BISHKEK (TCA) — A street performance aimed to draw the attention of citizens to illegal migration and trafficking in human beings was held in Bishkek earlier this week.
ISTANBUL (TCA) — An attempted military coup in Turkey appeared to be failing as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to Instanbul early Saturday and told crowds of supporters he’s “not going anywhere,” RFE/RL reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Despite the risks that remain due to low raw material prices and the condition of the global economy, the development of Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan) in the first six months of 2016 suggests they do adapt gradually to the shocks of several recent years. Negative trends in EDB economies that aggravated in 2015 because of falling raw material prices weakened to some extent, and the region’s economies began to improve their macroeconomic indicators in the first six months of 2016, including leading indicators, the rates of exchange, inflation expectations, and stabilization in the financial markets, EDB said with reference to the findings made in The Macroeconomic Review prepared by the Chief Economist Group at EDB.
TASHKENT (TCA) — A facility to produce a valuable fertilizer, potassium sulfate, will be completed by the end of this year at the Navoi Electrochemical Plant in Uzbekistan with Chinese participation, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — A B2B meeting of Kazakh and Polish businessmen was organized by the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, the Chamber reported on July 14. The meeting was timed to the forthcoming official visit of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Poland.
The Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz (UNESCO photo)
TASHKENT (TCA) — The World Heritage Committee has decided to add Uzbekistan’s Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz to the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the over-development of tourist infrastructure in the site, the Committee said on July 13.
