ASTANA (TCA) — A company from Iran is going to grow safflower (an oil-bearing crop) in Kazakhstan’s Kostanai province and build a plant for its processing, said the province’s Governor Arkhimed Mukhambetov, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Development Bank of Kazakhstan will take part in the construction of a complex alloy producing plant in Kazakhstan. The project will be implemented as part of the program of production capacity transfer from China to Kazakhstan, the Bank’s Chairman of the Board Bolat Zhamishev said on February 17 at a briefing in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ALMATY (TCA) — The World Bank’s new ‘World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends’ was launched on February 17 at the Kazakh-Britain Technical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Discussion of the report helps catalyze a shared vision for digital transformation among Central and South Asia government leaders, experts, and practitioners, the World Bank said.
ISTANBUL (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Financial Times are gathering investors, policymakers and experts in Istanbul to discuss investment opportunities and challenges in Central Asia, including Mongolia. The event is taking place on 18 February in Istanbul, Turkey, a major regional hub with strong commercial links with Central Asia.
ASTANA (TCA) — China Machinery Company has so far invested $5 million in the production of JAC cars in the industrial zone in Kazakhstan’s northern Kostanai province, the province’s Governor Arkhimed Mukhambetov said at a briefing in Astana on February 16, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan should keep the inflow of foreign investments in the manufacturing sector as investments are declining in other sectors of the country’s economy, Yerlan Khairov, the chairman of the Investment Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development, said at a media briefing on February 16, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
