ASTANA (TCA) — At the Government meeting on December 12, Kazakhstan’s Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev said that the new program’s priorities are the support of mortgage lending through mortgage loans subsidies and encouragement of private developers to increase construction of new housing, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
Abdulla Aripov
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party has nominated Abdulla Aripov to be the country’s prime minister.
KARAKOL, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — The U.S. Government, through USAID, installed 46 tourist signs across Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul oblast, including four pedestrian maps in cities to make the world-class tourist attractions of the oblast more accessible to visitors, the U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on December 12.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s national atomic company Kazatomprom and Czech Republic’s Uranium Industry a.s. signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in Astana on December 9.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — 30 brand new buses have arrived in Osh, the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan. The buses are part of a project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that aims to boost safe and accessible public transport services in the city. It will also include the purchase of 24 low-floor, accessible trolley buses in the near future and pay for the modernisation of the municipal depot, the EBRD said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission said that 80 percent of voters on December 11 supported constitutional amendments aimed at shifting some presidential powers to the prime minister.
