“Will you turn it on, or not?” asked a woman in the Uzbek town of Chirchik, as she grabbed a grid electrician from behind and held a kitchen knife...
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2022 Asian Boxing Championship finished in Jordan on Sunday, November 13. The competition is held under the auspices of the Asian Boxing...
New York, Brussels, Astana (18/1 – 60). After facing the most challenging year in 2022, Kazakhstan continues its political modernization. Under the second term...
Kazakhstan’s reform efforts after the recent presidential elections could position the country as a key partner for the EU, with the region increasingly...
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the group was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints. After Allya Ayat...
At some point in 1943, Allen J. Frank relates (pp. 103–4, 127), in the latest of his fascinating studies of religious life in the Volga-Ural region and the...
Hong Kong CNN — In the years before Covid, China was the world’s most important source of international travelers. Its 155 million tourists spent more than a...
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — In June, after North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean, South Korea and the United States responded by...
TOKYO: The Japanese operator of McDonald’s restaurants announced its third price hike in less than a year on Friday (Jan 6) in the latest sign of...
A bomb threat has forced a passenger plane operated by budget carrier Jetstar Japan to make an emergency landing at an airport in Aichi Prefecture, central...