China is increasing its presence in Central Asia through initiatives such as providing school meals in Kyrgyzstan, seeking to ...

A war between India and Pakistan would significantly destabilize Central Asia, disrupting trade routes, delaying ...

Central Asia boasts significant reserves of oil and gas. But most of the region’s pipelines were traditionally directed towards Russia and, to a lesser extent, south-west to Turkey. Pipelines ...

As Brussels, Beijing, Moscow, and Washington scramble to secure key materials for clean energy and new tech, they have begun ...

Can Central Asian states continue their multi-vector diplomacy, or will they be forced to choose between the U.S. and China?

The “more or less obvious answer is a ‘no,’” Tskhay said. The prospects for oil supply from Central Asia, principally Kazakhstan, are much better. The country currently supplies 13 percent of Europe’s ...

Across the region, rising trade tensions and policy uncertainty are adding to the impact of conflicts and extended oil production cuts to weaken growth prospects. In the Caucasus and Central Asia, ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The country exported 54,665 tonnes of palm oil and palm-based products worth RM288.23mil to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan in Central Asia in 2024 ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

Bishkek: Central Asia has been in the grip of a heatwave this spring, with all five countries reporting abnormally high -- and in some cases record-breaking -- temperatures over the past three months.

For much of the post-Soviet era, Central Asia has not figured prominently in the strategic calculus of the European Union (EU). Hemmed in by powerful neighbors and long seen as a distant periphery ...