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In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Ilhom Atoyev, the deputy head of the country’s communications service agency, revealed on July 28 that revenues of private mobile phone companies operating in Tajikistan over the first six months of this year have amounted to more than 1.8 billion somonis. asiaplustj.info »
Kyrgyz media reports says the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan announced signing of an investment agreement for the construction of Kazarman hydropower cascade of hydropower plants (HPPs). The agreement was reportedly signed on the sidelines of the 7th International Economic Forum Issyk-Kul 2023 that took place on July 27. 24. asiaplustj.info »
Muslim nations have expressed outrage since Salwan Momika desecrated the holy book in Stockholm last month. Al Jazeera says Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire. asiaplustj.info »
AKIpress says that in a report released at a government session in Bishkek, Kamchybek Tashiyev, Chief of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (GKNB) also Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, relieved on January 20 that over the past 2 asiaplustj.info »
Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali urges to tighten control of architecture and construction sector in the city. He gave this order to his deputies at a session of the Dushanbe legislature (Majlis) on July 12, according to the Dushanbe Administration press center. asiaplustj.info »
Citing German prosecutors, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported yesterday that seven have been detained in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on suspicion of forming an Islamist terrorist cell. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan's Children's Ombudsman's Office said in its annual report on June 11 that 69 people younger than 18, including 38 boys and 31 girls, committed suicide in Tajikistan last year, the Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on June11. The report says six of those teens had mental disorders. asiaplustj.info »
A statement released by the US Department of States’ Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation on June 9, in particular, says that Iran’s procurement, development, and proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an increasing threat to international peace and security. asiaplustj.info »
The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) yesterday summoned Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Semyon Grigoryev of police beating of Tajik students in the Siberian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say that the US and UK envoys told reporters in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, on April 25 that Kazakhstan may face consequences if it continues helping Russia evade Western sanctions. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say the judiciary convicted and sentenced Iranian armed forces personnel over the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 people on board. asiaplustj.info »
A meeting of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO)’s government was held this week to review the results of socio-economic development of the region over the first three months of this year and discuss tasks set for the second half of this year. asiaplustj.info »
Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide over the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging that the unidentified alleged perpetrators may have links with "hostile" groups. asiaplustj.info »
Locusts are migrant pests, able to fly up 150 kilometers daily and settle in new areas, often crossing countries’ political borders. Every year, they put at risk crops and rangelands while threatening food security and the livelihoods of the rural populations living in the affected areas. asiaplustj.info »
Some media reports said on February 27 that Iran has handed the Afghan embassy in Tehran over to the Taliban. The Iranian foreign ministry denies this. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on February 17 received telegrams of condolences over the deadly avalanches in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). asiaplustj.info »
IRNA reports that President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi on February 17 sent a message to his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon to express condolences on the deadly avalanche in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). asiaplustj.info »
Three officers of the Kulob police department have been punished over the death of a 37-year-old resident of the city of Kulob, Abduqahhor Roziqov. Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda said this at a news conference in Dushanbe today while reporting on the results of the work carried out by his ministry last year. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports, citing officials, say more than 37,000 people are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 6. ABC News reports that the earthquake death toll has now climbed to at least 37,357 in Turkiye and Syria. asiaplustj.info »
In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, an official from the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Power Distribution Networks revealed on February 13 that over two years of its operation, the company has received 534 million somonis (TJS) (equivalent to 52 million US dollars) lest than it was expected. asiaplustj.info »
General Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader of the Junbish-e Milli (National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan) political party, has called on Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to hand over the former government army’s helicopters to National Resistance Front (NRF) fighters. asiaplustj.info »
It had been a week since powerful earthquakes shattered Turkiye and Syria. Media reports say the death toll from Turkiye-Syria earthquakes have exceeded 34,000 so far. The Washington Post , citing officials in the countries, reported yesterday that more than 29,600 people in Turkey and 4,500 in Syria have been killed in the quakes, officials in the countries said. asiaplustj.info »
Pakistani authorities have made several arrests in connection with the bomb attack on a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar. asiaplustj.info »
On Thursday February 2, President Emomali Rahmon signed an order on holding three contests in the country this year. asiaplustj.info »
The press center of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption says the chief accountant of the Kulob culture department Abdulhamid Sharipov is suspected of misappropriation and embezzlement. asiaplustj.info »
Belarus has protested to Ukraine’s ambassador after saying it had downed a Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile in a field. asiaplustj.info »
On Thursday, November 17, a Dutch court delivered its verdict over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The plane was blown out of the sky in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. asiaplustj.info »
Uzbek media reports said yesterday that Ukraine’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan Mykola Doroshenko has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan (MFA) over what they said “the baseless statement of the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine about the delivery of dual-purpose products in the media. asiaplustj.info »
On Monday October 31, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon conveyed his condolences to India’s President Droupadi Murmu over a deadly bridge crash in the westerns state of Gujarat, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on October 30 expressed his condolences to his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd surge Saturday night in Seoul. The tragedy occurred in Seoul’s Itaewon district during Halloween festivities when a huge crowd surged into a narrow downhill alley. asiaplustj.info »
On Friday October 28, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon extended condolences to his Iranian counterpart Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi over the loss of lives in a terrorist attack committed Shiraz. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says at least a dozen activists and politicians in Kyrgyzstan have been detained in what their supporters say is a reprisal for their opposition to a government plan to hand over the territory of Kempir-Abad water reservoir to Uzbekistan as part of a border demarcation agreement. asiaplustj.info »
The European Union (EU) has agreed to sanctions on three individuals and one entity over the supply of drones to Russia. European Union countries have adopted sanctions on Iran over Iranian-made drones supplied to Russia and used in attacks on Ukraine, the EU Council’s Czech presidency has said. asiaplustj.info »
Over the past the past week, the Russian ruble has lost 3.05 percent of its value against the Tajik national currency, the somoni – from 1:0.164 on October 10 to 1:0.159 on October 17. Meanwhile, the official exchange rates of the dollar and the euro against the somoni have remained unchanged over the reporting period -- 1:10.2185 and 1:9.9493, respectively. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet reports that as evidence leaks out about Chinese atrocities against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, international legal experts are weighing how to hold Beijing accountable. China reportedly dismisses all claims as fabrications by a West jealous of its economic power. asiaplustj.info »
Citing a source in Takhar province, Hasht-e Subh , an independent and nonprofit newspaper in Afghanistan, said on August 2 that one of Taliban’s commanders has warned Tajikistan that “if it does not stop interfering in internal affairs of Afghanistan, their troops can seize Tajikistan in a week. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Mumin Ahmadi, Sirojiddin Tolibov and Nigora Fazliddin says a watchtower being built on the Afghan-Tajik border that is manned by members of the "Tajik Taliban" has caught the attention of Tajik officials. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say Indian police shot dead two protesters and arrested more than 130 others during street rallies sparked by a ruling party official's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. asiaplustj.info »
Criminal proceedings have been instituted over attack on Radio Ozodi and Current Time (the Russian-language channel run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA ) journalists in Dushanbe and the journalists have been recognized as victims. asiaplustj.info »
Twelve tractors, 100 plows and 427 tons of fish feeds have been delivered to Tajikistan from Iran over the first three months of this year. This is not much, but this is the beginning of a new round of cooperation between agrarians of the two countries. asiaplustj.info »
The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe has called on the Tajikistan’s authorities to secure full Internet reconnection for residents of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), who have been living without access to the Internet since mass anti-government protests in November. asiaplustj.info »
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 »
Tajikistan on February 26 suspended flights to some cities of the Russian Federation over the Ukraine crisis, an official source within the Civil Aviation Agency under the Government of Tajikistan told Asia-Plus Monday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
Adakhan Madumarov, a Kyrgyz lawmaker and the leader of opposition Butun (United) Kyrgyzstan party, says a probe has been launched against him into allegations that he committed treason over a real estate deal signed 12 years ago. asiaplustj.info »
Situation in high school sector has become critical across Tajikistan. High schools, which were already straining to deliver an acceptable education, are being decimated by the teacher exodus. asiaplustj.info »
Negotiations between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with participation of the countries’ security officials over the border clashes that took place in Chorkuh jamoat, which is subordinate to the Tajik northern city of Isfara (Sughd province), today resulted in vain. asiaplustj.info »
The parliamentary faction of Ata-Zhurt Kyrgyzstan Party has proposed Jokorgu Kenesh (Kyrgyzstan’s parliament) to contribute to resolving the situation along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. According to 24. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say U.S. President Joe Biden said he would consider personally sanctioning Vladimir Putin if he orders an invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia has reportedly accused the United States of “escalating tensions” over the issue and denies planning to enter Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan has tightened control over its common border with Uzbekistan to reduce the risk of importing the COVID-19 Omicron variant, the Sughd sanitary and epidemiological station says. In particular, health workers take a combine throat and nose swab for coronavirus from persons arriving from Uzbekistan despite their negative PCR/COVID-19 test. asiaplustj.info »
There are over 6,000 militants located near the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) southern border - in Afghanistan’s northeast, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was quote by TASS as saying at an extraordinary online summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on January 10 "Overall, according to the intelligence of Tajikistan, there are over asiaplustj.info »
