Astana to host Central Asia Mining and Exploration Forum
ASTANA (TCA) — The 7th Mining and Exploration Forum – MINEX Central Asia will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan on 19-21 April 2016.
ASTANA (TCA) — The 7th Mining and Exploration Forum – MINEX Central Asia will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan on 19-21 April 2016.
LONDON (TCA) — Lebanon, former Yugoslavia, Africa and Latin America where large-scale civil armed conflicts took place generate mobs and mobsters. While in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan such conflicts have been avoided, Tajikistan’s leading crime chiefs seem to have come very close indeed to sharing power with legitimate authorities while Uzbekistan seems to be balancing on the edge. Both post-Soviet republics appear to be in need of a national consolidation of public support for legitimacy, rather than letting criminal gangs control the economy first and possibly the state itself later.
BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 10 the Kyrgyz Parliament ratified the agreement with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to allocate $16.3 million for the purchase of new equipment for the Manas airport in Bishkek.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Alliance française in Bishkek jointly with the Embassies of Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Club France are holding the week of Francophonie in Bishkek from March 12 to 19.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek civil society activists on behalf of more than 140,000 people from around the world on March 9 in Washington, DC presented a petition to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, calling on the Bank to suspend lending to the agriculture sector in Uzbekistan until the Uzbek government changes its policy of forced labor in the cotton industry, said the Cotton Campaign, a global coalition of labor, human rights, investor and business organizations coalesced to end forced labor of children and adults in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan will take part in a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries if it receives an invitation, Kazakh Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik said on the sidelines of the Parliament’s meeting on March 10, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.