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  • Kazakhstan defeat India in volleyball tourney

    Kazakhstan defeated India 3-2 in the China International men's volleyball tournament here. Kazakhstan won 25-12, 23-25, 24-26, 25-20, 15-7 Wednesday, reports Xinhua. "Our team is so young that they didn't cooperate well and made mistakes, but I am satisfied with their performance," said Gilyazutdinov Rafael, assistant coach of Kazakhstan team. "Our setup was bad today and that is why we lost ...

  • China to buy gas from Turkmenistan

    China will import gas from the world's second largest gas reserve in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan. Kakageldy Abdullayev, CEO of Turkmenistan's national gas company Turkmengaz, said the Galkynysh field will be used to build up Turkmen gas exports to China. The field is expected to produce 25 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year for China, with Turkmenistan's total gas ...

  • ASIA MARKETS Japan Stocks Recover Modestly After Steep Sell-off

    HONG KONG – Japanese stocks jumped Friday to stage a modest recovery, with relief buying emerging after the extreme losses they suffered the previous day, amid expectations that the rally that began late last year may have further to go.The Nikkei Stock Average climbed 3% after diving 7.3% in the previous session, while the broader Topix advanced 2.6% after Thursday's 6.9% ...

  • UN official encourages Kyrgyzstan to tackle causes of 2010 inter-communal violence

    Print 23 May 2013 &#150 A senior United Nations official has encouraged Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to address the causes of the inter-communal violence that erupted in 2010, while stressing that they must be fully in line with human rights standards. Hundreds of people were left dead or injured by the clashes that began in June 2010 between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. The violence ...

  • Modun Resources sees significant upgrade in Nuurst coal quality in Mongolia

    (MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia)Modun Resources (ASX: MOU) has found that coal briquettes created from coal from its Nuurst coal in Mongolia could be upgraded to the benchmark Newcastle thermal coal energy level.The testwork saw an increase in calorific value achieved to 5,648 kcal/kg from a 4,178 kcal/kg for the raw coal sample.The improvements in coal quality were achieved via a cost ...


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  • Aliyev said Azerbaijan needed support of international community to end Armenian…

    Aliyev said Azerbaijan needed support of international community to end Armenian invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh. VIENNA - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev asked the international community to lend its support for ending the Armenian invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh.Armenia insists on not leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, even after United Nations Security ...

  • Golomt Bank owners are under fierce dispute

    Since almost a year ago, there were rumors were haunting media that Golomt Bank owners were going to split. Such rumors were extinguished instantly or removed immediately after the broke-out. from media. Recently, Foreign Minister and MP L.Bold (@boldlu), one of the major shareholders of Golomt Bank, revealed his frustration through his twitter account, publishing his lawyer's letter to the ...

  • Reception in honor of Azerbaijan’s Republic Day organized in Pretoria

    The Azerbaijani embassy in the South African Republic organized a reception of occasion of 28 May-Day of Azerbaijani Republic on 22 May. The event was attended by representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in this country, state and official structures, scientific and educational circles, Azerbaijani and Turkish diaspora organizations, as well as members of local NGO ‘Friends of ...

  • 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 ...

  • Kazakhstan - Kazakh journalist under forced observation at psychiatric clinic

    Kazakh authorities should drop criminal charges against a journalist and immediately release him from a psychiatric clinic where he is under forced observation, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 13, 2013, a court in the journalist's hometown extended his detention until June 14.The journalist, Aleksandr Kharlamov, is also a civil society activist from Ridder, a town in northeastern ...

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