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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.

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

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.

Numbers of coronavirus cases has seen a sharp surge recently.

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 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.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.