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ASTANA – Kazakhstan will fully supply its oil and gas market in 2019 and export surplus oil products, said Kazenergy General Director Asset Magauov at the Feb....
ASTANA – In conjunction with the upcoming International Women’s Day, capital-based Mama Pro public fund presented the results March 1 of its inaugural one-month intensive training course...
ASTANA – Rakhat Confectionery recorded positive growth in all key indicators last year, increasing revenue, profitability and market share, according to the company’s Feb. 26 press release....
ASTANA – The regional administration of Pavlodar will open an “Investor’s House” to operate as a one-stop shop for potential investors by the end of the year,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s rising singing stars Dimash Kudaibergen and Daneliya Tuleshova advanced to the next round in the latest episode of “The World’s Best,” the global talent...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Transition Report forecasts steady growth for the Kazakh economy, as major structural reforms are expected to improve...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan expects to export nine million tonnes of grain and flour this year, including increased shipments of domestic wheat to China, one of the world’s...
ASTANA – The new Kazakh government’s measures to improve living standards requires a new, integrated approach by the capital’s akimat (administration) toward governance, said Astana Akim (Mayor)...
ASTANA – Soprano Maria Mudryak and tenor Medet Chotabaev will present “Masterpieces of Musical Art” March 2 at the Astana Opera House in the capital. The Astana...
ASTANA – Achieving the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) remains a global priority 22 years after its introduction, said speakers at the Feb....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev outlined at the Feb. 27 18th Congress of Nur Otan Party efforts to improve social supports and living standards in Kazakhstan....
ASTANA – The National Security Committee will be equipping government agencies with systems to prevent information leaks. The Ministry of Defence and Aerospace Industry scientific and technical...
ASTANA – Capital residents will have a chance to get acquainted with Japanese traditional music and classics, as the Japanese Spring Festival comes to the city Feb....
ASTANA – The public sector must keep up with private sector innovation, concluded speakers at the Feb. 10-12 Astana Civil Service Hub (ACSH) conference on Civil Service...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country by area in the world, has two and a half million hectares of unused land. Measures taken recently by the...
ASTANA – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the acquisition of Paramount Group’s armoured personnel carrier, the Mbombe 4×4, Feb. 17 at the International Defence Exhibition in...
ASTANA – Approximately 8.49 million people visited Kazakhstan in 2018, which is 10.2 percent more than in the previous year, said Kazakh Tourism national company chairman Rashid...
ASTANA – New ministers, including minister of education and science, minister of agriculture, minister of national economy and of infrastructure and development took their oaths of office...
ASTANA – Tattoos are artwork that should be created for each person based on the individual’s wishes and ideas and taking into account his or her anatomy...
Turkestan opened a new information technology centre, Turkestan Hub, Feb. 19. The centre is intended for use by young IT professionals and investors, the press service of...
Investments in health and social services in Kazakhstan reached 122.2 billion tenge (US$324.88 million) at the end of 2018, 26 percent more than a year earlier, reports...
ASTANA – Experts from the Central Asian countries, and beyond, agreed at a Feb. 19-20 conference in Tashkent to continue supporting cooperation in security, connectivity and environmental...
Kazakhstan presented its food and beverage products at the GulfFood event, the 24th iteration of the world’s largest annual food and beverage trade show, which took place...
Astana airport has introduced electronic boarding passes, Kazakhstan’s civil aviation committee has announced. “This technology is used in the world’s largest airports. Passengers can scan boarding passes...
Kazakhstan, as we have said many times before, has come a long way in a very short time. The country’s development in the last two decades has...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Askar Mamin new Prime Minister, announced the Akorda press service Feb. 25. The same day, the President reorganised several ministries...
ASTANA – Kazakh passenger car production increased 78.8 percent (30,000 cars) in 2018 compared to the previous year. The East Kazakhstan region manufactured 18,300 cars, or 60.8...
ASTANA – The Korean language and culture are popular among young people, said Chinson Korean Cultural Centre Chair Lyudmila Lim in an interview with The Astana Times....
ASTANA – The Astana Ballet will present four one-act ballets on International Women’s Day, March 8. Among them are “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” ballet by American...
ASTANA – Air Astana will begin April 1 offering three additional flights per week from Almaty to Tashkent and two additional flights per week from Astana to...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev dismissed the country’s government Feb. 21 over what he termed its failure to improve living standards, reported Akorda.kz. In announcing his...
ASTANA – In this exclusive interview, Berdybek Saparbayev, Akim (Governor) of the Aktobe oblast in the western Kazakhstan, speaks about the major efforts by his administration to...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is the most important Central Asian economic partner for Finland, said Finnish Ambassador Mikko Kivikoski in an interview with The Astana Times which touched...
ASTANA – Although a novelty several years ago, the coworking culture seems to be gaining popularity within the city’s business community. Coworking sites in the capital offer...
ASTANA – National Information Technologies (NIT) and the Association of Legal Consultants Chambers signed an agreement Feb. 15 to provide legal consultants’ and lawyers’ services through E-Law...
ASTANA – Following its December debut in Kazakhstan, the Kazakh version of the French musical Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) will be performed in...
ASTANA – Astana Akim (Mayor) Bakhyt Sultanov discussed housing, medicine, education, ecology, security and other issues with citizens at the Feb. 20 annual reporting meeting. The meeting...
ASTANA – The Central Asian Supporters Association (CASA) based, a non profit organisation based in Seoul, South Korea, promotes Central Asian culture and connects citizens of the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan ranked first in the world in the production of flax reaching the volume of more than 900,000 tonnes flax in 2018. This was announced...
ASTANA – Kiin-Kerish Valley and Shekelmes Cape in the East Kazakhstan region are famous for their red, orange and white-coloured landscapes that resemble the surface of the...
ASTANA – A 6-year-old girl who became a world karate-do Shotokan champion in four years has been named one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. Eduarda Velk is...
ASTANA – The Karaganda region began large-scale transition to green technology by opening a solar power station in Saran, the largest such facility in the Central Asian...
ASTANA – Kazakh citizens have purchased government notes worth $2.6 million through the National Bank’s Invest Online system, an innovative technology product for people to invest in...
Whenever light appears at the end of the tunnel in the Syrian conflict, it escalates into new dimensions. The military war has now been replaced by an...
ASTANA – The Oscar-shortlisted “Ayka” film directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy was recently released in the capital. The film features Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova who won the Best...
ASTANA – Kazakh start-up Clockster, a clock-in, clock-out automation service powered by biometric identification, seeks to expand to Southeast Asia after selling four devices to SubicWorx in...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Education and Science and the Kazakh League of Academic Integrity, which includes the country’s leading universities, proposed cancelling the older system of...
ASTANA – The capital’s first gastronomic market will be built in the second quarter of 2019, reports the city akimat (administration). The Keruen Global gastronomic market will...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan saw a 9-percent increase last year in its volume of solar power generated electricity. The 2018 volume was 107.1 billion kilowatt hour (kWh) compared...
ASTANA – Zaisan Lake’s rich and diverse fish stocks are attracting fishing enthusiasts from within Kazakhstan and from neighbouring Russia. Now, the local population has built a...
ASTANA – Measures implemented through Digital Kazakhstan have had a 218-billion tenge (US$579 million) economic impact and created more than 43,000 jobs, said Minister of Information and...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces project aims to motivate citizens to achieve better results in their activities, said President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Feb. 13 meeting...
ASTANA – An autonomous robot cleaner designed to clean large premises and industrial and commercial facilities was presented Feb. 4 at the Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport in...
ASTANA – Nazgul Kenzhetay, perhaps Kazakhstan’s first war correspondent, hopes to raise awareness of the lost childhoods of the millions of innocents along the border between Turkey...
ASTANA – Turkestan regional authorities recently signed memorandums of cooperation (MOC) with local and foreign companies and institutions to improve and modernise its trade system, build a...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s National Bank has banned second-tier banks from charging fees for lending to the population. This move follows its ban on such banks charging interest...
ASTANA – The United Nations (UN) recently recognised an invention by Nazarbayev University (NU) scholars and students’ to rehabilitate patients after a stroke as among the world’s...
ASTANA – Increasing Kazakhstan’s production in the defence-industrial sector is to be prioritised among defence-industrial firms in Astana and Almaty, said Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
ASTANA – Kazakh figure skater Elizabet Tursynbayeva won the women’s singles silver medal at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Anaheim, California (U.S.). She placed sixth...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Defence is preparing the second contingent of Kazakh soldiers to be deployed as peacekeepers in Lebanon. The troops are expected to...
ASTANA – Performers from the Astana Opera and Astana Ballet companies will now be able to intern and perform at Russia’s historic Bolshoi Theatre, according to an...
ASTANA – Kazakh national telecom operator Kazakhtelecom and national airline Air Astana will be listed as IPOs this year, Minister of Finance Alikhan Smailov said at a...
ASTANA – KAZGUU University has launched a special grant programme during the Year of Youth to demonstrate its institutional support for young researchers and generate new knowledge....
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Museum opened the Urzhar Priestess and Restored Treasures: results of conservation and restoration works exhibition Feb. 13 in the capital. The show...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Senate passed two laws aimed at modernising the judicial system, including qualitative developing and renewing of judicial personnel, strengthening guarantees of judges’ independence...
ASTANA – KMG International recorded high operating and financial results in 2018, according to management reports. The group’s operating profit (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation...
ASTANA – Small and medium-sized businesses are key focus areas in the country, said European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for Kazakhstan Director Agris Preimanis at...
ASTANA – Café Momo chef Daiske Kishigami has been giving Astana locals a taste of Japanese cuisine at reasonable prices for four years. Born in Kobe, Kishigami...
ASTANA – Nazarbayev University (NU) will host the 2019 Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Asia Conference in mid-August, reports the university’s press service....
ASTANA – A Kazakh delegation of businesswomen to Dubai recently committed to deepening bilateral economic, trade and technological ties between Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
ASTANA – Kazakh nonprofit Invataxi coordinates the transportation of approximately 3,000 people with disabilities in Astana annually, including more than 1,000 children, reports the city akimat (administration)...
ASTANA – Maritime cruises have never been as popular in Kazakhstan, a landlocked nation, as they have in other more ocean-accessible countries. But some domestic travel officials...
ASTANA – The government anticipates e-commerce will account for 2-3 percent of the retail market by 2021. The figure is currently approximately 1.9 percent of the total...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government is fulfilling 117.9 percent of budget revenues, according to the January monthly report presented at a recent government meeting. The main factor...
ASTANA – Kazakh tennis player Alexander Bublik won the 2019 Hungarian Challenger Open, an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour tournament, held Feb. 4-10 in Budapest....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed the heads of Syrbar Foreign Intelligence Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the new Secretary of the Security Council, the...
ASTANA – Businesses are key to greater societal change, a young Kazakh expert drawing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment analysis and decision-making says....
ASTANA – Kazakh professional freestyle skier Yulia Galysheva won the first gold of her career at the Feb. 9 International Ski Federation (FIS, Fédération Internationale de Ski)...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Museum is presenting an exhibition of contemporary Uzbek photos and paintings. The show, running through March, gives visitors an opportunity to analyse...
ASTANA – Ana Uii (Mothers’ House) Public Fund has helped approximately 3,500 women keep their children in their birth families and more than 900 youngsters find adoptive...
ASTANA – Israel and Kazakhstan have been developing close ties in different spheres and on various levels, exchanging experience and knowledge in education, medicine, agriculture and technology,...
The tax burden for Kazakhs earning less than 63,100 tenge (US$167) a month has been reduced by 90 percent as of this January. According to the Statistics...
A 60-hectare wholesale distribution centre for agricultural trade will be built in Karaganda, connecting the northern and southern parts of the country, reports the regional press service....
Kazakhstan is the world’s largest flax producer with domestic producers collecting a record harvest of 700,000 tonnes this year, reports Abctv.kz. It surpassed flax export leader Canada...
Kazakh and German business representatives gathered in Hamburg Feb. 4 to explore the role of Kazakhstan as an economic and logistics hub in Eurasia and beyond. The...
ASTANA – Svalbard is home to approximately 2,500 people and one million types of seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure bank preserving copies of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan will launch the Qazaq Epos project to encourage school students’ spiritual development through the prism of the nation’s rich ethno and philosophical legacy in...
ASTANA – San Mir Astana represents a group of companies that at first glance have little in common. While one deals with repairing and rehabilitating oil and...
ASTANA – In an exclusive interview with this newspaper, Akim (Governor) of Almaty oblast Amandyk Batalov shares his views on the region’s transformation from a formerly agrarian...
Kazakhstan, as we are all aware, has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources under our soil and seas. The growth of our economy and the...
ASTANA – One of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy priorities is to pursue inclusive dialogue between leading powers to overcome “bloc thinking” and reach consensus on key global issues,...
ASTANA – Socialisation is vital for children with disabilities, believes educational psychologist and speech pathologist Zarina Dandybayeva. Her 13-year-old son, Alikhan Dandybayev, who has an autistic spectrum...
ASTANA – Sherkala (also Shergala), a lone mountain with an unusual shape resembling a piala (small ceramic bowl) or gigantic yurt, is becoming the main tourist attraction...
ASTANA – Astana Opera House presented Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” staged by Italian director Davide Livermore Feb. 8-9 in the capital. Russian baritone Alexey Isaev and Talgat...
ASTANA – Astana Financial Services Authority along with a newly-formed alliance of 28 financial regulators and organisations, including Financial Conduct Authority (from the U.K.), International Monetary Fund...
ASTANA – The equilibrists of the Astana Circus Yoka Konurbayeva and Nazerke Merekekyzy, won prizes at the 43rd International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo Jan. 17-27. The...
ASTANA – The national government plans to build gas infrastructure around the outskirts of the capital to provide blue fuel for urban heat and power plants, Koktal-1...
ASTANA – Kazakh scientists implementing research projects and programmes began receiving funding in January for the first time since the country’s independence. Previously they received funding only...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Healthcare intends to attract 1.3 trillion tenge (US$3.4 billion) in investments, bringing private investment in healthcare to 60 percent by 2025, reported...
ASTANA – Born and raised in the U.K., British lawyer and arbitrator, Freeman of the City of London, Shariah scholar and Islamic finance expert Sheikh Bilal Khan...
