• Central Asia

    First Soviet McDonald’s opens in 1990

    The first McDonalds opened its doors to thousands of people in the date of January 31, 1990. Russian people stand in a long line to taste the Western burger. It was a symbolic date of the late Soviet period.

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  • Central Asia

    Merkel to pay official visit to Kyrgyzstan

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay her first official visit to Kyrgyzstan on July 13-14 at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, the Kyrgyz presidential press service told Interfax on July 7. Atambayev and Merkel “will discuss a large number of issues relating to the state of affairs in…

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  • South Asia

    Iran and India Determined to Develop Chabahar Port

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi voiced determination to implement the agreements signed between the two countries, particularly a project to develop Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar, Tasnim reports. In a telephone conversation with the Indian premier on July 6, President Rouhani said Tehran…

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  • East Asia

    South Korea to build textile techno-park in Uzbekistan

    Tashkent recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Korea-Uzbekistan Textile Techno-Park in the territory of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, the Times of Central Asia cites the Jahan information agency report. The project to establish in Tashkent the Textile Training-Research Techno-Park until 2018, implemented by Uzbekistan’s light-industry…

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  • Central Asia

    Chevron Announces Expansion of Kazakh Oil Project

    Chevron has announced a $36.8 billion expansion of the Tengiz oil project in Kazakhstan, RFERL reports. The U.S. oil giant said in a July 5 statement that the expansion will increase crude production by 260,000 barrels a day to reach about 1 million barrels a day. The first oil from…

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  • West Asia

    Renault to enter Iran’s car market with new products

    French car producer Renault aims to enter Iran’s car market with new products in collaboration with Saipa Motor Corporation and Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), Mehrnews reports. Renault’s cooperation with domestic automakers has become the focus of automotive industry activists since many months ago. Although some had expected Renault would cooperate…

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  • The concept of “zero problems” was not effective in the last 4 years

    Letter of the Turkish President, the normalization of relations between Turkey and Israel, and, on the contrary, a complication of relations between Turkey and Germany is under the constant scrutiny of international and Turkish media and expert community. In this regard, we offer you an interview of The Great Middle…

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  • Central Asia

    Russia ready to construct South Stream gas pipeline

    Russia is ready to implement the South Stream natural gas pipeline project in case of Europe’s guaranteed demand, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview aired by the Rossiya-24 TV news channel on June 28. “Our position is simple, and we’ve outlined it earlier – if Bulgaria and the…

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  • Central Asia

    Russia Capable of Feeding Itself

    Russia is capable of feeding itself without importing food, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on June 27. “Today, we are collecting crops that could put us among the top three grain suppliers to the world market. The level of food security has noticeably increased. Now, Russia is able to…

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  • West Asia

    PKK earns $1.7 billion in drug trade: Ministry report

    A narcoterrorism report prepared by Turkey’s Interior Ministry suggests that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) earns nearly $1.7 billion each year through its involvement in the production and trading of cannabis, in addition to drug smuggling, Hurriyet Daily News reports. The PKK earns some 500 million Turkish Liras (around…

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