Tajkistan

12:04, august 21, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik, Russian interior ministries expected to sign a number of cooperation documents

The 11th join board meeting of the interior ministries of Tajikistan and Russia is expected to result in signing of a number of cooperation documents

11:27, august 21, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik ambassador says youth should not study Islam in Pakistan

DUSHANBE, August 21, 2009, Asia-Plus – Tajik Ambassador to Pakistan Zubaidullo Zubaidov says Pakistan should remove Tajikistan from a list of countries that illegally send young people to study in

10:45, august 21, 2009

POWER

New chief of DCA staff appointed

DUSHANBE, August 21, 2009, Asia-Plus -- By Drug Control Agency (DCA) director’s order Colonel Farhod Sadulloyev, who had previously headed the DCA internal security department, was appointed

10:30, august 21, 2009

TAJKISTAN

CSTO states apply to UNGA for adopting resolution cooperation between CSTO and UN

DUSHANBE, August 21, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have applied to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) with proposal to table an

10:15, august 21, 2009

TAJKISTAN

CSTO discusses basic principles of formation and functioning of the collective security forces

DUSHANBE, August 21, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Draft documents related to further improvement of activity of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the field of military and

18:05, august 20, 2009

INCIDENTS

21 persons drown in Sughd

KHUJAND, August 20, 2009 Asia-Plus -- 21 residents of the northern Sughd province drowned while swimming in rivers, lakes and water storage reservoirs this year, according to the Sughd

17:42, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik expert rules out the possibility of recurrence of last winter’s energy crisis

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- The head of the hydropower engineering laboratory at the Institute for Water Problems of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences, Georgy Petrov rules out the

15:18, august 20, 2009

INCIDENTS

Yesterday’s fire destroys 1.5 tons of bitumen

DUSHANBE, August 20, Asia-Plus -- A major fire that broke at two bitumen reservoirs in the west of Dushanbe Wednesday afternoon destroyed 1.

14:58, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Energy efficiency issues discussed in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- An international roundtable meeting to discuss problems of energy efficiency and rational use of energy resources has been held in Dushanbe today.

13:48, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Somon Air lowers passenger fares on flights to Frankfurt am Main

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Tajik private airline, Somon Air, has lowered passenger fares on flights to Frankfurt am Main, according to the Somon Air press service.

13:24, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Obi Zulol funds construction of new school in Sughd

KHUJAND, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Closed joint-stock company Obi Zulol, a water bottling plant in the Sughd province, has funded construction of a new school in the village of Qarasaqol,

13:22, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Khujand textile enterprise introduces three-shift system

KHUJAND, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- The Khujand-based Tajik-Iranian joint venture, Nikoo-Khujand (textile factory), has introduced a three-shift system, the factory director Ismoil

13:20, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

CIS experts to discuss plan of actions for implementation of the CIS further development concept

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- A joint commission of the Council of Permanent Representatives and the Commission for Economic Matters at the CIS Economic Council will be held in

13:15, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Afghans living outside their country cannot vote in presidential election

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Afghans, who are temporarily living outside Afghanistan, cannot go to their country, cannot vote in the country’s presidential election that is being

11:27, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

First private health center opened in Konibodom

KONIBODOM, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- The first private heath center has been opened in the northern city of Konibodom.

11:13, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Khujand health center receives modern equipment

KHUJAND, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- A health center, Nour (Light), in Khujand has received modern equipment for treating kidney and urologic diseases.

10:58, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Over 62% of government credit given to Kulob cotton farmers last year repaid to this date

KULOB, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- In 2008, the government gave a 27,482,288 somoni credit to cotton farmers in Khatlon’s Kulob zone and 62.

10:15, august 20, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik drug control officers help Afghan special services discover 8 heroin labs this year

DUSHANBE, August 20, 2009, Asia-Plus -- In January-July 2009, officers from the Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan have seized more than 504 kilograms of narcotics,

19:39, august 19, 2009

SOCIETY

Authorities will not be able to curb price rises during Ramadan, says expert

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Even with the best will in the world Tajik authorities will not be able to curb price rises during the holy month of Ramadan, Bahodur Habibov, the head

19:02, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Number of Sughd residents failing to repay microfinance loans increasing

KHUJAND, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus -- The number of residents of the Sughd province that have failed to repay loans to microfinance organization is increasing, Ms.

18:11, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

68 Tajik nationals deported from Russia’s Tatarstan Republic this year

KHUJAND, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus -- Over the first seven months of this year, 68 Tajik national have been deported from Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, Asia-Plus has learned from Ms.

17:55, august 19, 2009

INCIDENTS

Fire that set light two large fuel oil reservoirs in Dushanbe put out; no one hurt

DUSHANBE, August 19, Asia-Plus -- A major fire that broke at two fuel oil reservoirs in the west of Dushanbe today afternoon was put out in an hour and no injured was reported, Colonel

17:22, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Uzbekistan agrees to offer its power systems for transiting Turkmen electricity to Tajikistan

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan has reached an agreement on transiting Turkmen electrical power to Tajikistan via Uzbek power systems.

14:45, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik schools need some 400 teachers for course on Islam

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus -- According to the preliminary data of the Ministry of Education (MoE), some 400 teachers are needed to teach course on Islam, Marifati Islom (Knowledge

14:13, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Sughd’s external trade turnover falls 23.4 percent compared to last year

KHUJAND, August 2009, Asia-Plus -- Over the first seven months of this year, an external trade turnover of the Sughd province, including electrical power and natural gas, has amounted to 433.

13:55, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

It is necessary to expand Tajik-Indian cooperation, says Indian diplomat

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus - Although India and Tajikistan have made important steps towards expansion of bilateral trade and economic cooperation in recent years, bilateral trade

13:22, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

International conference on Lake Sarez to be held in Norak in early September

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus -- An international technical conference formally titled “Lake Sarez: Current Situation, Safety Problems and Prospects of Rational Use of Its Water

12:28, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik children to take mandatory class on Islam

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009, Asia-Plus – A Tajik education official has announced that schoolchildren will for the first time be required to take course on Islam, RFE/RL''s Tajik Service

12:08, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Tajik authorities inform WHO about hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the country

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a group of experts in infectious diseases to Tajikistan to support to the national bodies to organize infectious control and provide them consultative

11:14, august 19, 2009

TAJKISTAN

Exhibition of export goods of China’s Kashgar district to be organized in Danghara soon

DUSHANBE, August 19, 2009 Asia-Plus -- An exhibition of export goods of Kashgar Prefecture of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is expected to take place in Khatlon’s Danghara