Manila (AFP) Jan 17, 2013 - A Philippine consortium insisted Thursday a gas project in the disputed South China Sea could only work with the involvement of a Chinese firm, otherwise Beijing could make things difficult.
Seoul (AFP) Jan 17, 2013 - A South Korean court has ordered a $694-million compensation payout to victims of the country's worst oil spill, which fouled miles of coastland in 2007, decimating local fishing and tourism industries.
Cairo (UPI) Jan 17, 2013 - Egypt's military has stepped up security along the Suez Canal, a vital oil shipping artery that's one of the world's most strategically important waterways, to protect it from attack amid a swelling jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Jan 16, 2013 - Senior aides of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reassured citizens of business as usual in the oil-rich Latin American country as they staged a Cabinet reshuffle and denied allegations their actions flouted the constitution.
Beijing (UPI) Jan 16, 2013 - As the world's largest wind power market, China continues to push forward with wind power installations, yet it faces ongoing problems with grid connection.
Beijing (UPI) Jan 16, 2013 - China said it will survey the disputed Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea to safeguard China's marine rights, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Khartoum (AFP) Jan 16, 2013 - Four Chinese workers abducted by Darfur rebels on January 12 have been freed, a spokeswoman for the joint UN-African Union peace keeping force in the troubled western Sudan region said Wednesday.
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 16, 2013 - An international team of physicists has calculated the efficiency of a reaction involving an incoming electron kicking out an electron from the metal beryllium (Be) or its hydrogen compound molecule
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Jan 16, 2013 - Political unrest in Jordan, a key U.S. ally and Israeli peace partner, has been heightened by Iraq's closure of its border with the Hashemite Kingdom.
Algiers (AFP) Jan 16, 2013 - Algeria, which has opened its airspace to French warplanes hitting Islamists in northern Mali, was targeted Wednesday in a deadly revenge attack in which militants seized 41 Western hostages.
Tokyo (UPI) Jan 16, 2013 - Japan is moving away from reliance on nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster, and plans to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm.
Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 16, 2013 - Perennial biofuel crops such as miscanthus, whose high yields have led them to be considered an eventual alternative to corn in producing ethanol, are now shown to have another beneficial characteri
Paris (AFP) Jan 16, 2013 - Land unfit for growing food could make a big contribution to the United States' biofuel needs with wild-growing, non-grain crops, a study said Wednesday.
London (AFP) Jan 16, 2013 - A pipeline system servicing up to 27 oil fields has been shut following a platform leak in the North Sea, its Middle East operator said on Wednesday.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 16, 2013 - The share of renewables in the global energy mix has increased over the past decade to more than 15 percent but doubts remain over whether a 2030 target of 30 percent is achievable, delegates to an international conference said on Wednesday.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 16, 2013 - Synthesis Energy's Yima Joint Venture plant has started to produce methanol, moving the Company closer to generating meaningful financial results from its China business in 2013. The plant will be r
