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KABUL (TCA) — Afghan government ministers announced that the World Bank has pledged $298 million for the improvement of Afghanistan’s education at a ceremony in Kabul on October 23. According to the officials, the funds will be spent on projects for rural areas – mostly for education, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Dozens of depopulated villages in a northern Kazakh province bordering Russia will be “liquidated” and their residents moved to larger towns, a senior government official says, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Kazakh businessman Iskander Erimbetov, whose sister is a former lawyer for fugitive tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov, has been sentenced to seven years in prison on corruption charges that his supporters contend are politically motivated, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — On October 22, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received a delegation of American–Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce led by its Chairperson Carolyn Lamm, who arrived in the country to participate in the events of the American Business Week in Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Container traffic along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) increased by 60% in the first 9 months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017. It was said at a meeting of the Board and the General Meeting of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route held on October 22 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — As part of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Belgium on October 17-18, Kazakh Invest national investment support and promotion company held a number of meetings with heads of 25 leading European companies and transnational corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell, Alstom, Claas Group, Borealis, and Linde Group, for a detailed discussion of the current projects and prospects for further cooperation, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
