DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has handed over 57 computers, 57 printers and 57 sticks for internet connection to the Ministry of Agriculture of Tajikistan as part of a European Union funded project to strengthen the Ministry’s institutional capacity. The Ministry of Agriculture will distribute this equipment to the agricultural departments in the districts to advance collecting data in the fields, which will allow better analysis and reporting system by agricultural experts, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said on November 11.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — A businessman from China’s Xinjiang Province whose name was cited in an investigative report by RFE/RL about the illegal withdrawal of some $700 million from Kyrgyzstan has been shot dead in Istanbul, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The National Museum of Kazakhstan opens the exhibition “The Great Steppe: History and Culture” on November 11 at the Epigraphic Museum of Athens (Greece). The exhibition will run until December 11, as part of the international exhibition project “The Procession of the Golden Man in the world museums,” the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $27.4 million financing package to provide safe and reliable water supply and sanitation services to more than 64,000 people living in a mountainous rural area of the Kyrgyz Republic, ADB’s Country Office said on November 11.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic have signed a $100 million financing package to modernize aging equipment and improve power generation capacity at the Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant (HPP), the oldest of the six HPPs installed along the Naryn river cascade in Kyrgyzstan. Uch-Kurgan HPP’s generation capacity will be increased from 180 megawatts (MW) to 216 MW, ADB’s Country Office said.

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