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Let them eat cake.

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

Any breakthrough in improving the lot of labor migrants will be touted as sign of his political heft.

The government is eager to stress that the loan is all but interest free.

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

The terminal state of the economy remains paramount in the minds of those wishing to leave.

The healthcare sector has been embroiled in corruption scandals for years.

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

The president bets on a big infrastructure program to reinvigorate his political fortunes.

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.

The president says the vote will marking a turning point. Skeptics yawn.

Kazakhstan’s food producers look primed to benefit from China’s increasingly tense relationship with traditional trading partners. This and more in our monthly Chinese business briefing.

Before the pandemic, Central Asia’s poorest countries had been managing their Chinese debts quite well. Now they are asking for help.

Overdue loans have increased by 10 percent since January.