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BISHKEK (TCA) — India can work closely with the US and Afghanistan in providing security in the war-torn country and supporting wider stability in the region, the US Senate Armed Services Committee says, but Indian experts rule out any direct military involvement of India in Afghanistan, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A delegation of JSC KTZ Express, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), took part in the second Global Forum “Future China Global Forum 2017” in Singapore.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Embassy of Uzbekistan in the UK recently held an annual summer reception to present the country’s cultural, gastronomic and tourist potential to British travel companies and the media, the Jahon information agency reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee say that Tajikistan authorities have detained, interrogated, and threatened relatives of 10 peaceful opposition activists who attended a July 9 conference in Germany, RFE/RL reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new programme for youth and children to build social cohesion and prevent violence was announced on July 18 in Bishkek by the Government of Kyrgyzstan, the UK’s Department for International Development and UNICEF.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Major foreign investments have so far come to Kyrgyzstan due to geopolitical rather than economic reasons (with the Canadian investment in the Kumtor gold field being perhaps the only exception). The investment of Russia in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn hydropower plants cascade, too, was dictated by the Kremlin’s political goals in the region. Now, as Russia has abandoned the project over cashflow problems, this major hydropower project has been taken up by a little-known Czech company, which has found itself in the focus of a scandal in Kyrgyzstan. We are republishing this article by Nurjamal Djanibekova on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
