86% of Pakistan's Union Bank] ] This deal represented the first acquisition by a foreign firm of a Pakistani bank and the merged bank, Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan), is now Pakistan's sixth largest bank. On 22 October, 2006 Standard Chartered announced that it has received tenders for...
Botswana and Namibia will sign a deal at the end of this month to develop a 1 500km railway for transporting coal exports to the port of Walvis Bay, according to the Botswana Chamber of Mines. "Technical glitches" delaying the Trans-Kalahari project had been resolved, Charles Siwawa, the ...