China boasts world’s highest sales volume of electric vehicles

Diversified giants pick up the slack in East Asia

The World Gold Council (WGC) expects India’s total demand for the yellow shiny metal in 2012 to be nearly 19% lower in 2012 than last year, mainly due to low consumption during first two quarters.

In an unusual move, Chinese state-owned CNOOC and Canada’s Nexen Inc. (NYSE,TSX:NXY) have resubmitted notice of their potential deal to US regulators, which will reset the clock on Washington’s approval for the $15 billion energy deal.

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Central bank efforts to weaken yen will spur gold demand

The giant miner says Australia might miss the “Asian century” boat unless its tackles serious shortcomings, such as competitiveness, productivity, infrastructure investments and foreign capital attraction.

Tin mining is a profitable but damaging trade that has scarred the Indonesian island of Bangka, a granite outcrop just east of Sumatra, reports English newspaper The Guardian.

China plans to build storage for 5% of its energy by 2021

All through human evolution we have been harnessing increasingly effective forms of energy. From human power to horse power, to wood, coal, natural gas and uranium what we’ve been doing is searching for the highest energy density to make energy production more efficient.