A consortium of China National Petroleum Corp and companies from South Korea and the United Arab Emirates has won contracts worth $9.7 billion to develop the Yolotan natural gas field in Turkmenistan.

Qatar fund buys another 5 per cent stake in country's banks for $549 million

01 Jan 2010

Indinox-Stainless Steel Fair 2010 to be held in January

31 Dec 2009

Nuance Communications buys rival SpinVox for $102.5 million

31 Dec 2009

DoT to slap Rs132 crore penalty on major telcos for service rollout delays

31 Dec 2009

China on warpath again ahead of 2010 iron ore price negotiations

31 Dec 2009

China Minmetals inks deal with Shunde for Chilean iron ore

31 Dec 2009

Minmetals' subsidiary, China Minmetals Zhuhai Import and Export Trading Co Ltd, has signed an agreement with privately-owned Shunde Rixin Development Co Ltd to import and market iron ore from Chilean mines owned by Rixin.

Rusal to raise up to $2.6 billion in IPO

31 Dec 2009

Rusal, which holds an 11 per cent global market share in aluminium and a massive debt of $14.9 billion, plans to pay part of the debt from the IPO proceeds.

Kazakhstan is now the world's biggest uranium producer

31 Dec 2009

Kazakhstan’s announcement that it has overtaken Canada and Australia to become the world's biggest uranium producer comes even as uranium miners increase production to serve a resurgent global nuclear power industry.

VLCC sets sights on three mid-sized firms for takeover

31 Dec 2009

Neyveli Lignite to enter power generation, coal mining

31 Dec 2009

Cox and Kings acquires Australian travel firms

31 Dec 2009

Chinese bank, Kazakh trust to jointly invest $2.7 billion in Kazakh copper mine

31 Dec 2009

As part of their continuing hunt for minerals around the world, Chinese companies are now eyeing copper deposits in Kazakhistan.

Retail rentals in Europe to stabilise by mid-2010: Cushman & Wakefield

31 Dec 2009

Nufarm dumps Sinochem's offer, accepts Sumitomo investment

30 Dec 2009

Australian agricultural chemicals manufacturer Nufarm Ltd, has rejected a pared $2.3 billion offer from China's Sinochem and agreed instead to a 20 per cent stake acquisition by Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo.

Government accepts pay parity demand of AIIMS faculty

30 Dec 2009

Goldcorp sweetens Canplats offer to $265 million

30 Dec 2009

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