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Political Fight in Malaysia Over Rare Earth Plant

Political Fight in Malaysia Over Rare Earth Plant

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Feb 03, 2012
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Malaysia’s Atomic Energy Licensing Board approval Wednesday of a temporary operating license for a contentious rare earths processing plant in the eastern coastal state of Pahang seems certain to present the opposition coalition with an emotive environmental issue that they will use to their best advantage.

In fact, it appears that the plant is fast turn…

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