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Ukraine () - National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has announced a tender to evaluate oil and and resources on seven fields in the Komi Republic (Russia).

According to a posting on the Web site of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry, the Panyelskaya field, sector No. 3 of the Chernysheva ridge and the Khoreyverskaya depression, as well as the Universitetskaya, Tripanyelskaya, Severo-Michayuskaya, Kabintivisovskaya and Chibyuskoe fields are to be evaluated.

International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, formed from the merger of British Airways and Spain’s Iberia, said it may consider investing in Japan Airlines Corp. after the Asian carrier came out of bankruptcy this week.

“JAL has done a fantastic job,” IAG Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh said in an interview. “If the opportunity arises we would definitely be looking at deepening the relationship and we wouldn’t rule out some equity participation.”

Investigators have found evidence that nearly $30m of funds budgeted for China's Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line was misappropriated last year, in another blow to the country's scandal-plagued high-speed rail sector.

China's state audit office said on Wednesday it had identified numerous cases of embezzlement and other irregularities from just a three-month period of construction on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line last year and has passed the cases on to judicial authorities for formal investigation.

The draft grain and markets “Act 8163” has already made its way through a parliamentary committee and is not far from becoming a law. It is worth dwelling on the advantages and disadvantages of the draft by reviewing its principal provisions with respect to their functionality and consequences.

The core idea of the draft is to reduce the number of entities qualified to export grain from Ukraine. There are three purported categories of exporters:

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker, announcing his strategy for the first time since taking the helm, plans a deeper push into software and the expanding market for computing delivered via the Web.

The company is starting a cloud-computing service that will let developers create applications for consumers and businesses using HP tools and that run on HP servers, Apotheker said at an event yesterday in San Francisco. HP also plans to put its WebOS mobile software onto a broader range of products, ramping up output to more than 100 million devices a year, he said. The company also announced a 50 percent increase in its dividend.