Seventeen-year-old Ibragim Belgych attends school in the mornings and connects his neighbors in the Kyrgyz mountain village of Suusamyr to a community Internet network in the afternoons. He is the only person on hand to do the job.
Beyshekan Kamza, a 38-year-old resident of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, cannot stop thinking about China. A relative there told her that her father and sister have been incarcerated in a reeducation facility in the country’s northern region of Xinjiang -- for 15 years and two years, respectively.
Ten-year-old Aliya, a Kyrgyz schoolgirl, has just picked up something with her left hand for the first time. She is the first customer for a Kyrgyz-made, bionic prosthetic arm that developers promise will enable those with a limb difference to lead more independent lives.
