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ASTANA (TCA) — The head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Kanat Alpysbaev during the 14th China International Logistics week held a series of meetings on pairing Kazakhstan’s program Nurly Zhol and China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, to boost cargo transportation between Asia and Europe through Kazakhstan, the KTZ press service said on July 1.
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ALMATY (TCA) — A Kazakh-Thai business forum was held in Almaty, organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Kazakhstan and the Almaty Council of Businesswomen, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on July 1.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — This week Tajikistan marked the 20th anniversary of the end of the country’s civil war between the government and Islamic opposition in the 1990s. During these 20 years, Tajik President Rahmon has banned the country’s Islamic Renaissance Party, practically eliminated any dissent, consolidated his grip on power, and built a cult of his personality. It is certainly not what the country expected 20 years ago. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Saudi Development Fund will provide Kyrgyzstan with a 75 million Saudi riyal loan (about $20 million) at 1% per annum for the construction of the North-South alternative motor road.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Central Asia is an important geopolitical area between Europe, Russia and China. It is in Central Asia that world powers have confronted each other for centuries; it is here that China needs to succeed with its new Silk Road Belt for direct access to the Western markets; and it is here that a large wealth of raw materials has its origin. Every week thousands of news appears all over the world in printed and online media and it is quite understandable that many of them may escape the attention of busy readers. At The Times of Central Asia, we strongly believe that more information can better contribute to peaceful development and better knowledge of the region, and for this reason we are presenting this Weekly Digest of Central Asia which compiles what other media have reported during the past week.
TASHKENT (TCA) — As the new leadership in Uzbekistan pursues a new policy towards its southern neighbor, Afghanistan, which is focused on trade and economic cooperation, infrastructure and a gas-pipeline project, we are republishing this article by Fozil Mashrab, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
