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Central Asia
Staff changes in Uzbek government
Uzbekistan announced staff changes in the government Sept. 14. The country’s acting president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree appointing Abdulla Oripov deputy prime minister for youth policy, culture, information systems and telecommunications, read a message on the government website, Trend reports. Oripov served as Uzbekistan’s deputy prime minister from May…
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West Asia
Ex-Gazprom Executive Becomes New Armenian Prime Minister
Karen Karapetian, a top executive at the Russian gas giant Gazprom, has become Armenia’s new prime minister, RFERL reports. Armenia’s presidential press service said on September 13 that President Serzh Sarkisian had signed a decree appointing Karapetian. Karapetian, 53, served as the mayor of Yerevan from 2010-11. After leaving the post…
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West Asia
A Female Mayor in the Heart of Middle East
Asian countries provide female mayors and governors like in Europe. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s mayors are women and women make up an average of just 20% local councilors worldwide. Mrs. Vera Baboun is one of these female mayors of the Asian continent as the…
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Central Asia
A Sensitive Power Transition in Uzbekistan
Orhan GAFARLI Academic on International Relations at Ankara University of Turkey Some news about the hospitalization of Islam Karimov, the former President of Uzbekistan had been spread out in late August. There was no any clear information about his illness. His daughter Lola Karimova declared on the social networks that…
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East Asia
Muslims celebrate feast all around the world
Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand. During the holiday, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute part of the meat to the poor.
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Central Asia
Moscow City Day
Moscow, the Russian capital celebrated its 869th-anniversary last weekend. Russian people enjoyed celebrations marking the Day of the City in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016.
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West Asia
New resignations in Georgian government
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has issued a decree about the resignation of several officials ahead of next month’s Parliamentary Elections, as their continuation in official duties was a conflict of interest following their naming on the ruling party’s election list, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. According to today’s decree those required…
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East Asia
Indonesian airline bans use of Galaxy Note 7 phone during flight
Indonesian leading carrier, PT Garuda Indonesia, on Sunday banned passengers from using or charging Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in all flights following a battery fire incident, an airline official said. The decision was made after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told passengers not to use the smartphone following…
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East Asia
UNFPA approves Mongolia Country Program
Mongolia’s Country Program document to be implemented between 2017 and 2021 was approved on September 6, at the second regular session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The UB Post reports. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations,…
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East Asia
Samsung for government
Oh Young-jin – The Korea Times One may rightly feel it absurd to put a private company in charge of government. True, private firms seek profits, while the role of the government is, well, to run the country — requiring it to serve many different purposes with profit at the…
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