Bulgarian economy minister Traicho Traikov departs on visits to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, after last week he held talks with officials in Azerbaijan and Georgia. He will participate in the Kazenergy 2011 forum on October 4, where EU energy commissionaire Gunther Oettinger will join him, from the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism informed. Some of the topics of the forum will be renewables, Nabucco pipeline construction, development of electricity, gas and oil infrastructure and the possible transit of Kazakh gas via Bulgaria.

• September 29, 2011

Azerbaijani and British ministers and oil executives have discussed development of the Shafag-Asiman gas field and construction of a new oil refinery.

• September 29, 2011

ISSUE #32
09/26/2011
The lawyers defending former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko have submitted a request for an immediate resumption of the trial. “Today, the defense is requesting an immediate resumption of the trial so the court can consider a petition to change the preventive measure,” Tymoshenko's lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotnyuk stated on 21 September 2011. First and foremost, this relates to the former prime minister's state of health, he added. READ MORE

• September 29, 2011

A Russian-controlled company will soon start supplying 20 percent of the aviation fuel at the strategically vital U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, and it could eventually increase that share, officials said

• September 28, 2011

The European Union (EU) and Azerbaijani Finance Ministry launched a Twinning project "Support to the State Financial Control Service to improve financial controls". The project was presented in Baku on Wednesday.

• September 28, 2011

In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based utility consortium signed a deal with Vietnam on Wednesday to conduct a feasibility study for two new reactors.

• September 28, 2011

David Cohen, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, is set to visit Hong Kong and Beijing this week to discuss sanctions on Iran, the department said on Monday.

• September 27, 2011

Holding their maiden strategic economic dialogue, India and China Monday agreed to deepen bilateral investments, further open up markets, share developmental experiences and enhance cooperation in infrastructure, specially in the railway sector.

• September 27, 2011