Postcard from Bishkek

There is a fair amount of discussion (in the business press – and ironically, on the internet) about the amount of time spent by workers surfing the net – the cost to business is supposed to run into hours and hours of lost production and millions of pounds, dollars, Euro or som. It’s not just […]

I don’t often get to look at the Sydney Morning Herald – after all, Sydney is an awful long way from Bishkek, but a tweet on Twitter sent  me to an interesting article: “Why would anyone want to go there?” by Ben Groundwater – aka The Backpacker. It was not only interesting.  I found Groundwater’s approach, […]

Apart from the Maevka incident, which was widely reported here and in Russia, but received only limited coverage in the West as far as I can tell – presumably because there was so much else going on in the world: elections, volcanic eruptions, sports matches and the like – everything is fairly quiet here.  The […]