The Canadian company looking to mine Papua New Guinea’s seabed says it has secured finance to develop the controversial Solwara 1 Project. According to Nautilus Minerals, it has reached a US$34 million credit facility agreement for the project with lender Deep Sea Mining Finance. The Solwara 1 project would involve the extensive dredging the seafloor […]
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Philippines’ Duterte denounced for defending killing of some journalists
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine media groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and “you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch”. Duterte’s comments about extrajudicial killings, calling bishops “sons of whores” and a joke about a murdered rape victim […]