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                                <title><![CDATA[ Revealed: Audio clip of SMM meeting awarding Farhash-linked firm mineral exploration licence for 70,000ha plot in Sabah ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Company owned by Farhash gets mineral exploration licence in Sabah for area three times larger than KL ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The exclusive licence allows the company owned by the former Perak PKR chief to carry out exploration for coal involving an area spanning 70,000 hectares near the Kalimantan border. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India relies on coal to meet record power demand, reports say ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ As in China, the system’s performance highlights the inconvenient truth: coal is still the marginal fuel keeping the lights on despite the rapid deployment of renewables. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India steps up coal use to stop outages triggered by unusually dry weather ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 01:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ It is unusual for India's electricity use to spike in August, when temperatures are lower due to the annual monsoon that runs between June and September. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India invokes emergency law to force coal-based power plants to up output ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Many of India's power plants that use imported coal have not operated at full capacity recently because they have found it difficult to compete with power generated from cheap domestic coal. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power, move away from gas ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A shortage of natural gas, which accounts for over a third of the country's power output, plunged large areas into hours of darkness last year. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ India's poor coal 'thieves' forced to scavenge for survival ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 07:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ In the 2020-21 financial year, state-run Coal India Limited, the world's largest coal-mining firm, recovered  RM6.5 million worth of stolen coal in raids it conducted jointly with the authorities. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ China allows four firms to resume Aussie coal imports, sources say ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 03:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The partial easing of the coal import ban comes after the Australian and Chinese foreign ministers met last month seeking to reset the frosty diplomatic relations between the two nations. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Children of India's burning coalfields dream of a fire-free future ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Daily coal production in Jharia this year jumped to 100,000 tonnes, up from an average of 80,000 tonnes until 2021, local mining officials say. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US, Japan and partners mobilise US$20 billion to move Indonesia away from coal power ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ To access the US$20 billion worth of grants and concessional loans, Indonesia has committed to capping power sector emissions at 290 million tonnes by 2030 - and with a peak that same year. ]]></description>
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