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ASTANA (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on November 27 sentenced Makhambet Abzhan, a local property rights activist, to 3 1/2 years in jail after finding him guilty on charges of fraud. The Saryarqa District Court also ordered the confiscation of Abzhan’s property, RFE/RL reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $44.76 million grant to develop Afghanistan’s first 20 megawatts (MW) on-grid solar photovoltaic plant and boost the country’s renewable energy generation and supply, ADB’s Country Office in Afghanistan said on November 26.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Government revenues in Turkmenistan are to decrease by 8 billion manats in 2018, the independent website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported with reference to the state information agency TDH.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and Finland are interested in further development of cooperation across the whole spectrum of relations, with a special focus on green technologies. The success of EXPO-2017 in Astana and Finland’s participation in it have laid the foundation for such collaboration. This was said during meetings in Helsinki last week between Kazakhstan Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko and Finnish partners in governmental, legislative and business circles, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin held negotiations with the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov on November 24 in Tashkent to discuss further development of cooperation in industrial, agricultural, military, technical, aerospace, transit and transport spheres, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chief Executive Officer of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, Mr. Khaled Al-Aboodi, and the Chief Executive Officer of Kyrgyzstan’s Micro-Credit Company Mol Bulak Finance, Mr. Babyrzhan Tolbaev, signed a line of financing agreement for a USD 10 million facility in Istanbul, the ICD said on November 26.
