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DUSHANBE (TCA) — A plant to assemble Turkey’s AKIA buses will be opened in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe in the near future, First Deputy Mayor of Dushanbe Mahmadsaid Zuvaidzoda told journalists, Avesta news agency reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — More than half of all investments attracted to the economy of Uzbekistan have come to the oil and gas industry. It was said at the government meeting held on January 25 under the chairmanship of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is attracting strategic investors to the energy saving sphere. One of the mechanisms for achieving this goal is the creation of an Energy Efficiency Map, a single national list of projects in the field of energy saving and energy efficiency improvement, indicating the sources of financing, schedules and action plans for their implementation, Olzhas Alibekov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Development of Electricity and Energy Saving JSC, said at a briefing on January 26, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry plans to increase the share of alternative and renewable electricity up to 30 percent of the total power generation by 2030 and reduce the energy intensity of the country’s GDP by 25 percent by 2020, Deputy Minister of Energy Gani Sadibekov said at a press conference on January 26, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghan Finance Minister Eklil Hakimi and Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan, in presence of Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan and High Economic Council members on January 28 signed an agreement under which a $100 million grant will be provided for the Fiscal Performance Improvement Support Project (FSP) in Afghanistan. The FSP is designed to improve management of Afghanistan’s public finances by strengthening the capacity of the core government agencies involved, including Ministry of Finance, National Procurement Authority and Supreme Audit Office, the World Bank said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Reports say that Islamic State militants are fleeing Iraq and Syria and establishing new strongholds in the war-torn Afghanistan. This poses a security threat to the country’s northern neighbors in Central Asia, and the Taliban seems to be the only real force capable of resisting IS expansion in Afghanistan now. We are republishing this article by Animesh Roul on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor:
