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By matthew burrows, Straight.com Vancouver
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=19265
27-Jul-2006

On a cold March night in 2004, Burnaby resident and retired architect Ted Alcuitas joined about 35 concerned activists at a panel discussion at the Kalayaan and Filipino Women’s Centre on Powell Street.

The subject that night was the impending fate of murder suspect John Graham, a member of the Southern Tuchone First Nation. Yukon-born Graham is appealing an extradition order to the United States, where officials want him to stand trial for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash, a Nova Scotia Micmac, in South Dakota in 1975. Graham and Aquash belonged to the American
Indian Movement. (more…)

Thursday: July 27, 2006
http://www.pngindustrynews.net/StoryView.asp?StoryID=62664

(PNGIndustryNews) - There are some uncanny similarities between the PNG and Philippine economies. They have been underperformers for most of the period since the mid-70s but the situation is improving dramatically in both cases.

The wake-up call in the Philippines occurred in the late 1980s after the downfall of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The country had enjoyed a sustained drop in poverty levels from 1957 to 1965, the year before Marcos first took office. (more…)

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Press-Release.asp?nid=7396

TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX: “TVI” or the “Company”) announces that it’s financial results for the period ended June 30, 2006 will be released on the morning of Tuesday, August 8th, 2006. The Company will also provide a webcast presentation of its second quarter results, which will be given by Clifford M. James, President and CEO, and can be accessed using the instructions
below. The pre-recorded webcast will be made available to the public starting at approximately 9:00 am MT on August 8, 2006.

Webcast:

To listen to this event, please enter the following link in your web browser approximately 10 min. prior to the start of the webcast. Information links will also be provided for any system requirements and software needed.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=1545500

For those who are not able to listen to the webcast on the day of the event, an archived version will be available for a 90 day period and can be accessed using the same link above. An electronic copy of TVI’s corporate presentation that accompanies the second quarter results will be made available on the Company’s website (http://tvipacific.com/main/?&presentations) at approximately 8:45 am MT on August 8, 2006. Listeners are encouraged to follow along with the slides while listening to the webcast. (more…)

AFX News Limited -
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2006/07/27/afx2908443.html

27th July 2006

MANILA (XFN-ASIA) - Canadian mining company TVI Pacific is investing 23 mln usd to develop a copper and zinc mine and is looking to buy into others in the southern Philippines, the company said.

‘We would like to grow the company, that’s the strategy,’ said Yulo Perez, manager of local affiliate TVI Resource Development Philippines Inc, which is producing 1,800 tonnes of gold and silver ore per day at a mine in the Canatuan mountains in the southern Philippines. (more…)

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April 2006: more than 700 indigenous Téduray and Lambangian march against the robbery of their lands and forests in the name of peace.
Photo Geert van Kesteren

Traditional territory of the Teduray and Lambangian people is being traded away in an unjust peace accord in the Philippines. They now seek international support for their case.

In 1996 the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) reached a Peace Accord in western Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines. After decades of violent conflict war was about to end so it seemed, and indigenous peoples in the area hoped that peace was finally to return to their lives and communities. But things turned out quite differently. A former MNLF-commander had been given a concession to log 5.500 hectares of forest in the indigenous areas, in exchange for dropping arms. (more…)

Paul Garvey, http://www.miningnews.net/StoryView.asp?StoryID=62693
Thursday, 27 July 2006

THE nominated advisor (Nomad) and proposed new auditor of Rusina Mining have
both threatened to quit the company should resolutions put forward by former
managing director Vladimir Nikolaenko be passed at specially convened
shareholders’ meetings next month.

The saga between Nikolaenko and the current board of Rusina took on a new
twist after Beaumont Cornish - the Nomad that administers the Alternative
Investment Market shares of the dual-listed company - said it would resign
from its position should Nikolaenko’s proposal to appoint Bradley Moore as a
director of Rusina be approved by company shareholders. (more…)

Sun Star Davao -
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2006/07/27/bus/mindanao.s.mining.attracts.investors.html

Thursday, July 27, 2006

CHINESE investors believe that mining industry is the “ace” of Mindanao, the new Chinese ambassador to the Philippines Li Jinjun said in a briefing with national government officials Monday.

The Chinese envoy confirmed that there are two Chinese firms currently negotiating with the Philippine team specifically in Mindanao and are set to pour in $500 million as a start-up investment. (more…)

By Germelina A. Lacorte, davaotoday.com -
http://davaotoday.com/2006/07/26/big-chinese-mining-firms-set-eyes-on-mindanao/

26th July 2006

DAVAO CITY - Three big mining companies in China, including the largest state-owned JinChuan Group Ltd., are now aggressively pursuing talks with Philippine-based companies for possible investments in the country’s mining industry. Li Jinjun, ambassador to the Philippines of the People’s Republic of China (PROC), said Tuesday that the JinChuan Group is seriously pursuing talks with Philnico Industrial Corporation, which used to operate the shuttered
Nonoc plant in Surigao while ZTE Corporation, which is based in Shenzhen, China, is talking with members of the Filipino-Chinese community for the possibility of joint-venture arrangements in mining. (more…)

Paul Garvey, http://www.miningnews.net/StoryView.asp?StoryID=62693
Thursday, 27 July 2006

THE nominated advisor (Nomad) and proposed new auditor of Rusina Mining have both threatened to quit the company should resolutions put forward by former managing director Vladimir Nikolaenko be passed at specially convened shareholders’ meetings next month.

The saga between Nikolaenko and the current board of Rusina took on a new twist after Beaumont Cornish - the Nomad that administers the Alternative Investment Market shares of the dual-listed company - said it would resign from its position should Nikolaenko’s proposal to appoint Bradley Moore as a director of Rusina be approved by company shareholders. (more…)

http://www.mb.com.ph/BSNS2006072870271.html

Undaunted by its problems with informal settlers, TVI Resource Development Phils. Inc. pursues expansion and acquisition plans even as it expects to generate P3.4 billion in revenues this year doubling last year’s P1.7-billion revenues due to good metal prices for its gold and silver mining operation in the Zamboanga, Peninsula.

Yulo Perez, TVIRDP general plant manager, said the company is already in its advanced stage of negotiations with the Privatization Management Office for its interest in the North Davao mining project. (more…)