- Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
- Almaty 28 °F / -2 °C
- Astana 23 °F / -5 °C
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev chaired the fifth meeting of the National Council of Public Trust that took place virtually on Feb. 25 which focused on five blocks...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s commission on the fight against coronavirus allowed for an increase in the number of international flights, reported the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee. Starting Feb. 24, there...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is experiencing a positive growth trend in the agricultural industry, according to the reports available on the Prime Minister’s website on Primeminister.kz. Based on the preliminary...
The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have played out unevenly across Asia and the Pacific, the region...
NUR-SULTAN – The fourth season of the 100 New Faces of Kazakhstan project is calling for applications from February 22 until March 15, the press service of the Ministry...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Enbek state program covered 52,400 people in January, getting 49,300 of them employed, reported the Kazakh Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population. The country’s...
NUR-SULTAN – The preliminary data for Jan.- Dec. 2020 shows a record 425,600 registered births in Kazakhstan, reports the Kazakh Bureau of National statistics on Feb. 19. According to...
NUR-SULTAN – No region in Kazakhstan is currently in the high risk red zone. Only the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan, as well as Akmola, Pavlodar, West Kazakhstan, and Kostanai...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government, the National Bank, and the Agency for Regulation and Development of Financial Markets signed an agreement on coordination of macroeconomic policy measures for the...
NUR-SULTAN – The International spiritual event dedicated to the 580th anniversary of great poet and thinker Alisher Navoi was held on Feb. 21 at the House of Friendship in...
NUR-SULTAN – A wind farm and a hydro power plant will be launched in the Zhambyl region this year, the regional press service reported. Overall, two renewable energy facilities...
NUR-SULTAN – Our story starts with Kazakh 36-year-old middleweight Kanat Islam (28-0, 22 KOs) who has again challenged WBC and WBA super middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez (54-1-2, 36...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry Bagdat Mussin shared the progress report on the modernization of public services centers as well as the Listening State concept...
NUR-SULTAN – The Fitch credit rating agency affirmed Kazakhstan’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook. The report noted the country’s strong fiscal and...
NUR-SULTAN – With winter destinations already abundant in Kazakhstan, one more spot can be added to the tourist map. A 14-metre ice volcano in the Almaty region has become...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Opera House will present the two-part gala programs on Feb. 20 and 23, the theatre’s press service reported. The new ballet programs feature six performances...
NUR-SULTAN – Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi, OSCE Chair Ann Linde and OSCE Secretary-General Helge Schmid opened an international conference commemorating the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s SCAT airlines has made the decision to increase flights to the Ras Al Khaimah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) starting Feb. 15, while...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Kazakh scientist, scholar and politician Salyk Zimanov on Feb. 19. Zimanov, born in 1921 in Atyrau, is an outstanding scientist,...
Even amid a pandemic, 2021 can go down as the year we made peace with nature and set the planet to healing. As COVID-19 upends our lives, a more...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Uzbek Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulaziz Kamilov discussed the strengthening of bilateral relations during the minister’s official working visit to Nur-Sultan on...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s forest area has reversed its decline and increased by 188,000 hectares in 2020. The country’s forest cover is expected to reach 5 percent by 2030, said...
NUR-SULTAN – Over the next five years, the Shymkent authorities are planning a pool of 123 investment projects worth 1.36 trillion tenge (US$3.3 billion) that are expected to create...
NUR-SULTAN – The Central Asia at the Crossroads of Civilizations international forum will be held in Khiva, Uzbekistan in 2021, the press service of the United Nations Educational, Scientific...
NUR-SULTAN – Freedom of expression is a constitutional right of every citizen, said Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a virtual meeting with the country’s Prosecutor General office, reported the...
NUR-SULTAN – A new 20 MW capacity solar power plant, the third in Shymkent, has started operating in the Aikol residential area, the Kazakh Invest National Company press service...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh engineer Sanzhar Taizhan and his Warwick Boring team have advanced through the technical design reviews and have entered the list of 12 finalists scheduled to compete...
NUR-SULTAN – The Japanese companies Japan DX and Land Management Co. Ltd announced plans to invest $150 million in digital projects in Kazakhstan, the press service of the Embassy...
NUR-SULTAN – The Asian Development Bank has raised nearly 8.4 billion tenge (US$20.1 million) from the first gender bonds issued in Kazakhstan, reported the bank’s press service. The funds...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Unified Accumulative Pension Fund has started accepting applications for the withdrawal of eligible amounts of pension savings by citizens on Jan. 23. Kazakh citizens intend to...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh tennis players Alexander Bublik and Andrey Golubev have advanced to the third round of the doubles tournament at the Australian Open, the FTC press service reported....
Water is the most valuable resource on the planet. For Central Asia, this resource is an important natural and geographical factor that forms the region as a single system....
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Minister of the National Economy Asset Irgaliyev said that the Kazakh economy contracted 4.5 percent in January, but the government plans a set of measures to...
NUR-SULTAN – Preserving and strengthening intercultural and interreligious harmony and prioritising dialogue and social consensus has always been the fundamental pillars of the state policy during the 30 years...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its acceptance as a full member of the United Nations (UN) in 2022 to commemorate the events of Mar. 2,...
NUR-SULTAN – The reforms to modernise the judiciary system in Kazakhstan should mobilise quality specialists and ensure impartiality in court decisions, said Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a meeting...
NUR-SULTAN – The online population census will begin on September 1, 2021 in Kazakhstan. This decision was made at the first meeting of the special commission for the national...
NUR-SULTAN – Twenty-three years ago in February, then Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a state program into existence to revive the historical centers of the Silk Road, preserve and...
NUR-SULTAN – Tore Nærland, a leader of The Bike for Peace Movement, published a book on the organisation’s activities over the years and appealed to the nuclear countries to...
NUR-SULTAN – Tazy is one of the jety kazyna (seven treasures) of the Kazakh people. For centuries, this four-legged heirloom of the nation has been the most devoted friend...
NUR-SULTAN – The ForteBank Kulanshi Art Space gallery presented the “Master and Disciple” exhibition showcasing works created by teachers and students of the Kazakh National University of Arts in...
NUR-SULTAN – The new Roadmap of the 2021 Ruhani Zhangyru (Modernization of Kazakhstan’s Identity) program was presented Feb. 11 at the meeting of the national commission, according to the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan returned to the low risk green zone, said Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Alexey Tsoy at a press briefing in the Kazakh capital. The ministry regularly updates...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev participated at the Samruk Business Forum during which the local businesses and the Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund signed preliminary contracts and strategic...
NUR-SULTAN – The Ayalagan Alakan (Caring Hand) Charity Fund initiated “The world through the eyes of children” exhibition in Hyderabad, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign...
NUR-SULTAN – The budget of the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan has been optimised by 43 billion tenge ($102.8 million), said Nur-Sultan Mayor Altai Kulginov at a virtual meeting with citizens...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan increases and resumes international flights to Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and the Maldives from Feb. 10, the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee reported. This permission was given...
NUR-SULTAN – Bolat Sultankulov, 32, is a brilliant Kazakh scientist, who started pursuing his career during the era of Kazakhstan’s independence. Now, he is making an important contribution to...
NUR-SULTAN – The Nation’s Economy of Simple Things program has financed the production of aluminum cans worth 23.4 billion tenge (US$56 million) in Shymkent. The plant is to be...
NUR-SULTAN – KEGOC, Kazakhstan’s electric grid operator, is negotiating the expansion of its automatic frequency and power control system to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, said KEGOC Chair Bakytzhan Kazhiyev at...
