Sergey Kwan
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chinese authorities have imposed 15 new restrictions, including banning burqas and veils, as well as “abnormal” beards, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest China, predominantly inhabited by Muslim population, as part of the fight against religious extremism, Sputnik news agency reported citing media reports.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — A Kazakh delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Askar Myrzakhmetov, arrived in Beijing on March 31 in an effort to attract Chinese investments in Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector and promote the export of Kazakh agricultural products to China, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — A Chinese delegation headed by China’s Deputy Minister of Commerce Fang Aiqing has visited Tashkent to take part in the fifth meeting of the Subcommittee on Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Uzbek-Chinese Intergovernmental Commission, the Jahon information agency reported.
Sergey Kwan
BISHKEK (TCA) — The efforts to address the legacy of Soviet era uranium mining in Central Asia is making substantial progress. Following the establishment of the multilateral Environmental Remediation Account for Central Asia (ERA) framework agreements have now been signed with the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where the fund will operate, the EBRD press office reported on March 31.
Lidia Savina
BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 31, the Ata-Meken (Fatherland) parliamentary opposition faction discussed distribution of money received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan to help residents of Dacha Su village that suffered from a plane crash on January 16.
Sergey Kwan
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated, the United States, as well as Russia and China, has increased military assistance to security forces in neighboring Central Asian states. Here below we are republishing this article by Joshua Kucera on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
