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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.

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.

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.

While it would be wrong to start pointing fingers and formulating conspiracy theories, clearly the risks are many and real.

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.

Pledges to let people raid their pension pots were met favorably, though.

The first in a series of briefings on Beijing's investments in Central Asian renewables.