Kazakhstan's oil pipeline monopoly boosted shipments through its Atasu-Alashankou to China by 22% in the first half of this year as it sent more Kazakh and Russian crude to the world's second biggest energy user.
By July 1 of this year the total number of the unemployed in Kyrgyzstan made more than 270 thousand people. Chief of department of the State Committee on Migration and Employment of Kyrgyzstan Aida Azhihodjoeva told the Kabar Agency.
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan don't let the irrigation water to Kazakhstan, said chair of Committee on Water Resources of Agriculture Ministry Anatoly Ryabtcev during the press conference on July 18.
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov participated in the session of the Cabinet of Ministers, which took place on July 18 in Tashkent. During the session participants considered the results of the country's socioeconomic development in the first half of 2008 and priorities for the rest of the year.
Turkmenistan is celebrating the national holiday - Galla Bayramy (Harvest Holiday). Saturday's newspapers published Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's message of congratulations on the holiday which is marked on the third Sunday of July every year.
Kazakhstan will allocate more than US $ 10 billion for developing transport industry from the state budget in the nearest three years, said Director of Department of Strategic Research and International Cooperation.
A delegation of Romanian businessmen will soon visit Ashgabat. This was announced by Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu in the course of the meeting with Turkmen President.
