Energy-poor Pakistan makes gas pipelines a priority
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.
Chinese Win Mongolia Coal Project
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.
EBRD signs first loan under Local Currency Lending Programme in the Kyrgyz Republic
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.
Israel, Bulgaria joint declaration pledges wide-ranging co-operation
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.
Turkmen Gas Finally Gets Washington's Attention
Nowhere has this policy been more evident than in the Caspian basin and the energy riches of the new post-Soviet states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
India offers veiled warning to nuclear suppliers
India has suggested that countries refusing to match nuclear reactor sales with technology transfers could be frozen out of one of the world’s largest reactor markets.
Hillary Clinton may visit India for 'strategic dialogue'
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is expected to visit India in the third week of July for the next round of the Indo-US “Strategic Dialogue” that she initiated in 2009.
Pakistan to build more nuclear plants: Gilani
Pakistan’s nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said while declaring that the country would build more power plants to meet its growing energy needs.
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