ASTANA (TCA) — An Italian company will build a rapeseed processing plant in the North Kazakhstan province, the province’s Deputy Governor Mukhtar Mankeyev said, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
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ALMATY (TCA) — A council to attract investors has been created in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty. The resolution on the council’s establishment was signed by Almaty Mayor Bauyrzhan Baibek, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
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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.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Turkish importers will buy beans grown in Kyrgyzstan’s Talas province for 33-35 soms per kilogram ($1=76 soms), the Kyrgyz Agriculture Ministry said. Currently, the price is 20-28 soms.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21 the Government of Kazakhstan, jointly with the World Bank, held a round table to discuss the ongoing reforms to improve the business climate in Kazakhstan, the World Bank reported.
ALMATY (TCA) — State officials in oil crisis-hit Kazakhstan have discovered a $20 billion hole on the balance sheet of the National Wealth Fund. Should the state funds be spent this way on, the state coffers will be empty before the end of this decade. A political crisis is looming. In a move to avoid it, the Parliament has applied for snap elections to be held as early as March this year.
