DUSHANBE (TCA) — An equivalent of up to US $50 million may be lost by Tajik families that receive money remittances from their relatives working in Russia and which are sent in Russian rubles, Avesta news agency reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Iran has announced the official launch of its gas oil export to neighboring Tajikistan for the first time in the history of relations between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported on February 3.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in partnership with the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) of the Climate Investment Funds, held an event to mark the formal launch of CLIMADAPT, the Tajikistan Climate Resilience Financing Facility, on February 3 in Dushanbe. CLIMADAPT aims to help Tajik households, businesses and farmers cope with the effects of climate change and to support the country’s transition towards a green economy, the EBRD press office said.
LONDON (TCA) — Amidst the wildest speculations that predominantly Shiite Iran might emerge as a powerful buffer to keep Sunnite extremism at bay for Central Asia and take the shape of a regional power broker, realities speak a different language. For the moment, Iran needs everybody else’s help a lot more than anybody else needs Iran’s. But where politics face a long haul, trade might have a unique and immediate opportunity – especially where the landlocked Central Asian former Soviet republics are concerned.
ASTANA (TCA) — LG Chem, South Korea’s largest chemical company, said it has decided to scrap a plan to jointly build a $4.2 billion petrochemical plant in Kazakhstan due to the continued slump in global oil prices, The Korea Times reported late in January.
ASTANA (TCA) — Investors from China support the idea of construction of Kazakhstan’s fourth oil refinery in the western Mangistau province, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Mangistau province Governor Alik Aidarbayev.
