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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.

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

Medics say they are actively discouraged from seeking the compensation.

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

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

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

The trade bloc's failure to stop contraband smuggling is connected to the high drama playing out in Kyrgyzstan.

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.

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

Any political turmoil was bound to worsen Kyrgyzstan's eviscerated economy, but what has happened over the past week has been especially destructive.

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.