BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan is planning to introduce alternative toll roads. The first pilot project will be the Bishkek—Chaldovar highway, bypassing Uzgen city in the south of the country.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, an ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — It is impossible to expand access to education for children and education specialists without access to the Internet, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sapar Isakov said at the recent inter ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and the Government of Uzbekistan have signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. Rosatom said the agreement was signed by the company’s D ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Guides from Kyrgyzstan have received certification from the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA), an organization that unites over 200,000 tour guides from 70 countri ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — For Tajikistan, diversification of agricultural crop production and shifting away from cotton monoculture is vital for improving the wellbeing of local farmers and achieving the count ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) continues to enjoy significant trust and support from between 50% and 83% of the population of its five member states (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, K ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Islamic State (IS) militants fully control a number of districts in the north of Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters at a press briefing on ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — According to official estimates, real GDP in Tajikistan grew by 6.8% during the first nine months of 2017, compared with 6.7% a year earlier. Growth was pulled along by net exports, d ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — A man suspected of killing a brother of former Kyrgyzstan’s Prosecutor-General and opposition politician Aida Salyanova has been apprehended in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Iran says it has received a request from China to establish a connection between Pakistan’s Gwadar port, developed by Chinese companies, and Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar which ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced the formal completion of a landmark agreement to improve kidney dialysis services in Kyrgyzstan.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to finance small businesses in Turkmenistan, where the development of private enterprise is a focus of the Ba ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The mayor of Uzbekistan’s eastern city of Andijon has been fined for insulting teachers in public — an unprecedented court ruling in the tightly controlled country, RFE/RL reports.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Finance Ministry of Uzbekistan has dismissed 562 employees after the country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev harshly criticized the ministry's performance and ordered it to get rid ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov has warned about a threat of increasing expansion of Islamic State ideology in Central Asian countries, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — An agreement was signed by the Afghanistan Government and the University of Central Asia (UCA) on December 17 in Kabul according to which by 2020, a total of 40 employees of the Afghan ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — At the Government meeting on December 26, the Minister of Information and Communications Dauren Abayev reported on measures being taken to implement the Smart City projects in Kazakhsta ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Iran has transited a major consignment of tangerines from Pakistan to Kazakhstan in an initiative that could open a new corridor for shipment of food products from Southeast Asia to ma ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan on December 26 agreed to discuss ways to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, Xinhua reported. This w ... Read More
