A Tajik analyst says an alleged assassination plot against a parliamentary deputy uncovered by the Interior Ministry was part of a plan to hinder support for the Roghun hydropower plant and destabilize Tajikistan ahead of elections, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Kazakhstan on the first leg of a regional tour to boost energy ties with Central Asia. Hu will also visit Turkmenistan, where he is due to attend the formal opening on December 14 of a gas pipeline connecting China to Central Asia.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says Uzbek authorities have been increasing assaults on human rights activists ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections.
The Kyrgyz Supreme Court has ruled that the case of slain journalist Alisher Saipov should be sent back to an Osh city court for further investigation, but his father had hoped it would be sent to a different jurisdiction, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
For the past 15 years, the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has been focusing on tuberculosis, or TB, with a goal of curing people already infected and eventually eradicating the disease. The organization says new data shows it has exceeded that goal.
Uzbek students who refuse to work in cotton fields during the harvest season in Uzbekistan are being expelled from high schools and universities, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
An Uzbek rights activist says some 60 practicing Muslims are being detained in southern Uzbek prison on religious extremism charges, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Uzbek officials have released five of 30 women who were arrested on November 5 on religious extremism charges in southern Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A former Kyrgyz government official says U.S. President Barack Obama's Afghan strategy is very important for the stability of Central Asia, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The Uzbek government's scholarship foundation is demanding repayments from parents whose children stayed abroad after attending foreign universities on state scholarships, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Uzbek government continues its repressive policies and is still detaining many rights activists despite the recent release of political prisoner Sanjar Umarov, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A member of a pro-presidential political party in Uzbekistan has harshly criticized the party chairman and the election process after she was not allowed to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
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