ALMATY (TCA) — From July 1 to September 1, 2016 tourists will have the opportunity to get to Mount Khan Tengri in the central Tien Shan from the territory of Kazakhstan, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
The Kok-Talaa – Pulgon road section of Osh–Batken–Isfana highway (photo from the Kyrgyz Government’s press service)
BISHKEK (TCA) — Construction of the Kok-Talaa – Pulgon road section at 108 to 123 km of Osh–Batken–Isfana highway in the south of Kyrgyzstan had been completed and the official ribbon cutting ceremony of the new 15-km road took place on June 24 in the township of Kadamjay with participation of Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov.
KHOROG, Tajikistan (TCA) — On June 26, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon inaugurated the Pamir Mountain Welcome Centre (PMWC) and Youth, Sports and Culture complex in Khorog in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast.
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.
LONDON (TCA) — Attempts by national governments of Central Asia’s former Soviet republics to make their indigenous languages tools for nationalistic mainstream politics have been halfhearted from the very beginning following the break-up of the USSR. Intrusions of other external movements, mainly though not only “Islamic” ones, have made authorities throughout the region think twice. With a large number of migrants to Russia and business development, all landlocked countries of Central Asia are in search for coexistence between nationalist sentiments and cross-frontier ambitions.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the number of non-performing loans is growing in Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz lawmakers have suggested the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) analyze how loans taken by citizens have improved their lives.
