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A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a Chinese humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 30, 2022. Afghanistan also had the highest number of children made homeless by climate disasters of any country as of the end of 2023, according to an August report from international aid agency Save the Children. Photo: AP

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.

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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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President Xi Jinping speaks at the Brics summit in Russia on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

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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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

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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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 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

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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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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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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’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

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.

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz inside the Tilya-Kori Madrasah as they visit the Registan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Sunday. Photo: Uzbekistan’s Presidential Press Office via AP

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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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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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

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.

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

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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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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

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.

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.

Germany deports 28 Afghan nationals, the first since 2021 Taliban takeover

Germany does not have diplomatic relations with the Taliban, requiring the government to work through other channels. It is unlikely that Friday’s actions will lead to a wider thawing of relations between Germany and the Taliban.

It is unlikely that the deportations will lead to a wider thawing of relations between Germany and the Taliban. Photo: dpa

Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women’s voices and faces in public

The Taliban urge ‘thorough understanding’ of Islamic sharia law after UN criticism about the rights of women and girls.

Burka-clad Afghan women walk on a road in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo: EPA-EFE

UN: Taliban restrictions on women and girls provide a ‘distressing vision’

The Taliban’s new bans on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, warned the UN.

Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces

The Taliban suspended Afghanistan’s previous constitution when they took over in 2021 as foreign forces withdrew, and said they would rule the country according to sharia law.

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Central Asia
News from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
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27 August, 2024
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