The data can no longer be ignored. Demand and supply no longer add up. Severity of situation needs treating with some urgency.
Despite lapse in demand, firms said to retain positive attitude on 12-month outlook for activity, which remained historically elevated. Inflationary pressures continued to retreat.
Releases study showing 360,000 people could die prematurely before the end of the century because of global heating caused by companies’ 2022 greenhouse gas emissions alone.
Petrostates are currently confronted with significant challenges arising from the ongoing energy transition. The diminishing demand for oil and gas is exerting downward pressure on commodity prices, which in turn threatens future revenue streams.
Ex-president releases shocking memoir detailing hidden life that led to a second family with two sons. Rumours had swirled for years.
Ranks of Jamaat Ansarullah movement based near border with Tajikistan said to be swelling.
The great and good have assembled in UAE’s capital of Dubai for the COP28 conference to hash out a plan to avert the looming environmental disaster, but its probably too late.
While Ankara records show “dual-use” goods going to Central Asia and Caucasus, trade registry discrepancies across region indicate items actually go to Russia.
Officials say that it will make government spending more transparent.
Calls for more regional cooperation in address to United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA).
New legislation will place stronger requirements on lenders to ensure people taking out loans are able to pay back.
Central Asia is once again the “navel of the world” as overland trade between Asia and Europe takes off.
The outcome of COP28 won’t save the world from climate chaos. That much is clear, with major economies failing on climate change, the US continuing to drill fossil fuels and China building more coal-burning plants.
It was a price rise of this fuel that led to nationwide unrest in 2022.
EBRD research shows majority in transition countries believe climate change will severely affect the children of today, but fewer people are willing to pay to address the climate emergency.
Sometimes known as the sirocco, haboob, yellow dust, white storm or harmattan, the phenomenon that engulfs everything in its path can be a costly disaster.
Kuandyk Bishimbayev is said to have had a long history of assaulting his wife.
Data shows that in region an area almost four times the size of Kyrgyzstan is degraded.
Overcoming the “inadequate” approach is “a geopolitical imperative” amid great power competition, while a crackdown is needed on London enabling region’s corrupt elites, it adds.