Two young women scaled a huge coal handling machine shortly before dawn on Wednesday, disrupting operations at the worlds largest coal port for several hours to protest what they say is Australias lack of action on climate change.

INDONESIAN firm PT Intra Asia Indonesia on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its counterpart in Vietnam, in connection with its plan to construct a coal port in the southern part of the country with US$1 billion (Bt33.3 billion).