ASTANA (TCA) — On May 23 in Astana, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan and national investment promotion company Kazakh Invest signed a Memorandum of Understanding according to which the Chamber will provide equipped workplaces in the established 7 full-scale Business Service Centers in various regions of Kazakhstan to accommodate representatives of Kazakh Invest, which will provide an opportunity to resolve promptly operational issues, Atameken reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s authorities have launched an “unrelenting assault” against lawyers, particularly those defending government critics, RFE/RL reports citing Amnesty International.

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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani last week inaugurated the construction of the Dar-i-Suf to Yakawlang road in the country’s Bamyan province. The road will boost Afghanistan’s transport network, widen economic and social opportunities, and connect remote areas to the country’s center, the ADB country office in Afghanistan said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has so far built the most friendly and close relations with next-door neighbor Turkmenistan, with other Central Asian neighbors also mending ties with Tashkent in various spheres. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Sharing the waters of trans-boundary rivers is an old problem in Central Asia and now such a conflict is brewing between Iran and Afghanistan over the Kamal Khan Dam project in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province that borders Iran.

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