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

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

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

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

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

Authorities in the capital Ashgabat have cut subsidised food rations for needy residents, amid severe shortages and rising prices

The Institute of Seismology and Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences will cooperate with a Russian institute to carry out joint programmes, projects, exchange of research experience and other activities in the field of seismology and geodynamics

The national Aral Sea basin program for 2021-2025 has been approved; it is designed to consolidate the work done to stabilize local environment against climate change and to address specific socio-economic consequences of previous water misuses

The edition of the XIII volume of the book "Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan" was officially presented at the Ministry of Health; the book is considered a remarkable gift from the head of the nation for the doctors and population

The bid for the construction of the new international airport in Jebel in the Balkan velayat, for which the Abu Dhabi Development Fund allocated a credit of US$75 million, will close this month

A gas turbine power plant with an annual electricity generation capacity of 33 billion kWh in cooperation with the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation has been inaugurated in the Lebap velayat

The country is going to become a member of the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation of the Islamic Development Bank, which main purpose is to promote trade of the member countries