ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is interested in cooperation with China in the spheres of industry and agro-processing, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon has signed the government’s resolution according to which all Internet and cellular communication in the country must be provided through a single switching center of national telecom operator Tajiktelecom, Tajik media reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — In the course of 2015 the European Union disbursed the highest amount it has ever disbursed to the Kyrgyz Republic. The total of €34.6 million paid from the EU’s general budget included €24.6 million in development assistance and a €10 million grant payment for Macro-Financial Assistance, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
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 Kyrgyzstan faces state budget deficit the Government is trying to raise budget revenues at the expense of the citizens. In February 2016, compulsory insurance of residential real estate and motor transport will be introduced in Kyrgyzstan.
LONDON (TCA) — Study material publicised over summer last year by the World Travel & Tourism Council on the development of Central Asia’s tourism sector shows disappointing figures in terms of the contribution from the sector to the region’s overall economic development. Opening up the area for larger numbers of tourists would make transportation and accommodation cheaper, and the destination, which has many interesting things to offer, more competitive.
