ASTANA (TCA) — The Seminar on Capacity-Building and Networking for Civil Servants and NGOs from Afghanistan opened on July 8 at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. The Seminar is held in the framework of the joint project “Promoting Kazakhstan’s Official Development Assistance Cooperation with Afghanistan”. This project is conducted jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Embassy of Japan to Kazakhstan, and supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), UNDP in Kazakhstan said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan has found investors for the construction of the Upper Naryn hydropower plants (HPPs) cascade, Sapar Isakov, head of the Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan, said at a roundtable discussing challenges and reforms in the country’s energy sector on July 4 in Bishkek.

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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.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The economic trends improved in Q2 2017 in the member countries of Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. This development is largely based on the recovery of key transmission channels in the region, primarily trade and remittances. These are the findings of the Monthly Macroeconomic Review prepared by the Chief Economist Group at EDB.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Uzbekistan’s Invest Finance Bank (InFin Bank) on July 5 signed an agreement enabling cooperation to support trade in Uzbekistan through ADB’s Trade Finance Program (TFP), ADB’s country office said.

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