On Friday Australian analysts from Foster Stockbroking told investors to get rid off their shares in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC), as there is no end in sight for the ongoing problems that have forced the company to halt ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
China is responsible for more than 90% of the global supply of rare earths and a few years ago embarked on a crackdown on illegal rare earth mines and consolidation of the industry under a few large producers. Controversially the country ...
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Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
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IDG News Service - The Supreme Court in the Philippines has temporarily restrained the government from enforcing a new controversial cyber law, in response to petitions from civil rights and journalists groups in the country. In a ...
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IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
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Thousands of protesters have been converging on Lynas Corporation's new rare earths processing facility in Malaysia according to reports. The Australian producer's website was also hacked over the weekend. According to the Sydney ...
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In what could be considered a slight victory for embattled Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC), the Malaysian High Court ruled today against a request to review a recent decision to grant the Lynas a temporary licence ...
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, may be getting ready to support legislation to grant green cards to holders of advanced degrees in the so-called STEM fields. Smith, the gatekeeper on immigration ...
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Malaysia's Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) has postponed granting a temporary rare earths mine operating license (TOL) to Australian miner Lynas Corp. (ASX:LYC) until an outstanding appeal by residents to the science, technology and ...
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Australian analysts from Foster Stockbroking say confidence in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC) is returning after the Malaysian High Court dismissed an appeal against the company's Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP). In a ...
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Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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Barely two weeks after Lynas (ASX:LYC) began production at its Malaysian processing plant in the face of protests and after a protracted legal battle, the Australian rare earths miner is once again in crisis. The company's shares – ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek, a designer of mobile processors, plans to help bring Twitter to lower-end feature phones, by pre-installing the social media service on to the company's chipsets. The two companies announced the new partnership on ...
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The general director of LLC Gazprom Geologorazvedka, Alexei Davydov and the president of Schlumberger Russia and Central Asia, Gokhan Saygi have signed a framework technological cooperation agreement. The Gazprom subsidiary said in a ...
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The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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