By Tural Heybatov In Recent Weeks The Military Posture Of The United States And Israel Across The Middle East Has Shifted In Ways That Many Defense Analysts Interpret As Exceeding Routine Deterrence Signaling And Moving Into The Realm Of Concrete Operational Preparation. The scale, composition, and geographic dispersion of deployed assets increasingly point to contingency […]
Read MoreKazakhstan’s National Security Committee has placed Yerkin Dlimbetov, the founder and head of Ordamed, on a wanted list. Dlimbetov, 44, was declared wanted on January 28, with the search case registered in Astana. The initiator of the search is the National Security Committee, The Caspian Post reports via Kazakh media. Earlier, the National Security Committee […]
Read MoreU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the U.S. administration supports a bill to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which currently restricts trade with Central Asian countries. Rubio made these remarks during a Senate hearing, The Caspian Post reports via C-Span. He noted that lifting the amendment would open up new opportunities for expanding […]
Read MoreBTKI Railways LLC and Georgian Railways JSC have signed a set of agreements in Tbilisi aimed at ensuring the full-scale launch of the joint venture operating the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway (BTK) line. One agreement regulates the use of the Marabda-Akhalkalaki railway infrastructure, while another covers the provision of terminal services at the Akhalkalaki station, The Caspian […]
Read MoreBEIJING: China executed 11 people linked telecom scam operations, on Thursday, state media reported, as Beijing toughens its response to the sprawling, transnational industry. Fraud compounds where scammers lure Internet users into fake romantic relationships and cryptocurrency investments have flourished across Southeast Asia, including in the lawless borderlands of Myanmar. Initially largely targeting Chinese speakers, […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI: When Mohana Talapatra returned to Delhi to care for her aging parents, she planned to stay for good, but last year, after they both died, she left for Bangalore to save her own health and life. Brought up in the Indian capital, she had been away since 1995 — first to study abroad […]
Read MoreReuters Indonesia is fighting to save its financial reputation after a disastrous two days saw stock prices plunge by 8 per cent. Authorities are racing to pass new rules to prevent a downgrade that has already scared investors into pulling billions of dollars out of the local market. The rout, which knocked off about US$80 […]
Read MoreThe Korea Times At the training centre for KD Transport Group, South Korea’s largest bus operator, in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, boyish-looking men stood out among about 100 drivers gathered for safety training on January 20. According to the company, 47 of the 460 drivers at its Pangyo branch are in their 20s or 30s, accounting […]
Read MoreLONDON: Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab met with an Austrian delegation in Damascus on Thursday to discuss cooperation on migration, border management, and the voluntary return of Syrian asylum seekers. Austria’s special envoy to the Middle East, Ambassador Arad Benko, along with senior officials from Austria’s Interior Ministry, discussed asylum issues, the regulation of humanitarian […]
Read MoreCEBU, Philippines: Southeast Asian countries should steadfastly maintain restraint and adhere to international law as acts of aggression across Asia and “unilateral actions” elsewhere in the world threaten the rules-based global order, Manila’s top diplomat said Thursday. Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro did not provide details of the geopolitical alarm she raised before her counterparts […]
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