Sluggish demand growth for liquefied natural gas (LNG), combined with a record increase in global export capacity through 2028, will likely thrust markets into an extended period of oversupply, according to the latest Global LNG Outlook from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). As major importing regions—including …
The average life expectancy of people in the South and South-East Asia will rise to 75 years in less than 40 years, WHO said Monday, insisting the number of aged people over 60 years will triple by 2050 from its current figure of 142 million. ‘Approximately 142 million people or …
North Korea gave details for the first time of a "weather satellite" it plans to send into orbit next month, a launch the West sees as a disguised ballistic missile test which has prompted criticism from the reclusive state's only major ally, China. The North's KCNA news agency described it …
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to eight countries, including India, to ratify the CTBT to bring the global nuclear test ban into force. The UN Secretary-General made the appeal after Indonesia became the 157th country to adopt the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Besides India, China, North Korea, Egypt, …
Civil nuclear cooperation will be among the major issues of discussion at the summit meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda here on Wednesday during which the two sides will also look at ways to enhance trade. Mr Noda will arrive here tomorrow on a …
Shanghai claimed this year to be the world’s busiest container handling port. One tradable it doesn’t want mixed into the throughput figures: nuclear and radioactive items. In a joint U.S.-China non-proliferation initiative, officials next week are scheduled to commission and demonstrate a radiation detection system at Shanghai’s flagship Yangshan port, …
State-run mining giant NMDC Ltd has dropped a proposal to acquire the Erchim Tkhan — popularly known as Vinci Coal — project in Russia. Reason: one of the owners of Vinci Coal is based in North Korea, a country under heavy US sanctions. The Rs 11,369-crore Maharatna company had last …
The Australian government looks set to overturn its ban on selling uranium to India after Prime Minister Julia Gillard changed sides on Tuesday and came out in support of lifting an embargo that has strained relations with the world’s biggest democracy. Since taking office in 2007, the Labour government has …
The Obama administration will hold two days of meetings with North Korea next week in a bid to resume a nuclear-disarmament process with Pyongyang that foundered in 2008. The meetings come as North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed a renewed interest this week in negotiating with the U.S. and …
South Korea and the United States are adamant that there will be no food relief for crisis-hit North Korea until it guarantees that all aid will reach the most needy and there is an improvement in ties between the two Koreas. China, the only ally of the secretive Stalinist state, …
Meetings between the chief nuclear envoys of North and South Korea were “constructive,” negotiators said, even though the talks did not produce any breakthroughs on the longstanding impasse over the North’s refusal to give up its nuclear program. The talks on Wednesday, held at a private club in Beijing, were …
The top nuclear negotiators from North and South Korea plan to meet next week in Beijing to discuss terms of restarting the long-stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, a senior government official here said Friday. Wi Sung-lac, the South Korean envoy, and his North Korean …
The world's nuclear power plant exporters announced Thursday a first-ever code of conduct, which they hope will raise safety standards, prevent proliferation, and enhance environmental protection. They agreed to six principles addressing everything from physical safety and security to ethics and compensation for damage in the event of an accident. …
The United States has offered North Korea up to $900,000 in emergency flood assistance but has made no decision yet on a broader request for humanitarian food aid for the isolated country, the State Department said on Thursday. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. offer would likely include …
Floods in North Korea triggered by torrential rain late last month killed 30 people and destroyed more than 6,750 houses, state media said on Friday. More than 15,800 people were left homeless by the floods which also inundated more than 48,000 hectares (120,000 acres) of farmland, "seriously affecting this year's …
US diplomats will sit in New York with Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator, for the first talks in two years, a move that could herald the start of further engagement with Pyongyang. However, Washington remains highly doubtful about the prospects for any meaningful progress with Kim Jong-il’s regime, …
Responding to the growing threat of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, the European Union will announce on Monday the release of about $14.5 million in emergency aid to feed as many as 650,000 North Koreans. The bloc
US Scientist Says He Saw Hundreds Of Centrifuges At Enrichment Facility David E Sanger Washington: North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing …
Seoul: New satellite images of a North Korean nuclear site and a recent visit to the North by two American experts suggest that Pyongyang has started work on a new reactor. The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nuclear research group, said it has obtained photographs showing
