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With a population of 27 million, Uzbekistan is Central Asia's most populous and dominant power. Since the global recession that began a year ago, however, Uzbekistan's fiscal conservatism, previously dismissed by the foreign...
Defections from regiona distribution network may destroy Soviet-era effort to ensure equitable sharing of electricity. By Gulnura Toralieva in London (RCA No. 596, 20-Nov-09) Kazakstan’s decision to withdraw from the Central...
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul....
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov agreed to create a hotline between the two ministries to settle the pressing matters of bilateral relations.
Energy-rich Turkmenistan could become a top supplier to fill a Western-backed natural gas pipeline aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, a top executive on the project said Thursday. The planned7.9 billion euros...
"Malaysia's state-owned Petronas [PETRA.UL] is developing a Turkmen offshore block and analysts say its installations are well positioned to connect to Azeri offshore rigs, allowing for the shortest connection to Nabucco." Not...
By The Associated Press (AP) - Some basic facts and figures about Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday to a second five-year term: GEOGRAPHY: Mountainous and landlocked. Borders Iran, Pakistan,...
Turkmenistan News.Net Wednesday 18th November, 2009 (IANS) A 107-year-old woman shocked her neighbours in Yichuan county in eastern China when she recently started teething again. Jiao Zhenwa frequently shows off her two new...
Turkmenistan News.Net Thursday 19th November, 2009 (ANI) New Delhi, Nov 19 : A Chinese man, who is still unmarried, believes that his single status is because of the apartment he stays in. Shang, 30, blamed his mother for...
The Uzbek parliament has passed a law prescribing tougher penalties for using child labour, but experts doubt that it will really work as a deterrent since children have been seen working in the cotton fields this autumn...
