TCA
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Uzbek-Chinese joint venture Titan-Cement has put into operation a large cement plant in Uzbekistan’s northwestern Karakalpakstan region, the Jahon information agency reported.
TCA
TASHKENT (TCA) — Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia, will sell its stake in its joint venture in Uzbekistan and leave the Central Asian country.
Stratfor
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.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — The initiative of Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament to amend the Constitution by a referendum is now the most discussed topic in the country. The proposed referendum may take place this coming fall.
EurasiaNet
DUSHANBE (TCA) — As Central Asia’s poorest nation, Tajikistan, badly needs finance and foreign investment to develop its economy, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
TASHKENT (TCA) — High levels of unemployment remain the main factor in persistent numbers of Uzbek citizens wandering out, mainly to the Russian Federation, looking for better paid jobs. But it looks as though an improving economy is now starting to make it more and more attractive for Uzbek migrant labourers to try their luck at home once more, despite the draconic grip by the state on economic activity and still rampant corruption and extortion.
