Tsingshan plans nickel smelter in Indonesia powered by renewables
World’s top nickel and stainless steel maker plans to build solar and wind facilities to power a 2,000MW smelter in eastern Indonesia within the next three to five years
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South-East Asia
Indonesia to arm up with Rafale, F-15 fighter jets
Jakarta backs away from previous plan to buy Russian Su-35 air defense fighters under threat of US sanctions By JOHN MCBETH
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Race is on for Indonesia’s untapped rare earths
Indonesia appears to have only modest proven amounts of the v valuable minerals, but much of what it does have is locked away in the rock waste, or tailings, left over from centuries of tin mining on the islands of Bangka and Belitung, south of Singapore.
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Is Vietnam adopting a tough South China Sea posture?
By Xuan Loc Doan Over the past month, some international news outlets have reported that Vietnam is pursuing a strong
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How Vietnam lost and China won Cambodia
Forty years after the fall of the China-supported Khmer Rouge regime to Vietnam’s invading forces, Cambodia is now more clearly
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How the New Silk Roads are merging into Greater Eurasia
Russia is keen to push economic integration with parts of Asia and this fits in with China’s Belt and Road
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A man, a plan, a canal…Thailand?
Ex-top brass appeal to new King Vajiralongkorn to bless building the long-envisioned Kra canal; China is keen to start digging
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