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The Dutch Public Prosecutions Office (DPPO) has closed a pending investigation into contractor BAM International.

Victorian government accepts all recommendations of formal review looking into CFMEU union

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Tata Chemicals North America takes another step towards building microreactors at soda ash plant

Vietnam's Prime Minister has requested that the country's ministry of transport get plans for an $11.6bn railway that could eventually link the country with China ready, with a view to starting construction by December 2025.

Two firms sign letter of intent for A$1.8 billion hospital

Demolition company Keltbray will now have to pay an increased fine of £18 million ($22.6 million) after it appealed against a penalty from the UK's competition watchdog and lost. It had calculated the penalty incorrectly by basing it on Keltbray's entire market revenues over a broadly defined market and that it should have used the relevant tender values instead. The CMA had included revenues from Keltbray's ‘Highly Complex Demolition Services' in its penalty calculation, which Keltbray argued was different from the ‘General Demolition Services' market. The £20 million penalty was “excessive in all circumstances”.