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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Police in Turkmenistan’s eastern region of Lebap are detaining people who are standing in long lines at ATMs, desperately to try to get money amid cash shortages in the gas-rich Central Asian country, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reported on August 27.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — A group of Norwegian researchers released an “International Business” report featuring the business environment in Kazakhstan. The report was published this summer by the researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the Norwegian School of Economics and BI Norwegian Business School with the support of the Innovation Norway state agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan reported on its website.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Turkmen–Singapore business forum was held in Singapore on August 26, as part of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s visit to this country on August 26-27, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Security officials in Uzbekistan have come under fire after allegedly detaining dozens of males at a local market in Tashkent and shaving their beards before releasing them, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A three-day national table-top exercise (TTX) on preventing and countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes, for some 30 Kyrgyz representatives from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including representatives of government, law enforcement, civil society, media, academia and the private sector, began on 26 August in Issyk Kul.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Preparations are underway for the first Digital Transformation in Central Asia Conference to be held in Kyrgyzstan in October 2019. Organised by the University of Central Asia (UCA), State Committee for Information Technology and Communications, and the High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic, the event will provide Information Technology (IT) leaders the opportunity to connect with over a hundred Chief Information Officers and IT leaders within Central Asia and abroad, in both the government and private sectors.
