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NUR-SULTAN – The Ministry of Agriculture seeks to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported sugar by building two sugar plants by the end of 2021. The plants will be...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh cyclist Alexey Lutsenko (+2:28) finished third at the July 25 18th stage of the Tour de France behind Colombian Nairo Quintana, who won the stage at...
NUR-SULTAN – A ferroalloy production plant opened July 24 in Karaganda. Kazakh Prime-Minister Askar Mamin took part in the opening ceremony. The plant’s primary product is a high-quality ferrosilicon...
Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura served as UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria from July 2014 to November 2018. The Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs publication Diplomatic Herald...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and Bank CenterCredit (BCC) signed July 24 a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop the BCC open financial platform based on...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin and his Uzbek counterpart Abdulla Aripov opened Beineu-Akzhigit international highway July 17 in the Mangystau Region on the border with Uzbekistan. The...
NUR-SULTAN – The European Union (EU) will provide two million euro ($2.2 million) for 50 Afghan women to support economic empowerment through education and training in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government adopted July 23 an action plan to complete the instructions given by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at a July 15 extended government meeting. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh singer/songwriter Dimash Kudaibergen is one of the latest people to participate in the #Abai175 poetry challenge dedicated to the Kazakh poet and thinker’s 175th birthday. He...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh karate team won three medals July 20 at the 2019 Asia Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Andrei Aktauov took gold and Didar Amirali and Sofia Berultseva...
Anyone who travels widely in Kazakhstan quickly realises that our country is not only large but also incredibly diverse. The steppe may seem endless around our capital but there...
NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan Akim (Mayor) Altay Kulginov discussed safety compliance and the purchase of local materials July 16 with representatives of construction companies working in the capital, reports the...
NUR-SULTAN – Five hundred and sixty-five public-private partnership (PPP) contracts worth 1.29 trillion tenge (US$3.35 billion) were concluded in Kazakhstan in the first half of 2019. Nine of the...
NUR-SULTAN – The 13th round of the Astana Process Syrian peace talks will take place Aug. 1-2 in Nur-Sultan, reports the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting will...
NUR-SULTAN – Almaty-based Nomad Stunts worked with Disney’s live-action adaptation of the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, helping recreate the 1998 children’s favourite cartoon of the same name. Founder...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government-owned company Government for Citizens provided more than 15 million public services in the first half of 2019 and seeks to improve the delivery of...
NUR-SULTAN – Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation’s recent investment in KazUAV means the Kazakh drone company will join a global network of more than 25 companies to provide cutting-edge and...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazpost, which began updating all of its services and processes five years ago, has seen a tremendous spurt in development. Kazpost Chair Saken Sarsenov spoke with The...
NUR-SULTAN – A new surgery centre opened July 14 in Semey. This centre uses hybrid surgery technologies that are unique to Kazakhstan and corresponds to international joint commission accreditation...
NUR-SULTAN – Citi has been supporting the Astana International Financial Centre’s (AIFC) work and plans to continue cooperating, said Julie Monaco, head of Citi Global Public Sector and the...
NUR-SULTAN – A youth-friendly health centre opened in Almaty July 11 as part of the Year of the Youth. The Place Where You Are Always Welcome is a resource...
NUR-SULTAN – The Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan (APK) and ethno cultural centres across the country play a significant role for the nation, said the capital’s Barbang Kurd...
NUR-SULTAN – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Women in Business programme has provided $561 million in credit lines to more than 60,000 women-led small and medium-sized...
NUR-SULTAN – Thirty billion tenge (US$78.3 million) will be invested in the next four years in infrastructure projects at Alakol Lake, a popular beach vacation destination between the East...
NUR-SULTAN – Jastar Kerueny, the domestic tourism promotion project devised by creative young Kazakhs collaborating with established influencers, will launch Aug. 12, reported Kazinform. The project is designed to...
NUR-SULTAN – The capital’s akimat (administration) will incorporate President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s call for government to improve living standards in the city’s social and economic development, said Nur-Sultan Akim (Mayor)...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development will be automating the process regarding truck dimensional measurements. The update will eliminate the human factor, thereby decreasing corruption,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev established July 17 the National Council of Public Trust to make government more responsive to the people. The National Council is an advisory...
NUR-SULTAN – The Civil Service Affairs Agency is planning to use the E-kyzmet system to monitor civil servants’ career promotion as the meritocracy principle remains one of its priority...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan agreed to bring their trade to $1 billion in 2020 during the recent visit of Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin to Bishkek and his...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh children won medals at the July 3-8 World Children’s Winners Games for cancer surviving children in Moscow. Expenses for some of the participants were paid by...
NUR-SULTAN – National and local officials hope to finish by Aug. 1 the most important repairs to the town of Arys, which was heavily damaged June 24 by a...
NUR-SULTAN – The Great Steppe History travelling exhibition opened July 13 in an exhibit centre in Taldykorgan in the Almaty Region, reported Tengrinews.kz. “The idea of the exhibition was...
NUR-SULTAN – The largest Kazakh producers of flour and pasta, sauces and oil, fat products, canned meat, natural drinks and confectionery presented their products in Minsk, July 3-5, as...
NUR-SULTAN – The new, government-sponsored Palace of Martial Arts opened July 6 in the capital. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attended the opening. The 32,000-square-metre, $50.8 million centre will offer...
NUR-SULTAN – The forum Routes Silk Road 2019 gathered July 15-17 more than 250 people from business, government and aviation in panel sessions and 800 face-to-face meetings to discuss...
NUR-SULTAN – Wildberries General Director Tatyana Bakalchuk and Kazakh Invest Deputy Chairman of the Board Ruslan Issatayev signed a memorandum July 9 launching electronic expertise centres to support Kazakh...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA), the financial regulator of the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), introduced the first regulatory framework for loan- and investment-based crowdfunding platforms,...
NUR-SULTAN – Bauyrzhan Khibash, an animal enthusiast from the Atyrau Region, has been volunteering to preserve and revive Kazakh aboriginal shepherd dogs for 15 years with the help of...
NUR-SULTAN – KazBeef Group opened a meat processing plant July 11 in Schuchinsk in the Akmola Region, reported the Kazakh Invest press service. The company is the country’s...
NUR-SULTAN – Starting in September, Kazakh students will be able to pay a part of their tuition by volunteering, said Director of the Department of Higher and Postgraduate Education...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reviewed July 15 Kazakhstan’s 2019 socio-economic development efforts as he chaired the expanded session of the Government, the first under his presidency. He...
NUR-SULTAN – Author Marina Abrams is introducing Central Asia to people of all ages in the English and Russian-language illustrated book “Orange and Blue: The World of Barzu.” The...
NUR-SULTAN – Four hundred and forty-one Paralympians from 78 countries are competing for the World Para Powerlifting Championships’s 20 gold medals in the capital’s Congress Centre July 12-20, reports...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh chess player Assel Serikbai won the Asian U-20 Championship, which took place June 30 to July 9 in Surakarta, Indonesia. Kazakh player Nazerke Nurgali also won...
NUR-SULTAN –The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) and the Kazakh Government hosted July 3-4 in Nur-Sultan the Arms Trade Treaty...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan wants to increase production of and lower prices for electric cars in the country, said Vice Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Amaniyaz Yerzhanov at a...
NUR-SULTAN – Izi, a new MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) that provides its services exclusively online, has entered the Kazakh market, reported Forbes.kz. The operator is using a KaR-Tel...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government is planning to facilitate receiving electronic services by using one-time Short Message Service (SMS) passwords or single identification numbers rather than an electronic digital...
NUR-SULTAN – The Coordination Council adopted a roadmap to attract investment to Kazakhstan at the July 10 council meeting chaired by Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin. The task for...
