Metal Bulletin rounds up the hot topics at this year’s LME Week Asia in Hong Kong.

After another busy week, Charlotte Radford takes a look at some of the key price moves and news stories from the past seven days.

The world of metals trading has been transformed over the past 30 years. Long, lazy lunches and quiet afternoons have given way to 24-hour trading and aggressive market-making. But, Lord Copper asks, did the market change us, or did we change the market?

Abdumalik Mirakhmedov has stepped down from his role as ceo of marketing at ENRC.

Metal Bulletin deputy editor Fleur Ritzema takes a look back at some of the key news and price moves from the past week.

Anglo American’s first-quarter copper output fell by 15% year-on-year, mainly due to it taking the smaller of the two Los Bronces processing plants offline for 51 days in the quarter to manage water reserve levels.

Zambia’s cabinet has approved changes to the country’s controversial copper mining royalties, although details on the changes remain unclear.

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi's Make in India campaign, set up to promote the country as a manufacturing hub for both domestic and export markets, is progressing since it was set up in September. It is intended to boost the production of metals such as steel and aluminium.

Brazil's copper producer Paranapanema has been increasing its exports of cathodes, wires and rods as domestic demand continues to weaken, the company's ceo told Metal Bulletin on Monday April 13.

After another busy week in our global newsrooms, we have outlined some of the big stories from the past few days.