A view shows a large earthen dike under construction at Hi-Tech industrial park in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, June 12, 2012. Workers are rushing to finish the 11 km (6.5 mile) dike to prevent a repeat of last year's floods that inundated the park, and another six around Bangkok, for several months late last year. The floods, the nation's worst in decades, are estimated by insurers to have cost $20 billion, catching the insurance industry by surprise by the scale of the disaster and leading to a total rethink of the risks facing industrial parks around Asia and their value to the global supply chain. Picture taken June 12, 2012. To match Insight US-INSURANCE-FLOODS-ASIA/ REUTERS/David Fogarty REUTERS/David Fogarty (THAILAND - Tags: ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS) 

A man stands between dump trucks at the Belarusian Autoworks (BELAZ) plant during an international conference "Dump Truck Transport 2012" in Zhodino, some 50 km (31 miles) east of Minsk, February 9, 2012. BELAZ is a specialised manufacturer of heavy-duty and super-size load capacity dump trucks. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Greenpeace environmental activists display a banner in front of the giant excavator in the CSA coal mine near the town of Most November 28, 2011. Activists protested against expansion of coal mining in the area. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A general view of Russia's largest hydro electric power station Sayano-Shushenskaya and a newly constructed chapel, 520 km (323 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, October 12, 2011. Large scale reconstruction has been undertaken at the station following an accident in 2009. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: ENERGY) 

A man takes pictures in front of a 360-tonne pit-run dump truck during an open day at the "Belarussian Autoworks" (BELAZ) plant on "Mechanician Day" in the town of Zhodino, some 50 km (31 miles) east of Minsk September 24, 2011. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY BUSINESS) 

A mining truck loaded with rocks and minerals travels past a worker along a road at Chile's Esperanza copper mine near Calama town, about 1,650 km (1,025 miles) north of Santiago, March 30, 2011. Esperanza copper mine will be the only new major copper mine to come fully online this year, highlighting the deep supply deficit that has catapulted prices to record highs. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY EMPLOYMENT) 

A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through at the final section Sedrun-Faido, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel March 23, 2011. Crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. The project consists of two parallel single track tunnels, each of a length of 57 km (35 miles). REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: BUSINESS TRAVEL EMPLOYMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GM1E7C51SMS02
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A worker walks past new excavators at a Lonking factory in Shanghai March 1, 2011. Chinese manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in at least half a year in February, according to a pair of surveys, as the government's sustained campaign to tame inflation weighed on industrial activity.
REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) 

A miner stands in front of the drill machine 'Sissi' after it broke through the rock at the final section Faido-Sedrun, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel October 15, 2010. With a length of 57 km (35 miles) crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION POLITICS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE SEE: GM1E6CG0XUC01 

A boy takes photos in front of a ten-metre-high (32 feet) Transformer-style statue constructed from recycled material, at the Green Dream Park near the Olympic Stadium in Beijing July 16, 2010. The theme park features exhibits constructed out of recycled materials, and promotes environmental protection through sustainable lifestyles. The park opens Friday till October 10, reported Chinese media. REUTERS/Grace Liang (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) 

Bryan Berg of the U.S. poses with a replica of the Venetian Macao (C) and adjacent constructions built from freestanding playing cards at the Venetian Macao resort hotel in Macau March 10, 2010. Berg broke his own Guinness World of Records for the largest house of freestanding playing cards on Wednesday after a 44-day attempt by using 218,792 cards to build the project, which measures 10.5 meters (34 feet) long, three meters (10 feet) tall and weighs more than 272 kilograms (600 pounds). Picture taken through glass window. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY ODDLY) 

Labourers work at a project site owned by Thai energy giant PTT in the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Rayong province, Thailand February 17, 2010. A court-ordered suspension of 64 projects worth an estimated $9 billion to $12 billion at the world's eighth-biggest petrochemicals hub in eastern Thailand is in its fifth month, raising questions about whether a country with a government fighting fires on multiple fronts is a safe bet for investment. PTT has 18 other projects among the 64 at Map Ta Phut currently suspended over their failure to comply with health and environmental laws. To match ANALYSIS THAILAND-INDUSTRIAL REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) 

Workers look down from the head of one of the three turbines that a Kosovo-German company is building in the hills of Goles, near Pristina airport in this May 12, 2009 file photo. So far, wind turbines are not Sputnik. But one day they could be. The global race to develop clean technology is not just about who can build the best solar parks or wind farms. It is also shaping up as a contest between Chinese-style capitalism and the more market-oriented approach fancied by the United States and Europe. To match special report DAVOS/GREEN REUTERS/Hazir Reka/Files (KOSOVO - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS) 

A construction worker walks past part of a roller coaster track which will be hoisted into place at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore June 25, 2009. The development, due to open in stages from early 2010, will feature a Universal Studios theme park, a casino, four hotels and an aquarium, the company said. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (SINGAPORE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TRAVEL) 

An electricity worker sits atop a newly constructed high-tension electricity tower located on the outskirts of Kangding in Sichuan province February 26, 2009. The State Grid Corp of China, China's leading grid operator, aims to at least triple its ultra-high voltage (UHV) power transmission lines by 2012, a company official said on Thursday. Picture taken February 26, 2009. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA) 

Workers of Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's top shipbuilder, ride motorcycles beside a ship under construction at its dockyard in Ulsan, about 410 km (256 miles) southeast of Seoul, February 25, 2009, during the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq's Kurdish regional administration Nechirvan Barzani. South Korea will provide Iraq with $3.55 billion worth of infrastructure in return for oil field stakes, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

A worker on a ladder prepares for the opening ceremony of the 2009 stock market in front of a stock index board after the 2008 stock market closed at the Korea Exchange in Seoul December 30, 2008. South Korea's industrial output slumped in November by its biggest margin in more than two decades, underscoring the depth of the slump in the economy and the urgency of official efforts to shore it up. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA) 

Members of the public view a record breaking photo mosaic in Birmingham, central England, August 23, 2008. The Big Picture mosaic is 900 metre square in size and creates an image made of thousands of photographs submitted by the public. It is constructed from 288 panels, each holding 392 individually placed photographs to meet World Record rules. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN) 

A woman looks at part of a painting of the Easter story at the Emmanuel Church in Loughborough, central England, March 20, 2008. The artwork is an attempt at a world record breaking community picture, comprising of almost 500 panels, each painted by a community group or individual, making up an 80 metre long picture of the Easter story. REUTERS/Darren Staples (BRITAIN) 

A poster shows large scale construction works in the Bulgarian ski resort town of Bansko, some 150km (94miles) south of the capital Sofia, in this picture taken August 14, 2007. The citizens of Bansko are selling their land with gusto to buy fancy cars and replace communist-era furniture. The same is true of other mountain resorts, as well as Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, as foreigners snap up cheap second homes, sending the price of resort and farming land to 250 euros a square metre from just 20 euros five years ago. But this growth comes at a cost. The once idyllic little town with cobblestone streets and traditional architecture, which in the 1980s was popular among skiiers and hikers from the former Soviet bloc, has changed beyond recognition. To match feature BULGARIA-PROPERTY/ REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA) 

Workers install the outside transparent membrane on the top of the National Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest in Beijing September 29, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA) 

Construction workers enlarge and repair a road that leads to Didipio town, the site of a future large scale gold and copper mine, 270km (168 miles) north of Manila September 19, 2007. The sector's poor environmental record and its failure to share out profits during the local industry's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s have left people deeply distrustful of large-scale miners and has tripped up government efforts to attract billions of dollars in mining investments. Picture taken September 19, 2007. To match feature: PHILIPPINES-MINING/ REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (PHILIPPINES) 

A group of uniformed construction workers walk away after paying their respects to the statue of Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang August 27, 2007. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (NORTH KOREA) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

Workers remove scaffolding from the propeller of a container ship which stands in dry dock for painting works at Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg August 13, 2007. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY) 

Workers remove scaffolding from the propeller of a container ship which stands in dry dock for painting works at Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg August 13, 2007. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY) ***NOT AVAILABLE GLOBALLY FOR USE IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY UNTIL 31 JULY 2013*** 

Under the Swords of Qadisiyah, a monument constructed during Saddam Hussein's rule, U.S. soldiers from the 2nd battalion, 32nd Field Artillery brigade and Iraqi troops gather before going for a joint large scale cleaning operation in Baghdad early August 13, 2007. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (IRAQ) 

People relax at the Black Sea coast in the Meretinskaya valley near Sochi July 5, 2007. The Russian city of Sochi may be relishing its victory this week in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but local residents fear for their homes ahead of large-scale construction work. To match feature OLYMPICS-SOCHI/DEMOLITION REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) 

Andrei Petrov stands in front of his house in the Meretinskaya Valley near Sochi July 5, 2007. The Russian city of Sochi may be relishing its victory this week in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but local residents fear for their homes ahead of large-scale construction work. To match feature OLYMPICS-SOCHI/DEMOLITION REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) 

Antonina Petrova (R) speaks to her husband Andrei in their house near Sochi July 5, 2007. The Russian city of Sochi may be relishing its victory this week in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but local residents fear for their homes ahead of large-scale construction work. To match feature OLYMPICS-SOCHI/DEMOLITION REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA) 

Workers carry construction material past the new chapel at the Fazenda Esperanca drug rehabilitation center in Guaratingueta, 170 km (105 miles) from Sao Paulo, May 3, 2007. Pope Benedict will visit Fazenda Esperanca during his trip to Brazil next week. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers (BRAZIL) 

Choi Chu Cheung poses with his wife Zhang Lian-hao outside their villa in the central business district of Shenzhen April 17, 2007. Choi, the owner of the villa, and his wife refused to accept the compensation offered by the developer who plans to build a financial centre on the site. The couple are demanding that the developer compensate them with property similar in size or raise the offer from 6,500 yuan ($840) to 18,000 yuan ($2,327) per square metre. REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

Choi Chu Cheung poses with his wife Zhang Lian-hao outside their villa in the central business district of Shenzhen April 17, 2007. Choi, the owner of the villa, and his wife refused to accept the compensation offered by the developer who plans to build a financial centre on the site. The couple are demanding that the developer compensate them with property similar in size or raise the offer from 6,500 yuan ($840) to 18,000 yuan ($2,327) per square metre REUTERS/Paul Yeung (CHINA) 

A general view shows the construction side of a 13-mile-long (20 km) concrete dragon along the ridge of Shizu mountain on the outskirts of Xinzheng, central China's Henan province March 27, 2007. Chinese investors are building the concrete dragon to breathe fire into the tourism industry, but some experts have already branded it a cultural gaffe, a newspaper said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Donald Chan (CHINA) 

A man walks past heavy machinery at a construction site of an upcoming large shopping mall in Mumbai March 19, 2007. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA) 

Labourers work at a construction site of the statues of Huang Di and Yan Di, who are revered as the common ancestors of the Chinese people, in Zhengzhou, in central China's Henan province March 18, 2007. The sculptures are about 106m (348 feet) in height and cost 180 million yuan ($23 million), local media reported. REUTERS/Donald Chan (CHINA) 

A labourer works at a building site in Shanghai March 16, 2007. China's parliament on Friday passed a landmark property rights law and a bill that unifies corporate income tax rates for Chinese and foreign companies, both by a huge margin. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA) 

Worker Emilio Tito collects salt in a pool at the Maras mines in Cuzco March 7, 2007. The Maras salt mines comprise of about 3,000 small pools constructed on the slope of a mountain at the Urubamba valley in the Andean region of Cuzco. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo(PERU) 

Construction workers work next to a curved glass roof of a shopping and business centre in the centre of Warsaw, a day ahead of the opening of the "Zloty Terasy" (Golden terraces) February 6, 2007. The roof, which spans some 10,000 square metres, is the largest of its kind in Europe according to the spokesman of Skanska Construction Company. REUTERS/Katarina Stoltz (POLAND) 

People walk between buildings on Havana's seafront boulevard February 1, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer (CUBA) 

A labourer walks on a steel frame at a construction site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province October 15, 2006. Any further rise in Chinese interest rates will depend on economic developments but big changes in policy are unlikely, deputy central bank governor Wu Xiaoling said on Saturday. REUTERS/Sean Yong (CHINA) 

A team of mahouts, or elephant drivers, and locals attempt to hoist a wild elephant
trapped in mud in Khao Song sub-district in Chantaburi province July 13, 2006. Veterinarians went to the area to rescue a 50-year-old elephant which was stuck in a ditch for six days. The elephant survived the ordeal. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND) 

A team of mahouts, or elephant drivers, and locals attempt to hoist a wild elephant
trapped in mud in Khao Song sub-district in Chantaburi province July 13, 2006. Veterinarians went to the area to rescue a 50-year-old elephant which was stuck in a ditch for six days. The elephant survived the ordeal. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND) 

A team of mahouts, or elephant drivers, and locals attempt to hoist a wild elephant trapped in mud in Khao Song sub-district in Chantaburi province July 13, 2006. Veterinarians went to the area to rescue a 50-year-old elephant which was stuck in a ditch for six days. The elephant survived the ordeal. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND) 

People wave as they stand on and beside a giant chair and table constructed in a rapeseed field in Brunstorf near Hamburg May 18, 2006. The event advertises Germany's rape-oil marketing and production. REUTERS/Christian Charisius 

A TV cameraman films a man on a giant chair and table constructed in a rapeseed field in Brunstorf near Hamburg May 18, 2006. The event advertises Germany's rape-oil marketing and production. REUTERS/Christian Charisius Also see image: GF2DWMILJPAA 

A man passes in front of Segovia's 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct in central Spain April 8, 2006. Segovia's aqueduct, which stretches from the walls of the old town to the edges of Sierra de Guadarrama, is one of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering. Its construction is considered a masterpiece because its 20,400 stone blocks are not united by mortar or concrete. REUTERS/Victor Fraile BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

Workers prepare the roof of the Superdome stadium for repairs as the sun sets in New Orleans, Louisiana October 17, 2005. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson 

Artist Gregory Colbert speaks to members of the media near one of his works inside "The Nomadic Museum," a 45,000 square-foot temporary structure constructed with shipping containers housing Colbert's "Ashes and Snow" exhibition of large-scale photographic works on Pier 54 in the Hudson River on Manhattan's lower West Side, March 2, 2005. The exhibition of more than 200 large-scale photographs and an accompanying 35mm film captures extraordinary moments of contact between man and animals and will be on display through June 6, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar MS/HB 

An image by artist Gregory Colbert hangs inside "The Nomadic Museum", a 45,000 square-foot temporary structure constructed with shipping containers which houses Colbert's "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition of large-scale photographic works on Pier 54 in the Hudson River on Manhattan's lower West Side, March 2, 2005. The exhibition of more than 200 large-scale photographs and an accompanying 35mm film captures extraordinary moments of contact between man and animals and will be on display through June 6, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar MS 

People walk through "The Nomadic Museum", a 45,000 square-foot temporary structure constructed with shipping containers housing "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition of large-scale photographic works by artist Gregory Colbert, on Pier 54 in the Hudson River on Manhattan's lower West Side, March 2, 2005. The exhibition of more than 200 large-scale photographs and an accompanying 35mm film captures extraordinary moments of contact between man and animals and will be on display through June 6, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar MS 

Artist Gregory Colbert speaks to members of the media near one of his works inside "The Nomadic Museum", a 45,000 square-foot temporary structure constructed with shipping containers housing Colbert's "Ashes and Snow" exhibition of large-scale photographic works on Pier 54 in the Hudson River on Manhattan's lower West Side, March 2, 2005. The exhibition of more than 200 large-scale photographs and an accompanying 35mm film captures extraordinary moments of contact between man and animals and will be on display through June 6, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar MS 

"The Nomadic Museum," a 45,000 square-foot temporary structure constructed with shipping containers housing "Ashes and Snow," an exhibition of large-scale photographic works by artist Gregory Colbert, stands on Pier 54 in the Hudson River on Manhattan's lower West Side, March 2, 2005. The exhibition of more than 200 large-scale photographs and an accompanying 35mm film captures extraordinary moments of contact between man and animals and will be on display through June 6, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar MS/HB 

An Acehnese worker mixes cement for the construction of new houses, for tsunami victims in Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, February 11, 2005. Indonesia hopes to begin large-scale rebuilding and infrastructure projects in tsunami-devastated Aceh province next month to take advantage of international sympathy and billions of dollars pledged by donors. REUTERS/Dadang Tri DW/DH 

A worker climbs up a huge marine propeller screw outside the main entrance of the Shipbuilding, Machinery and Marine Technology trade fair ISS in the northern German city of Hamburg, September 22, 2004. The giant propeller, produced in Germany by Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH, weighing 103 tonnes and 8.8 meters in diameter, is destined for an 8,100-TEU container vessel ordered in South Korea by the Hamburg-based shipping company Claus-Peter Offen. TPORT REUTERS/Christian Charisius Pictures of the Month September 2004 CHA/JOH 

Hitachi Ltd's prototype super-micro wireless automatic recognition IC chips,
or "mu-chips", are shown on a finger in Tokyo May 20, 2003. The world's
smallest class 0.4-mm IC chip, which can be attached to various materials
such as paper, will make new business development possible in data
management, judgment on the genuineness of products including counterfeit,
and medical treatment. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita PP03050069

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- PHOTO TAKEN 04MAR03 - Construction cranes surround the 37-story Marunouchi Building (background), recently built in Tokyo. Despite Japan's decade-long economic stagnation, large-scale development projects are booming in Tokyo through deregulation. Picture taken March 4, 2003. 

Construction cranes tower over Japanese businessmen in Tokyo. Despite
Japan's decade-long economic stagnation, large-scale development projects
are booming in Tokyo through deregulation. Picture taken March 4, 2003. TO
ACCOMPANY FEATURE CONSTRUCTION-JAPAN-CHAOS REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

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Construction cranes surround the 37-story Marunouchi Building (background),
recently built in Tokyo. Despite Japan's decade-long economic stagnation,
large-scale development projects are booming in Tokyo through deregulation.
Picture taken March 4, 2003. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE CONSTRUCTION-JAPAN-CHAOS
REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

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A group of tourists climb atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge as ferries sail on the harbour in front of the Opera House August 29, 2002. BLIFE REUTERS/David Gray DG/PB 

British Army Engineers begin to construct a high peace wall along an
existing wall in the Cluan Close/Clandeboye separating nationalist and
loyalists in a troubled area of east Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 9,
2002. The 1998 Good Friday peace deal between the province's Catholics
and Protestants has greatly reduced the number of large-scale attacks
and political murders by paramilitary groups on both sides of the
religious divide.But it has failed to bring calm to the streets of
Belfast where rival communities live cheek-by-jowl. Both sides blame
the other for starting the recent troubles. REUTERS/Paul McErlane

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