Over the past decade, the economic relationship between China and Central Asia has shifted from transactional trade to deep ...

A new institution in Tashkent opens as a monument to Central Asia’s role in the history of human knowledge. For centuries, ...

The Central Asian republics are not keen on seeing Iran collapse right on their borders.

Over the past decade, analysts have increasingly viewed Iranian transit routes as Central Asia’s most promising path to the sea.

Weeks ago, a group of Kazakh bankers traveled to Hong Kong to lay the groundwork for a series of yuan-denominated bond deals ...

Once considered one of the region’s most closed and state controlled systems, the country has gradually opened its economy, ...

The worst may soon be over for Asia’s emerging-market currencies, which have come under pressure during the Iran war, as central banks have begun stepping up their support, having stashed away extra ...

In Central Asia, everyone appears to be moving to secure riches and interests. Japan has just conducted an investment summit with the Central Asian states to develop economic opportunities, China’s Xi ...

As the geopolitical race to secure alternative sources for critical minerals heats up, interest in Central Asia’s mining ...

There are now an estimated to be 60-80 Persian (aka, Caucasian) leopards dwelling in the country's nature reserves.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine ...

On September 19, President Joe Biden met with all five leaders of the Central Asian countries at the UN General Assembly in New York as part of the “C5+1” summit. This marks the first meeting between ...