Namibia

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Namibia
Population:	2.1mn.
GNI, $ :	7bn.
Debt:	1bn.
Overview:	The investigation into the Nuctech corruption scandal, which implicated the company run by the son of Chinese President Hu Jintao, has yet to be completed. Chinese construction companies and contractors are already feeling the impact of the negative publicity.

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Vol 4 No 11
September 2011

Harbour of resentment

A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead of 17 other local and international companies has ruffled feathers, ...

Vol 4 No 6
April 2011

Tarah Shaanika

Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI)

Vol 3 No 6
April 2010

Nuctech’s nobody

Why won’t anyone help Yang Fan pay his US$135,000 bail bond – especially when he has $2.3 million stashed in a local bank account and a swish golf estate home in Cape Town, South Africa, completed just in time for the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup there ne...

Vol 2 No 11
September 2009

Nuclear-fuelled relations

New Delhi made one of its most important energy and resource deals in Africa on 31 August, signing an accord with the Namibian government to allow for trade in uranium to supply India's energy-starved electricity sector. Memorandums of understanding signe...

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Beijing in scanner scandal

A politically-charged investigation into commissions on the supply of scanners to the Windhoek government is drawing in some high-profile Chinese officials

Vol 2 No 9
July 2009

Small corridors of power at Nuctech

Until now, Hu Haifeng, the 38-year-old son of China's paramount leader Hu Jintao, has managed to stay out of the limelight. While Hu senior climbed the party ranks - through unglamourous assignments as party leader in impoverished Guizhou province and...

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

Not learning lessons

A year after Malaysian company Ramatex abandoned its US$100 million textile factory in Windhoek, the authorities are at last tackling the environmental impact of the operations of the politically-protected company. Ramatex had set up in Windhoek in 2001 t...

Vol 1 No 10
August 2008

See you in court

China's investment plans in southern Africa are running up against legal barriers

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