ASTANA (TCA) — The World Bank and the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of Kazakhstan on March 14 officially launched the Kazakhstan Skills and Jobs Project aimed at improving employment outcomes and skills of those in need of training.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Weather forecasters predict a dry summer in Kyrgyzstan. Due to the unusually warm winter and early spring this year, field works will start before the planned time. The Government reported that there will be no risks for the harvest in 2016 because there is enough water in reservoirs and “everything is under control”.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will extend the list of products they deliver to each other with the purpose to increase bilateral trade, Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev said during the 15th meeting of the Kazakh-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for bilateral cooperation on March 11, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — The volatility of the Kazakh national currency, the tenge, has made local retailers of imported clothing to gradually switch to selling domestically produced garment. As part of this trend, the first store selling women’s and children’s clothing and jewelry made by Kazakhstani designers has been opened in the capital Astana with the support of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan, the Chamber reported on its website.
TEHRAN (TCA) — Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said his country will take part in discussions on a possible oil production freeze after Iran’s oil output reaches 4 million barrels per day, PressTV reported.
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