- Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
- Almaty 23 °F / -5 °C
- Astana -6 °F / -21 °C
ASTANA – Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of cooperation to hold the 2020 Internationale Tourismus-Börse (ITB) Eurasia exhibition in the capital. The exhibition, held every September, is part of the...
ASTANA – The international rating agency S&P Global Ratings recently confirmed the long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings in foreign and national currency of Kazakhstan at the level of...
ASTANA – The photo exhibition “Under the common sky of Iraq: Kazakh and Polish peacekeepers” opened March 13 at the Kazakh National Museum. The exhibit will run through March...
ASTANA – The capital’s roads are the country’s safest, reports the Astana Akimat (city administration). According to a 2015 World Health Organisation Global Status Report on Road Safety, Kazakhstan’s...
ASTANA – City residents now have the opportunity to provide feedback about the capital’s hospitals and clinics, reported the Astana Akimat (Mayor’s office) press service. “People can send wishes...
ASTANA – Kazakh-French business cooperation in solar energy is being strengthened as the parties work on French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Kazakhstan scheduled for the second half of...
ASTANA – Khabar TV previewed “Qazaq boks stıli” (Kazakh boxing style), a documentary directed by Kanat Beisekeyev, March 13 in the capital, reported the channel’s press service. The film...
ASTANA – Air Astana has hired 90 staff members for its new low-cost airline FlyArystan and is seeking 60 more employees prior to its scheduled launch in the first...
ASTANA – As of January, the National Social Insurance Fund has accumulated 1.4 trillion tenge (US$3.7 billion) and is reaching 6.126 million citizens, or 70.3 percent of the country’s...
ASTANA – Spanish film and television production company called Plano a Plano is currently in negotiations with Kazakh Novyi Mir Production to make a movie about the events at...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s National Olympic Committee and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will cooperate in promoting sport and physical education in the country, said National Olympic...
ASTANA – Foreign citizens making purchases in Kazakhstan will be exempt from value added tax (VAT) payments in a few years. The Ministry of Culture and Sports will implement...
ASTANA – The Akmola Region meat supplier Agroproduct recently concluded Kazakhstan’s first contract to export meat to Iran. The first batch of meat has already arrived in Iran. “The...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Finance proposed increasing the guaranteed transfer from the National Fund to 2.7 trillion tenge (US$7.13 billion) at a March 12 governmental meeting. The change...
ASTANA –The first phase of the 2015-2019 Nurly Zhol programme, designed to upgrade infrastructure build-up throughout the country, will be completed this year. The plan for the second phase...
ASTANA – For the next three years, Kazakh professional boxer Gennady Golovkin will fight twice a year exclusively on the world’s largest sports streaming platform in a six-fight deal...
ASTANA – A self-proclaimed Kazakh activist against Chinese treatment of Muslims in its north-western region has been put under house arrest by an Astana court decision on March 11...
ASTANA – Kazakh grandmaster Rinat Dzhumabayev defeated 2016 world vice-champion Sergey Karyakin during the fifth round of the 2019 World Team Chess Championship in the Kazakh capital. “It was...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Museum will present the Great Steppe: History and Culture exhibition featuring Altyn Adam (Golden Man) March 15-April 15 in Kazan, Tatarstan. The display is part...
ASTANA – As the series of exclusive interviews with the regional governors in Kazakhstan continues, Akim (Governor) of Kostanai region Arkhimed Mukhambetov describes the efforts of his administration aimed...
ASTANA – The Astana’s Barys Hockey Club beat Nizhny Novgorod’s Torpedo Hockey Club March 10 with a 3:2 score in the seventh game in a series of quarterfinals of...
Kazakhstan’s first national low-cost airline, Fly Arystan, will launch in the first half of the year, Kazakh Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Roman Sklyar told a March government...
Russian company 2GIS has launched a city information centre application for Atyrau, reports Kazinform. More than 9,000 social, cultural, residential and business facilities are included in the free mobile...
Kazakhstan and Austria agreed to strengthen cooperation in energy efficiency and the green economy as part of broader efforts to boost bilateral trade during the recent visit of an...
Investments in education increased 36.9 percent to 2.8 billion tenge (US$7.41 million) in January. Their share of total investments in equity was 0.4 percent. In 2018, against the general...
ASTANA – California native and Kazakh TV’s Discovering Kazakhstan host Dennis Keen has lived in Almaty for six years. It was in his adopted city that Soviet monumental art...
ASTANA – The number of flights between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan will increase from 18 to 32 per week this year, reports the Kazakh Ministry for Investment and Development’s Civil...
It is now well over four decades since the United Nations officially recognised March 8 as International Women’s Day. The annual event, which is marked around the world, has...
ASTANA – The number of home loans issued in Kazakhstan grew 18.9 percent in 2018 over 2017. The total portfolio of loans issued grew by 3 percent in the...
ASTANA – The Union of European Football Associations’ player of the season Bauyrzhan Islamkhan has been named one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. Islamkhan has been playing sports since...
ASTANA – Finnish companies are interested in constructing waste treatment plants in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh Ministry of Energy plans to increase the waste recycling rate from the current 11.5...
ASTANA – Olga Andriyevskaya, founder and chair of the Bulgarian Zlata Cultural Centre in the capital, represents the fourth generation of Bulgarians living in Kazakhstan. She feels mutual respect...
ASTANA – Approximately 104 private organisations and 81 government organisations provide free government-sponsored healthcare to Almaty residents, said Social Health Insurance Fund director Tleukhan Abildayev at a March 5...
ASTANA – Using skis and ice skates, Norwegian William Byholt is in the midst of crossing Balkhash Lake in central Kazakhstan for the first time in the nation’s history....
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met at the Akorda March 7 with Koktem Shuagy (Spring Light) women’s community representatives to congratulate the country’s female population on the International...
ASTANA – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin reviewed March 2 improvements made to housing, education, medicine, transport, provision of power and water supply and street lighting on the outskirts...
ASTANA – Swim, bike, run. The national Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan triathlon federations joined to form the Central Asian Triathlon Association (CATA) at the March 3 meeting in the...
ASTANA – Tin stripping operations will begin in May at Syrymbet, Central Asia’s largest and Kazakhstan’s only tin deposit with an annual capacity of two million tonnes of ore,...
ASTANA – Thirty percent of municipal solid waste in the capital has the potential to be recycled and another 10 percent has the potential to be sorted to derive...
ASTANA – “The Kazakh Khanate. The Golden Throne” premiered Feb. 26 in the capital. The series, based on Ilyas Esenberlin’s novel “Diamond Sword,” retells the story of the struggle...
ASTANA – Kazakh National Bank is encouraging citizens who receive social benefits to open accounts to help them continue to receive benefits in case of overdue debt. Kazakh legislation...
ASTANA – The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development has implemented an Economy of Simple Things, a new programme focused on developing light manufacturing and the construction and furniture...
ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov stressed the need to find comprehensive solutions to the Palestinian problem, promote the Middle East peace process and stabilise Afghanistan during the...
ASTANA – The European Union is Kazakhstan’s biggest foreign investor, and Kazakhstan is the EU’s closest political and economic partner among the countries of Central Asia while EU-Kazakhstan cooperation...
ASTANA – Kazakh professional tennis player Alexander Bublik won March 3 the inaugural Teréga Open Pau-Pyrénées in the singles final in the city of Pau, France. This is his...
ASTANA – Kazakh professional freestyle skier Yulia Galysheva won a gold medal March 2 in moguls at the 2018-2019 International Ski Federation (FIS, Fédération Internationale de Ski) Freestyle Ski...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan and Vietnam will provide mutual legal assistance on criminal cases, following the Kazakh Mazhilis’ (lower house of Parliament) approval of a bill on the ratification of...
ASTANA – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and the International Arbitration Centre have officially launched the eJustice system in Astana’s financial hub. The system allows lawsuits to be...
ASTANA – Kazakh company Qazaq Air and Iranian Mahan Air received permission from the Civil Aviation Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan to open...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.7 trillion tenge (US$4.5 billion) was invested in the Kyzylorda region in 2013-2018, the regional press service reported March 3. Investments increased last year by 25.5...
