Asia Turkmenistan Early presidential elections will be held today; Central Election Commission confirmed that the order to hold the elections came from the president
Asia Turkmenistan A briefing on the adoption of the "National Programme for Transforming Turkmenistan into a Tobacco-Free Country for 2022-2025" and the action plan for its implementation was held Ashgabat
Asia Turkmenistan A new technology for the use of liquorice root in food products has been developed in the laboratory of the Technology Centre of the Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences; bread was the first product enriched with glycyrrhizic acid
Asia Turkmenistan The development programme for 2022-2052 sets out a number of goals, including the further active development and strengthening of the sphere of statehood and the promotion of greater public confidence in governmental and social institutions
Asia Turkmenistan The country is ready to resume the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project after a high-ranking national delegation discussed it in Kabul
Asia Turkmenistan The international scientific and practical conference 'Turkmen land - the centre of cultural values of world popularity' and an exhibition of objects, pottery, carpets, jewellery opened in the capital
Asia Turkmenistan The flames burning for over 50 years in a remote crater of the Karakum desert, a destination for the few local tourists, will be put out by presidential order to save the natural gas that fuels them and to avoid pointless impact on the environment
Asia Turkmenistan The WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan and the Government have prepared a list of activities for 2022, with a number of measures aimed at preventing infectious diseases, in the frame of the systematic development of cooperation
Asia Turkmenistan The UN Development Program together with national partners evaluated the recently launched project for the conservation and sustainable management of land resources and high nature value ecosystems in the Aral Sea basin
Asia Turkmenistan The country has been recognised as having the world's slowest internet, with users needing almost a full day to download a movie according to Cable.co.uk
Asia Turkmenistan A lifeline for many people is about to be cut: family members of Turkmen migrant workers and prisoners will lose access to subsidized food amid growing poverty, inflation and food shortages in the country
Asia Turkmenistan Authorities in the capital Ashgabat have cut subsidised food rations for needy residents, amid severe shortages and rising prices
Asia Turkmenistan A national tree planting campaign was held in Ashgabat, part of the systematic nature conservation work; 25 million were planted in 2020 on the 25th anniversary of the country's neutrality and 30 million this year for the 30th anniversary of independence