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04:11 msk, 3 september 2010
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31.07.2008 20:16 msk
In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. Better known as Hizb ut-Tahrir, the group says its goal is to establish a pan-national Muslim state, or Caliphate. China says Hizb ut-Tahrir are terrorists operating in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to some 8 million Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of whom chafe under Chinese rule.
10.04.2008 23:52 msk
EU-Central Asian forum opened in Ashkhabad. Foreign ministers of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will discuss the Central Asian Partnership Strategy with EU commissars. The document defining the strategy is somewhat amorphous but it is better than what Russia has which is nothing. Russia does not have any strategy with regard to Central Asia at all. Its structures and companies operate solo, competing among themselves and inevitably losing to external rivals and first and foremost to China.
14.03.2008 14:03 msk
State Council of the People's Republic of China published a report on human rights in the United States in 2007 on March 13, 2008. This document is Beijing's reaction to appearance of the Report on human rights in the world the US Department of State posted on its web site on March 11. The American report includes the traditional accusations of China and other countries, unfair more often than not. This is the ninth year in a row that China drew a report on the state of affairs with human rights in the United States itself.
14.01.2008 15:52 msk
In the final part of the essay Ferghana.Ru readers will be told of where the Chinese yuan is best converted into other monetary units, what the difference between Chinese Kyrgyzes and Kyrgyz Kyrgyzes is, what Chinese cabs in Kashgar are, what meals in Kashgar are available, and many other interesting details and nuances of the travelling to one of the most ancient cities of China.
28.11.2007 14:06 msk
China is out to reequip the Turkmen army. The Tajik Defense Ministry expects military hardware, equipment, and uniforms for soldiers and officers from China within the framework of the state credit ($3 million) next year, a source in the government of Turkmenistan said. Experts point out that Beijing is generous with credits to Central Asian countries using them as an instrument of buttressing its influence with the countries of the region.
19.09.2007 11:13 msk
A major gold deposit with known reserves estimated at 380 tons was discovered in Vensan, the Chinese province of Gansu. According to Jenmin Jibao, this is the first deposit in the country with the known reserves in excess of 200 tons of gold.
23.07.2007 11:00 msk
Over 150 people died in floods and landslides in China last week. Xinhua news agency reports that the floods that began with the rain season already took at least 400 lives in almost half of Chinese provinces.
28.04.2007 10:01 msk
China Petroleum Technology & Development Corporation (subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. or CNCP) and Sinomach are expected to deliver drilling rigs worth $203 million to Uzbekistan by 2009. Sinomach alone will additionally provide $6.1 million worth of special equipment.
31.01.2007 11:09 msk
China's economic development may make it a world power in the 21st century. Annual economic growth by 10%, one trillion dollars worth of hard currency reserves, global expansion of Chinese goods - all of these are factors to be reckoned with.
30.01.2007 15:07 msk
President Emomali Rakhmonov's first official visit in 2007 was to China. Is there anything geopolitically symbolic about it? There certainly is. A historian observing and studying the Tajik-Chinese relations for at least fifteen years, I now perceive them as being through with the period of initial wariness. The era of cooperation begins. Official documents do not say anything on the matter, but at least within the framework of the Shanghai Organization of Cooperation relations between these two countries have reached the level of strategic partnership". Needless to say, this is the highest level relations between two sovereign states may ascend to.
19.01.2007 11:58 msk
The accord on construction of the Zeravshan (Yava) Hydroelectric Power Plant in northern Tajikistan was signed in Beijing on January 17. The document was signed by Sharifhon Samiyev of Barki Tochik and Cin Fan Xicjan of Sinohydro.
26.04.2006 17:06 msk
"Celil's home in Burlington is full of voices - voices of his friends, wife, and children. Only one voice is missing, his own," the article in The Toronto Star yesterday began. The material describes the saga of Huseyincan Celil, citizen of Canada, arrested in Uzbekistan.
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Forum 18 TAJIKISTAN: "Your children will become extremists and terrorists", 02.09.2010
OpEdNews Talibanization: The Whole Problem Is the Gawadar Port and Trade Route, 02.09.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz-Uzbek Talks Held On Release Of Kyrgyz Border Guards, 01.09.2010
Long war Journal Senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander targeted in northern Afghanistan, 30.08.2010
AP Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons, 28.08.2010
Guardian Kyrgyzstan: The void in Asia's heart, 27.08.2010
OpenDemocracy Beware of meddling in Kyrgyzstan!, 27.08.2010
New York Times Legacy of Torture, 27.08.2010
Eurasianet Tashkent Promoting Inter-Ethnic Unity, But Strengthening Security Forces Just in Case, 27.08.2010
AP German prosecutors charge suspected Islamic terrorist after extradition from Pakistan, 26.08.2010
Express Tribune India-Afghanistan talks wind up, 26.08.2010
RFE/RL Taliban Kill Nine Police In Afghan North, 26.08.2010
Reuters Karzai aide in corruption probe linked to CIA, 26.08.2010
Canadian Press UN agency makes unusual Pakistan aid appeal, while Washington pushes for transparency, 26.08.2010
Foreign Policy How to leave Afghanistan without losing, 25.08.2010
Washington Post 25 Islamic militants escape from Tajik prison, 23.08.2010
Euronews Osh protesters defy Kyrgyzstan government, 20.08.2010
Reuters Kremlin-led security bloc to hear Kyrgyz appeal, 19.08.2010
Forum 18 UZBEKISTAN: "The Court decided so", 19.08.2010
VOA Intimidation of Uzbek Minority Continues in Kyrgyzstan, 17.08.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz Officials Seek Release Of People Detained In Uzbekistan , 17.08.2010
Telegraph Osh mayor pushes ahead with plan to rehouse Uzbeks, 16.08.2010
Global Voices Kyrgyzstan: Nationalist agenda raises amidst new rallies , 16.08.2010
Eurasianet Mixed Marriages in Kyrgyzstan Strained by Ethnic Violence, 16.08.2010
Platts Afghanistan finds new oil field, holds 1.8 bil barrels: ministry, 15.08.2010
AFP Uzbek group attacks Afghan police, three dead, 15.08.2010
Long War Journal ISAF continues to ID 'foreign fighters' in Afghanistan, 15.08.2010
Eurasianet Uzbekistan Weekly Roundup, 15.08.2010
HRW Uzbekistan: Activist Hit With New Sentence, 14.08.2010
AFP South Kyrgyzstan forces may have used torture: UN rights, 20.07.2010
Eurasianet Reconstruction Plan To "Ethnically Cleanse" Osh, Uzbeks Fear, 20.07.2010
RFE/RL Kabul Wants To Change The Way Foreign Aid Is Spent , 20.07.2010
Ex Ponto Als Oezbeekse mahalla's in rook opgaan, 17.07.2010
Euronews Roza Otumbayeva: “We have the nation waiting to reconstruct itself”, 17.07.2010
CNN Thousands remain displaced after Kyrgyz violence, 16.07.2010
Eurasianet Tashkent’s Response to Kyrgyz Crisis Boosts Karimov’s Image, 16.07.2010
Asia Times Russia has reasons to stay its hand, 15.07.2010
New York Times In Southern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbeks Become Targets of Police Abuse, 15.07.2010
VOA A Relative Calm In Kyrgyzstan, 13.07.2010
Guardian Beware dictators bearing gifts, Naomi, 05.07.2010
RFE/RL Getting To The Roots Of Resentment In Kyrgyzstan, 05.07.2010
New York Times Uzbeks Accused of Inciting Violence in Kyrgyzstan, 02.07.2010
AP Kyrgyz humanitarian crisis enters new phase, 01.07.2010
Eurasianet The Pentagon Spreading Wealth in Central Asia, 30.06.2010
Moscow Times An Imitation Empire, 30.06.2010
ВВС Gen David Petraeus faces confirmation to lead Afgan war, 29.06.2010
Eurasianet Documents Highlight Problems with Uzbek Corridor of Afghan Supply Route, 29.06.2010
New York Times Kyrgyz Voting Appears Calm, 28.06.2010
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