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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $167.02 million loan for a project that will rehabilitate and reconstruct 89 kilometers of road between Aktobe and Kandyagash, which will connect major trade routes in Kazakhstan and improve the country’s connectivity, trade activities, and road safety, ADB’s Country Office said on September 30.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna is planning to hold an initial public offering (IPO) and sell off another eight companies affiliated with it to strategic investors, Sputnik news agency reported with reference to the Fund’s press service.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The U.S. Agency for International Development says it will host one of the region’s flagship international business events, the ninth annual Central Asia Trade Forum, on November 12-13 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — EU-funded Border Management in Central Asia Programme (BOMCA) launched a new round of National Steering Group meetings. The series of five meetings in Central Asia countries began in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on September 13, continued in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on 23 September, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on 26 September, Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) on 30 September and will terminate in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on October 3, the European Union delegations in Central Asia countries said.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On September 27, a charter flight on the route Xi’an – Tashkent – Xi’an was carried out as a result of efforts of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China and Zhejang Loong Airlines Co. Ltd., the Jahon information agency reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — In recognition of International Literacy Day, the United States Ambassador to Tajikistan, John Mark Pommersheim, on September 27 joined Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Tajikistan Fathiddin Usmonzoda, local authorities, education officials, teachers, and students to celebrate this global event in the country’s Varzob district. International Literacy Day events were held across the country as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) primary grade literacy program in Tajikistan, the US Embassy in Dushanbe said.
