The firm hopes to create a regional aviation hub just over the Kazakh border.

Uzbekistan has pledged more transparency in a cotton industry blighted by a reputation for relying on child labor and press-ganging of unwilling...

It was supposed to be a day of festivities at a world-famous art museum out in the desert of western Uzbekistan. Instead, the stench of scandal sullied...

Uzbek fashion designer Saida Amir is part of a crop of talented, go-getting designers pushing Uzbekistan's garment industry forward following the removal...

An Almaty hospital has been caught trading in children, selling newborns to desperate childless parents for a few thousand dollars apiece.

Prominent human rights activist Yelena Urlayeva was detained and abused by police while monitoring the Uzbek government's use of forced labor in its...

Kazakhstan has struck down a controversial law that would have outlawed "propaganda" of homosexuality to minors, amid signs the legislation was damaging...

"I apologize that for super-democratic states such [high] figures are unacceptable," said President Nursultan Nazarbayev oh his election victory. "If...

Every year the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan creates a storm of controversy over the use of forced and child labor.

One day last summer, Viktor Kazachenko set off across the steppe from his village in northern Kazakhstan, driving to the nearest town on some errands...

Russia's aggressive actions toward Ukraine are vexing Central Asian states.

Astana is rebooting a program to lure ethnic Kazakhs living abroad to move to Kazakhstan. Observers believe Astana's revived interest in the program...