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MARKETS * CHINA - First train ferry across Bohai Sea begins service
Beijing,China -People's Daily Online -6 Nov 2006: -- A freight train ferry left Lushun in Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, at 8 a.m. Monday for Yantai, a port city in east China's Shandong Province, marking the start of railway transport across the Bohai Sea... The ferry, a roll-on roll-off vessel 182.6 meters in length and 24.8 meters wide, can carry a 50-car freight train, 50 twenty-ton trucks, 25 passenger cars and 480 passengers...
* India - Economic growth in Asia: India's store wars
Mumbai,India -The Independent (London,England,UK), by Justin Huggler -7 Nov 2006: -- Indian retailing is still dominated by traditional corner shops. But a tycoon's plan for a national chain of 7,000 supermarkets is promising to transform a nation's shopping habits - and help its farmers to make ends meet... What looked like an ordinary supermarket is claiming to be the beginning of a revolution in Indian shopping. The men gathered outside looking ill at ease in red company-branded grocers' coats and baseball caps were not shop assistants, but senior executives who were wearing the uniforms specially for the grand opening...
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