ASTANA (TCA) — Container traffic along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) increased by 60% in the first 9 months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017. It was said at a meeting of the Board and the General Meeting of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route held on October 22 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — As part of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Belgium on October 17-18, Kazakh Invest national investment support and promotion company held a number of meetings with heads of 25 leading European companies and transnational corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell, Alstom, Claas Group, Borealis, and Linde Group, for a detailed discussion of the current projects and prospects for further cooperation, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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KABUL (TCA) — Senior Afghan officials have praised voters who cast ballots in weekend parliamentary elections that were plagued by violence and organizational problems, saying the turnout shows that Afghans are rejecting the ideology of Taliban militants, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want and when they want. When people lack choice, it can have a long-term impact on fertility rates, often making them higher or lower than what most people desire, according to The State of World Population 2018, published last week by UNFPA, the United Nations reproductive health agency.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The World Economic Forum has officially published the annual ranking of the Global Competitiveness Index 2018–2019. Among 140 countries, Kazakhstan occupies 59th place, which corresponds to the position of 2017, Kazakh Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov said at a press conference in Astana last week, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Belarus has suggested implementing a joint project to set up a milk-processing enterprise in Kyrgyzstan, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported with reference to Aleksei Bogdanov, head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, after the eighth session of the Belarus-Kyrgyzstan intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation held in Bishkek on October 19.

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