Provides the latest RSS feeds for Central Asia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Mongolia News.Net http://www.mongolianews.net/ en-us Mon, 12 May 2008 01:19:29 -0400 Mon, 12 May 2008 01:19:29 -0400 30 In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy. After the huge Soviet mines in the region closed in the 1990s, jobless me... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14754013&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 11 May 2008 22:52:19 -0400 The Seattle Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14754013&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Robert Friedland, the Canadian billionaire, has appointed three banks led by Credit Suisse to organise a London and Toronto float for a Kazakhstan gold mine known in the City as "the curse" in London ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14737363&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 10 May 2008 19:36:53 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14737363&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article As if Tajikistan didn’t have enough problems, now it appears that President Imomali Rahmon’s family is beset by intrigue. In a twist worthy of a television soap opera, Ra... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14718877&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:32 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14718877&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article With Georgian-Russian tension over the break-away territory of Abkhazia continuing to rise, the United States and European Union are stepping up diplomatic intervention efforts. Th... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14718976&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:32 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14718976&cat=929bcf2071e81801 (RSF/IFEX) - On 7 May 2008, Presidential chief of staff Ramiz Mekhtiev made "unacceptable" comments at a conference organised in Baku by the ruling party Yeni Azerbaidjan on the subject of democracy a... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14714133&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 09 May 2008 15:09:46 -0400 IFEX http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14714133&cat=929bcf2071e81801 It comes shortly after cabinet colleague Micheline Calmy-Rey stirred up a hornet's nest by witnessing a gas deal with Iran. Couchepin's visit promises to be less controversial: talks with the Azerbai... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14714134&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:05:06 -0400 Swiss Info http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14714134&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The Wall Street Journal's economics blog, Real Time Economics, reports Senator McCain was the clear favorite of those economists who responded to the question: "Which of the three remaining presi... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14713556&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 09 May 2008 11:20:08 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14713556&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ]. More recently, Armenian politicians representing varying shades of the political spectrum have started pressing for the two to negotiate a political truce. An April 17 resolution adopted by the Par... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14694833&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:19:57 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14694833&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Martin Brodeur are the top two candidates for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goalie. Nabokov was among the league leaders in every statistical category while falling just two wins shy of Brodeur'... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14690667&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:08:03 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14690667&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Momentum is building among Caspian Basin governments for a moratorium on sturgeon fishing, in order to protect the lucrative caviar trade. Informal discussions with fishermen, howe... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14689956&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:30:37 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14689956&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The United Nations is taking part in the largest-ever AIDS conference covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia which kicks off tomorrow in Moscow. Some 2,000 participants from 50 countries will gathe... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14672621&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 23:32:34 -0400 UN News Centre http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14672621&cat=929bcf2071e81801 News ) - News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday he expects to clinch a deal to buy the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday within a week, despite a higher offer from Cablevision Systems Corp.The... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14674892&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 23:29:18 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14674892&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Dubai: Bakhit Sa'ad, the UAE beach football team skipper, said they were tense against Uzbekistan. "We didn't perform well in the first period due to the tension we suffered from the beginning fo... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14668846&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:43 -0400 Gulf News http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14668846&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ]. Experts, however, say that the $10 million projected to be raised from the coerced assessment is monetarily insignificant given that, according to some estimates, it will take $1.5 billion to finis... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14664683&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 14:59:06 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14664683&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tajikistan The 7th meeting Iran-Tajikistan Joint Economic Cooperation Commission ended in Tehran Wednesday. During the meeting, an agreement on insurance cooperation was signed by the two countries. A... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14657048&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:40:29 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14657048&cat=929bcf2071e81801 political mentor and close friend Putin, who is constitutionally barred from a third term as president. Speaking at his final cabinet meeting as president on May 5, Putin thanked his administr... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14657123&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:02:54 -0400 Asia Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14657123&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Hong Kong - A 26-year-old Hong Kong aid worker has died in a bus crash in Inner Mongolia which also injured 10 other volunteers, a news report said Wednesday. The accident happened when the volunteers... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14648344&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:23:38 -0400 Earth Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14648344&cat=929bcf2071e81801 An Uzbek man wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged money laundering and child pornography offences in the United States has been arrested in Pattaya. Mikhail Georgevich Komov, 3... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14648345&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:07:43 -0400 Bangkok Post http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14648345&cat=929bcf2071e81801 TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - The central bank said it will auction 100 bln twd worth of 364-day certificates of deposit (CDs) on May 9. Banks, credit cooperatives, bills finance companies, investment trust com... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14646291&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:47 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14646291&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article With two weeks to go before Georgia’s parliamentary elections, there are growing signs that opposition groups have lost confidence in the international community’s abilit... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14641038&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:02:37 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14641038&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Asia grappled with a response to inflation on Tuesday in an era of $120-a-barrel oil and record commodity prices, with Indonesia raising rates and other countries saying that they hoped the problem wo... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638894&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:43 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638894&cat=929bcf2071e81801 on Friday examined the state of HIV/AIDS, and the stigma and discrimination associated with the disease in Tajikistan. Recent data indicate that the number "> http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638896&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:44 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638896&cat=929bcf2071e81801 HONG KONG (Thomson Financial) - The U.S. dollar traded in narrow ranges against the yen and the euro in afternoon trade in Asia on Tuesday, with investors sidelined ahead of the European Central Bank ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638893&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:38 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638893&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Controversy is enveloping state-controlled media outlets in Azerbaijan after the broadcast of a television program that alleges Ali Karimli, one of the government’s most vocal... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14637169&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:45 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14637169&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - The central bank has set the yuan central parity rate at 6.9888 to the dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. The rate, published on the official Chinamo... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:36 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 (RTTNews) - Tuesday, Asian economies had some significant news in statistical data as well as central bank action. In a surprise move, Indonesia's central bank raised its key interest rate by 25 bas... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638895&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:44 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638895&cat=929bcf2071e81801 NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of New York Mellon Corp. appointed Chris Sturdy chairman of the trust bank's business in the Asia-Pacific region, the company said Monday.Sturdy, who joined Bank of New York in 1... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638898&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:36 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638898&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Soaring food prices are helping to push up inflation all around the world, central bankers said on Monday, urging more market competition and free trade to even out ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638900&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:33 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14638900&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Authorities in Azerbaijan are demanding more complete documentation before they will release a consignment of Russian equipment destined for an Iranian nuclear power plant under construction at Busheh... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14633379&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:13:45 -0400 Radio Free Europe http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14633379&cat=929bcf2071e81801 After a series of meetings with senior Turkmen leaders, the head of a delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials, Peter Winglee, announced that the IMF welcomes the "important progress"... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14630334&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 08:34:29 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14630334&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Belgrade - Free travel across Europe is a concept as distant as space tourism to most Serbs, but there are places to see near home and countries to visit without visas, the web-based Serbian Travel Cl... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14624509&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:24:32 -0400 Earth Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14624509&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article NATO is striving to rapidly conclude a deal with Central Asian states on an inter-continental rail link that would ease the supply of non-lethal equipment and assistance for both m... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14615278&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 17:21:18 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14615278&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Following a delay that lasted over a month, Azerbaijan permitted Russian equipment meant for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant to pass though its border. The diplomatic incid... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14611920&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 14:27:13 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14611920&cat=929bcf2071e81801 A golden statue of former Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov sits atop a monument in Almaty. State media have reported that the entire monument will be dismantled. http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14608813&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 11:31:22 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14608813&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A 246-foot tall, rocket ship-like monument to the late ruler of Turkmenistan, topped with a golden statue of himself that rotates to always face the sun, will be removed fr... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14606173&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 08:35:14 -0400 Gadsden Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14606173&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Amman, May 5, (bna)--jordanian Monarch King Abdullah Ii Today Headed To Azerbaijan For A Two-day Official Visit To The C Ountry During Which He Will Hold Talks With Azeri President Ilham Aliyev On Wa... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14606174&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 08:08:16 -0400 Bahrain News Agency http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14606174&cat=929bcf2071e81801 OSH/ASHGABAT, 5 May 2008 (IRIN) - Islam, 13, does not differ much from his friends. But he is definitely short for his age and looks younger than most of the children in his age group in the southwest... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14601678&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 02:57:05 -0400 IRIN http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14601678&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan plans to buy stakes in German and other European companies, the country's president Ilham Aliyev said. He said that they would do their best to invest their oil revenues safely and gener... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14599669&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:26:35 -0400 Neftegaz http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14599669&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ALMATY, Kazakhstan : The leader of isolated, energy-rich Turkmenistan took further steps to dismantle the personality cult of his deceased predecessor, ordering the previous president's statue re... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14596157&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 04 May 2008 18:39:27 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14596157&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Eugene .The small clay and pipecleaner figurines appear each spring, perhaps some sort of mythical creature migration nestling into rhododendrons and making homes in azaleas, park regulars say."I thin... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14595874&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 04 May 2008 17:20:15 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14595874&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azarbaijan The joint meeting of Iran and Azerbaijan on shipping cooperation opened in Tehran Sunday. The 3-day meeting aims to bolster bilateral shipping ties, develop marine and ports transportation,... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14590714&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 04 May 2008 07:54:28 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14590714&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has won two awards for the Best Stand Design and Best Creative Stand at the Kazakhstan International Tourism and Travel Fair (KITF-2008). http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14587460&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 04 May 2008 02:14:08 -0400 AME Info http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14587460&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov told a cabinet meeting on Friday that the statue of Saparmurat Niyazov should be relocated to the southern outskirts of the city. http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14587461&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 04 May 2008 02:12:08 -0400 Al Jazeera http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14587461&cat=929bcf2071e81801 President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan has ordered the removal of a gold statue of his predecessor from the centre of the capital, Ashgabat. The rotating statue of Saparmurat Niyazov,... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14584587&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 03 May 2008 20:50:01 -0400 BBC http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14584587&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan's leader has ordered the removal of a giant golden statue of his late predecessor from downtown Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital, a state-run daily said Saturd... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14583071&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 03 May 2008 18:53:17 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14583071&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The Swiss-based multinational food company, Nestle, has apologised to Azerbaijan after a free gift attached to a breakfast cereal backfired. The CD-ROM featured information about countries around t... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14581561&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:38:04 -0400 BBC http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14581561&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tractor Head of Iran Tractor neanufacturing Company and two other senior officials of the company discussed issues of mutual interest, including resumption of tractor producing in Tajikistan, with Taj... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14573424&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 03 May 2008 02:33:02 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14573424&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Abu Dhabi: The UAE will face Uzbekistan in the opening of the Asian qualifiers for the World Beach Football Cup on Tuesday, May 6, at Jumeirah Beach. The competing teams have been divided into two gro... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14565778&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 19:09:25 -0400 Gulf News http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14565778&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ]. But it may prove that the first route under the sea would carry oil, and link in to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC). Attention is shifting to an oil transport route after Kazakhstan’s senate in ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14562350&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:01:22 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14562350&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ].Within the context of rising tension, the parliamentary statement appeared designed to send Baku a signal that Yerevan won’t be bullied, and it won’t remain inactive in the face of expandi... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14563897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:01:22 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14563897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Azerbaijan stands ready to back a Russian ban on Caspian Sea sturgeon fishing, but local experts say that, in many ways, Azerbaijan is more of a model for sustainable sturgeon fish... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14562349&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 15:01:21 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14562349&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Just a friendly reminder for sports fans. Tomorrow Oscar De La Hoya takes on Steve Forbes on HBO at 9:00 PM Eastern. Steve Forbes is a warm up bout for De La Hoya who plans on fighting a rematch with ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14561023&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:35:08 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14561023&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BAKU - Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev received Thursday the Commander of Turkish Air Forces General Aydogan Babaoglu. According to state-run Azeri news agency Azertac, General Babaoglu`s visit to... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14547159&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:51:22 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14547159&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BAKU - Members of the Association of News Agencies from Turkish Speaking Countries (TKA) convened at the 7th general assembly meeting in Azerbaijan. TKA was established 16 years ago to improve coopera... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14547160&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:51:18 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14547160&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article A high-level Iraqi delegation was in Iran on May 1 for talks aimed at curtailing Tehran’s support for Sh’ia militias operating in Iraq. The Iraqi officials were said to p... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14540489&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:16:21 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14540489&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Georgian officials are denouncing Russia’s unilateral action to reinforce its peacekeeping contingent in the separatist territory of Abkhazia, describing Moscow’s move is... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14540715&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:16:21 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14540715&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BAKU, April 30 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian embassy in Baku has passed to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry detailed information about the technical characteristics and purpose of the cargo for the Busheh... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14536576&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:58:53 -0400 Itar Tass http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14536576&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Huseyin Yildirim carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. While he says he never killed a man, he was jailed for membership in Kurdish Hizbullah, a radical Sunni Islamist group tha... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14537158&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:51:16 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14537158&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Book Fair A group of 55 Tajik intellectuals headed for Iran on Thursday to attend the country's 21st International Book Fair which was inaugurated on May 1st. Some 1700 domestic publishers as well as ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14527115&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 06:23:30 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14527115&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ANKARA - Turkish and Turkmen authorities signed Joint Economic Committee protocol in the capital Ankara on Wednesday. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Turkish Industry & Trade Minister Zafer Caglayan... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520633&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 01:11:13 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520633&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BAKU - Members of an association of news agencies from Turkish speaking countries came together on Wednesday at a general assembly meeting in the Azeri capital of Baku. Speaking at the meeting, Ali Ha... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520632&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Thu, 01 May 2008 01:11:10 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520632&cat=929bcf2071e81801 US military deaths in Iraq at 4,063 ---The latest deaths reported by the military:- No deaths reported.---The latest identifications reported by the military:- Air Force Senior Airman Jonathan A.V. Ye... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520238&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:26:41 -0400 Examiner http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14520238&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ORDOS, China : On April 12, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, both 36, could have been working in their architecture office in New Haven, worrying about the darkening economic prospects of their pro... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14518271&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:09:41 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14518271&cat=929bcf2071e81801 BAKU: Azerbaijan's blocking of a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant will be resolved "in the nearest future" after Russia provided information on the cargo, Azerbaijan's Fo... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14511482&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:31:00 -0400 The Daily Star http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14511482&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article At NATO’s Bucharest summit in early April, alliance members endorsed the idea of transferring greater security responsibility to the Afghan government. But the Taliban’s ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14511149&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:33:30 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14511149&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Russia says it has provided Azerbaijan with information about a shipment of Russian nuclear equipment for Iran that Azerbaijani authorities seized a month ago. http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14507930&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:50:15 -0400 VOA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14507930&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article The last Dmitry to rule in the Kremlin, way back in 1605, savored absolute authority for less than a year before running afoul of Moscow’s power brokers. Suspected of trying t... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14509417&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:35:24 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14509417&cat=929bcf2071e81801 MOSCOW – The bodies of three Uzbek nationals have been found with their throats cut in the Moscow region amid a sharp rise in racially motivated crimes, police and rights defenders said Wednesda... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14504563&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:04:44 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14504563&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ANKARA - Turkish State Minister Kursad Tuzmen said Tuesday Turkish contractors' investments in Turkmenistan will be worth five billion USD in 2008. Tuzmen met Turkmenistan's Deputy Chairman of the Cab... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493512&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:31:39 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493512&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ASHKHABAD - Deputy Speaker of Turkish Parliament Nevzat Pakdil had a meeting with Parliament Speaker Akja Nurberdieva of Turkmenistan in Ashkhabad on Tuesday. Pakdil and Nurberdieva discussed the proc... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493589&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:31:37 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493589&cat=929bcf2071e81801 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated a Slovak diplomat as head of the UN preventive diplomacy center in Central Asia, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe announced Tuesday. Okabe told reporters that... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493434&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:10 -0400 People's Daily http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14493434&cat=929bcf2071e81801 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY EVENTS IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA What do you do if you want to shut somebody up but your country has lax libel legislation? Travel to a country with harsher laws, apparently... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14487521&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:50:59 -0400 IFEX http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14487521&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - When Natalia Semenko started her own transport company, she didn't even consider approaching a bank for startup cash. 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Such fiscal a... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14483726&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:06:53 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14483726&cat=929bcf2071e81801 AMEC wins Azerbaijan EMS contract Offshore staff LONDON -- BP has awarded AMEC a five-year, $500 million engineering modification services (EMS) contract in Azerbaijan. Under the contract, which is an... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14483870&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:51:43 -0400 Offshore http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14483870&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Posted on: Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 09:00 CDT Excerpt from report "Global warming! What is awaiting Tajikistan?" by Galina Dzutseva the Tajik newspaper Vecherniy Dushanbe on 17 April. Climate anomalie... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478420&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:04:34 -0400 RedOrbit http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478420&cat=929bcf2071e81801 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Standard & Poor's said Tuesday that it revised its outlook on the long-term sovereign credit ratings of Kazakhstan to negative from stable. "The outlook revision reflects the... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478421&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:51:07 -0400 Market Watch http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478421&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Azerbaijan’s refusal to release Russian nuclear power plant equipment headed to Iran has put the country at the center of a diplomatic firestorm. Analysts are divided over the... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478419&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:43:15 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14478419&cat=929bcf2071e81801 DUBAI, 29 April 2008 (IRIN) - Tajikistan has been battling a locust invasion over the past few weeks, but officials say control measures and assistance from the donor community will allow them to comb... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14475640&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:43:51 -0400 IRIN http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14475640&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 KABUL: Turkmenistan and Afghanistan signed agreements on energy, transport and culture on Monday, days after agreeing with Pakistan and India to push forward a multi-billion-... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14468367&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:12:02 -0400 The News http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14468367&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ANKARA - The 2nd Azerbaijan and Turkey Media Conference will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan on April 29th, 2008, Press and Information Directorate General said on Friday. A statement by the Press and ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14468498&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:38:15 -0400 Turkish Press http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14468498&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Pipeline politics took center stage as Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad went on the road to promote competing pipelines to export their natural ga... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14456157&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:48:19 -0400 Radio Free Europe http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14456157&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article After enduring extreme cold this past winter, Central Asia is bracing for what some officials say will be a dry summer. Those predictions, in turn, are stirring fears of prolonged ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14455586&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:28:22 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14455586&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Almost inured to conflict, residents of Sukhumi, capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, are focusing less on the Georgian plane shoot-down incident and fears of fr... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14459731&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:28:21 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14459731&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Ras Al Khaimah has visited Kazakhstan to boost bilateral trade and attract investments from Kazakhstan into the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The Ras Al Khaimah delegation met with several representat... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14456156&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:42:48 -0400 Select Property http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14456156&cat=929bcf2071e81801 TEHRAN, April 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Tehran has demanded that Baku must let go Russian cargoes headed for the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on S... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14444155&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:54:26 -0400 Itar Tass http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14444155&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Summon Head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Borujerdi said on Sunday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Azeri ambassador to Tehran to give explana... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14441655&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:11:40 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14441655&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The emirate of Sharjah will participate in Kazakhstan International Tourism & Travel Fair KITF which will take place in Almaty 24-26 of April 2008. http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14440158&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:04:16 -0400 AME Info http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14440158&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The United Nations say an exceptionally high locust infestation expected this year in Tajikistan could threaten the east European nation's food supply. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14432359&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:58:02 -0400 VOA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14432359&cat=929bcf2071e81801 IN GEORGIA, POLITICAL VIEWS ARE OFTEN BEST SAID IN SONG 4/25/08 A EurasiaNet Photo Story: Text by Giorgi Lomsadze; Photos by Molly Corso. Georgian politics has never been short on drama. But... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14417917&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:50:20 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14417917&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Energy Cooperation And The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Much Ado About Nothing? Michael Raith And Patrick Weldon 4/25/08 A Eurasianet Commentary http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14418016&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:50:19 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14418016&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Gas Export Iranian Ambassador to Turkmenistan said on Friday that that Central Asian Republic restarted its natural gas exports to Iran as of Friday morning. Mohammad-Reza Forqani who was speaking to ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14414905&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:16:42 -0400 IRNA http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14414905&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Email this article Turkish-American groups are making a bid to expand their political influence in the United States, expressly aiming to counter the considerable sway of their Armenian American riva... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14414972&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:10:55 -0400 Eurasianet http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14414972&cat=929bcf2071e81801 reports. April had been named after Saparmurat Niyazov’s mother, while September was a reference to Niyazov’s spiritual book—but the new president, strengthening ties with the rest o... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14411687&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:07:48 -0400 Newser http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14411687&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, long a key proponent of greater economic and political unity among the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, revived the idea ahead of his Uzbek counterpart's ... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407385&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:24:43 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407385&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Published Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. WASHINGTON — Gen. David H. Petraeus, who has commanded U.S. troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated to head the U.S. Central Comm... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407383&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:24:35 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407383&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Gen. David Petraeus, far left, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is President Bush's nominee to become head of Central Command, which would put him in charge of more than 200,000 U.S. military personnel... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407384&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:24:34 -0400 General Sources http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14407384&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Turkmenistan's president has abolished the calendar introduced by his late predecessor, who named months after himself and his parents as part of an elaborate personality cult, state media reported Th... http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14402996&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:22:51 -0400 The Seattle Times http://feeds.mongolianews.net/?rid=14402996&cat=929bcf2071e81801