TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek media report that Uzbekistan has completed the construction of the Angren-Pap electrified railway line that connects three provinces located in the Uzbek part of the Fergana Valley (Andijan, Namangan, and Fergana oblasts) to Uzbekistan’s mainland, bypassing neighboring Tajikistan.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) said that its subsidiary has funded its first transaction on the terms of Islamic leasing in Kazakhstan.
ASTANA (TCA) — The first McDonald’s restaurant, which will also be the first in Central Asia, will be opened in Kazakhstan on March 8, RFE/RL reports.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — The 12th Annual International Agriculture Expo, Silk Road 2016, is taking place between February 25 and 27 in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan. The JerAzygy Association of Agro Businessmen of Kyrgyzstan organized the expo with the support from the United States through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to boost agricultural production and promote trade through exchange of ideas and technologies.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan on February 24 said that flights between Almaty (Kazakhstan) and the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh will be resumed in March.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — A FAO regional Training-of-Trainers on locust management is taking place between February 22 and March 4 in Dushanbe with the objective to train 16 Master-Trainers from Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
