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A strong earthquake struck Ecuador on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, according to the country's Risk Management Secretariat.

Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah- FILE PIC

A jeepney full of passengers is seen during a nationwide transport strike against the proposed jeepney phaseout in Quezon City, the Philippines, March 6. Various public utility jeepney transport groups kicked off a week-long nationwide transport strike. The US Geological Survey reported today that a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Southern Philippines. - AFP

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A man carries the body a child pulled out from the rubble in the town of Harim, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey, on Feb 8, 2023, two days after a deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. -. (Photo by MOHAMMED AL-RIFAI / AFP)

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collasped building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on Feb 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. (Photo by REMI BANET / AFP)

Malaysia has been blessed with a significant amount of non-radioactive rare earth deposits. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that some 30,000 metric tonnes of rare earth ores can be found in Peninsular Malaysia alone.

Mount Marapi spews thin smoke as seen from a village in Sleman, Yogyakarta on July 25, 2022. Photo for illustrative purposes only. Photo by Devi Rahman/AFP FILE PIX.

Sarawak's Deputy Minister for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Dr Hazland Abang Hipni, (sixth, right) presents a souvenir to the Norwegian Ambassador to Malaysia TYT Morten Paulsen (middle) during a courtesy call at his office in the Baiulmakmur Building, Kuching on Wednesday - Dr Hazland Abang Hipni