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A new strategy through 2023 adopted at the business incubator QazTech Ventures addresses the lack of funding available at the country’s business incubators, said Baiterek National Managing Holding (NMH)...
Kazakhstan’s population continues to get younger, as the number of children under 15 has been gradually increasing in the last five years. As of January, they comprise 29.9 percent...
Kazakhstan will simplify the conditions and reduce the terms of rehabilitation and bankruptcy procedures for enterprises and companies. The government and Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs are obliged to...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Shixin Chen visited Kazakhstan May 14-18, meeting with Prime Minister Askar Mamin, Minister of National Economy Ruslan Dalenov, Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan moved from 83rd to 95th place in the International Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) World Prison Population ranking, according to a March 14 statement by the country’s...
NUR-SULTAN – Uly Dala Kyrandary (which in Kazakh means Eagles of the Great Steppe) national movement candidate Sadybek Tugel, the first person to propose his presidential candidacy to the...
The outcome of a presidential election can have a major impact on the direction of any country, as well as on its involvement in regional and global affairs. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Coursera’s most popular course, Learning How to Learn, is now available in the Kazakh language. Its translation into Kazakh was made possible through the cooperative efforts of...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Motors, Kazakhstan’s leading car distributor, will build a Hyundai car assembly plant in Almaty, with the first cars slated to roll off its production line in...
NUR-SULTAN – Rio 2016 Olympic champion and Kazakh swimmer Dmitriy Balandin won a 200-metre breast stroke bronze medal May 12 in the Champions Swim Series’ second stage in Budapest,...
NUR-SULTAN – Global challenges and risks can be dealt with via closer cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Central Asia, said Head of EU mission to Kazakhstan Ambassador...
Nur-Sultan – Foreign ministers from Central Asia and Japan discussed ways Japan’s economic and technical development could help modernise and diversify Central Asian economies during the May 18 Central...
NUR-SULTAN – Agriculture is a vital part of Kazakhstan’s future, Auyl Party presidential candidate Toleutai Rakhimbekov said May 22 to Alma TV. Rakhimbekov was born in Atasu village in...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana Kazakh Drama Theatre recently premiered “Laili – Majnun,” the 12th-century love story based on real life events. The tale of young people’s pure love and...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will elect one of seven candidates for the country’s highest office June 9. Citizens will be able to vote in the presidential election at 9,970 polling...
NUR-SULTAN – Economic studies show small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) will be the main drivers of national economies in the coming years. While digital transformation and automation is on...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) members approved during a May 15 plenary meeting the draft law on ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov met with Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and Foreign Minister Chingiz Aidarbekov as well as participated in the Foreign Ministers’ Council (FMC) of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh athletes Yerkinbek Baiturev and Sofiya Berultseva won silver and bronze medals, respectively, May 17-19 at the Karate 1 Premier league tournament in Istanbul, Turkey, according to...
NUR-SULTAN – French engineer Jacques Ortet presented the comic book “Les aventures de Jak et Bil au Kazakhstan: Le trésor de Gengis Khan (The Adventures of Jacques and Bil in...
NUR-SULTAN – Amirzhan Kossanov, 55, is among the seven candidates running in Kazakhstan’s June 9 presidential election. In his platform, Kosanov, who positions himself as an opposition candidate, promises...
NUR-SULTAN – Presidential candidates Zhambyl Akhmetbekov, Amirzhan Kossanov, Toleutai Rakhimbekov, Amangeldy Taspikhov, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Sadybek Tugel and Daniya Yespayeva are competing for Kazakhstan’s highest office in the June 9...
NUR-SULTAN – The International Global Women’s Leadership Association and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Kazakhstan organised an iftar (evening meal Muslims use to end their daily Ramadan fast)...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Science Fund would be able to expand its sources of finance and improve its profitability and innovation if it is able to function as an investor...
NUR-SULTAN – Dancers from Berlin, Kiev, Nur-Sultan, Prague, Tokyo and Saint Petersburg will treat audiences to international ballet programmes at the third Eurasian Dance Festival June 4-16 at the...
NUR-SULTAN – Tourist police units were recently added to attractions in Almaty, Nur-Sultan, the Akmola Region, the Almaty Region, the East Kazakhstan Region and the Turkestan Region by an...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s first female presidential candidate is a position that comes with great responsibility and important obligations, said Ak Zhol Democratic Party candidate Daniya Yespayeva May 4 upon...
NUR-SULTAN – The Orleu International festival of Choreographic Educational School provides a platform for world choreographers to communicate, promotes national and classical choreography and helps support new generations of...
NUR-SULTAN – Participants at this year’s Eurasian Media Forum in Almaty attended master classes May 22 discussing forms of journalism, such as environmental journalism, freelance, journalism using Virtual Reality...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President and Nur Otan Party candidate Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s campaign platform is based on “peace and harmony, a decent life for all and democratisation.” Founded in 1999,...
NUR-SULTAN – Saumal dry mare’s milk, a brand based in the Karaganda Region, has caught the interest of the world’s largest markets such as China, the European Union, Russia...
NUR-SULTAN – The Turkestan Region’s authorities are developing green energy sources, including solar power plants to reduce the region’s electricity deficit. The alternative energy will cover 30 percent of...
NUR-SULTAN – Belgian companies should leave their fears and biases behind and start investing in Kazakhstan, as it will open a huge consumer market of roughly three billion people,...
NUR-SULTAN – Indian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Prabhat Kumar, who finds Central Asia to be India’s extended neighbourhood, considers the region to be a very important one for his country...
NUR-SULTAN – Graduates of Maria, the first workshop for socially vulnerable women, find employment in the studio to help systematically address their problems, said workshop creator and social entrepreneur...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development will launch approximately 320 projects by 2021 at special economic zones (SEZ) and industrial zones. SEZ and industrial zones attract...
NUR-SULTAN – The Central Election Commission (CEC) has accredited 125 international observers, including 22 long-term observers from the Election Observation Mission of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) generated more than 28 trillion tenge (US$73.8 billion) in 2018, said Vice Minister of National Economy Yermek Alpysov at a...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh officials say e-commerce friendly legislation and increased agricultural sales have the potential to push e-commerce sales in Kazakhstan to 15 million buyers annually by 2025. E-commerce...
NUR-SULTAN – Auyl People’s Democratic Patriotic Party candidate Toleutai Rakhimbekov, who is running for president in Kazakhstan’s upcoming election, will focus on developing the agricultural industry, equal opportunities for...
NUR-SULTAN – The World Trade Centres Association (WTCA), Nest Investments Holding and Kazakh authorities planted a symbolic capsule May 17 in the foundation of what will be the World...
NUR-SULTAN – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s ratification of it. The...
NUR-SULTAN – Internal and external currency value factors including oil prices, foreign investments and international reserves indicate that the tenge will become stronger, the Kazakh National Bank has announced....
NUR-SULTAN – Presidential candidate Amangeldy Taspikhov, running on behalf of the Kazakh Federation of Trade Unions (FPRK), presented May 13 his election campaign platform under the slogan “It’s time...
NUR-SULTAN – Introducing 5G will be a key driver of productivity in Kazakhstan and other marketplaces, said Mikko Lavanti, Nokia vice president for the Central East Europe and Central...
NUR-SULTAN – Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund developed a privatisation programme to launch the initial public offerings (IPOs) of Kazakhstan’s major national companies and engage foreign investors, said its...
NUR-SULTAN – Gender equality is the solution to our current problems and we all need to step up and speak out, said Åsa Regnér, Assistant Secretary-General and UN Women...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and the Bitfury blockchain company agreed May 17 to create projects using blockchain technology. Bitfury also plans to open data centres in...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Economic Forum (AEF) participants discussed the role of Kazakhstan May 17 in cooperation with Central Asia and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As...
NUR-SULTAN – The China-Europe railroad shipment route that crosses Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus has become more popular due to the efforts of the United Transport and Logistics Company –...
