Rudd must help detained Rio Tino exec - Turnbull The Australian | KEVIN Rudd should pick up the phone and call the Chinese president to demand the release of a executive who has been arrested in China, the opposition says. | Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said the Prime Minister should set aside his European business and make it his "number one priority...
Rio Tinto Nears Sale of Packaging Assets to Australia's Amcor Wall Street Journal By JEFFREY MCCRACKEN, RICK CAREW and ALEX WILSON | Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto PLC is closing in on a sale of more than $2 billion of packaging assets to Australia's Amcor Ltd., according to several people familiar with the situation, in a deal that would help Rio Tinto further reduce it...
Rio Tinto workers arrested in China Al Jazeera | China has formally arrested four executives of mining giant Rio Tinto on spying charges, according to state media. | The Xinhua News Agency reported the first official confirmation of the case on Thursday, saying the four employees - three Chinese ...
Q&A - China detains Rio Tinto execs for spying The Star | BEIJING (Reuters) - Four Shanghai-based employees of global mining firm Rio Tinto were criminally detained this week on charges of stealing state secrets. | The case has rattled the Australian dollar , and points to the risks for foreigners of doin...
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Steel plants to soon get iron ore mining licenses The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: India will speed up the process of granting iron ore mining licenses to various steel companies, including ...
How South Africa can kill foreign investment in mining Mineweb JOHANNESBURG - | | | Julius Malema, often referred to as the leader of the ANC Youth League, has managed to elevate language to a new level of gobbledygook...
China arrests Rio Tinto employees on spy charge Philadelphia Daily News | JOE McDONALD and ROHAN SULLIVAN | The Associated Press | BEIJING - Four employees of Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd. have been arrested on charges of stealing state secrets, China's foreign ministry said Thursday, following their detention am...
China arrest 'not linked to deal' BBC News | Australia's foreign minister has said he saw "no basis" to suggestions that the arrest of a mining executive in China was payback for a cancelled deal. | Stephen Smith's comments came as Chinese officials confirmed that Rio Tinto's Stern ...
Japanese Yukiya Amano to head up International Atomic Energy Agency The Australian | TOKYO: Japan, the only nation to suffer an atomic bombing, has welcomed the appointment of one of its own to lead the world's top nuclear watchdog. | The Mayor of Hiroshima, the southwestern city that suffered the first nuclear attack in 1945, was among those offering congratulatory messages yesterday. | The 35-nation International Atomic Energy ...
No 'mustard oil,' no 'rugby'--PDEA Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has banned the over-the-counter sale of rugby and other toluene-based contact cement (TBCC) without the required additive of at least five percent mustard oil. | Director General Dionisio Santiago made the announcement on Thursday, saying that the public can now only purchase TBCC witho...
Coal plant 'will hit African poor' The Guardian | Creating a new coal plant in Kent could lead to 100,000 more people in the developing world losing their water supply during dry seasons, it has been claimed. | Anti-poverty campaigners at the World Development Movement (WDM) also said the controversial plan could be responsible for up to 60,000 more people suffering from drought in Africa. | And...
