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Belarus, Vietnam announce contest of joint S&T projects
“The projects will compete in the following categories: power engineering, microelectronics, information technologies, nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, medicine, pharmaceutics, agricultural technologies, new materials, construction, food security, standardization, and metrology,” the press service said...

Omsk Carbon Mogilev to start production in July-August 2016
Thanks to the implementation of the project, of Mogilev Oblast would get considerable investment in its economy, i.e. over Br1.3 trillion. The company will be able to provide Belarus’ rubber technical industry, including OAO Belshina, with technical carbon...

WB ready to provide additional loans to Belarus
The matter was discussed during the meeting between Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kalinin, World Bank Country Manager for Belarus Young Chul Kim and WB experts in Lida...

Grodno Oblast to raise China’s loans for projects in industry, construction, healthcare
Grodno Oblast is expected to implement three big investment projects with the help of China’s concessional credit line. The biggest one slated for implementation is in the chemical industry...

Belarusian Railways to boost cooperation with China Railways in 2016
“Among the major areas is the development of cooperation in railway transport and transport logistics with the China Railways Construction Corporation and other Chinese companies”...

Minsk-2 to handle customs clearance of all operations in Great Stone
"We must organize customs control in such a way so that to ensure the economic security of the country, on the one hand, and provide the participants of the park with maximum opportunities for development without impeding their administrative procedures on the other hand"...

Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky opens trading house in Moscow Oblast
According to Director of Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky Iosif Polochanin, this is the fist time that the company has gotten a possibility to offer such a wide range of products in Moscow Oblast. "We have had strong ties for a long time. But the opening of the trading house is a big step forward," he said...

Plans to implement 17 science and technology programs in Belarus in 2016-2020
Chairman of the Belarusian State Science and Technology Committee Alexander Shumilin told journalists before a meeting of the science and technology policy committee of the Council of Ministers...

Belorusneft, Belzarubezhstroi plan to expand activities in Ecuador
The issue was discussed in a meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Ecuador Igor Poluyan and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coordinator of Public Enterprises of Ecuador Patricio Chavez Zavala (in a post of Minister-Coordinator)...

Kawasaki seeks closer ties with Belarusian scientists in hydrogen technologies
"Kawasaki is a good example of using science and getting good commercial results. The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is ready to cooperate with the Japanese Corporation on a very broad range of areas"...

MTZ to set up trading house in Kyrgyzstan
“We hope that Belarusian products will be popular with Kyrgyzstani people. We are currently in talks with Aiyl Bank on the possibility of leasing Belarus-made vehicles to local farmers”...

Belarus to prepare pilot projects for innovative clusters in 2016
"It is also intended to create two basic engineering centers to accompany the process of a research product going into production”...

Russian UTair airline to resume flights to Minsk on 1 March
"The company will perform flights twice a day using a Boeing 737-500 (business and economy class seats) according to schedule," the company informed. The airline is the only air carrier to perform flights from Minsk to Vnukovo Airport...

Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky to open trading house near Moscow
The press service of the Moscow Oblast Ministry of Consumer Market and Services said that Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky expects to sell $20 million worth of products in the Russian region in 2016...

List of Forex companies to be developed in Belarus
The decision is contained in resolution No.761 of the Board of the National Bank signed on 22 December 2015. The register will be kept by the National Bank and will be available on its website...

Sales of Bobruisk-made tractors up 1.5 times in 2015
"All in all, last year the plant sold domestically and internationally over 2,400 tractors and utility vehicles under the Belarus brand"...

Belorusskie Oboi's export of paper, cardboard up 1.8 times in 2015
The press release of the press service reads that Russia and Poland were the major importers of paper and cardboard ($4 million and $1.3 million respectively)...

Belarus to attend World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos
“Member of the Minsk Hub of Global Shapers Denis Kolga will take part in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos on 20 to 23 January 2016. The forum will bring together heads of the biggest companies of the world, political leaders, outstanding scientists, and journalists”...

Germany buys Belarus-made firefighting equipment
“We are glad that the equipment designed by our scientists and manufactured by our enterprises is in demand abroad," Belarusian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Vashchenko said...

China-EU container shipping via Belarus up 1.4 times in 2015
“Belarus provides transit for cargoes going from China to European countries, including Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic,” specialists said...