Kazakh President Visits Arys One Year After Ammo Depot Accident

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the town of Arys in the Turkestan Region on Aug. 20 and checked in on the places that have gone...


Kazakh Military Doctors Treat Patients Caught in Blast in Lebanon

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh military doctors are currently in Lebanon providing medical care to people who suffered from a devastating blast in Beirut, reported Kazakh Defense Ministry press...


Kazakh President Instructs Government to Step Up Fight Against Corruption 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stressed the importance of tightening measures to fight corruption in the country during a meeting that explored the government’s efforts to...


Kazakh Officials Brief Diplomatic Missions on COVID-19 Situation 

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy and Kazakh Foreign Ministry briefed the diplomatic missions in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan on the latest government efforts...


Kazakhstan To Launch New Electric Bus Plant in Karaganda Region

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will launch a new plant to produce Yutong Chinese passenger buses in December in Saran, the Karaganda Region, the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and...


Council on Environmental Education, New Green School Curriculum to Be Established in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Magzum Mirzagaliyev announced plans to establish a coordinating council on environmental education, the ministry’s press service...


Kazakh Foreign Ministry to Create Agency to Systematize KazAID

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) plans to form an agency to systematize official development assistance (ODA) from Kazakhstan to Central Asian countries, the...


Kazakhstan’s Nur Otan Ruling Party Begins Registration For Primaries

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s ruling party Nur Otan has kicked off registration to the party’s first primaries scheduled for Oct. 1-3, reported Nur Otan press service. The registration...


Kazakh Government to Provide 1.22 Million People With Jobs, Says Labor and Social Protection Minister

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government will provide jobs for 1.22 million people in total with the help of state programs by the end of the year, said...


Kazakh Diplomats Donate 150 Laptops to School Students To Ensure Access to Education During Extended Quarantine

NUR-SULTAN – The Association of Kazakh diplomats recently raised 26 million tenge (US$62,256.6) and purchased 150 personal computers for children from low-income families, reported the Kazakh Foreign...


Kazakhstan Eases Travel Restrictions but COVID-19 Test Still a Must for Travelers from Poland, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan has updated the regulations for passengers arriving in the country, according to the latest decree of the nation’s chief sanitary doctor.  The document categorizes...


Kazakh Embassy Employees Participate in Bike for Peace Anti-Nuclear Action in Norway

NUR-SULTAN – Employees of the Kazakh Embassy in Norway took part in a bike ride in support of a world without nuclear weapons which was organized by...


Kazakhstan’s Presidential Youth Cadre Reserve to Enter New Selection Round in 2021

NUR-SULTAN  – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has instructed his government to start the second selection round to the nation’s presidential youth personnel reserve in 2021, reported Akorda...


Kazakhstan’s Quality of Life, Happiness Levels Enter Top 50th Spot in the World 

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Statistics Committee annually conducts an acceptance sampling of households to estimate the Quality of Life of the Population. As of Aug. 11, the...


Kazakh Plant Launches Domestic Computer Production to Equip School Students With Laptops

NUR-SULTAN – A Kazakh plant will now be tasked with supplying domestic laptops named ZiK computers as part of the governmental goal to ensure all school goers...


Archaeologists Uncover New Historical Finds Near Khoja Ahmed Yassawi Mausoleum

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh archaeologists have discovered historical objects on the territory of the Khoja Ahmed Yassawi mausoleum in the Turkestan Region, the Azret Sultan state historical and...


More Than 600 Kazakh Medical Organizations Resume Routine Medical Services as Corona Situation Stabilizes

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Social Health Insurance Fund published a list of medical organizations that will be resuming their work with opening dates, the fund’s press service...


Startup Funds Experience Dynamic Growth in Kazakhstan, Offers Advanced Solutions to Modern Needs

NUR-SULTAN – Startup companies in Kazakhstan showed a positive growth trend and have attracted about 5 billion tenge (US$11 million) of investments in the first half of...


Kazakhstan’s Journey Towards Economic Diversification

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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Congratulates Kazinform With 100-Years Anniversary of Reporting

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated the Kazinform state news agency on their 100th anniversary, reported inform.kz. The news agency started Aug. 13 in 1920 as...


Kazakhstan to Partially Lift Quarantine Restrictions Starting Aug. 17

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will lift lockdown restrictions on Aug. 17, according to the decision of the state commission chaired by Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin.  During their...


Chairman of Kazakhstan’s Security Council Meets with Prime Minister to Discuss Further Economic Development

NUR-SULTAN – The Chairman of the Security Council, Nursultan Nazarbayev, discussed the results of the country’s economic development over the last seven months and plans for the...


Seventeen Senate Deputies Elected in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN – Seventeen Senate deputies from the nation’s 14 regions and cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent were elected to the Senate, an upper chamber of the...


Kazakhstan to Resume Flights With Seven Countries Starting Aug. 17

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will resume flights to Belarus, Egypt, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine starting Aug. 17, reported the Kazakh Civil Aviation...


Kazakh Archeologists Find Ancient Khanaka Sufi Shrine in Turkestan

NUR-SULTAN – Scientists have found a khanaka, an ancient Sufi shrine, at the Kultobe settlement in Turkestan, during archaeological excavations, the press service of the Kazakh Research...


Central Asia to Cooperate With Japan to Modernize Economy

NUR-SULTAN – The heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Central Asia and Japan discussed prospects for cooperation to address the adverse effects of the pandemic on...


Kazakh Healthcare Minister Visits Turkey to Meet With Counterpart

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Healthcare Minister Alexey Tsoy visited medical facilities in Ankara and met with Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca during the visit of the Kazakh delegation...


Abai’s Values Stand Test of Time, Says Kazakh President

NUR-SULTAN – As Kazakhstan celebrated the Day of Abai for the first time on Aug. 10 by commemorating the 175th anniversary of a Kazakh poet and philosopher...


Kazakh Senate Elections to Include 46 Candidates on Ballot

NUR-SULTAN –  Forty-six candidates will appear on the ballot in the elections to the Kazakh Senate, the upper house of the Parliament which is to be held...


Kazakh Defence Minister Reports on Work of Armed Forces, Military Medical Cooperation With Russia

NUR-SULTAN – Over the course of the pandemic, the Kazakh Armed Forces have been directly engaging the enemy in the fight against the coronavirus infection. Kazakh Defense...