- Monday, 21 September, 2026
- Almaty 72 °F / 22 °C
- Astana 68 °F / 20 °C
ALMATY – Kazakhstan has built the core digital infrastructure for its financial sector and is now entering a new stage focused on developing new products, attracting new...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan highlighted the rapid growth of the Middle Corridor and the need to accelerate its digitalization at the Georgian International Maritime Forum in Batumi on...
ASTANA – Looking for ways to spend the weekend? From cultural events to music and entertainment, Astana and Almaty offer plenty to explore. The Astana Times editorial...
ASTANA – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will deliver a state-of-the-nation address in October, outlining Kazakhstan’s goals and priorities for the upcoming period, he said during a Sept. 11...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi has outlined key priorities for strengthening the country’s efforts to attract foreign investment during a Sept. 10 working meeting with...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina has reached the U.S. Open final for the first time in her career and secured the world No. 1 ranking, becoming the...
ASTANA – Deputies of Kazakhstan’s Kurultai will face new rules governing their conduct inside and outside the legislative chamber, with violations ranging from inappropriate remarks and providing...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Security Council is expanding its focus to a broader range of national security risks, including information and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, personal data protection, economic...
ASTANA – The global energy transition is often discussed through the language of climate targets, emissions cuts and renewable energy. Yet the next stage of the transformation...
ASTANA – Trade between China and the five Central Asian states has surpassed $100 billion, highlighting the region’s growing economic importance, as the South China Morning Post...
Central Asia has entered a new phase of regional cooperation. The question is no longer simply whether the five countries can work together. Increasingly, it is whether...
ASTANA – Kazakh businesses implementing environmental projects will be able to trade carbon units on the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) exchange under a planned agreement with...
ASTANA – The Astana Finance Days (AFD) 2026: Delivering Impact. Capital in Action concluded with a series of agreements and new financial instruments to strengthen regional financial...
ASTANA – Kazakh singer, composer and producer Dimash Qudaibergen called for greater investment, infrastructure and legal support for Kazakhstan’s creative industries during the opening ceremony of Astana...
ASTANA – What if a song, a game, a digital creator or a piece of intellectual property could be treated not only as a cultural product, but...
ASTANA – Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank plans to triple project financing in Kazakhstan over the next 18 months, from the current 2.5 trillion tenge (US$5.5 billion), as...
ASTANA – Australian critical minerals company Lindian Resources and French rare-earth specialist Carester have agreed to advance plans for an 8,000-ton-per-year solvent extraction and rare-earth oxide separation...
ASTANA – Oil loading operations at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) marine terminal have resumed in normal mode after a Sept. 8 drone incident near the facility,...
ASTANA – We want to take it out of the unregulated area and make it work, because it works whether we want it or not,” National Bank...
ASTANA – Elena Rybakina has made history for Kazakhstan, becoming the first athlete from the country to rise to the top of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are working to resume passenger ferry services across the Caspian Sea, reopening a route that connected the two countries until 2020 and...
ASTANA – As artificial intelligence drives a new investment boom, the best strategy may be to resist the excitement and focus instead on the bottlenecks that could...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan increased oil transportation through KazTransOil’s main pipeline network by 4% in the first eight months of 2026, while volumes transported into the Caspian Pipeline...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first government meeting in its updated composition after the Kurultai elections focused on a topic that could determine the success of its economic transformation:...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan is moving ahead with a $1.4 billion renewable energy project with Masdar, a leading renewable energy company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan is stepping up its partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO) as part of a broader strategy to strengthen the country’s position as a...
ALMATY – For centuries, the history of the Golden Horde has often been told from the perspective of the societies it encountered. French historian Marie Favereau is...
The sense of progress and economic momentum in Kazakhstan is tangible and impossible to ignore. Speaking to Kazakhstan’s financial leaders, policymakers, and leaders in the leadup to...
Twenty years ago on Sept. 8, 2006, representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gathered in Semipalatinsk, now Semey, to sign a treaty that would make...
ALMATY – Almaty and Astana are likely to retain their position as Central Asia’s leading economic centers, even as Tashkent and Bishkek record rapid growth and invest...
