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Manas Petroleum, an international oil and gas company, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary DWM Petroleum has entered into a letter agreement for the Phase-2 work period in the Kyrgyz Republic. DWM has agreed to permit Australian oil and gas company Santos to commence the Phase-2 work program prior to the end of the Phase-1 work period. If Santos does not withdraw within 60 days of the end of the Phase-1 work period, which is yet to occur, then Santos must drill a minimum of two...

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "1st LD: Chinese Citizen Confirmed Killed in Plane Crash in Kyrgyzstan"] DUSHANBE, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) - One Chinese citizen was confirmed killed Sunday in the crash of a Boeing-737 passenger plane near Bishkek, capital of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, the Chinese embassy said on Monday. Yang Shuying, the press liaison officer of the embassy, told Xinhua over the phone that according...

By Associated Press BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 68, government officials said. The Boeing 737 was headed to Iran when it crashed near Bishkek's Manas International Airport, said government spokeswoman Roza Daudova. Twenty-two people, including two crew members, survived the accident. Earlier, Daudova, had said there were at least 71 dead and 25...

BISHKEK. Aug 24 (Interfax) - The Boeing-737 which crashed in Kyrgyzstan, has burnt down completely, said Kyrgyz Emergency Minister Kamchibek Tashiyev said. "There were 90 people on board, 25 of them survived," Tashiyev told Interfax. Rescue operations at the crash site are underway. According to early reports, 25 people survived the air crash, the Kyrgyz Civil Aviation Department told Interfax. Two ambulance cars took to Bishkek the first nine victims of the Boeing 737 crash, a...

//CORR- correcting headline to "Iran sets up response taskforce for families of Kyrgyz crash victims." //Text of report by state- run Iranian TV channel two on 24 August [Presenter] A [Boeing] 737 aircraft belonging to Kyrgyzstan Airlines crashed moments after taking off from Bishkek airport at 2030 hours [time zone unspecified]. Unfortunately, approximately 100 passengers have been killed. We have the spokesperson for the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, Mr Ja'farzadeh on the line....

Text of report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Bishkek, 24 August: About 25 people have survived in a Boeing- 737 passenger aircraft which crashed today here [in Bishkek] while taking off from Manas airport. There were altogether 123 people on the board including the crew, the department of civil aviation of Kyrgyzstan has said. According to it, the aircraft was bound from Bishkek to Mashhad (Iran) and was rented by the Iranian airline Osman. Groups of paramedics, firefighters and...

The passenger jet which crashed shortly after taking off from Manas international airport near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on 24 August was on a charter flight from Bishkek to the Iranian city of Mashhad operated by the Iranian airline Osman, the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported. Originally published by ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in English 1733 24 Aug 08. (c) 2008 BBC Monitoring Newsfile. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

Text of report by state-run Iranian TV channel two on 24 August [Presenter] A [Boeing] 737 aircraft belonging to Kyrgyzstan Airlines crashed moments after taking off from Bishkek airport at 2030 hours [time zone unspecified]. Unfortunately, approximately 100 passengers have been killed. We have the spokesperson for the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, Mr Ja'farzadeh on the line. [Ja'farzadeh] Good evening, I apologize that the phone was disconnected the first time around. As I said, a...

Excerpt from report by state-owned Kyrgyz Television 1 on 20 August Kyrgyz energy companies have cut off three-phase equipment [from electricity supply] to prevent a crisis. To collect enough water in the Toktogul water reservoir, we should save about 4bn kWh of electricity. [Passage omitted: rational use of natural resources necessary] [Correspondent] It is important now to save 4bn kWh of electricity by any means. This will make it possible to save enough water in the Toktogul reservoir...

Text of report by privately-owned Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website Bishkek, 21 August: The law-enforcement agencies intend to establish order at the Karakeche coal mine in Kyrgyzstan's [eastern] Naryn Region. Following a staff meeting in Karakeche on 16 August, which discussed establishing order and the observance of a queue by vehicles waiting to get coal, local authorities decided to step up the work of on-duty police at the coal mine. According to drivers, sometimes people are spending...