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New partnership aims to expand access to modern energy to 100 million people by 2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched an Energy for All Partnership that aims to provide access to modern energy to an additional 100 million people in the Asia-Pacific region by 2015.

China offers US$10 billion credit to boost SCO members

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday offered Central Asian states US$10 billion of credit support to help counter the global economic slump, telling a regional summit his country was on the right economic track.

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Tashkent hosts an international symposium on the theme "Achievements, innovations, technologies and prospects for the development of agricultural science and the textile industry"

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The media of Saudi Arabia write about the state visit of the President of Uzbekistan and the Uzbek-Saudi multilateral cooperation

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President of Uzbekistan visits the Prophet’s Mosque

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SCO Interbank Association holds meeting, ink documents

A council of Interbank Association of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held a meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on 14 June.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Visit Central Asia

Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will travel to Central Asia for the first time when he visits Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan between 15 to 18 June.

ICD issues US$42m to three Uzbek commercial banks

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), affiliated with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, opened US$42 million credit line to three Uzbek commercial banks.

ADB appoints new chief economist

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Dr. Jong-Wha Lee as Chief Economist.

EBRD urges CIS governments to adopt policies encouraging the private sector

Leading grain market players meeting at the initiative of the EBRD called on the governments of the former Soviet Union to stimulate the private investments needed to unlock the region’s huge agricultural potential through stable long-term policies and making it possible to use land in order to raise finance.

Uzbek leader approves agreements with Oman

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has signed a decree on "On approving agreements between the governments of Uzbekistan and Oman on the encouragement and mutual protection of investments, as well as avoiding double taxation and preventing income and capital tax evasion.

EBRD invests US$100 million in Macquarie Renaissance Infrastructure Fund

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is investing up to US$100 million in the first infrastructure fund being set up to target projects mainly in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, three countries where the EBRD’s cumulative investments in this particular sector of the economy already amount to nearly US$4.5 billion.

Bank Credit Standard launches service on banknote operations

Bank Credit Standard launched a new service - banknote operations. The service will allow local banks to exchange cash hard currency to cashless.

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