In 2019, the Asia-Pacific coal market increased by 6.1% to $751.8B, rising for the third consecutive year after four years of decline.

Shares in China fell 0.72% from a five-year high

State producer Saudi Aramco lifted the official selling price for its flagship Arab Light crude to buyers in Asia,

The NSE Nifty 50 index rose 0.18% to 10,782.7

Indonesia's bond-buying programme will help finance the 2020 fiscal deficit

Japan’s Nikkei, which has lagged with a soft domestic economy, managed a rise of 1.8%.

the 2 GW Java 9-10 ultra-super critical (USC) coal-fired power project in Java (Indonesia).

India wants to raise the share of natural gas in its energy mix from to 15% by 2030 from 6.2% now and is scouting for affordable gas for its price-sensitive customers.

China's Shanghai Composite Index gained 2.1% to 3,090.57.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.51%,

The potential is very high. China's demand for gas will grow at a very high pace. Last year, gas consumption in China grew by almost 10 per cent, thus exceeding 300 billion cubic meters. In 15 years, the demand for gas in the country may double.

This is a record high monthly volume from the US, and made it the largest LPG supplier to China in May. It eclipsed the previous record high monthly import from the US of 475,092 mt in December 2017, historical customs data showed.

China's arrivals from Saudi last month reached 9.165 million tonnes, or 2.16 million barrels per day (bpd), up about 95% from 1.11 million bpd in May 2019 and up 71% from 1.26 million bpd in April,

New coal plant projects proposed this year in China would add more than 40GW to the country’s power supply

China plans to increase the share of renewables (including hydro) in the power mix to 28.2% in 2020.