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Japan's energy security predicament post-Fukushima

By Dr Vlado Vivoda | Republished 6 January 2012

Where to from here in the new post-Fukushima reality? Griffith University's Dr Vlado Vivoda looks at the resource-poor country's energy options.

Whither Rio+20? Resetting the post-2015 global development agenda

The world faces two energy challenges, according to Dr Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

China's pipelines in Myanmar

By Shivananda H, IDSA | Republished 13 January 2012

China is increasingly using its huge demand for energy resources as a means to extend its influence into the emerging producer countries. Its latest pipeline projects with Myanmar could see greater clout for the PRC in the South Asian region.