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...company will set aside 5% of the mine's pretax profits for a local development agency - and that it has followed all the relevant Indian laws. "Whatever we do, we do in a transparent manner," he says. Yet the Dongria have become a cause célèbre. Bianca Jagger and the British actress Joanna Lumley have taken up their fight. On Feb. 5, Vedanta's opponents got a boost when the Church of England sold its shares, worth $5.9 million, in the company, citing concerns about policies for compensating those displaced by mining. Three other investors followed...
...murder of Cho remains a mystery, a fact that has infuriated South Korean activists who made the crime a cause célèbre in their fight against the U.S. military presence in their country. After authorities promised to pursue Patterson's case further in 1998, a prosecutor mistakenly failed to renew a travel ban on him. Patterson returned to California in 1999, where he remains today. (Lee, after being acquitted, also returned to the U.S.) In 2006, a Seoul court ordered the government to award $34,000 to the victim's family. The case remained officially closed until...