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KABUL (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $348.78 million grant to help in the development of water resources in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province through the expansion of Dahla Dam, the country’s second largest dam, the Bank said on September 11.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Tajik authorities to investigate the “apparently targeted disruption” of the embattled independent news agency Asia-Plus’s websites and to help ensure they are accessible, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $249.8 million equivalent loan in local currency (tenge) to the Republican State Enterprise Kazvodkhoz (KVK), a state-owned enterprise dealing with water facilities, to help in the rehabilitation and improvement of irrigation networks serving 171,000 hectares of land in four provinces in Kazakhstan, the Bank said on September 11.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region. Phoenix Global and Kazakh Invest national investment promotion company have signed a relevant agreement within the framework of the Intergovernmental Commission in Dubai (UAE), Kazakh Invest reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan plans to bring the volume of textile exports to US $2 billion this year, Ilhom Haydarov, the chairman of the Uzbek Textile Industry Association, said before the opening of the Global Textile Days in Tashkent 2019 forum held in the capital of Uzbekistan on September 9-13, Xinhua reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Foreign investors in Uzbekistan now have the right to buy up to five percent of the shares in Uzbek commercial banks without prior consent of the country’s central bank, Xinhua news agency reported with reference to the Uzbek Justice Ministry.
