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This exhibition takes visitors on a fascinating journey to the crossroads of civilisations, in the heart of central Asia, in Uzbekistan, where Samarka

KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) ended 2022 with the seizure of smuggled items including cosmetic products and body slimming pills worth some RM200,000 in the Tawau district.

The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Other Central Asian countries are also looking to become more relevant in the elite chess scene, including Kyrgyzstan, a land that was once part of the Timurid Empire — its leader, Timur The Great, was an avid chess player.

The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Uzbek boys, Kazakh girls, Azeri youth, Chinese, Indian and Iranian young phenoms ever more frequently lit the chess sky. What do their countries have in common? They all once lined the Silk Road.

JUDO / WRESTLING: Athletes from Dojo at Blue Tree Phuket continue to make their mark after shining in a series of regional competitions of late.

The only question is: where will be the flashpoints that spark an all-round global crisis? There are many candidates

The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’ says that Turkey has stepped up pushbacks and deportations to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover there in August 2021. Human Rights Watch also found that that Afghans inside Turkey are being blocked from registering for international protection and that Afghans facing imminent deportation are often given no opportunity to make refugee claims. As of October 20, 2022, the Presidency of Migration Management in Turkey’s Inter...

During a deadly crisis in Uzbekistan's autonomous region of Karakalpakstan this summer, a glance at the private website Gazeta.uz revealed telltale si

The country, once closed off to visitors, is now encouraging tourists to see its unique beauties.

Elite corruption -- especially concerning the region’s powerful ruling families -- has long been a risky topic for Central Asia’s independent media to broach, but there are other limits as well.