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		<title>Border Crossing-Points on Badakhshan Border handed over to Afghan Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the EU-UNDP-UK €5,011,000, ($7,745,000) BOMBAF Project, Charlotte Adriaen, Chargé d&#8217;Affaires to the Delegation of the European Commission to Tajikistan, on 05 June 2008 handed over three new Border Crossing Points on the Tajik-Afghan border to the Afghan Border Police as the culmination of one phase in the UNDP’s Border Management Badakhshan Afghanistan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supply of Barcode scanners and printers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Postal Department of MCIT has received a credit from the (UPU) and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under the contract for Supply of Label Printer &#038; Barcode Scanner  to the Postal Department of  the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)  at Kabul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan National Seed Association is born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Afghanistan seed industry has reached another important milestone in its recent development with the unanimous agreement by stakeholders nationwide to establish the Afghanistan National Seed Association (ANSA) as their umbrella organization for advocacy and representation both nationally and internationally. This decision was an outcome of sub-national consultations in the different regions of the country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ziayee lays the cornerstone of the new sub-basin agency in Baghlan-e-Jadid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 6 May 2008 the deputy Minister of Energy and Water, Mr Ziayee, laid down the cornerstone of the new Sub-basin Agency in Baghlan-e-Jadid. The first of a series of constructions that will create the infrastructure for the new Agency responsible for the governance of all water related issues in the vast North-Easter basin of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afghanbiz.com/news/ziayee-lays-the-cornerstone-of-the-new-sub-basin-agency-in-baghlan-e-jadid/</link>
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		<title>Philippe Morillon visits Bamyan seed project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A delegation of nine Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) led by Mr. Philippe Morillon of France are currently visiting Afghanistan to see first hand the performance of European Union (EU) funded projects especially regarding their transparency and effectiveness in the utilization of allocated funds. One key project that has been selected for examination by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15km of Road in Kabul, Kunduz and Kapisa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[with the construction of 15Km Road in Kabul, Kunduz and Kapisa provinces, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development provided 10,628 rural families with needed facilities in term of commute to district centers and Cities.
One of these projects is the graveling of 10.5Km road in Kundoz which connects 23 villages to Qalai Zal district that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAO works with research stations to catalogue wheat varieties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A total of 24 technicians from agricultural research stations across Afghanistan gathered together at the Dedadi Research Station in Balkh Province with their FAO colleagues for an intensive 2-day practical field workshop from 16 to 17 April on how to collect and analyze data from field experiments designed to assess the Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afghanbiz.com/news/fao-works-with-research-stations-to-catalogue-wheat-varieties/</link>
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		<title>AISA Gets World&#8217;s Second Best Investment Promotion Agency Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) won the World&#8217;s second best investment promotion agency award at the World Investment Conference 2008 in Accra, Ghana on April 18 2008.
The award, jointly given by the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), recognized AISA as an investment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afghanbiz.com/news/aisa-gets-worlds-second-best-investment-promotion-agency-award/</link>
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		<title>Construction of Public Gene Bank for Afghan Grapes in Herat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Perennial Horticulture Centre in Herat now under construction will collect, classify and preserve the 143 varieties of grapes grown in Afghanistan, as well as other fruit trees, applying advanced research techniques to the improvement of breeding varieties. The table grapes from Afghanistan have spread all around the world, either for use directly, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afghanbiz.com/news/construction-of-public-gene-bank-for-afghan-grapes-in-herat/</link>
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		<title>Completion of 15 uplift projects in Samangan Province</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the inauguration of 15 uplift projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in the province of Samangan, 1897 families benefited from wide range of facilities provide. Meanwhile work on another major work for food project in Nenegarhar Province started today.
The completed projects in Samangan province include digging and cleaning of 1.4km irrigation [...]]]></description>
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