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

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

The United States will look to enhance the scope of counter-terrorism cooperation with India during the second US-India Strategic Dialogue to be held in New Delhi in the third week of July.

• 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

Senator Javaid Ashraf Qazi, the member Standing Committee of Senate for Textile Industry, said Iran and Turkmenistan gas supply projects would help overcome gas crisis.

• July 6, 2011

Nowhere has this policy been more evident than in the Caspian basin and the energy riches of the new post-Soviet states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

• July 5, 2011

India has suggested that countries refusing to match nuclear reactor sales with technology transfers could be frozen out of one of the world’s largest reactor markets.

• July 4, 2011