Tajik media holding "Asia-Plus" has published data on how much water each of the Central Asian countries will receive in 2023 from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya basins.
Masdar company from the UAE will build a new wind power plant (WPP) with a capacity of 500 MW in the Uzbek city of Zarafshan. This project received the PFI Awards as the deal of the Year in Central Asia. This is reported by the newspaper "Fergana" with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan.
New Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to Ashgabat, Azizbek Madmarov, was received on Tuesday by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, to whom he presented copies of his credentials.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China on the interfacing of the international initiatives "Revival of the Great Silk Road" and "One Belt and One Road" is an important outcome of the visit of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to China. This was stated by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin at a press conference on January 10.
On January 12, the world Winter Universiade 2023 will begin - a sporting event that is held once every two years among students from all over the world. The games will take place in a small village near New York (USA) called Lake Placid.
On January 9, the President of Turkmenistan held a meeting on the digital system in which he discussed issues of agricultural work and gave instructions on the development of the social economy of our country.
In 2022, the volume of traffic between China and Europe reached a new milestone, despite the fact that it was probably one of the most volatile years in Eurasian transport. According to the data released by the Working Conference of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. in early January, China-Europe trains made 16,000 trips in 2022 and delivered 1.6 million TEU.
The exotic banana has "taken root" in Turkmenistan and is now grown here by more than one farm. The company "Hemsaýa" has broken up a banana plantation in the Akhal region – a tropical fruit grows in a greenhouse that covers an area of 5 hectares, the publication "Rysgal" reports.
On January 10, from early morning, housing and communal services employees carried out snow clearing work on the streets and highways of Turkmenistan.
The Consulate General of Uzbekistan in Alma-Ata warned fellow citizens against traveling to Kazakhstan by car in the next three days due to severe frosts. This was reported by the Dunya news agency of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry.
This was announced by the Minister of External Relations of the Astrakhan region Vladimir Golovkov during a working meeting with the Turkmen Consul in Astrakhan Nury Golliev.
The first ever satellite mission launched from the UK ended in failure. A giant jet plane of the American company Virgin Orbit delivered a rocket from Newquay, Cornwall, to launch it high above the Atlantic Ocean, writes BBC News.
The "Turkmen Shokhle" economy society plans to start production of children's bicycles in the near future, the website of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan reports.
Saudi Arabia is cancelling coronavirus restrictions on performing Hajj this year. This was stated by the Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq al-Rabia at the opening of the Hajj Expo 2023 conference, adding that the number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic.
On the night of January 9-10, a huge meteor flew in the sky over London and other parts of the UK, leaving a trail of fire behind it. The reaction of eyewitnesses ranged from surprise to panic, Yorkshire Live reports.
