DUSHANBE (TCA) — On March 21 the world marked the International Day of Forests, a day to raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees to all life on earth. The theme selected to mark this year’s celebration is Forests and Water, to highlight forests’ crucial role in contributing to water and food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Tajikistan said on March 21.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev casts his ballot in the March 20 parliamentary elections (official photo)
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s election authorities say President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Nur Otan party has won 82.15 percent of the votes in the March 20 parliamentary elections, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on March 18 approved a financing of US $12 million equivalent for the Urban Development Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. $6.6 million of this financing is a concessional credit and $5.4 million is a grant, the World Bank said.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted a national training on tuberculosis (TB) for local journalists of television, radio, and print media March 15–17 in Tajikistan.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The non-governmental organization UNISON convened an event last week with leading energy-sector policy-makers to formally close the nationwide public outreach campaign “Be Warm, Kyrgyzstan!” UNISON’s five-month campaign, supported by the United States through USAID, conducted 575 workshops across the country, teaching over 25,000 households low-cost techniques to lower their electricity and heating bills and keep their homes and families warm through the winter, the US Embassy in Bishkek reported.
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