DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s labor migrants abroad send home much more money than direct foreign investments coming to Tajikistan, Avesta news agency reported. According to Tajik government sources, ... Read More
TEHRAN (TCA) — A senior Iranian official says a major railway connecting Iran and neighboring Afghanistan will be ready in March 2020 as construction of a key cross-border line is nearing completion, ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The government of Uzbekistan has approved a resolution to open the Representative Office of the Uzbek Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade in China, Xinhua news agency reported w ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakh businessman Iskander Erimbetov has been released from prison "due to a health condition," according to his sister, Bota Jardemalie, RFE/RL reported.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan on December 28 put into operation a new chemical plant built by Chinese companies in the Navoi region. The opening ceremony was attended by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoy ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov announced “Turkmenistan – Home of Neutrality” as the country’s slogan for 2020. The decision was made at a joint session of the Cabinet of Minist ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — Officials in Kabul say that recent US sanctions against Iran have affected Afghan investors’ trade through Iran’s Chabahar Port, which is considered a good alternative for Afghanistan-Pa ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — An Uzbek blogger who was placed under involuntary psychiatric care nearly three months ago after extensively covering alleged corruption and abuse among politicians has been released, ... Read More
TBILISI (TCA) — On December 20, 2019 Georgian authorities made a new proposal to the opposition on the electoral reform, in order to stabilize the situation. But opposition has rejected this proposal ... Read More
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
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s decision to ensure that all babies born in the country are registered at birth and issued birth certificates has been welcomed by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, UN News ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry on December 27 formally informed Deputy Chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) Kunduz Joldubayeva, Parliament members Asel Kodur ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — A prominent activist in Kyrgyzstan has reported being attacked in Bishkek by unknown assailants against a backdrop of recent protests by anti-feminism groups, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service r ... Read More
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A Kazakhstan-based Bek Air plane with 95 passengers and five crew on board crashed early on December 27 after takeoff near the Almaty airport, RFE/RL reports.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In his annual address to Tajikistan’s Parliament on December 26, President Emomali Rahmon suggested a number of measures to develop tourism and attract more foreign visitors to Tajiki ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on December 25 held a meeting to discuss the attraction and effective use of grant funds from foreign countries, international organizations ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin made a working trip to the country’s Zhambyl province on December 26. In the city of Zhanatas, in Sarysu district, in the presence of the hea ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan will be joining efforts with the Bitfury Group, a leading emerging technologies company, to preserve and replenish larg ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In his annual address to the Parliament of Tajikistan on December 26, President Emomali Rahmon tasked the Tajik Government to ensure the country’s economic growth at 7-8 percent durin ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — The department of agriculture in Afghanistan’s Helmand province says they have begun to develop pistachio gardens as an alternative to poppy cultivation in the region, and so far the pla ... Read More
