ASTANA (TCA) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Wencai Zhang, on a 4-day visit to Kazakhstan, has held talks with senior officials of the Government of Kazakhstan about ADB’s new 2017-21 Country Partnership Strategy. Mr. Zhang has also attended several sessions of the Astana Economic Forum on regional cooperation and integration, and Kazakhstan’s development perspectives. On 15 June, he co-chaired the brainstorming session on the new Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) 2030 Strategy, ADB’s country office in Kazakhstan said.

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ALMATY (TCA) — The most crisis-prone spheres of the economy were discussed by businesspeople of the two countries at the business forum “Almaty-Luxembourg”, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on June 15.

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ASTANA (TCA) — At the presentation of the World Bank’s report on systemic diagnostics of the country in the light of the 25th anniversary of cooperation between Kazakhstan and the World Bank, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev addressed the participants of the Astana Economic Forum that opened on June 15 in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank on June 15 announced the signing of the sale and purchase agreements with Mr. Kenges Rakishev to acquire 86.09% of ordinary shares of JSC Kazkommertsbank for a consideration of 1 Kazakhstan tenge, and separately with JSC Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna to acquire 10.72% of ordinary shares of Kazkommertsbank also for a consideration of 1 Kazakhstan tenge.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Under the pretext of combating extremism and terrorism, authorities in Tajikistan are now intruding into people’s homes to check whatever they want and deem suspicious or prohibited. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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URUMQI (TCA) — On the occasion of International Uyghur Language Day, June 15, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has called on all concerned individuals, human rights groups and governments to speak out against Chinese government policies aimed at undermining the linguistic rights of the Uyghur people in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. UHRP has also encouraged the international community to protect linguistic diversity as a critical aspect of building resilient ethnic minorities in an age of cultural assimilation.

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