Uzbekistan

SSP-Expocontact to organize exhibition of advertisement industry

TASHKENT, Nov 21, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- SSP-Expocontact at the official support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan will organize the First International Exhibition "Advertisement...

Uzbek entrepreneurs take active part in international exhibitions in China

TASHKENT, Nov 21, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- One of the priority directions in the activity of the General Office of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Uzbekistan in China is the involvement of Uzbek...

Uzbek ministry suggests to ban foreign job ads on TV, press

TASHKENT, Nov 21, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- The Foreign Labour Migration Agency at the Uzbek Ministry of Labour and Social Security has suggested to restrict legal entities and individuals, not having special...

Will President Putin Be Back?

Russia's lower house of parliament gives final approval to bill extending presidential term MOSCOW November 21, 2008 (AP) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is seen, during a meeting with Uzbek President Islam Karimov in...

Muses both mystical and muscular in this city of women

PAULA CITRON From Saturday's Globe and Mail Samarcande Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers At Rachel Browne Theatre In Winnipeg on Thursday WINNIPEG - In a sure sign that Serge Bennathan has come to town, the four dancers on the...

Origins, By Amin Maalouf, trans Catherine Temerson

Amin Maalouf is the celebrated author of novels such as Samarkand, Leo the African and The Rock of Tanios. They re-conjure Omar Khayyam in 11th-century Persia, the Christian Inquisition in North Africa, and the imperialist...

Malaysian to open embassy in Turkmenistan

ASHGABAT (Turkmenistan): A Malaysian Embassy will be established in Turkmenistan to assist businessmen and government-linked companies keen on investing in the republic. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdul­lah Ahmad Badawi, who...

Analysis: Uzbek-Malaysian energy ties

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 - Many Western observers see the Russian-Western "Great Game" over Caspian and Central Asian hydrocarbon resources essentially as a two-nation struggle, but the reality in the last few years is...

Uzbek history textbook denounces soviet totalitarianism but downplays popular movements in...

by Paul Goble Kuressaare, November 21 – A history textbook prepared for tenth graders in Uzbekistan on the Soviet period denounces communist totalitarianism in sweeping terms, but it downplays popular movements that have...

Doha museum sets mark for Gulf architects

Preoccupied with size and height (and yield), rulers and town planners in the Gulf have come up with an uninspiring collection of hotels, towers, freeways and shopping malls that have more in common with Basildon or Houston...