ASTANA (TCA) — Retail services in Kazakhstan increased by KZT 78 billion on-year in the second quarter of 2016 with the share of services to the population exceeding 16 percent of the total services, Ranking.kz reports.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Baiterek Holding and Damu Fund will attract a loan of 200 million euros from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for Kazakh small and medium enterprise (SME) projects, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported on September 21.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom, Askar Zhumagaliev, held a meeting with Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry, Igor Nasalik, in Kiev to discuss bilateral cooperation in the nuclear energy sector, Kazatomprom said on September 21.
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.
