Protest at China-backed nickel-smelting firm in Indonesia turns violent, with buildings and vehicles torched Amy Chew in Kuala Lumpur A truck engulfed in flames after a demonstration at a Chinese-backed nickel firm in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Handout
A demonstration by some 800 Indonesian workers looking for a pay rise from a Chinese-backed nickel firm on Sulawesi island turned violent on Monday, with buildings and heavy machinery torched after management failed to meet the protesters.
Some 600 police and military personnel were rushed to a nickel smelter project run by PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry (VDNI) in Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi province, before the situation was brought under control, police said.
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The US-China neutrino hunt that opened a path to discovery Holly Chik Some of the equipment from the Daya Bay site will be moved to Jiangmen where a new detector is being built. Photo: IHEP
Scientists will comb through nearly a decade s worth of data from an award-winning international research project in southern China to analyse an elusive subatomic particle that could be the key to understanding the origins of the universe.
The data came from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in Shenzhen, a collaboration between China and the United States that went on to win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.