Kyrgyzstan Travel News

Government says it has no option but to charge more realistic rates. By Asyl Osmonalieva in Bishkek Plans for massive hikes in electricity and central heating prices have outraged consumers in Kyrgyzstan, who say they will be hard pressed to pay.

Golden Secondary School has a new foreign student from the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.

The total length of roads in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken oblast exceeds 1.2 thousand km.

The U.S. Embassy in China says three Americans are dead after a Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed during takeoff at Shanghai's main international airport.

Back in Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek I arrive at Sabyrbrek's B&B where a towering fence keeps me locked outside and an intermittent hail of acorns falls from branches above.

Concerns about the spread of swine flu are creating an additional hurdle for Central Asian believers hoping to make the Hajj, or the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

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The United States has in recent months sought to improve relations with Turkmenistan, the secretive former Soviet possession that is home to rich oil and gas deposits and straddles a strategically vital central Asian location, sharing borders with both Iran and Afghanistan.

As often happens in such contexts---someone looking at me...a fair, red-headed blue-eyed man who doesn't speak Russian--- the question came up as to how on earth my travels ever landed me in such a remote part of the world.

As I wait in the terminal to board my Bishkek-bound plane, a teensy canary of a woman steps up to me, ticket in hand, and asks in American English, 'What is Kyrgyzstan?', pecking at the heap of syllables one kernel at a time.

Sasha, a 17 year-old ethnic Korean student in Bishkek, only knows one word in Korean: hello.

After three weeks stuck in Bishkek, Douglas Whitehead discovers who is really to blame for his visa woes: Gordon Brown.

Turkmen students have been stopped from traveling to study at the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad.

KYRGYZSTAN is the only country that hosts both American and Russian military bases.

In the shadow of Kyrgyzstan's mountains, things are looking bleak for our bicycle diarist and his dreams of India.

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana newspaper publisher was denied entry to the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan upon his arrival there for a two-week visit to evaluate a university's journalism program in the former Soviet republic.

Nestled high in a stunning valley with an abundance of mineral deposits, residents of Min Kush once had many reasons to boast.

While touring the Peyton Boathouse and Rice Family Crew Complex, Kanybek Dokonovich Konokbaev tried out one of the erg machines.

The academic year is getting underway at American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, but only about one-third of the expected contingent of Turkmen students is in position to begin classes.

AFTER living out of four pannier bags for so long, I got home and thought, what the hell is all this rubbish?" says 37-year-old Tracy Norris, who recently returned, with her husband Andrew, from a cycling trip across Asia, which took them from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan to Malaysian Borneo.