KABUL (TCA) — Negotiations are underway between the Afghan government and companies in the United Arab Emirates on attracting an investment of $6 billion for Afghan infrastructure projects, Khaama Press news agency reported on September 20.
ASTANA (TCA) — LLP SaryarkaAvtoProm, part of Kazakhstan’s automobile company AllurGroup, has signed a memorandum of cooperation with China’s ANHUI ANKAI AUTOMOBILE CO LLP, the manufacturing company producing buses of the Ankai brand, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported with reference to the press service of SaryarkaAvtoProm.
ASTANA (TCA) — In the first eight months of 2016, 12,963 citizens from Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states arrived in Kazakhstan with employment purpose. The figure includes 9,388 people from Russia, 1,496 from Kyrgyzstan, 394 from Belarus, and 1,685 from Armenia, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Svetlana Zhakupova said at the third meeting of the Almaty Process on International Migration and Refugee Protection in Astana on September 20, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Embassy of Japan in Kyrgyzstan on September 20 participated in a ceremony to provide equipment to support food-processing businesses and rural women’s entrepreneurship across seven rural communities in the Kyrgyz Republic.
ADB Vice President Wenchai Zhang (left) and Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic (right)
BISHKEK (TCA) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Wenchai Zhang on September 20 in Bishkek met with Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, and Adylbek Kasymaliev, Minister of Finance and ADB Governor, to discuss support for the government’s development priorities, ADB’s country office in Kyrgyzstan said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. And though at varying speed according to working area, spades are being put into the ground as construction work proceeds, thereby increasing investors’ trust that something is actually being done with their money except paperwork.
