1.   Governments have always taken the view that Australia needs all the foreign investment it can get to unlock its natural riches.

2.   Having lost possession of the natural riches of its former republics, powerful Russians sought to continue to control them.

3.   It has oil, valuable hardwood forests and many other untapped natural riches.

4.   Portuguese conquistadors mined natural riches of gold, sugar cane and pau brasil, a valuable jungle hardwood, in the northernmost reaches of Brazil.

5.   The land is a storehouse of natural riches.

6.   Yet Angola, a symbol of the worst kind of subversion of natural riches, now teeters on the brink of fresh opportunity.

7.   Many African countries, with abundant natural riches, then had higher gross domestic product than overpopulated, war-torn Asia.

8.   Natural riches still abound, but Russians abandoning Far East.

9.   While the country boasts world class music and fashion, as well as slick millionaire entrepreneurs, there are few natural riches.