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BISHKEK (TCA) — About two dozen Kyrgyz activists have demonstrated in front of the United Nations’ office in Bishkek, demanding immediate action to help the multiethnic indigenous community in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The Government of Kazakhstan on December 4 approved the draft Concept of the State Program for Industrial and Innovative Development for 2020–2025, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $32 million grant to help the Government of Tajikistan improve healthcare services in three districts of Fayzobod, Rasht, and Shamsiddin Shohin, ADB’s Country Office said on December 4.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The leader of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Alash People’s Social Democratic Party, Syrym Abdirakhmanov, has been arrested on a series of criminal charges, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The death toll among Afghanistan’s security forces will no longer be sustainable unless urgent measures are taken to address recruiting and training issues, a top U.S. general has said, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — may in the future abandon border procedures on inner frontiers and adopt a single currency by analogy with the legislation of the European Union, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov told Rossiya-24 television on December 3, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
