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 ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Remittances from Kyrgyz labor migrants abroad decreased by 37 percent in 2015 compared with 2014, Kyrgyzstan’s National Bank said. In 2014, labor migrants sent home $-2.17 billion and ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — “Major geopolitical shifts and internal dynamics are setting the stage for possible increased great-power competition in Central Asia between Russia and China at a time when the region ... Read More
LONDON (TCA) — China, and to lesser extents Russia, have been unloading coffers full of billions to spread their wings over Central Asia. The par value of the assets which have been taken by the gener ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Turkey is one of the major trading partners of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev said at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Investment and Trade Forum in Ankara late last week.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set the task to fully meet the country’s need for fuel with domestic oil products only by 2018, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported. ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — There are all possibilities for cement to become one of Tajikistan’s main export commodities, Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technology Shavkat Bobozoda told journalists on Januar ... Read More
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.
BISHKEK (TCA) — A representative of China has addressed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Board of Directors as a shareholder for the first time, less than two weeks after th ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Trade between Uzbekistan and Germany in 2015 decreased by 18.2 percent, from 481 million euro in 2014 down to 380 million euro, German Ambassador to Uzbekistan Neithart Hoefer-Wissing ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on January 27, Transparency International ranked 168 countries based on perceived levels of public-sector corruption. The most c ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Commission has approved the release of EUR 15 million as part of the EU's Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme for the Kyrgyz Republic, the Delegation of the Europea ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon has appointed his elder daughter, Ozoda Rakhmon, as head of the presidential administration. The appointment was announced on January 27, the pres ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank has lowered its 2016 forecast for crude oil prices to $-37 per barrel in its latest Commodity Markets Outlook report from $-51 per barrel in its October projections. Low ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The year 2016 will not be less difficult than last year as external risks continue to persist, Kyrgyzstan’s Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev told a news conference on the country’s re ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In 2015 gold reserves of the National Bank of Tajikistan grew 40 percent and the total gold and foreign-currency reserves increased by 28 percent, National Bank Chairman Jamshed Nurma ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The National Bank of Tajikistan is drafting amendments to the country’s Criminal Code to introduce jail terms of up to nine years for "illegal hard-currency exchange operations," Nati ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and China will implement 19 joint agricultural projects worth US $-1.735 billion, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Isayeva said on January 25, the official we ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry for Investment and Development and Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan have conducted a series of meetings with executives from major food companies of Italy, who express ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Ambassador Elisabeth I. Millard has arrived in Dushanbe. She was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to Tajikistan on December 14, 2015 in Washington, DC, the U.S. Embassy in Dus ... Read More
