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  • China defeats Kazakhstan in mens volleyball tourney

    Chinese national men's volleyball team defeated Kazakhstan 3-0 at the China International Men's Volleyball Tournament here. China beat Kazakhstan 25-20, 25-23, 25-16 with little difficulty Tuesday, reports Xinhua. "My team consists of young players who didn't completely obey my order, so I'm very angry," said Gilyazutdinov Rafael, the assistant coach of Kazakhstan. "Although we won the game, ...

  • Asia stocks down as China factory output slips

    BANGKOK -; Asian stock markets fell Thursday, weighed down by a contraction in China's manufacturing that adds to signs a shaky recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is ...

  • Chinese Bridge language competition held in Uzbekistan

    The 12th annual Uzbekistan "Chinese Bridge" Proficiency Competition for students of Chinese language and culture was held in Uzbekistan on Wednesday.Nine students from local universities participated in the competition. They were asked to display their knowledge of the vast terrain of Chinese language and culture.After nearly two and half hours of intense competition, Rakhimova Dildora ...

  • Turkmenistan goes green and is happy

    president Saparmurat Niyazov initiated the project under the name ''Green Belt''. Each Turkmen ministry is responsible for planting its own trees. However, as past initiatives have shown, not all of the trees survive, either because of the harsh weather conditions or the lack of care, such as regular watering. According to Mustafa Bilgin, the owner of a Turkish company ...

  • Turkmenistan to start production at giant gas field

    Turkmenistan plans to begin production at Galkynysh, the world's second largest gas field, by June 30, which will allow it boost exports to Asia and help Europe lessen its dependence on Russian gas.Turkmenistan, a post-Soviet Central Asian country of 5.5 million which borders Afghanistan and Iran, holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas riches after Russia, Iran and ...


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Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Russia vs. Azerbaijan the Eurovision edition

    Russia's Dina Garipova performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18, 2013. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty ...

  • The Daughter of Uzbekistans President Personally Negotiates Bribes With Swedish Telecom Company

    Gulnara Karimova at Fashion Week in Moscow, Russia on April 2, 2011. (AP) Documents leaked to Swedish investigative journalists and reviewed by RFE/RL appear to offer fresh evidence of a link between Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan. The documents, part of ...

  • Fitch Kazakhstan Economy Slows But Credit Strengths Intact

    Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...

  • President attends World Food Azerbaijan 2013 and Agrihort Azerbaijan 2013

    President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has attended two Baku-host exhibitions. The 19th Azerbaijan International food exhibition WorldFood Azerbaijan 2013 and 7th Azerbaijan international agricultural exhibition Agrihort Azerbaijan 2013 opened at the Baku Expo Center on 22 May.1news.az reports with reference to the official website for the President of Azerbaijan that President of Azerbaijan ...

  • Azerbaijan - Repressive draft bill threatens Azeri civil society

    The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is deeply concerned by reports that some members of Azerbaijan's parliament, the Milli Mejlis, have prepared draft legislation that would serve as yet another blow to local civil society.Prepared and presented to the Parliament by MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev, who is loyal to the authorities, the draft law "On the occupied ...

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