- Friday, 29 November, 2024
- Almaty 45 °F / 7 °C
- Astana 9 °F / -13 °C
ASTANA – The world’s largest mare’s milk processing factory and the only one of its kind in the Commonwealth of Independent States opened in June in Karaganda and is...
We are still one year away from it, but Brazil’s heart is already beating faster. The Brazilian generous heart leaps up when confronted with two of its passions: welcoming...
HANOI – A visit by EXPO 2017 commissioner and Kazakh First Deputy Foreign Minister Rapil Zhoshybayev July 28-29 was marked by the Vietnamese government’s announcement to present a national...
ASTANA – An anonymous author has created an Instagram account @abaicartoons with illustrated quotes from “The Book of Words” by famous Kazakh poet, philosopher, educator and founder of Kazakh...
ASTANA – A new 10-million-tonnes-per-year oil refinery, fourth in the country, is considered to be constructed within the next five years in the Mangistau region, Deputy Akim (governor) of...
ASTANA –Soft car loans financed by the government are encouraging the operation of all Kazakh car plants and becoming a better alternative to loansoffered by commercial banks. Citizens havethe...
KUALA-LUMPUR – Following final pitches by the cities of Almaty and Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 31 at 6...
KUALA LUMPUR – On the eve of the 128th Session of the International Olympic Committee in Kuala Lumpur, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and Chairman of the Almaty 2022 Bid...
Conflict, terrorism, economic turmoil, natural calamities, disease: we are living in an era of unprecedented crises and troubles, as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned. Record numbers of...
KUALA LUMPUR – Kazakhstan’s top winter sports stars spoke here July 29 of Almaty commitment to provide the best experience for athletes for both the 2022 Winter Olympic and...
ASTANA – Defence Minister of Kazakhstan Imangali Tasmagambetov recently congratulated 12 female members of Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces at an award ceremony of the first national Batyr Arular (Warrior Women)...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, attended the World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council session in Geneva on July 27 to sign the protocol on the nation’s accession to...
KUALA LUMPUR – In the morning hours of July 31, a high-level Kazakh delegation will make one last effort here to persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to...
ASTANA – A systematic and comprehensive analysis of the legislative work of the Kazakh Parliament has begun in the Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) and its structural and its...
More than 900 Almaty residents have been evacuated following a mudslide that hit the city early on July 23. No fatalities have been reported, however, homes in the mudslide...
ASTANA – Dozens of entrepreneurs from the capital city participated at the first Khorgos international forum held July 15 as part of the Kazakh-Chinese trade fair at the Khorgos...
ASTANA – On July 22, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Yerzhan Ashikbayev and UN Resident Coordinator in the country Stephen Tull signed a Partnership Framework for Development for 2016-2020 (PFD),...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s rate of inflation slowed to 3.9 percent in June as a result of joint actions by the National Bank and government. “Annual inflation at the end...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and a group of international commercial banks are providing a syndicated financing package of $300 million in support of...
ASTANA –Nine Kazakh tech startup teams have won the opportunity to receive training in Silicon Valley as a result of their performance in the Technation competition, which attracted startup...
ASTANA – The Astana Pro cycling team and its captain Italian Vincenzo Nibali finished the July 4-26 Tour de France fourth overall. After 21 stages of one of the...
ASTANA – Argentinean artist Marina Zumi has created an amazing artwork on the walls of Kasteev’s School of Fine Arts and Technical Design in Almaty with the support of...
ASTANA – Kazakh professional boxer Beibut Shumenov defeated American B.J. Flores to become an interim world champion under the WBA. The fight, held in Las Vegas, lasted 12 rounds....
On July 17, participants of the multi-day Kazakhstan Umiti National Bike Race for Juniors started their journey in East Kazakhstan region. After the opening ceremony, which took place on...
ASTANA – After a 0-1 away defeat July 15 and an impressive 3-1 victory at Astana Arena a week later despite being a player down for the last half-hour...
ASTANA – Teacher of Kazakh history Olga Kovtun’s favourite era to help students discover is the birth of the Kazakh state in the mid-15th century. But she also knows...
ASTANA –Kazakhstan has seen an increase in the last 10 years in aid organisations workingtoupgrade the law on charity. The country also recently announced itself as adonor toforeign countries...
The long race to host the 2022 Winter Olympics is in the final straight. The marathon that began more than two years ago for those cities taking part will...
ASTANA – “Detective Johnny,” the first rapmusic film shot in the territory of the former Soviet Union, will premier July 31 in Almaty. Directed by Miras Toleukhanov, the movie...
ASTANA – Three more projects funded by the Technology Commercialisation Centre (TCC) in Astana have found commercial success in Kazakhstan and beyond in agricultural, cosmetics and mining, the TCC...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Fund for Financial Support of Agriculture (FFSA) started recently implementinga drop irrigation programme under the Agrobusiness-2020 state branch programme. Equipment for 40 projects in aterritory...
Kazakh banks recently restructured and decreased their foreign debt to 30 billion tenge (US$161 million). “A determined effort was made to restructure foreign debts of corresponding banks, which led...
ASTANA – Switzerland, one of the first countries to confirm its participation in EXPO 2017, enjoys durable relations with Kazakhstan. As members of the same voting group since 2010,...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National University of Arts in Astana hosted the World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), the first time the event has been...
Kazakhstan’s 100 Concrete Steps initiative was launched in the spring as a direct response to worsening regional and global conditions. Increased tensions between the major powers had led to...
With just 10 days left to go, the Host City race for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and important...
The question of undeniable importance for Kazakhstan: to consider the year 1991 as a starting point, or to look for and find the origins of statehood in the shroud...
ASTANA – Despite leading 2-0 the first day, the Kazakhstan national tennis team was unable to reach the Davis Cup semi-finals, losing 3-2 to host country Australia. The event...
ASTANA – A Japanese delegation headed by Deputy Director of International Exhibitions Promotion Office of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan Koki Otsuka recently visited Astana...
ASTANA – During its 121st session in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as host city for the Games of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan was ranked 50 out of 144 countries in the 2014–2015 Global Competitiveness Report issued by the World Economic Forum, putting it ahead of all BRICS countries...
ASTANA – Kyrgyzstan has asked Kazakhstan to deal with an 800-metre stretch of the border between the two countries in the Chu region, zakon.kz said on its website with...
ASTANA – A fortnight-long international seminar on public health for specialists from Africa began July 20 at Nazarbayev University (NU), reported the university’s press service. Scholars from the Centre...
ASTANA – Twenty-six busses in Kazakhstan’s capital changed their itinerary and more than 200 new passenger vehicles were put into operation on the existing city routes, according to astana.gov.kz,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan offered $4 billion in bonds July 14, a record for the state and made the nation the first among developing counties to take advantage of the...
Astana – The Bolashak Fellows Association, the international scholarship launched by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1993, announced the beginning of a startup contest for entrepreneurs aged 18 to...
ASTANA – On Sunday, July 19, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov paid a one-day visit to Kyrgyzstan where he discussed bilateral cooperation with his counterpart Temir Sariyev, as well...
ASTANA – As a lead-in to the July 31 vote in Kuala Lumpur, where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will select the host city for the 2022 Winter Games,...
ASTANA – Shayl Majithia is one of the most recent in a long line of travellers to pass from Europe to Asia via Kazakhstan’s great landmass. Like his earliest...
Astana Mayor Adilbek Dzhaksybekov was recently briefed on several city smart projects, such as smart clinic, smart school, smart street lighting, smart payments as well as with current work...
