NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., the beef and pork subsidiary of US’s Tyson Foods, Inc., on December 9 signed an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan and private holding company Kusto Group to collaborate on a project that in its initial phase could lead to the construction of a modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan with an anticipated harvest capacity of 2,000 head per day. The investment is projected to help provide an annual agricultural economic benefit to the country well in excess of one billion US dollars, Tyson Foods said in a press release.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The head of the government of China’s Xinjiang, at a press conference in Beijing on December 9, said the region is determined in counter-terrorism, deradicalization and maintaining development, Xinhua news agency reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — A psychiatric examination has been ordered for Kyrgyzstan’s arrested former President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported citing the country’s Interior Ministry.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Prosecutors in a high-profile corruption trial in Kyrgyzstan have asked a court to sentence two former mayors of the country’s capital, Bishkek, to lengthy prison terms, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — An agreement on supplying Kazakh oil to Belarus may be signed early next year, Belarus’ BelTA news agency reported on December 6 with reference to Kazakh Deputy Energy Minister Asset Magauov.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — In January-November 2019, preliminary oil production in Kazakhstan amounted to 82.5 million tons. The country’s oil production plan for 2019 is 89 million tons, and until the end of the year, it is expected that the oil production plan will be slightly exceeded to reach 90.5 million tons, Vice Minister of Energy Asset Magauov said at a press conference on December 6, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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