ASTANA (TCA) — The share of the information technology (IT) sector in Kazakhstan’s GDP will increase up to 5 percent after 2020 from today’s 4 percent due to implementation of Digital Kazakhstan concept, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Asel Zhienbayeva, chairperson of Zerde National Information Holding.
ASTANA (TCA) — An online version of the map of regional development of entrepreneurship was presented to foreign embassies in Kazakhstan, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on June 8.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (akorda.kz)
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that the terrorists who carried out the recent attacks in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe “received instructions from abroad”.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The annual forum of the OSCE–Tajikistan Task Force took place on June 8 in Dushanbe, with high-ranking officials from the OSCE and the Tajik government as well as representatives of civil society highlighting their recent major achievements and identifying priorities for national and regional cooperation in 2017.
ALMATY (TCA) — The latest violence in Aktobe, here in Kazakhstan, is leaving the authorities and sideliners in the dark. If it was the work of a gang or terrorist group acting on the orders of either Daesh or Al-Qaeda from their remote strongholds in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan or part of a more secular conspiracy against the Kazakh state, no one seems to be able to explain.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States Embassy in Dushanbe, working in conjunction with the Export Control and Related Border Security program (EXBS), has provided seven new, all-purpose, 4-wheel drive, double cab pickup trucks to the Government of Tajikistan to enhance border security operations and prevent the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Embassy said on June 7.
