BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz Republican Center for Quality Control of Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases (RCQCLDID) will receive ISO/IEC 17043 international accreditation certificate during an official ceremony at the Preventive Medicine Research and Production Association in Bishkek. The Kyrgyz Ministry of Health and the U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan will jointly award the certificate, issued by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation on December 9, the U.S. Embassy said on December 5.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s former Interior Minister Isgender Mulikov, fired by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in October, has been convicted of abuse of power and corruption, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The US House of Representatives on December 3 approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to impose sanctions on senior Chinese officials over allegations of mistreatment of China’s Uighur ethnic minority. To become law, the bill must pass the US Senate and then be sent to US President Donald Trump, Sputnik news agency reported.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Eni, through its local subsidiary ArmWind LLP, has been awarded a 50 MW photovoltaic project in the region of Turkestan, in southern Kazakhstan, as a result of an auction managed by the Kazakh authorities. The auction was implemented in the framework of a joint initiative of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Italian company said in a press release.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Patients of healthcare centres in Central Asia’s most populated country will benefit from better care and hygiene standards following the introduction of modern medical manufacturing facilities in Uzbekistan, supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

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BISHKEK (TCA) — A self-confessed money launderer who wired nearly $1 billion out of Kyrgyzstan’s banks before his murder in Turkey last month also ran a network of informal cash couriers who carried tens of millions of dollars from the Central Asian country by hand, a new investigation has found, RFE/RL reports.

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