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The girls in red and green began their group stage mission with a 2-0 win over the UAE and progressed to the last four after Kyrgyzstan beat the Emiratis 2-1.

AT THIS TIME of year the wild cherry blossom spreads from the valley floor up the flanks of the mountains that form the glorious backdrop to Bishkek, ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — When Eremina found out she had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2017 and was headed to hospital, she was convinced she'd never ...

Bangladesh were guaranteed a place in the semifinals of the Bangamata U-19 Women's International Gold Cup, courtesy of a 2-1 win for Kyrgyzstan over United ...

The cities of Kyrgyzstan are filled with Soviet-style buildings, sprawling markets, and ornate mosques. However, outside of the bustling, metropolitan streets of ...

Kyrgyzstan police detained a couple staging a peaceful protest in Bishkek on March 27, 2019, accusing them of “inciting national enmity,” Human Rights Watch ...

It's been four years since a Kyrgyz president visited Germany, a period of change and some progress.

The annual Turkish Film Week kicked off in Kyrgyzstan on Monday with the contributions of Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University and Turkey's Culture and Tourism...

A former Kyrgyz presidential candidate who fled the country amid a criminal probe has canceled plans to return to the country. Omurbek Babanov said April 13 ...

Kyrgyzstan's security services are investigating current and former government officials for accepting bribes from a Lithuanian company that won a tender to ...

Renowned photographer Albert Dros uncovers a world of rugged beauty on a road trip through Kyrgyzstan. View his stunning travel pictures from this former ...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan turned up the heat on former president Almazbek Atambayev by making it so that he will lose his immunity if he keeps dabbling in ...

A minute expansion of Kant and an agreement on hydropower cooperation were some of the outcomes of Putin's visit to Kyrgyzstan.

An opposition heavyweight in Kyrgyzstan is set to return home after an 18-month stretch of self-imposed exile, setting the stage for a nerve-jangling season of ...

Former presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov canceled plans to return to Kyrgyzstan, a year and a half after he fled the country.

A state tender to produce passports in Kyrgyzstan has gone horribly wrong. The story has exposed the hollowness of the anti-corruption agenda and is ...

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have lashed out at neighboring Kazakhstan over what they say are stepped-up, burdensome bureaucratic procedures that have ...

Kyrgyzstan has a problem with plastic bags, so officials are talking about imposing a ban. Similar efforts have foundered in the past, however, in the face of ...

Yet another standoff over disputed segments of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border has intensified tensions among locals, various media outlets reported on April 23.

Politics in Kyrgyzstan is playing out like a Brazilian soap opera these days. Miss one episode of high drama and low cunning and you are adrift. Surveying over ...

Iskak Askarov worked in Russia as a builder before returning home to use the money he earned there to set up a sheep farm in his native Kyrgyzstan.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Kyrgyzstan to drop the case against a couple who is facing criminal charges for staging a peaceful protest ahead of ...

(MENAFN - AzerNews) By Abdul Kerimkhanov The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) predicts the acceleration of GDP growth in Kyrgyzstan to 4 perc.

In the saddle with Katie Arnold as she rides, drives and hitch-hikes across Kyrgyzstan, a country on the frontline of climate change where melting glaciers, ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan. Turkish Airlines on Friday opened a new two-story central office in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Speaking at the opening ceremony, ...

Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has appointed Mirlan Turgunbekov as chief of the Anti-Terrorism Center of the Central Asian country's National Security ...

A Kyrgyz man who was almost beaten to death by three angry Muslims after converting to Christianity has become a victim yet again. Eldos, who is in his ...

Each story is heartbreaking: The ethnic Kyrgyz student from Xinjiang who helped revive a classic Kyrgyz dance went back to Xinjiang in October 2018 and never ...

There is no signpost, but my driver Azamat knows to turn off the main highway and to take the winding narrow road through the Tian Shan mountains.

National flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) has opened a new two-story central office in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The opening ceremony was...

The political vacuum that emerged across Eurasia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw Russia's former suzerainty over the former Soviet space ...

Dutch landscape photographer Albert Dros visits Kyrgyzstan and returns with incredible images. See the beautiful photos he took in this former Soviet republic.

It's darker than dark. A solid beam of torchlight punches through the blackness ahead where giant, unseen towers of rock point up to a night sky crazed with ...

Russian-Kyrgyz relations have been making steady progress in general. However, over the past several years, bilateral cooperation has been marred by a ...

The first of two rival party congresses on April 3 sets up Kyrgyzstan's biggest political party for a genuine split.

HE the Deputy Speaker of Advisory Council Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Sulaiti met yesterday with the head of the Supreme Council delegation of Kyrgyzstan,

KYRGYZSTAN: Construction of a China – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan railway and links between the disconnected northern and southern sections of the...

The President of Kyrgyzstan, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, met with Valentina Shevchenko during the UFC flyweight champion latest tour of her native Kyrgyzstan.

Laos and Mongolia both have three points each while Tajikistan are yet to open their account.

AKIPRESS.COM - About 300 people rallied in front of the White House to protest development of uranium in the country. Policemen were there to maintain ...

Speed cameras throughout Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East were smashed, burned and spraypainted last week.

The UFC flyweight champion received a hero's welcome when she returned to her homeland on Monday.

AKIPRESS.COM - Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Jenish Razakov met with Chairman of the International Contractors Association in Korea Mr. Li ...

In the summer months the shores of Lake Issy-Kul in northern Kyrgyzstan are thronged with holidaymakers, attracted by the *fresh* mountain air and the lake's ...

AKIPRESS.COM - Protesters demanding to stop any exploration and mining of uranium on the entire territory of Kyrgyzstan did not let ex-MP Ravshan ...

The Heart of Kyrgyzstan” was presented by senior Akbermet Mametjanova on March 26 in Gardner Hall. Mametjanova discussed the history of Kyrgyztan and ...

UNICEF is currently in talks with the government of Kyrgyzstan to utilize blockchain technology to give every school internet access.

Blockchain technology has been absolutely revolutionary across industries and sectors. Ever since it was launched way back in 2009, the tech has grown to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says China's Belt and Road infrastructure initative meshes.

AKIPRESS.COM - The Mission of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was fielded in Kyrgyzstan between 25 March 25 to 19 April 2019 ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Calif. - An art exhibit called Wisdome in downtown Los Angeles is where videos are projected high up onto the domed ceilings.

Traveling across Central Asia's former Soviet republics, Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego captured the largely unknown modernist ...

English Assessment on Kyrgyzstan about Agriculture, Education, Aged Persons, Children and more; published on 24 Apr 2019 by WFP.

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Tourism national company plans to take travel industry representatives and travel writers on four scouting exhibitions in 2019 to identify ...

AKIPRESS.COM - Governor of Jalal-Abad region Kyianbek Satybaldiyev commented on the reports that he allegedly fell asleep during the meeting with ...

Turkey's leading charity, the Turkish Red Crescent, unveiled its humanitarian projects for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan yesterday. The charity's ...

(MENAFN - AzerNews) By Abdul Kerimkhanov Kyrgyz-Czech relations develop on the basis of trust and equality. The potential for increasing coopera.

KONAKOVO, RUSSIA, April 25. /ARKA/. Eurasian Development Bank Chairman Andrey Belyaninov, speaking at the opening of the Second Eurasian Media ...

All eyes in Kyrgyz Republic on where gripping power struggle between President Jeenbekov and predecessor Atambayev goes from here.

15 April 2019: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are calling on the international community to take urgent action to ...

A series of protests in Kyrgyzstan point to growing public feeling against China, one of the country's biggest investors. Kamila Eshaliyeva. 13 March 2019.

Birdwatchers across Bangladesh already have an abundance of bird species to watch, photograph and marvel at. However, every now and then, one will get ...

An exiled politician-businessman from Kyrgyzstan says he is preparing to return home for the first time since he lost a contentious presidential election.

From April 18 to 19, 2019, the 3rd Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)-Afghanistan Contact Group Meeting at Vice Foreign Ministerial Level was held in ...

WASHINGTON — The president's communications director didn't sugarcoat it: The emails, Hope Hicks told Donald Trump, were “really bad.” They concerned an ...

The 5Point Adventure Film Festival has always strived to give audiences more than the usual on-screen big mountain thrills.Now in its 12th year, the titular five ...

Amnesty International welcomes today's signing into law of the bill ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) without ...

You may be entitled to receive social benefits – but in Kyrgyzstan, sometimes you'll have to pay for them. After longstanding complaints, Kyrgyz officials have ...

More than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence, assistance and citizenship.

The Persian celebration of Norouz welcomes spring in many countries around the world. In Kyrgyzstan, the joy spills out into the streets of the capital, Bishkek.

The sudden tragic death of an investigative journalist raises questions about the fate of the press in Kyrgyzstan. Altynai Mambetova. 6 February 2019 ...

BISHKEK -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Bishkek has not asked Moscow to open a second military base in Kyrgyzstan, but suggested that ...

The start of production is beckoning at Kyrgyzstan's second-largest goldmine, the owner of the concession has announced. News that Jerooy could start turning ...

A leading official in Kyrgyzstan says the government would like financial aid from China, but in the form of a grant not a loan. The plea suggests authorities sense ...

Through the dust I can see a throng of men on horseback. They press and jostle until one rider bursts clear, swinging a heavy object up to his saddle — the goat ...

The U.S. is sending back to Kyrgyzstan $6 million in assets stolen from the Kyrgyz government by the country's former leader and his family, the two countries ...

For many young women in Kyrgyzstan, video chats are the only way they can make a living. This work is not subject to any legal constraints, and they are often at ...

BISHKEK -- Some 300 activists have gathered in the center of the Kyrgyz capital to protest against what they called the increasing number of Chinese migrants ...

At least two people have been killed in days of clashes along the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Communities in the area have long been at loggerheads ...

Hundreds rallied outside government offices in Kyrgyzstan's capital on January 17 in a *fresh* show of unease at the presence of Chinese laborers in the country.

As if to illustrate that the hijab has reached a near-critical point of popular acceptance in Kyrgyzstan, when this correspondent donned the headscarf it drew little ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, winter is the perfect time to enjoy a bowl of bozo -- a thick, lightly alcoholic porridge made from boiled and fermented grain.

A prelude to the growing season, the last week of May usually marks the onset of summer in Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian republic about the size of ...

Uzbekistan is looking far afield for tourists to visit, and yet it has a small but very eager market to tap right next door.

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP). Kyrgyzstan is gearing up to introduce legislation that would oblige its president to wear a national pointed hat on diplomatic trips ...

Kyrgyzstan has adopted a 12-year state strategy for the development of public health including health systems. Tagged “Healthy person – prosperous country”, ...

Kyrgyzstan may agree to host a second Russian military base in the republic to help combat the threat of infiltration by fighters from Islamic State fighters, the ...

Kyrgyzstan needs to extend its understanding of China beyond language and pop culture, according to an expert discussion organised by IWPR's analytical ...

In the wild, rival mountain goats will engage in a ritual of head-butting to establish dominance. Politics in Kyrgyzstan operate on a similar principle.

We are writing to you ahead of the European Union-Kyrgyz Republic Cooperation Council, which will take place in Brussels on 10 December 2018, to urge you ...

The event is touted as a way to connect to past traditions in Kyrgyzstan — and perhaps boost the tourism industry.

On 20 December, Zhogorku Kenesh (Kyrgyzstan's Parliament) passed in first reading a law on ratification of the CRPD. Kyrgyzstan is one of three former Soviet ...

The Kyrgyz government has opted against including state-owned mobile operator Alfa Telecom in its submitted draft privatisation programme for 2018-2020.

As of January 1, spitters in Kyrgyzstan could face fines of up to $80. People are furious. One man filmed himself spitting in the direction of parliament in protest.

The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit Kyrgyzstan, but no clear date has been set.

BISHKEK -- Some 2,000 Russia and Kyrgyz troops are getting ready to launch joint counterterrorism exercises in eastern Kyrgyzstan. The September 26 ...

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are in damage-limitation mode as they engage a rearguard battle against the appearance of anti-Chinese sentiments.

Central Asian governments fear that Islamist armed groups like ISIS are moving closer to the region. As part of efforts to stop these groups from gaining a ...

Demonstrators who protested against Beijing's policies towards the indigenous Muslim peoples of China's northwestern Xinjiang region have been fined.

Gender violence is a pervasive problem in Kyrgyzstan. A local NGO is trying to address it by working with men.