A Global Witness report Wednesday said Europe's biggest banks were complicit in maintaining many of the world's ongoing social and political failures. The watchdog group said, point blank, the international banking system is complicit in helping to perpetuate poverty, corruption, conflict, human suffering

ASHGABAT. Sept 13 (Interfax) - Turkmenistan will expand geological prospecting operations inside the country and increase oil and gas production in the period up to 2030.

Preparations are under way for the denomination of Turkmenistan's national currency, the manat, Turkmen state-owned TV's Altyn Asyr TV channel reported on 8 September.

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Asgabat, 29 August: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan and the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Hu Jintao, have agreed to increase the throughput capacity of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline currently under construction.

ASHGABAT. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has suggested that China increase its purchase of Turkmen natural gas to 40 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year from 30 bcm.