Pretoria's agreement to let the partially state-owned company, Denel, explore the Syrian deal is regrettable.

The partially state-owned Norwegian Air Lines (DNL) was granted a monopoly on all domestic and international flights during the late 1940s.

In a report published last November, the cross-party committee recommended that the Irish government, the eight regional health boards, the partially state-owned health insurance company and the country's private hospitals should sue the tobacco companies for damages.

The transaction was made between the partially state-owned company Zao Veber and Abbas Abdi Asjerd, an Iranian arms dealer.

It is partially state-owned by the French State, and has operations in more than 50 countries.

Arapuni is operated by partially state-owned electricity generator Mighty River Power.

It uses the network of the partially state-owned CYTA and is working under the prefix 95.

The event went unreported on the partially state-owned media and the police shut down an open microphone session just as the first person began to speak.

When the partially state-owned companies Telenor, Norsk Hydro, DnB NOR and Statoil are excluded, Frydenberg emerged as the best paid leader of a fully state-owned company.

Operations of the fields was split between foreign operators, the state-owned Statoil, the partially state-owned Norsk Hydro and Saga Petroleum.