- Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
- Almaty 52 °F / 11 °C
- Astana 34 °F / 1 °C
ASTANA – The city akimat (administration) has devised several methods to optimise work between citizens and housing management services. The online support system e-KSK has eased a number of...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government will adopt a new healthcare сode in the next year, enabling the country’s healthcare system to implement many up-to-date technologies such as electronic health...
ASTANA – Kazakh biotechnologist Bauyrzhan Aituov produces Innodent, an innovative product for treating tooth decay without painful drilling and fillings. The product can stop early tooth decay and stimulate...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is making strides towards digital transformation in many areas. One of the significant moves is the Astana Hub, an international technopark of start-ups that provides multilevel...
ASTANA – Astana Opera House will host “Astana Is My Beautiful Dream,” a Sept. 8 concert featuring the performance of prominent Kazakh opera singer and Astana Opera leading soloist...
ASTANA – “The Nomads,” the first international extreme reality show, will broadcast aspects of Kazakh culture to more than 100 nations around the world. Two teams from different countries...
ASTANA – The 2015-2019 State Programme of Industrial and Innovative Development (SPIID) has positively affected the growth dynamics of the manufacturing sector, resulting in the industry contribution to the...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.385 million Kazakh citizens have updated their employment status since the beginning of 2018, when the figure was 2.7 million, said Minister of Labour and Social...
ASTANA – The Astana Debate Community made history at the 2018 European University Debating Championship (EUDC) in Serbia, with a team from Kazakhstan reaching the English as a Second...
ASTANA – Aziz Zairov, a talented director, is among the winners of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces project. Although he modestly notes there are a number of worthy people who...
ASTANA – Seniors majoring in IT at Suleyman Demirel University have developed Aibota, an intelligent personal assistant that will speak and provide information in Kazakh. The virtual service is...
ASTANA – More than 850,000 people visited the Shchuchinsk-Burabai resort zone in 2017, reported Akmola Region Akim (Governor) Malik Murzalin at an Aug. 25 press conference in the oblast....
ASTANA – Astana’s new monument, the Peace Wall, was presented by President Nursultan Nazarbayev on the International Day against Nuclear Tests at the Aug. 29 opening ceremony. Situated between...
ASTANA – Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) representatives, Kazakh officials and others involved in the global nuclear non-proliferation effort gathered in Astana Aug. 29 for a five-day CTBTO...
ASTANA – Astana Garden School, a private non-profit high school and the first of its kind in Kazakhstan, prepares students as competitive candidates to top-ranking universities. In an interview...
The death of veteran U.S. Senator John McCain last weekend led to heart-felt tributes from both sides of the American political divide and from across the world. They touched...
ASTANA – The Kazakh postal service, KazPost, issued a new postage stamp Aug. 28 honouring The ATOM Project, a global anti-nuclear weapons initiative launched by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev....
ASTANA – With 44 medals, Kazakhstan is currently in 10th place at the 18th Asian Games. At the end of day ten, the country’s athletes have collected seven gold,...
ASTANA – Rosaria Iazzetta started a motorbike journey to battle her own fears, but, in fact, her courage and enthusiasm has inspired thousands of people she has met during...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev participated Aug. 18 in Human Resources in the Framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an annual pedagogical workers’ conference....
ASTANA – Despite rainy weather, the open-air Ethno Fest opened its doors Aug. 25-26 in Astana, welcoming people to get closer to their national culture and traditions. Head of...
ASTANA – Finns and Karelians in Kazakhstan are small in number yet strive to preserve their identity after an uneasy history for their people during the Soviet times, the...
ASTANA – Sary-Arka, the fourth expedition of the Kazakh National Geographic Society (Qazaq Geography), set off from Astana Aug. 20. The journey, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the...
ASTANA – Representatives of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan reached an agreement to begin measures to stop border traffic congestion at the Konysbayev customs post during an Aug. 18 meeting in...
ASTANA – Delegations from Satbayev Kazakh National Research and Technical University and the ArcelorMittal Temirtau company recently visited the China Coal Technology & Engineering Group (CCTEG) in China, where...
Kazakhstan, for such a young country, can point to significant foreign policy achievements. It has built good relations with both the major powers and developing nations in every continent....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged an Aug. 24 summit of the heads of the founding states of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) in...
ASTANA – The 24th French film festival, L’Etrange Festival, taking place in Paris Sep. 5-16, will show the entire filmography of Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov within its special Focus...
Tea Board of India, the government agency overseeing the product’s promotion, cultivation and export, organised a tea promotion event Aug. 23 in Almaty. A 22-member delegation headed by Deputy...
National budget revenue reached 5.3 trillion tenge (US$14.6 billion) in the first six months, 4.8 percent more than in the corresponding period last year. The main source of revenue...
SES Saran, a 100-megawatt capacity solar power plant in Saran in the Karaganda region, will begin operating in November, reported inform.kz. Approximately 370,000 photovoltaic solar panels will be installed...
Kazakhstan’s maternal mortality decreased 1.5 percent and infant mortality 7 percent in 2017, reported Kazinform. One hundred and twelve social projects on family planning were implemented and 15 international...
ASTANA – Leading pump manufacturer Wilo opened a plant Aug. 23 near Almaty. The plant will serve Kazakhstan and Central Asia, reported wilo.com. “Our investment in Wilo’s new site...
ASTANA – Kazakh cyclist Aleksey Lutsenko recently won a gold medal in the group race at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. A rider from South Korea was ahead...
ASTANA – School opens Sept. 1 and the Kazakh education system is ready for the academic year, said Minister of Education and Science Yerlan Sagadiyev, reporting on kindergarten and...
ASTANA – Vladimir Akulov, businessperson and agrarian from the East Kazakhstan region is among 102 winners of the nation’s 100 New Faces project for his attention to corporate social...
ASTANA – With 41 medals, Kazakhstan is currently in 11th place at the 18th Asian Games, taking place Aug. 18-Sept. 2 in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. At the end...
ASTANA – The city, abound in beautiful parks and squares including many which appeared this year to mark the capital’s 20th anniversary, will get a new square honouring Polish...
ASTANA – Historians in Kazakhstan have begun a programme of history teaching using new formats intended to captivate students and give them the opportunity to study not only the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s 2019 population census will be conducted in electronic format rather than the usual paper-based method, reported Forbes.kz. Since its independence, Kazakhstan has conducted national censuses in...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Science and Education will be introducing new measures that will revoke licenses from higher educational institutions or their faculties producing specialists that have low...
ASTANA – Approximately 100 projects worth about 1.1 trillion tenge (US$3 billion) will be launched in the second half of this year, Minister for Investment and Development Zhenis Kassymbek...
ASTANA – Young research chemist Dias Tastanbekov, one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces, wants to provide facilities for growing environmentally friendly and locally made products for everyone. In his...
ASTANA – Ulan Bigozhin, an Indiana University PhD graduate and Nazarbayev University post-doctoral scholar, is a cultural anthropologist examining the reinstitution of kokpar in contemporary Kazakhstan and its increasing...
ASTANA – The annual international Astana Marathon 2018 to be held Sept. 16 has raised 36 million tenge (US$99,675) since its existence to support Kazakh charities, reports inform.kz. Astana...
ASTANA – Kazakh high school students can now prepare to launch their own businesses through the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship elective course, which will be offered for the 2019 to...
A young man sitting next to me on a recent flight from Almaty to Dushanbe told me, “I regret that I did not get a better education. I could...
The international community is bidding farewell to the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan, a unique person in the history of the United Nations, has...
ASTANA – What is the real size of the Islamic economy phenomenon? Why are Islamic economy and its ecosystem an important theme? What Eurasian country has the most Islamic...
ASTANA – Kazakh fencer Dmitriy Alexanin recently won Kazakhstan’s first gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games. He beat the 2016 Olympic Games champion Park Sang-young of South Korea...
