TASHKENT (TCA) — During the next five years Uzbekistan plans to build and revamp 960 km of railway lines and electrify about 900 km of railways, the Jahon information agency reported.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Fund (GEF) together with the national partner State Committee for Nature Protection of Turkmenistan have launched a new project “Support to the economic climate resilient livelihoods in agricultural communities in arid regions of Turkmenistan”, UNDP in Turkmenistan said.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and Russia signed a concept of cooperation at Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space launch complex following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in St. Petersburg on December 26, TASS news agency reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — At the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the governing body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), in St. Petersburg (Russia) on December 26, Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia signed the new Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union.
ALMATY (TCA) — Kazkommertsbank (Qazkom), the largest bank by total assets in Kazakhstan, says it is not in any negotiations with the National Bank and the Government of Kazakhstan on bailout.
TASHKENT (TCA) — China Singyes Solar Technologies Holdings Limited said that it last week won the tender for the design, execution and completion of the project under a design, build and operate contract granted by Uzbekistan’s state-owned energy company Uzbekenergo regarding a 100 megawatt solar farm in the Samarkand Province of Uzbekistan.
