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Central Asia
Russia and Turkey to mull Akkuyu NPP, Turkish Stream
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan plan to discuss the construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant and the Turkish Stream pipeline at the G20 summit in China, RIA Novosti reported Aug. 30 citing Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Trend reports. The discussion of prospects…
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West Asia
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East Asia
G20 shouldn’t be distracted by geopolitics
Liu Zongyi – People’s Daily The 11th G20 summit is set to convene in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, on September 4-5. In order to host a successful summit, China has made thorough preparations. Since assuming the G20 presidency on December 1, the country has hosted a series of high-level…
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Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan vows to punish those responsible for terror attack on Chinese embassy
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Erlan Abdyldaev, on August 30 discussed in a phone conversation the terrorist attack against the Chinese Embassy to Kyrgyzstan and pledged closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Abdyldaev said the Kyrgyz side condemned the suicide attack “in the strongest terms,”…
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East Asia
Promotion of Borjomi Begins in South Korea
As a result of the promotion by the Embassy of Georgia of a mineral water – Borjomi, it has now started to be exported to the Republic of Korea. According to the supply agreement between IDS Borjomi Georgia and commercial firm ANK Service Co, the first shipment of Borjomi was…
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East Asia
Korea on knife edge
Donald Kirk – The Korea Times U.S.-China relations are at their worst in years, and North and South Korean are not getting along either. In fact, relations between those two are at such a low ebb that two-way trade, once about several hundred million dollars a year, has almost ceased.…
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West Asia
5 million foreign tourists visited Iran in 2015
Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifar said more than five million foreign tourists visited the Islamic Republic in 2015, Tasnim reports. Speaking in a meeting with Bangladeshi Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Rashed Khan Menon in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on…
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East Asia
Chinese unmanned metro to launch in 2017
Beijing has announced plans to unveil the country’s first domestically developed, fully automated subway next year, in tandem with the scheduled opening of the Yanfang line. The new line will connect the southeastern suburb of Yanshan, which houses a number of petroleum and chemical enterprises, with Fangshan, where passengers can…
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Central Asia
Finding home in the ger district
Alexander McNab – The UB Post Ulaanbaatar is a city known as a cemetery of nomadism, a place where wandering people have gone to settle down inside four cement walls in towering apartment blocks, but for Froit van der Harst, the entrance into U.B. was only a continuation of over…
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East Asia
Large, moody and dangerous
Andrei Lankov – The Korea Times It is clear, that since mid-July, the relations between South Korea and China, which in recent years had been quite friendly, have begun to deteriorate quickly. The reason for this crisis is widely known: in July, despite stern warnings from Beijing, the South Korean…
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