Kazakhstan expands China oil pipeline link The Guardian * Kazakhstan expands key pipeline to China * China gets access to Caspian Sea oil fields By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY, July 1 (Reuters) - China secured access to vast oil deposits in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday after the energy-rich Central Asian nation said it had completed the expansion of a major...
Little Thaw as Indian and Pakistani Leaders Meet The New York Times | NEW DELHI - It was a meeting that lasted mere minutes, a tense, photo-op grip-and-grin on the sidelines of a summit in Russia. As the first meeting between India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, since the terror attacks in Mumbai last year, the brief en...
Persian Station in Britain Rattles Officials in Iran The New York Times | LONDON - As Iran's ruling ayatollahs tell it, the main strike force plotting to end Islamic rule in their country is not on the streets of Tehran but on the upper floors of a celebrated Art Deco building in central London. Skip to next paragraph Re...
UPS launches Middle East, Central Asia joint venture The Guardian * JV to focus on Turkey, Middle East, Central Asia * UPS will have majority stake, no terms given * Haluk Undeger will stay on as CEO of JV * UPS stock up 21 cents at $49.58 CHICAGO, June 26 (Reuters) - The world's largest package delivery company Un...
Group of Two the wrong number World Security Network Leaders at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) pose for a family photo in Yekaterinburg June 16, 2009. | As former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Group of Two" (or G-2) concept of a US-China convergence in geopolitical in...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia stocks dip, quarter-end spurs profit-takers The Guardian * Profit-taking hits Asia shares after hefty Q2 gains * MSCI Asia ex-Japan eyes biggest quarterly rise in 16 years * Funds overweight stocks for 1st time since Dec '07 -survey * JGB 10-yr yields fall further after spike By Eric Burroughs HONG KONG, J...
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Leaders gather for shanghai talks Kenya Broadcasting Corp Written By:Brian Weche/BBC , Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders are gathering in Russia for the ninth Shanghai Co-opera...
China's rise stirs Vietnam's anxiety Asia Times | By Anh Le Tran | If there was a need to identify a consensus among Vietnamese across the spectrum from domestic to overseas, it must be the uneasy feeling towards China. The Viet...
West and Russia spar, China wins Asia Times | By M K Bhadrakumar | When the Kremlin proposed Khabarovsk as a possible venue for the European Union-Russia summit meeting of May 21-22, Vaclav Klaus, Czech president who holds t...
Russia pushes for new reserve currencies at international summits, China offers loans Star Tribune | YEKATERINBURG, Russia - China and Russia sought greater international clout at a summit Tuesday, with China promising $10 billion in loans to Central Asian countries and Russia challenging the U.S. dollar's dominance as a global reserve currency. |...
Russia, China seek greater international clout The Wichita Eagle YEKATERINBURG, Russia - China and Russia sought greater international clout at a summit Tuesday, with China promising $10 billion in loans to Central Asian countries and Russia challenging the U.S. dollar's dominance as a global reserve currency. | C...
Russia, China seek greater international clout The Miami Herald | YEKATERINBURG, Russia -- China and Russia sought greater international clout at a summit Tuesday, with China promising $10 billion in loans to Central Asian countries and Russia challenging the U.S. dollar's dominance as a global reserve currency. ...
Country profile: Afghanistan BBC News | Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in ruins, and many of its people are refugees. | Since the fall of the Taliban administration in 2001, adherents of the hardline Islamic movement have re-grouped. It is now a resurgent f...
