- Friday, 21 August, 2026
- Almaty 86 °F / 30 °C
- Astana 75 °F / 24 °C
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s First President Nursultan Nazarbayev presented Aug. 29 the Nazarbayev Prize for a Nuclear-Free-World and Global Security to the relatives of former International Atomic Energy...
NUR-SULTAN – Teachers’ pay will be raised twofold, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced at the August teacher conference. Educators will no longer need to go to school...
NUR-SULTAN – The draft laws On the Status of the Teacher and On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts on the Status of the Teacher and...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh tennis players Mikhail Kukushkin and Alexander Bublik won their Aug. 27 first round matches at the United States Open Tennis Championship. Kukushkin defeated Roberto...
NUR-SULTAN – Emerging Kazakh artists exhibited their works Aug. 20-24 in capital apartments. The Tribute Album exhibitions series project, first conducted in 2017, was organised by Platforma.projectroom...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s AVANGAR Counter-Strike team advanced from the Aug. 23-26 New Challengers Stage to the Aug. 28-Sept. 1 New Legends Stage in the StarLadder Berlin Major...
NUR-SULTAN – Marking the Aug. 29 International Day against Nuclear Tests, representatives of the world’s nuclear-weapon-free zones discussed ways to strengthen cooperation among participating countries and expand...
The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heat waves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset...
NUR-SULTAN – Almaty graffitists Yerzhan Tanayev and Ali Zakir, known as Tigrohaud Crew, have created dozens of murals throughout Kazakhstan as well as India, Russia and Turkey....
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Museum will open a 3D multimedia hall Aug. 29, the eve of the nation’s Constitution Day, to enhance visitors’ impressions of the...
NUR-SULTAN – The Qpost postal operator’s first online chatbot recently began helping customers on the post.kz website and Facebook page. On Aug. 28, it will also appear...
NUR-SULTAN – Thirty-five of 39 target indicators of the 2016-2019 Densaulyk (Health) state programme were met in the capital from January-June, said the city’s Public Health Department...
NUR-SULTAN – Sexual abuse must be qualified as a serious offence rather than a medium-gravity crime, Mazhilis (lower house of Parliament) deputy Nurzhan Altayev said at an...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh capital will host the 5th Astana Marathon charity race Sept. 8. People of all abilities can participate individually and in pairs, families and...
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin, during a government session on Aug. 20 discussed the work of the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). An opinion by columnist...
NUR-SULTAN – Jezkiik 2019 Ulytau Festival brought together the Ulytau International Tourism Forum, the International Rural Youth Forum and the Ethnic Music and Food Festival on Aug....
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian School of Economics and BI Norwegian Business School recently released the International Business report focusing on Kazakhstan. The project...
The dream of young Almaty sport climber Rishat Khaibullin has come true, as he won the bronze medal at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World...
According to estimates, the global e-commerce market will grow from $2.8 trillion in 2018 to $4.9 trillion in 2023. China is an indisputable leader with $672...
Kazakhstan’s employed population increased 1.5 percent to 8.8 million by the end of July. Of this figure, 66.7 percent of those aged 15 and over are employed....
Seventy-five percent of the construction of KazMunayGas’ (KMG) Saryarka gas pipeline was completed as of Aug. 16, which is 796.6 kilometres of the pipeline, reports the KMG...
Seventy years ago this week, the first nuclear explosion took place at the now shut down Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. A momentous event, its shock waves were...
NUR-SULTAN – Outreach mentorship and employment services launched in early August at the Shymkent Youth Resources Centre, reported 24.kz. The primary mission is to employ and motivate...
NUR-SULTAN – The Central Election Commission (CEC) investigation did not find any evidence of possible data leaks in posting on foreign servers, said the Centre for Analysis...
NUR-SULTAN – Early-season preparation helped Almaty’s Nauryzbay District emergency officials respond to and avert an August mudflow. The mudflow risk was in the Nauryzbay District, near the...
NUR-SULTAN – The struggle for a nuclear weapons free world can be won because people understand its importance, as represented by the hundreds of thousands of people...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh professional boxer Gennady Golovkin will face Sergiy Derevyanchenko from Ukraine for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) World Middleweight Championship title at Madison Square Garden...
NUR-SULTAN – Emoji Café, which only employs individuals with hearing difficulties, is the idea of Azamat Bazylov. An anaesthesiologist-resuscitator at Nur-Sultan Oncology Centre, he sold his house...
NUR-SULTAN – Nazarbayev University hosted Aug. 16-Aug. 20 the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Conference (HPAIR), gathering 500 students from the world’s top universities to address...
NUR-SULTAN – Wildberries, Russia’s largest international online retailer, will be opening a branch within the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and building a large distribution centre in...
