Daily Monitor

A meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South Asia (RECA) is being held in Ashgabat (March 27-28), Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.

Global leaders continue to send their telegrams and letters of congratulations to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on assumption of the office of the President of Kazakhstan, the Akorda's press service reports.

Delegations from across the region gathered in Tashkent, Uzbekistan March 15 for the first Central Asian Economic Forum (CAEF). Government representatives discussed prospects of mutually beneficial logistics and trade.

Tajiks read Radio Ozodi as Washington’s word.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev takes office as President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Babanov has reportedly been living in Moscow since losing the 2017 presidential election.

Europe’s top leaders told President Xi Jinping on Tuesday they wanted a fairer trading relationship with China, signaling an openness to engage with Beijing’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure project if it meant more access to the Chinese market.

The Pentagon has authorised the transfer of $1bn (£758m) to army engineers for new wall construction along the US-Mexico border, BBC reports.

California native and Kazakh TV’s Discovering Kazakhstan host Dennis Keen has lived in Almaty for six years. It was in his adopted city that Soviet monumental art first caught his eye.

The Ministry of Finance proposed increasing the guaranteed transfer from the National Fund to 2.7 trillion tenge (US$7.13 billion) at a March 12 governmental meeting. The change translates to an additional 250 billion tenge (US$660.26 million) to finance President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s new initiatives this year.

The first phase of the 2015-2019 Nurly Zhol programme, designed to upgrade infrastructure build-up throughout the country, will be completed this year. The plan for the second phase will be presented in March.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s deputy warned lawmakers on Friday that unless they approved her Brexit divorce deal after two crushing defeats, Britain’s exit from the European Union could face a long delay.

The British Parliament has again voted down Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for the UK's departure from the European Union, with 391 voting against and 242 voting for her plan, revised from the last attempt at the start of the year, Trend reports citing Sputnik.

Analysts say president's concessions are an attempt to buy time, will thousands of demonstrators accept it?

With this price hike on mobile online data, the cost of going online in Tajikistan compares with that in Western Europe.

Based on the adjusted macroeconomic forecast, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has changed the 2019 Forecast of Budget Parameters, Kazinform correspondent reports.

Turkestan region Governor Umirzak Shukeyev surveyed the regional centre on Tuesday to get familiarized with the new tourist zone project. It will be built nearby the Azret Sultan Memorial Estate, the Governor's press service reports.

The deal would reduce the Caucasus’s reliance on Russian gas but could incur the ire of both Moscow and Washington.

Senior officials from the Libyan Interior Ministry and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday discussed mutual cooperation to provide needs for illegal immigrants in Libya.

In January 2019, the volume of cargo transshipment from India and Pakistan through Turkish ports amounted to 189,700 tons, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey told Trend Feb. 27.