Reuters June 25, 2013 - 14:01 By Lucy Hornby BEIJING (Reuters) - The mysterious Chinese businessman behind a $40 billion (26 billion pounds) plan to build a canal through Nicaragua pledged transparency on Tuesday -- but refused to reveal where he attended college. Wang Jing, 40, who says his initial wealth came from a gold mine investment in Cambodia, is the only public face for a project that on paper would challenge the Panama Canal's monopoly on transporting oil, ore and containers between Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico ports and Asian markets. Nicaragua's Congress last week granted Wang's Cayman Islands-registered HKND company a 50-year concession to develop the canal, following a...
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