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  • Asia Headed For Losses After Bernanke

    Asian stock markets are poised to open lower on Thursday, falling in step with Wall Street shares after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank could moderate the pace of its bond purchases later this year. Japan's ...

  • US condemns China Russia and Uzbekistan for human trafficking

    Uzbeks work in fields outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which has been criticised for 'subjecting its citizens to forced labour'. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty ...

  • Baku expands role in Turkish economy

    By Vladimir Socor On March 22 in Copenhagen, the Danish and Turkish prime ministers, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Recep Tayyp Erdogan, witnessed the signing of agreements between subsidiaries of Danish Moeller-Maersk and Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) to develop a giant port near Izmir in Turkey. The petrochemicals holding Petrokimya (Petkim), majority-owned by SOCAR, is ...

  • The right fare in Azerbaijan

    importing of 1,000 London taxis to Baku, the construction of an international bus station, and a lucrative road-construction project. The group has received preferential treatment and the interlinked companies owned by the families have taken large shares or even monopolized certain transportation sectors like bus transport, taxis, road construction, and cargo-transportation services in the ...

  • Kyrgyz officials take cultural wrong turn

    experiences, and confront the topic of sexual violence. Since American Eve Ensler wrote the play in 1996, it has been performed in over 140 countries and translated into 48 languages. A performance is scheduled for April 12 in Bishkek. The Culture Ministry sent a letter to local media outlets on April 1 saying the Vagina Monologues advocates "unnatural, perverted sex under the slogan of ...


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Movie Review

The Sixth Sense

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" is about a little boy named Cole who has been bestowed with a terrible gift: the ability the see dead people. He sees them walking around everywhere, and most of them are unaware that they are dead. Many of them are angry, such as an abused housewife who eventually slit her wrists; some of them are sad, such as a little girl who spent the last two years of h ... ...

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  • Fujairah Crown Prince receives Sudanese Ambassador and Consuls General of Algeria Tajikistan Singapore

    WAM FUJAIRAH, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, has received in his office at the Emiri Court, the Sudanese Ambassador to the UAE, Ahmed Sadeeq Abdul Hai, who paid a courtesy visit at the end of his tenure in the country. Sheikh Mohammed wished the Sudanese Ambassador success in his new assignment. Sheikh Mohammed also ...

  • Belarus House of Representatives ratifies agreements with Azerbaijan

    The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus ratified a package of agreements with Azerbaijan in law enforcement. The package of documents includes intergovernmental agreements on countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and terrorism financing, as well as cooperation in the fight against the theft of cultural values and ensuring their return and ...

  • Fitch Rates JSC SB Alfa Bank Kazakhstan B+

    Fitch: Market Moves Bring Bank Interest Rate Risks to Forefront The recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields and speculation surrounding possible changes in the Fed's bond buying program have highlighted the potential risks faced by U.S. banks in a rising rate environment, according to Fitch Ratings. A sustained increase in interest rates, potentially signaling an end to the prolonged low rate ...

  • Russia multiplies gas routes to Europe

    By Vladimir Socor Russian President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom are announcing colossal plans to expand the capacities of existing gas export pipelines and build new ones, all in Europe beyond Russia's territory. Gazprom already co-owns and controls export pipeline capacities amounting to some 110 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year in Europe beyond Russia (Nord Stream One and Two, ...

  • China eager for Iranian nuclear talks

    The Chinese government expects peaceful nuclear negotiations will continue through multilateral dialogue with Iran, a government spokeswoman said. Iranian delegates joined officials from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany in a second round of nuclear negotiations in Kazakhstan in April but made few breakthroughs. February talks in Kazakhstan included efforts to ...

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