FEB. 1 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Increasingly severe power cuts are hitting cities in Uzbekistan, including Tashkent, local media and eyewitnesses have reported. The authorities have blamed consumers and imposed rationing. Many residents, however, believe the government is diverting gas from domestic use to fulfil lucrative export contracts.
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(News report from Issue No. 75, published on Feb. 2 2012)
DEC. 2 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – An underground metro opened in Almaty, 23 years after construction work started. Almaty hit a population of 1m people in the mid-1980s triggering the Soviet authorities to start building a metro system. This stopped in 1991 when the USSR collapsed but Kazakhstan has since spent $1.1b completing the metro.
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(News report from Issue No. 68, published on Dec. 8 2011)
JAN. 20 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it had loaned Tajikistan $120m to upgrade a 62km stretch of road connecting Dushanbe to the Uzbek border. The road is economically vital to Tajikistan, the ADB said, and forms part of a 7,000km road corridor running from Russia to the Persian Gulf.
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(News report from Issue No. 24, published on Jan. 24 2011)