BISHKEK (TCA) — Three public discussions on the regulatory legal acts regarding the use of natural resources and environmental protection are being organized from 19 July to 27 July by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the local Aarhus Centre in the districts of Toktogul, Aksy and Kadamjay in southern Kyrgyzstan.
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.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — As state power succession remains a very relevant issue in Central Asia’s post-Soviet countries including Turkmenistan, we are republishing the following article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
LONDON (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries are constantly trying to attract foreign investment, which is very important for the local economies and one of the most important answers to persistent economic stagnation. The inability to solve this problem during at least the past decade requires a consideration on how the attraction of foreign investment has been handled and the several reasons behind the failure, involving not only large multinationals but also small and medium foreign entrepreneurs.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s mining industry has been deteriorating for years and the situation has become critical but the government has not paid much attention to it. For more than 20 years since independence, the industry’s management capacity has been worsening, members of the Association of Miners and Geologists of Kyrgyzstan said at a press conference in Bishkek.
BISHKEK (TCA) — A new fund to deal with the legacy of Soviet-era uranium mining and processing in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan had its inaugural assembly meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on July 21, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
