CHINA: Fatalities plague mining sector

China's impact on the global metals market is too often construed solely in terms of demand. Its...

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NIGER: Tandja faces poverty, insecurity challenges

President Mamadou Tandja was reelected for a second five-year term on December 4. Tandja's...

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Hifikepunye Pohamba was overwhelmingly elected president, and his South West Africa People's...

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Vologda-based steelmaker Severstal offered to buy up Ontario's troubled Stelco on Tuesday....

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Substantial changes have taken place in the coal sector, previously one of the most depressed. ...

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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the state did not intend to renationalise troubled...

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) totalled 516 million dollars for the first six months of 2004,...

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A transitory drop in demand has ameliorated immediate concern over stock levels of lead, zinc,...

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After falling by half in 2003, copper stocks are now at very low levels and consumers are...

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Visible stocks of many of the major metals have declined rapidly over the year, leaving only a...

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