DUSHANBE (TCA) — U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Elisabeth Millard and First Deputy Chairman of Norak, Mr. Asozoda Dilshod Alimurod celebrated the opening of a new drinking water system in Daldakhuron village of the country’s Norak district. USAID representatives, district and municipality officials, village leaders, and residents also participated in the ceremony. The system provides 353 residents with clean drinking water, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe said on 5 May.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The International Conference on Transport and Logistics was held last week in the Avaza National Tourism Zone in Turkmenistan. The agenda of the forum included a wide range of issues of the transport sector on the regional and global scale, and development of the railway transport infrastructure, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.

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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Energy and Water said that work on the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA-1000) electricity transmission project will start in the near future and an Indian company has won the tender for the Afghan part of the project, TOLOnews agency reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — There is no national plan for the civil aviation development in Kyrgyzstan, and the Civil Aviation Agency arbitrarily grants licenses and patronizes selected companies, Kyrgyz First Deputy Prime Minister Muhammadkaly Abulgaziev said.

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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.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The April 30 landslide that buried a village in southern Kyrgyzstan once more drew the attention to the long-lasting problem of people illegally building homes in areas vulnerable to natural disasters. We are republishing this article by Peter Leonard on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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