establishment of a second headquarters for Grab in Jakarta focused on R&D for Indonesia and the wider region, to sit alongside its existing HQ in Singapore.
|
|