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Fully 2.1 million tons of grain were delivered to China from Kazakhstan in 2023, an increase of 1.3 million tons year on year.

Barki Tojik says export contracts are not to blame for domestic shortages.

The speculation is that Mukhamediuly managed to avoid fallout from earlier scandals through his political connections.

Health officials are too quick to grant exemptions.

Stakeholders need to collaborate, tackle waste and address the elephant in the room: Afghanistan.

Tashkent and Novo-Angren power plants will be required to pay about $160,000 for flouting air quality standards.

This comes against the backdrop of more encouraging long-term data about equine mortality.

Healthcare authorities appears to have their priorities wrong. While children die, they think about morality among teen girls. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

The president says his foreign-funded NGO critics are thieving money-grabbers.

The scope of foreign reporting on the region has seen a dismal decline too in recent years.

Police patrolling a Tashkent shopping complex are said to have detained at least 10 people wearing beards.

Prosecutors says Kloop is harming the public’s mental health and driving them to drugs and sexual depravity.

Tashkent is running a severe trade deficit with Beijing.

The rights group noted how journalists and activists have increasingly been targeted with arbitrary detentions and smear attacks on social media.

An update on environmental developments in Central Asia.

Activists are still liable to be imprisoned on spurious grounds if they criticize the government.

China’s automakers are easily dominating market share for imports. Almost 80 percent of foreign-bought vehicles arrived from there in 2023.

Topographers and legal experts from the two countries this week reached a resolution on another 3.71 kilometers of the border.

Ashgabat talks the talk on corruption, but evidence suggests this is all hot air. Details on this and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

A court in Qarshi ruled to commute the sentence and ordered that Otabek Sattoriy instead perform correctional labor over the coming three years.

Kabul has since 2021 proven an unreliable customer. While regularly paying off part of its dues to Tajikistan, it has struggled to clear its debts outright.

One in two Tajik women are believed to have been victims to domestic violence.

The southern city of Osh is also experiencing a heating crisis following a fall in gas imports from Uzbekistan.

Figures don’t align with Central Asian official data.

Rustam Emomali is increasingly the face of his country on the international stage.