China and Kazakhstan have signed a deal to build and finance a natural gas pipeline and deepen their cooperation on nuclear energy, extending the two countries' ties on resources.

• June 14, 2010

Viewed from Washington, Turkey and Iran are strange bedfellows. One is a NATO member with a Constitution that mandates secularism, and the other, an Islamic republic whose nuclear program has been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States in recent years.

• June 14, 2010

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Chinese President Hu Jintao's agreement to deepen cooperation between China and Kazakhstan is a clear manifestation that the strategic partnership between the countries is working.

• June 12, 2010

Fingrid, the electricity transmission system operator in Finland, has made a capital investment decision concerning the second direct current transmission link, EstLink 2, between Estonia and Finland.

• June 12, 2010

The Government Offices Administration of the State Council, China's cabinet, called on government organs Thursday to ensure enhanced energy conservation efforts.

• June 12, 2010

UN sanctions will not hurt Russia's S-300 missile supplies to Iran nor the states' nuclear cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday after claims the deal would be frozen.

• June 12, 2010

Investments in wind power generators are a great way to support smaller municipalities around Bulgaria, according to Tsonko Tsonev, mayor of the Black Sea town of Kavarna.

• June 11, 2010

Water problem in Central Asia is not a shortage of water, but the inability of the region to find a compromise, experts say

• June 11, 2010