A new institution in Tashkent opens as a monument to Central Asia’s role in the history of human knowledge. For centuries, the Silk Road carried not only goods but also ideas, art forms, and knowledge along its routes – many of which originated in the cities of what is now Uzbekistan.

Weeks ago, a group of Kazakh bankers traveled to Hong Kong to lay the groundwork for a series of yuan-denominated bond deals that could take place later in the year.

Over the past decade, the economic relationship between China and Central Asia has shifted from transactional trade to deep strategic investment. China's foreign direct investment in the region is not merely growing in size but transforming regional economies,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having arrived in Central Asia to make deals, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni did a lot of name-checking during a policy address at the Astana International Forum. First, she went ...

Recently, a growing debate has emerged about the changing geopolitical landscape in Central Asia, with major superpowers vying for control of its resources, expanding their presence to achieve political objectives,

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

Central Asia’s fragile ecosystems, home to species like snow leopards and saiga antelopes, face growing threats from habitat loss, climate change and hunting, yet conservation remains critically underfunded. But financing mechanisms like payment for ...

The Joint Plan of Action for Central Asia was adopted at a high-level meeting held on 30 November 2011 by the States of Central Asia. An updated version of the JPoA was adopted on 3 March 2022. It is the first regional framework designed to address the ...

By Eurasianet An important revenue stream in Central Asia for Russia appears in danger of slowing to a trickle. The international power sector has long been lucrative for Russia, via projects developed by Rosatom,