One of the tycoon’s companies, which for years has run two ports on the Panama Canal, had been thrust into a broader showdown between China and the United States. So the billionaire, Li Ka-shing ...

Thus spoke Donald Trump shortly after BlackRock, an American investment firm, announced on March 4th that it would buy two ports on the Panama Canal from ck Hutchison (ckh), their Hong Kong-based ...

China is scrutinising a deal struck by a Hong Kong company to sell ports at the Panama Canal to a United States financial firm. Beijing directed multiple agencies on Tuesday to examine the ...

Applicant Richard Corbett, of Ridgeway Foods Ltd, Church Farm, Church Lane, wants to use land off Pottal Pool Road and Pillaton Lane for horse grazing and the building of two blocks of stables ...

China has sharply criticized a proposal to sell ports in the Panama Canal to American asset management giant BlackRock, attacking the deal as “spineless groveling” and a “betrayal” of the ...

When President Trump raised concerns soon after taking office that China had too much power in the Panama Canal, his comments were initially ridiculed by Beijing. But Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong ...

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And in 1904, Panama granted the United States the right to build and operate a canal and control five miles of land on either side of the water. But ownership of the region had been a thorny issue for ...

Global Infrastructure Partner, a subsidiary of BlackRock, owned by Adebayo Ogunlesi, has acquired the Panama Canal Ports for $23 billion A Hong Kong-based conglomerate agreed to relinquish its ...

The 20-year-old, from Penkridge, Staffordshire, is a sign language performer in her spare time, helping to make events more accessible for deaf people. From analysing scripts and researching song ...

During his inaugural address in January, President Trump proclaimed that “China is operating the Panama Canal” and promised that the United States would be “taking it back.” Shortly after ...