China’s Commerce Ministry issued a ruling Thursday that U.S. government support for six renewable energy projects violated free-trade rules, the latest volley in a widening conflict over clean power.

• May 24, 2012

The deal means construction can start on one of the longest and most ambitious pipelines ever planned, stretching more than 1,000 miles from Turkmenistan in former Soviet Central Asia across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• May 24, 2012

Kicking-off work on the long discussed US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, India and its new energy partners today signed agreements that will pave way for laying of the 1,680-km line.

• May 23, 2012

World powers and Iran held unusually detailed talks on Wednesday about how it could show its nuclear work is not a disguised quest for atom bombs, in a Baghdad meeting aimed at halting a slide toward a new Middle East war.

• May 23, 2012

India is expected to sign an agreement with Turkmenistan this week that will secure 38 million standard cubic meters per day gas supply from the Central Asian country at around $11.5/unit, government officials said. Oil minister Jaipal Reddy is visiting Turkmenistan on Tuesday to sign the gas sale purchase agreement (GAPA) this week, officials said.

• May 21, 2012

China is interested in the development of Tegene coal deposit in Kyrgyzstan, CA-News reported on Wednesday.

• May 21, 2012

A South Korean joint venture in energy-rich Uzbekistan said on Saturday it had secured a $2.5 billion credit line to build a new chemical and gas production unit by 2016.

• May 19, 2012

American negotiators, heading into a crucial round of talks with Iran over its nuclear program next week in Baghdad, are allowing themselves a rare emotion after more than a decade of fruitless haggling with Tehran: hope.

• May 19, 2012