Powerful booster compressor station will be put into operation soon at Malay Gas Field in Lebap Region. Most of construction works has been accomplished. Design capacity of the station is 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The Malay Field in Karakums, which is located 80 km away from Turkmenabat, is under industrial development for more than 20 years. For all these year, gas complex has not only provided cities, villages and industrial facilities of the eastern region with gas but also...

Representatives of the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations took part in an online meeting with the heads of the EXPO-2020 steering committee. The organizational issues of the global forum were discussed during the meeting. As reported, taking into account the epidemiological situation in the world, Turkmenistan supported the initiative put forward by the UAE to postpone EXPO-2020 to next year. In this regard, the parties called for the intensification of mutually beneficial co...

On August 22, 2020, the tenth meeting of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan of sixth convocation took place in the format of a videoconference.   The heads of profile ministries and departments of the country, as well as the representatives of the mass media participated to the session.  During the session, the drafts Resolutions of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan on adopting a number of laws and joining various important international legal documents, including the modernization of the legislative base o...

Report on preparation to the launch of new Halkbank Terminal mobile application for contactless payment has been presented to the Head of the State at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on August 21. Mobile application developed by IT-specialists of the above-mentioned bank is aimed at activation of measures for expansion of range of cashless payments in shopping outlets and service centres, improvement of reliability of payments for goods. After opening of Hakbank terminal, it is planne...

35 transactions were concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. Businessmen from Afghanistan purchased hydrotreated diesel oil, produced at Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries and oil bitumen. Businessmen from Russia, Turkey and Afghanistan purchased high-density polyethylene. Businessmen from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan purchased terry-loop goods and cotton yarn to the total amount of more than 4.895 million US dollars....

Preparation to launch new Halkbank Terminal mobile application is carried out by the State Commercial Halkbank. This application has been developed under the measures for expansion of range of non-cash payments in shopping and service outlets, improvement of reliability of payment for goods. After introduction of Halkbank Terminal, it is planned to install software to mobile phones for making relevant operations in digital format. Launch of new application will give opportunity to make all...

On August 20, 2020 the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan with support from the Regional and Country Offices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a web conference on child and adolescent health during the time of COVID-19. The conference was attended by healthcare professionals of Central Asian countries as well as of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Germany, Russian Federation and UK aimed at sharing experiences and discussing the...