Japan has no choice but to reduce its reliance on nuclear power, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday, as the country battles to end a four-month-old radiation crisis at a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

• Date: 13.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from chinapost.com.tw

Ukraine’s state-owned ore extracting company, is seeking 6.5 billion hryvnia ($810 million) in loans from state lenders to explore for uranium at the Novokonstantinovskoe deposit, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia reported.

• Date: 12.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from bloomberg.com

President Andris Berzins is of the opinion that Latvia's participation in the Baltic countries' nuclear plant project in Lithuania's Visaginas is unlikely at this time, nevertheless, this matter is yet to be discussed, Berzins stressed speaking to reporters

• Date: 11.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

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.

• Date: 11.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from thenational.ae

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.

• Date: 09.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from ft.com

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.

• Date: 09.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.07.2011  |  External Relations  |  from ebrd.com

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.

• Date: 07.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.07.2011  |  External Relations  |  from sofiaecho.com

Estonian and Russian experts met in Tallinn to discuss the financial, economic, environmental and nuclear safety issues concerning the planned nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad

• Date: 05.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com