| Asia-Pacific countries are the best-placed to supply the region's future commodity demand, but rather than encouraging mining it appears they are making it harder for explorers and producers.
Virtually every key resource-rich nation in the region slipped in annual rankings compiled by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian-based free-market think-tank that surveyed 742 mining companies for its report, released in February. And it's not just that Asian commodity producers slipped, the results showed that Indonesia was the worst mining jurisdiction, and was joined in the bottom 10 by Vietnam and the Philippines............................................Full Article: Source
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