TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan will ban the sale of incandescent lamps of more than 40W starting from 1 January 2017, Avesta news agency reported with reference to the Uzbek Embassy in Tajikistan.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Eleven plants in Uzbekistan will produce cooking oil from non-traditional oil-bearing crops — soy, sunflower, and safflower, Novosti Uzbekistana news portal reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Demand for inexpensive foreign-made cars will remain stable in Kazakhstan for several years, Andrei Lavrentev, the chairman of the board of JSC Group of Companies Allur (Allur Group) and president of the Kazakhstan Association of Car Business, said at the Kazakhstan International Automotive Forum in Astana on March 1, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Minister of Economic Integration of Kazakhstan, Zhanar Aitzhanova, and European Union Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström discussed the issue of awarding the status of a market economy to Kazakhstan, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported on March 1.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States, through the “USAID Defeat TB Project,” has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan to provide tuberculosis treatment to patients on an outpatient basis in the southern Jalal-Abad oblast, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on March 1.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Back in 2014, then minister of economic affairs of Kazakhstan Kairat Kelimbetov stated at the Astana Economic Forum that the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in the course of its formation “is learning a lot from the European Union – not just from the latter’s successes, but also from its mistakes”. Today, that statement is being put to the test – especially concerning the admission of Kyrgyzstan and Armenia by the bloc’s three founding members: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
