Beijing will intensify its battle against choking air pollution this year and aims to cut coal use by 30 percent, state news agency Xinhua cited the mayor, Cai Qi, as saying.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's new prime minister has ordered an investigation into the nation's mining industry after a damning report by an international watchdog found tens of millions of dollars a year in tax revenues were being lost in the system.
Blythe Masters, the British woman who runs JPMorgan's commodities division, has steered the department to record turnover exceeding $2.8bn (£1.8bn) in 2011, more than long-time industry leaders Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Indonesia's Bakrie brothers ended weeks of uncertainty yesterday, agreeing a last-minute deal to sell nearly a quarter of Bumi, the FTSE 100 listed, Indonesia-based coal giant, to pay off their debt mountain.
_ A miner who died when a roof collapsed in a pit was named by the mine owner today. Gerry Gibson, 49, died at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, yesterday when he was trapped with a colleague, who was rescued. UK Coal, which owns the pit, said Mr
Royal Bank of Scotland, the taxpayer-owned banking giant, has been threatened with cyber-attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous, for lending financial support to oil projects in Canada.
