Uzbekistan pulls back troops from border with Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK (TCA) — Uzbekistan has pulled back troops and military vehicles from a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, ending a weeklong standoff in the area, RFE/RL reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Uzbekistan has pulled back troops and military vehicles from a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, ending a weeklong standoff in the area, RFE/RL reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — A new IMF study finds that cultivating a more competitive business environment, fostering worker talent, and improving access to finance are key to boosting long-term economic prospects in the Middle East and Central Asia region, the IMF says on its website.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s hydropower can provide 120 million people with electricity, but due to problems in the energy sector it is not able to provide even the country’s 6 million population, said Kyrgyz MP Omurbek Tekebayev. The problems are old including poor management, corruption, and technical and commercial losses. As a result, Kyrgyzstan has become dependent on the policies of neighboring countries, and the state cannot provide energy independence.
LONDON (TCA) — Bomb attack wreckage in Europe, the plight of Syrian war refugees, the fight against Daesh on the ground and Turkey’s ambivalent role in it and Central Asia’s brewing hotbeds – where do they all come together? The question looks obvious, but it seems amidst the political whirlwinds that everybody somehow involved has a different answer to it – often a contradictory and seldom a convincing one.
Kyrgyzstan Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev and German Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Peter Rudolf Scholz sign Agreements on financial and technical cooperation between the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Germany (Economy Ministry photo)
BISHKEK (TCA) — Agreements on financial and technical cooperation between the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Germany were signed in Bishkek on March 24.
TASHKENT (TCA) — To promote U.S. business opportunities in Uzbekistan, a U.S. trade mission and a business roundtable with the Government of Uzbekistan were organized between March 22 and 24.