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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on October 4 signed a three-year agreement to improve food security, nutrition and resilience to climate-related and economic shocks for more than 80,000 vulnerable people in four Kyrgyz provinces, the two organizations said in a joint news release.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. The various branches included in China’s ambitious plan to install a hardware network, in which rail and road links are crucial, face various problems, though. The problems include the failure of different players in the complex game, in particular Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, to come to a joint agreement to eliminate border hubs for transit traffic – not to speak of battlefield Afghanistan. This, as well as other factors, makes land routes more complicated and thereby more expensive than wished for.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — In the first half of this year, more than 163 thousand foreign tourists visited Tajikistan, spending almost US $82 million in the country, Avesta news agency reported citing Adkham Abdullozoda, the chairman of the Committee of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism of Tajikistan.
ASTANA (TCA) — As a court in Astana on October 3 found Seitkazy Matayev, the head of the Kazakh Journalists Union, guilty of tax evasion and embezzlement and sentenced him to six years in prison, and his son, Aset, the director of the KazTAG news agency, was sentenced to five years on corruption charges, we are republishing this article by Aigerim Toleukhanova, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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ASTANA (TCA) — The average monthly salary in Kazakhstan increased by 15.6% year on year to KZT 143,600 in the 2nd quarter of 2016, while prices of goods and services increased by 16.8% with food prices increasing by 27.4%, Ranking.kz reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — More than 100,000 people living in the poor rural areas of Kyrgyzstan are expected to benefit from improved access to quality water and sanitation services thanks to US $23.5 million in financing for the Sustainable Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Development Project, approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. US $12.92 million of this financing is a concessional credit, while $10.58 million is a grant, the World Bank said.
