Kazakhstan’s credit rating downgraded
ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s credit rating has been downgraded by Fitch Ratings with the agency citing the detrimental effect of lower oil prices on the country’s economy, RFE/RL reported on May 1.
ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s credit rating has been downgraded by Fitch Ratings with the agency citing the detrimental effect of lower oil prices on the country’s economy, RFE/RL reported on May 1.
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting better regional integration — one of its core strategic priorities — by strengthening trade and transportation along the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
ASTANA (TCA) — The World Bank Board of Directors has approved a US $80 million loan for the Social Health Insurance Project aimed at improving accessibility, quality, and efficiency of health service delivery in Kazakhstan as well as at reducing financial risks to the population caused by serious health problems.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Urban Initiatives’ Road Triangle outreach campaign, supported by the United States through USAID, emphasized the critical roles that traffic police, drivers, and pedestrians play in ensuring road safety in Kyrgyzstan. As part of this campaign, the Bishkek-based civil society organization Urban Initiatives developed an online test to help drivers improve their knowledge of traffic safety rules, the organization said. To date, more than 26,700 people have taken the test.
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.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have been involved in tensions concerning disputed border areas in the Ferghana Valley, a densely populated region shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, we are republishing an article by Paul Goble, entitled “Central Asia’s ‘Karabakhs’ may be even more dangerous than the original”, originally published by the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor, which draws a parallel between the Caucasus and Central Asia. The article is below: