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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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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia and China are not competing for influence in Central Asia since their priorities in the region coincide, including maintaining political stability, promoting economic development and upholding secular statehood, says political analyst Alexander Lukin, head of the Department of International Relations at the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics, Sputnik news agency reported.
