BISHKEK (TCA) — Remittances from Kyrgyz labor migrants abroad decreased by 37 percent in 2015 compared with 2014, Kyrgyzstan’s National Bank said. In 2014, labor migrants sent home $2.17 billion and only $1.41 billion for 9 months of 2015.
BISHKEK (TCA) — “Major geopolitical shifts and internal dynamics are setting the stage for possible increased great-power competition in Central Asia between Russia and China at a time when the region is becoming less hospitable to the projection of U.S. power and to the promotion of democracy. U.S. policy will need to adapt to these changes in order to bring Washington’s ambitions in Central Asia into better alignment with limited U.S. interests and means,” reads the paper entitled “U.S. POLICY TOWARD CENTRAL ASIA 3.0”, published by CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE on January 25.
LONDON (TCA) — China, and to lesser extents Russia, have been unloading coffers full of billions to spread their wings over Central Asia. The par value of the assets which have been taken by the generous-looking fund providers has changed dramatically and regretfully for the worse. That there can be no investments without returns is something the Chinese have known from the start, the Russians are realising that right now, and Central Asian states would realise that soon.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Turkey is one of the major trading partners of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev said at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Investment and Trade Forum in Ankara late last week.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set the task to fully meet the country’s need for fuel with domestic oil products only by 2018, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — There are all possibilities for cement to become one of Tajikistan’s main export commodities, Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technology Shavkat Bobozoda told journalists on January 28, Avesta news agency reported.
