The case against Mario Kingo, for murdering environmental activist Councillor Armin Marin while on an anti-mining mission in October 2007, has concluded. In a decision that outrages other activists, Kingo has been handed down only a three-year sentence. Armin Marin...
This past month hasn’t augured well for proponents of disastrous mining ventures in the Indian state of Orissa. First, London-listed Vedanta Resources gets rebuffed by two leading UK safety watchdogs – just as a top company manager prepares flying to...
What is the London Metal Exchange – and who dominates its trading? The London Metal Exchange (LME) is currently in the news. Like London’s fledging and failed PLUS stock exchange, it’s “up for sale”. Whoever buys the LME will likely not...
London Calling says it must! In February 2012, the PLUS markets group plc announced it would be selling its stock exchange, PLUS-SX. Set up six years ago in London as a “halfway house for small companies between staying private and getting a quote on AIM”,...
“Temporary and subcontracted workers in the copper industry are the slave labour of the 21st century. Lacking rights and social protection, they are vulnerable and defenceless,” complained Cristián Cuevas, the leader of a union for outsourced Chilean...
According to a new survey by the accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, over half the companies they contacted in India are willing to provide “entertainment” to win business. Sixty percent of Indonesian firms are also ready to make cash payments in order to...
