Turkey From Kemalism To Neo-Ottoman Democracy Or Vice-Versa; Azerbaijan Is Regressing.
*** Afghans, China, Egypt, France, Iran, Iraq, Israel & Its Lobbies, The Lebanese, The Pakistanis, The Palestinians, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey And The US Under Bush Are All Playing Tactical Games, Pending The American Presidential Elections Of Nov. 4 - No Definitive Actions Will Be Taken Before...

Radarsat-2: launched and lost?
On December 14, 2007, one of the "world's most advanced" commercial Earth observation satellites was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. After almost a decade of design, construction, and delays, not to mention $445-million in public investment, Canada's long-anticipated Radarsat-2 was positioning itself...

OHRP issues new compilation of regulations.
The 2008 edition of the "International Compilation of Human Subject Protections" is now available on-line. The new version lists about 900 laws, regulations, and guidelines from 84 countries on human subject protections, including four new countries: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, and Turkey. Many of the listings include the...

Humans from space.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] [3] KAZAKHSTAN -- A group of villagers living on the rural steppes of Kazakhstan got the shock of their lives when a large silver capsule crashed to Earth on April. 19 and three humans climbed out. It was a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and it was...

Company Watch - Airbus.
Jan 7, 2008 Air Astana Orders Airbus And Boeing. Kazakhstan airline Air Astana said on Thursday it had decided to buy 6 single-aisle A320 aircraft from Airbus and 3 wide-body Boeing 787-8s in deals worth a combined USD$850 million at list prices. The airline, which is 51...

Fungal threat to region's food security.
A NEW AND VIRULENT agricultural fungus, previously found in Yemen and East Africa, has invaded major wheat growing areas of the Middle East. The infestation has put Iran on high alert along with several other important cereal producing countries close by, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. ...

Company Watch - Boeing.
Jan 7, 2008 Air Astana Orders Airbus And Boeing. Kazakhstan airline Air Astana said on Thursday it had decided to buy 6 single-aisle A320 aircraft from Airbus and 3 wide-body Boeing 787-8s in deals worth a combined USD$850 million at list prices. The airline, which is 51...

The IPI Pipeline Project.
The IPI project has been under discussion since 1994 and is not likely to materialise in the near future. Its actual cost may exceed $10 bn even if the proposed pipeline's construction is to begin in 2009. While paper WTI crude oil's price has risen less than six-fold since...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
May 5, 2008 Discovery Communications chairman John Hendricks will return a new and improved library -- more than 100 hours -- of archival NASA footage to NASA May 6 at a Capitol Hill ceremony and screening. Discovery digitized the footage for a new HD special, When We...

Company Watch - Bmi.
Feb 18, 2008 Bmi will use the 757s to introduce nonstop services from LHR to Almaty and Freetown beginning May 1. Both routes currently are served with a stop. In addition, the airline's new London LHR-Tel Aviv service, which it said is "selling beyond expectations," will upgrade...