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) — Digital transformation is leading a new era of change around the world. In 2016, the digital economy accounted for 16% of global GDP, and without considering the impact of Covid-19, ha ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Classes will be held online and offline in the capital city Nur-Sultan, Karaganda, Pavlodar, Petropavlovsk, Uralsk, Aktobe and Ust-Kamenogorsk, the embassy said.
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — According to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Almas Aidarov, 16 investment contracts worth 266 billion tenge were signed online. He added that the service has be ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia’s political elite is a hostage of outdated imperial ideas and pretensions Moscow has toward Central Asia — a region that is now increasingly different from its common Soviet pas ... Read More
TAIPEI (TCA) — Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on July 2 slightly relaxed its regulations on the timeframe for COVID-19 testing of foreign nationals traveling to Taiwan, Focus Taiwan r ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Twelve U.S. Senators have called for the release of “prisoners of conscience” in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, Freedom Now, a U.S.-based non-profit, ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on July 2 approved a $-500 million loan for the Sustainable Livestock Development Program to support the development of environmentally s ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved additional grant financing of $-50 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the second phase of the Nure ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have reintroduced a partial lockdown amid a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the Central Asian country, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported.
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s drive towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy by cutting the use of coal-fired power stations and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 per cent by t ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Tajikistan on July 1 said it has handed over high-level disinfectants to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Populat ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Rights activists and media watchdogs have urged Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon to reject proposed legal amendments that they say threaten freedom of speech in the Central Asian n ... Read More
TAIPEI (TCA) — Despite Taiwan's success in controlling the spread of the new coronavirus, it has not been included in the list of countries that will be exempted from the European Union's (EU) COVID-1 ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $-12.5 million long-term loan to JSC Indorama Kokand Fertilizers and Chemicals to finance ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $-30 million grant to Tajikistan to strengthen the skills of the country’s youth, women, and labor migrants to improve their employabil ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov "to uphold fundamental rights" and veto laws recently approved by parliament that "violate the country's hum ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — Faced with a spike in coronavirus cases in Central Asia's most populous country, officials in Uzbekistan say they have reimposed measures in some areas, reversing course after slowly r ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan has set the goal of bringing the level of the shadow economy to below 20% of GDP by 2025. As a result of the measures taken, the share of the unobservable economy in Kaza ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — China is forcing women to be sterilized or use contraceptive devices in an attempt to limit the population of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minority groups in the western Xinjiang re ... Read More
