ASTANA (TCA) — During the next 3-5 years China intends to invest around $200 million in Kazakhstan’s meat industry, said the Chairman of China’s Rifa Holding Group Wu Jie, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The government of Kyrgyzstan and Czech companies are preparing an agreement for construction of small hydro power plants (HPPs) in Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir Sariyev said on March 16 during the meeting with a parliamentary delegation of the Czech Republic headed by the Speaker of the Czech Parliament Jan Hamacek.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Kumtor mine, the largest gold mine in Kyrgyzstan, produced 16,195.4 kg of gold in 2015. Gold sales in 2015 were 16,189.9 kg with a revenue totaling $604.5 million, Kumtor Gold Company said on March 16.
ALMATY (TCA) — The first batch of two thousand tons of Kazakh sunflower and rapeseed oil will be sent for export to China, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Last year Kazakhstan’s three gold refineries produced more than 30 tons of refined gold, an increase of 15 percent compared to 2014, Meiramgali Tleuzhanov, director of Tau-Ken Altyn gold refinery, told a news conference on March 15, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is selling state shares in the country’s largest chemical and cement plants — Navoiazot (Navoi Nitrogen) and Kyzylkumcement, said Uzbekistan’s State Committee for Privatization, Demonopolization and Competition Development.
