BISHKEK (TCA) — The Entrepreneurship Support Centre (ESC) in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, marked its first anniversary on December 4, in a celebration organized by the Centre together with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek. The mission of the ESC is to provide information and consulting support to entrepreneurs, as well as to form, prepare and promote high-quality business initiatives for the development of entrepreneurship in the Osh region.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — About two dozen Kyrgyz activists have demonstrated in front of the United Nations’ office in Bishkek, demanding immediate action to help the multiethnic indigenous community in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The Government of Kazakhstan on December 4 approved the draft Concept of the State Program for Industrial and Innovative Development for 2020–2025, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $32 million grant to help the Government of Tajikistan improve healthcare services in three districts of Fayzobod, Rasht, and Shamsiddin Shohin, ADB’s Country Office said on December 4.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The leader of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Alash People’s Social Democratic Party, Syrym Abdirakhmanov, has been arrested on a series of criminal charges, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.

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KABUL (TCA) — The death toll among Afghanistan’s security forces will no longer be sustainable unless urgent measures are taken to address recruiting and training issues, a top U.S. general has said, RFE/RL reported.

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