BRIC ( Brazil, Russia, India and China ) leaders during the 2009 BRIC summit | 1st BRIC summit in 2009.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

China: A History ( 2009 ), 642pp

In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.

* Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).

In 2009, the vast majority of the illegally obtained rosewood was exported to China.

* 2009 – A segment of Lanzhou – Zhengzhou – Changsha product oil pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

* In September 2009 Ethiopian Railways Corporation signed a deal with China Railway Engineering Corporation for it to build the new Addis Ababa light railway transit.

For example fluorescent pigs have been bred in the US in 2000, in Korea in 2002, in Taiwan in 2006, in China in 2008 and Japan in 2009.

* China – Beijing Jeep Corporation – 1983 to 2009 as Beijing-Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive.

* 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10, 000 people and 10, 000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.

* 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

A feasibility study started in November 2009 for a line connecting Havelian 750 km ( 466 mi ) away in Pakistan and Kashgar 350 km ( 217 mi ) in China.

* 2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo Narita International Airport, Japan, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.

Mining accidents continue worldwide, including accidents causing dozens of fatalities at a time, such as the 2007 Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster in Russia, the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in the United States, and the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion in China.

* 2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 108.

The USA has become Peru's largest trading partner following a free trade agreement with the United States signed on April 12, 2006 and a free trade agreement with China ( 2009 ).

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

Its 2009 China sales — of three models Octavia, Superb, and Fabia — more than doubled from 2008, reaching 123, 000 vehicles.

South Korea has been running a trade surplus with China, which hit a record US $ 32. 5 billion in 2009.

* Hannah Pakula, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China ( London, Weidenfeld, 2009 ).

China produced 51, 000 tonnes of tungsten concentrate in 2009, which was 83 % of the world output.

The state has had good relations with the People ’ s Republic of China over the past 30 years, recently receiving the Chinese president ( February 2009 ).

In 2009 a total of 33 Turkish construction / contracting companies were selected for the Top International Contractors List prepared by the Engineering News-Record, which made the Turkish construction / contracting industry the world's 2nd largest, ranking behind those of China.

Since 2009, Daihatsu withdrew from the China market due to bad performance, and sold the tooling and rights of this car to First Auto Works ( FAW ), who has been their partner in China.

Commercial development includes the Goldman Sachs Group World Headquarters scheduled for occupancy in 2009.

In response to this Etisalat and MTN Group were launched, and by 2009 there were about 18 million mobile phone users in Afghanistan.

* Linda Eagle – founder and President, The Edcomm Group Banker's Academy ( 1989 – 2009 ).

The International Crisis Group said in September 2010 that from 2001 to 2009 the size of the armed forces has risen dramatically from 10, 000 in 2001 to a reported 45, 000 in 2010 ( though the latter figure needs to be treated with great caution.

The inaugural meeting for Task Group 7 was held during January 2009, where it was chartered to write standards for free-space optical communication using visible light.

The net profit of IKEA Group ( which does not include Inter IKEA systems ) in fiscal year 2009 ( after paying franchise fees to Inter IKEA systems ) was € 2. 538 billion on sales of € 21. 846 billion.

* 2009 – present: Chrysler Group LLC

On June 11, 2009, the media reported that Koenigsegg Group, consisting of Koenigsegg Automotive AB, Christian von Koenigsegg, Bård Eker, and a group of investors had signed a letter of intent with Saab to take over the brand from General Motors.

* 850th Electronic Systems Group, Electronic Systems Center awarded 3 $ 30-million contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon on 11 June 2009.

In August 2009, Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG reached an agreement that the two companies would merge in 2011, to form an " Integrated Automotive Group ".

Porsche SE owned 50. 8 percent of Volkswagen Group as of 5 January 2009, and has said it plans to lift the stake to 75 percent before the end of 2009, at that level they could bring VW AG's cash onto Porsche's books.

Jane's Information Group said in May 2009 that ' There are a number of infantry divisions, divided among six regional commands.

According to the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

The film was finally set to be released in theatres in January 2009, but due to financial problems at YARI Film Group, the release was yet again pushed forward.

In March 2009, London-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings agreed to lease a portion of the building, and obtained the building's naming rights.

Between 2000 and 2009, 1215 Salukis were registered with The Kennel Club in the UK, while this does not approach the numbers of the more popular breeds, it is in line with similar breeds in the Hound Group such as the Borzoi, which had 1399 puppies registered in the same period.

The Bremen-based Beluga Group claimed in 2009 to be the first Western company to attempt crossing the Northern Sea Route for shipping without assistance from icebreakers, cutting 4000 nautical miles off the journey between Ulsan, Korea and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

An example of a modern classification is the one published in 2009 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group for all living flowering plant families ( the APG III system ).

In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center attacked the party as a "' Patriot ' Group ," described as a group or groups that " advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines.

In 2009, things looked somewhat gloomy, with one analysis by the Boston Consulting Group suggesting that 65, 000 jobs had been permanently lost because of the downturn.

( West Group, 2009 ), Bryan A. Garner, editor, ISBN 0-314-19949-7

On June 10, 2009, Italian automaker Fiat formed a partnership with Chrysler in which a " New Chrysler " was formed and was given the name Chrysler Group LLC, which Dodge remains a part of.

( 2009 ) Distinctive Places, Suitable Spaces: Conceptualizing Mobile Group Occupational Duration and Landscape Use.