- Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
- Almaty 52 °F / 11 °C
- Astana 18 °F / -8 °C
ASTANA – What challenges do young writers face? What are their sources of inspiration? How can social media increase book sales? The Astana Times spoke with young Kazakh female...
ASTANA – The Zhambyl region observed a 4-5 percent increase in all sectors of its economy in 2018, reported the regional akimat (administration) press service based on the information...
ASTANA – Kazkont produces mobile homes primarily for field workers and oil and gas and construction companies. Considering Kazakhstan’s vast territory and severe climate, such products are in great...
ASTANA – The market for professional aquarists is expanding in Almaty, as their services are in great demand. The experts not only preserve life in aquariums, but help those...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan must still rely on many imported goods. Zarechnyi, the country’s largest agricultural product supplier, is intending to change this by launching the nation’s first oatmeal corn...
ASTANA – Alstom, the French multinational rail transport company, started delivering Kazakh-produced Prima T8 electric locomotives to Azerbaijan in late December. Capital-based Electric Locomotives Assembly Factory (EKZ) plans to...
ASTANA – Kazakh women’s history museums educate and empower women, providing an awareness-raising platform and tools for overcoming discrimination, said Women of Kazakhstan founder Dinara Assanova in an interview...
ASTANA – Kazakh ski jumper Sergey Tkachenko won a bronze medal at the recent 2019 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, reports the Kazakh National Olympic Committee....
ASTANA – The Almaty Marathon, which gathered 14,000 participants last year, will take place April 21. Funds raised from the charitable event will be used to build sports facilities....
“Green” thinking is a new model of human behaviour. Due to the new paradigm, we can maintain perfect ecological balance on Earth in the new age. The shift of...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev approved the draft sketch of the proposed World Trade Centre building in Astana at a Jan. 24 meeting with representatives of the World...
A toll collection system will launch Jan. 26 on the Astana-Temirtau, Almaty-Kapshagai and Almaty-Khorgos roads, reports the KazAvtoZhol press service. Passenger car rates on the Astana-Temirtau road will be...
ASTANA – Creating a national adoption agency will make the process high quality and more transparent. The agency will also help to meet the needs of children in orphanages...
ASTANA – Four triathletes from Almaty, Elena Kun, Madina Kurmanbayeva, Elfira Dudnik and Anel Sydykova, have announced that they will be competing in the 480-kilometre Enduroman Arch to Arc,...
The number of mobile phone subscribers in Kazakhstan decreased over a year by 1.8 percent to 26 million, though the share of subscribers with access to the internet increased...
Kazakh products were for the first time presented at the 84th Green Week 2019 agriculture exhibition in Berlin that ran from Jan. 18 through Jan. 27. The exhibition welcomed...
Astana Invest plans to implement the smart street lighting project through a public-private partnership, according to the company’s press service. “We announced competition to select an investment company that...
ASTANA – The Polonia Polish Community Public Fund, an ethnocultural centre, actively participates in developing cultural, social and economic ties between Kazakhstan and Poland . It seeks to remember...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is accepting applications for the Women in Microbusiness project financed by the Kazakh Ministry of National Economy, reports EBRD’s...
ASTANA – For the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), 2018 was another successful year in Kazakhstan. The bank allocated $541 million to the country’s economy for 26...
ASTANA – Brazilian restaurant Rio Chef Roberto Santos recently shared his perspective on living and working in the capital in an interview with The Astana Times. Santos grew up...
When the world’s business and political leaders met in Davos at the World Economic Forum last week, the mood was cautious and reflective. There are too many challenges for...
ASTANA – The Kazakh national cycling team won 14 medals, including five gold, at the Jan. 9-13 cycle racing events at the 2019 Asian Cycling Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia....
ASTANA – In an exclusive interview with The Astana Times, Karaganda region Akim (Governor) Yerlan Koshanov speaks about the prospects of the region’s economic development, including infrastructure construction, and...
ASTANA – New tourist facilities and attractions are on the drawing board for the Pavlodar region’s Bayanaul National Park. The region’s akimat (administration) is encouraging local entrepreneurs to participate...
ASTANA – The Qazaqstan national TV channel recently began streaming a new musical television project called “Uly Dala Sazy” (The sounds of the Great Steppe) to popularise Kazakh traditional...
ASTANA – Yrys microfinance organisation has funded 1,243 projects in the Turkestan region in the last 12 months. The ventures totalled 4.54 billion tenge (US$12.03 million) and employed approximately...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s share of municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling increased to 11.5 percent last year, compared to 9 percent in 2017. The country produced 4.3 million tonnes of...
ASTANA – Singapore-based Pegasus Education Group will invest in educational institutions based on the Singapore continuing education system in Astana, Almaty and Shymkent, reported Jan. 19 the press service...
ASTANA – Astana Ballet will swap out its usual stage in the capital for Karaganda’s Konstantin Stanislavsky Russian Drama Theatre stage Feb. 23-24, reports its press service. In his...
ASTANA – Kazakh citizens will soon be able to receive public services using biometric data by scanning their faces and fingerprints. The programme will be launched in September in...
ASTANA – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited Kazakhstan for the first time Jan. 20-21. The delegation toured sights in the capital and met with the local business community. Mnangagwa...
ASTANA – Astana Pro Team leader Luis Leon Sanchez finished fourth in the general classification of the Tour Down Under road cycling stage race in and around Adelaide, South...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev launched the Year of Youth in Kazakhstan during a Jan. 23 ceremony on the EXPO 2017 grounds at the Nur Alem pavilion. He...
ASTANA – National Bank of Kazakhstan announced plans to keep the base rate at 9.25 percent with an interest rate band of +/- 1 percent, reported the bank’s press...
ASTANA – The Kazakh 7-20-25 affordable housing programme has approved 4,350 applications for 52 billion tenge (US137.2 million) since its launch in July, said Kazakh National Bank Chairman Daniyar...
ASTANA – New charging systems and more stringent enforcement of vehicle control helped increase 2018 revenue from the Astana-Schuchinsk toll road to 1.54 billion tenge (US$4.06 million), reported the...
ASTANA – Central Asian countries are paying ever more attention to controlling their own national brands. The Astana Times spoke with Maksat Chaki, former Kyrgyz vice minister of culture,...
ASTANA – Ridder is a city in the East Kazakhstan region with untouched nature suitable for ecological and sports tourism. Visitors can go camping, do winter sports, climb rocky...
ASTANA – The SmartAqkol project has entirely digitised all consumer and public services in Aqkol, making the small city 100 kilometres north of Astana Kazakhstan’s first smart city. Aqkol,...
ASTANA – SmartLab was named one of the top 10 best start-ups at the Startupbootcamp international competition last month in Australia. The Kazakh company presented its new product –...
ASTANA – The Digital Kazakhstan state programme will launch an electronic sports academy in the capital. The academy will offer master classes, tournaments and trainings on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Bank recently identified microfinance and insurance organisations’ violations of consumer rights and interests committed in 2018. The bank applied 17 sanctions and limited measures...
ASTANA – Translators, writers and representatives of publishing organisations in China, France, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom discussed the difficulties they encountered when translating samples of contemporary Kazakh...
ASTANA – Historically, the Silk Roads featured overlooked but central networks of ideas, goods, languages, religions and diseases, an observation that still holds importance, said Oxford University Professor of...
ASTANA – Kazakh paediatric orthopaedist Roza Karabekova has invented panties for newborn babies (up to three months) to prevent hip joint dislocation. She emphasises early diagnosis of the disease,...
ASTANA – Kaiyndy Lake near Almaty is artwork created by nature. Formed in 1911 as a result of the 7.7-magnitude Kebin earthquake (also known as Chon-Kemin earthquake), the natural disaster...
ASTANA – Work is nearly complete to translate anthologies of modern Kazakh prose and poetry into Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish for distribution in 70 countries. The...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development has issued 26 licenses for geological exploration since mid-September in accordance with the new Code for Natural Resources and...
ASTANA – The Yessil District akimat (administration) organised Kazakhstan’s first ice sculpture competition in the capital Jan. 16 for professional international participants. The sculptures will decorate the main entrance...
