The Chinese government is considering plans to subsidize the use of energy-efficient materials and renewable energy technologies in new buildings and is encouraging provincial and municipal governments to impose stricter efficiency standards than the national minimums, Chinese officials said Wednesday.

• June 15, 2011

SENIOR US officials have warned that the Fukushima nuclear emergency is far more serious than the Japanese government has acknowledged, as America moves to bolster Japan's faltering response and avoid a full-scale meltdown.

• June 13, 2011

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to achieve new progress in bilateral ties.

• June 11, 2011

Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov met on Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Taner Yildiz in Kayseri, Turkey, where they took part in the signing of the Project Support Agreements (PSAs) between Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH and the responsible ministries of the pipeline's five transit countries.

• June 11, 2011

Agricultural products from Kyrgyzstan are classified as 2nd class in Russia, as Sergei Golenko, advisor to Minister of Agriculture of the KR, said at meeting in Government House adviser.

• June 10, 2011

Georgia will announce within days that it is removing its conditions on Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization, the leader of the Georgian opposition party said, citing a source close to President Mikheil Saakashvili's administration.

• June 9, 2011

Russia's state-controlled power trader Inter RAO UES cut on Thursday electricity supplies to Belarus by 200 MW from the current 400-500 MW over delayed debt payments

• June 9, 2011

A delegation from Kazakhstan headed by the Minister of Economic Integration, Zhanar Aitzhanova, has reached various agreements with the USA pertaining to Kazakhstan’s prospective membership in the World Trade Organization.

• June 6, 2011