OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Michael Tatham, Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), and Robin Ord-Smith, British Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, on August 20 visited the Osh province in southern Kyrgyzstan to meet with Ahmadjan Mahammadov, Deputy Governor of Osh Oblast. The delegation also met with international organizations and visited AKF/MSDSP KG project sites in Aravan district, the British Embassy to the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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ALMATY (TCA) — A delegation from the city of Hancheng (Shaanxi Province, China) arrived in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, in search of business partners, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on its website on August 19. The delegation consisted of manufacturers of building materials, steel structures, electromechanical equipment, and ceramic products, as well as managers of Chinese travel agencies.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The trust of foreign investors in the banks of Uzbekistan will be strengthened and the latter’s credibility in the international financial markets will grow. To a large extent, this will be facilitated by the stable outlook awarded to them by Moody’s for the seventh time, Uzbekistan’s official Jahon information agency reports with reference to the rating agency.  

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ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, the United Nations Development Programme, the Government of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency on 19 August launched a pilot project of Kazakhstan’s ODA aimed at expanding economic independence and rights of Afghan women and entitled “Promoting Kazakhstan’s ODA Cooperation with Afghanistan”. The project will mark Kazakhstan’s first international cooperation for Afghanistan in the framework of national system of Official Development Assistance (ODA), while it helps Kazakhstan to strengthen its ability to administer its future ODA. The project is financed by the Government of Japan through the UNDP-Japan Partnership Fund, UNDP Kazakhstan reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — As Tajikistan, the poorest among Central Asian post-Soviet republics, badly needs investments, including foreign ones, to develop its economy, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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