The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

A coalition of environmental organizations is calling on international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to reexamine the utility of financing hydropower ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

Philip Morris International Inc. today published its sixth annual Integrated Report, marking the company's 10th year of business transformation and sustainability disclosures. The document details PMI ...

A CEE Bankwatch background report stressed that the evaporation of the Aral Sea was caused by extensive damming on the middle and lower portions of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, Central Asia ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Don’t worry, you can’t get lost down here.’ Larisa Pozdnyakova’s words, in her thick Russian accent, float to ...

Connecticut College hosted Adeeb Khalid's visit for his public lecture “Central Asia in the Soviet Union: The Intertwined Histories of Nation, Empire, and Revolution” in the Charles Chu Room. This ...

Most visitors to Uzbekistan stick to the Silk Road tourist trail, exploring the mosques and madrasas of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, and perhaps the intriguing mix of Islamic and Soviet modernist ...

The Caspian Sea, wedged in between Europe and Asia, is the world's largest inland body of water. It spans 371,000 square kilometres , but has shrunk in recent decades due to hotter temperatures ...

Vietnam is stepping up inspections of particular children’s toys over concerns that imagery on the model’s face resembles a map China uses to stake competing territorial claims in the South ...