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ASHGABAT (TCA) — At a meeting with local entrepreneurs at Turkmenistan’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on June 8, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said that the state budget allows for maintaining benefits for the residents of Turkmenistan, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent website reported citing official Turkmen media. The existing benefit program provides for free quotas for electricity, natural gas and water to the citizens of Turkmenistan. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Some 90 participants, including government officials and civil society representatives, gathered in Dushanbe on May 30 for a meeting organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan to discuss human rights issues specific to the country, ahead of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw. Continue reading
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — A United Nations park was opened in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on May 5. Located in Cheryomushki residential neighborhood, the park includes a children playground and a library, said the press service of the Osh municipality. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — School bakeries installed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in two schools in Norak and Roghun in Tajikistan will benefit around 3,600 children in schools throughout the two districts, the WFP said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The World Bank Board of Directors has approved a US $80 million loan for the Social Health Insurance Project aimed at improving accessibility, quality, and efficiency of health service delivery in Kazakhstan as well as at reducing financial risks to the population caused by serious health problems. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Government of Switzerland has allocated 1.75 million Kyrgyz soms to six municipalities of Jalal-Abad and Issyk-Kul provinces and the city of Balykchy in Kyrgyzstan. Continue reading