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China’s border with Central Asia, such as Manzhouli Port, has been named as a security concern related to population shrinkage. Photo: Xinhua
China's population

China’s border with Central Asia deemed concern amid demographic decline

China’s sparsely populated border with Central Asia, which is losing residents quickly, was named by a researcher as an area not to ignore.

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Climate change

Opinion | Cop29 can work with the Belt and Road Initiative for a greener future

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Taliban

Taliban seeks international aid for Afghanistan’s reconstruction

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India

India seeks to boost ties with Afghanistan – is it a move to sideline Pakistan?

Officials from both sides recently met to discuss issues, including enhancing trade via an Afghan port run by an Indian company.

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The embassy of Afghanistan in New Delhi. Photo: AFP
Environment

Taliban to attend UN climate conference for the first time

A technical delegation will participate in Cop29 in Azerbaijan, according to Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency.

Belt and Road Initiative

Opinion | How do Central Asian countries see China’s Belt and Road Initiative?

As Central Asian nations diversify away from Russia, it’s not a given that China or the EU will become dominant powers in the region.

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Climate change

Opinion | Cop29 is Azerbaijan’s moment to step into the global sunshine

The UN climate conference will shine a spotlight on the major oil producer’s energy transition, peace efforts with Armenia and geocritical location.

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People walk near the Baku Olympic Stadium, the venue of the Cop29 UN climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 18. Photo: Reuters
Global monetary policy

As China urges global financial reform, Global South ties more crucial: analysts

The world’s second-largest economy is looking to balance the scales of international financial governance under a system dominated by the World Bank and IMF.

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China-EU relations

Opinion | China and the EU have a logistics problem. Central Asia stands to benefit

Given the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a safer trade route might be the one through Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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War and conflict

Letters | Be warned, the pain of war lingers long after the fighting ends

Readers reflect on the scars of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, waste management solutions for Hong Kong and the ticketing scramble for next year’s Coldplay show.

Azerbaijan soldiers walk near the Lachin checkpoint, on September 26 last year. Photo: AFP
India

India, Pakistan fuel Central Asian arms race with sales to Armenia, Azerbaijan

The influx of military hardware is shifting the military balance in the region, potentially undermining fragile peace efforts.

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A Pakistani JF-17 Thunder wraplane performs a fly-by in 2018. Photo: AFP
Science

China set to conduct nation’s first expeditions in the ‘land of the dinosaurs’

Leading Chinese scientist hopes project will be the ‘beginning of our international expeditions’ after decades of playing catch-up.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong customs seizes HK$44 million of Ice in ceramics shipment from Kyrgyzstan

Haul is largest from the central Asian country in 20 years and for methamphetamine this year at city’s airport.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan votes on whether to build first nuclear plant

The country is looking to boost its power generation capacity with the construction of its first nuclear facility.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev casts his vote during a referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Opinion | How a wider Middle East war could bring a world recession

Volatile oil prices, shaky investor confidence and prospects of interest rate increases threaten a global slowdown if Israel’s war expands.

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Kazakhstan

Opinion | Why Kazakhstan is pursuing its own nuclear power programme

The nation has good reason to consider nuclear energy, in service of both its own interests and adding to global climate change efforts.

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Pakistan

Is Pakistan’s bid to kick-start Gwadar port putting ‘cart before the horse’?

A lack of business activities and poor infrastructure mean the goal of making Gwadar into a shipping hub is unfeasible, analysts say.

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Pakistan

Pakistan’s potential Brics entry seen as benefiting China at India’s expense

Russia’s support for Pakistan’s bid to join ‘China-centric’ Brics could further enhance Beijing’s clout in the bloc, analysts say.

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The Brics foreign ministers meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on June 11. Photo: EPA-EFE
Russia

Germany’s Scholz seals migration deal with Uzbekistan on Central Asia visit

Scholz will also attend summit in Kazakhstan with region’s five former Soviet republics, which are all heavily influenced by China and Russia.

India

How India’s growing middle class is reshaping tourism trends in Asia

Indian travellers are looking to destinations including Hong Kong and Central Asia as they seek out new experiences, report shows.

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Belt and Road Initiative

Explainer | What, where, how: the next 10 years of China’s evolving Belt and Road Initiative

With focus of global trade plan shifting, gone may be the days when huge infrastructure projects left partner countries holding a big bill and facing environmental implications.

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A family rides past a decoration in the shape of the national flags of China and Pakistan ahead of a visit to the capital city of Lahore by Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng in July last year to mark the 10th anniversary of a mega economic plan that is the cornerstone of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. Photo: AFP
Belt and Road Initiative

China hosts Central Asian ministers in quest to protect belt and road interests

Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong urges greater security cooperation for belt and road projects in first China-Central Asia ministerial conference.

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The public security forum urged greater regional security cooperation to help protect China’s belt and road projects. Photo: Xinhua
Bonds

Kazakh giant eyes Hong Kong’s dim sum bonds to fund cable project

The company’s telecoms unit Freedom Telecom plans to spend 107 billion tenge (US$236 million) until the end of 2027 on two projects in Kazakhstan.

Diplomacy

Opinion | How Azerbaijan’s strategic reach for Brics will benefit China too

Baku’s strategic position and aspiration to diversify its economy aligns with Beijing’s vision for Eurasian connectivity.

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Malaysia

Malaysia’s Anwar visits Russia as Asian leaders defy West over Putin

Anwar follows leaders from India, China, North Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar in meeting Putin since the start of the Ukraine war

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Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim arrives at the international airport in Vladivostok, Russia for a two-day visit in which he will meet Putin. Photo: AP
Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EV start-up Rox Motor to push overseas expansion

Shanghai-based carmaker aims to grow sales channels in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia as price war at home erodes margins.

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Rox Motor is viewed as a latecomer in mainland China’s EV race, where 50 or so players are now embroiled in a discount war. Photo: Weibo/Rox Motor
Afghanistan

Taliban committed to engagement, UN calls morality law is ‘gender apartheid’

A Taliban government spokesman has said Afghan authorities are committed to engagement with the international community despite law backlash.

Lessons from China's history

Reflections | Black Myth: Wukong video game the latest take on Journey to the West

The hit video game takes its premise from classic novel Journey to the West, which has had a profound influence on Chinese popular culture.

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Central Asia
News from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
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