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How This Entrepreneur Is Redesigning Marketplaces for the Real World
DevX
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August 19, 2025
Online marketplaces have served as digital infrastructure for everyday commerce almost since the advent of the internet, helping people find jobs, housing, services, and used goods. In many countries, especially those with limited access to formal...
A law on the creative economy will be introduced in Tajikistan
Asia Plus
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11:25, august 14Author: Sayfiddin Karaev, Asia-Plus Favorable legal conditions for startups will be created. A draft law on the Creative Economy is being developed in Tajikistan, aimed at developing new forms of entrepreneurial activity. The law...
Swiss Travel Industry Insiders Investigate Potential Tajikistani Partnerships
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, August 14. A delegation from the Committee for Tourism Development under the Government of Tajikistan, along with representatives from the private sector, visited Switzerland to showcase the...
Tajik Cotton Exports to Iran Reach Record Levels
Times of Central Asia
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August 11, 2025
Since the start of 2025, Iran has imported more than 30,000 tons of cotton fiber from Tajikistan, accounting for over 83% of the country’s total foreign sales of this product. The value of these exports has reached $45.7 million. Geography and...
Turkmenistan, UN Discuss Joint International Projects In Tajikistan
MENAFN
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August 14, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, August 14. Turkmenistan's Ambassador to Tajikistan A. Gochmyradov met with UN Resident Coordinator in Tajikistan Ramaswamy Parvati at the UN Permanent Mission in Dushanbe, Trend reports via...
Expert Opinion. Ways to Reduce Methane Emissions in Central Asia: The Role of Biogas Projects in Achieving Climate Goals
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia
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Publication date: 14 August 2025 By Oxana Kravtsova, CAREC Programme Manager for Environment and Health Central Asia is a region where agriculture and waste management contribute significantly to methane emissions - a greenhouse gas 28 times more...
Tajikistan sees growth in number of licensed individual gold and mineral miners
Asia Plus
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14:11, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus The number of licensed individual prospectors in Tajikistan continues to rise, with the Ministry of Finance issuing permits to 261 people for the extraction of alluvial minerals in the first half of 2025. According to...
A special child goes to the first grade. What do parents in Tajikistan need to know?
Asia Plus
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16:06, todayAuthor: Marhabo Zununova, especially for Asia-Plus Today, there are only three schools in Tajikistan with resource classes for children with autism and thousands of families waiting in line for support. On August 1, Tajikistan started...
Women’s voices and young bloggers: Who is shaping the new media landscape of Tajikistan?
Asia Plus
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Blogging has long ceased to be just a pastime. Today, it serves as a platform for self-expression, discussion of pressing issues, finding like-minded people, and even earning a living. Content is created by ordinary people—without strict...
Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia
CEPA
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August 19, 2025
Executive Summary Despite the challenge from China, Russia continues to wield influence in the region. Russia and China have a comprehensive strategic partnership based on a relationship that has developed over 30 years, before the collapse of the...
TECNO SPARK 40 series launches in Tajikistan: a new era of smart and powerful smartphones
Asia Plus
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15:36, august 12Author: Press release by TECHNO TECNO has officially launched its new series of AI-powered smartphones, the TECNO SPARK 40, in Tajikistan, setting a new standard in sleek design, high performance, and affordability. With its focus...
World Bank Approves $50 Million Grant for Tajikistan’s Economic Reforms
Times of Central Asia
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August 12, 2025
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a $50 million grant to support Tajikistan’s reform agenda, aimed at fostering competition, improving market conditions for the private sector, and strengthening public sector service...
Dushanbe becomes key stop for the ROX 01 Hybrid SUV Silk Road caravan
Asia Plus
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15:40, august 8Author: Asia-Plus A press conference dedicated to the arrival of the international ROX Silk Road Tour caravan took place at the Asia-Plus news agency office in Dushanbe. The event brought together local media, bloggers, car experts,...
Uzbek Foreign Minister Meets Tajik Ambassador to Discuss …
UzDaily
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Uzbekistan 12/08/2025 Uzbek Foreign Minister Meets Tajik Ambassador to Discuss Strategic Partnership Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — On 11 August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Bakhtiyor Saidov, held a meeting...
Third-hottest July on record wreaks climate havoc 七月氣溫史上第三高 導致氣候災難
Taipei Times
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August 11, 2025
The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures last month, but many regions were still devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday last week....
Wildberries launches ESG platform for charitable, environmental projects
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Media OutReach Newswire - 12 August 2025 - Wildberries, a leading digital platform in Eurasia, has launched an online portal called RWB Participation that enables users to learn about the company's ESG projects and personally take...
Tajikistan launches new radiation mapping laboratory to boost national safety
Asia Plus
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09:30, todayAuthor: Press release by the CBRN Safety Agency A state-of-the-art radiation mapping laboratory officially opened at the Agency for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Safety under the National Academy of Sciences of...
Tajikistan introduces 20% mobile phone import duty, citing health and environmental concerns
Asia Plus
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15:58, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus The head of Tajikistan’s Customs Service, Khurshed Karimzoda, defended the government’s new 20% import duty on mobile phones, stating it was introduced due to growing concerns over public health and environmental...
Suicide as protest: Tajik women and a sense of hopelessness
Asia Plus
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15:24, todayAuthor: Asia-Plus In Tajikistan, there has been a rise in cases where young mothers with multiple children take their own lives, sometimes together with their children. Experts see this not as madness, but as an extreme form of despair...
Reconnecting India and Central Asia in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
SpecialEurasia
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August 11, 2025
Executive Summary This report provides an assessment and overview of India’s foreign relations with the Central Asian Republics (CARs) based on an established new kind of platform as well as special relations in security, climate change, ICT, and...