A Region of Unclaimed Riches Central Asia has emerged as a critical battleground for global powers, each seeking control over ...

The European Union and Central Asia must continue moving engagement to the next level, from discussions and statements to ...

In response to a request for comment on a New York Times story that the U.S government had terminated funding for programs at the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, an FAO ...

HONG KONG/BEIJING -- China's annual political show, a series of tightly controlled conferences and events in Beijing known as the "Two Sessions," wrapped up on Tuesday. Delegates passed seven ...

SINGAPORE/BANGKOK -- After three years in Dubai, Japanese investor Tsubasa Yozawa returned last year to what he calls his ideal home in central Bangkok: a 66th-floor Ritz-Carlton residence at ...

A Russian diplomat recalled from Brussels amid a spy purge by Belgian authorities has been nominated to head the Belgrade mission of Europe's largest security body, a joint investigation by RFE/RL ...

All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India, where ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would ...

ISIS has expanded its influence in Central Asia, with a foiled coup attempt in Kyrgyzstan involving around 30 terrorists. Regions like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are on high alert due to increasing ...

As Central Asia becomes a stage for Russian and Chinese rivalry, their political influence and economic investments reshape the region’s dynamics One of the hallmarks of the 21st-century international ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...