(Brussels, March 27, 2025) – The European Union should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central Asian countries at the inaugural EU-Central Asia summit on April ...

The initiative, which aims to mobilise €300 billion worldwide, focuses on four key sectors in Central Asia: transport, critical raw materials, digital connectivity, and sustainable energy.

As geopolitical tensions escalate and global power dynamics shift, the role of Central Asia in United States (US) foreign policy remains a critical yet frequently overlooked component ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

The centuries-old control over Central Asia initially by the Russian Empire and then by the Soviet Union left a noticeable social and cultural mark on the region. One way the Soviet authorities sought ...

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist ...

Punitive measures have neither led Beijing to slow its civilian-military integration nor convinced Moscow to roll back its war on Ukraine. A new report says five boys and two girls were executed ...

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 ...

The upcoming 60th anniversary of Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ), the only German-language newspaper in Central Asia, is a major milestone for the local German community. Since its establishment in ...

TAIPEI, March 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan's central bank held its policy rate unchanged as expected on Thursday, prompted by lingering concerns over inflation and uncertainty about new U.S. trade tariffs.

It is not a political coup or a military confrontation, but something subtler: the steady expansion of China’s artificial intelligence (AI) influence across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

These set the country on a path to becoming an economic powerhouse. Inspired by Japan’s success, other countries in Asia followed suit. Today, the region contributes over 60 percent of global growth, ...