Chinese President Hu Jintao was in the Russian capital Moscow on Thursday for a four-day official visit devoted to energy issues and bilateral trade between the two countries.

• Date: 16.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from monstersandcritics.com

The Chinese government is considering plans to subsidize the use of energy-efficient materials and renewable energy technologies in new buildings and is encouraging provincial and municipal governments to impose stricter efficiency standards than the national minimums, Chinese officials said Wednesday.

• Date: 15.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from nytimes.com

Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has sent the entire technical documentation on the build project of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region, the news agency Regnum reports.

• Date: 15.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Ambassador Akitaka Saiki took over as Japan’s envoy to India in early March 2011. Though the eminent diplomat has a distinguished career spanning about 35 years, it is the first time he has been given the task of managing Japan’s relations with India.

• Date: 14.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from deccanherald.com

There was a great scope and enormous potential for the "unique" energy cooperation between Russia and China, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told Xinhua in St. Petersburg

• Date: 14.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov met on Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Taner Yildiz in Kayseri, Turkey, where they took part in the signing of the Project Support Agreements (PSAs) between Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH and the responsible ministries of the pipeline's five transit countries.

• Date: 11.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from balkaninsight.com

Russia's state-controlled power trader Inter RAO UES cut on Thursday electricity supplies to Belarus by 200 MW from the current 400-500 MW over delayed debt payments

• Date: 09.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Kyrgyzstan is working on the introduction of various tools of Islamic finance in the country, Kyrgyz First Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov said

• Date: 09.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru