Otto's Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Inflation is galloping along here in Bishkek. I have noticed a sharp increase in food prices recently. The price of a Bii Burger has jumped from 55 som to 60 som in the last week. Meanwhile wages remain frozen. To make matters worse the value of the dollar has dropped. It is now hovering permanently below 35 som. When I first came here a little over a year ago it was 38 som to the dollar.
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A delegation of the Union of Turkish World Municipalities, or TDBB, was in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Saturday.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
After months of planningfretting tackling rental agreements visas train times tickets and packing the house up we're finally off Having said our fond farewells to the family and been waved off at St. Pancras by Pens brother Geoff we spent the next 48 hours rolling slowly across western europe. The greatest novelty on this leg apart from the toilet and the samovar was when our train sidl
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Elena uploaded other photos of the Boeing-737 that crashed shortly after takeoff from Bishkek airport, leaving more than 60 people dead.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
UNESCO and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) jointly organized an international conference on ‘Human Security and Peace in Central Asia’. On 8 and 9 September 2005, the conference brought together a distinguished group of academics, experts and professionals from various backgrounds for two days of insightful, productive discussions. Selected papers from the conference presentations are offered...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday offered his condolences to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the deaths of dozens of Iranians at the recent Kyrgyzstan plane crash in the country's capital of Bishkek. In his message, Hu said he was astonished to learn that dozens of Iranian citizens died in the Kyrgyzstan plane crash on Sunday. He expressed his deep condolences for the victims, their...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Centerra Gold Inc. (TSX: CG) stated that according to available information the Bishkek Inter District Court of the Kyrgyz Republic today dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, K.S. Isabekov, against the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic relating to the Company's Kumtor project. The lawsuit sought to annul the Government's decree approving the...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Iranian forensic experts flew into Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to help identify the remains of 56 people killed in a plane crash in the Central Asian nation.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The incident with the Ryanair aircraft came within hours of another Boeing 737 crashing at Bishkek the capital of the Kyrgyz republic in central Asia killing 68 people.
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
President Hu Jintao of China on Monday sent a message of condolence to his Kyrgyzstani counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev over Sunday's plane crash in the country's capital of Bishkek. In his message, Hu expressed condolences for the victims, their families and the injured on behalf of the Chinese government and people. The plane, belonging to Kyrgyzstan's private airline Itek-Air, crashed shortly after...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
A day after a passenger jet carrying 90 people, including two Canadians, crashed near the main airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Sunday, relatives of the 65 people killed in the crash began the process of identifying the dead.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan/Moscow - Kyrgyz authorities Monday ruled out terrorism as the cause of an air crash in which at least 65 passengers died near the Central Asian state's capital of Bishkek, saying mechanical failure was the probable cause. Reports ...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Nearly 100 weeping relatives gathered at the main Bishkek morgue, many clutching dental records to help identify the victims because most of the bodies were charred.
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Kyrgyz officials say 68 people died and 22 survived when a plane bound for Iran crashed near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan .The Boeing-737 crashed minutes after takeoff and had just reported a malfunction, RIA Novosti reported Monday. Fifty-two of the dead were Iranian nationals.Kyrgyz officials said they had ruled out a terrorist attack and were investigating possible engine failure or cabin decompression,...
