Two weeks after voters went to the polls in critical parliamentary elections, Kyrgyzstan’s future is still unclear. And regional analysts warn that the outcome of the country’s recent political experiment could echo far beyond the borders of the tiny central Asian state.

• Date: 30.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from globalpost.com

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will sign agreements to help build Vietnam`s first nuclear power plant and a hydroelectric power station during a visit to the Soviet-era ally starting on Saturday, Kremlin sources said.

• Date: 30.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from antaranews.com

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Asian leaders gathered in Hanoi to resolve their maritime disputes through international legal channels, repeating a U.S. position that has raised China's ire in recent months.

• Date: 30.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from wsj.com

One year after the establishment of Europe's first 'macro-region', which brings together ten countries 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: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from baltic-course.com

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

North Korea got a failing grade, with Iran and Syria not far behind, in the first nuclear arms control report card released Wednesday by the independent U.S.-based Arms Control Association (ACA).

• Date: 29.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.10.2010  |  Security  |  from chinapost.com.tw

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