… Efes, which is now the driving force for the companies' investments in Turkey, Russia, the Central Independent States, Central Asia , and the Middle East. We believe that this partnership, much like the company's MillerCoors JV in the United States …
… unprecedented rate. Located in the steppe region of Southern Kazakhstan, Inkai is as desolate and cold as it can get in Central Asia . However, this region holds some of the largest uranium reserves in the world. At the moment, Kazakhstan is the largest …
* Studying Caribbean refinery investment opportunity (Adds comments from chairman, vice chairman)
BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) - China will import 23 to 25 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas from central Asia this year, the chairman of top Chinese oil and gas producer PetroChina said on Wednesday.
ASTANA, May 22 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's long-serving president on Tuesday urged foreign companies developing its lucrative oil and gas fields to invest in alternative projects, to reduce the Central Asian country's dependence on exports of its natural resources.
* Turkmenistan now only Central Asian gas supplier to China
ALMATY (Reuters) - About 300 Kazakh miners called off an underground strike on Sunday, accepting a promise of higher wages from employer Kazakhmys after a three-day protest that unnerved authorities in the Central Asian state following deadly riots in an oil town.
MOSCOW, May 3 (Reuters) - Russia's top mobile phone operator MTS is in talks with the Turkmen government over resumption of its work in the Central Asian state, two sources close to its parent company Sistema said on Thursday.
ALMATY, April 20 (Reuters) - Unknown assailants shot and stabbed a newspaper journalist in Kazakhstan late on Thursday in an attack his employers and international rights groups said could have been linked to his reports critical of the Central Asian nation's government.
ASTANA, April 19 (Reuters) - Mining companies active in Kazakhstan urged authorities on Thursday to remove bureaucratic hurdles to investment in order to encourage overdue exploration of prospective metals deposits in the Central Asian state.