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BISHKEK (TCA) — The weak external environment is expected to persist in Kyrgyzstan in 2016, further slowing growth to about 3 percent, widening external and fiscal deficits and slowing credit to the country’s economy, said Edward Gemayel, the head of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission that visited Bishkek from April 21 to May 5 to conduct the second review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov invited members of the delegation of the UN agencies’ Executive Councils to take part in the opening ceremony of the Second World Nomad Games to be held this September at Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul. The high-profile UN delegation visited Kyrgyzstan on May 2-7. Continue reading
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Precious metals and stones, along with ferrous and non-ferrous metals, worth according to some estimates up to 3 trillion dollars are waiting under Afghanistan’s soil to be exploited. But to do so appears to be a remote dream at best for mining entrepreneurs given what happens on the ground rather than beneath it, leaving mining activity to thugs and terrorists whose variety in Afghanistan is hardly less rich. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz farmers can now sell vegetables and meat at Moscow's new Food City agricultural complex. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — The Russian version of the National Geographic magazine recently compiled a list of natural wonders of Kazakhstan that are worth to be visited by tourists, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website. Continue reading