SYDNEY (AFP): A state-backed Chinese company has won a contract to develop a key port in Solomon Islands, a major victory in Beijing's quest to gain a strategic toe-hold in the South Pacific.
Solomon Islands' government on Tuesday (March 21) announced that the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation had been chosen to lead a US$170 million project to develop the international port in the capital Honiara.
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