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ASTANA (TCA) — Construction works at a new railway station of Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, will be completed on May 15 and it will be launched on June 1, before the opening of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana this summer, the press service of Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an $80 million loan for the electrification of 145 kilometers (km) of railway in Uzbekistan, linking the cities of Pap, Namangan, and Andijan. The electrified track is part of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Corridor 2, a critical transport link in the region, ADB’s country office in Uzbekistan said on April 24. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The Government of Kazakhstan on April 18 reviewed the country’s socio-economic development results for the 1st quarter of 2017, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov signed a strategic partnership treaty on April 18 in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, during the first day of a two-day visit by Turkmenistan’s president. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Expansion of regional cooperation in the railway transport is in the focus of the two-day Economic Cooperation Organization's railway authorities meeting that opened in Baku, Azerbaijan on April 17 with the participation of representatives from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan and Iran. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As a new Great Game is just beginning in Eurasia with China being perhaps the key player on the vast region’s geopolitical map, we are presenting an abstract from a paper by Dr. James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture. The full paper is available here. Continue reading
