BISHKEK (TCA) — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Embassy of Japan in Kyrgyzstan on September 20 participated in a ceremony to provide equipment to support food-processing businesses and rural women’s entrepreneurship across seven rural communities in the Kyrgyz Republic.
ADB Vice President Wenchai Zhang (left) and Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic (right)
BISHKEK (TCA) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Wenchai Zhang on September 20 in Bishkek met with Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, and Adylbek Kasymaliev, Minister of Finance and ADB Governor, to discuss support for the government’s development priorities, ADB’s country office in Kyrgyzstan said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. And though at varying speed according to working area, spades are being put into the ground as construction work proceeds, thereby increasing investors’ trust that something is actually being done with their money except paperwork.
ASTANA (TCA) — In the first half of 2016, the inflow of foreign direct investment in Kazakhstan increased fivefold, up to $5.7 billion, Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev said in parliament on September 19, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ALMATY (TCA) — The Central Asia Water Future Forum and Expo is being held on September 19-22 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Organized by the World Bank, the event brings together over 200 policy makers and practitioners from governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan, the international community of water practitioners, as well as regional learning institutions, universities, civil society and media representatives, the World Bank said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) earlier this month approved the third and final phase of financial support to complete the rehabilitation of Toktogul hydropower plant (HPP), the largest and most important power plant in Kyrgyzstan, ADB’s country office in Kyrgyzstan said.
