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WASHINGTON: The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has approved an allocation of US$45 million to finance the second phase of the transformative Central Asia Road Links Program, to be implemented in Tajikistan in 2015-2020. The objective of this project is to increase transport...
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ULAN BATOR: Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd on Tuesday agreed to sell the remainder of its stake in SouthGobi Resources, in an attempt to finally sever ties with the Mongolian coal miner that...
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VIENNA: The estranged former son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s president has been found hanged in a Vienna jail cell, after an eight-year effort by the Central Asian government to bring him home...
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NEW YORK: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced this week that they are giving $75 million to the San Francisco General Hospital, a public institution. The...
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