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14:50, december 15, 2008

CENTRAL ASIA

Kazakh Industry and Trade Vice Minister and his Afghan Colleague meet

Yedil Mamytbekov, Kazakh Industry and Trade Vice Minister met with Mir Muhammad Amin Farhang, Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister.

14:49, december 15, 2008

CENTRAL ASIA

Journalism is still a dangerous profession in Uzbekistan

The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, has rated Uzbekistan as one of the five worst offending countries for detaining journalists and violating press expression.

14:48, december 15, 2008

CENTRAL ASIA

93.87% of voters participated in Parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan held elections of deputies to Majilis of IV convocation. Number of voters amounted to 2 million 594 thousand 658 people, or 93.87% of all Turkmen citizens eligible to vote by 18.

14:46, december 15, 2008

WORLD

Bush pays surprise visit to Afghanistan

U.S. President George Bush paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan early on Monday morning after a five-hour stop in Iraq that saw a journalist hurl his shoes at the outgoing leader.

14:44, december 15, 2008

WORLD

Iran to urge OPEC to cut oil output by 2 mln bpd

Iran will call on the world's oil cartel at its extraordinary meeting next week to cut oil output by further 2 million barrels per day, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Sunday.

14:43, december 15, 2008

WORLD

Lavrov arrives in New York for Mideast Quartet, UN SC meetings

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in New York to participate in a ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet. The meeting of the Middle East Quartet mediators will begin at 15.

14:42, december 15, 2008

WORLD

Karzai says Afghanistan, Britain facing common threat

Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his thanks in a newspaper article Monday for British support in Afghanistan and said the two countries were facing the same "disease" of violent extremism.

14:32, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Large amount of marijuana confiscated from Shuroobod resident

DUSHANBE, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- A 37-year-old resident of the village of Sarichashma in Khatlon’s Shuroobod district, Odilkhon Qurbonov, was detained by local police yesterday on

14:25, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Farmers’ cotton debt problems discussed in Khatlon this week

DUSHANBE, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- A seminar dedicated to consider issues related to resolution of farmers’ cotton debt will be held in Khatlon’s Vose district on November 19.

14:00, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Mini oil mill launched in Shahrstus

QURHGON TEPPA, January 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- A mini oil mill with capacity of producing 1 ton of cooking (cotton) oil per day has been launched in Khatlon’s Shahritus district.

13:46, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Sughd external trade turnover for Jan-Nov 08 nears US$1 billion

KHUJAND, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- In January-November 2008, the foreign trade turnover of the Sughd province, including electric energy and natural gas, has amounted to 973.

13:22, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Head of GBAO committee for TV and radio-broadcasting replaced

KHOROG, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- By resolution passed by the Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting under the Government of Tajikistan on December 13 Ms.

13:14, december 15, 2008

12 suicide cases reported in Gorno Badakhshan this year

KHOROG, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- An 18-year-old student at Khorog State University Immatsho Rahmatshoyev committed suicide by self-hanging on Saturday December 13, bring a total number

13:05, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Six Afghans detained in Kulob this year for drug trafficking

KULOB, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- 31-year-old resident of Khatlon’s Vose district Rahmonali Saidov was detained yesterday with 1.4 kilograms of cannabis.

12:50, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

57 Kalashnikov confiscated from Kulob population this year

KULOB, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- According to the Kulob police directorate, 57 sub-machine-guns Kalashnikov have been confiscated from the population in Khatlon’s Kulob region by

12:24, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

32 foreign tourists visit Sughd this year

KHUJAND, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- 32 foreign tourists have visited the Sughd province this year, but the majority of them have entered the province for traveling to the east of the

12:11, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajprombank takes measures to return loans provided to cotton farmers in Hamadoni

KULOB, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Farming units Khatlon’s Hamadoni district have repaid only 1.

11:59, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Khatlon entrepreneurs visit Russia’s Yaroslav region next month to discuss cooperation issues

DUSHANBE, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Issue related to further expansion of economic cooperation between the regions of Tajikistan and Russia were the focus of a meeting of Odil Sangov,

11:44, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

China’s company to build cement plant on its own

DUSHANBE, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- China’s Xinjiang Trade and Industry Corporation, San Bao, intends to build a cement plant with the rated capacity of 1 million tons of cement per

11:29, december 15, 2008

TAJKISTAN

New Tajik-Chinese JV launched in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, December 15, 2008, Asia-Plus -- A new Tajik-Chinese joint sewing venture was launched in Dushanbe at the end of last week, according to the Ministry of Energy and Industries (MoEI).

21:35, december 13, 2008

TAJKISTAN

EC enables business intermediary organizations to support SMEs

DUSHANBE, December 13, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Within the framework of its assistance to Tajikistan, the European Commission has allocated € 423,100 through the Central Asian Invest (CAI) Program

21:24, december 13, 2008

TAJKISTAN

‘We missed time when it was necessary to decisively protest over killing of our fellow-countrymen in Russia,’ says expert

DUSHANBE, December 13, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Cases of death of Tajik labor migrants in accidents and hate crimes in Russia that have become frequent in recent years evoke serious concern,

20:06, december 13, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan completes 2008 cotton-harvesting campaign

Tajik farmers have completed this yearâ€™s cotton-harvesting campaign, producing only 249,022 tons of raw cotton, which is 16.8 percent fewer than last year.

12:09, december 13, 2008

LAW-ORDER

Corruption cases uncovered practically in all structures, says anticorruption agency director

DUSHANBE, December 13, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Over the past two years, officers from the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption have uncovered corruption cases practically in

11:30, december 13, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan will experience financial crisis effects already in early spring, says expert

DUSHANBE, December 13, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan will experience the global financial crisis effects in early spring of 2009, Ms.

20:15, december 12, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Coal filed in Kuhistoni Mastchoh produces first 500 tons of coals

KHUJAND, December 12, 2008, Asia-Plus /Bakhtiyor Valiyev/ - The coal-extracting enterprise, limited liability company Koni Angishti Ghuzn, that was recently established in Kuhistoni

20:01, december 12, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Kulob cotton farmers repay more than 50% of loans to Amonatbonk

KULOB, December 12, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Farming unit in four cotton-growing districts of Khatlon’s Kulob region have repaid 4,183,269 somoni to Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank), which is more

19:19, december 12, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Youth Labor Exchange holds job fair in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, December 12, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The Youth Labor Exchange held the job vacancies fair, the sixth since the beginning of this year, in Dushanbe today.

18:56, december 12, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan will suffer from the second wave of the financial crisis, says central bank official

DUSHANBE, December 12, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The first wave of the global financial crisis has not hit Tajikistan’s financial market because it has damaged mainly financial sectors of the

16:13, december 12, 2008

TAJKISTAN

1,141 new cases of TB detected in Kulob in Jan-Nov 08

KULOB, December 12, 2008, Asia-Plus -- In January-November this year, 1,141 new cases of tuberculosis have been detected in Khatlon’s Kulob region, which is 88 cases more than in the whole