1.   A Japanese consortium is building a floating runway that could be ready for use by commercial airports as early as June next year, officials said Thursday.

2.   As a reward for the freeze, a U.S.-led Western consortium is building two safe reactors in North Korea.

3.   In exchange, a U.S.-led consortium is building two reactors to provide desperately needed energy.

4.   In North Korea, Kartman signed a technical agreement with Pyongyang guaranteeing the quality of two safer nuclear reactors his consortium is building in the communist state.

5.   In return, a U.S.-led international consortium is building two nuclear reactors in North Korea to meet its power needs.

6.   North Korea said Wednesday that it will resume dialogue with a U.S.-led international consortium currently building two nuclear reactors in the isolated, impoverished country.

7.   A Franco-British consortium built Daya Bay in southern China, a major PWR complex close to Hong Kong, that went on stream earlier this year.

8.   Under the scheme, the consortium would build computerized tax collection facilities, and collect the tax.