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
TASHKENT (TCA) — There are different opinions inside Uzbekistan about the country’s possible accession of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), as the move would have serious implications for ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Customers across Tajikistan will enjoy better retail standards as a result of the expansion of Schiever Tajikistan supermarkets across the country with support by the European Bank fo ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev called for more regional cooperation at the second Consultative Meeting of the Heads of Central Asian States held in Tashkent on November 29, t ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s former consul-general in Istanbul, Erkin Sopokov, has been detained in Bishkek after his car was found near the site where a businessman from China's Xinjiang province was ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s economic growth to slow down in 2020-2021 due to lower capital investment in the power sector. This finding was presented in a macroeconomic review for Tajikistan prepare ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s economy will continue to grow at a level close to potential figures, according to a macroeconomic review for Kazakhstan published by the Directorate for Research at the ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — President Donald Trump has said the United States has resumed talks with the Taliban as he made an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan — his first to the war-tor ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Regional Conference on 'Enhanced Integration for Prosperity in Central Asia' started on November 28 in Nur-Sultan. The two-day event, organised by the European Union, is an occa ... Read More
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — More than 700 representatives of business circles, including international companies, participated in the 2019 Almaty Investment Forum held in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Alm ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $-300 million policy-based loan to further strengthen economic management in Uzbekistan, which should lead to greater macroeconomic sta ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Prosecutors in the high-profile corruption trial of several former top Kyrgyz officials have asked the court to sentence the defendants to prison terms of between 7 1/2 and 17 years, R ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Dozens of activists have rallied in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, urging European Union officials to pressure local authorities over human and civil rights in the Central Asian co ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — During a meeting with heads of foreign diplomatic missions in Kazakhstan on November 26, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the development of strategic partnership w ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on November 26 approved a $-52.5 million grant for the Afghanistan Gas Project that will provide sustainable supply of natural gas to indepe ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Tajik Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population on November 26 officially launched two new proj ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The 28-year prison sentence of jailed Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov has been shortened as part of a recent mass amnesty in Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported.
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The level of disposal of associated petroleum gas (APG) in Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) reached 93% in 2018. This is the highest figure in the history ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — A forum "Family Medicine in the Kyrgyz Republic: Experience, Challenges and Ways Forward" will be held in Bishkek on November 27. The goal of the forum is to discuss current status of ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — At the Turkmen Government meeting on November 22, Deputy Prime Minister overseeing oil and gas Myratgeldi Meredov briefed President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov that in the course of t ... Read More
