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The growing number and share of older persons in Asia and the Pacific represent success stories of declining fertility and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a virtual Interregional Forum that this year focused on cooperation in environmental issues and green growth, reports the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh athlete Yulia Putintseva reached the quarterfinals at the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) 250 tournament held in Nur-Sultan after the second edition of the ATP 250 Astana...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 6.5 million people in Kazakhstan are now fully immunized against the COVID-19, or 64.7 percent of the eligible population, said Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Packaging Association, an organization that represents paper and package producing factories, suggested the government adopt a closed cycle strategy for processing used plastic bottles, reports inbusiness.kz....
NUR-SULTAN – Turkistan hosted the tenth session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries (TURKPA) on Sept.28. The event also marked the handover ceremony of the TURKPA chairmanship from...
NUR-SULTAN – The share of small and medium-sized businesses in the country’s gross domestic product has reached 32 percent with 3.5 million people, said Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during...
The 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, held in New York City in September of 2021, was an event of historical importance. And here is the reason: it...
NUR-SULTAN – On his official visit to Kazakhstan on Sept. 20-24, Steven Navon Schonberger, Regional Director for the World Bank Group’s Sustainable Development Department with Europe and Central Asia...
NUR-SULTAN – Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih met Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Prime Minister Askar Mamin during an official visit to the country on Sunday. The sides discussed...
NUR-SULTAN – The Eco Hackathon competition, organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan on Sept. 25-26 in Almaty, gathered around 70 Kazakh IT students and specialists...
NUR-SULTAN – The Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi participated in an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Cooperation...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev chaired the meeting of the Supreme Council for Reforms that focused on national projects, the formation of an effective commodity distribution system, systemic measures...
NUR-SULTAN – Adema Torebek, a Kazakh entrepreneur, opened her second coffee-tea shop in New York, US, just a month ago gaining experience from a local business in Kazakhstan. Torebek...
NUR-SULTAN – Automatic cameras recorded wolves, jackals, mountain rams, including females with cubs, and other rare animals walking through the protected area of the Ustyurt Nature Reserve between Sept....
NEW-YORK – On the margins of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, a less-heralded meeting took place which may well prove to be a critical one,...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the Otpantau-2021 operational and strategic command post exercise at the Oymash training range as part of his working visit to the Mangistau Region,...
NUR-SULTAN – In the past two weeks, the country has reached a stable epidemiological situation with a 60 percent reduction of morbidity and mortality for COVID-19, said Kazakh Minister...
NUR-SULTAN – The Mangistau Region has attracted seven trillion tenge (US$16.5 billion) over the 30 years of the country’s independence, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as he visited the region...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) prioritize the green economy, digitalization, infrastructure, and connectivity development, said EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso during a press...
NEW-YORK – In a video statement played at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called attention to the three crises facing our world...
NUR-SULTAN – Künde, a social metropolitan café in Nur-Sultan, and Glovo courier service launched a charitable project on Sept. 21 giving people an opportunity to support doctors working in...
NUR-SULTAN – As the United Nations headquarters hosts the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) from Sept. 21 until Sept. 27, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered a...
NUR-SULTAN – The Asian Development Bank raised its economic growth outlook for Central Asian economies this year to 4.1 percent from the previous 3.4 percent projected in April in...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan plans to adopt its own country calling code from January 2023, reported the Minister of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry Bagdad Mussin. As the Ministry...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan may export up to 6.5 million tons of grain in 2021, said Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin at a government meeting on Tuesday. Kazakhstan, which is...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will resume a visa-free regime with 30 countries with a stable epidemiological situation and high vaccination rates soon, announced Kazakhstan’s interdepartmental commission working to prevent the...
With these words, Pope John Paul II completed his state visit to Kazakhstan in September 2001. Exactly 20 years ago, on September 22-25, 2001, a unique event took place...
NUR-SULTAN – Chair of Kazakh National Geographic Society’s (Qazaq Geography) Orman Nurbayev and project manager Zhanibek Alkeev presented the small architectural installations on the territory of Charyn Canyon and...
NUR-SULTAN – The scientists of the Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University joined an international team to conduct joint research on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases prevention, reported the press service of...
NUR-SULTAN – Nearly 52 percent of all future jobs in Kazakhstan are at high risk of automation. That is one of the conclusions made in the country’s first national...
As the world economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Asia region faces an existential question. Will the pandemic usher in a new social contract that would help...
NUR-SULTAN – The first day of the Astana Open ATP 250 finished on Sept. 19, as the Kazakh capital hosts the event through Sept. 26. Nur-Sultan was one of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh pianist Alim Beisembayev won first prize in the 20th edition of The Leeds International Piano Competition 2021. Beisembayev is the first prize-winner from Kazakhstan in the...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered the state of the nation address titled “The unity of the people and systemic reforms are a solid foundation for the nation’s prosperity” on Sep....
SEOUL – The Astana Times spoke with Kazakh students residing in Korea to know how they perceive the situation with the pandemic, how their life and study changed and...
Editor’s note: This is the final article in the 3-part series “In Summer and Winter, and All Year Round – Nur-Sultan Knows How To Live” by prominent Slovak journalist...
Editor’s note: This is the second article in the series “In Summer and Winter, and All Year Round – Nur-Sultan Knows How To Live” by prominent Slovak journalist and...
Editor’s note: At the end of this summer, the sixth international contest titled Kazakhstan Through the Eyes of Foreign Media took place in the capital of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Dushanbe on Sept. 17, reports the Akorda press service. “Thanks to joint efforts, the SCO has become...
NUR-SULTAN – UNESCO has included the Kolsai Lakes National Park in its World Network of Biosphere Reserves at the 33rd session of the International Coordinating Council of the Man...
NUR-SULTAN – The 17th Eurasian Media Forum (EAMF) gathered experts from 25 countries, who are competent in economics, politics, ecology, education and media to discuss the most relevant issues...
NUR-SULTAN – The celebratory concert to mark the opening of Year of Khiva – the Cultural Capital of the Turkic World 2020 was held on Sept.15 in Khiva, reported...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attended the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Dushanbe on Sept. 17, reports the Akorda press service. He...
NUR-SULTAN – Development of new technologies and know-how were at the focus of the 32nd meeting of the Berlin Eurasian Club hosted in Nur-Sultan on Sept. 13, reports the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s economy has reached pre-pandemic levels and continues to recover, achieving a three percent growth in the first eight months of 2021, said Kazakh Prime Minister Askar...
The first visit by US Secretary of State to Kazakhstan Mr. James Baker, took place thirty years ago, on September 15-16, 1991. In many respects, it laid the foundations...
An editorial in La Revue des Transitions, a French news website, notes the constructive role that Kazakhstan with its rich and successful experience in peacekeeping diplomacy is able to...
NUR-SULTAN – The COVID-19 incidence rate has decreased by 35 percent over the past two weeks in Kazakhstan, said Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Alexei Tsoy at a government meeting...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s up and coming fighters faced down their rivals and took home the WBA titles at the “Battle of the Nomads” held over the weekend in the...
