The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support Kazakhstan’s strategic goal to improve energy efficiency and promote sustainability, known as the “green economy” strategy, with a new financing under the …
At an official ceremony in Tashkent on February 28, Uzbekistan and the International Labour Organisation signed a memorandum of understanding, extending the Decent Work Country Programme for 2017-2020. The event was attended by Deputy …
By ANITA RACHMAN Updated March 1, 2017 9:42 p.m. ET BOGOR, Indonesia—King Salman of Saudi Arabia began a 12-day visit to Indonesia Wednesday meant to cement plans for a $6 billion refinery project and …
By SARAH COOK March 1, 2017 1:04 p.m. ET Over the past two weeks, Chinese authorities have renewed crackdowns in Xinjiang targeting both Muslim and Christian Uighurs while prosecutors in Hebei province indicted a …
By BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ March 1, 2017 1:05 p.m. ET Will India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon shake hands with President Trump in the Oval Office? Are “good deals” to be had by these reputed …
By EDWARD WONG Police officers in parts of the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been ordering residents to hand over their passports since October, according to residents interviewed by telephone this week …
By EVA TAM Updated March 1, 2017 2:05 p.m. ET 16 COMMENTS HONG KONG—Marc Simmons loves beer pong but hates playing beer pong in Hong Kong. Most bars here force customers to play the …
By TE-PING CHEN March 1, 2017 7:44 a.m. ET An Islamic State video appears to show recruits from China’s Uighur minority threatening to “avenge oppression,” feeding into Beijing’s assertion of a growing jihadist-terror threat. …
By CAROL E. LEE and ALASTAIR GALE March 1, 2017 5:30 p.m. ET An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt …
Associated Press BEIRUT: Syrian government forces and their allies from Lebanon’s Hezbollah reached the outskirts of Palmyra in their push to drive ISIS militants from the ancient town, activists said Tuesday. The advancing forces …
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