DUSHANBE (TCA) — Aviation officials and airline representatives from 11 member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program met in Singapore last week to discuss potential for enhanced regional air transport connectivity and cooperation, said Tajikistan’s country office of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which has served as the CAREC Secretariat since 2001.

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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.

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