Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) should combine their "huge potential" to continue enhancing their coordination on major issues of common concern.

• Date: 12.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from indiatimes.com

The Kyrgyz government on Monday approved a plan to join a post-Soviet customs union and common economic space.

• Date: 11.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

The world's best-known institute for handling bad bugs — Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — will help India strengthen its laboratory and manpower capacity to better detect pathogens like NDM-1 and virus outbreaks.

• Date: 09.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from indiatimes.com

A Chinese firm is looking at investing in Pakistan's hydel power projects that would add nearly 9,000 MW of electricity to the national grid, a media report said Wednesday.

• Date: 06.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

A senior member of the Armenian parliament slammed today Azerbaijan and Turkey for their  coordinated  efforts to demand the closure of the Armenian nuclear power plant. Speaking to journalists, Hrayr Karapetian, chairman of  a parliament committee  on defense and  national security issues form the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun,  said the ultimate goal of Baku and Ankara is to damage Armenia’s economic potential.

• Date: 05.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from arka.am

Astana, April 04: Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected in Sunday's presidential election with 95.5 percent of the votes counted, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Monday.

• Date: 04.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from siasat.com

The Council of Senate of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan (the Upper House of the parliament) adopted a resolution on the holding of elections of aksakals and their advisors to self governing bodies in May-June 2011.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from trend.az

Japan's natural and nuclear disasters could worsen an inflation problem already looming over Asia's fast-growing economies.

• Date: 01.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from marketwatch.com