BISHKEK (TCA) — Editor’s note: We are glad to publish an essay of a young Indian journalist, from the South Asian University of New Delhi. The essay shows how modern infrastructure is trying to resolve old problems in an integrated effort of several countries while requiring worldwide attention for a balanced and peaceful development of Central Asia, the “heartland” between Europe, Russia and China.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek-Singaporean joint venture Uzindoramagaschemical has suspended the project to build a gas-chemical plant worth US $2.5 billion in the Kashkadarya province in southern Uzbekistan, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In 2015 Tajikistan exported around 108 thousand tons of raw cotton for US $144.5 million, an almost 25-percent increase compared to 2014, Avesta news agency reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s gold production in 2015 grew 31.6 percent and silver production increased by 61 percent compared to 2014, Avesta news agency reported citing Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technology Shavkat Bobozoda.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus celebrate the 25th anniversary of their independence, structural reform has become critical. The key to meeting many of the challenges, and seizing the opportunities of the changing global environment is closer regional economic integration with the rest of Asia and the Pacific.
