the Shanghai Composite index was up 0.61% at 2,885.83 points

The benchmark Nikkei average rose 0.7% to 20,177.79

Japan's economy contracted 0.9% in January-March, or at an annualized pace of 3.4%,

“We have to see that Chinese companies, partly with the support of state funds, are increasingly trying to buy up European companies that are cheap to acquire or that got into economic difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis,”

The new China's project for receiving imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)

India's distribution companies have accumulated significant late payments due to power generating companies

the Shanghai Composite index was down 0.1% at 2,868.46

The Shanghai Composite index ended 0.96% lower at 2,870.34.

India's coal production would rise to 700 Mt in the current fiscal year (April 2020-March 2021)

As the world’s fourth-largest onshore wind market by installations, India has 37.5 GW of wind capacity as of 2019.

China generates more electricity than Europe and the USA combined and China will double again in twenty years.

Supplies to China continue at around 9 million cu m/d through the landmark pipeline -- the first direct link for Russian gas to reach China by pipeline.

Even before the pandemic, India’s growth was slowing and public finances were strained because of poor tax collection and higher spending.

India has been the world’s fourth-largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) since 2011

Southeast Asia today is viewed as the last likely bastion of strong growth in coal demand globally. But just as Indian coal-fired power generation fell an entirely unprecedented 26TWh or -3% during 2019, we note expectations for sustained decades-long growth in Southeast Asian coal-fired power generation is far from a locked-in certainty.