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

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

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.

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.

China's major steel companies saw their profitability improve in May as demand picked up, the latest data showed.

Germany's lower parliament Bundestag approved the gradual coal phase-out by 2038 on Friday.

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.

China Taiyuan coal transaction price index stood at 125.07 points Monday, up 0.55 percent week on week.