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CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Burger King ‘set to battle for Uzbek crown with Tashkent arrival’
July 31, 2021
Hamburger heavyweight will want more than a flash-in-the-pan success.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Mongolia’s fledgling tourism sector faces a long road to recovery after COVID-19
July 1, 2021
International travellers do not arrive on a whim. Most book at least six months ahead. The country’s tourism operators have thus already lost 2020 and 2021.
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CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: The new khan of Mongolia
June 30, 2021
Khurelsukh Ukhnaa hopes to bestride the nation as a president who gets things done. But he’ll have to overcome some big, early challenges first.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: If Inandi kidnapping is confirmed, Turkey’s Khashoggi protestations will ring hollow
June 17, 2021
In Washington Post article, Erdogan critic and basketball star Enes Kanter raises alarm over educator apparently grabbed by Turkish agents in Kyrgyzstan.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Mongolia’s presidency, a new chapter
June 8, 2021
Country has option of replacing one strongman for another, voting in the nominee of a splintered party or choosing an entrepreneur said to have delivered the internet to Mongolians.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Kyrgyzstan’s gold grab
May 21, 2021
Analysts ask whether Bishkek made its shock move to seize the Kumtor mine in the face of a mounting fiscal crisis and amid anxieties that the gold may be exhausted within three years.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Kazakhs’ loathing of encroaching China rises as Lake Balkhash falls
May 8, 2021
Beijing’s hopes of persuading the people of Kazakhstan it’s a force for good won’t be helped if China’s upstream water consumption causes a “second Aral Sea” disaster.
