Liberal reform of India's state-controlled financial and overprotected retail sectors, for example, looks unlikelier than ever.
One was the state-owned German bank Hypo Real Estate and another was the state-controlled Greek ATEbank.
Two investigative reporters from state-controlled NTV television also turned up at Memorial's offices uninvited on Thursday.
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In a state-controlled system, it is good to have the state's explicit endorsement and protection.
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State-controlled competitors in countries like Russia, Venezuela and China will secure energy sources at our expense.
Last year COFCO, China's state-controlled food conglomerate, bought 5% of Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer.
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Since 1996, numerous Chinese state-controlled enterprises have been hard at work in Sudan cultivating energy relationships.
But even state-controlled media now say Beijing's tough measures were ignored by city officials themselves.
Several of the formerly state-controlled assets he acquired did not go through the normal tender process.
Admittedly, it helped Korea's situation that most of its loans were owed by state-controlled financial institutions.
State-controlled HCB, which specializes in housing loans and retail services, is Korea's ninth-largest institution in assets.
In neighbouring Brazil, state-controlled Petrobras has proved a worthy rival to fully private oil companies.
America, said senior officials and the state-controlled press, was just trying to distract attention.
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India has superb private banks but state-controlled banks still account for three-quarters of all loans.
Yet the snafu at the state-controlled firm highlights worrying vulnerabilities at the heart of British banking.
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Even worse, they say, is that the incident has not been reported by Cuba's state-controlled media.
SWFs are state-controlled entities consisting of various financial products such as stocks, bonds, and other liquid assets.
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The Kremlin then secretly bought up more than five percent of EADS through the Russian state-controlled Vneshtorgbank.
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According to Bernstein Research, Chesapeake would make an excellent acquisition target, especially for Asian state-controlled oil companies.
It was recently picked to help Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas giant, develop Shtokman, a massive offshore gasfield.
The acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, meanwhile, has derailed plans to merge Rosneft with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant.
Despite the advantages of incumbency such as fawning state-controlled media the main challenger, Sarath Fonseka, might yet sneak home.
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In recent days, the contents of document No. 29 have been relayed to journalists at China's state-controlled media.
It was useful to have state-controlled lenders when credit from abroad dried up at the end of 2008.
Listed but state-controlled, Banco do Brazil is the country's biggest financial firm, with a fifth of total assets.
The government has reluctantly raised state-controlled commodity prices: petrol, electricity and coal are all to be more expensive.
She is slowly replacing the politicians running state-controlled businesses with better-qualified people again, often women where men were before.
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Officials and the state-controlled media take every opportunity to denounce Mr Savimbi as a terrorist and war criminal.
Yet, he also allowed his state-controlled media, mosques, and educational system to fan rabid anti-Semitism and anti-Western sentiment.
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The ruse was simple: it allowed Wenzhou to maintain the fiction that most of its economy was state-controlled.
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