Belgium’s second Kazakhgate unfolds
Belgium again finds itself amidst a scandal that threatens to become “Kazakhgate-II”.
Prince Andrew out in the cold: KPMG pulls £100,000-a-year sponsorship of Duke's Dragons' Den-style start up scheme as other leading business including Aon and AstraZeneca also review relationship
Leading businesses and charities are deserting Prince Andrew over the Epstein scandal as the future of his main charitable project he repeatedly mentioned in his BBC car crash interview is in jeopardy today.
Event | Africa’s experience with Chinese investors. Some parallels with Central Asia
Beijing needed testing grounds for risky investments.
Sinophobia simmers across Central Asia
It is just a tiny grocery store in a decrepit, Khruschev-era five-story apartment block in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan – but it is flooded with shoppers, 24 hours a day.
Kazakhstan: Confidence low in government trust-building exercise
Over the past two decades, the president’s office has instituted at least six ad hoc commissions to defuse some kind of political impasse. The latest is not off to an auspicious start.
Growth of popular unrest in Kazakhstan ‘met by throttling of internet freedom'
One of the more remarkable occurrences in Central Asian politics this year was the sight of thousands of Kazakhs taking to the streets to protest at the shoo-in, far from democratic election of longtime president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s handpicked successor Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev in early June.
