Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — The first rail transportation of fruit and vegetable products from Pakistan to Kazakhstan has been organized by KTZ Express, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the company’s press office said.
Sergey Kwan
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.
Sergey Kwan
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:
Sergey Kwan
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.
Sergey Kwan
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.
