UK-Australian resources firm BHP and its partner, Japanese trading house Mitsubishi, plan to spend $100mn on 34 autonomous trucks at their 4.5mn t/yr Daunia coking coal mine in the Bowen basin in Queensland, Australia.

Higher costs and lower thermal coal prices are likely to see Australian thermal coal mining firms report a loss for January-June.

China's major state-controlled power generating company Huaneng has announced plans to reduce its summer restocking of domestic spot coal.

In releasing its "Recover Better With Sustainable Energy Guide for African Countries" on Tuesday.

Indonesian coal producers plan to cut coal outputs in the hope of bolstering prices, an association has said.

Vietnam spent more than four billion U.S. dollars importing roughly 6.8 million tons of steel and iron in the first six months of this year.

Chinese builders completed construction on the 832.2-meter-long Yuanjiang Super Railway Bridge, spanning the V-shaped Honghe River Canyon in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

The world's first flexible direct current (DC) power grid project has been put into operation, creating 12 world firsts, Sina Finance reported on Wednesday.