Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern Europe and another to run through Turkey to Europe.

• Date: 19.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from upi.com

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

The prime ministers of Estonia and Lithuania met Tuesday in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to wrestle with the Baltic states' "energy island" status within the European Union.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from topnews.in

“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

The United States will continue to expand its civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, including reactor development and security of radioactive materials, a top U.S. nuclear official told

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

In the new Russia, Italy sees a sound political and economic partner, having given a careful reading of the socio-political events in Russia, accurately interpreting Russia’s complex geopolitical spheres of interest.

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru