Turkmenistan holds the world’s fourth largest gas reserves; from the Galkynysh Field huge black pipes thread their way east across the vast searing deserts of…
The year is 2015: following a coup in an unstable Central African state, the new government eyeing an easy and unpopular target, seizes control of…
In July 2012, the EU ordered its financial institutions to stop doing business with Iran, coming soon after an oil embargo, the move made buying,…
In September 2012 the Russian Far Eastern Pacific port Vladivostok hosted the annual APEC summit. The meeting coincided with a new billion dollar bridge being…
China has taken an increasingly influential role in Nigeria. Trade between the two countries totalled $8.2 billion in 2011, just behind Angola and South Africa,…