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Thursday, October 29, 1998 Published at 16:20 GMT
World: Asia-Pacific
Japan helps fund silk road. RADIO H/L:
Reports from Kyrgyzstan say that Japan has agreed to lend 40 million dollars to modernise a major north-south highway in the former Soviet republic.
Correspondents say the highway is seen as a link in a new Silk Road, the ancient trade route through central Asia.
The loan was agreed during a visit to Japan last week by the Kyrgyz President, Askar Akayev.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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