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Latvian President Andris Berzins has reaffirmed Latvia's interest in buying electric power generated by Lithuania’s Visaginas nuclear power plant, but asserted that because of the…
Energy-poor Poland is about to embark upon using hydraulic fracturing to develop the country’s natural gas reserves. The practice is controversial in many countries, including…
China’s economic power is growing throughout the world far beyond its traditional spheres of influence, even penetrating the Balkans. Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister…
In 2010 Taiwan’s annual production of solar cells grew by 118 percent, reaching a capacity of 27.2 gigawatts, while combined solar cell shipments by China…
According to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Tel Aviv will shortly seek a UN opinion on its Mediterranean maritime borders with Lebanon. The Israeli’s governmental…
Twenty years after the collapse of the USSR, former Soviet-dominated states are forging bilateral energy relations. Poland and Lithuania are jointly constructing a new natural…
Building on a meeting last month in Moscow between Gazprom President Alekhsei Miller and North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jeh, a Gazprom delegation…
Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been stressful ever since the latter’s 1979 revolution. The tension extends into the pair’s…
Despite territorial disputes with China over sovereignty in the South China Sea, Vietnam is pressing forward to develop offshore areas it claims lie completely within…
France has provided Ethiopia with a $101.5 million grant to build a power transmission line to Kenya. The grant is part of a $488.7 million…
Mongolia has historically remained within Russia’s sphere of influence, except for it southern regions, now incorporated into the People’s Republic of China as “Inner Mongolia.”…
The dependence of the Belarus economy on Russian imports of oil and natural gas, combined with a negative foreign trade balance and unreconstructed Soviet-era economy…
The ongoing struggle between Libya’s beleaguered regime and its opponents may eventually be decided by the issue of the country’s petroleum reserves. Nearly all of…
Pakistan’s ongoing energy crisis is impacting the labor market, causing hundreds of thousands of people to lose their jobs. According to Samar Mubarakmand, a Science…
During “frank and candid” discussions in Moscow between Duma members and a visiting U.S. congressional delegation, the rifts between U.S. and Russian foreign policy perceptions…
India’s Controller and Auditor General insists that his mandate includes “unfettered access” to investigate the fiscal accounts of private companies, including India’s Reliance Industries conglomerate…
The implications of the Fukushima catastrophe are reverberating through China, as a number of provinces have suspended new nuclear power projects. This in turn has…
China National Petroleum Corp, Asia's largest oil producer, has delivered 15 tons of jatropha oil to help Air China schedule the country's maiden biofuel-powered test…
Iran’s deputy Oil Minister Ghazaleh Taifeh stated bluntly, "The era of cheap and low-cost oil production in Iran, which was always considered the most important…
Angola’s Minister of Energy and Water Emanuela Vieira Lopes has announced his government’s intention to build 150 micro-hydroelectric projects at a consultative meeting of Angola’s…