ASTANA (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on March 1 approved US $67 million in financing to improve quality and equity in the primary and secondary education system in Kazakhstan. It is expected that over 2.6 million schoolchildren will benefit from a better learning curriculum and improved quality of teaching, especially in rural and disadvantaged schools in the country, the Bank said.

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ALMATY (TCA) — Kazkommertsbank (KKB), the largest bank by total assets in Kazakhstan, on March 2 announced that it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with respect to a potential acquisition by JSC Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan of a controlling interest in KKB.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — On March 1, Islamabad, Pakistan hosted a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), whose member nations pledged to collectively fight terrorism and boost regional cooperation in trade, energy, and infrastructure.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The opening ceremony of a clinical skills center in the medical faculty of the Osh State University in southern Kyrgyzstan took place on March 1.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Speaking to a working group for the constitutional reform on March 1, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that he made a decision to amend the Constitution by the discussion in the Parliament, without submitting it to a referendum, the presidential press service said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Ata-Meken opposition party has claimed that the arrest of its leader Omurbek Tekebaev was aimed to suppress evidence that a cargo plane that crashed near Bishkek’s Manas airport on January 16 was carrying goods belonging to President Almazbek Atambayev, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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