ASTANA (TCA) — The plant to produce barite concentrates at the Bestobe deposit in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda province will reach its design capacity in 2018, the Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — On January 12 the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic issued licenses to Kompanion Bank CJSC to conduct banking operations in national and foreign currencies.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Authorities in Turkmenistan have restricted the use of hard currencies in the country. Banks in Turkmenistan have stopped selling US dollars but they still buy them, the Alternative News of Turkmenistan website reported on January 12.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The work of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) has been criticized not only by MPs and businessmen but also by President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev. If the RKDF does not work in the coming months, it would be necessary to make staff decisions, Atambayev said at a recent news conference.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers the International Crisis Group’s new briefing, Tajikistan Early Warning: Internal Pressures, External Threats, which examines the situation and argues that the country must become a conflict-prevention priority for the international community.
ASTANA (TCA) — Carmeuse Group, the Belgian transnational corporation which is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality special building materials, plans to build a plant to produce more than 500 thousand tons of premium-quality technological lime per year in the Osakarov district of Kazakhstan’s Karaganda province, the Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan said on January 11.
