On paper, the change is simple: the informal Central Asian format is now a C6. Politically and conceptually, it is much more ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

Despite its strategic location, Iran’s sanctions exposure and regulatory unreliability have made it difficult to insert itself within the region’s burgeoning trade networks. For most of the past three ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

The announcement by India’s Ministry of External Affairs, made after Afghan Commerce Minister Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi’s week-long visit to Delhi, marks the most significant India-Afghanistan economic ...

Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...

The bird, which breeds across northern Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, has been named “Sonbarsa” after the nearby ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

The Himalayas and Kathmandu may lure all the tourists, but Nepal's Terai lowlands are teeming with wildlife, national parks ...

Air Astana’s investment in two new hangars aims to transform its maintenance ecosystem and attract third-party airline work ...

Two back-to-back storms - Cyclone Senyar and Ditwah - left hundreds dead and thousands out of homes in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and also affected India.

Russia is giving Moscow a tourist makeover. At the heart of this initiative is more than profit, but rather a geopolitical ...