- Thursday, 2 April, 2026
- Almaty 55 °F / 13 °C
- Astana 41 °F / 5 °C
ASTANA – Almaty Day, a celebration of the city, cannot be contained in one 24-hour period. More than 100 activities are scheduled Aug. 25-Sept. 30, with the...
ASTANA – An independent drama group from Almaty and a regional state theatre from Temirtau will present Sep. 14-15 in Almaty “Re: Oblomov,” a play based on...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Sept. 3 Sixth Summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (CCTS) in Choplon-Ata, suggesting avenues for cooperation and...
ASTANA – Almaty International Airport plans to spend $140.8 million in upcoming years to build a new terminal, reconstruct runways and improve food service. The airport is...
ASTANA – Lives’ Talk, a Korean start-up, has developed two gadgets and a mobile application to help Kazakh farmers quickly determine the location of their cattle. The...
ASTANA – Oilseed breeders recently presented prospective varieties of sunflower and soybean to East Kazakhstan region Akim (Governor) Danial Akhmetov. The experimental farm in the Glubokovsky district...
ASTANA – The city akimat (administration) has devised several methods to optimise work between citizens and housing management services. The online support system e-KSK has eased a...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government will adopt a new healthcare сode in the next year, enabling the country’s healthcare system to implement many up-to-date technologies such as...
ASTANA – Kazakh biotechnologist Bauyrzhan Aituov produces Innodent, an innovative product for treating tooth decay without painful drilling and fillings. The product can stop early tooth decay...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is making strides towards digital transformation in many areas. One of the significant moves is the Astana Hub, an international technopark of start-ups that...
ASTANA – Astana Opera House will host “Astana Is My Beautiful Dream,” a Sept. 8 concert featuring the performance of prominent Kazakh opera singer and Astana Opera...
ASTANA – “The Nomads,” the first international extreme reality show, will broadcast aspects of Kazakh culture to more than 100 nations around the world. Two teams from...
ASTANA – The 2015-2019 State Programme of Industrial and Innovative Development (SPIID) has positively affected the growth dynamics of the manufacturing sector, resulting in the industry contribution...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.385 million Kazakh citizens have updated their employment status since the beginning of 2018, when the figure was 2.7 million, said Minister of Labour...
ASTANA – The Astana Debate Community made history at the 2018 European University Debating Championship (EUDC) in Serbia, with a team from Kazakhstan reaching the English as...
ASTANA – Aziz Zairov, a talented director, is among the winners of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces project. Although he modestly notes there are a number of worthy...
ASTANA – Seniors majoring in IT at Suleyman Demirel University have developed Aibota, an intelligent personal assistant that will speak and provide information in Kazakh. The virtual...
ASTANA – More than 850,000 people visited the Shchuchinsk-Burabai resort zone in 2017, reported Akmola Region Akim (Governor) Malik Murzalin at an Aug. 25 press conference in...
ASTANA – Astana’s new monument, the Peace Wall, was presented by President Nursultan Nazarbayev on the International Day against Nuclear Tests at the Aug. 29 opening ceremony....
ASTANA – Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) representatives, Kazakh officials and others involved in the global nuclear non-proliferation effort gathered in Astana Aug. 29 for a...
ASTANA – Astana Garden School, a private non-profit high school and the first of its kind in Kazakhstan, prepares students as competitive candidates to top-ranking universities. In...
The death of veteran U.S. Senator John McCain last weekend led to heart-felt tributes from both sides of the American political divide and from across the world....
ASTANA – The Kazakh postal service, KazPost, issued a new postage stamp Aug. 28 honouring The ATOM Project, a global anti-nuclear weapons initiative launched by Kazakh President...
ASTANA – With 44 medals, Kazakhstan is currently in 10th place at the 18th Asian Games. At the end of day ten, the country’s athletes have collected...
ASTANA – Rosaria Iazzetta started a motorbike journey to battle her own fears, but, in fact, her courage and enthusiasm has inspired thousands of people she has...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev participated Aug. 18 in Human Resources in the Framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an annual pedagogical...
ASTANA – Despite rainy weather, the open-air Ethno Fest opened its doors Aug. 25-26 in Astana, welcoming people to get closer to their national culture and traditions....
ASTANA – Finns and Karelians in Kazakhstan are small in number yet strive to preserve their identity after an uneasy history for their people during the Soviet...
ASTANA – Sary-Arka, the fourth expedition of the Kazakh National Geographic Society (Qazaq Geography), set off from Astana Aug. 20. The journey, dedicated to the 20th anniversary...
ASTANA – Representatives of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan reached an agreement to begin measures to stop border traffic congestion at the Konysbayev customs post during an Aug. 18...
ASTANA – Delegations from Satbayev Kazakh National Research and Technical University and the ArcelorMittal Temirtau company recently visited the China Coal Technology & Engineering Group (CCTEG) in...
Kazakhstan, for such a young country, can point to significant foreign policy achievements. It has built good relations with both the major powers and developing nations in...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged an Aug. 24 summit of the heads of the founding states of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea...
ASTANA – The 24th French film festival, L’Etrange Festival, taking place in Paris Sep. 5-16, will show the entire filmography of Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov within its...
Tea Board of India, the government agency overseeing the product’s promotion, cultivation and export, organised a tea promotion event Aug. 23 in Almaty. A 22-member delegation headed...
National budget revenue reached 5.3 trillion tenge (US$14.6 billion) in the first six months, 4.8 percent more than in the corresponding period last year. The main source...
SES Saran, a 100-megawatt capacity solar power plant in Saran in the Karaganda region, will begin operating in November, reported inform.kz. Approximately 370,000 photovoltaic solar panels will...
Kazakhstan’s maternal mortality decreased 1.5 percent and infant mortality 7 percent in 2017, reported Kazinform. One hundred and twelve social projects on family planning were implemented and...
ASTANA – Leading pump manufacturer Wilo opened a plant Aug. 23 near Almaty. The plant will serve Kazakhstan and Central Asia, reported wilo.com. “Our investment in Wilo’s...
ASTANA – Kazakh cyclist Aleksey Lutsenko recently won a gold medal in the group race at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. A rider from South Korea...
ASTANA – School opens Sept. 1 and the Kazakh education system is ready for the academic year, said Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev, reporting on...
ASTANA – Vladimir Akulov, businessperson and agrarian from the East Kazakhstan region is among 102 winners of the nation’s 100 New Faces project for his attention to...
ASTANA – With 41 medals, Kazakhstan is currently in 11th place at the 18th Asian Games, taking place Aug. 18-Sept. 2 in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. At...
ASTANA – The city, abound in beautiful parks and squares including many which appeared this year to mark the capital’s 20th anniversary, will get a new square...
ASTANA – Historians in Kazakhstan have begun a programme of history teaching using new formats intended to captivate students and give them the opportunity to study not...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s 2019 population census will be conducted in electronic format rather than the usual paper-based method, reported Forbes.kz. Since its independence, Kazakhstan has conducted national...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Science and Education will be introducing new measures that will revoke licenses from higher educational institutions or their faculties producing specialists that...
ASTANA – Approximately 100 projects worth about 1.1 trillion tenge (US$3 billion) will be launched in the second half of this year, Minister for Investment and Development...
ASTANA – Young research chemist Dias Tastanbekov, one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces, wants to provide facilities for growing environmentally friendly and locally made products for everyone....
ASTANA – Ulan Bigozhin, an Indiana University PhD graduate and Nazarbayev University post-doctoral scholar, is a cultural anthropologist examining the reinstitution of kokpar in contemporary Kazakhstan and...
ASTANA – The annual international Astana Marathon 2018 to be held Sept. 16 has raised 36 million tenge (US$99,675) since its existence to support Kazakh charities, reports...
ASTANA – Kazakh high school students can now prepare to launch their own businesses through the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship elective course, which will be offered for the...
A young man sitting next to me on a recent flight from Almaty to Dushanbe told me, “I regret that I did not get a better education....
The international community is bidding farewell to the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan, a unique person in the history of the United...
ASTANA – What is the real size of the Islamic economy phenomenon? Why are Islamic economy and its ecosystem an important theme? What Eurasian country has the...
ASTANA – Kazakh fencer Dmitriy Alexanin recently won Kazakhstan’s first gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. He beat the 2016 Olympic Games champion Park Sang-young of...
ASTANA – Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev and Kyrgyz Prime Minister Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev discussed bilateral ties during the seventh session of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Intergovernmental Council Aug. 17....
ASTANA – A recent data report published by Astana Akimat (city administration) shows positive trends in basic economic sectors in the first seven months of this year....
ASTANA – German electric bus manufacturer Eurabus is opening an assembly plant in Almaty. The facility will produce up to 100 buses each year and their use...
ASTANA – Almaty’s Border Guard Service Academy has opened its largest educational complex to train Central Asian customs and border-control personnel, reported Inform.kz. The new training base...
August 6 is Hiroshima Day, the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. There are two key dates on the world calendar which symbolise the...
ASTANA – Qurban Ait (Eid al-Adha), one of two main Islamic holidays, is being celebrated Aug. 21 – 23 this year. The holiday, mostly associated with sacrificing...
ASTANA – Starting in 2019, Kazakh citizens will be able to complete insurance contracts online, Kazakh National Bank press service reported recently. The changes in the country’s...
ASTANA – Astana’s first knitting festival Brain Yoga of the 21st Century gathered professional and amateur knitters in the nation’s capital Aug. 16. Astana residents weathered rainy...
ASTANA – The Kazakhstan Prosecutor General’s Office announced Aug. 17 that fugitive banker Mukhtar Ablyazov is suspected in organising a premeditated murder of BTA Bank’s former Chairman...
ASTANA – More than 700 unemployed young people in Astana have been going through short-term professional trainings under Employment and Mass Entrepreneurship Programme since the beginning of...
ASTANA – Digital library cards, which give readers access to libraries nationwide using a single pass, will soon be introduced in the country, said National Academic Library...
ASTANA – The number of transport card users has almost doubled since the July 21 introduction of differentiated fares and the new enter-and-exit rules for city bus...
ASTANA – Just a few years ago, the Mangistau region could attract visitors only for its wilderness. Now, it is receiving significant investment to create infrastructure and...
ASTANA – Astana Education Administration Head Anuar Zhangozin announced during a recent press conference at the Central Communications Service that students are now able to submit documents...
ASTANA – In paying closer attention to technology trends and, perhaps, the sky, capital and Almaty residents may have noticed air services operating at an increasing pace....
On Aug. 29, 1949 in Kazakhstan at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site at 7 o’clock in the morning, an explosion thundered. This was the first test of...
“Olzhas! Olzhas!” the crowd roared whenever their hero took the stage. A year ago, Olzhas Suleimenov, a 50-year-old poet, founded a protest movement in Kazakhstan to stop the...
ASTANA – Introducing digital transformation, or precise farming, is one of the main development directions of the Akmola region’s agro-industrial complex. The region’s 2,707 land users have...
ASTANA – Kazakh oncologists discussed breast cancer mortality rates and why the country’s screening threshold was reduced to age 40 during an Aug. 15 press conference. The...
ASTANA – Sergek video surveillance has helped police authorities detect approximately 2,000 administrative violations in the first half of the year, resulting in fines of more than...
ASTANA – Turkestan, an ancient city in southern Kazakhstan near the Syr Darya River, boasts more than 1,500 years of rich history and numerous cultural and sacred...
ASTANA – Local designers are helping Kazakh citizens look stylish and feel comfortable while wearing clothes with traditional elements. Kazakhs have typically paid a great deal of...
ASTANA – The Aral Sea and its fishing industry, one of the biggest man-made ecological disasters, is recovering, reported express-k.kz. The sea, situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan,...
The Kazakh Agriculture Ministry has adopted targeted farming, which proved itself in such countries as Australia and the United States and is applied in the European Union....
ASTANA – Visitors young and old may now enjoy the comfortable and quirky surroundings of the newly-opened Park Chemodanov (Park of Suitcases) and Skver Ilyuzii (Square of...
ASTANA – Minister for Investments and Development Zhenis Kassymbek reviewed the nation’s industrial production at the Aug. 14 government meeting saying industrial production has increased 5.1 percent...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government updated the country’s business development road map devised to ensure sustainable and balanced growth in regional entrepreneurship, support existing businesses and create...
ASTANA – Kazakh officials discussed the progress of projects to provide broadband Internet access and introduce 5G and equally high-quality data centres in both urban and rural...
ASTANA – Salben Comics, the Almaty-based publisher founded in December 2013, has brought Marvel comics to Kazakhstan. Known as the inspiration for movies and TV series adaptations,...
ASTANA – Kazakh singer Naziya Alzhanova, better known to her listeners as NAsia, is making waves at home and abroad in jazz, funk, blues and soul. In...
ASTANA – Moskva Business Centre, a multifunctional complex containing offices, conference halls, a shopping area, restaurants and sports clubs, is a landmark project symbolising friendship between Moscow...
ASTANA – Legendary boxer Roy Jones, 1988 Olympic Games silver medalist and many times world champion, recently met with boxers from the national boxing team of Kazakhstan...
Followers of international politics will know the complex challenges of negotiating to resolve issues affecting several countries, where each side is understandably looking to protect its national...
Strengthening Kazakhstan’s global authority goes hand in hand with the improvement of relations with the states forming part of the European Union. The programme, Path to Europe,...
AKTAU – President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially inaugurated the ferry complex of the Kuryk Port – a multimodal hub on the shore of Caspian Sea on Aug. 11....
AKTAU – After two decades of diplomatic efforts, the five Caspian Sea nations signed the convention on the water reservoir legal status that had been in the...
ASTANA – The Kazakh tenge continued to lose its value against U.S. dollar as it hit its all-time low Aug. 13, valuing 363.15 per $1. That number...
The Denis Ten Public Foundation will be created in Almaty, according to Kazinform. The city administration also plans to open a figure skating academy and hold an...
Euronews NBC will air a segment of “Adventures” in September featuring Kazakhstan, reported inform.kz. “Adventures,” one of the channel’s most popular programmes with an audience of more...
Leroy Merlin, the largest French retailer selling home and interior products, building materials, and repair and garden products, opened its first supermarket in Kazakhstan in Almaty Aug....
The demand for Kazakh cement is growing in Uzbekistan, 24.kz reports, with consumers especially interested in goods produced in Shymkent, Karaganda and Taraz. According to construction market...
ASTANA – Astana Opera’s fifth season coincided this summer with the capital’s 20th anniversary, and world opera and ballet masterpieces filled the halls of Kazakhstan’s largest opera...
Whatever the extraordinary progress of the last century, it was also an era in which the reckless exploitation of natural resources and casual damage to the environment...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s youth judo team placed third at the recent European Judo Championships in Berlin. Individual team members also two gold medals and five medals total....
