Tajkistan

11:30, december 19, 2008

POWER

Majlisi Milli confirms amendment prohibiting deportation of HIV/AIDS suffers

DUSHANBE, December 19, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Members of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) have confirmed amendment to the AIDS law prohibiting deportation of foreign

11:20, december 19, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan signs double taxation avoidance agreement with India

DUSHANBE, December 19, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan has signed a double taxation avoidance agreement with India.

20:00, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajik delegation visits Geneva to get acquainted with human rights protection issues

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- On December 11-17, a group of Tajik journalists, students and representatives of NGOs dealing with human rights protection issues visited Geneva.

19:09, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Ministry of economy works out program for mitigation of global financial crisis effects

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The Ministry of Economic Development ad Trade (MoEDT) is working out the program for mitigation of effects of the global financial crisis.

18:50, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

CIS central bank officials meet in February 2009 to discuss information security issues

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The first inter-bank conference to discuss banking information security issues is expected to take place in Ufa, Russia’s Boshkortostan republic from

17:04, december 18, 2008

POWER

Tajikistan criminalizes delivery of counterfeit medicines

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Members of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) have confirmed amendments to the country’s Penal Code that criminalize

16:40, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Father of killed migrant demands justice

QURGHON TEPPA, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Russian authorities should toughen measures against ultra-nationalist organizations acting in Russia, Muhabbatsho Aziz, farther of the

15:49, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Migration should be by choice, not by necessity: ILO

In his message on occasion of International Migrants Day, Director-General of the International Labor Office, Mr.

15:12, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

IRPT strongly condemns brutal killing of Tajik migrant in Russia

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus - Leader of the Islamic Revival Party (IRPT) Muhiddin Kabiri has strongly condemned the recent brutal killing of the Tajik national Salohiddin Azizov by

14:48, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Migration should become one of priorities of government’s policy, IRPT leader says

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- External migration should become one of priorities of the government’s policy, Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the Islamic Revival Party (IRPT),

14:05, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Test activation of Unit 3 at Pamir-1 HPP carried out in Gorno Badakhshan

KHOROG, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- A test activation of Unit 3 at the hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Pamir-1 that is located in the Shugnan district of Gorno Badakhshan was carried out

13:35, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

The number of Tajik students studying in China expected to double next year

DUSHANBE, December 19, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan is developing scientific and cultural ties with China.

12:40, december 18, 2008

LAW-ORDER

Qairoqqum jobless faces charge of land allotment fraud

KHUJAND, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The Khujand prosecutor’s office has instituted criminal proceedings against 44 year-old unemployed resident of the northern city of Qairoqqum Farhod

11:59, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Hepatitis B immunization campaign amongst students at medical colleges launched in Sughd

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The Sughd branch of the Republican Imunoprophylactic Center has launched a hepatitis B immunization campaign amongst students at medical colleges.

11:45, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

The OSCE Office in Tajikistan conducts course on investigating human trafficking crimes

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus - The rights of trafficked persons and effective investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases were the focus of a five-day training OSCE

11:30, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajik heath ministry, Iranian pharmaceutical company discuss medicine supplies to Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Tajik Ministry of Health (MoH) and Tehran-based Iranian pharmaceutical company, Arvin Arman, have signed an agreement on cooperation and supply of

11:15, december 18, 2008

TAJKISTAN

PM receives Belarus economic delegation

DUSHANBE, December 18, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov is receiving today a Belarus economic delegation, led by Deputy Foreign Minister, Igor Petrishchenko, that arrived in

20:10, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajik-Belarus economic commission meets in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The sixth session of the Tajik-Belarus intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation has opened in Dushanbe today afternoon.

19:39, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Majlisi Milli board endorse 18th session’s agenda

DUSHANBE, December 17, Asia-Plus --The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s upper chamber (Majlisi Milli) of parliament considered and endorsed the agenda of the 18th session at a December 17

19:28, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

First group of Tajik Hajjis return home

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The first group of Tajik Hajjis, numbering 360 people, have returned to Dushanbe from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today afternoon.

19:00, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan’s external trade turnover for Jan-Nov 08 exceeds $4.3 billion

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- In January-November 2008, the external trade turnover of Tajikistan, including electric energy and natural gas, has amounted to $4.

18:13, december 17, 2008

POWER

Capital mayor sign resolution on purchase of another consignment of buses

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev today signed resolution on purchase of another consignment of busses and trolleybuses for the city, Shavkat

16:07, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajik energy ministry, Ukrainian company continue negotiating production of equipment for Norak HPS

DUSHANBE, December 17, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan’s Ministry of Energy and Industries (MoEI) and Ukrainian leading turbine-producing company, open joint-stock company (OJSC) Turboatom, are

15:47, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Tajikistan the only CIS state where industrial production decline reported this year

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- According to the State Committee for Statistics, Tajikistan is the only CIS state, where industrial production decline has been reported this year.

15:27, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Ruling party calls on its supporters to activate work against radical religious organizations

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDPT) has called on its supporters to activate work against outlawed religious radical organizations such as Hizb

14:55, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

More than half of Tajik population reportedly lived below poverty line in 2007

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- In 2007, 53 percent of the Tajik population lived below the international poverty line, Usmon Rahmonov, coordinator of the ADB’s project,

14:07, december 17, 2008

LAW-ORDER

Body of a year-old baby with signs of violent death found in Khujand

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The body of a year-old baby with signs of violent death was found in one of areas of Khujand, Sughd province yesterday night, according to the

13:55, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

National council for development to be set up in Tajikistan next year

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- Report on implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in 2007 has already been prepared and submitted for consideration to the government,

13:16, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Moscow-based public association Tajik Labor Migrants registered with Russian ministry of justice

DUSHANBE, December 17, 2008, Asia-Plus -- The Moscow-based public association, Tajik Labor Migrants, was registered with the Russian Ministry of Justice on December 16, the association head

13:06, december 17, 2008

TAJKISTAN

Body of brutally killed Tajik national returned home from Russia today morning

The body of 20-year-old Salohiddin Azizov, who was beheaded in the Moscow region on December 5, was returned to Tajikistan from Russia by plane today morning.