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China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil producer, has acquired China National Chemical Construction Corporation (CNCCC). The merger - announced on Sunday by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) - will enable CNOOC to sharpen its competitiveness by using CNCCC's skills in fertilizer production, chemical research, engineering design and international trade, according to Fu Chengyu, CNOOC general manager. CNOOC is China's third largest oil company. Having focused on oil and natural gas exploration and production, it has been trying to expand into oil refining, petrochemicals and international trade. By the end of 2005, the company had 191.4 billion yuan (23.93 billion U.S.
(SGT-HCMC) Construction Company 585, an arm of Civil Engineering Construction Corporation 5 (Cienco 5), yesterday began work on a new apartment building project capitalized at around VND600 billion (US$37.5 million) on the outskirts of HCMC.
The project, which will bring a new urban look to the city's less developed district of Tan Phu, comprises five 17-story blocks covering a 14,000-square-meter site and bordering the 24-meter-wide Nguyen Son Street and Thoai Ngoc Hau Street that will be widened to 60 meters.
When the Phu Thanh project is completed by 2009, there will be an additional 3,000 homes in the center of the outlying district, four kilometers from Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
The apartments are quoted at VND9 million per square meter.
More creepy than criminal, a human skull was unearthed from beneath a backyard in Bethlehem, Pa. A landscaper digging up shrubs discovered the remains and called police. Officers, Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek and others continued digging for more bones into the afternoon. Lysek said he found other small artifacts but nothing too significant. He said the skull, just 18 inches below the ground, must have risen toward the surface after being there for quite some time. The coroner didn't immediately expect anything suspicious, and Bethlehem police believe there will be no need for any criminal investigation. Lysek said similar items have been dug up before in the surrounding area, just 50 yards or so from Moravian Cemetery.
A former Bridgeport employee and a city contractor were sentenced to prison on federal bribery charges Thursday for orchestrating a contract kickback scheme.
Frederick W. Tynes, 49, of Fairfield, who formerly worked in Bridgeport's construction management services department, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and two years of supervised release, and he also was fined $7,200.
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In June, I started writing Knape's Corner, a Web log at The Press' online site, mlive.com/grpress. It's a place for tidbits and sometimes random thoughts that do not make it into the paper you're holding. Most of the time the blog is about the Grand Rapids development scene. Sometimes it's not. Occasionally, so I've been told, it's been useful, amusing and interesting. At times, my wife tells me, it misses the mark. But always it's an additional take on local happenings you won't see anywhere in these pages, with links, old photos and other items I dig out and post. Today's column is a digest of entries from this past week. Think of it like a visit to the grocery store when they have a bunch of free samples. Some might be good.
A scar runs up her leg where a muscle was taken from a leg in one surgery. Metal plates and screws were inserted in one shattered arm, which she could barely move, then later removed because of complications. Besides multiple surgeries that led to more than $400,000 in hospital bills after the tornado hit her modular home on Katherine Street in Gallatin, Edwina Thompson lost the sight in her left eye. .
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