BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Directors on June 7 endorsed a new Primary Health Care Quality Improvement Program for the Kyrgyz Republic, to the amount of US$ 20 million from the International Development Association (IDA), including US$ 10 million as a concessional credit and US$ 10 million as a grant. An additional grant of US$ 17 million is also being provided by a Multi-Donor Trust Fund supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the German Development Bank (KfW).

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Horticulture, greenhouse management, use of information technologies in farming and forming and managing co-operatives in the farming sector were the focus of a five-day training and study trip organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan for ten Uzbek women farmers to the Netherlands, from 3 to 7 June.

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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A news conference organized on June 7 in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, by a group of mothers who are demanding social benefits and proper housing was disrupted by other women, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — An important direction in the State Program of Tourism Development for 2019-2025 in Kazakhstan is the digitalization in the market of tourist services. Chairman of the Board of the Kazakh Tourism National Company Urken Bisakayev told PrimeMinister.kz about the prospects of domestic tourism and the work being carried out to improve this industry.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — In the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia on June 6, the Agreement on Exchange of Information on Goods and Vehicles of International Transport Moved across the Customs Borders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the People’s Republic of China was signed, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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