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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Entrepreneurship Support Centre (ESC) in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, marked its first anniversary on December 4, in a celebration organized by the Centre together with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek. The mission of the ESC is to provide information and consulting support to entrepreneurs, as well as to form, prepare and promote high-quality business initiatives for the development of entrepreneurship in the Osh region. Continue reading
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city, Osh, has a new mayor after 44 of 45 members of the city council voted in favor of Taalaibek Sarybashev on July 18, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Suiun Omurzakov and the Director of the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek Sandeep Paul on July 10 inaugurated the Local Crime Prevention Center (LCPC) in Amir-Temur, a neighborhood in Osh City with a population of 52,000 facing issues of unemployment, domestic violence, drug addiction, forced early marriage, and youth involvement in radical and violent groups. The Amir-Temur LCPC represents a true partnership with 64 percent (approximately $15,000) of the funding provided by the U.S. Embassy’s Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), 18 percent (approximately $4,500) by the Osh City Mayor’s Office; 11 percent (approximately $2,600) by the Osh City Directorate on Employment, Migration and Youth; and the remaining 7 percent (almost $2,000) by the local community, the US Embassy reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Saudi Development Fund will provide Kyrgyzstan with a 75 million Saudi riyal loan (about $20 million) at 1% per annum for the construction of the North-South alternative motor road. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Aga Khan Foundation and Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation in Kyrgyzstan have joined forces to support the most vulnerable households in Chon Alai district of Osh oblast in south Kyrgyzstan affected by the earthquakes of May 2017, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said on June 28. Continue reading
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — 30 brand new buses have arrived in Osh, the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan. The buses are part of a project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that aims to boost safe and accessible public transport services in the city. It will also include the purchase of 24 low-floor, accessible trolley buses in the near future and pay for the modernisation of the municipal depot, the EBRD said. Continue reading
