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21:08 msk, 9 february 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.
New York Times Pakistani Military Retakes Key Town in Tribal Belt From Taliban, 09.02.2010
Interfax British national deported from Uzbekistan, 08.02.2010
The Diplomat China Enters Asia’s ‘Great Game’, 08.02.2010
Guardian Troops prepare for biggest joint offensive against Taliban, 08.02.2010
Eurasia Review Analysis Of Russian And Central Asian Economies, 07.02.2010
VOA Extent of Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia Unclear, 05.02.2010
RFE/RL Latvia Agrees To Take Uzbek Inmate From Guantanamo , 03.02.2010
Eurasianet Afghanistan: Washington Exploring Chinese Re-supply Route, 02.02.2010
Forum 18 TURKMENISTAN: Exit bans, haj ban, visa denials part of state religious isolation policy, 02.02.2010
Reuters Europe watchdog slams Uzbekistan media crackdown, 02.02.2010
MFA.uz President of Uzbekistan to visit South Korea, 02.02.2010
BBC Kazakhstan's Uzbek refugees wait in limbo, 30.01.2010
Independent Karzai bows to anti-corruption strategy, 28.01.2010
Amnesty.Org Photographer faces jail for 'defaming' life in Uzbekistan, 28.01.2010
Forum 18 UZBEKISTAN: Crackdown on devout Muslims continues, 27.01.2010
Reuters U.S. sends Uzbek from Guantanamo prison to Switzerland, 27.01.2010
Al-Jazeera Uzbek photos anger officials, 27.01.2010
Eurasianet Central Asia: Strategic Necessity Forces Pentagon to Alter Economic Aims of NDN, 27.01.2010
Trend Uzbekistan seeks common ground with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on water issue, 27.01.2010
Hurriyet Recent spats highlight fragile Uzbek, Kyrgyz relations, 26.01.2010
ABC fghan president proposes Taliban amnesty, 26.01.2010
CNN U.S. intelligence briefing: Taliban increasingly effective, 25.01.2010
BBC In pictures: Negative images of Uzbekistan?, 25.01.2010
Reuters Talks with Taliban loom over Pakistani-Afghan summit, 25.01.2010
RFE/RL Debit Cards Costly, At Least For Some Uzbeks, 24.01.2010
CPJ Journalist charged with defaming Uzbeks, faces 8 years jail, 23.01.2010
BBC UN wants investigation of Uzbekistan police rape claims, 23.01.2010
Al-Jazeera China 'must probe Google attacks' , 22.01.2010
Eurasianet Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Worried About Tashkent's Information Dominance in Southern Regions, 22.01.2010
Canadian Press NATO planning to appoint civilian boss in Afghanistan to co-ordinate with military, 22.01.2010
RFE/RL Wounded Kyrgyz Border Guard Remains In Uzbekistan, 21.01.2010
BBC Hillary Clinton calls on China to probe Google attack, 21.01.2010
Asia News.It Torture in Uzbekistan: systematic and unpunished , 21.01.2010
Washington Post NATO military chief courts Russia's help, 20.01.2010
Tehran Times Tehran, Tashkent to establish joint commerce chamber, 19.01.2010
Press TV Drunken Saudi diplomat caught in Uzbekistan, 19.01.2010
BBC Kyrgyzstan keeps a tight grip on religion, 19.01.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz Guard Injured During Shootout On Uzbek Border, 19.01.2010
Kurier Spionage-Prozess endet mit Blamage, 18.01.2010
ICG Central Asia: Migrants and the Economic Crisis, 18.01.2010
New York Times Suicide Attackers, Gunmen Hit Central Kabul, 18.01.2010
RSE Tadjikistan: Accoucher à ses risques et périls, 18.01.2010
Eurasianet Afghanistan: If You Can't Beat the Taliban, Try to Buy Militants Off, 16.01.2010
Trend Oman's embassy to be opened in Uzbekistan, 15.01.2010
Global Voices Online Uzbekistan: War of the monuments, 15.01.2010
RFE/RL Media Watchdog Alarmed By Interrogations Of Uzbek Journalists, 15.01.2010
CNN China steps up corruption monitoring, 14.01.2010
Forum 18 UZBEKISTAN: Illegal Christmas as unregistered religious activity punished, 14.01.2010
RFE/RL Uzbek Woman Tells Of Sisters' Alleged Rapes In Prison, 13.01.2010
LOATAY Afghanistan: Only the first move in the grand chess game for control of Central Asian resources, 13.01.2010
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