All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

The event, which attracted more than 15,000 participants from 180 countries, highlighted the UAE's growing influence as a ...

He emphasized that around 90 percent of the water in Uzbekistan is used for agriculture, with 30–40 percent being wasted. The ...

The first China-Central Asia freight train from Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality officially started service on Sunday, a representative of its operator -- China Railway Chengdu Group Co ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

‘We have heard … Ukraine’s membership of Nato is out of the question,’ said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. ‘This gives us satisfaction’. Russian tourists lift China’s beach resorts ...

The Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia is published twice a year, in the spring and fall to review developments in the region.

Everyone in world cricket is talking about Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the Indian player who made a dazzling IPL debut at 14. Western brands have been hit by boycotts and other forms of protests in ...

NEW YORK -- Tariffs as high as 3,403.96% are poised to be slapped on solar cells and panels imported from Southeast Asia but predominantly made in Chinese-owned factories, the U.S. Department of ...

HANOI: Vietnam's central bank is drafting a plan to restructure the troubled Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank, the lender at the centre of the country's biggest financial fraud on record ...

TOKYO -- Shenghe Resources Holding, a major Chinese rare-earth refiner and importer, said that its U.S. affiliate MP Materials has stopped shipping the metals to China amid the trade war between ...

[WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee warned against efforts to curtail the US central bank’s independence, days after President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure ...