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        <title>Calendar of events</title>
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            <title>International Conference on Applied Economics 2008</title>
            <link>http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/icoae/aims_scope.htm</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-15</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The event, which will be held in Kastoria, Greece, is aimed to bring together economists from different fields of Applied Economic Research in order to share methods and ideas. The topics to be covered include (but are not limited to): Applied Macroeconomics; Applied International Economics; Applied Microeconomics including Industrial Organisation; Applied work on International Trade Theory including European Economic Integration; Applied Financial Economics; Applied Agricultural Economics; Applied Labour and Demographic Economics; Applied Health Economics; Applied Education Economics. The working language of the conference is English.]]></description>
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            <title>Creative Union of Journalists of Uzbekistan announces "Best journalist of the year" contest</title>
            <link>http://news.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&amp;id=41876</link>
            <pubDate>2007-06-01</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Creative Union of Journalists of Uzbekistan invites the public correspondents to take part in the "Best journalist of the year" contest. The stories published in the newspapers and magazines, websites, as well as those aired through television and radio from June 2007 to June 2008 will be accepted for consideration. The materials on the recommendations will be presented through the branch offices of the Creative Union of Journalists of Uzbekistan in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, provinces and the city of Tashkent. The journalists are kindly requested to send along with their works the data on the place of their employment, telephone numbers, address and copy of their passports. The diplomas and valuable prizes to the winners of the contest will be handed over at the festive ceremony on the Mass Media Day in Uzbekistan on 27 June 2008. The materials should be sent to the following address: 30, Navoi Str., 100129, Tashkent, the Creative Union of Journalists of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Tel: 144-64-62; 144-37-87. Fax: 144-69-65. E-mail: ijod@sarkor.uz. Web-site: www.journalist.uz.]]></description>
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            <title>Competition on the best coverage of socioeconomic problems announced in Kulob</title>
            <link>http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/26/27317.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-01-30</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Kulob mayor’s office has announced a competition among local journalists on the best coverage of socioeconomic problems facing the city and the district of Kulob. Journalists of all local publications irrespective of forms of property are invited to participate in the competition, which is dedicated to the 1,150 anniversary of founder of Tajik-Persian classical literature Abu Abdullo Rudaki and the Tajik Language Year that will be marked this year. The winners of the competition will be given prizes in money: 1st place – 1,000 somonis; 2nd place – 500 somonis; and 3rd place – 300 somonis. The award ceremony for the winners will be held at the first press conference of the Kulob mayor in 2009.]]></description>
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            <title>2nd International Congress on Entrepreneurship</title>
            <link>http://ice2008.manas.kg/</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The "Second International Congress on Entrepreneurship" (ICE08) organized by Business Administration Department of Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University is going to be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from May 07 (Wednesday) to May 10 (Saturday), 2008. The Congress will be the assembling place for academicians and professionals from business from all over the world. The main purposes of the 2nd International Congress on Entrepreneurship are to attract attention to the importance of business in order to stimulate the entrepreneurship in Turkic countries; outline the problem spheres of entrepreneurship; provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from business to come together and interact with each other.]]></description>
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            <title>PR-forum will take place in Almaty</title>
            <link>http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=rus&amp;id=199672</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-13</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Experts in the sphere of PR will gather at fourth professional forum, which will be held on May 13-14 in Almaty. The event will be organized by the “Piarshy” Club of Kazakh PR-professionals under support of the «PG Communications» Agency. PR-professionals from Kazakhstan, as well as guests from CIS and distant foreign countries will attend the forum.]]></description>
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            <title>GDP growth rate reach 6.8% in second quarter of 2008</title>
            <link>http://eng.24.kg/business/2008/04/29/5263.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-04-29</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GDP growth rate is expected to reach 6.8% or 49.5 bln soms in the second quarter of 2008, the Ministry of Economy and Trade forecasted. Industry is expected to produce goods worth 37.1 mln som. Growth rate will make up 5.4%. Coal mining will increase by 74.4% to hit 64.4 mln som. This is 15.4 tons more than in the first quarter of 2008. Crude oil output is forecasted to surge by 2.9% (17.7 thousand tons) and natural gas output – by 21.1% (4.6 mln cubic meters).]]></description>
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            <title>International Development Association (IDA) grant $12M for Bishkek, Osh new residential blocks development</title>
            <link>http://eng.24.kg/community/2008/05/02/5287.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[International Development Association (IDA) grants $12million for development of new residential blocks in Osh and Bishkek, press service of the Kyrgyz Finance Ministry reported. The relative agreement was signed by Tajikan Kalimbetova, the Kyrgyz Finance Minister and World Bank Resident Representative Roger Robinson on April 30, 2008. The grant funds will go for Bishkek and Osh infrastructure development.  The project will be co-financed by the Kyrgyz government, which allots $1.2 million for the project and Bishkek and Osh city administrations, with $1.1 million. The $14.3 million worth project will reportedly last for four years, the press service added.]]></description>
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            <title>IMF positively assesses economic reform in Turkmenistan</title>
            <link>http://www.turkmenistan.ru/?page_id=3&amp;lang_id=en&amp;elem_id=12708&amp;type=event&amp;sort=date_desc</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["We are positively assessing the progress achieved by Turkmenistan in implementing economic reforms in the last one and a half year, particularly the latest measures with regard to adopting a unified exchange rate of Manat," said Peter Wingley, head of the IMF mission for Turkmenistan, said. P.Wingley made this statement in the course of annual consultations with the IMF mission in Ashgabat, the Turkmen State News Agency (TDH) reports. "This step in combination with other supporting reforms is quite useful in furthering the economic and financial development of Turkmenistan and its successful integration into the world economy. The IMF mission will continue providing support to reforms in Turkmenistan, including the forthcoming denomination of the national currency, Manat, in 2009," Peter Wingley said. Let us recall that Turkmenistan introduced a unified exchange rate of manat to foreign currency on May 1 which was set by the Central Bank of Turkmenistan at Manat 14,250 per one US dollar.]]></description>
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            <title>UNDP helps to open Arbitration Development Center in Uzbekistan</title>
            <link>http://www.undp.uz/en/news/story.php?id=688</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Deputy Resident Representative of the UNDP Country Office in Uzbekistan Ms Kyoko Postill and the chairperson of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan Mr Alisher Shaykhov formally opened the Arbitration Development Center under the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan on Friday, 2 May 2008. The Arbitration Development Center was founded within the joint project of the UNDP Country Office in Uzbekistan and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan "Supporting to the development of arbitration courts and other alternative methods of dispute settlement in the Republic of Uzbekistan" (Arbitration project). The project focuses on development of the arbitration courts and other alternative ways of dispute resolution through creation of the Center. Uzbekistan adopted the Law "On arbitration" in 2006, which was aimed at regulation of creation and operation of arbitration courts in Uzbekistan. The law came into force in February 2007. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan created arbitration courts in all regions of Uzbekistan to develop favourable conditions for development of the system in the country. The courts reviewed over 700 cases in 2007.]]></description>
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            <title>Development of Kazakhstan's electric-power sector discussed in Astana</title>
            <link>http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&amp;id=164052</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov has held a meeting today with reps of foreign side of the Council of Foreign Investors under the President of Kazakhstan. The sides discussed issues of development of Kazakhstan's electric-power sector, Kazinform refers to the PM's press service. The Council reps made a presentation of current problems of the sector, measures on improvement of the investment climate, perfection of tariff policy and methodology of tariff design. Position of the Kazakh Government towards tariff policy for energy producers was considered as well. Following the results of the meeting Karim Massimov charged Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sauat Mynbayev to continue talks with reps of the Council who, in their turn, expressed readiness to develop close cooperation.]]></description>
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            <title>Russian economic team to arrive in Tajikistan next week</title>
            <link>http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/49/31352.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An economic delegation of Russia's Irkutsk region, comprising representatives of the regional administration, Eastern Siberia's chamber of commerce and industry and businessmen, will arrive in Tajikistan on May 13, according to Tajikistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI). The source at a CCI said that during its stay in Tajikistan, the Irkutsk delegation is scheduled to hold a number of talks with Tajik enterprises and organizations dealing with organization of external labor migration and building materials supplies to discuss cooperation issues. They will discuss relating to expanding commercial relations, delivering saw timbers to Tajikistan, sending Tajik labor migrants to Russia's Baikal and importing Tajik aluminum, the source said. The delegation will stay in Tajikistan until May 20.  It is the second visit of the Irkutsk economic delegation to Tajikistan.  For the first time, the Irkutsk delegation was in Tajikistan in 2003.]]></description>
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            <title>Medical, social workers participate in the training on gender issues</title>
            <link>http://www.undp.uz/en/news/story.php?id=691</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two groups of medial and social workers will take part in the trainings on gender awareness within the joint project of UNDP and the Women's Committee of Uzbekistan "Legislative and Institutional Capacity Development for Women's Empowerment in Uzbekistan". The project will hold two training entitled "Gender Awareness for medical and social workers" to improve skills and knowledge of medical and social workers on implementation and promotion of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), its norms and ideas in their professional activities. The CEDAW Convention adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is an international document on the rights of women. Uzbekistan was the first Central Asian country to ratify the convention in 1995 and has reported twice to the CEDAW Committee on its implementation. The country will present its next report in August 2008.]]></description>
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            <title>Tajik president, Russian ambassador discuss cooperation issues</title>
            <link>http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/16/31414.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[State and prospects of further expansion of Tajik-Russian cooperation were a major topic of a meeting of President Emomali Rahmon with Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan, Mr. Ramazan Abdulatipov, that was held in Dushanbe on May 6. According to presidential press service, the two confirmed their readiness for further expansion of many-sided cooperation between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation. Expressing satisfaction with growing trade and economic cooperation, Rahmon and Abdulatipov stressed that a two-way trade between Tajikistan and Russia should exceed $1 billion this year.]]></description>
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            <title>Industrial production growth rate lowest in Kyrgyzstan</title>
            <link>http://eng.24.kg/business/2008/05/07/5311.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Growth rate of industrial production in Kyrgyzstan remains lower than the average index in CIS, Interstate Statistics Committee of CIS reported. Growth rate of industrial production in the first quarter of 2008 makes up 4.1 percent that is similar to the same period of 2007. The average index increased by 7 percent throughout CIS. Meantime, the lowest growth rate that reduced to 10.1 percent was recorded in Tajikistan. Azerbaijan and Belarus showed the highest growth rate of industry output of 12.9 percent and 13.6 percent respectively.]]></description>
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            <title>Almaty to host 15th healthcare exhibition KIHE - 2008</title>
            <link>http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&amp;id=164151</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-14</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 15th Kazakhstan's international healthcare exhibition KIHE - 2008 will take place in Almaty on May 14-17. The event is being organized by Iteca exhibition company and officially supported by Kazakhstan's Healthcare Ministry, the Almaty Akimat (municipality), Kazakh National Medical S. Asfendiyarov University and Medtechnika Joint Stock Company. KIHE - 2008 is the largest international healthcare exhibition in the region. The previous year 192 companies from 23 countries took part in the exhibition.]]></description>
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            <title>President of Turkmenistan receives Japanese businessmen</title>
            <link>http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/?idr=1&amp;id=080507b</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received a Japanese business delegation led by Co-Chairman of the Turkmen-Japanese Committee for Economic Co-Operation, Vice President of Itochu Corporation Mr. Sumitaka Fudzita. Cordially greeting the guests the Turkmen leader focused with satisfaction on the high level of Turkmen-Japanese partnership successfully maintained in a broad range of the fields including the deliveries of high-powered road-building and earth-moving machinery. Expressing belief that a regular meeting of the bilateral committee for economic co-operation would offer a powerful incentive to intensify effective collaboration Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that this co-operation was regarded as of paramount importance and very promising basing on its profound potential and experience of many years as well as the large-scale reform programmes implemented in Turkmenistan.]]></description>
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            <title>UNDP, Women’s Committee announce contest for young journalists</title>
            <link>http://www.undp.uz/en/news/story.php?id=687</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Uzbekistan and Women’s Committee announced a competition for young journalists (under age of 30) for the best coverage of issues on elimination of discrimination against women. The contest will be held within the project “Legislative and Institutional Capacity Development for Women’s Empowerment in Uzbekistan”, which directed to support and build the capacity of the government, civil society and mass media in reducing the gender gaps via raising awareness of and implementing the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to Uzbekistan. The contest aimed to motivate journalists of Uzbekistan to cover gender-related issues to raise gender awareness and knowledge of UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), as well as eliminate gender stereotypes in the community. Representatives of print-media, TV and radio stations and Internet outlets can participate in the event. Deadline for submission of applications and materials is 15 June 2008. Applications can be submitted via email to cedaw.undp@gmail.com or delivered to UNDP Uzbekistan office at 4, Shevchenko, Tashkent, 100029, Uzbekistan. Please indicate Young Journalists Contest on envelope.]]></description>
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            <title>Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Programme in Uzbekistan Welcomes Open Discussion of the National Programme Strategy</title>
            <link>http://www.undp.uz/en/news/story.php?id=694</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-26</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) has announced public hearings of the National Programme Strategy for Uzbekistan. GEF SGP aims at assisting NGOs and local communities at their efforts to protect the environment. The Programme in Uzbekistan focuses on three main thematic areas of GEF's intervetion: a) biodiversity conservation; b) adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its consequences; c) land degradation. The Programme successfully works in a number of developing countries of the world introducing effective approaches and methods to conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. The Small Grants Programme is financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), whereas United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with support from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) administers the programme implementation. GEF SGP in Uzbekistan has already established its National Steering Committee (NSC) that is called to guide the Programme's operations. The NSC consists of representatives from NGOs, academia and governmental agencies.]]></description>
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            <title>Tajik PM calls on Chinese companies to expand cooperation with Tajik businessmen</title>
            <link>http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/49/31517.html</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-08</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[State and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and China were discussed at a meeting of Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov with Mr. Wang Sindiye (phonetically spelled), the head of the China New Era Company, that was held in Dushanbe on May 7, according to presidential press service. In the course of the talks, the two expressed satisfaction with increasing pace of expansion of mutually beneficial cooperation between the countries. Pointing out contribution China has made to development of Tajikistan's economy, the prime minister called on Chinese companies to establish closer cooperation with business circles in Tajikistan. For his part, Mr. Wang noted that his company had established cooperation with Tojikmatlubot (Tajikistan's association of consumers' cooperatives) in sectors like procurement, processing and sale of farm produce, etc.]]></description>
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            <title>WB allocates grant in the amount of 9 mln.dollars to develop Kyrgyzstan's agriculture</title>
            <link>http://en.kabar.kg/index.php?area=1&amp;p=news&amp;newsid=29982</link>
            <pubDate>2008-05-08</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The World Bank's Board of Directors approved an IDA grant in the amount of US$ 9million for the Agricultural Investments and Services Project in the Kyrgyz Republic. With food prices at an all time high around the world, the new project will help to reduce rural poverty in the country by increasing productivity and sustainable pasture management. Almost three quarters of the poor and extreme poor live in rural areas, where the prevalence of poverty is higher than in urban areas: 51 percent of the rural population compared to 30 percent of the urban population.]]></description>
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