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The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. The archive is searchable by region, sub-region, country and theme.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
Keywords: Central Asia, China, East Asia, Hong Kong, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 11, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Asian Affairs is produced and published by by Larkincil International Ltd, a private consulting company based in Hong Kong providing policy makers, transnational group executives and major think-tanks with a strategic perspective of Asian affairs through specific research studies and confidential reports. asian affairs is dedicated to regular studies and analysis of Asia, South, Southeast and East Asia, particularly in the field of international relations, economics and financial affairs.The purpose of Asian Affairs is to strengthen communication and understanding and to offer a platform of exchange of information between Asia and Europe in the field of regulations, policies and economic trends and business cooperation.
http://www.asian-affairs.com/Frametop/think-tank.html
Keywords: Bangladesh, Central Asia, China, East Asia, General references, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 08, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Research, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam,

By Sania Battalova, puublished June 2005 by GlobaLex. GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world.
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Kyrgyz.htm
Keywords: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Law and legislation,

Self description: CentralAsiaOnline.com is a website sponsored by USCENTCOM to highlight movement toward greater regional stability both through bilateral and multilateral cooperative arrangements. CentralAsiaOnline.com also focuses on developments that hinder both terrorist activity and support for terrorism in the region. This site features news from across and about the region and features analysis, interviews and commentary by paid CentralAsiaOnline.com correspondents. It is designed to provide a regional audience with a portal to a broad range of information about future stability in the region.
http://centralasiaonline.com
Keywords: Business enterprises, Business. Management, Central Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 17, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, News, News. Media, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

This series of profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/list.html
Keywords: Agriculture, Business. Management, Central Asia, China, East Asia, Economic issues, Education, Geography, History, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 53, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Law and legislation, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, Politics and society, Science and technology. Innovation, Social conditions, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Self description: This three-year project aims at analyzing the institutional arrangements currently being developed and redefined in Central Asian economies. It expands the “Varieties of Capitalism” (VoC) research agenda to transition countries in Central Asia; notably Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and it is driven by the following goals: * to contribute in a comparative manner to a better understanding of political-economic developments in Central Asia; * to further the VoC research agenda by applying the approach to transition economies, notably to Central Asian economies; * to determine the influence of external actors in the transformation process in Central Asia and to develop relevant policy recommendations; * to elaborate the impact of distinct capitalist variations in Central Asia on economic performance – indicated by economic growth, income distribution, and socio-economic indicators.
http://www.centralasiaproject.de
Keywords: Central Asia, Economic issues, In Focus, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 17, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Politics and society, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Flirting with state failure : power and politics in Kyrgyzstan since independence / Johan Engvall. - Stockholm : Silk Road Studies Program, Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2011. - 101 p. (Silk Road paper)
http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2011_engvall_flirting-with-state...
Keywords: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Nordic Perspective, Politics and society, Publications, Sweden,

he Human Development Report (HDR) was first launched in 1990. Each Report focuses on a highly topical theme in the current development debate, providing path-breaking analysis and policy recommendations. National human development reports at the country level have been published in more than 120 nations. The Human Development Report is an independent report. It is commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is the product of a selected team of leading scholars, development practitioners and members of the Human Development Report Office of UNDP. The Report is translated into more than a dozen languages and launched in more than 100 countries annually.
http://hdr.undp.org/
Keywords: Central Asia, China, Development. Poverty, East Asia, Economic issues, Education, Environment, Hong Kong, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 41, In Focus 2010, In Focus 2010 Week 03, In Focus 2010 Week 29, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, Politics and society, Social conditions, South Korea, Statistics, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Women and gender studies,

Provides information on any member country's relations with IMF. Includes: * IMF publications about the member country. * The country's position in the Fund (when it joined, its quota size). * When its last Article IV consultation with the Fund took place. * The country's financial relations with the Fund (disbursements and payments). * Whether the country subscribes to the Data Standards Bulletin Board
http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm
Keywords: Central Asia, China, Development. Poverty, East Asia, Economic issues, Hong Kong, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 34, In Focus 2008 Week 46, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Kyrgyzstan : the path forward / Talaibek Koichumanov, Joomart Otorbayev and S. Frederick Starr. - Stockholm : Silk Road Studies Program, Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2005. - 40 p. (Silk Road paper) On 24 March 2005, demonstrators took control of Kyrgyzstan’s “White House.” Hours later President Askar Akaev fled the country. Hailed both as an epochal event that would usher in a new era of democracy and development, and as the malignant product of outside efforts to sow instability, the “Tulip Revolution” remains an enigma. It has indeed brought change, but by no means are all of the transformations positive. For all the rhetoric of revolution, the continuities from the former order are scarcely less striking. This should coma as a surprise to no one. Few of history’s most celebrated upheavals produce as much discontinuous change as their champions claim. Conversely, some of the greatest shifts of the tectonic plates of history are either unnoticed or misunderstood by most contemporary observers.
http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2005_koichumanov-otorbayev-starr...
Keywords: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Nordic Perspective, Politics and society, Publications, Sweden,