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The investment income of Kazakhstan’s Unified Accumulation Pension Fund (UAPF) for the first three quarters of 2018 reached 663.1 billion tenge (US$1.79 billion). At the end of September, pension...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Senate adopted changes to the national budget for 2018-2020 during its Oct. 25 plenary session. The updated document increased the expected exchange rate per dollar...
ASTANA – Archcode Almaty, a research project to conserve the former capital’s architectural identity, seeks to preserve what “we will pass on to those who will live in the...
ASTANA – Kazakh citizens withdrew 8.6 trillion tenge (US$21.6 billion) from payment cards from January-August, a 26.4-percent increase compared to the same period last year. At the same time,...
ASTANA – The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) discussed 15 agenda items during a scheduled council meeting in the Kazakh capital on Nov. 2....
ASTANA – The effective provision of legal aid, guaranteed by the state and afforded by its budget, is vital to ensuring access to justice, said Kazakh International Bureau for...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan 100 New Face’s entrepreneur and Paralympic sportsperson Shahan Zholdasbayev directs all of his power and will towards creating an inclusive society by constructing ramps that allow...
ASTANA – Astana International Exchange (AIX) is preparing to launch post-trade market services provided by Avenir Technology Limited. The technology, used worldwide, will ensure a safe and reliable post-trading...
ASTANA – The new horror film “Qarakoz,” featuring evil characters from Kazakh tales and legends in all their glory, went into wide distribution Nov. 1. The film opens at...
ASTANA – Kazakh developers Timur Ryspekov, Vladislav Polonski and Anastasiya Kletscheva won Best Use of Hardware award at the recent Space Apps Challenge competition finals organised by National Aeronautics...
ASTANA – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev Nov. 1 in Astana to discuss bilateral relations. Nazarbayev stressed during...
ASTANA – The state programmes designed to increase wages, the employment rate and entrepreneurship are showing positive results, reported representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first ever UN peacekeeping contingent that is part of an Indian battalion in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) arrived in Lebanon Oct. 31....
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s employment and mass entrepreneurship programme seeks to recruit 571,000 citizens through state support mechanisms by the end of 2018, said Kazakh Minister of Labour and Social Protection...
ASTANA – The Kazakh defence industry has grown steadily as a result of modernisation and management changes, the Ministry of Defence and Aerospace Industry press service reported Oct. 25....
ASTANA – Kazakhstan jumped from 36th last year to 28th place in the 2019 World Bank Doing Business Report released Oct. 31. Kazakhstan improved in three areas of the...
ASTANA – The speed on certain sections of bus lanes in Astana will be reduced to decrease the number of traffic accidents, said Deputy Chairman of Astana LRT Beibut...
ASTANA – The Almaty city akimat (administration) and Zhas Kyran (also Orlyonok) football centre have renovated the old Soviet Sputnik stadium into a football training complex for children with...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Translation Bureau is working on translating internationally recognised textbooks in social sciences and humanities into the Kazakh language in accordance with Kazakh President Nursultan...
ASTANA – KMG International (KMGI, formerly known as Rompetrol), an affiliate of KazMunayGas, and Societatea de Administrare a Energie (SAPE) owned by the Romanian Ministry of Energy signed an...
ASTANA – Astana’s city utility services response centre iKomek has received more than 703,000 inquiries in 2018, of which 99.7 percent were processed, reports the city administration’s press service....
ASTANA – The Kazakh Office of the General Prosecutor is transitioning its criminal and administrative proceedings to electronic format, automating the registration of inspections of state bodies and the...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Senate ratified Oct. 25 the border agreement between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan that determined the points of juncture on the countries’ border. The agreement was...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev recently signed the law “On ratification of the memorandum of understanding between the governments of Kazakhstan and India concerning arrangements for joint deployment of...
ASTANA – Poland’s Polcotton will invest more than 13 million euros (US$14 million) in an innovative greenhouse construction project in the Sairam district of the Turkestan region, according to...
ASTANA – The city hosted the Smart Service hackathon Oct. 27-28, where 160 participants had the chance to suggest their solutions to make the capital more innovative, attractive and...
ASTANA – Central Asia’s economic growth potential is limited by its low degree of integration into global trade, according to a recent Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) report. According to...
ASTANA – Spanish Ambassador David Carriedo, who began his diplomatic mission to Kazakhstan on August 21, spoke with The Astana Times about the agenda for his three-year term to...
ASTANA – The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) Youth Group (CYG) recently emphasised signing and ratifying the CTBT remains a key global objective 20 years after its...
ASTANA – The newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Chingiz Aydarbekov visited Astana Oct. 27 to meet with his Kazakh counterpart Kairat Abdrakhmanov to discuss the strategic...
ASTANA – KAZGUU is the first Kazakh university to introduce Canvas, an LMS (learning management system) that makes the educational process flexible, secure and scalable. It can be adapted...
ASTANA – The Kazakh and Russian Ministries of Healthcare agreed to develop joint systems to provide medical aid using telemedicine during the Global Conference on Primary Health Care held...
ASTANA – Astana welcomed German and Kazakh businesses, representatives of governments and specialists for the conference, Kazakhstan and Germany: Partners in Building Sustainable Agriculture, Oct. 26 in Astana. They...
ASTANA – As the Russian embargo on gasoline export from Kazakhstan to Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been lifted, Kazakhstan expects to start shipments to Kyrgyzstan in November....
ASTANA – The bustling Kazakh capital is waiting for investors, offering a myriad of platforms and mechanisms to turn ideas into reality, says Astana Invest Deputy Chair Muhamed Kabuldinov....
ASTANA – Rehabilitation centres for children with cerebral palsy are being developed across Kazakhstan’s regions to make treatment more accessible. More than 19,000 children have been diagnosed with cerebral...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government will provide one million tenge (US$2,711) for health care, education, police and social sector workers to help purchase new housing, the city administration press...
ASTANA – The Zhambyl Region Department of Culture recently launched the Aulie-Ata sacred sites map as part of the Ruhani Zhangyru (Modernisation of Kazakhstan’s Identity) state programme. The 25-million...
ASTANA – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Academic Council, as one of the driving forces of the country’s economy, is actively developing human capital and attracting the best...
ASTANA – The electronic (e-) architecture pilot project was recently presented in the capital, reported the Astana Invest (City Development Centre of Investments) press service. The system will be...
ASTANA – The capital’s gymnasium school No. 22 has launched Free from School, a project allowing student-athletes and children who need an accelerated or delayed educational programme to study...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met Oct. 24 with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Astana on Ross’s first day in Kazakhstan. Ross visited Kazakhstan for three...
ASTANA – International and nuclear security experts, Kazakh foreign affairs officials and foreign diplomats in Kazakhstan met in Astana Oct. 24 to discuss Kazakhstan’s nuclear non-proliferation policy and the...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government, World Health Organisation and UNICEF co-hosted an Oct 25-26 Global Conference in Astana on primary healthcare (PHC). This year marks the 40th anniversary of...
ASTANA – The ATOM Project Honorary Ambassador Karipbek Kuyukov received the Nuclear-Free Future Award at the Oct. 24 awarding ceremony in Salzburg, Austria. Since 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award...
ASTANA – Astana Opera’s symphony orchestra will perform “Music for All Times” Nov. 8, featuring the best pieces of famous composers such as Max Bruch, Tles Kazhgaliyev and Pyotr...
ASTANA – Kazakh Minister for Investments and Development Zhenis Kassymbek briefed government officials Oct. 23 on the progress of the Digital Kazakhstan programme. According to his report, digitising transport...
ASTANA – The 2018 World Press Photo exhibition, displaying the most important events of the past year through photojournalists’ lenses, is touring four Kazakh cities Oct. 24-Jan. 2. “The...
ASTANA – First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin called for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to develop common production processes in order to integrate the competitive advantages...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan has given birth to many talents, one of whom is Ivan Gusev, the Karaganda-born pianist currently residing in the United States and performing concert programmes on...
