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Tajik labor migrants are one of the most vulnerable groups of the population. They face serious health problems, and the lack of systematic monitoring of migrants' health status does not provide a complete picture of the prevalence of diseases among them. asiaplustj.info »
The harshest phase of winter has descended with a snowy thud across all of Central Asia. Eurasianet says highways are blocked in Kazakhstan, schools have been shuttered in Tajikistan, trees and electricity pylons are crashing in Uzbekistan, and officials in Kyrgyzstan are pleading with apartment-dwellers to close windows to basements to avoid water pipes freezing. asiaplustj.info »
Based in New York, media watch has condemned Tajik journalist and blogger’s Abdullo Ghurbati’s imprisonment and demanded his immediate release. In a statement issued on October 4 hours after Ghurbati's verdict and sentence were pronounced in Dushanbe, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called the punishment "harsh and unjustified. asiaplustj.info »