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Bishkek is also angling for yet more room to ease its debt burden.

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

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.

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

Acting President Japarov came to power on the crest of rallies, but will he know how to deal with them as leader?

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

The country's largest oil refinery is no stranger to scandals.

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

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.