The Chinese company CNC will start the electrification of Kyrgyzstan railroads, informs Delo Nomer. This company has experience in implementing such projects, and in particular, in other countries of the Central Asia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
This one hundred million dollars project will be completed in five years. Electrification will substantially increase the velocity of trains and […]
Two projects on building aluminum plants can be implemented in Kyrgyzstan said the head of RosAtom Sergey Kiriyenko, informs 24.kg. Also Kiriyenko represents the Russian side in inter governmental joint commission on trade, economy, science, and technical cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. One of the projects is being prepared by Rinko Holding, and another […]
The Issyk-Kul lake is known not only as a beautiful recreation resort with nice sandy beaches, warmish, a little bit salty, blue pure water. Also, there are quite a few natural landscapes in that region which you can enjoy, and some pictures below for your observation. In this post for “Click on Pic” theme, […]
One advantage of late night sleeplessness is listening to the BBC World Service. This evening’s World Service edition of From Our Own Correspondent included a report about child miners in southern Kyrgyzstan:
No one knows the exact number of children working in Kyrgyzstan’s coal mines.
Locals say the government refuses to acknowledge the problem. Officially these […]
There are many ways for a developing country to make its economy work and improve. Since Kyrgyzstan, like its neighboring countries does not have reliable natural resources such as gas, cotton fields or oil, it tries to rely on tourism as one of the maybe not fundamental, but a profitable sector of economy. Last […]
RIA Novosti reports that the controversy that has surrounded the Jerooy gold mine for the last year or so following the Kyrgyz government’s decision to recisind Oxus Gold’s licence in January 2006 is far from over.
It is reported that 800 people stormed the mine yesterday (May 16) demanding that it be closed in […]
Blogging is continuing to grow in popularity in Kyrgyzstan, not only as a forum for individuals, but also for specific topics and projects, often with support from abroad.
The Dutch NGO Milieukontakt International supported EKOIS project, which focuses on the development of long-term cooperation between environmental NGOs in Kyrgyzstan, is one such example. The project’s […]
The elusive snow leopard is in danger of becoming even more scarce in Central Asia, with only approximately 7,000 left in the wild, and those mostly in China. While bleak, this figure is in fact an improvement from 1,000, which was the estimated number of snow leopards in the 1960s.
This increase in population […]
Unlike the United States, where wolves are considered an endangered species and protected, Kyrgyzstan faces an exploding population of wolves that are becoming a menace.
Experts suggest the wolf population has multiplied three- or fourfold in recent years [in Kyrgyzstan].
Attacks would normally be rare, restricted only to instances when a wolf is suffering from extreme […]
