Spurred by Illness, Indonesians Lash Out at U.S. Mining Giant
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution.
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The problems of others hit the stock where it hurts.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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A new aluminum smelter owned by Alcoa, the worldâs largest aluminum company, has been the focus of the angriest and most divisive battle in recent Icelandic history.
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A Native American tribe is alarmed at the upcoming sale of a piece of the Willamette Meteorite.
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In the northwest corner of Sumatra, the hardship from what some local people are calling "black Sunday" is taking a toll.
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PALANGAKARAYA, Indonesia  - It used to be malaria that gave people fevers in Indonesia's remote, mosquito-infested peatlands.
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Indonesia&#039;s former dictator Suharto&#039;s condition appeared to be worsening, with renewed bleeding in his stomach, doctors said Tuesday.
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Eight family members in rural Indonesia fall ill, and medical investigators are racing to figure out why
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 22 -- A U.S. mining company acknowledged Wednesday that it released tons of mercury into the air and water over five years at one of its gold mines in Indonesia but denied causing harm to anyone's health.
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Indonesia's ailing former president Suharto has pneumonia and is developing the life-threatening blood infection sepsis leading to a further deterioration in his health, his doctors said on Tuesday. Doctors have been battling to save the 86-year-old former strongman, who ruled the vast Southeast Asian nation for more than three decades, since he was put on a ventilator after suffering multiple organ failure on Friday.
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Indonesian police on Tuesday summoned the American director and two other foreign staffers of a U.S.-based mining company for questioning over the alleged contamination of a bay in eastern Indonesia.
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A big US public pension fund announced plans for a shareholder drive to press mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. to improve environmental practices at a vast mine in Indonesia.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A US mining company admitted Wednesday that it released mercury into the environment at one of its Indonesian gold mines but denied that it had any health impact on people.
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The health of Indonesia's Suharto is getting worse, his doctors said Wednesday as the president succumbed to infections 20 days after being hospitalised.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Frustration and anger  mounted in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province Friday  as residents formed long lines for fuel, but aid workers said  supplies were beginning to reach survivors.
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The worldâs US biggest gold miner has admitted it released tons of mercury into the air and water over a period of years at one of its Indonesian gold mines, but denies it had any health impact on people.