Central Asia news: Таджикистан
13.01.2010 16:33 msk
When every seventh citizen of Tajikistan goes abroad for earnings, those, staying home, have to make a living. Tajik women are mastering traditional "male" professions such as potters, irrigators, crane operators, taxi drivers, brick layers, woodworkers and blacksmiths. While gentlemen are working abroad, ladies replace them at home. Tilav Rasul-zade, Ferghana.Ru correspondent in Tajikistan, writes about fragile women, carrying man’s work.
02.11.2009 15:25 msk
Conference "Germany - Central Asia: partnership for security strategies" is under way in the capital of Tajikistan. Representative of security structures from Central Asian countries, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan take part. Their opposite numbers from Russia, China, France, Italy, Canada, United States, Great Britain, and Ukraine are observers. Representatives of international organizations (Interpol, UN Development Programme, OSCE, and European Union) are present too. Expected activeness of Talib gunmen on the Afghani-Uzbek and Afghani-Tajik borders is discussed.
16.06.2009 14:38 msk
Sixty years ago the last Japanese army prisoners left Tajikistan. They never did careless work; that is why Japanese were assigned to build the important strategic objects: dams, houses, channels. The channels, constructed by Japanese, still do not need repairs while the houses, built by Japanese, are still reliable. Japanese were fed well, they were allowed to marry Soviet women. Nonetheless, the Japanese prisoners often times committed a suicide. Ferghana.Ru correspondent visited the village, where the labor camp of Japanese prisoners had been located, and found out many details of five-year stay of Japanese in Tajikistan.
Other news
|
