A line of 150 trucks waits to enter Kazakhstan. It takes so long to clear customs here that each rig usually only makes two round trips a month. And yet, contrary to appearances, documented discrepancies suggest the checkpoint is a smuggler’s paradise.

• Date: 09.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

US commerce secretary Gary Locke on Monday said India needs to do much more to throw open its economy to US exports and investments

• Date: 09.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from indiatoday.in

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousus Raza Gilani’s government recently managed to maintain a majority after hectic backroom bargaining with its coalition partners.

• Date: 07.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.02.2011  |  Markets  |  from gorkhapatra.org.np

Israel has knowledge, technology; China has funds. Jay Young, an investor specializing in locating Israeli business opportunities for Chinese market, explains why two countries work together so well and how to overcome cultural barriers

• Date: 03.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from ynetnews.com

Greece expects that Azerbaijan will become a major gas supplier, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis said today in Baku during the third meeting of an Azerbaijani-Greek intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

• Date: 02.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Ministry of Economic Regulation (MER) of Kyrgyzstan intends to attract Turkish businessmen to develop the mining sector, as the head of the investment policy of MER Kubat Murzaev stated at a joint Kyrgyz-Turkish Business Forum.

• Date: 01.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from 24.kg

The Rajin-Sonbong Free Trade Zone in the extreme northeast corner of North Korea was always something of a joke. The zone was created in 1991 by the late North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung when the North was in one of its periodic flirtations with Chinese-style free markets. But nothing much came of it.

• Date: 01.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from koreatimes.co.kr

Kazakhstan's constitutional council on Monday rejected a referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbayev's rule until 2020, meaning the leader of Central Asia's largest economy is likely to stand for election in 2012.

• Date: 31.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 31.01.2011  |  Markets  |  from Yahoo! news