BISHKEK (TCA) — USAID’S Agro Horizon Project (through local Public Association Agro Lead) earlier this month sponsored business-to-business meetings in Bishkek and Osh for local agricultural producers. The meetings enabled 58 farmers and small and medium enterprises to explore commercial opportunities for the supply of fresh and processed agricultural products to Frunze, one of the country’s largest chains of supermarkets, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on 25 August.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Certificates for receiving grants in the amount of 42 million soms to improve public services will be awarded to 12 municipalities from Issyk-Kul and Jalal-Abad provinces of Kyrgyzstan on August 26 in Bishkek, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon, in a ceremony in the Yovon district on August 24, put into operation the Vahdat-Yovon section of Dushanbe-Qurghonteppa-Kulob railroad, the presidential press service reported.  

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon on August 24 inaugurated a large cement plant of Jung-Tsai Mohir Cement Co. Ltd. located in the Yovon district, the presidential press service said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has ordered the government to review the country’s international border agreements signed by previous administrations, amid the ongoing tensions on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The lower house of the parliament of Tajikistan on August 24 passed a new law on mass amnesty proposed by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon last week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence, Avesta news agency reported.

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