BISHKEK (TCA) — Residents and visitors to Karakol, a municipality with a population of over 70,000 people and a major tourist destination in Kyrgyzstan, will benefit from regular uninterrupted access to fresh drinking water, secured after the implementation of a municipal investment project supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Swiss Government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the EBRD said on December 24.

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KABUL (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) of Afghanistan have inaugurated the distribution of 80 off-grid solar kits, called “electricity-in-a-box”, to rural households near Kabul without grid electricity, ADB’s Country Office reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — E-Zhasyl LLP, founded by a consortium of Spanish companies GruppoAnka, ftE and SoroznoEco, has started a series of projects on construction of waste recycling facilities with energy production in Kazakhstan. The total cost of the projects is 147 million euros, Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion said on its website.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakh Invest national company for investment support and promotion and the Turkish company BioTRend Energy recently signed a Memorandum on further cooperation in the construction of a waste processing complex in Kazakhstan. The document was signed after a meeting in Astana between Saparbek Tuyakbayev, the Chairman of the Board of Kazakh Invest, and Murat Aslan, the head of BioTRend Energy, Kazakh Invest reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — As part of his working trip to Almaty on December 21, Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev visited a number of infrastructure facilities to see the development of the tourist potential of the city: the Almaty-2 railway station and the Visit Almaty tourist hub. A presentation of the new Carsharing service also took place in Almaty, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan aim to launch a program dubbed Silk Visa, which will allow foreigners with visas issued by either of the two countries to travel in both Central Asian republics, RFE/RL reported citing an Uzbek official.

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