For the first time this year, an inflow of [water into] the River Vakhsh has reached 726 cu.m. per second, a privately-owned Tajik Avesta website reported quoting a source in the Energy and Industry Ministry of Tajikistan. >>>
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda announced US$500 million in immediate budgetary support to tackle rising food costs in Asia-Pacific region and pledged to double lending to US$2 billion for agriculture in 2009. >>>
UNDP project UzSciNet participated at the National Innovative Ideas and Projects Fair, which was held in Tashkent on 30 April – 1 May 2008. The project presented its innovative services and products during the fair. >>>
A conference on problems of seed production in Uzbekistan was held by the Committee for agrarian, water and ecology issues of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis. >>>
Deputy Resident Representative of the UNDP Country Office in Uzbekistan Kyoko Postill and the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan Alisher Shaykhov formally opened the Arbitration Development Center under the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan on 2 May 2008. >>>
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set for a change in the way it serves its developing member countries in a rapidly evolving and dynamic Asia-Pacific region, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said at the official opening of the organization's 41st Annual Meeting in Madrid on 5 May.* >>>
On 22 April in Yerevan, Russia and Armenia signed a treaty to set up a joint venture for the exploration and mining of uranium and other minerals in Armenia. The company is being established on parity lines and will be registered within the next three months.* >>>