- Thursday, 6 February, 2025
- Almaty 21 °F / -6 °C
- Astana 3 °F / -16 °C
Kazakhstan has long been providing active support for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, helping both financially and by promoting the stabilisation of the situation at the political level. Kazakh-Afghan cooperation...
WARSAW, Sept. 14 – The annual meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw on Sept. 10-21...
The Nur Otan Party has organised free English language elective courses for 9th-11th grade students in 84 rural districts and centres as part of the English for Jastar (Youth)...
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) and the Turkish government-owned railway company TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş signed an agreement on strategic cooperation at Ankara’s Kazakh-Turkish investment forum Sept. 12, reported the national...
A novel by Kazakh prose writer Saken Zhunusov called “Amanai and Zamanai” has been translated into English and was recently presented in the framework of the Rukhani Zhangyru programme....
A delegation of Kazakh Supreme Court judges and representatives of the country’s judicial board and economic courts led by Deputy Minister of Economy Serik Zhumangarin met in Berlin with...
The US dollar exchange rate fell by 7.6 tenge Sept. 21 relative to similar trades the previous day. The weighted average US dollar rate was 352.09 tenge per dollar...
ASTANA – Parents in Astana now have more educational options for their kids, as the first Montessori school in Kazakhstan opened in the capital welcoming first ten students aged...
The nexus between disarmament, arms control and development The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter of the...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Sept. 19 Alikhan Smailov new Minister of Finance and Gabit Baizhanov the Assistant to the President – Secretary of the Security Council....
ASTANA – In Uralsk, 1,700 dombra players recently played simultaneously Kurmangazy’s works at the square of the First President and set a record. The action was dedicated to the...
The Social Medical Insurance Fund (SMIF) has introduced new rules for registering at polyclinics across Kazakhstan. Citizens may now enrol at the clinics, egov.kz website and public services centres....
ASTANA – Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Kairat Umarov reiterated at the Sept. 11 United Nations Security Council meeting on Syrian conflict Kazakhstan’s endorsement of a...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Bank revoked Astana Bank’s licence Sept. 19. The bank suspended operations in May and National Bank has appointed temporary management. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticised...
ASTANA – Le Sallay International Academy in France offers children aged 10 to 14 the option of distance learning. The pioneering distance learning programme combines home study with a...
ASTANA – Tsin-Kaz LLP, a major Kazakh company with an established name, has been specialising in processing and canning fruits and vegetables for two decades. The company’s main mission...
ASTANA – Influenza vaccination will be conducted in Kazakhstan starting Oct. 1. Nearly 1.5 million doses were purchased for approximately one billion tenge (US$2.76 million), according to the Healthcare...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister of Internal Affairs Kalmukhanbet Kassymov clarified the decision-making process behind the country’s ban on non-lethal weapons during a recent Central Communications Service meeting. During the...
ASTANA – Walt Disney’s Commonwealth of Independent States’ (CIS) office is enthusiastic about Kazakhstan’s draft law “On cinema” and plans to cooperate with the country by assisting filmmakers and...
ASTANA – The first Almaty International Film Festival, held Sept. 15-19, achieved its goals of developing Kazakh cinema, increasing the public’s interest in film art and strengthening international cooperation....
ASTANA – Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, every Kazakh adult citizen will be required to declare his or her income, property and even debts. The tax declarations will counteract the...
ASTANA – Turkish company Lidya Madencilik plans to purchase 100 percent of the shares in the Karaganda region’s Yuzhno-Moyintinskoye gold deposit. Estimates indicate the deposit can produce 8.4 tonnes...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Foreign Ministry is working to return 23 Kazakh citizens, seven women and 16 children, from a refugee camp in Syria. The individuals must be determined...
ASTANA – Tselinny, once a fashionable Soviet cinema in Almaty, has been reconstructed into the country’s first centre for contemporary culture and arts. The re-opening began Sept. 15 with...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government has significantly increased budget spending on social assistance and security this year while achieving an overall decrease in budget expenses compared to 2017. State...
ASTANA – Explore Kazakhstan, an Almaty-based tourism agency, offers fully organised tours of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan ranging from helicopter tours to nature trips with tents. Founder Chingiz Shulanbayev, who...
ASTANA – Astana Akim (Mayor) Bakhyt Sultanov reviewed the comprehensive plan for the capital’s development of engineering and transport infrastructure for 2019 to 2023 at a Sep. 18 government...
ASTANA – Astana Marathon 2018 gathered 4,661 runners from 37 cities in Kazakhstan and abroad on a rather cold Sept. 16 morning. Organised annually since 2009, the run promotes...
ASTANA – Astana hosted The Spirit of Dance festival, part of the Spirit of Tengri project, Sept. 14 at the Kazakhstan concert hall, the city’s largest. The event gathered...
ASTANA – ORTA Centre for Universal Arts will present the techno-performance “Svetoprestavleniye Sergey Kalmykov” on Oct. 6, 7, 9 and 10 in Almaty. The play was the headliner this...
ASTANA – A new Asian Development Bank (ADB) country analysis identifies diversification, manufacturing and agriculture among Kazakhstan’s opportunities for economic growth. Diversification of the economy and introducing reforms favourable...
ASTANA – The number of young people in Kazakhstan who are neither employed nor in the education system, known as NEETs, has decreased to 7.7 percent of Kazakh youth,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan ranked 58th among 189 countries and territories in the latest human development index (HDI) released Sept. 14 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The nation...
ASTANA – Hilton, one of the world’s largest hotel chains, opened the first Hampton by Hilton Aug. 15 in the Kazakh capital. The Astana Times spoke with Astana Triumphal...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Bank’s Invest Online system is becoming popular among citizens. The advantages of the system include online service, guaranteed investments in government securities with no risk...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is home to more than 130 ethnic groups and the nation’s prosperity is only possible when there is peace and harmony, said Serikbay kazhy Oraz, Chairperson...
ASTANA – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will conduct events in September and October to support its Silk Roads Heritage Properties in Central Asia project,...
ASTANA – KIOGE (Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition) 2018, an oil and gas industry exhibition and conference, will assemble major industry players from Kazakhstan and abroad Sept. 26-28...
ASTANA – Young Kazakh and foreign artists presented works of contemporary art Sept. 15 at the first event of Astana Art Show 2018. The exhibition will continue until Oct....
ASTANA – An electronic atlas of Kazakhstan’s sacred places and monuments will be created as part of the three-year project “Investment Potential of the Sacred Geography of Kazakhstan: Geospatial...
ASTANA – Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin suffered his first professional loss and relinquished his multiple middleweight titles after losing a Sept. 15 rematch with Mexican boxer Saul Canelo Alvarez....
ASTANA – François Bernard, an independent member of the Board of Directors of the Kazakh Invest national company and the chairman of its Investment Attraction and Support Committee, recently...
ASTANA – Will Aston has formed two companies within the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), becoming one of the first businesspeople to cooperate with it. He spoke about the...
ASTANA – Turkish companies will invest $1.7 billion in Kazakhstan based on 22 trade and economic cooperation agreements reached between the countries Aug. 12 as part of the Kazakh-Turkish...
ASTANA – Relocation of a regional centre from Shymkent to Turkestan is a difficult process in every respect, said Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev during a meeting at the Akorda...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev held bilateral talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, participated in the Third Meeting of the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council and met with...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s e-commerce market volume has reached 159 billion tenge (US$422.9 million) since the beginning of the year. The figure refers to the concept of the draft law...
ASTANA – Baspana Mortgage recently launched a secondary housing lending programme providing favourable terms, reported Chair of the company Kairat Altynbekov at a Sept. 11 Central Communications Service briefing...
ASTANA – Nurzhan Altayev, Kazakh deputy minister of labour and social protection and previous deputy minister of agriculture and deputy chair of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs, is...
ASTANA — Paediatric orthopaedist and traumatologist Isamdum Haramov is a real saviour and hero who gives children a chance to live full and happy lives. His diligent hands correct...
