EU supported Kyrgyzstan with record amount of €34.6 million in 2015

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.  

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Sergey Kwan

TCA

Sergey Kwan has worked for The Times of Central Asia as a journalist, translator and editor since its foundation in March 1999. Prior to this, from 1996-1997, he worked as a translator at The Kyrgyzstan Chronicle, and from 1997-1999, as a translator at The Central Asian Post.
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Kwan studied at the Bishkek Polytechnic Institute from 1990-1994, before completing his training in print journalism in Denmark.

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Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 18, 2016

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.

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Sergey Kwan

Stratfor

Sergey Kwan has worked for The Times of Central Asia as a journalist, translator and editor since its foundation in March 1999. Prior to this, from 1996-1997, he worked as a translator at The Kyrgyzstan Chronicle, and from 1997-1999, as a translator at The Central Asian Post.
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Kwan studied at the Bishkek Polytechnic Institute from 1990-1994, before completing his training in print journalism in Denmark.

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Tourism in Central Asia: telling it all in figures

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.

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EBRD investment in Central Asia reaches record €1.4 billion in 2015

BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested a record amount in the Central Asian region in 2015. Last year’s total investment rose 75 per cent to €1.402 billion from €803 million, in 82 different transactions following 71 projects in 2014. This brings the total EBRD financing in Central Asia to just over €10 billion, the Bank said.

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Sergey Kwan

TCA

Sergey Kwan has worked for The Times of Central Asia as a journalist, translator and editor since its foundation in March 1999. Prior to this, from 1996-1997, he worked as a translator at The Kyrgyzstan Chronicle, and from 1997-1999, as a translator at The Central Asian Post.
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Kwan studied at the Bishkek Polytechnic Institute from 1990-1994, before completing his training in print journalism in Denmark.

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