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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.