“Chinese could invest to Kyrgyzstan without any worries,” Zheenbek Kulubayev, the Extraodinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to China, said in his interview to Great Power internet-forum as wrote Zhenmin Zhibao newspaper.

• February 17, 2011

Ukraine aims to attract private investment in government-run coal mines to increase production, Deputy Coal and Energy Minister Ihor Popovych said. The government has drawn up investment plans for state mines in 2011 envisaging 5.5 billion hryvnia ($691 million) of spending, Popovych said in an interview published today by official government newspaper Uryadovyi Kurier.

• February 16, 2011

Japan and India signed a free trade pact Wednesday under which the high-tech nation and the South Asian giant pledged to scrap tariffs on 94 percent of goods within a decade

• February 16, 2011

Poland will probably import electric energy from the Russian nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Oblast which is currently under construction

• February 16, 2011

Russia is perplexed as to whether to keep its efforts for the construction of the second Bulgarian nuclear power plant "Belene" or to renounce the deal and seek penalty payments from Bulgaria

• February 15, 2011

Turkmenistan is seeking a price linked fuel oil or naphtha for the natural gas it plans to sell to India through a USD 7.6 billion pipeline passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• February 15, 2011

“China has an extraordinary demand for high-quality American goods and services,” said Ken Rogers, Automation Alley executive director.

• February 14, 2011

A senior Iranian oil official has announced that the country is to export 1.5 million litres of petrol and diesel per day to Armenia.

• February 14, 2011