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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Iran has announced the official launch of its gas oil export to neighboring Tajikistan for the first time in the history of relations between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported on February 3. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Amidst the wildest speculations that predominantly Shiite Iran might emerge as a powerful buffer to keep Sunnite extremism at bay for Central Asia and take the shape of a regional power broker, realities speak a different language. For the moment, Iran needs everybody else’s help a lot more than anybody else needs Iran’s. But where politics face a long haul, trade might have a unique and immediate opportunity – especially where the landlocked Central Asian former Soviet republics are concerned. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — LG Chem, South Korea’s largest chemical company, said it has decided to scrap a plan to jointly build a $4.2 billion petrochemical plant in Kazakhstan due to the continued slump in global oil prices, The Korea Times reported late in January. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Investors from China support the idea of construction of Kazakhstan’s fourth oil refinery in the western Mangistau province, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Mangistau province Governor Alik Aidarbayev. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support the Green Economy drive in Kazakhstan by financing a new, cleaner and more energy-efficient gas-fired electricity generating plant in Atyrau, a harbour city on the Caspian Sea and a regional capital in western Kazakhstan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Editor’s note: We are glad to publish an essay of a young Indian journalist, from the South Asian University of New Delhi. The essay shows how modern infrastructure is trying to resolve old problems in an integrated effort of several countries while requiring worldwide attention for a balanced and peaceful development of Central Asia, the “heartland” between Europe, Russia and China. Continue reading
