Kazakh entrepreneurs produce innovative product that clears oil from soil and air 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh entrepreneurs have produced an innovative product that clears oil spills from soil and air, reported Forbes.kz Oct. 30.  The product was developed by Kazakh...


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Kazakhstan advanced seven spots to 44th place in the Brand Finance annual ranking of 100 national brands. The country sits between New Zealand (45th) and Iran (43rd)...


Kazakhstan losing $11 million monthly due to Russia’s restrictions on coal transit to Ukraine

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is losing $11 million monthly due to Russia’s restricts coal transit to Ukraine through its territory, according to the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and...


Kazakhstan plans to develop its brand in global meat market

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh entrepreneurs plan to promote their own breed of cattle starting next year through the Kazakh Whiteheaded Breed International Council. Plans to create the council...


Kazakhstan to conduct population census in October 2020

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will conduct a comprehensive population census in October 2020. The nationwide survey will be the third since the country’s independence in 1991, with the...


Areket project offers employment to students with hearing impairment, opens adaptive gym in Taldykorgan

NUR-SULTAN – The Areket (Action) social entrepreneurship development project has helped to realise the ideas of the Bolashak Fund and Drugaya Zhizn (Another Life) public foundation in...


Almaty hosts fourth European Film Festival 

NUR-SULTAN – The European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan presented the fourth European Film Festival Nov. 5-7 in Almaty. The programme included 16 films produced by European Union...


IBF names Gennady Golovkin’s opponent

NUR-SULTAN – Gennady Golovkin (40-1-1, 35 КО) will defend his International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight world champion status next year in an IBF-organised fight against Poland’s Kamil...


Kazakh chess players take fourth place at World Youth Olympiad 

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh national chess team took fourth place at the 2019 FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs or International Chess Federation) World Youth Under 16 Chess...


5G to be implemented in Nur-Sultan, Almaty and Shymkent by 2021, says Zhumagaliyev

NUR-SULTAN – A 5G network will be implemented in the capital by 2021, Minister of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry Askar Zhumagaliyev said at the Oct....


Nur-Sultan kicks off Kazakhstan’s first adaptive sports Children’s Paralympic Games 

NUR-SULTAN – Two hundred and twenty children with disabilities competed in five sports Nov. 1-2 at the first adaptive sports Children’s Paralympic Games in the capital. The...


Georgian writer releases book about Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN – Georgian writer Vakhtang Gogoladze presented his book “There, in Kazakhstan” Oct. 31 in Tbilisi, reported zakon.kz. The work is devoted to the country’s hospitality and...


Toll roads will add more than $10 million annually to Kazakh budget

NUR-SULTAN – Toll roads will add more than four billion tenge ($10 million) annually to the Kazakh budget, said Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Beibut Atamkulov...


Kazakh military participates in Unbreakable Brotherhood training in Tajikistan

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh military participated in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Unbreakable Brotherhood 2019 training at the Harb-Maidon training ground in Tajikistan with military representatives...


SOS Children’s Village celebrates 25th anniversary 

NUR-SULTAN – SOS Children’s Village will celebrate its 25th anniversary Nov. 29 and share its achievements. “The work on decreasing the number of orphaned children and making...


Astana Pro Team prepares for next season 

NUR-SULTAN – Astana Pro Team has completed its roster for the 2020 season, reported general manager Alexandre Vinokurov. The team now has 27 athletes, according to the...


Shalabai breeding farm renews Akbas cow breed line, boosts local welfare 

NUR-SULTAN – Shalabai breeding farm has resurrected the Kazakh Akbas cow breed in the namesake village of its origin and rejuvenated life in the dying town through...


Kazakhstan to allocate more than $1 billion to support businesses through 2025

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government will commit 421 billion tenge (US$1.08 billion) to support businesses as part of Business Road Map 2025, said Minister of National Economy...


FlyArystan presents results for first six months of operations

NUR-SULTAN – FlyArystan has carried more than 455,000 passengers with a load factor of 94 percent during its first six months of operations. Since commencing flights on...


Art competition presents perceptions of Kazakhstan through drawings of children

NUR-SULTAN – More than 400 painters age 16 and younger from Kazakhstan and abroad showcased their perception of the modern country in the first Kazakhstan through the...


Local government, entrepreneurs plan to build cannabis textile factory in Almaty region 

NUR-SULTAN – Officials in the Almaty Region recently agreed to assist Kazakh and U.S. entrepreneurs establish a cannabis textile plant in the region. The plant’s products will...


Nur-Sultan hospital to upgrade facilities, medical equipment 

NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan general purpose public hospital No. 2 will be augmented with building connectors, a parking lot expansion and additional medical equipment, said city Akim (Mayor)...


Kazakh pension fund totals $27 billion, includes broad range of assets

NUR-SULTAN – The Unified Accumulation Pension Fund (UAPF) portfolio of pension assets totalled 10.43 trillion tenge (US$26.77 billion) as of Oct. 1, reported the Kazakh National Bank...


Kazakh President visits textile, sewing equipment factory that employs socially vulnerable

NUR-SULTAN – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited the Astana Utaria production and innovation company Nov. 1, noting the quality and relevance of their products and the company’s social...


Aspiring lawyers plead their cases in mock trial competition at AIFC

NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Financial Centre’s (AIFC) Court and International Arbitration Centre (IAC) recently held their second annual Moot, or mock, trial competition final. The competition...


Average car price in Kazakhstan increases 5.6% in first nine months of 2019

NUR-SULTAN – The average cost of a new car in Kazakhstan rose 5.6 percent in the first nine months of 2019 compared to the same period in...


13-year-old singer Daneliya Tuleshova named Kazakh tourism ambassador 

NUR-SULTAN – Thirteen-year-old singer Daneliya Tuleshova was appointed an Kazakh Ambassador of Tourism of Kazakhstan at the ZhasStar festival as part of the Year of Youth celebratory...


Kazakhstan adopts open skies regime at 11 airports starting Nov. 1

NUR-SULTAN – Eleven Kazakh airports adopted an open skies regime Nov. 1, reported the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development press service. The open skies regime allows...


Kazakhstan’s Golden Man shines in Athens 

NUR-SULTAN – The Epigraphic Museum in Athens, Greece, will present The Procession of Altyn Adam (Golden Man) Nov. 11-Dec. 11 through the World’s Museums, reported tengrinews.kz. The...


Kazakh PM offers specific proposals to increase SCO cooperation 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin proposed during the Nov. 1-2 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of Government Council in Tashkent various initiatives to strengthen...