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Drug Companies Mining giant Anglo American will supply its workers in southern Africa with anti-aids medicine at no charge. The company, which debated the move for months and now faces a drug bill of up to $60 million annually, estimates that about 23% of its 134,000 workers in...
UKRAINE Mine Blast Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma promised to close all unsafe coal mines following an explosion that killed 20 miners?the third major mining accident in the country in recent weeks. The blast occurred 1,076 m below ground at the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region when...
Haute-couture week used to be fashion's time-out. The pace was leisurely, leaving lots of opportunities for the ladies who lunch to get plenty to eat. The clothes were elegant, the kind of things one wears to the Paris Ritz, darling. The salons were small and intimate, the...
It's hard to say no to Taufik Kiemas. That much a senior executive from Indonesia's largest foreign investor, U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan, knew when he accompanied President Megawati Sukarnoputri's controversial husband to the company's mine site last September. Freeport officials were aware that Taufik had...
Critics wonder, then, why such a formidable businessman needs to be awarded advantages such as sole-source government contracts. Of course, cultivating political connections for business purposes is standard procedure in many countries. But in Malaysia, the stakes are especially high: you can be catapulted from the ranks of the...