Russian steelmaker Evraz has received acceptances for its proposed share swap and relocation to Britain from just over 98 percent of shareholders, allowing it to proceed with a premium London listing and potential entry to …
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Orissa’s state government has suspended action to forcibly remove villagers resisting the takeover of their land for POSCO’s massive iron and steel project.
Meanwhile, however, the company has started construction elsewhere on another part of …
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Villagers confront the country’s biggest minerals project
Last week we reported on the resistance by hundreds of villagers, seeking to prevent seizure of their land and betel nut groves in Orissa. They are literally lying …
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Late last week, thousands of villagers lay down (literally) on land coveted by POSCO for India’s biggest planned industrial project in Orissa, in an attempt to prevent hundreds of armed police from evicting them. As …
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