China and Kyrgyzstan agreed on Tuesday to promote regional peace and security via closer cooperation on law enforcement and security.

• April 27, 2011

Kyrgyzstan and Turkey increased the visa-free regime for citizens of both states up to 90 days. The Prime Ministers of both countries signed a relevant agreement yesterday in Ankara within the framework of an official visit of Kyrgyz PM Almazbek Atambayev. Previously, visa-free regime functioned for 30 days.

• April 27, 2011

The report said recent International Monetary Fund forecasting had predicted China would surpass US real economic output in the very near future.

• April 26, 2011

The Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan will take part in a joint project for construction of a railway connecting cities in three countries to each other, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said.

• April 25, 2011

Parliament of Kyrgyzstan adopted new customs duties on a number of basic commodity items, as decided at parliamentary session

• April 22, 2011

The Azerbaijani government has quietly stopped the operations of two international nongovernmental organizations in what some local observers claim is a further attempt to clamp down on the country’s relatively weak civil society.

• April 21, 2011

Georgia's parliament has annulled an agreement with Russia allowing Moscow to use its territory as a transit nation for a Russian military base in Armenia

• April 21, 2011

Japan has made it illegal to enter a 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor.

• April 21, 2011