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Need for greater energy cooperation in Asia / Jack Barnes and Suman Bery, Shell, East Asia Forum, 9/12/2012http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/12/09/need-for-greater-energy-cooperation-in-asia/Asian demand for primary energy grew by over 70 per cent in this period and accounted for more than 65 per cent of total global primary energy growth. While some countries — Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore — are rich, others, including the most populous (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand), are middle-income countries now in the energy-intensive development phase...