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Jul 07, 2011 at 19:13 | Charles Kennedy

The race to develop commercially viable biofuels for the aviation industry has been everything from algae to coconut oil proposed as potential feedstocks. Now Virgin Australia, proudly flying the nationalist…

Jul 07, 2011 at 19:03 | Joao Peixe

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 loans and grants package that…

Jul 07, 2011 at 18:48 | Charles Kennedy

In the wake of the 11 March Fukushima Dai-Ichi tragedy, Japan has had to make some major changes to its power distribution grid and supplies, as the stricken reactor complex…

Jul 06, 2011 at 20:40 | Charles Kennedy

Pakistan’s chronic energy shortages have combined with widespread perceptions that Washington is more interested in pursuing its anti-terror agenda than assisting the country financially, causing many leading figures to question…

Jul 06, 2011 at 20:17 | Charles Kennedy

State energy statistics in the Islamic Republic of Iran are closely guarded state secrets.Deputy Oil Minister Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr has told the Iranian media that "Currently, the total value of…

Jul 06, 2011 at 19:54 | Joao Peixe

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.” Now Beijing’s cash is allowing…

Jul 06, 2011 at 19:20 | Joao Peixe

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 emphasizing heavy industry are slowly…

Jul 06, 2011 at 18:38 | Charles Kennedy

Russian Federation president Dmitrii Medvedev's aide Arkadi Dvorkovich stated at the annual investors' conference at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, "Russia will no longer be building state capitalism, and relying…

Jul 05, 2011 at 21:29 | Charles Kennedy

India may be a rising economy but it is laggard in paying its energy bills and the Iran National Oil Company has given New Delhi a one month ultimatum to…

Jul 05, 2011 at 20:52 | Joao Peixe

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 Gaddafi's key allies have abandoned…

Jul 05, 2011 at 20:15 | Charles Kennedy

The Uruguayan government is upset with the administration of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez because it has delayed authorization for Paraguayan electricity to transit Argentinean territory to energy-poor Uruguay. Montevideo will…

Jul 05, 2011 at 19:53 | Charles Kennedy

A major battle between Slovakia’s environmentalists and the government is emerging as Greenpeace charges that the country’s recently completed nuclear power plant at Mochovce in Nitra has in fact violated…

Jul 05, 2011 at 19:29 | Joao Peixe

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 and Technology, Planning Commission member,…

Jul 04, 2011 at 20:35 | Charles Kennedy

Jordan’s economy has been heavily impacted by its need to import 96 percent of its energy needs, and so is pressing forward with a project to build the kingdom’s first…

Jul 04, 2011 at 20:06 | Charles Kennedy

Instead of abandoning nuclear power, France has opened a nuclear energy institute. France currently generates 78 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, the highest percentage in the world.…

Jul 04, 2011 at 18:46 | Joao Peixe

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 were too evident to ignore.…

Jul 04, 2011 at 17:59 | Joao Peixe

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 and foreign operators such as…

Jul 04, 2011 at 17:33 | Charles Kennedy

In the wake of the 11 March Fukushima nuclear meltdown, Germany’s Bundestag handed its green movement its biggest victory yet, passing a resolution to close virtually all 17 of the…

Jun 30, 2011 at 08:15 | Charles Kennedy

Iran's deputy oil minister and managing director of National Iranian Gas Company, Javad Owji, said that new round of talks between Iran and Pakistan on gas cooperation was held on…

Jun 29, 2011 at 19:18 | Joao Peixe

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 added pressure to the government’s…