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ASTANA (TCA) — Renewable power generation is set to play a greater role in Kazakhstan’s energy mix as a result of financing led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the construction of a new 50MW solar power plant in the south of the country, the Bank said on January 29.
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — A three-day national Table-top exercise on countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes began on 29 January in Tashkent. The exercise, for some 45 representatives of the parliament, judges, investigators, law enforcement officers, relevant state institutions and agencies, the ICT industry, civil society, youth organizations, academia, and the media, was organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in co-operation with the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A woman in Kyrgyzstan has been arrested and charged with inciting ethnic hatred during a protest against Beijing’s policies in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — Over the first 11 months of 2018, Kazakhstan’s total exports grew by 26.4% compared to the same period in 2017, and non-primary exports amounted to $14.3 billion, Deputy Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Arystan Kabikenov said at a press conference in Astana on January 28, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Russian Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov has said that unidentified helicopters transported a large number of Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists from Pakistan to the border with Tajikistan, which is close to Russia’s southern borders, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
Sergey Kwan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A group of ethnic Kazakhs originally from China have urged the U.S. and Russian presidents to help secure the release of their relatives whom they say are being held at so-called “reeducation camps” in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
