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ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BMB Munai, Inc. has filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The Company reported net income of $13.32 million and basic and diluted EPS of $0.30 on revenues of $34.83 million. Net income was significantly higher than the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 when the Company realized net income of $3.88 million and basic and diluted EPS of $0.09 on revenues...
ALMATY. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's industrial production rose 3.3% year-on-year in January-July to 6.294 trillion tenge, the State Statistics Agency said. Growth was 5.8% in the extractive industry and 9.4% in the utilities sector (electricity, gas and water), however production fell 0.9% in the manufacturing sector. (c) 2008 Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
Wildfires have blackened 25,000 acres in Turkey's prime tourism region, leaving at least one person dead, authorities said Saturday. Dozens of people were left homeless in Antalya province, where flames destroyed about 60 homes in the village of Karatas, Environmental Minister Veysel Eroglu told the Hurriyet news agency. An elderly man's body was found in the wreckage of one house, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported. A second elderly villager was reported missing. I have dealt my...
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Almaty, 24 July: Kazakhstan's spending within the framework of implementation of its second space programme, which is being drawn up and which is for the period until 2020, totals not less than 6bn dollars, an adviser to the chairman of the Kazkosmos [Kazakh space] national space agency and director-general of the Bayterek joint venture, Ivan Akhmatov, has said. "The entire amount of financial spending on the...
Text of report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Astana, 23 July: As a result of a gas leak from a gas pipeline in the Abay settlement of South Kazakhstan Region, centralized gas supply has been cut off to a number of houses, Kazakhstan's Emergencies Ministry announced on Wednesday [23 July]. The ministry said that "when inspecting a high-pressure gas pipeline, which is 219 mm in diameter, a gas leak was detected" on Tuesday in the day time. "As a result of the accident, 73...
ASTANA. July 17 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan might increase crude export duties to stabilize the prices on the domestic oil product market, Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sauat Mynbayev said. "The duties should be higher, and this is the only way to attain the result," Mynbayev told journalists in a recess of a ministry conference attended by representatives from the major domestic producers and buyers of oil products in Astana on Thursday. "However, we won't be able to significantly...
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Astana, 17 July: Kazakh Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev does not rule out an increase in the rates of customs duties on the export of crude oil to stabilize prices on the domestic market of oil products. "The amount of [customs] duties should be higher and only then there will be a result," the minister told journalists during a break in the ministry's session with the participation of the...
ASTANA. July 16 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan exported 25.209 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in January-May 2008, which is 2.4% less than in the same period in 2007, the Kazakh state statistics agency told Interfax. At the same time, these exports were valued at $16.813 billion, which is 65.1% more than in 2007. Kazakhstan also exported 1.554 million tonnes of oil products (down by 0.6%) valued at $831 million (up by 63.6%). Kazakhstan's imports of oil products amounted to 800,000...
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Astana, 16 July: Despite the fact that the number of HIV- infected people and AIDS sufferers is increasing in Kazakhstan, it is among countries with a low rate of the spread of these diseases, the Kazakh Health Ministry says. "As of 1 June 2008, a total of 10,379 HIV-infected people were registered in Kazakhstan, which is an increase. Of them, 248 are children at the age of up to 14 years, 703 people are AIDS sufferers,...
Text of report in English by Turkish news agency Anatolia ANKARA (A.A) -16.07.2008 -Turkish General Staff said on Wednesday that 11 terrorists were neutralized in security operations that started in Buzul mountainous region in the southeastern province of Hakkari on July 13th, 2008. General Staff said number of terrorists who were rendered ineffective in the past 5 days reached 33 together with those neutralized in the operation in Incebel mountainous region in the southeastern province of...
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The Chukar Partridge or Chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland game bird in the pheasant family called Phasianidae. It’s been considered to form a super species complex along with the Rock Partridge, Philby’s Partridge and Przevalski’s Partridge and treated in the past as conspecific especially with the first. This partridge has well marked white and black bars on the flanks and a black band running from the forehead across the eye and running down the head to create a necklace...
Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. It is located mainly in the eastern and northern hemispheres covering 8.7 percent of the Earth’s whole surface area and making up 30 percent of its land area. With about 4.3 billion people, it hosts 60 percent of the world’s current human population. This continent has a high growth rate in the modern era. For example, during the 20th century, Asia’s population almost quadrupled. This continent is defined as making up the...
The Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica), also known as the Caucasian leopard, is a subspecies of the leopard that can be found in the Caucasus mountains, eastern Turkey southern Turkmenistan, northern Iran, and some western areas of Afghanistan. Its range in the Caucuses is now fragmented, but once encompassed all areas except those within steppe habitats. It prefers to live in many habitats, but in the Greater Caucuses, it prefers subalpine meadows, rocky ravines, and broadleaved...
The Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), also known as the eastern roe deer, can be found in northeastern areas of Asia. Its range includes Mongolia, Siberia, the Korean peninsula, eastern Tibet, northeastern China, and the Tian Shan Mountains. It is thought that this species lived in England for a short period, but it no longer exists there. The roe deer species is split into two areas, in Siberia and in Ural. It prefers to live in grasslands or steppe lands, and have adapted to live in...
The Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) is a medium-sized species of diving duck found in Eurasia. Its breeding habitat is marshland and lakes with water depth of at least 3-4 feet. It breeds in southern and eastern Europe and southern and western Asia. It is somewhat migratory, and winters farther south into north Africa. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The adult male Ferruginous Duck is rich...
