Japan has no choice but to reduce its reliance on nuclear power, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday, as the country battles to end a four-month-old radiation crisis at a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

• July 13, 2011

Boosting cooperation between countries sharing the waters of the Amu Darya, Central Asia's longest river, could be key to future peace and security in the region a new report launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says.

• July 13, 2011

Pakistan is pressing ahead with work on two transnational natural gas pipelines, and is talking about a third, as it looks to expand its regional influence after the war in Afghanistan, officials and analysts said.

• July 11, 2011

President Andris Berzins is of the opinion that Latvia's participation in the Baltic countries' nuclear plant project in Lithuania's Visaginas is unlikely at this time, nevertheless, this matter is yet to be discussed, Berzins stressed speaking to reporters

• July 11, 2011

Ukraine’s state-owned ore extracting company, is seeking 6.5 billion hryvnia ($810 million) in loans from state lenders to explore for uranium at the Novokonstantinovskoe deposit, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia reported.

• July 11, 2011

The EBRD is boosting its support to the financial sector in the Kyrgyz Republic with a 270 million Kyrgyz som loan (US$ 6 million equivalent) to Bai Tushum and Partners, one of the country’s leading non-bank microfinance institutions, to provide more affordable som loans to small businesses.

• July 9, 2011

Mongolia has announced the winners of a long-fought contest to develop part of Tavan Tolgoi, one of the largest coking coal deposits in the world.

• July 9, 2011

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his visiting Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu signed on July 7 2011 a declaration pledging co-operation between the two countries’ governments in a wide range of areas.

• July 7, 2011