BISHKEK (TCA) — The Government of Switzerland is donating 17 million Kyrgyz soms to 17 rural municipalities in Kyrgyzstan’s northern Chui province to solve their local priority issues, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said on April 19.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The government of Tajikistan is negotiating a first loan from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Avesta news agency reported with reference to the country’s Finance Ministry.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Investments in the economy of Tajikistan amounted to $977.8 million in 2015, Avesta news agency reported with reference to Kodiri Kosim, chairman of the country’s State Committee of Investment and Public Property Management.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Some lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have proposed to force employers in the predominantly Muslim, but officially secular, country to allow employees extended lunch breaks to attend Friday prayers, the main worship service for Muslims, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Tashkent and held talks with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov on April 15. The two leaders stated that water resources of trans-boundary rivers in Central Asia are a common heritage and good of the region’s nations and that stability and wellbeing of the entire region is largely dependent on their rational and fair use, the press service of the Uzbek President said.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Aktobe province is second after the capital city, Astana, in terms of creation of a favorable business climate, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported with reference to a study conducted by the Institute of Economic Research under the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan.
