Friday , 16 May 2008

Peter Semneby, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, this week traveled to Georgia for talks on the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The territory has been in the spotlight in recent week .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

The standoff between the Armenian authorities and opposition that resulted from the flawed February 19 presidential ballot and the violent police crackdown 11 days later on opposition supporters who r .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Two separate recent developments have served to focus attention on the potential for conflict posed by the division between Russia and Azerbaijan of the historic homeland of the Lezgins. The first is .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Hasan Sadulloev, a powerful Tajik businessman and the brother-in-law of President Emomali Rahmon, has not been seen in public for nearly two weeks. Sadulloev is considered to be one of the most p .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

After days of refusing foreign relief workers, China accepted offers from four countries to send in rescue teams, as the search for those trapped by the earthquake reaches a critical stage.Hours after .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of an Afghan Taliban cell was convicted by a federal jury on Thursday on charges of narco-terrorism and narcotics distribution, the U.S. Justice Department said in a st .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Traditional May festivities notwithstanding, last week was replete with political developments and staff changes in Kazakhstan. Akims, or governors, of two Kazakh regions were replaced, those implicat .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

Concern grows about irrigation problems which could adversely effect Uzbekistan's cotton crop. Cotton now accounts for one-fifth of Uzbekistan's hard currency revenues. Observers note that Uzbekist .....

Friday , 16 May 2008

View by Rovshan Ibrahimov - In mid-April, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India were decided on the construction of pipeline to export natural gas from Turkmenistan to these states. It should .....

Tuesday , 13 May 2008

A new report suggests high world prices for raw materials are creating a positive climate for the Uzbek economy, but some local analysts say real growth is only likely to come if liberal structural re .....

Tuesday , 13 May 2008

At least 10,000 people have died in China's most powerful earthquake in more than 30 years, which struck the southwest of the country on Monday afternoon. The death toll is expected to rise as resc .....

Monday , 12 May 2008

As the poorest of the former Soviet countries, the Tajik government's main impediment to counterterrorism remained its lack of resources. The government, particularly the Border Guards, lacked appropr .....

Monday , 12 May 2008

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his cabinet line-up on Monday, re-appointing most key ministers and taking powerful figures from his previous Kremlin tea .....

Monday , 12 May 2008

Chinese state media says Beijing has established a company to manufacture passenger jumbo jets. The Xinhua news agency says the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China was established in Shangha .....

Monday , 12 May 2008

Police in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu say they have detained more than 560 Tibetan protesters Sunday, all of them women. It was the all female demonstration against China's crackdown in Tib .....

Monday , 12 May 2008

A Red Cross plane loaded with 35 tons of equipment and materials has landed in Burma. The International Committee of the Red Cross says most of the relief supplies are to assist thousands of people .....

Saturday , 10 May 2008

Burma's military government has gone ahead with a constitutional referendum as its people wait for assistance in the wake of a cyclone disaster a week ago that left at least 62,000 people dead or mi .....

Saturday , 10 May 2008

The leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition have again failed to reach agreement on reinstating the country's top judges who were deposed by President Pervez Musharraf last year. The head of the P .....

Saturday , 10 May 2008

By Mohammad Rafiq SHINWAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A least two people were killed and seven wounded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting agains .....

Friday , 09 May 2008

The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific has called on China to give up any plans to develop what he calls "high-end military options," and says the United States has no intention of abandoning i .....