KUALA LUMPUR – The Pakatan Harapan-led (PH) government has come under heavy pressure to ease a July 1 deadline for Lynas, the world’s most important rare earth producer outside of China, to ensure practically radiation-free operations at its Malaysian plant. Authorities issued a three-year licence renewal to Australian miner Lynas in February, but refused to remove conditions in the licence that require it to move “cracking and leaching” of lanthanide concentrate offshore and to only refine intermediate materials at its facility in Gebeng, near Kuantan in Pahang. These refining processes have sparked fears of environmental and health hazards from the…