UZBEKISTAN: TASHKENT CLOSES BORDER CROSSING WITH KYRGYZSTAN (EurasiaNet)
The second largest border crossing between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is now closed to everyone but residents of the immediate vicinity.
Indo-Kazakh business seminar seeks to bridge trade, information divide (Calcutta News)
The Embassy of India in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a business seminar titled “Doing Business with India” at Almaty on March 3.
THl Mongolia Ltd Purchases 70% of Mongolian Exploration Company (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
HONG KONG–(Marketwire – 03/02/10) – Ying Yu Tang, President of THL Mongolia Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Trendfield Holdings Ltd, and Bayan Tsogbadrakh, Managing Director of KMNG LLC, announced on Monday March 1, 2010 that THL Mongolia Ltd has purchased 70% of KMNG LLC (KMNG) holdings with the option to purchase another 20% within 3 years. KMNG is located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and owns 3 …
Equal representation in people’s congresses to close rural, urban gap (People’s Daily)
When drought hit again this winter, Dorji, an ethnic Mongolian shepherd living in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, worried about the fate of his 70 lambs. “I may be short of feed in the spring. The grass is not growing and more than half of my income has gone on buying feed,” said the 36-year-old who has about 270 sheep. Like many farmers in the area, Dorji looked forward to …
THL Mongolia Ltd Purchases 70% of Mongolian Exploration Company (Marketwire)
HONG KONG–(Marketwire – March 2, 2010) – Ying Yu Tang, President of THL Mongolia Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Trendfield Holdings Ltd, and Bayan Tsogbadrakh, Managing Director of KMNG LLC, announced on Monday March 1, 2010 that THL Mongolia Ltd has purchased 70% of KMNG LLC (KMNG) holdings with the option to purchase another 20% within 3 years.
Severe winter hits Mongolia; UN airlifts emergency supplies (New Kerala)
New York, Mar 3 : As temperatures in western Mongolia continue to hover around -40 degrees Celsius, the United Nations is sending woolen blankets, warm footwear, hygiene kits and other emergency supplies to nearly 4,000 school-age children living in poor rural areas of the country.
Uzbek Groups Renew Allegations Of Government-Ordered Sterilizations (Medical News Today)
The Uzbek human rights group Najot and the Expert Working Group, an independent Uzbek think tank, alleged this week that Uzbekistan’s Health Ministry has instructed government doctors to perform hysterectomies on women to help control the nation’s population, the AP/Google reports. In mid-February, the Health Ministry of the former Soviet nation issued a decree ordering doctors to recommend …
BG, Eni gas venture confirms Kazakhstan audit (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
ALMATY, March 4 (Reuters) – Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO), a Kazakh gas producing venture run by BG and Eni , said on Thursday it was confident its operations were in line with Kazakh legislation.
Activists: Uzbekistan orders forced sterilizations (USA Today)
An independent think-tank and a rights group in Uzbekistan claim authorities have instructed health workers to surgically sterilize women as part of a government campaign to reduce the birth rate in the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation.
SLEC director receives Kazakhstan appointment (The Houma Courier)
Jeremy Alford Capitol Correspondent BATON ROUGE — A native of Golden Meadow was given his honorary credentials Friday to become the latest American consul for the Republic of Kazakhstan, a move that officials from both countries hope will lead to new economic opportunities.
Indo-Kazakh business seminar seeks to bridge trade, information divide (New Kerala)
Almaty (Kazakhstan), Mar. 5 : The Embassy of India in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a business seminar titled ‘Doing Business with India’ at Almaty on March 3.
03/03/2010 13:51 KAZAKHSTAN – EUROPE Kazakh oil to reach Trieste (AsiaNews.it)
» The presidents of Kazakhstan and Romania look at how oil from the Caucasus could reach the Black Sea for transhipment to Romania’s sea port of Constan?a and then Trieste. Kazakhs want to reduce their dependence on Moscow. Romanians want to become the gateway to Europe.
Kazakhstan jails show Jonathan Aitken way to reform (Times Online)
THEY are grim concrete fortresses where inmates have complained of beatings and torture. Yet Kazakhstan’s prisons have become an unlikely testbed for Tory reforms to the UK penal system, from proposals put forward by Jonathan Aitken — the former cabinet minister and former convict.
Kazakh Economy May Grow 1.5% in 2010, Government Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 4 (Bloomberg) — The economy of Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest oil producer, may expand as little as 1.5 percent this year, the government said in a statement published today in Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, its newspaper of record.
