• Central Asia

    Mongolia: Japan’s Rubbish Heap

    ELISE HONNINGDALSNES – The UB POST Mongolia is embracing mass-market grey imports from Japan. This easy solution to get Mongolians cheap wheels will soon result in Mongolia being one of the biggest landfills for cars and dangerous waste in Asia. Mongolians have fallen in love with Japan’s Toyota Prius, and…

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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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  • West Asia

    Iran exports over $3.6 billion petrochemical products in 5 months

    Iran exported over 3.6 billion dollar’s worth of different kinds of petrochemical products during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year, IRNA news agency reported. The country sold more than 8.724 million tons of a variety of petrochemicals to the international markets during the same period. The…

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  • East Asia

    Russia to Host CIS Summit in October 2017

    A summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take place in Russia in October 2017, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said on September 11, Sputnik reports. Russia will host the summit and will assume the CIS chairmanship, he explained. “A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of…

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  • West Asia

    At least 38% of citizens not to trust any Azerbaijani bank

    Business Insight Company has conducted the survey that has affected the attitude of Baku citizens to the banks. According to the survey, in August 37.6% of citizens did not trust any banks, and 8.8% of citizens neither agree nor disagree. For comparison, in January the indexes amounted to 33.1% and…

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  • Central Asia

    Invest Mongolia Calls for Regaining Investor Trust

    During this year’s Invest Mongolia, which addressed the interests of investors in the state policies of the new Cabinet, foreign investors advised the Mongolian government to take measures to regain their trust in order to improve foreign investment in the country. From September 5 to 6, the forum’s attendees discussed…

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  • Central Asia

    Russia has no plans to sell Gazprom

    Russia is not planning on selling energy giant Gazprom, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, Sputnik reports. “We have no plans to sell it yet, and this is because of the peculiarities of the Russian economy, the social sphere and the Russian energy industry,” Putin told Bloomberg, explaining why he was…

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  • South Asia

    Iran and Afghanistan stress development of Chabahar Port

    Iranian top Presidential aide, Akbar Torkan and Afghan Minister of Trade and Industry Homayoun Rasa in a meeting on September 5 stressed development of Chabahar Port, IRNA reports. During the meeting, Torkan who is also secretary of the Supreme Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and Special Economic Zones said…

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  • West Asia

    Iran among 15 countries with rich mineral resources

    Deputy minister of Industry, Mine and Trade said Iran is among the 15 top countries in terms of enjoying mineral resources, IRNA reports. Speaking in a local gathering, Mohammad-Taqi Korei said Iran enjoys more that one percent of global mineral resources while accessing to one percent of the world’s land…

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  • Kazakh president urges G20 to unite to sustain global economy

    Xie Yahong – People’s Daily Given the current global geopolitical arena as well as the uncertainties faced by global financial system, the G20 Summit must demonstrate the unity needed to secure the stability of world economy, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said ahead of his attendance at the G20 Summit to be…

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