- Friday, 29 November, 2024
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- Astana 7 °F / -14 °C
ASTANA – The 14th Kazakhstan Fashion Industry International Specialized Exhibition (autumn 2013) kicked off in Congress Hall on Oct.. 24. Over its lifetime, the fair has gained the status...
President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan voiced concerns about the process of integration at the meetings of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council and the Council of Heads of States of...
ASTANA – In the coalition, A Child Should Live in a Family, veteran activist Alina Khamatdinova and a team of nongovernmental organisations, lawyers, journalists and members of Kazakhstan’s Parliament...
ASTANA – A small, informal and interactive conference for Kazakhstan nongovernmental organisations, known as a “Social Camp,” will be held in Astana in November. Organizers say these types of...
Every year on Oct. 24 according to resolution No. 168 adopted in 1947 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the UN Day is celebrated. It is noteworthy that...
Nowadays, more and more people are using traditional Asian medicinal remedies, rather than prescription medications, while at the same time conventional medicine continues to make great strides. The...
ASTANA – On Oct. 10, the capital of Kazakhstan hosted the Astana International Auto Salon 2013 international automobile exhibition for the first time. Automakers from 14 countries including Germany,...
ASTANA – A charity lunch for 50 pensioners and people with disabilities from the Yessil district of Astana was organised at the Al-Farabi restaurant on Oct. 17 with the...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev chaired a meeting on the preparation and arrangement of the international specialised exhibition EXPO 2017 on Oct. 16. Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov, Minister of...
Kazakh TV, Kazakhstan’s national 24-hour satellite channel, debuted 13 new projects for 2013, a record figure by the standards of Kazakhstan television. Some of the new projects have been...
ASTANA – A special delegation from Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, headed by its President Rustem Khamitov and including officials and representatives from the business community and higher education institutions,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan travellers have started preparations for the first-ever round-the-world journey on camels, with the assistance of their Russian and European partners. The decision was announced during the...
ASTANA – Actors from the Gafuri Bashkir State Academic Drama Theatre performed the play “White Steamer” on Oct. 8 at the Gorky Russian Drama Theatre in Astana as part...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev recently tasked Almaty Akim (Mayor) Akhmetzhan Yessimov to continue developing Almaty’s infrastructure and underlined that tourism is to play a key role in the...
On the eve of the Oct. 14-26 World Boxing Championship in Almaty, International Boxing Association Vice President and President of the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation Timur Kulibayev answered questions from...
On Oct. 18, President Nursultan Nazarbayev held a meeting with the Board of Oil and Gas of Kazakhstan. At the meeting officials discussed current issues of further development of...
ASTANA – Over six days and in 40-degree desert heat, two Astana Dakar Rally Team crews finished in the top 10 after the race in Morocco on Oct. 13-19....
ALMATY –The 17th Amateur World Boxing Championship began in Almaty Oct. 14 at Baluan Sholak Palace of Culture and Sports with the record-breaking participation of 576 boxers from 116...
ASTANA – In a turn of events rarely seen in any hockey league, Barys hockey club goalkeeper Vitaly Eremeyev scored a goal in the Oct. 19 3:2 Barys victory...
Upon gaining its independence in 1991, Kazakhstan became the world’s fourth largest nuclear power, only to voluntarily renounce its entire atomic arsenal shortly thereafter. We closed the world’s second...
Civil servants are vitally important to any nation, whether developing or more established. The dedicated men and women who serve as liaisons between a government’s laws and services and...
An independent Kazakhstan inherited many things from the Soviet Union when it collapsed, including a rather unwieldy and cumbersome bureaucracy. As the country began reforms to build a market...
Exports of Kazakhstan agricultural and food products to Customs Union countries shipped between January and July increased by 72 percent compared to the same period of last year, Minister...
Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov met his counterpart from Singapore Grace Fu on Oct. 21 during her visit dedicated to the 20 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations between...
On Oct. 16, President Nursultan Nazarbayev attended a Senate session, where he introduced candidates for the positions of Senate speaker and chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev...
ASTANA – Rahim Oshakbayev, deputy chairman of the Kazakhstan National Chamber of Entrepreneurs, calls the new body “a big breakthrough and a big reform”. The new chamber will benefit...
ASTANA – A new political doctrine was adopted and strategies and responsibilities for the coming decades were laid out during the Oct. 18 15th Congress of the Nur Otan...
ASTANA – At an Oct. 22 press conference, representatives from winning American architectural company Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (AS+GG) and the EXPO 2017 technical council and organisational company...
HELSINKI, Oct. 20 – Leading international experts, diplomats, representatives of international organisations and nongovernmental organisation (NGO) activists in the field of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament gathered on Oct. 18-19...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev said the country was “on the right track” in its process of transitioning from Russian to the Kazakh language during his address to top-level...
ASTANA – Israeli Ambassador to Kazakhstan Eliyahu Tasman told The Astana Times in an exclusive interview that the two countries are in the midst of a flurry of cooperative...
KAZAKHSTAN – Comments by World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Director Pascal Lamy may indicate that Kazakhstan’s long-standing bid to join the organisation could finally be accepted before the end...
ASTANA – Dinara Zhakazhbayeva, a twenty-two-year-old graduate of East Kazakhstan State University, was crowned Miss Astana 2013 at the city competition’s glitzy grand finale on Oct. 12 at the...
ASTANA – The Kazakh capital will learn on Oct. 23 whether it has won the right to host the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) to be held in 2017....
KAZAKHSTAN – Comments by World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Director Pascal Lamy may indicate that Kazakhstan’s long-standing bid to join the organisation could finally be accepted before the end...
The Zhambyl region in the south of Kazakhstan with its capital in Taraz has in recent years begun reclaiming its fame as one of the most powerful industrial regions....
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev recently tasked Almaty Akim (Mayor) Akhmetzhan Yessimov to continue developing Almaty’s infrastructure and underlined that tourism is to play a key role in the...
ASTANA – The Astana EXPO 2017 national company has completed the final version of the 200-page registration dossier and has submitted it to the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE) for...
PARIS – An exhibition celebrating the 100 anniversary of the birth of People’s Artist of Kazakhstan Aubakir Ismailov took place Oct. 7-12 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. “A...
Zhambyl oblast continues to lead the country in developing green technologies with nine renewable energy projects worth $390 million and a total energy output of 186 megawatts being implemented...
ASTANA – The fourth round of two-day negotiations on a new enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and Kazakhstan started on Oct. 9 in Astana....
ALMATY – The debut collection of Kazakhstan fashion designer Aizhan Zhaksybay was well received during the recent Paris Fashion Week with several large European shops expressing interest in purchasing...
ASTANA – At the plenary session of the Mazhilis (the lower chamber of Kazakhstan’s Parliament) on Oct. 9 chaired by Speaker of the Chamber Nurlan Nigmatulin, a package of...
ASTANA – Gumilev Eurasian National University on Oct. 10 hosted an evening of Jose Manuel Cano, renowned Spanish guitar player and master of playing flamenco on guitar. The concert...
ASTANA – Designer Saken Zhaxybayev previewed his newest spring/summer cruise collection in Astana on Oct. 11 before its official presentation in Almaty in December. Guests in the capital got...
ASTANA – On Oct. 10, the capital of Kazakhstan hosted the Astana International Auto Salon 2013 international automobile exhibition for the first time. Automakers from 14 countries including Germany,...
ASTANA – This year’s Kazenergy forum on Oct. 8-9 reflected on the future of conventional energy in a time of shifting demand, possible scarcity, new technologies and the pressures...
Pretoria hosted the third round of political consultations between the Foreign Ministries of Kazakhstan and South Africa co-chaired by Kazakhstan Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Sarybay and Deputy Foreign Minister...
ASTANA – At the end of the first year of the Kazakhstan 2050 state programme, President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the ministers and listened to their reports on developments in...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s relationship with Germany has never been better and the Central Asian nation is now considered more of a partner with Germany than it used to, German...
