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Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - March 11, 2010
HEADLINES:
Kazakhstan wants to control Karachaganak spending
(Reuters) - Kazakhstan wants more say in running its huge Karachaganak gas field operated by a group of Western energy companies, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Politics gets in way of hydropower investment in Central Asia
(bne) - The planned construction of a new power line connecting Kazakhstan to Tajikistan will […]
Kazakhstan Politics Roundup - March 11, 2010
Kazakh police check high-level graft claims (Reuters)
U.S. watchdog says Kazakhstan violating OSCE values (Reuters)
Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - March 11, 2010
Central bank buys $1.7 billion in February to slow currency rise (SRI)
Industrial output up 10 percent year-on-year in Jan-Feb (SRI)
Five Kazakh banks to pay higher fees after breaking deposit cap (Bloomberg)
Kazakhstan to introduce new co-financing scheme for regional projects (Interfax)
No plans to reconsider refinancing rate - central bank (Kazakhstan Today)
Kazakhstan to supply 600,000 tonnes of […]
Kazakhstan Energy Roundup - March 11, 2010
Kazakhstan wants to control Karachaganak spending (Reuters)
Politics gets in way of hydropower investment in Central Asia (bne)
Kazakhstan’s tax squeeze (Oxford Analytica - Forbes)
KazMunaiGas EP says strike output loss rises (Reuters)
Uranium One posts FY09 loss; sees higher ‘10 production (Reuters)
Industrial output up 10 percent year-on-year in Jan-Feb
(SRI) - Kazakhstan’s industrial output rose 10.4 percent year-on-year in the first two months of 2010, the State Statistics Agency reported on Thursday.
Central bank buys $1.7 billion in February to slow currency rise
(SRI) - The National Bank of Kazakhstan bought more than $1.7 billion on the foreign exchange market in February to prevent the tenge from appreciating too fast, the central bank said on Wednesday.
Kazakhstan wants to control Karachaganak spending
(Reuters) - Kazakhstan wants more say in running its huge Karachaganak gas field operated by a group of Western energy companies, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Bank CenterCredit 2009 profit hurt by disappointing fourth quarter
(SRI) - Bank CenterCredit (BCC) recorded a net profit of KZT3.5 billion ($23 million) in 2009 after a disappointing fourth quarter in which the company lost KZT2.0 billion ($13.6 million).
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - March 11, 2010
U.S. general’s Kyrgyz visit rivals Russian influence (Reuters)
Tajik court jails banned Islamic group members (AP)
Azerbaijan court rejects ‘donkey video’ bloggers’ appeal (AFP)
U.S. general’s Kyrgyz visit rivals Russian influence
(Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, a day after the United States said it would build an anti-terrorism training center for the former Soviet republic in Central Asia.
