Kyrgyzstan News » Batken News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Health: Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Region bordering Tajikistan to receive special status
The draft law on the status of the Batken Region says that the local government bodies will be given special powers to coordinate the activity of local institutions and cooperate with the law ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Health: IDA Helps the Kyrgyz Republic’s Batken Rebuild after Conflict
In September 2022, conflict along the Kyrgyz Republic’s southwestern border caused significant damages to the country’s Batken region. A project supported by the International Development Association ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Health: Kyrgyz Authorities Shut Down 32 Mosques, 5 Religious Schools In Southern Batken Region
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee of National Security (UKMK) said on October 10 that it had closed 32 mosques and five religious schools in the southern region of Batken as a result of a special ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Health: Tens of thousands displaced as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan conflict rages on
Around 120,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in an area of Kyrgyzstan where fierce fighting is ongoing against forces from neighboring Tajikistan, a senior Kyrgyz government official has ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Health: Nasvay Chewing Tobacco Poisons Kyrgyzstan
"We sow tobacco to make extra money" says Askarbek Duisheyev, a farmer in Kyrgyzstan's impoverished Batken province whose crops are used to produce nasvay chewing tobacco. The substance is cheaper ...