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TEHRAN (TCA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is to pay visits to Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan this week to discuss ways of improving mutual relations, Iran’s PressTV news agency reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The celebration of Nauryz, the New Year holiday shared by 12 countries including in Central Asia, was inscribed on November 30 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO, following the decisions adopted by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UNESCO said on its website.Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — French energy giant Total on November 8 signed a deal with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for the development of Phase 11 of South Pars, the world's largest natural gas field. It is Iran's first major contract with a Western energy company since the lifting of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A meeting to strengthen the trade and commercial affairs on the rice value chain was recently held with the participation of a delegation from Iran and local rice producers of the Uzgen district of Kyrgyzstan’s southern Osh oblast, the UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic reported. Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — Armenia, a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) that also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, says it is working on a plan with Iran to create a free economic zone between the two countries, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported on August 29. Continue reading
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. Continue reading