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2006-07-09 Bangladesh

Bangladesh says hard to accept three billion dollar investment

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Posted by john 2006-07-09 15:30|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just boggles the mind...

Posted by john 2006-07-09 15:38|| 2006-07-09 15:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Tata has proposed building a steel plant, urea factory, a 1,000 megawatt gas-fired power plant and developing a coal mine in Bangladesh. It would be the biggest single investment in the country.

and

"We are very selfish about our country's interest. We want friends, not masters."

Talk about an own goal...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-09 15:53|| 2006-07-09 15:53|| Front Page Top

#3 If Tata thinks they're getting jerked around now, just wait til the money's sunk.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-09 15:53|| 2006-07-09 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I.E. they couldn't figure out how to steal a generous portion of the funds.

Posted by Glaiting Jaimp5582 2006-07-09 16:10|| 2006-07-09 16:10|| Front Page Top

#5 The best comments ever about Bangladesh were made by P.J. O'Rourke. In short, the gods hate Bangladesh and wish to punish it terribly. Their method for doing this is called "government", and it is a terrible punishment, indeed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-09 16:11|| 2006-07-09 16:11|| Front Page Top

#6 UNOCAL withdrew in disgust from Bangladesh after being prevented from developing a huge gas field and selling the gas to India.

I hope that "donor nations" pay attention to things like this....

Posted by john 2006-07-09 16:13|| 2006-07-09 16:13|| Front Page Top

#7 a Tata delegation?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-09 17:13|| 2006-07-09 17:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Call 'em the Rack?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-09 17:17|| 2006-07-09 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe someone could open a shutter gun factory.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-07-09 22:05|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-07-09 22:05|| Front Page Top

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