Food Safety Coordinating Council holds it first meeting

DUSHANBE, November 12, 2014, Asia-Plus – Issues related to ensuring food safety have been discussed at the first meeting of the Food Safety Coordinating Council, presided over by Deputy Prime Minister Azim Ibrohim. According to the Agency for Stand...

PSG meets to discuss ITC’s activities and future plans in Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, October 17, 2014, Asia-Plus -- The activities, achievements and challenges, as well as future plans of the International Trade Center (ITC) in Tajikistan were discussed at the Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting that took place here on Oc...

ADB reforms procurement processes to improve project delivery

DUSHANBE, October 1, 2014, Asia-Plus -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has altered the way its clients procure plant and equipment, civil works, and consultant services to improve the efficiency of implementing the projects it finances, release issued...

Asian Express Airlines lunches flights from Dushanbe to Astrakhan

DUSHANBE, September 30, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Asian Express Airlines has launched flights from Dushanbe to the Russian city of Astrakhan. The company operated the first flight from Dushanbe to Astrakhan on September 29.   The flight will be ...

Grant Thornton named Employer of the Year by International Accounting Bulletin

DUSHANBE, September 24, 2014, Asia-Plus – According to press release issued by Grant Thornton on September 22, Grant Thornton has been named global ''Employer of the Year'' by the International Accounting Bulletin. Ed Nusbaum, global CEO, said, "We...

Group DF vows to appeal against verdict passed by Tajikistan’s High Economic Court

Group DF vows to appeal to international judicial bodies.

US imposes sanctions against Tajikistan-based Iranian-owned bank

The United States is continuing to enforce sanctions on Iran.

Planned repairs to units at the Sangtuda-1 HPP reportedly completed

DUSHANBE, July 31, 2014, Asia-Plus – Planned capital repairs to Unit 1 and routine repairs to the remaining three units at the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have been completed. According to Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Sangtudinska...

TALCO denies Barqi Tojik’s report on its electricity debts as baseless

DUSHANBE, July 31, 2014, Asia-Plus – The Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO) notes that a report by Barqi Tojik, the state-owned national utility company, on TALCO’s electricity debts does not reflect the real state of the case. Igor Sattarov, a spokesm...

Barqi Tojik’s debts reportedly reach 1.5 billion somoni

DUSHANBE, July 30, 2014, Asia-Plus -- As of July 1, 2014, debts of Barqi Tojik, the state-owned national utility company, amounted to 1.5 billion somoni (equivalent to some 300 million U.S. dollars). Barqi Tojik now owes some 420 million somoni (84...

Tajik Air’s Soviet-era aircraft expected to be put on sale

DUSHANBE, July 21, 2014, Asia-Plus -- The Government of Tajikistan has ordered to put Soviet-era aircraft on sale, the head of the national air carrier, Tajik Air, Firouz Hamroyev, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 21. According to...

DIA reportedly transfers more than 33 million somoni to Tajikistan’s national budget

DUSHANBE, July 14, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Dushanbe International Airport (DIA) held a meeting today to review the results of the past half-year’s work. “Over the report period, the airport has served 368.517 departing and 289,930 arriving passengers,” ...

Barqi Tojik now owes more than 418 million somoni to Sangtudinskaya GES-1

DUSHANBE, July 11, 2014, Asia-Plus – In June, Barqi Tojik power holding (the state-owned utility responsible for generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Tajikistan) reportedly paid 14 million somoni to open joint-stock company (OJSC...

Gazprom International expected to complete exploration operations at Sariqamish field this year

DUSHANBE, July 8, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Gazprom International is expected to complete exploration operations at the Sariqamish gas field by the end of this year,  Murod Jumazoda, Chairman of the Main Geology Directorate under the Government of Tajikis...

Hearing over TojikAzot’s case under way

Official representatives of Firtash and Khairullo Saidov has applied to court asking to stop consideration of the case because the period of limitation has already expired.

RosGeoPerspektiva opens its office in Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, June 16, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Russian private company, RosGeoPerspektiva, has opened its office in Tajikistan. The office was reportedly registered with the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan on May 30, 2014. Specialists ...

Almost $100 million of the aluminum smelter’s revenues reportedly went to buy two Boeing 737s

DUSHANBE, June 16, 2014, Asia-Plus – An Article “Russian Aluminum Giant Pries Open Books at Tajikistan’s Largest Factory” that was posted on EurasiaNet.org on June 9 notes that the documents – handed over to Russia’s Rusal by order of a New York federal...

Representatives of European aircraft manufacturer study Tajik market’s opportunities

DUSHANBE, May 14 2014, Asia-Plus – A delegation of the European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, is currently in Dushanbe to study Tajik market’s opportunities, according to the Tajik MFA information department. The main purpose of the visit is for t...

Sangtudinskaya GES-1 directors’ board advises shareholders not to distribute net profit

DUSHANBE, May 8, 2014, Asia-Plus -- The Board of Directors of Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSK) Sangtudinskaya GES-1, which operates the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power plant, convenes an annual general meeting of shareholders in Dushanbe on May 27, 2014. ...

Auchan supermarkets expected to appear in Khujand

DUSHANBE, May 7, 2014, Asia-Plus – French corporation, Groupe Auchan SA, plans to expand its operations to Tajikistan. According to the Sughd regional administration, this issue was discussed at a meeting of Sughd governor Abdurahmon Qodiri with re...