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  • Cameron will go to Kazakhstan despite dubious record on rights

    David Cameron is to pay a two-day visit to the dictatorship of Kazakhstan at the end of this month despite the country's chequered human rights record. It would be the first time that a serving British Prime Minister has ever visited the Central Asia ...

  • Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy

    Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj , one of five UN Champions of the Earth for 2012. Mongolia is not alone: these trials face all nations seeking a green path to rapid economic ...

  • Gazprom plans Ukraine bypass

    By Vladimir Socor On April 3, in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced a colossal series of gas projects. These involve an expansion of existing big projects or a reactivation of earlier, unimplemented proposals. Ukraine's start of gas imports from Europe, reducing dependence on Gazprom, triggered this Putin-Miller move. In a set-piece dialogue, they ...

  • Asia Marts mixed ahead of US Fed meet

    HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed yesterday despite a weak batch of US economic data boosting hopes that the Federal Reserve will put off announcing any winding down of its vast stimulus scheme at the end of a policy meeting this week. Traders were upbeat despite a soft lead from Wall Street while the US dollar edged up after suffering a sell-off last Friday in New York. Tokyo jumped 2.73 per ...

  • Fitch Assigns Kazakhstans Sberbank Series 2 Bonds BBB- Final Rating

    Fitch: Spanish Floor Clause Ruling May Reduce Excess Spread A recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling could cause lenders to stop applying floor clauses that set minimum interest rates in mortgage contracts, and so reduce excess spread in Spanish RMBS transactions, Fitch Ratings says. The presence of interest rate floors in mortgage contracts has bolstered excess spread during the recent period of ...


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Virus

"Virus," directed by FX guru John Bruno, is another in a long line of recent graphic-novels-turned-movies. This one is, however, perpetually ugly--violent in a grisly kind of way and utterly dark. Not dark as in dark-natured or dark-humored (although it is those things as well), but more along the lines of darkly lit. The action sequences in "Virus" are bathed in an incessant gloom that makes it l ... ...

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  • Skis replace bullets in Iraqi Kurdistan

    By Karlos Zurutuza PENJWIN, Iraqi Kurdistan - When 37-year-old Igor Urizar first happened upon the isolated mountain village of Penjwin, 300 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, he had a vision of this border-town - nestled in the pristine, snow-capped mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan - transformed into a haven for skiers. Today, after four years of hard work, Urizar is the proud founder of the ...

  • Russia Tajikistan in lopsided alliance

    By Shavkat Kasymov Despite the optimism with which Tajik government officials hailed their country's accession to the World Trade Organization in January, there is a need for a more realistic assessment of the potential economic prospects in regards to membership of the world trading community. Tajikistan is a remittance-dependent country with strong political affinity to Russia, ...

  • Arabtec to build Aldars Abu Dhabi Plaza project in Kazakhstan

    Aldar Properties has awarded a Dh4 billion contract to an Arabtec-led joint venture to push ahead with a long-awaited 500,000 square metre hotel, shopping and housing project in Kazakhstan. In a stock market announcement yesterday Aldar said that construction of the five-tower project, comprising 566 luxury flats, 107,000 sq metres of offices, a five-star hotel and serviced apartments, and ...

  • BP Cuts Russia Turkmenistan Natural Gas Reserves Estimates

    BP PLC revised down its estimates for proved reserves of natural gas in countries in the former Soviet Union by almost a third as it brought the numbers in line with Western accounting standards on reserves, BP Chief Economist Christof Ruehl said Wednesday. Russia's gas reserves were revised down to 32.9 trillion cubic meters at the end of 2012 versus an unrevised number of 44.6 tcm at the ...

  • 10 migrant workers return from Mongolia

    /enpproperty--> Ten migrant workers from Changde, Hunan province, who were lured to Mongolia to work as gold miners returned to Hunan on Sunday, Xinhua News Agency reported. One of the workers sought help on the Changde government website on June 6, saying in a post there that they had been tricked by a labor contractor to work for a Shandong company mining in Mongolia. When they arrived, ...

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