Central Asia's economies have to become more diversified and competitive if they are to attract more foreign investment, says a report by a major global economic group being presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The Tajik parliament's lower chamber has approved an amendment to the Family Code that will make it more difficult for foreigners to marry Tajik women.
Local authorities in the Qubodiyon district of Tajikistan's southern Khatlon Province have detained two groups of adherents of the banned Salafi strain of Islam.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has sacked the head of the country's Antimonopoly Committee. Rahmon fired Amonullo Ashur on January 21 without giving any reason. He announced that Ashur would now head the state's Privatization Support Committee. Some question whether Ashur's position on a controversial toll road played a role in his sacking.
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake is reported to have struck in the Pamir mountains region of eastern Tajikistan.
The leader of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir movement in Tajikistan, Yusuf Khafizov, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The entire staff of the Russian-language weekly "Vecherny Dushanbe" has resigned to protest censorship and "harassment" by their owner.
Tajikistan's president, Emomali Rahmon, meanwhile used a cabinet meeting to order Tajikistan's "power" ministries to step up the fight against organized crime, religious extremism, and terrorism.
A Tajik Interior Ministry official says four suspected members of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) were killed and some 50 others arrested in northern Tajikistan last year.
When longtime Tunisian ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown by a popular uprising last week, there were swift predictions that the event could set an example for other countries known for their autocratic rulers across Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Iran.
The latest "Freedom in The World" report by the U.S.-based rights watchdog Freedom House indicates that authoritarian regimes across a broad geographical range are stepping up their suppression of freedom.
Among the great powers vying for influence in post-Soviet Central Asia, contributor Cholpon Orozobekova says China has been the quietest, most systematic, and most dangerous.
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