The future importance of natural gas in the country's energy mix should be prioritized, and policies should be introduced to boost its development, according to the president of China National Petroleum Corp, the nation's biggest energy company.

• March 16, 2013

Although the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula has been drawing most international attention, from the perspective of Central Asia, another interesting question is whether the new South Korean government will pursue as vigorous a Central Asian strategy as its predecessor.

• March 16, 2013

Turkmenistan aims to start production by July at the Galkynysh natural gas field, the world's second largest, said its minister of oil and gas as the country seeks to boost exports of the fuel and diversify its markets.

• March 16, 2013

Cyprus’ debt crisis puts Russian banks and companies at risk of losing billions of dollars. Russian businesses may reportedly lose over $50 billion should the island's government default on its debt obligations according to Moody's credit rating agency.

• March 15, 2013

A nuclear winter persists across the uranium industry more than two years after the Fukushima disaster, but look closer and there are signs of life from the developed and developing worlds.

• March 15, 2013

Sergei Shoigu, a former long-time emergency situations minister (MChS) and a former Moscow region governor is a well-known and popular figure in Russia—according to recent independent Leveda-Tsentr polls, he is at present more popular than Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

• March 15, 2013

An International Monetary Fund mission will visit Ukraine at the end of this month to resume talks with the Kyiv government on a new $15 billion loan programme, the Fund said on Thursday.

• March 14, 2013

Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today:  The axis of evil is alive and well, but few people have been paying attention.

• March 14, 2013