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Tata Steel Inks MoU With Vietnam Steel To Set Up Steel Complex In Vietnam


Tata Steel Ltd announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday with Vietnam Steel Corporation, Vietnam’s largest steel company, for setting up a steel complex in Ha Tinh province in Vietnam. The plant is proposed to have an estimated capacity of 4.5 million tonnes per annum, which will be phased over ten [...]

GLOBAL MINING Risc LLC To Reduce Risk


New York & Lexington, KY Christensen, a capital-markets advisory firm, and Engineering Consulting Services Inc. (ECSI), a multi-disciplinary engineering, mining, and environmental-services consultancy (both with over 25 years in business),recently announced the creation of their joint venture, Global Mining RiSC LLC (“GMR”). This new corporation will be providing integrated, comprehensive risk analysis; safety and training [...]

Petro-Power and the Nuclear Renaissance


With global demand for energy constantly rising and supplies contracting (or at least failing to keep pace), the world is being ever more sharply divided into two classes of nations: the energy haves and have-nots, says Michael Klare.
Not “Islamo-fascism” but “Energo-fascism” — the heavily militarized global struggle over diminishing supplies of energy — will dominate [...]

Tullow Oil: Record 2006 Interim Results


Tullow Oil plc (”Tullow”) (LSE: TLW), the independent oil and gas, exploration and production Group, announces its interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2006. These results have been prepared in accordance with the Group’s policies under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Tullow had a strong first half of 2006. Trading and production reached [...]

Move over, Fortune 500


o many Americans, names like Ranbaxy, Reliance and L&T probably don’t ring a bell. For that matter nor do Enbraer, Cemex or Galanz. But then a host of Japanese (Toyota, Honda) and South Korean (Samsung, LG) companies were largely unknown in the 1960s and 1970s and were dismissed as no-hopers by their competitors from the [...]