The leaders of Japan and Vietnam are expected to hodl talks on a nuclear energy pact and the joint development of rare earth minerals when they meet in Hanoi this weekend

• Date: 27.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from abcasiapacificnews.com

The United States has been forcing other countries to comply with the United Nations sanctions against Iran, and it has been blaming Chinese companies for breaking the embargoes on Iran.

• Date: 26.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Turkmenistan and Russia bolstered their natural gas relationship on Friday during a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to his counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, with both sides hedging their bets as the Chinese market grows and the European one shrinks.

• Date: 26.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from sptimes.ru

The leaders of India and Japan were set to sign a sweeping agreement Monday on boosting trade while the visiting Indian prime minister pushed for a nuclear energy deal -- a touchy issue for Tokyo because of India's past atomic test blasts.

• Date: 25.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbayev is set to this week visit Brussels and Paris, aiming to strengthen economic ties between the resource-rich central Asian nation and the European Union.

• Date: 25.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from wsj.com

The leaders of four political parties –Ar-Namys, Ata-Jurt, Respublika, and Social-democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SPDK) – traveled to Moscow days after the October 10 parliamentary elections

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian told a group of Russian journalists in Yerevan that Russia will be one of the main participants in building a new unit for Armenian nuclear power plant along with France and the United States, which will bring their state-of-the-art technology. He said some orders for the new unit are being placed already.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from arka.am

The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission (CEC) would announce the official results of the parliamentary election only after it finished a ballot recount but there would be no new elections, authorities said Wednesday.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from ce.cn