ASTANA (TCA) — During his official visit to Japan, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev invited Japanese companies to work in Kazakhstan’s special industrial zones, the presidential press service reported.
TEHRAN (TCA) — French energy giant Total on November 8 signed a deal with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for the development of Phase 11 of South Pars, the world’s largest natural gas field. It is Iran’s first major contract with a Western energy company since the lifting of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
ASTANA (TCA) — The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan Atameken and the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan have launched a campaign for the promotion of Kazakh products at the Chinese market, Atameken reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador Peter Burian, is visiting Kyrgyzstan from 8 to 12 November. He is holding a regional conference on “Preventing Violent Extremism in Central Asia – Challenges and Responses at Community Level” in Bishkek. The event is organized as a follow-up to the High Level Political and Security Dialogue between EU and the Central Asian states in May and the EU–Central Asia ministerial meeting in Brussels in October 2016, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
ASTANA (TCA) — At a Kazakh-Japanese business forum in Tokyo on November 7, the two countries signed 13 agreements worth US $1.2 billion. The forum took place as part of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Japan, Sputnik news agency reports.
Toktar Toleshov (photo from the Fergana information agency)
ASTANA (TCA) — The Astana Military Court on November 7 sentenced Tokhtar Toleshov, a Kazakh businessman and the owner of Shymkent brewery, to 21 years in prison after he had been found guilty of extremism, illegal weapons possession, and attempting to overthrow the government, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
