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ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is committing credit lines to help small businesses in Kazakhstan access much-needed financing in the local currency, tenge, the Bank said on November 29.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s economy grew 2.7 percent in January-October 2016, Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev said at the Kyrgyz Government meeting on November 28, the Economy Ministry press service said.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The opening ceremony of the Atamurat-Ymamnazar (Turkmenistan) – Akina (Afghanistan) railroad section, the first link of the Asian transnational transport corridor, took place on November 28 on the Turkmen-Afghan border with the participation of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors last week approved US$150 million in financing for the Modernization and Upgrade of Transmission Substations Project in Uzbekistan. It is aimed at improving the technical efficiency and reliability of the power transmission networks in the country, the World Bank said.
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AKTOBE, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A court in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe has convicted 29 men in a high-profile terrorism trial, RFE/RL reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As countries of the Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) convened last week under the chairmanship of Azerbaijan in Ganja, we are publishing this article by Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP:
