While people often say that borders aren’t visible from space, the line between Kazakhstan and China could not be more clear in this satellite image. Acquired by the Landsat 8 satellite on September 9, 2013, the image shows northwestern China…

Central Asia Online UNESCO World Heritage List adds historical places in Kazakhstan Central Asia Online “The Kulan shahristan [the part of town within the city walls but outside the citadel] was dug up, the citadel and the surrounding wall… Source:…

Sergey Lisovsky: “Central Asia will help Russia with food” vestnik kavkaza The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s Committee for Agricultural and Food Policy and Nature Management, Sergey Lisovsky, says that the countries of Central… Source: vestnikkavkaza.net

Economic Times Emerging markets need to participate in global financial agenda: Raghuram Rajan Economic Times “One of the biggest deficiencies of emerging markets, as they become bigger players, is they are not participating in setting up the… Source: articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Emerging Markets Evening ReadingBarron’s (blog)“We saw the impact of economic and geopolitical challenges in China, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Turkey, and Thailand and in a number of emerging markets that many of other peers are seeing. Source: blogs.barrons.com

ETF Trends Time to Reconsider Emerging Markets ETFs, Says BlackRock ETF Trends With valuations compelling on both a relative and a historical basis, the bullish run experienced by emerging markets exchange traded funds this year could be in the… Source:…

Credit.com News (blog)4 Tips for Finding the Perfect Credit CardHuffington Post (blog)The marketplace for credit cards is more complicated than ever. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

This Week In Credit Card News: Obnoxious Debt Collectors, Your Credit Score …ForbesDebt collectors will go to all lengths to intimidate people who owe or allegedly owe money. Source: http://www.forbes.com

Fashion TimesWill Apple Challenge Intel’s Next-Generation Earbuds with Built-In Biometrics …Patently AppleApple’s earbuds and Beats headphones could integrate their own patent pending biometric technology that we outlined earlier in our report. Source: http://www.patentlyapple.com

Payments-startup Square, whose card reader plugs into smartphones to let small merchants accept credit and debit cards, has decided against issuing its own brand of card, according to FastCompany. Source: http://www.pymnts.com