Last month, the South African government effectively blocked the deal, when Trevor Manuel, the finance minister, declined foreign exchange approval for the transaction.
The Singapore flotation looked to be gaining traction in August 2011, when it emerged that the club had applied to list its shares on the Singapore Exchange; approval for the listing was given in September 2011.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Shaw proposed that Mr. Dwek make $10,000 in donations to the re-election campaign of the Jersey City mayor, Jerramiah T. Healy, in exchange for approvals.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange announced approvals Friday morning for seven Chinese companies to issue high-yield bonds via private placements to qualified investors.
The developer of the building, a condominium named Zeckendorf Towers, built the escalators in the 1980s as a public benefit in exchange for approvals to develop the site.
Criminal complaints unsealed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn yesterday charge that the inspectors from the Buildings Department, who review plumbing work on commercial construction projects as well as home renovations, routinely extorted cash bribes of $50 to $500 in exchange for approvals.
Congressional Republicans have demanded spending cuts in exchange for approval to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Foreign buyers are subject to exchange control approval, as Colombia does not have free flow of currency.
Chinese companies cannot list their shares on a stock exchange without approval from agencies overseen by Mr. Wen, for example.
