It’s a whopper of a scandal – even by Indian standards. Between US $8 billion and US$20 billion is believed to have been “pinched from the public purse” over the past four or so years by fraudulent telecoms companies. As a result, earlier this...
Key shareholder in Bumi Plc, Bakrie group, expects financier Nat Rothschild to remain on Bumi’s board after a March meeting at which he was expected to be removed from his role as co-chairman. See...
A group of organizations and communities from across Mesoamerica, opposed to mining, recently gathered in Honduras to develop joint strategies and principles. They issued a declaration reflecting growing resistance to large scale mining in various parts of Latin...
Campaigners from anti-poverty groups CAFOD, Tearfund and ONE today sent an early Valentine’s Day message to newly appointed minister Norman Lamb by carrying a giant love heart with the message ‘love truth’ to the Department for Business, Innovation and...
The discovery of gold was the reason for the birth and the rise of Johannesburg, long called the “City of Gold.” But a century later, those same mines, where toxic water has built up in abandoned shafts and may leak into South Africa’s water supply,...
