Japanese stocks rose on speculation the Bank of Japan will act to boost the economy after a report this morning showed the country’s largest manufacturers forecast business will deteriorate.

• September 29, 2010

Russia has massive stores of natural gas and its economy needs a cash infusion from sales to get it through the economic downturn that has crimped oil sales.

• September 28, 2010

India's defense minister says U.S. export controls that restrict the sale of defense technologies to blacklisted Indian entities are a "matter of concern" and should be lifted soon.

• September 28, 2010

One of the biggest producers of wood granules in Estonia – Graanul Invest – is planning to invest hundreds of millions of kroons in Estonia and in the other Baltic states in coming years in order to establish a total of five combined heat and power plants, LETA/Eesti Paevaleht writes.

• September 28, 2010

At today’s Baltic Council of Ministers meeting in Riga, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius discussed regional economic and financial issues and cooperation in the field of security and energy. The prime ministers signed a joint declaration on cooperation objectives in all of the above fields.

• September 28, 2010

Syria is in talks with Russia about buying planes, said Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Abdallah Dardari

• September 26, 2010

Belarus' oil company said Friday that it was negotiating Venezuela crude imports via Latvia's ports of Ventspils and Riga.

• September 26, 2010

Georgian lawmakers began debating a constitutional shakeup on Friday that opponents of President Mikheil Saakashvili say is designed to allow him to continue ruling as prime minister once his term ends in 2013.

• September 26, 2010