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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s national airlines company Ozbekiston Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways) has resumed flights from Tashkent to Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, some 25 years after such flights were halted, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — A new foreign trade organization, Uztuqimachilikexport, is being established in Uzbekistan for expansion of exports of Uzbek light-industry products and technological upgrade of domestic textile enterprises, the Jahon information agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The first rail freight service from the UK to China departed on April 10, carrying 30 containers of British-produced goods along a 7,500-mile journey to Yiwu, China, Sputnik news agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov reported on the progress of privatization in the country at the meeting of the Government of Kazakhstan on April 10, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On April 10, France’s AREVA and Kazakhstan’s national atomic company KAZATOMPROM signed a major agreement to strengthen their long-standing cooperation in the uranium mining sector in Kazakhstan.
LONDON (TCA) — In the attack on an Istanbul nightclub last winter and recent ones in Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Astrakhan most of the perpetrators appeared to be not Chechens, Ingush and Dagestanians “as usual” but people from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as ethnic Uygurs from western China. This, in the eyes of the public, has turned Central Asia into a terrorist brand. It appears that the region is ill-prepared to cope with it.
