Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Elena uploaded other photos of the Boeing-737 that crashed shortly after takeoff from Bishkek airport, leaving more than 60 people dead.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
UNESCO and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) jointly organized an international conference on ‘Human Security and Peace in Central Asia’. On 8 and 9 September 2005, the conference brought together a distinguished group of academics, experts and professionals from various backgrounds for two days of insightful, productive discussions. Selected papers from the conference presentations are offered...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday offered his condolences to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the deaths of dozens of Iranians at the recent Kyrgyzstan plane crash in the country's capital of Bishkek. In his message, Hu said he was astonished to learn that dozens of Iranian citizens died in the Kyrgyzstan plane crash on Sunday. He expressed his deep condolences for the victims, their...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Centerra Gold Inc. (TSX: CG) stated that according to available information the Bishkek Inter District Court of the Kyrgyz Republic today dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, K.S. Isabekov, against the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic relating to the Company's Kumtor project. The lawsuit sought to annul the Government's decree approving the...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Iranian forensic experts flew into Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to help identify the remains of 56 people killed in a plane crash in the Central Asian nation.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The incident with the Ryanair aircraft came within hours of another Boeing 737 crashing at Bishkek the capital of the Kyrgyz republic in central Asia killing 68 people.
kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
President Hu Jintao of China on Monday sent a message of condolence to his Kyrgyzstani counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev over Sunday's plane crash in the country's capital of Bishkek. In his message, Hu expressed condolences for the victims, their families and the injured on behalf of the Chinese government and people. The plane, belonging to Kyrgyzstan's private airline Itek-Air, crashed shortly after...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
A day after a passenger jet carrying 90 people, including two Canadians, crashed near the main airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Sunday, relatives of the 65 people killed in the crash began the process of identifying the dead.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan/Moscow - Kyrgyz authorities Monday ruled out terrorism as the cause of an air crash in which at least 65 passengers died near the Central Asian state's capital of Bishkek, saying mechanical failure was the probable cause. Reports ...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Nearly 100 weeping relatives gathered at the main Bishkek morgue, many clutching dental records to help identify the victims because most of the bodies were charred.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN — The relatives of 65 people killed in a plane crash near Kyrgyzstan's main airport began the process of identifying the bodies in the capital Monday.
Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Aug 25 (DPA) Kyrgyz authorities Monday ruled out terrorism as the cause of an air crash in which at least 65 passengers died near the Central Asian state's capital of Bishkek, saying mechanical failure was the probable cause.
Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Two more serious airline accidents were reported over the weekend. CNN writes "an Iran-bound Boeing 737 with 90 people on board crashed Sunday just outside the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing most passengers, a government official said. The crash...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Some 44 Iranians died in the crash of a Boeing-737 plane near Bishkek, capital of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. The plane of Kyrgyzstan's private company Itek-Air crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from the Bishkek airport, killing 65 people and leaving 25 others injured. The plane was leaving for the Iranian city of Mashhad. Hashem Qadirian,...
