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ASTANA (TCA) — A memorandum between the municipality of Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, the State Revenue Committee of the Kazakh Finance Ministry, and the company Uber was signed on June 10 in Astana, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported.
TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — Major German retailer KiK last week met with Kyrgyz apparel companies to discuss opportunities with European buyers. The meeting was part of the Apparel Innovation Club supported by the United States through USAID’s Business Growth Initiative to strengthen the Kyrgyz textile industry, the US Embassy in Bishkek said.
TCA
ASTANA (TCA) — At the meeting of Kazakhstan’s Security Council last Friday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev described the June 5 attacks in the Kazakh city of Aktobe senseless and cruel and said that the Salafi movement was responsible for them.
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) — This week Bishkek hosted a meeting of Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This year, the CIS is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Kyrgyzstan chairs the organization.
TCA
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy, Baroness Nicholson, arrived in Turkmenistan on June 7 for her first visit to the country. Her programme in Ashgabat included calls on senior members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan and leading a delegation of British companies to participate at the 5th meeting of the Turkmenistan United Kingdom Trade & Industry Council (TUKTIC) which took place in Ashgabat on June 9, the British Embassy in Ashgabat said.
