The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending US$30 million to help Uzbekistan provide clean water supply and sanitation services to the southern province of Surkhandarya, reported ADB official web-page.
The president of Turkmenistan spoke in favor of more efficient approach to agricultural industry resources use, taking into account capacity of each region, which requires comprehensive approach based on scholars and practitioners views.
“Kazakh Government provides stability in domestic grain and food markets,†Karim Massimov, Kazakh Prime Minister said while making a speech on the country economic situation in the Senate today.
A delegation of Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in Uzbekistan visited on October 29 brewery of Carlsberg Uzbekistan. Company management welcomed about 45 staff of the Embassy and organized factory tour.
The World Bank is deciding whether to grant $5 million to Kyrgyzstan’s energy sector development, Tajikan Kalimbetova the Minister of Finance told the news agency “24.kgâ€.
Prospects for development of communications and modern telecommunications in Turkmenistan were discussed at a meeting between G. Berdimuhamedov and head of "Systema" joint-stock financial corporation Leonid Melamed and head of Mobile TeleSystems" joint-stock company Michail Shamolin.
Karim Massimov, Kazakh Prime Minister offered to hold a meeting of SCO finances ministers and central banks heads and SCO observers to analyze SCO financial situation.
Another quake hit Kyrgyz south on Thursday, October 30, 2008. A 5 magnitude tremor was registered at 4:44PM near the village of Nura, which was severely damaged by another earthquake that killed 76 and injured over a hundred last month.
“It is important for SCO member countries to open markets for each other and find new forms of reciprocal payments in the current conditions,†Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh President said at the meeting with SCO countries’ Prime Ministers in Astana.
Russian company "Mobile TeleSystems" (MTS), which launched a mobile Internet service in Turkmenistan this year, has connected 20 Turkmen secondary schools to Internet, said Dmitriy Shumov, head of MTS-Turkmenistan.
