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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s election authorities say President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Nur Otan party has won 82.15 percent of the votes in the March 20 parliamentary elections, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on March 18 approved a financing of US $12 million equivalent for the Urban Development Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. $6.6 million of this financing is a concessional credit and $5.4 million is a grant, the World Bank said.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducted a national training on tuberculosis (TB) for local journalists of television, radio, and print media March 15–17 in Tajikistan.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The non-governmental organization UNISON convened an event last week with leading energy-sector policy-makers to formally close the nationwide public outreach campaign “Be Warm, Kyrgyzstan!” UNISON’s five-month campaign, supported by the United States through USAID, conducted 575 workshops across the country, teaching over 25,000 households low-cost techniques to lower their electricity and heating bills and keep their homes and families warm through the winter, the US Embassy in Bishkek reported.
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.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Anti-corruption Office of Kyrgyzstan is investigating results of a tender for 6.8 billion som reconstruction of the Balykchy-Korumdu motor road on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.
