Rogun Dam’s Cross-Border Environmental Impact Draws Scrutiny @rivers.help An international environmental coalition has raised new concerns about the environmental assessment of Tajikistan’s Rogun Hydropower Plant, warning that its potential cross-border and cumulative impacts on downstream countries …
While Kyrgyzstan is improving relations with the United States by hosting the second B5+1 forum in its capital, with the participation of U.S. Special Representative for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor, Bishkek’s relations with Brussels …
Image: TCA, Stephen M. Bland In recent months, media attention has increasingly focused on infrastructure projects underway in Afghanistan. Chief among them is the Qosh Tepa Canal, widely seen not only as an irrigation initiative but …
Image: TCA, Stephen M. Bland An armed clash occurred on the evening of January 29 along the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan’s Shamsiddin Shokhin district, as local border forces intercepted an attempted drug smuggling operation. According to …
Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s official visit to Astana on January 27, 2026, was the first by an Israeli foreign minister to Kazakhstan in 16 years, and it yielded a package of institutional and …
Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn For many years, U.S. relations with Central Asia were primarily political in nature, while economic ties developed slowly. However, in the past year, engagement has intensified significantly, with recent agreements …
Edited By Nurbanu Tanrıkulu Kızıl President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomes Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in an official ceremony in Ankara, Jan. 29, 2026. (AA Photo) Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said Thursday that Türkiye is …
@mineconom.gov.kg Kyrgyzstan recorded a sharp increase in remittance inflows during the first five months of 2025, reaching USD 1.367 billion —a 16% rise compared to the same period in 2024, according to data from the National …
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region set a target of roughly 10 percent growth in total foreign trade for 2026 in its government work report, the information office of the …
Gold prices jumped to fresh records Monday on rising worries about geopolitics, tariff threats and another potential US government shutdown while Wall Street stocks drifted higher ahead earnings from tech giants. The dollar fell, …
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