Asia's biggest slum set to turn into India's
Asia's biggest slum set to turn into India's Madison Avenue
The Independent - A makeshift aluminium smelter nearby casts gleaming ingots from old Coke cans. "All the dirty material from all Mumbai is getting a new lease on life here," Anjum declares. With countless enterprises making everything from snacks to medical sutures
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Financials lead HK shares tumble, more pain ahead
Reuters UK - Aluminum Corp. of China (2600.HK: Quote , Profile , Research ), the country's largest aluminium producer, plunged 6.3 percent. Shenhua (1088.HK: Quote , Profile , Research ), the nation's top coal miner, tumbled 5.1 percent. PetroChina Co. Ltd. (0857.HK:
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Rio counts on prices
The Australian - And it yesterday brushed off concerns that the turmoil in world debt and aluminium boats equity markets could threaten its task of financing its $44 billion takeover of Canadian aluminium giant Alcan. Rio's first-half net profit fell to $US3.25 billion ($3.8 billion
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Norsk Hydro chairman Jan Reinaas resigns over share options dispute
Forbes - In a statement from the aluminium group, Reinaas said he decided to resign after discussing the issue with trade and aluminium boats industry minister Dag Terje Andersen. 'The minister made it clear that my resignation was a condition for him to contribute to a
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Copper sinks to five-week low on US growth fears
Mining Weekly Online - Aluminium hit a fresh six-month low of $2,636 a tonne, but later rose to $2,664/2,665 from $2,640 on Friday. The metal, used extensively in the power, construction and aluminium boats packaging industries, has also suffered as markets tried to price in a slowdown and aluminium boats
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PM to states: Recruit frontline forest staff to protect tigers
Worldnews.com - Mines Ministry seeks PM's help in securing coal for NALCO The Times Of India NEW DELHI : The Mines Ministry has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in bailing out aluminium giant NALCO of the acute paucity of coal , which has forced the PSU
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Too mean for the road
Daily Telegraph - In February last year two ex-McLaren engineers, Ben Scott-Geddes and aluminium boats Graham Halstead, announced their Freestream T1 - an ostensibly road-legal, ultra-lightweight trackday car with a carbon/aluminium honeycomb monocoque, a supercharged 2.4-litre V8
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Rio flags uranium plans
News.com.au - Rio plans to expand its investments in uranium, rather than sell them to help fund its $US38.1 billion ($A44.5 billion) bid to buy aluminium producer Alcan Inc. Uranium has more than doubled in price in the past year as rising oil prices and aluminium boats concerns
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