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 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:25:35 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:25:35 -0500 30 By Christopher Pala ALMATY - Kazakhstan this week canceled, then re-authorised, elections in a remote oil town where recent riots stemming from a long-running oil workers strike left at least 16 ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203264480&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:44:06 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203264480&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The Turkmen Gas Company has reduced to half its natural gas exports to Iran through Dowlatabad-Sarakhs gas pipeline without prior notice. An unnamed gas industry official was quoted by Mehr News ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203263020&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:08:19 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203263020&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Gazprom races for EU loophole By Vladimir Socor Moscow has confirmed that Turkey will allow Gazprom's South Stream pipeline to be built through Turkey's Black Sea exclusive economic ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203259182&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:02:52 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203259182&cat=929bcf2071e81801 A cold wave will continue to sweep China nationwide from today to Tuesday, bringing gale force winds and plunging temperatures in most parts of the country, meteorological authorities warned ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254405&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:42:24 -0500 Global Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254405&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee and Sherali Gul, Minister of Energy and Industry, Republic of ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254229&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:57:26 -0500 Neftegaz http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254229&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By John Helmer MOSCOW - Calliforida, the common blow-fly, has an exceptional talent - it has the ability to smell a corpse at a distance of up to 16 kilometers. Forensic investigators use the ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254404&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:39:39 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203254404&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Playing chess in Eurasia By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251876&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:47 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251876&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The geo-economics of Central Eurasian energy have continued along analytical lines previously outlined in this space. ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251877&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:46 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251877&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Turkmenistan has agreed to increase future natural gas exports to China from the already planned 40 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) to 65 bcm/y, or more ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251878&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:44 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251878&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Turkmenistan's foreign ministry issued a definitive rebuke last week to political forces trying to use diplomatic and legal stratagems to block conclusion ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251879&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:41 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251879&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar Within a fortnight of his announcement to stand in the Russian presidential election in early 2012, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be heading for Beijing. The Kremlin ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251881&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:40 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251881&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The door closed at the beginning of this month on the submission of final project proposals by pipeline consortia seeking to transport natural gas from Phase Two ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251882&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:38 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251882&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - China has been implementing deeper and deeper energy cooperation with Central Asia, for over a decade, beginning with Beijing's acquisition of energy ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251884&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:36 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251884&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By RFE/RL MOSCOW - Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin has resigned from his post just hours after a heated public exchange with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who ordered him to do ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251885&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:35 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251885&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The European Commission (EC) last week took the unprecedented step of requesting and receiving authority from the European Council to assist in negotiations ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251887&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:31 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251887&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar The Barack Obama administration is making an extraordinary bid with the United States Congress to get the seven-year old embargo on military aid to Uzbekistan lifted ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251888&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:30 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251888&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The discovery by French energy major Total of yet another major natural gas source in the Caspian Sea offshore from Azerbaijan, announced at the weekend, further ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251890&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:26 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251890&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Erica Marat Bishkek and Beijing may soon sign a long-anticipated agreement on the construction of the "China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan" railroad. Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251891&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:25 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251891&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The Turkish economy, which has been forecast to expand by almost 9% this year, may in fact face a slowing growth rate if the latest central bank releases are any ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251892&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:24 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251892&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, September 6 will remain as one of the memorable days of his checkered public life. The Nord Stream pipeline carrying Russian ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251893&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:23 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251893&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW - Russia's belated recognition of Libya's provisional leadership on September 1 carried a hint of desperation. For months, Moscow had refused to ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251895&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:19 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251895&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to raise his country's profile ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251896&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:18 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251896&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - ExxonMobil, the United States oil major and the world's biggest company, and Russia's Rosneft have signed an agreement to develop the three offshore ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251898&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:17 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251898&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Andrei Grishin The Kazakh authorities, by meting out harsh punishments to union activists involved in recent oil-industry strikes, are merely resorting to tried-and-tested methods of ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:16 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251897&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Vladimir Socor Nabucco, the strategic project for transportation of Caspian gas to Europe, seems threatened by the non-strategic pipeline projects, ITGI (Interconnector ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251899&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:14 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251899&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Negotiations this month have opened the way to conclusion of a Gas Sales Price Agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251900&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:13 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251900&cat=929bcf2071e81801 new phase of turmoil, for which it is no better prepared than it was in mid-2008. Most world leaders frequently hold emergency sessions of their cabinets and try to convince opposition ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251901&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:05 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251901&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar There is no knowing whether the timing of the "informal" summit meeting of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) last Friday in the Kazakh ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251902&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:04 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251902&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ''The new resolution on Georgia produces the impression of a worn-out record. It contains the entire set of cliches and ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251903&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:03 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251903&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told pro-Kremlin activists at a youth camp on August 1 that the United States was behaving like a "parasite" on the ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251904&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:02 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251904&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar A recurring feature of the Russian-Iranian relationship is that it mostly languishes on the horizon but can be trusted to move to the center stage whenever there is a ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251905&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:01 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251905&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Roman Muzalevsky The Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, which came into existence in January 2010, became fully operational on July 1 with the removal of all customs borders, ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251906&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:00 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251906&cat=929bcf2071e81801 wheat. "We planted wheat but the harvest was not good, and it was because of insufficient water." Ortiqov is one of hundreds of thousands of people in the region who depend directly ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251907&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203251907&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Turkey have headed home after their group stage exits. UEFA.com hears from the four teams on how their respective campaigns ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203250535&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:03:02 -0500 UEFA http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203250535&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Vladimir Socor Croatia has become the newest member of the European Union, with a national referendum on January 22 capping the accession process. The government-controlled JANAF (Jadranski ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203247791&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:17:56 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=203247791&cat=929bcf2071e81801