nCa Report with a photo essay on elections (To be updated with more photos later today) (Second Update at 14:30, 15 February 2012 – Photo essay published separately at this URL: http://newscentralasia.net/2012/02/15/photo-essay-presidential-elections-in-turkmenistan/) Update (4 pm, 13 Feb) --- The central election commission has announced that preliminary counting of vote … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
US$ 1.2 million loan to Turkmen logistics company
EBRD loan will help DGT Logistics invest in equipment and expand fleet of trucks The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) continues to support the development of the private sector in Turkmenistan with a US$ 1.2 million loan to DGT Logistics Turkmenistan. The company is one of the leading private companies providing cargo transport and logistics services … [Read more...]
Presidential elections in Turkmenistan – Looking from a different angle
Tariq Saeedi Ashgabat, 4 February 2012 --- The presidential elections in Turkmenistan will take place in less than 10 days from now. Observers and analysts have raised several objections on the whole process: All the seven candidates running against President Berdymuhamedov are weak and obscure There is no opposition candidate The election manifesto of all … [Read more...]
Президентские выборы в Туркменистане – Взгляд под другим углом
Тарик Саиди Ашгабат, 4 февраля 2012 --- Менее чем через 10 дней в Туркменистане пройдут президентские выборы. Наблюдатели и аналитики подняли ряд вопросов, касающихся избирательного процесса: Все семь кандидатов против кандидатуры президента Бердымухамедова кажутся слабыми и неясными Нет кандидата от оппозиции Предвыборные программы всех кандидатов выглядят плохой … [Read more...]
America’s Pacific Century!!
General Mirza Aslam Beg, Former Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan During the 1970’s, Brzezinski, the US strategist, forecasting the break-up of the Soviet Union, expounded the concept of US Unipolarity: “How America manages Eurasia is critical, Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would almost automatically gain … [Read more...]
80-year-old Europeans will triple by 2050
Clemente Ferrer The European Parliament (EP) should officially agree with family alliances in order to tackle the unstoppable demographic decline. The European Union (EU) is seeking to address the birth plight that the Old Continent is suffering from. Awareness about this family crisis and thus the urgency to increase birth rates has been raised. Various research studies … [Read more...]
Speakers unveil latest oil and gas developments in the Arctic
The oil and gas industry’s key players will present critical new technologies and commercial opportunities available in the offshore Arctic, at the Arctic Region Oil & Gas Conference in Norway this month. Recent news about Norway’s Ministry of Energy receiving requests from 37 companies to be included in the country’s 22nd licensing round reflects the increasing demand for … [Read more...]
The Gift of Life Brings Joy
Clemente Ferrer Parents play a free-willed cooperative role with divide providence for the creation of life. They contribute to the creation of a newborn’s body, while the soul is instantly created out of nothing by God within the second of conception. It is therefore unlawful to threaten human life and physical integrity, one’s own or another’s, because life is a sovereign … [Read more...]
Три партии прошли в парламент Казахстана
В Казахстане на парламентских выборах со значительным перевесом победила партия действующей власти «Нур Отан». Некоторую конкуренцию ей составила партия «Ак жол», представляющая интересы малого и среднего бизнеса. Третьей партией, вошедшей в парламент, стала Коммунистическая народная партия Казахстана. Расклад получился следующим образом: «Нур Отан» – практически 81 % … [Read more...]
Three parties elected to the Parliament of Kazakhstan
Nur Otan party, representing the current Kazakhstan's government, won the parliamentary elections with a considerable majority of votes. Ak Jol party, supporting small and medium business, competed with Nur Otan. The third party that entered parliament is the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan. The results were the following: Nur Otan gained almost 81% of the votes, Ak … [Read more...]
Укрепляя доверие и снижая напряженность
Эймон Гилмор рассуждает о том, почему Европа всё ещё нуждается в ОБСЕ и что Ирландия может привнести в работу Организации В 2012 году Ирландия приняла на себя председательство в Организации по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе (ОБСЕ), самой крупной и успешной региональной структуре по безопасности в Северном полушарии, простирающейся от Ванкувера до Владивостока. Хотя … [Read more...]
Building confidence and reducing tensions
Eamon Gilmore reflects on why Europe still needs the OSCE and what Ireland can bring to the Organization Ireland has taken over the chair at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the largest and most successful regional security body, spanning the Northern Hemisphere from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Although not as well known as the EU or the UN, the … [Read more...]
Contraceptives Increase the Risk of Catching AIDS
Clemente Ferrer According to a study, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal by Renee Heffron (University of Washington), the use of hormonal contraceptives increase the risk of women in contracting the AIDS virus. www.thelancet.com Previous research studies reached the same conclusion; however, the latter one is much more credible. The study was conducted by … [Read more...]
American Military Pit Bulls and Their Handlers
Ben Tanosborn It is not what the few do but what the many don’t do. That really represents what we are all about, co-conspirators in a sea of silence. Marines who view despicable acts committed by other marines remain silent; the officers, who are well aware of this behavior, condone it, invariably following the “ethical criminal” attitude in war morality of “when in war, … [Read more...]
Beware: Nursing homes are not for sick individuals
Dr. Ethelle G. Lord Providing three square meals a days and receiving help with getting dressed in a nursing home should really be no longer acceptable. This is the traditional way. Recently I received a call from the social worker where my husband resides in a dementia unit at a nursing facility. She wanted to know if I just wanted him kept comfortable and hydrated since he … [Read more...]
Water Pollution: A Rising Life-Threatening Problem
Abdul Rashid ch.arahmad@yahoo.com PhD Scholar at Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, UK “Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water” (Albert Szeny-Gyorgyi , 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986) Water is one of the most important things that are used by human beings on our planet. Despite human consumption, water … [Read more...]
Bronze Age Archaeology in Turkmenistan
Introduction: In the past years a number of conferences were organized in Ashgabat and Mary in which recent research results about the archeological heritage of Turkmenistan were communicated to a Turkmen and international audience demonstrating cultural assets that compare to those of the most famous Bronze Age cultures world-wide. In the following article an experienced … [Read more...]