The Chinese government has invested heavily in recent years in state owned companies and privately owned national champions, mainly to ensure that China profits from the power of markets while the leadership controls as much of the spoils as possible.

Vodafone says it will work with Iran's HiWEB, a small privately owned phone operator.

The vast, often undocumentable profits that flow to these companies go a long way toward explaining why facilities like Gitmo and privately owned and operated prisons in the US itself never close.

The State owned telecommunication system is barely functional, and nearly all telephone services in the country are provided by privately owned cellular phone networks.

In the next business cycle, China s banks will be privately owned for the first time since 1949.

China now has 30,000 kilometres of highways, and the number of privately owned vehicles continues to grow.

07 45 16 30 Excursion 4 Emmental Farm Forests Resource Management in Privately Owned Forests (Blaser Marti)

Most of the housing is privately owned. Only 4 of housing belongs to the state and local governments.

(The formal program was mostly publicly traded companies talking about their earnings outlooks, with one section reserved for privately held companies.)

There were big anti government protests in Caracas after a privately owned cable television channel, RCTV, was shut down.

The privately owned AES Sonel, for example, recently announced a 7 rise in prices starting from June 1, 2012.

Orbit Communications Company was a privately owned Pay TV network, operating in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

The bank was founded by the Bank of Canada Act on July 3, 1934, as a privately owned corporation.

Where facilities were privately owned, it was felt, perhaps not unreasonably, that removing assets would violate China s property rights law.

Yet few come out against their own clearly biased, heavily concentrated and privately owned media (see Mozes family , Sheldon Adelson).

Restrictions are also put on using public utilities (transportation, buildings, public sector companies, as well as companies with government owned shares).

At one point, his companies owned one sixth of all the land in Japan.

Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.

2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that State owned media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage privately owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity.

The state owned oil (Pemex) and electric power (Federal Electricity Commission) companies face no competition.

State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters.

In 2006, 51.2 of Belarusians were employed by state controlled companies, 47.4 were employed by private companies (of which 5.7 were partially foreign owned), and 1.4 were employed by foreign companies.

In particular, Chinese consumption as a share of GDP is very low by international standards and relative to the historical experience of other countries at a similar stage of development. Two important options for raising consumption are social insurance which is developing, but too slowly and reducing state owned enterprises huge savings by paying dividends to citizens, much as privately owned companies routinely pay dividends to shareholders.

In search of this theme, I met with a variety of start up companies on the fringes of the event. (The formal program was mostly publicly traded companies talking about their earnings outlooks, with one section reserved for privately held companies.)

Removing officials from state owned companies boards has been an important aim for Medvedev for several years.

Just as corporations today are much happier supporting workers pensions by contributing to employees private accounts, so governments today should offer (or require) contributions to privately owned accounts.

The challenges of securing the information infrastructure are the same across all sectors, of which up to 90 per cent is estimated to be owned and operated privately.

Decree No. 86 154 PCMS SEM of 23 October 1986 on the regulations governing the staff of industrial and commercial public institutions, State owned and part State owned companies

They will make loans on the basis of commercial criteria rather than relations with big state owned companies.

State owned and private multinational companies drill fuel in Russia and sell it to Europe and North America.

A typical sight was a holiday campground with small bungalows managed by one of the state owned companies.

In its view, freedom of expression was essential to the viability of any democracy and it was worth noting that there were 30 privately owned newspapers in the country.

First, massive renationalization since 2004 has left state owned companies once again controlling the commanding heights of the economy.

Russian authorities may be advancing that goal by taking initial steps toward improving corporate governance in state owned companies.

The three companies, jointly owned since 1922, were merged to form a new industrial conglomerate, Nokia Corporation, in 1967.

Public transportation system means all facilities, conveyances and instrumentalities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used in or for publicly available services for the transportation of persons or cargo.

The transfer of governance responsibility for specified functions to sub national levels, either publicly or privately owned, that are largely outside the direct control of the central government (Ferguson and Chandrasekharan).

Nine per cent of the entire territory of the Committee is privately owned, and the owners are not subject to the same obligations as the State with respect to reindeer husbandry.

Infrastructure facility means any publicly or privately owned facility providing or distributing services for the benefit of the public, such as water, sewerage, energy, fuel, banking, communications, telecommunications and information networks.

This is true even if the economic expansion is led by state owned companies and by Russian sovereign wealth funds.

Poor governance, weak rule of law, and state owned companies assault on competition undermine Russia s business climate and cause capital flight.

Only 10 multinational companies, five of which are United States owned, account for nearly half of global drug sales in some instances, United States companies are the sole manufacturers of certain drugs.

These former State owned enterprises are known GLCs because the State still retains significant influence over their management control primarily through four State owned holding companies Temasek Holdings, Singapore Technologies, MinCom Holdings and MND Holdings.

Navalny s repeated requests for the minutes of several state owned companies board meetings generated huge resistance two companies even tried, unsuccessfully, to change the law in order to reject shareholder requests for information.

In June 2009, the largest US pension fund (Calpers) owned less than 0.3 of large companies such as Coca Cola and Microsoft.