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BISHKEK (TCA) — The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the University of Central Asia (UCA) on September 12 signed an agreement in Australia to strengthen the relationship between the two institutions and encourage cooperation in the field of Communications and Media.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — On September 13, the State Service for Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets of Kyrgyzstan and the World Bank have launched a new technical assistance project aimed at improving the quality of audit and financial reporting in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Kyrgyz Audit and Reporting Enhancement project (KAREP), funded by the Government of Switzerland through the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), will work to enhance the investment climate in Kyrgyzstan by increasing the availability of transparent and reliable financial information, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Afghanistan has urged India to speed up the development of Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar which is to open a transport corridor to landlocked countries of Central Asia, PressTV news agency reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The Government of Kazakhstan on September 12 approved the draft of a new Tax Code, which is aimed at encouraging the growth of SMEs and strengthening the financial sector, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The first Interregional Cooperation Forum of Kazakhstan and China took place in the city of Nanning (China) on September 11-12 with the participation of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin and Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Zhang Gaoli, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
The forum gathered governors of Kazakhstan’s and China’s provinces and representatives of companies and the business communities of both countries.
“The forum organized at the initiative of the heads of our states will give a new impetus to strengthening friendship, good-neighborly relations and strategic partnership between our countries,” Askar Mamin said, noting “the importance of the Forum as a unique platform for bilateral dialogue and effective consultations on actual issues of interregional cooperation of Kazakhstan and China.”
The First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan noted the timeliness of the Forum in the context of linking Kazakhstan’s Nurly Zhol economic program with China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative.
“The initiative of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev to link the Economic Belt of the Silk Road with the Nurly Zhol program allowed attracting investments and coordinating the actions of the two countries on infrastructure projects,” Mamin noted.
Mamin called the Cross-border Cooperation Program between Kazakhstan and China for 2015-2020, signed in December 2015, “one of the most important documents of cooperation between the border regions of Kazakhstan and China.”
Within the framework of the Interregional Cooperation Forum, the Chairman of the Kazakh meat processing company Batys Mark Lamb, Rakhimzhan Ismagambetov, and the Chairman of the Chinese company Zheng & Agrotechnology Co. Ltd. Li Xianming signed a Memorandum on the establishment of a modern feeding site for 30 thousand sheep for slaughter and export of mutton to China. The volume of Chinese investments will make $47 million. The project will be implemented in 2018.
Also, Chairman of the Board of Kazakh Invest national company Maksat Kabashev and the head of Silver Tiger Capital Cui Lunfei signed a framework agreement on cooperation to create a joint investment fund with a capitalization of $250 million.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has found a journalist guilty of inciting religious hatred in a book, and sentenced him to four years in prison, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
