| 28 October 2006 09:21 |
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Camera operators for Kyrgyzstan's National Television and Radio Broadcasting (MTRK) went on strike today, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. » |
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| 25 October 2006 11:18 |
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"The president of Turkmenistan is hale, energetic, and cheerful," cardiosurgeon Hans Meysner told Turkmen journalists this Monday. Meysner was in charge of the team that gave President Saparmurat Niyazov a complete medical checkup. "Despite the stresses of his job, the Turkmenbashi carries out morning exercises and leads a healthy life." » |
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| 25 October 2006 05:32 |
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Manas has grown in importance to the US since Uzbekistan in July restricted US access to its Karshi-Khanabad (K2) airbase, and then ordered the US to withdraw completely within six months. » |
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| 25 October 2006 05:18 |
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Over 4,000 tons of drugs have been produced in Afghanistan this year, mostly heroin. » |
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| 25 October 2006 05:08 |
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called Tuesday for switching the Kazakh language to Roman script from the existing Cyrillic alphabet, following several ex-Soviet states who had sought to shed Russia's influence both linguistically and politically. » |
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| 24 October 2006 16:53 |
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China will give half a million U.S. dollars to Central Asian countries to support their human resources development, said China's Vice Finance Minister Li Yong. » |
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| 23 October 2006 10:29 |
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 The last few weeks have seen intense activity within the Iraqi Interior Ministry to clear its ranks of rogue elements, criminals, and officers linked with death squads, but the ministry's inability to rein in the militias, particularly that led by radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, continues to be the most contentious issue. » |
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| 23 October 2006 10:20 |
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 The powerful daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev says she holds Indian-born steel baron Lakshmi Mittal responsible for the deaths of more than 80 Kazakh coal miners in the past three years, RFE/RL reported. » |
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| 21 October 2006 10:29 |
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Women from the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan who married citizens of Turkmenistan after 1992 are sent back to their native country with the stamp "Deported" in their passports. Unofficial estimates indicate that nearly 50 young women, many of them with children, have been deported so far. » |
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| 20 October 2006 12:10 |
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country's nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country, AP reported citing a South Korean newspaper report on Friday. » |
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| 20 October 2006 12:05 |
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Former Pakistani prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif called on Thursday for free and fair elections that would end their exile. » |
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| 20 October 2006 09:31 |
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 A Kyrgyz lawmaker alleged on Thursday that the U.S. payments for the use of an air base in the Central Asian nation were substantially less than previously announced. » |
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| 19 October 2006 11:40 |
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A Kyrgyz court has sentenced to death three men charged with taking part in an armed raid in the south of the Central Asian country earlier this year, a state prosecution official said on Wednesday. » |
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| 18 October 2006 09:21 |
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George Bush and Tony Blair were looking more isolated than ever last night as the ground shifted further under their strategy of remaining in Iraq "until the job is done", wrote The Iidependent on Wednesday. » |
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| 18 October 2006 08:48 |
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Revisiting one of physics' most embarrassing cases of scientific misconduct, researchers from Russia and the United States announced Monday that they have created a new super-heavy element, atomic number 118, AP reported Monday. » |
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