81.   A homemade explosive device packed with nails and bolts detonated Tuesday outside a credit agency in a residential area of Lyon, slighting injuring six people, police said.

82.   A number of other export credit agencies and international financial institutions are also participating in the project.

83.   All three companies expect foreign competitors to win backing from their own national export credit agencies to bid for contracts on the Three Gorges Dam.

84.   Analysts said that the big commercial banks were also hit hard following the recent downgrading of leading local commercial bank debt ratings by a European-based credit agency.

85.   Besides putting our own money, we would also help organise funding from international banks, credit agencies for any bankable project that comes up here.

86.   But analysts remained sceptical Thursday, insisting that credit agencies do in fact see such convertible bonds as debt instruments.

87.   The traditional sources of project financing have been multilateral agencies, export credit agencies, international banking syndicates or private institutions, Hawker noted.

88.   The entire project will involve partners from Japan, the United States, South Korea and will be co-financed by the national export credit agencies of partner countries.