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East Asia
Japan-Turkey consortium building big plant in Turkmenistan
Consortium of Japan’s Kawasaki and Turkey’s Ronesans is constructing a big gas processing plant in Turkmenistan’s Ovadan to produce high-quality gasoline from natural gas, said the Turkmen oil and gas complex in a message Aug. 31, Trend reports. The project’s customer is the country’s Turkmengas State Concern. At the current…
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Central Asia
Tourism in Mongolia: Quality or quantity?
Gantemur Damba is president of the Mongolian Tourism Association and heads a large group of influential organizations important to the development of this country. He has worked as a consultant and project director for major international organizations. Until recently, he was General Director of the Culture and Art Policy Coordination…
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Central Asia
Russia receives another batch of Sukhoi-34 bombers
Russia’s combat aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has delivered another batch of front-line bombers Sukhoi-34 to the customer – the Defense Ministry, TASS reports. “The planes took off from the manufacturer’s airdrome in Novosibirsk to head for their location,” the company said in a news release obtained by TASS. The news release…
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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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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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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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South East Asia
Mongolia and India consider launching direct flights
Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Suresh Babu asked Prime Minister J.Erdenebat to study possibilities for launching an Ulaanbaatar-Delhi direct flight to improve business relations and cooperation between the two countries, during a meeting this week, The UB Post reports. During the meeting, the Prime Minister expressed hope that friendly and close…
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Central Asia
Uzbek President Islam Karimov hospitalized
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov hospitalised, the Russian media reports. According to news agencies, Kerimov is currently hospitalised. The President undergoes a medical examination that, together with the treatment “will take time”. Karimov is 78-years-old and he rules Uzbekistan since 1989. He is the region’s oldest leader. No Obvious Successor…
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Central Asia
Putin to open Russian school in Kyrgyzstan
Russian school will be opened in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in September, the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “Russian Peace Foundation almost completed construction of Russian school in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, we will open it during the visit…
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