News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan Central Bank Adds Chinese Yuan to Daily Foreign Exchange Updates
The National Bank of Kyrgyz Republic announced in recent days it will include the Chinese yuan in its shortlist of foreign currencies whose exchange rates are published daily. The nation’s central ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan may require licenses for agencies sending workers abroad
A draft law introducing new rules for private employment agencies has been submitted for public discussion in Kyrgyzstan. The draft proposes amendments to three pieces of legislation: the Law on the ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan discusses regulation of digital employment
A roundtable discussion was held in Bishkek on October 13 to discuss a study on digital employment and emerging digital professions in Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan Rejects European Migrant Resettlement Proposals
Kyrgyzstan says it rejected European job offers linked to accepting migrants from Afghanistan and Africa, but the countries involved remain unidentified.
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan plans to launch trading in Islamic securities
On September 22, 2026, the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange (KSE) and the Association of Islamic Finance (AIF) signed a strategic cooperation agreement aimed at creating and developing a specialized platform for ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan Turns to Chinese Companies For Major Hydropower Project
Amid power shortages in the country, Kyrgyzstan is looking to revive a long-troubled venture along the Naryn River, but questions remain over the viability of the plan and the Chinese companies chosen for the project.
News Kyrgyzstan: Now With Neighbors' Support, Is Kyrgyzstan's Mega-Dam Dream Viable?
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan have signed a "road map agreement" for a long-stalled hydropower plant that Russia was once expected to build. But with low electricity prices and construction costs running into the billions of dollars, how will they fund it?
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan launches national stablecoin in partnership with Binance
BISHKEK (Reuters) -Kyrgyzstan has launched a national stablecoin and a central bank digital currency in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Binance, President Sadyr Japarov said on Saturday. A mountainous former Soviet republic of around 7 million people traditionally dependent on labour migrants in Russia, Kyrgyzstan has in recent years positioned itself as a cryptocurrency leader in Central Asia. A5A7, a stablecoin backed by the Russian rouble and based in Kyrgyzstan, has been placed under sanctions by Western governments who say it is used to facilitate avoidance of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine.
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan plans to develop Islamic finance exchange platform
The Kyrgyz Stock Exchange (KSE) and the International Association of Partnership Economy and Finance (IAPEF) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop an Islamic finance platform. The ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan’s finance ministry registers the USDKG stablecoin
Financial authorities in Kyrgyzstan have registered a new stablecoin, USDKG, which enjoys the full support of the state in the former Soviet republic. The Central Asian nation is already home to the largest non-dollar stablecoin on the market, the Russian ruble-denominated A7A5. And the latest fiat-linked cryptocurrency to be issued there will be tied to […]
News Kyrgyzstan: Court Overturns Financial Conviction Of Former Kyrgyz Foreign Minister
The Bishkek city court made the ruling on May 20, dismissing a verdict handed down on March 16 by a district court that had found Jekshenkulov guilty of financial abuse and sentenced him to a suspended term of five years in jail.
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan signs three financial cooperation memorandums with Citibank
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 22. Kyrgyzstan and US-based Citibank signed three memorandums of understanding to expand financial and banking cooperation in New York on September 21, according to the ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan launches financial zone to tap into Central Asia's economic shift
When Seo Dong-hyun stood on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul on 3 July 2026, he was not there for the views. The chief executive of South Korean investment group Serim had come to register a family holding ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan to launch first domestic satellite to monitor agriculture
Kyrgyzstan is launching its first domestically produced satellite to gain independent monitoring of crop health, pastures, and water resources.
News Kyrgyzstan: Organic products from Kyrgyzstan exported to more than 30 countries
The area of land involved in organic agricultural production in Kyrgyzstan reached 101,358 hectares as of June 30, 2026. At the beginning of the year, the figure stood at 61,500 hectares, the Ministry ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan increases imports of petroleum coke and bitumen from Kazakhstan
BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 5. Kyrgyzstan increased the value of its imports of petroleum coke and petroleum bitumen from Kazakhstan during the first five months of 2026. According to data from ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan increases coffee imports by more than 50 percent
In the first nine months of 2026, Kyrgyzstan imported 199.3 tonnes of coffee from third countries. This is already more than the total volume imported throughout last year, the State Customs Service ...
News Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan's $25m fuel loan failed to stabilize market prices
A state audit reveals that a $25 million loan to Alpha Oil failed to stabilize Kyrgyzstan's fuel prices despite budget subsidies and guarantees.
