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Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Based in Bangkok, Lindsay has been formerly posted to Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
Australian gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated accused of bribing Thai officials
Lindsay Murdoch, South-East Asia Correspondent Thailand's Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating an allegation that Australian gold mine operator Kingsgate Consolidated bribed Thai state officials to obtain a gold mining concession.
MH370 locator battery expired a year before flight disappeared, report reveals
Lindsay Murdoch The battery for an underwater locator beacon on flight MH370 expired more than a year before the plane vanished, an interim report into the aviation mystery has revealed.
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Thailand shuts down Australian gold mine over health fears
Lindsay Murdoch Thai authorities have ordered the suspension for 30 days of an Australian gold mine in northern Thailand amid concerns over the health of thousands of villagers living nearby.
Australian couples caught in Thailand's surrogacy crackdown
Lindsay Murdoch Drama continues to engulf Thailand's surrogacy industry.
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Laotian railway to be miner's engine
Lindsay Murdoch Australian miner PanAust will be able to transport copper, gold and silver from its mines in central Laos on an ambitious 420-kilometre high-speed train line that appears set to transform the sleepy...
Parents insist engineer was murdered
Singapore Lindsay Murdoch South-east Asia Correspondent Months before Shane Todd was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, the US engineer told his parents his life was being threatened.
Lynas shares plummet as court delays Malaysian rare earths plant
Lindsay Murdoch Australian miner Lynas Corp says a decision by a Malaysian high court to put on hold until next Thursday its temporary licence to operate a rare earths plant will not delay production.
Lynas slumps as court delays Malaysian plant
Lindsay Murdoch Lynas says Malaysian court's decision to put on hold a licence to operate a rare earths plant will not delay production.
First Weld war looms - Malaysians mobilise to fight Lynas plant
Lindsay Murdoch Activists are planning a multi-pronged attack to try to stop the Australian miner Lynas Corp opening a rare earths processing plant in Malaysia.
Toll to quit Cambodia rail plans
Lindsay Murdoch Australian company Toll Group is set to pull out of a controversial $145 million project to rebuild Cambodia's railways, reliable sources in Cambodia say.
Timor rejects Woodside's oilfield claims
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin East Timor rejects a claim that its leaders are failing their mainly impoverished people by blocking development of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field, saying the multibillion-dollar project will...
Owners block Groote
Lindsay Murdoch Aboriginal traditional owners have rejected applications by WA company Groote Resources to explore two islands for manganese, a key raw material in steel.
Woodside floats East Timor gas pipedream
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin A proposal emerges for Woodside to supply gas for East Timor's domestic consumption as a way to break a deadlock in negotiations over the multibillion-dollar Greater Sunrise field in the Timor Sea.
East Timor reignites Woodside row
Lindsay Murdoch East Timor has renewed its criticism of Woodside over its plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the Timor Sea's Greater Sunrise field.
Two explorers revisit NT iron sites
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin Two exploration companies targeting huge iron ore deposit in Roper Bar region of Northern Territory, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, that BHP abandoned 60 years ago.
Minister urges a rethink on Groote mining plan
Lindsay Murdoch Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon has called on manganese hopeful Groote Resources to reconsider its radical plan to mine the seabed near Groote Eylandt for the key steel-making raw material.
Manganese project hits hurdle
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin Aboriginal traditional owners planning legal action to stop West Australian-based explorer Groote Resources exploring and mining under the sea for manganese near Groote Eylandt, off Arnhem Land.
Groote Resources faces legal action over Aboriginal land
Lindsay Murdoch IN DARWIN ABORIGINAL traditional owners are planning legal action to stop the West Australian-based explorer Groote Resources exploring and mining undersea for manganese near Groote Eylandt, off Arnhem Land.
Traditional owners warn Groote Eylandt explorer
Lindsay Murdoch Aboriginal traditional owners have lashed out at West Australian explorer Groote Resources, warning there is 'no place for cowboys'.
East Timor, Woodside further apart on gas deal
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin East Timor has accused Woodside of 'grandstanding' over its plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the Timor Sea's Greater Sunrise field.
