61.   Sudjana said yesterday investors still had a big interest in coal mining due to the high demand for coal in the Asia Pacific region.

62.   Strike leaders say that as a government-owned industry, coal mining is entitled to government assistance.

63.   The government, under pressure from international lenders to press ahead with those reforms, is seeking to curtail subsidies to bankrupt state industries like coal mining.

64.   The government, under pressure from international lenders to press ahead with reforms, is seeking to curtail subsidies to bankrupt state industries like coal mining.

65.   The hardest-hit, according to Trud, was the machine-building industry, followed by the coal mining, construction and agricultural spheres.

66.   Workers in difficult or dangerous jobs, such as coal mining, retire five years earlier.

67.   Heavy industrialisation and intensive coal mining have already ravaged the verdure of the north.

68.   Coal mining and railway transport are currently supervised by two separate and highly territorial ministries.

69.   The vice minister singled out communications, coal mining, power, petrochemicals and forestry as sectors where safety is especially important.

70.   It said coal mining, long recognised as one of the most hazardous occupations, was becoming even more dangerous in some countries.