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NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Museum opened The Great Steppe: History and Culture exhibition July 11 at the Macedonian National Archaeological Museum in Skopje. The display, part of the...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh singers performed well-known Disney movie soundtracks in their native language July 6 at the Zhuldyzdar Sherui (Stars Parade) charity cinema concert in Almaty. The event raised...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Opera Ballet staged a gala programme July 9 in Kaunas, Lithuania. The performance received high praise from both local critics and the audience, reported zakon.kz. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh law enforcement detained more than 100 people July 6 for conducting unauthorised protests in the capital and Almaty, Kazakh Minister of Internal Affairs Yerlan Turgumbayev said...
NUR-SULTAN – The Almaty Region tops many lists with its rich natural attractions, one of which is Burkhan-Bulak, Kazakhstan’s highest waterfall. It is located in the mountainous Jongar Alatau...
NUR-SULTAN – World boxing champion and Kazakh Honourary Master of Sports Dina Zholaman is among Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. She promotes women’s boxing and brings boxing victories to Kazakhstan...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources, government agencies and organisations are developing a state programme to better manage municipal solid waste (MSW), reports the...
NUR-SULTAN – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Beibut Atamkulov briefed participants of a July 8-9 informal Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial gathering in the...
NUR-SULTAN – People will run five kilometres for charity at the seventh annual paint race YARKOcross in the capital’s Triathlon Park July 20, reports the city akimat (administration) press...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh gymnasts Milad Karimi and Nariman Kurbanov won silver medals in the crossbar and the pommel-horse exercises, respectively, July 7 at the 2019 Universiade, reports Olympic.kz. In...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government discussed progress in developing the economy of simple things in the regions at a July 9 government meeting. As of July 4, the project...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will invest 1.284 trillion tenge (US$3.3 billion) until 2023 to boost development and upgrade infrastructure in the nation’s third largest city Shymkent. The funds will be...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan recently signed agreements on the Abai and Dunga oil fields with foreign oil and gas companies, reports Primeminister.kz. Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin met July 4...
NUR-SULTAN – Celebrations began July 4 for the 2019 Day of the Capital celebration marking the 21st anniversary of the establishment of Nur-Sultan, formerly Astana, as the capital of...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Finance Days hosted the Financing the Economy through Capital Market Instruments Forum, Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Law Conference, Islamic Finance Conference and other events July...
NUR-SULTAN – The European Union’s political commitment and a set of European Union-funded regional programmes were announced during a recent high-level meeting in Bishkek between Central Asian ministers of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) Chair Nurlan Nigmatulin summed up July 5 the work of the deputies in the fourth session of the sixth convocation at...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during his inauguration speech last month, stated that one of the key priorities for Kazakhstan is to create new jobs and provide people with good...
NUR-SULTAN – The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, in conjunction with the Centre for the Development of Labour Resources, has revised the approach for selecting educational institutions to...
NUR-SULTAN – SCAT Airlines will launch a direct Nur-Sultan – Tokyo flight July 6, Capital Day in Kazakhstan. The flight, taking approximately seven hours to Tokyo and eight hours...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the law July 3 ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, reported Akorda.kz. Nuclear weapons, unlike chemical weapons, biological weapons,...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the nation’s railway and logistics company, launched a new ticket sales system on July 1. The system is aimed at countering resales, which...
The second international BI Group Ironman 70.3 Astana 2019 will be held July 12-14 in the capital, reported the company’s press service. Approximately 1,400 participants from 50 countries have...
The assets of Kazakh second-tier banks increased 1.5 percent in June and 6 percent over the year to 24.9 trillion tenge (US$64.66 billion). June produced a noticeable change in...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested more than $9 billion in Kazakhstan since the country’s independence, said EBRD President Sir Suma Chakrabarti in Nur-Sultan July...
Investment opportunities in Kazakhstan were presented in Moscow during “Kazakhstan: New Opportunities,” an event organised by the Kazakh Embassy in Russia, Kazakh Trade Mission in Russia and Association of...
NUR-SULTAN – Built in 1981, the Assy-Turgen Observatory (ATO) conducts astronomical observations for the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. The observatory is located on the picturesque Assy-Turgen plateau, 85 kilometres east...
NUR-SULTAN – KazAvtoProm, the Kazakh Union of Automotive Enterprises, sold 24,700 new passenger and light commercial vehicles in the country from January-May, a 19.9-percent increase year-on-year. More than half...
NUR-SULTAN – The experienced and qualified teachers at Karlygash kindergarten under the Presidential Affairs Department medical centre use best practices by sharing knowledge with preschool teachers from the regions....
NUR-SULTAN – Bozzhyra is a picturesque tract on the Mangystau Region’s Ustyurt Plateau, decorated with chalk mountains that visitors call “sugar castles.” The most famous are the 200-metre tall...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin met with European Union (EU) diplomatic mission heads July 1 to discuss investment cooperation. The parties addressed trade and economic cooperation and...
NUR-SULTAN – Kaskasu Science School, an interdisciplinary summer school, held a five-day educational programme June 24-28 for young scientists and researchers to help them commercialise their projects and technological...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is attempting to create better conditions for oralmans (ethnic Kazakhs leaving in other states and returning to their historic motherland)) by improving the legislation concerning them...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Opera will stage Latyf Khamidi and Akhmet Zhubanov’s opera “Abai” July 10 and Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” July 13 in Tashkent. The company’s first...
NUR-SULTAN – Approximately 105 billion tenge (US$274.32 million) will be required to execute President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decree to provide debt relief to some of the country’s most vulnerable groups,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Akmola Region will be launching six alternative energy projects totalling 153 billion tenge (US$404.16 million). As a result, local authorities expect the share of alternative energy...
In our highly interconnected world of today, where closer regional and inter-regional cooperation is essential for peace and prosperity, Europe and Central Asia have never been so close. Neither...
NUR-SULTAN – The first round of the UMAY Boost business education project to increase the practical skills and knowledge of Kazakhstan’s women entrepreneurs has concluded. The Nur-Sultan course offered...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will be the first Central Asian country to host the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) June 8-11, 2020. The event will gather trade...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Jusan operation, which returned nearly 600 citizens from Syria, is an excellent example for other countries to follow, said United Nations Committee on the Rights of...
NUR-SULTAN – The second day of the Astana Finance Days conference in the capital included the opening ceremony of the Astana International Finance Centre (AIFC) International Arbitration Centre (IAC)...
NUR-SULTAN – The annual open water swim portion of the Almaty Marathon was held June 30 at the Heaven Club recreation area in the Almaty Region’s Kapshagai reservoir. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, ranked 39th by the World Tennis Association (WTA), defeated world number two player and U.S. and Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka of Japan, 7-6,...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Pro Team cyclist Alexey Lutsenko won gold in the 40-kilometre individual race June 26 and the 162-kilometre group race June 30 at the Akmola Region’s Kazakhstan...
NUR-SULTAN – The fourth Koshpendiler Alemi (World of Nomads) festival took place June 28-30 at the Ethnoaul national cultural complex in the capital. The festival included competitions of professional...
NUR-SULTAN – As part of the 2019 Astana Finance Days, the Astana International Financial Centre’s (AIFC) Bureau for Continuing Professional Development (BCPD) organised Getting Trained for IPO (Initial Public...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s export insurance company will establish and strengthen business relations among Kazakh and Chinese firms through its new representative office in China, reports Inform.kz. “As part of...
NUR-SULTAN – Cattle in the Almaty Region are being tracked by Global Positioning System (GPS) as part of a $700,000 pilot project developed by South Korean companies Lives’Talk and...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 40 people received minor injuries after a conflict, 11 a.m., June 29, among Consolidated Contracting Engineering & Procurement S.A.L Offshore (CCEP) workers at the Tengiz...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan continued its efforts to improve and reform its justice system with a national conference in the nation’s capital June 27 on the country’s juvenile penal system....
