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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Zhanatas wind power plant, the largest of its kind in Central Asia, will get loans of 46.7 million U.S. dollars from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Xinhua news agency reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a senior Dushanbe police officer and three other officers to time in prison after they were found guilty of torturing a man who was being held for drug charges, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Dozens of Kazakh opposition and civil rights activists have gathered in the center of the capital, Nur-Sultan, and the country’s biggest city, Almaty, to call for more rights and demand that all political prisoners be released, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay an official visit to Japan on 17-20 December 2019 at the invitation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the president’s official website said.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The acts of pardon will not be applied to those convicted for crimes related to corruption and illicit drug trafficking in Turkmenistan. Relevant amendments to the country’s Criminal Code came into force on 13 December 2019, Chronicles of Turkmenistan news website reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in the Colombian capital last week inscribed Ak-kalpak craftsmanship, traditional knowledge and skills in making and wearing Kyrgyz men’s headwear to UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
