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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Starting from 14 February cars of dark colours are again being stopped by traffic police and towed away to car impounds in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat, independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reports.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A two-day international conference to discuss ways of boosting security and economic cooperation between Central Asia countries started in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent on February 19. The conference, “Central Asian connectivity: challenges and new opportunities,” was organized by Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA).
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Preliminary hearings have begun in Kyrgyzstan into a high-profile corruption case against eight close allies of former President Almazbek Atambayev, who was in power from 2011 to 2017, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Astana International Exchange (AIX) informed that on January 25, 2019 United Kingdom’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) granted AIX with ‘recognised stock exchange’ status under section 1005 Income Tax Act 2007, the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) said on February 18.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan take any steps to suppress and eliminate any dissent and opposition to the ruling regime — both inside the country and abroad. We are republishing the following article on the issue, originally published by Eurasianet:
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URUMQI, China (TCA) — The foreign trade volume between China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and countries along Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (B&R) totaled about 291.5 billion yuan (43 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018, 13.5 percent more than in the previous year, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
