After halting land acquisition at the proposed plant site areas of POSCO steel project near Paradip,Odisha government recently announced plans to resume land acquisition tomorrow after a gap of 1 year. Mr SK Mallick collector of ...
Tags: Odisha, resume POSCO land acquisition, steel, India
Alaska Dispatch has published an interactive map plotting Alaska's operating mines, active prospects and abandoned prospects. Assembled by Ground-Truth Trekking, the map allows the user to click on one of the state's 75 mineral prospects, ...
Tags: Alaska, Copper, Exploration, Gold, Rare Earth, USA
Villagers of Taraikela in Jharsuguda district are up in arms against Bhusan Power and Steel Limited over construction of an ash pond in the village. Earlier they had lodged a complaint with the regional office of Odisha State Pollution ...
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Mining companies and investors including some heavyweight industrial combines in China are pouring into the region in a quest for iron ore, driving a railway building and mining boom whose worth JPMorgan Chase & Co recently estimated at USD ...
Tags: Mining, iron ore, railway, steel production
People of the Chinese Miao Ethnic Group, dwelling in southeast Guizhou Province, enjoy many ancient and distinctive traditions. A couple of favorite customs are playing lusheng (reed-pipe wind) and the stool dance, both of which continue to ...
Cuotaiji is a kind of ancient drama that only exists in Luoga stockaded village in Bandi Town of Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province." Cuotaiji" is the transliteration of the equivalent in Yi language of Bandi ...
According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
"Saye'erhe" of Changyang Tujia minority in Hubei is a kind of funeral dance popular among people of Tujia minority at the middle reach of Qingjiang Valley in Hubei. "Saye'erhe" means dance for the deceased or "dance following funeral drum ...
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Reuters reported Myanmar's president asked opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi to head an investigation into the planned expansion of a copper mine that has led to evictions and protests that were forcibly put down by riot police this ...
Several demonstrators have been injured after Burmese security forces launched a crackdown against protesters who've been occupying part of a Chinese owned copper mine. Authorities said that riot police used tear gas and water cannon to ...
The Sheepskin Raft is also called the Sheepskin Raft on the Yellow River because it is popular only along the banks of the Yellow River. The raft has a long history in China. According to Book of Waterways, it was first used in the ...
The Dongxiang Nationality has a population of 373,872, most in the Dongxiang Autonomous County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. The rest live scattered in Qinghai Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang ...
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The Drungs, with a population of 5.817, mainly live in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, and along the banks of the Dulong River in Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County in the northwest Yunnan Province. Cooking on a stone stove. ...
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A local villager makes face-painting before rehearsing Dai opera in Fengping Town, Luxi City of the Dai and Jingpo Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture of Dehong in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec.16, 2007. Dai opera is a unique ethnic opera ...
Tags: face-painting, Dai opera, ethnic opera, Yunnan Province