The man widely seen as China's next leader told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday the world's two most powerful emerging market economies should help each other increase their weight in global affairs.

• March 24, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins a visit to China, with trade and investment high on the agenda.

• March 24, 2010

BS reported that Japanese power companies including Tokyo Electric Power Company and J Power seek to make their presence felt in India.

• March 23, 2010

RIA Novosti cited Mr Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister as saying that Turkmen President Mr Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on recently confirmed the Central Asian republic's readiness to supply the required gas volumes to Russia.

• March 23, 2010

During the meeting with the Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs Audronius Azubalis in Tallinn on Friday, minister Urmas Paet discussed energy security matters with the Lithuanian colleague, reports BC the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• March 22, 2010

Around 300 investors and financiers from around the world will gather in Istanbul in April for the European Business Angels Network, or EBAN, annual congress.

• March 22, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow Thursday with the same sort of disagreeable surprise that Israel gave Vice President Joe Biden during his visit to the Middle East last week

• March 22, 2010

TWO summits in three months is unusual, even considering the strategic ties India and Russia have nurtured for over five decades.

• March 22, 2010