ASTANA (TCA) — About 5 million tons of cargo was transported between Kazakhstan and China during the first half of 2017, a 26-percent increase on-year. It was said at a meeting of the executive director of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), president of KTZ-Freight Transportation Oralkhan Kulakov and the head of the Urumqi Railway of China Shang Lijun, KTZ said on July 24.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Albert Jaeger visited Uzbekistan during July 17–24 to discuss economic developments and the authorities’ reform plans.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Governments in many post-Soviet states, including Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, consider foreign-funded NGOs a threat to national interests and a fifth column, taking repressive measures against them and civil society activism in general. Now such measures target two NGOs in Kazakhstan which are critical of the government’s policies. We are republishing this article by Joanna Lillis on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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TASHKENT (TCA) — During his visit to the city of Parkent in the Tashkent region, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev was presented plans for the development of tourism in the region in 2017-2018 and proposals for construction of recreational and health facilities in ecologically clean areas of Parkent district located near the Uzbek capital city, Tashkent, the Jahon information agency reported on July 22.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Although the external environment is expected to improve, rising domestic vulnerabilities pose a significant risk to maintaining robust economic growth in Tajikistan, the World Bank said in its latest issue of the Country Economic Update for Tajikistan.

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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani says the tourism sector in Afghanistan needs to be revived as it could draw millions of visitors a year, TOLOnews agency reports.

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