Chinese Food Scare Spills Over Into Kyrgyzstan
Imported flour thought to contain the same harmful chemical identified in Chinese dairy product scandal.
Imported flour thought to contain the same harmful chemical identified in Chinese dairy product scandal.
Reporter Sabir Abdumomunov travelled to the Batken region of southern Kyrgyzstan, where it is not always clear what country you are in.
Although it is the autumn cotton harvest in Central Asian states that attracts international attention, child labour on farms is in fact common all year round in Tajikistan.
IWPR radio reports lead to officials assisting refugees from the South Ossetian conflict.
Regional journalists attending an IWPR seminar pledge to cooperate more closely.
Some Yerevan politicians say arrest of Armenian activists on espionage charges is attempt to intimidate the minority.
Social and economic problems leave many children in Tajikistan fending for themselves on the streets.
In a report on the northern region of Soghd, Kamari Ahrorzoda asked just how bad a year 2008 was for residents of an area that used to be Tajikistan’s economic powerhouse.
Abkhaz officials encourage them to return but Georgian refugee leaders warn against doing so.
Even as adults, people who grew up in children’s homes suffer the consequences of marginalisation and poor education.