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ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to promote modern infrastructure and regional connectivity in Central Asia by supporting a key road link in Kazakhstan. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The first regular container train running from China through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran on February 10 entered Iran through Turkmenistan’s Serahs rail station, the State Information Agency of Turkmenistan reported. Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — A delegation of 260 Kazakh traders and industrialists headed by the country’s Investment and Development Minister Asset Issekeshev is currently visiting Iran to forge new business relations between the two nations, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported on February 8. 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
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus celebrate the 25th anniversary of their independence, structural reform has become critical. The key to meeting many of the challenges, and seizing the opportunities of the changing global environment is closer regional economic integration with the rest of Asia and the Pacific. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A container train linking China and Iran departed from Yiwu City in east China's Zhejiang Province loaded with Chinese small commodities on January 28, Xinhua reported. Continue reading
