TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is completing a project aimed at launching a new high speed rail route between the capital, Tashkent, and ancient Silk-Road city of Bukhara, the Jahon information agency reports.
Neonatal care expert Ilya Rozin from Israel trains Turkmenistan healthcare practitioners, August 2016 (photo from the Embassy of Israel in Turkmenistan, Dr. Gushanskiy)
ASHGABAT (TCA) — A group of Turkmenistan medical professionals underwent a comprehensive ten-day course on essential newborn care and neonatal resuscitation in line with the newly adopted neonatal protocols. Supported by UINCEF and the Embassy of the State of Israel in Turkmenistan, the course contributed to building the knowledge and skills of healthcare practitioners in providing appropriate care first six days of a baby’s life to prevent, detect and treat problems, UNICEF Turkmenistan said on August 16.
ASTANA (TCA) — Prices of new and existing housing went up by 13.6 percent and 10.6 percent year on year respectively in Kazakhstan in June 2016. New housing cost KZT 252,700 per square metre and existing housing was worth KZT 191,400 per square metre (KZT 1=$343 on Aug. 17). The difference in prices on the primary and secondary property markets (25%) did not practically change over the past year (22-23% now), Ranking.kz reports.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), as the Resources Manager of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilisation and Development (EFSD), and the government of Tajikistan signed a US $40 million financial credit agreement on August 15. The credit will be provided to support economic reforms in the country in 2016-2017 in two equal tranches, EDB said.
ALMATY (TCA) — The special economic zone “Park of innovative technologies” (SEZ PIT or Almaty Technopark) now has 145 companies producing more than 500 types of products and services, including 14 companies with foreign participation (Russia, South Korea, Israel, China, Germany, Italy) and 35 companies operating on the principle of extraterritoriality. That was said during Prime Minister Karim Massimov’s visit to the Almaty Technopark on August 15, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan has launched a $110 million project to promote productive innovation, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Bibigul Asylova told a press conference on August 15, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
