Middle East

Tajikistan Faces Addiction Crisis

Access to some of the world's cheapest and purest heroin has seen addiction rates soar.

21 Feb 05

But pipeline plan carries dangers as well as benefits, analysts warn.

21 Feb 05

Naïve and desperate women in Kyrgyzstan are falling prey to the sex trade

21 Feb 05

Turkmenbashi insists foreigners pay high price for marrying Turkmen girls

21 Feb 05

Lack of education and employment opportunities consign Tajikistan's youth to the scrap heap

21 Feb 05

A school prize-giving ceremony has sparked a row after children received certificates featuring a portrait of a notorious Kurdish leader.

21 Feb 05

Political instability and poor facilities combine to put the dampners on the Kyrgyz tourist industry.

21 Feb 05

Kazaks question a government plan to invest much of the country's huge oil wealth abroad

21 Feb 05

Lead an alternative lifestyle in Almaty and you may well end up bribed, beaten or tortured

21 Feb 05

New threat to the roving traders who helped rescue the Uzbek economy following the collapse of Soviet rule.

21 Feb 05

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