The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied a report that Chinese and Russian companies had agreed to start a joint venture in islands that are disputed by Russia and Japan.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

Jordan and Turkey have agreed to share their nuclear expertise and explore the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.The nuclear cooperation agreement signed Thursday entails exchanging of expertise and cooperation in operation, renewal and maintenance of nuclear reactors, Xinhua reported.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from thaindian.com

Korean companies are flocking to the UAE as they see business opportunities following the $20billion UAE nuclear power projects deal and other energy and heavy industry projects recently obtained by big Korean companies.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from emirates247.com

“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.

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from 24.kg

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

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

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.

• Date: 15.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Iran’s hostile regime has been one of the chief beneficiaries of the political turmoil that has convulsed Egypt and Tunisia, which distracted the United States and other countries from the ongoing standoff over Iran’s nuclear program.

• Date: 15.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from heritage.org

A top Chinese official has backed ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's plans to hand power to his son, the North's state media said on Tuesday, hailing the "successful solution" to allow continued socialist rule.

• Date: 15.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news