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BAAR, Switzerland, November 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp. ("Manas") (OTCBB: MNAP / TSX.V:MNP) today announced that CEO Peter-Mark Vogel, will present a corporate overview of the Company at the Visor Capital Central Asian Conference day of November 24, 2011. The event will take place at 23 Austin Friars, London, UK. Additionally, President & Director Dr. Werner Ladwein will present a corporate overview of the Company at a luncheon event held in...
High rates of parasitic infection in the region nearly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union The open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases will publish an article emphasizing the rising burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Central Asia on Tuesday, Sept. 27th. According to the article's co-authors, Dr. Peter Hotez, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and Dr. Ken Alibek of Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, the region continues to suffer from a...
BAAR, Switzerland, Sept. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp. ("Manas" or the "Company") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) is pleased to announce the results of its Annual and Special Meeting of Stockholders held September 22, 2011, which was attended, in person or by proxy, by shareholders holding 75,821,050 shares, or approximately 44% of the shares entitled to vote at the meeting. At the meeting, Heinz J. Scholz, Michael J. Velletta, Dr. Richard Schenz and Dr. Werner Ladwein were...
BAAR, Switzerland, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp. ("Manas") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) is pleased to announce that, effective September 1, 2011, it has retained Brisco Capital Partners Corporation ("Brisco") to provide investor relations and corporate communications services. Brisco is a Calgary, Alberta, based consulting firm managed by Scott Koyich, an investor relations professional with over 15 years of experience providing investor relations services for public...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) today signed an agreement with Mina Corp to create "The New Generation Academy" at AUCA. The Academy will offer an innovative one-year "bridging" program to talented high school graduates from across the Kyrgyz Republic who do not have the means to afford high quality private education. The Academy will begin teaching in September 2012. Mina Corp's initial funding of $2.5m will...
DUBAI, UAE, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mina Corp strongly condemns the statement by Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, made on Friday March 18 in Moscow during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, saying that the Kyrgyz government intends to seize control from Mina Corp of all jet fuel supplies to US forces in Kyrgyzstan. This is part of a continuing illegal campaign to expropriate Mina's business by the Kyrgyz authorities that came to power in April 2010....
In the news release, "Mina Corp: Draft Law's Disguised Tax Violates UK-Kyrgyzstan Agreement" issued on 25 Feb 2011 16:04 GMT, by Mina Corp over PR Newswire, we would like to advise that the headline should have read "Mina Corp: Draft Law's Disguised Tax Violates US-Kyrgyzstan Agreement" rather than "Mina Corp: Draft Law's Disguised Tax Violates UK-Kyrgyzstan Agreement", as incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows: DUBAI, UAE, February 25, 2011...
DUBAI, UAE, February 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mina Corp categorically denies that it agreed to the draft law passed yesterday in a first reading by Parliament "On special payments made by the company supplying jet fuel to the Manas Transit Center." Commenting on the draft law, Dean Peroff of Amsterdam & Peroff, a representative of Mina's international legal counsel, said: "Mina Corp has never agreed to any special payments or charges on the fuel it supplies to the Manas Transit...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) announced today that a SITECH® Technology Dealer has been established to serve Turkey, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. SITECH Eurasia joins the premier network of SITECH dealerships--the first fully dedicated global distribution network offering the most comprehensive portfolio of construction technology systems available to the heavy and highway contractor. SITECH Technology Dealers represent...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mina Corp. Ltd., and its sister company Red Star Enterprises Ltd., welcome the fundamental conclusion of the report of the majority staff of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives that vindicates the companies of false allegations of corruption involving prior Kyrgyz governments. The report also praises the...
