ASTANA (TCA) — Direct investments from Bulgaria to Kazakhstan over the past 10 years amounted to $26.7 million, the Deputy Minister for Investment and Development of Kazakhstan Yerlan Khairov said at the Kazakh-Bulgarian business forum in Astana on June 9, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan said on June 9 that the trial and harsh sentencing of Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) leaders “silence opposition voices and discourage free and open participation in Tajikistan’s democratic development.”
ASTANA (TCA) — The share of the information technology (IT) sector in Kazakhstan’s GDP will increase up to 5 percent after 2020 from today’s 4 percent due to implementation of Digital Kazakhstan concept, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Asel Zhienbayeva, chairperson of Zerde National Information Holding.
ASTANA (TCA) — An online version of the map of regional development of entrepreneurship was presented to foreign embassies in Kazakhstan, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on June 8.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (akorda.kz)
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that the terrorists who carried out the recent attacks in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe “received instructions from abroad”.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The annual forum of the OSCE–Tajikistan Task Force took place on June 8 in Dushanbe, with high-ranking officials from the OSCE and the Tajik government as well as representatives of civil society highlighting their recent major achievements and identifying priorities for national and regional cooperation in 2017.
