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KABUL (TCA) — Polls have closed in Afghanistan’s presidential election with voting marred by several attacks and reports of problems at polling stations, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Effective oversight may be the most important long-term contribution that parliamentarians can make to democracy and good governance in their country, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli said in a keynote speech to the participants of the international seminar on strengthening parliamentary oversight in Kyrgyzstan on September 27.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States Government, through USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), is giving 385,000 children storybooks to the Ministry of Education and Science (MOES) of Kyrgyzstan. These books will be delivered to 900 public primary schools across the country. The delivery of books was made official on September 26, at an event organized by USAID and the MOES, the US Embassy in Bishkek said.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Gulmira Issayeva this week met with the Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Linjun to discuss expanding access of Kazakhstani agricultural products to the Chinese market and sign important documents necessary for the export of Kazakhstani products. This is the Memorandum of Cooperation in the area of plant quarantine and the Protocol on Requirements for the Export of Pork from Kazakhstan to China, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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KHUJAND, Tajikistan (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, says it is providing a $2.5 million loan in local currency to LLC MDO Arvand, one of Tajikistan’s leading microfinance institutions, as part of an effort to support home ownership and drive economic growth in the Central Asian country.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in partnership with the Green Climate Fund (GCF), is stepping up its efforts to support renewables in Kazakhstan with a loan of up to US$ 6.4 million to finance a new 10 MW solar plant in the Zhanakorgan District in southern Kazakhstan, the Bank said on September 26.
