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BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in China have greatly expanded their police and security presence in Urumqi, the capital city of the country’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which borders Central Asia, amid increasing Uighur independence movements including those that the Chinese government believes have links to Islamist terrorist groups in the Middle East, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan has become the latest EBRD country of operations to join the Women in Business programme, which promotes women’s entrepreneurship through access to finance and know-how in order to stimulate business growth. This is made possible by a generous contribution from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs through the EBRD’s Small Business Impact Fund, the EBRD press office reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — India’s defense minister has told the US secretary of defense that New Delhi will continue to assist Afghanistan but it will not get involved militarily, Afghanistan’s TOLOnews agency reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — A giant globe flanked by a pair of hardly less modest looking humps on either side, surrounded by several blocks of square buildings on the desolate outskirts of Astana – itself not exactly an organic urban centre and in turn located in an endless barren environment. This is what is left of the complex hosting this year’s EXPO through summer. What to do with it next only exists on the minds of people in high places, and it remains unclear whether the structure can endure the region’s harsh winters when snow is man-high and temperatures are down to minus 20 during the day and minus 35 at night for half of the year.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan and India will hold a joint trade and investment show in the Indian capital of New Delhi, as India seeks to step up its partnership with Afghanistan as a major investment partner, TOLOnews agency reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on September 22 held the First Stakeholder meeting of the Small Business Initiative (SBI) in Bishkek to mark the successful start of the program to support local SMEs in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Through this initiative, the EBRD is ramping up its activities with small and medium-sized enterprises to help them grow and make them more competitive. The event gathered representatives of government, business associations, banks and international partners to launch the initiative and discuss next steps, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said in a press release.
