BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan badly needs to provide support to existing industries (many of which close to bankruptcy and with obsolete equipment) and create a new industrial zone to attract foreign investment and technology for domestic export-oriented production, we are republishing the following article by Cholpon Orozobekova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan plans to manufacture not less than 200 thousand motor vehicles by 2025, as well as export them to Russia and Central Asian states, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Minister for Investment and Development Zhenis Kasymbek.
ASTANA (TCA) — In 2017, Kazakhstan’s State Industrial-Innovative Development Program will be updated to reflect new global reality, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at the meeting on the outcome of industrialization in the first half of 2016, held in Astana on July 1, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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) — The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kyrgyzstan has checked the performance of anti-corruption legislation by law enforcement agencies and found that prevention of corruption “is not conducted at the proper level”. Violations have been revealed in the State Service for Combating Economic Crimes, State Service on Drug Control (SSDC), State Customs Service, and Ministry of Internal Affairs.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Vine-growing and wine-making are among those old traditions in all of Kyrgyzstan and the south of Kazakhstan, while the east of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are now reviving the industry under new brands. Technological upgrading with European input could boost output even further with the outlook to conquer a place among global wine exporters.
