ASTANA (TCA) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev hope cooperation between the two countries will help rejuvenate the ancient Silk Road. They expressed so in inscriptions in a picture album on the two countries’ scenery and cooperation under China-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt and Kazakhstan’s Bright Road new economic plan, Xinhua reports.

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ASTANA (TCA) — For the effective development of Kazakhstan’s special economic zones, professional management companies will be attracted, Deputy Minister of Investment and Development Yerlan Khairov told a briefing on June 6, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan navigate a wide range of regulatory practices, depending on where they start and operate their business, says the World Bank Group’s Subnational Doing Business in Kazakhstan 2017 report, released on June 6.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — A senior Chinese diplomat has thrown his country’s weight behind Iran’s membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) which unites China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Media reports in Uzbekistan say Rustam Azimov, an influential official who had been seen as a possible successor to the late President Islam Karimov, has been dismissed from the post of deputy prime minister, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — As authorities in Turkmenistan are trying to tackle the ongoing economic crisis in the country by administrative rather than economic measures, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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