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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new report launched on January 24 by the Norwegian Refugee Council says that seven out of ten Afghan refugees who return home are forced to flee again due to violence.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan say a Dutch court has lifted a freeze on Kazakh sovereign-fund assets worth $22 billion, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The use and management of water has always been a complicated and very sensitive issue in Central Asia. An important power generation and irrigation resource, water can be both a source of conflict and an area for cooperation between countries of the region. We are republishing this article by William Persing* on the issue, originally published by Eurasianet:
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — As Turkmenistan suffers from decreasing state-budget revenues largely caused by low natural-gas prices and a drop in gas exports, contributions to the Pension Fund, which had previously been voluntary, have become mandatory for entrepreneurs starting from 1 January 2018, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent foreign-based news website reports.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance on January 22 said that based on business and transit agreements signed between Kabul and Tashkent, Uzbekistan has lowered its transit fees for Afghan goods trucked through the country, TOLOnews reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) on January 23 said it has opened financing for CAPEC Green Energy LLP for the construction of the first start-up complex of a 50 MW wind power plant to be located 40 km from Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, in the village of Kostomar, Akmola region. After commissioning of the second phase, the total capacity of the power plant will be 100 MW.
