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TASHKENT (TCA) — A ban on the sale of incandescent lamps of more than 40 watts has come into effect in Uzbekistan from 1 January 2017, the official Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — At the Government meeting on January 10, Finance Minister Bakhyt Sultanov reported on preliminary results of the capital legalization campaign in Kazakhstan which started on 1 September 2014 and lasted until the end of 2016, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Askar Zhumagaliyev, the chairman of Kazakhstan’s national atomic company Kazatomprom, on January 10 announced that due to the prolonged recovery in the uranium market, planned 2017 production from Kazakhstan will be reduced by approximately 10 percent. This will amount to a volume greater than 2,000 MtU or more than 5 million lb U3O8, which is equal to 3 percent of total global uranium production, Kazatomprom said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s former National Economy Minister Kuandyk Bishimbaev has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, the National Anticorruption Bureau of Kazakhstan said on January 10.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Contradicting reports referring to the Turkish authorities have spread all over the media for more than a week following the deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub. Even though IS has claimed responsibility it remains unclear who the perpetrator was and on whose behalf he acted.
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YEREVAN (TCA) — Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetian met with Iran’s and Turkmenistan’s ambassadors in Yerevan on January 9 for talks that apparently focused on possible supplies of Turkmen natural gas to Armenia via Iran, MassisPost.com reported.
