ASTANA (TCA) — Coal production in Kazakhstan will remain at 101.5 million tons this year despite difficulties with export, the Energy Ministry of Kazakhstan said on its website.
ALMATY (TCA) — The Trade Committee of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan on February 19 held a meeting with the participation of state bodies and entrepreneurs on the development of “Business on Wheels” project as a way to earn during the crisis in Kazakhstan.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Development Bank of Kazakhstan has conducted a stress test to see the ability of borrowers to perform if the exchange rate of the Kazakh tenge falls down to 500 tenge per dollar, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Theoretically, Kyrgyzstan may withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia as its regulations allow its member countries to do so, but the country would not have any good alternative, Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Pankratov told a press conference in Bishkek.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — A growing number of commentators and other observers, both in the west and in the former USSR, are casting doubt on the distinction between “radicals” and “moderates” among “Muslim activists” both in Syria and the world outside it. If there is one place in the world that shows how justified such suspicions are to some extent, it must be Central Asia.
