Sino-Japanese relations have continued to fester in the wake of a sharp dispute last month over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain by Japanese authorities in waters near the contested islets of Diaoyu (known as Senkaku in Japan) in the East China Sea. Faced with Chinese retaliation, the Japanese government released the captain, but tensions remain.

• Date: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from wsws.org

The anointment of a new leader of the Chinese Communist Party has usefully re-focused the world's attention on how China might use its growing economic, military and diplomatic power and influence in the coming years, and how its neighbors, and especially the United States, will respond. A lot is riding on China's decision. The regional and even the international order for the coming decades, and perhaps longer, will depend on which pathway it selects.

• Date: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from foreignpolicy.com

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday has ended his official visit to Ukraine.

• Date: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Commission (CEC) will announce the final results of parliamentary elections later this week and the winning parties will start forming a coalition, acting President Roza Otunbayeva said

• Date: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from ce.cn

One year after the establishment of Europe's first 'macro-region', which brings together 10 countries nested around the Baltic Sea, a number of positive results can already be seen, according to Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner in charge of regional policy.

• Date: 28.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from euractiv.com

The United States has welcomed as a "positive" step India's signing of an international convention governing liability in case of nuclear accidents.

• Date: 28.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Parliaments of Belarus and Tajikistan intend to sign an agreement on cooperation

• Date: 28.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Feliks Kulov, whose party finished third in this month's parliamentary elections, says the country is not yet ready to make the transition to a parliamentary republic, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

• Date: 28.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from rferl.org