BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States, through the “USAID Defeat TB Project,” has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan to provide tuberculosis treatment to patients on an outpatient basis in the southern Jalal-Abad oblast, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on March 1.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Back in 2014, then minister of economic affairs of Kazakhstan Kairat Kelimbetov stated at the Astana Economic Forum that the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in the course of its formation “is learning a lot from the European Union – not just from the latter’s successes, but also from its mistakes”. Today, that statement is being put to the test – especially concerning the admission of Kyrgyzstan and Armenia by the bloc’s three founding members: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
TEHRAN (TCA) — Representatives of major Indian natural gas importers are due to visit Iran early in March to discuss a long-proposed undersea gas pipeline which New Delhi sees as an alternative to a gas-pipeline project via Pakistan, Iran’s PressTV reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The largest Jewish center in Central Asia will be opened in the town of Akkol located 100 kilometers from the Kazakh capital Astana, said Danil Vais, president of the Akkol Jewish community.
ALMATY (TCA) — Production of paper from technical (non-narcotic) hemp within the framework of import substitution policies was discussed last week at a meeting of the Secretariat of the Manufacturing Industry Committee of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan.
DUBAI (TCA) — Investments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Kazakhstan have reached $545 million and bilateral trade amounted to $135 million at the end of 2015, Kairat Lama Sharif, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE, said on the sidelines of a Kazakh delegation visit headed by Sharif to Dawood Al Shezawi, founder and president of the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), one of the world’s leading Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)-focused platform, Khaleej Times reported on February 29.
