The government of Laos has given the green light to a Thai company to conduct coal prospecting and exploration on an area of 36.7 square kilometres in Nakheng and Namon villages in Feuang district

Seoul called Thursday for talks with Ulan Bator after a consortium involving South Korean firms was left off a list of groups chosen to develop a huge Mongolian mine, saying the decision was "unclear and unfair". Out of six preferred bidders, Mongolia on