Open ArticleUN: Half a million stateless people got citizenship in past decadeBy Trans Asia NewsWorldThe UN said Friday that in the decade since it launched a campaign to end the limbo of statelessness, over half a million people without a nationality had acquired citizenship.
Open Article10-nation ECO vows to combat terror at summit in PakistanBy Trans Asia NewsBusinessEstablished in 1985 for promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation among the member states, ECO now comprises of a region that stretches from the Himalayas in the East to the West of Dardanelles from the Ara
Open ArticleKyrgyzstan: Life sentence reinstated for Uzbek activistBy TANSCentral AsiaAskarov, a 66-year old ethnic Uzbek, was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 2010 on charges of inciting a crowd to murder a police officer during inter-communal riots in the southern Kyrgyzstan