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BISHKEK (TCA) — Chinese investors show the strongest dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia). Between 2008 and 2014, China's FDI stock in the region more than doubled, from $11 billion to $27.1 billion. Over the same period, Japanese FDI reached $14.4 billion and South Korean FDI reached $1.9 billion, according to the report “EEU and Eurasia: Monitoring and Analysis of Direct Investments”, prepared by Eurasian Development Bank's (EDB) Centre for Integration Studies. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Entrepreneurs from Uzbekistan are interested in growing fruit orchards in southern Kazakhstan, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Nurzhan Altayev, deputy chairman of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — In Russia, the number of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan is on the rise while that from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is decreasing, the Fergana information agency reported with reference to the Federal Migration Service of Russia (FMS). 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
ASTANA (TCA) — Ukraine says it will for the first time ship goods to Kazakhstan along a route bypassing Russia, due to the Kremlin’s trade embargo on Kiev, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The work of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) has been criticized not only by MPs and businessmen but also by President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev. If the RKDF does not work in the coming months, it would be necessary to make staff decisions, Atambayev said at a recent news conference. Continue reading
