BISHKEK (TCA) — Parliament deputies and experts are dissatisfied with the results of the state mortgage program in Kyrgyzstan because it is not affordable for state employees. The monthly salary of a ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is making strong progress implementing challenging economic reforms to support growth and build opportunities for citizens, said Cyril Muller, World Bank Vice-President for ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum on February 27 said that work has started on exploration in two blocks of Afghan-Tajik oil zone and the process will be completed in two yea ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Several former members of the Tajik opposition movement Group 24 have called on the country's Supreme Court to remove it from the list of banned extremist parties, saying "the group n ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — Police detained several protesters who demonstrated outside the headquarters of President Nursultan Nazarbayev's ruling party in Kazakhstan's two main cities, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service re ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan's gold reserves are expected to increase by 474 tons worth 18.75 billion U.S. dollars during 2020-2024, according to a draft document published on February 26 by the countr ... Read More
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The economies of Central Asia must significantly increase financial protection against natural disasters and consolidate efforts to effectively manage disaster risks, said e ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — As Turkmenistan experiences an economic crisis and state-budget cuts, the government agencies are being reorganized, which leads to considerable downsizing of their staff, independent ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s new cabinet of ministers “should be the Government of real action, aimed at concrete results,” Prime Minister Askar Mamin said at the first meeting of the new Government on ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban has said the group is close to reaching an agreement with the United States on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, RFE/RL reported.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The ongoing economic crisis in Turkmenistan has taken its toll on the investment climate and a particular investor operating in the country. We are republishing the following article ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on February 22 signed a resolution pursuant to which prices of various types of essential groceries, merchandise, as well as manufac ... Read More
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the Mayor’s Office of the City of Almaty on February 25 signed an agreement by which IFC w ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — On February 25, the Senior Bureau Official in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador Alice G. Wells, and Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Finance ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a decree appointing Askar Mamin as the country’s new Prime Minister. This was announced on the presidential press service officia ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia is trying to keep and possibly increase its military and security presence and influence in Central Asia, the region Moscow considers its strategic backyard. We are republishing ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — A two-day meeting on investment and export promotion was recently held at Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
KABUL (TCA) — Landlocked Afghanistan has sent its first export shipment to India through Iran's strategic Chabahar Port.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajik and Russian officials have arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Tajikistan an opposition activist who resurfaced in Dushanbe earlier this month from self-imposed exile, ... Read More
ALMATY (TCA) — As the economic woes and social inequality increase in Kazakhstan, the country needs drastic changes in the governance system — something the long-serving Kazakh president has failed to ... Read More
