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Excerpt from report, headlined "A helping hand. Sixty million dollars are needed. Help with everything you can", by privately- owned daily Kyrgyz newspaper Vecherniy Bishkek website on 19 August The [Kyrgyz] government has officially appealed to international organizations for help in preventing an energy crisis in the country. "Given that the Toktogul reservoir will not be able to collect [additional] 2bn cubic metres of water by the beginning of the heating period [November 2008], the...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Aug. 18, 2008) - Orsu Metals Corporation ("Orsu", or the "Company") (TSX:OSU)(AIM:OSU), the London-based base and precious metal mining, development and exploration company today reports its results for the quarter and six months ended 30 June 2008. All amounts are reported in United States Dollars unless otherwise indicated. Canadian Dollars are referred to herein as CAD$. QUARTER OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS - Additional mineral resources reported at...

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov has said that his country should cut down the export of electricity to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan this year due to a shortage of water in the country's major Toktogul reservoir. In an interview with the state-owned Kabar news agency, Chudinov said that electricity exports had been reduced from 2.2bn kWh to 400m kWh this year. "We asked our neighbours before and we have requested them several times this year to draw up a set of measures to import electricity...

Text of report by privately-owned Kyrgyz AKIpress news agency website Bishkek, 15 August: The World Bank is allocating 5m dollars to Kyrgyzstan for resolving problems connected with an energy crisis in the country, the head of the World Bank's permanent office in the Kyrgyz Republic, [World Bank Country Manager] Roger Robinson, said today at a meeting of a donor council with the Kyrgyz Ministry of Industry, Energy and Fuel Resources. He said that the money would be allocated by the end of...

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Bishkek, 8 August: Rescuers of the Altay Territory department of Russia's Ministry of Emergencies have joined in the search for the three Russian mountain climbers who went missing in Kyrgyzstan. So have their relatives. An ITAR-TASS correspondent was told this at the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergencies today. [Passage omitted: background information] Now, Kyrgyz Ak-Suy and Dzhety-Oguz Districts' search and rescue detachments of the...

Text of report headlined "Pact signed for power import from CARs" by Pakistani newspaper Daily Times website on 5 August [by Zafar Bhutta] Islamabad: Pakistan will sign a commercial agreement with Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan by November 30 that would enable the initiation of construction work on a 1000-megawatt power import project from the Central Asian Republics (CAR), sources said on Monday [4 August]. They said the drafts of the agreement would be revised by September 2,...

BISHKEK. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Three miners have died in south Kyrgyzstan as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, the country's Emergencies Ministry told Interfax on Monday. "Three coal miners, born 1991, 1967, and 1966, died at a private coal mine in the village of Kok-Yangak [in the Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan] as a result of being poisoned with carbon monoxide," the ministry said. Early reports suggest that the miners' death was caused by a breach of safety regulations. The...

Pakistan to import 1,000MW electricity from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ISLAMABAD, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan will import 1,000 megawatts of electricity from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to provide consumers with cheaper power, the Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said Sunday. The 1,000-MW power will be imported from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through Afghanistan, a milestone for the progress and development of both Pakistan and Afghanistan, the minister said. The project, expected...

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Bishkek, 4 August: Three miners have died in southern Kyrgyzstan, getting poisoned by carbon monoxide, sources in the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry's press service told Interfax today. "Three miners, born in 1991, 1967 and 1966, died getting poisoned by carbon monoxide in a private mine in the village of Kok-Dzhanak (Dzhalal-Abad Region, southern Kyrgyzstan)," the sources in the ministry said. According to preliminary data, the...

Excerpt from report by founded by Uzbekistan's Cabinet of Ministers, Uzbek newspaper Pravda Vostoka on 26 July All water resources of the Central Asian rivers are distributed within "the plan on use of water resources in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers' basins ", which is agreed by all countries of the region. As a country with a huge population, Uzbekistan consumes over 50 per cent of all water resources of the Central Asian rivers. At the same time, over 85 per cent of the country's...