2024-10-25 13:32 |
Eurasianet says the Biden Administration and Kazakhstan are both eager to boost mutual trade and investment, but an antiquated vestige of the Cold War known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment remains an impediment to stronger US-Kazakh economic ties.
Kazakhstan is currently working to terminate the application of the Jackson-Vanik am Копировать endment. .
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A three-day meeting of the 2024 SPECA Economic Forum and Governing Council concluded in Dushanbe today. asiaplustj.info »
2024-11-28 12:45
Every year the water shortage will be felt more and more acutely in the Central Asian region, especially in its downstream countries (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan); first of all this is due to irrational use of water in all five countries of the region. asiaplustj.info »
2024-07-16 12:43
Radio Liberty said on May 30 that Volodymyr Zelenskiy may not have been trying to offend Central Asian leaders last week when he suggested that their international positioning remained pro-Russian “out of fear of the Kremlin. asiaplustj.info »
2024-05-31 08:15
On Wednesday May 29, foreign ministers of Central Asia’s nations met in Rome with top managers of influential Italian companies on the sidelines of the Third Ministerial Meeting “Italy + Central Asia”. asiaplustj.info »
2024-05-30 13:32
Eldaniz Gusseinov of the Ibn Khaldun University’s Heydar Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies, alongside Abakhon Sultonazarov, IWPR Central Asia Regional Director, contend that the interplay between Central Asia’s ties with the West and China signals the onset of a resource rivalry. asiaplustj.info »
2024-04-12 13:33
Some media outlets reports that in the wake of the March 22 assault, there has been a surge in raids on dormitories and workplaces where Central Asian migrants live and work, as well as heightened checks on migrant workers. asiaplustj.info »
2024-03-28 08:13
Central Asia’s nations and the European Union (EU) are determined to continue their strategic partnership by strengthening engagement and deepening the cooperation and connection between both regions. asiaplustj.info »
2023-10-25 08:00
The Fifth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia kicked off in Dushanbe yesterday. asiaplustj.info »
2023-09-15 08:00
The first meeting of transport ministers of Central Asia’s nations took place in Dushanbe on September 13, according to the press center of the Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan (MoT). asiaplustj.info »
2023-09-13 15:18
The draft Agreement on Strengthening the Interconnectedness of Land Transport in Central Asia will be signed within the framework of the fifth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of the region in Dushanbe. asiaplustj.info »
2023-09-08 11:28
Central Asia’s nations have markedly increase mutual direct investment in each other's economies in recent years, To-date, more and more countries have been paying attention to deepening integration processes with neighboring countries. asiaplustj.info »
2023-06-21 14:15
Citing central banks of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia, RBC said on January 28 that these countries received record high mounts of remittances from Russia last year. RBC notes that it failed to get information on Tajikistan. Uzbek national last year reportedly sent 14. asiaplustj.info »
2023-01-30 08:59
Radio Liberty says thousands of laborers from Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan came to Britain this year under the U.K. government’s Seasonal Workers Scheme designed to address a severe shortage of farm workers due to Brexit. asiaplustj.info »
2022-08-22 09:07
The leaders of five Central Asian nations today gathered at the Cholpon-Ata resort town, Kyrgyzstan for their fourth consultative meeting. Radio Liberty says they will discuss economic and political cooperation after recent unrest in the region and moves by Moscow to increase Russia's influence in the former Soviet republics. asiaplustj.info »
2022-07-20 15:28
Following summits in 2018, 2019 and 2021, the 2022 meeting comes amid a great number of regional difficulties and concerns. On July 21, the five Central Asian presidents will gather for their fourth consultative meeting in Kyrgyzstan, at the Cholpon-Ata resort town on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul. asiaplustj.info »
2022-07-05 08:46
The Russian government has announced that it intends to extend its ban on the export of grain and sugar to fellow members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) until the end of August in a move that has sparked fear of food shortages around the region. asiaplustj.info »
2022-03-14 09:29
In a joint statement adopted at the end of the 3rd India-Central Asia Dialogue, the foreign ministers wanted connectivity initiatives to be based on transparency, broad participation, local priorities, financial sustainability and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. asiaplustj.info »
2021-12-20 08:37
The regional competition is held to assist in solving the problem of the destruction of endangered wild animals. Winners will receive cash prizes. The Central Asian Zoo Hackathon is a competition that aims to develop an innovative solution to prevent the trade of endangered wildlife. asiaplustj.info »
2021-10-19 11:25
Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan have reached the borders of Central Asia and there is a familiar sense of urgency in the three countries in the region with an Afghan frontier: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. asiaplustj.info »
2021-07-13 08:56
The eighth High-Level Political and Security Dialogue between the European Union (EU) and the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) took place in Tashkent on July 1, with the participation of Afghanistan as special guest, according to the EU Delegation to Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
2021-07-05 09:04
An article posted on CABAR.asia’s website notes that the situation of migrants in the Russian society has always been a challenge. According to the Federal Migration Service, over 10 million migrants reside in Russia legally, whereas three million reside there illegally. Most of them come from Central Asia. asiaplustj.info »
2021-06-09 12:27
Russia has been a top destination for millions of Central Asian migrant workers since the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago and a much smaller portion of the region's laborers went to Kazakhstan in the first years after the Soviet Union’s demise. Ms. asiaplustj.info »
2021-06-04 08:14
Economic growth in developing Asia is set to rebound to 7.3% this year, supported by a healthy global recovery and early progress on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines, according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) released on April 28. asiaplustj.info »
2021-04-29 12:52
Countries participating in the United Nations Special Programme for Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) have recognized the need for a more integrated approach towards structural economic transformation in order to build back better while staying on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. asiaplustj.info »
2020-11-18 12:34
Labor migrants were almost twice as likely as Russians to lose their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, new research has found. asiaplustj.info »
2020-07-09 09:20
Radio Liberty reported on June 4 that Russian farmers who are highly dependent on Central Asian workers to harvest their crops are in a bind as the coronavirus pandemic lockdown has left hundreds of thousands of migrants unable to get into Russia. asiaplustj.info »
2020-06-05 09:10
Media reports say the Embraer 190 jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks.
В результате крушения самолета Azerbaijan Airlines в казахстанском Актау из 67 человек (в том числе экипажа), находившихся на борту самолета, погибли 38, выжили - 29. Власти Казахстана проводят расследование причин крушения самолета.
Близ аэропорта Актау днем 25 декабря разбился пассажирский самолет авиакомпании Azerbaijan Airlines, летевший из Баку в Грозный. По предварительным данным, на его борту находились 62 пассажира и 5 членов экипажа.
The 523-kilometer line – which will connect China’s Kashgar with several cities in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – had been in limbo for decades, but the project is now officially underway and the first phase could be completed by the end of the decade.
Строительство железной дороги Китай – Кыргызстан – Узбекистан стартует 27 декабря. Инвестиционное соглашение о проектировании, строительстве, финансировании, эксплуатации и техническом обслуживании этой дороги было подписано в Бишкеке между правительством Кыргызстана и железнодорожной компанией «Китай – Кыргызстан – Узбекистан», пишет «Газета.
Aktau airport is set to become a multimodal aviation hub with a cargo capacity of up to 200,000 tons per year. The airport will house maintenance and repair center for aircraft from Central Asian countries and Russia, Orda.
Аэропорт Актау планируют превратить в мультимодальный авиационный хаб с грузоперевозочной мощностью до 200 тысяч тонн в год. В авиагавани появится центр технического обслуживания и ремонта самолетов для стран Центральной Азии и России, сообщает Orda.kz .