A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

FILE - Women representing more than 20 countries take part in a Naturalization Ceremony, in San Antonio, March 8, 2024. The U.S. immigrant population from South and Central Asia is climbing.

No one really cared about these Central Asian republics, except for a small group of Central Asian sociologists. But in term of mainstream press coverage, Central Asian has been off the map. Central ...

According to data compiled by the World Population Review, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan all ranked near the top globally in terms of the number of auto-related fatalities per million ...

The team thinks Tashbulak existed between roughly 730 C.E. and 1050 C.E. with a population in the thousands, while Tugunbulak existed between 550 C.E. and 1000 C.E. with a population in the tens ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

Together these six countries are home to about 85% of Asia’s Muslim population and more than half (53%) of the global Muslim population. About half of the Muslim population within Asia lives in South ...

Northern Africa, Central and West Asia is a diverse region characterized by relatively low but increasing cancer incidence rates. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in both sexes combined in all ...

Birthright citizenship ruling handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. How many people gain citizenship this way?

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes conducting the 2021 population census in Kazakhstan with the inclusion of a component on nationality and statelessness. UNHCR is pleased to cooperate with the ...

Chronic underinvestment in R&D in Central Asia (chapter 14) – no country spent more than 0.13% of GDP on R&D in 2018 – has spawned a range of systemic challenges that are holding back research and ...

The default position in the capitals of the five Central Asian republics, known as the “Stans” (see map), has been to profess neutrality over the war and refuse to give Russia diplomatic cover ...