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) — Kazakhstan’s Internet operators raised the price of Internet transit to Kyrgyzstan almost threefold without any explanation in August. In order not to increase the rates for customers, Kyrgyz Internet providers have begun reducing the Internet connection speed. The news has caused a wave of indignation in Kyrgyz society that fears tariff increases for the population.
ALMATY (TCA) — China’s ambitious plan to install a hardware network, in which rail and road links are crucial, to get its economic clout stretch all across the mega-continent straight to western Europe looks at three main strings: across Siberia in the north, Central Asia in the middle, and the Indian Ocean’s coastal states in the south. Most of the headaches encountered in the process concern the middle route.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Turkmen State Committee for Nature Protection and Land Management promote sustainable urban development in Turkmenistan. The topic is important as the country is actively developing its urban infrastructure, which is one of the sustainable development goals. In Turkmenistan, the number of urban population exceeded rural in 2014, and this trend is accelerating, Mark Chao, UNDP International Expert on Energy, Environment and Climate Change, said in an interview with UNDP Turkmenistan.
ADB President Takehiko Nakao (left) and Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, President of Turkmenistan
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao met with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov earlier this week in Ashgabat to discuss the country’s development priorities and reiterate support for the government’s efforts to diversify the economy, ADB’s press service said.
TASHKENT (TCA) — A project to establish Uzbekistan’s first plant for the production of conveyor belts, agricultural and automobile tires is currently in progress in the Angren special industrial zone (SIZ). The new plant is scheduled for commissioning in the third quarter of 2018, the Jahon information agency reports.
