ASTANA (TCA) — The first “Brand of Nation” food market opened on March 5 in the Kazakh capital Astana, which sells domestically-produced food only, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Norway in Astana Vegard Stensrud discussed issues of cooperation with Kazakhstan’s western Mangistau region, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website on March 4.
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.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Women entrepreneurs significantly contribute to the development of Kyrgyzstan. According to the National Statistical Committee, women make up 41% of the total employed population of the country and 31.3% of entrepreneurs engaged in small and medium-sized businesses.
LONDON (TCA) — When in late summer 2014 Kyrgyzstan’s then Interior Minister Abdulla Suranchiyev revealed names of local people’s representatives accusing them of “ties with organised crime,” a shockwave went through the country and beyond. Crime in Central Asia is a long ignored fact that is a deadly danger for the society. Of course, everyone knew about the organized crime groups and their ringleaders dubbed “avtoritety,” an equivalent for the western “godfathers,” but hardly anyone so far had realised that their power over the economy and indeed society itself had become so dangerously strong, exceeding that of the much-feared terrorism made in Afghanistan and the Near East.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The fourth meeting of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) Council held in Moscow last month decided to soften the Fund’s lending terms. The decision is extremely important for further development of Kyrgyzstan’s economy during the next decade, RKDF Board Chairperson Nursulu Akhmetova said this week in Bishkek.
