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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan has the capacity of generating more than 23,000 megawatts of hydroelectric power, TOLOnews agency reported with reference to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s advisor on infrastructure Humayoun Qayoumi.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On August 13, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev met with the Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov, who arrived in Kazakhstan on a working visit.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Tajik state is becoming more authoritarian, with authorities laying down rules on many aspects of the people’s life which should be regulated by people’s choices rather than by government decrees. Now officials in Dushanbe have turned their eyes to women’s clothing in an effort to safeguard the Tajiks from “alien” traditions. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Central Asia is an important geopolitical area between Europe, Russia and China. It is in Central Asia that world powers have confronted each other for centuries; it is here that China needs to succeed with its new Silk Road Belt for direct access to the Western markets; and it is here that a large wealth of raw materials has its origin. Every week thousands of news appears all over the world in printed and online media and it is quite understandable that many of them may escape the attention of busy readers. At The Times of Central Asia, we strongly believe that more information can better contribute to peaceful development and better knowledge of the region, and for this reason we are presenting this Weekly Digest of Central Asia which compiles what other media have reported during the past week.
LONDON (TCA) — Increasing discrepancies between a growing avalanche of economic forecasts by more and more institutional lenders and sideliners for the wider Central Asian region have revived the debate on criteria used in macroeconomic assessments. Sharing a border with the world’s most dangerous troublemaker Afghanistan can hardly be considered a comfortable thought. Yet, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (Kyrgyzstan has no direct frontier with Afghanistan but its southernmost areas are only a short distance away from it) have shown economic performance over the last couple of years that even among so-called emerging economies looks exemplary.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The unresolved legal status of the Caspian Sea remains the major obstacle to energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, as the latter seeks to export its natural gas to Europe through Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea via a planned pipeline to be laid on its bottom. We are republishing this article by Matthew Kupfer on the Azeri-Turkmen energy cooperation, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
