NUR-SULTAN – The action plan to develop primary healthcare in Kazakhstan is showing results. The national screening programme, which examined five million children in 2018, revealed illnesses...
NUR-SULTAN – More than 3,000 Kazakh Armed Forces personnel’s families purchased housing in 2018 under a mortgage loan programme created by the Kazakh government specifically for members...
NUR-SULTAN – The Ministry of Healthcare plans to adjust its reimbursement for medical procedures to facilitate 30 percent salary increases for 400,000 medical workers in 2020, Minister...
NUR-SULTAN – The Bulgar Tatar ethno cultural association in Aktau (Mangystau Region) assists those who wish to know and preserve Tatar culture, traditions and customs. The ability...
NUR-SULTAN – Senior students in Kazakhstan’s high schools are undertaking Unified National Testing (UNT) June 20-30. This year, more than 117,000 people applied to take the exam,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Karaganda Region’s convenient location, rich historical and cultural heritage, unique architectural monuments and sacred sites make it a unique tourist destination. Its diversity of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh tennis player Yulia Putintseva beat Japan’s Naomi Osaka, ranked the best women’s player in the world, during the second round of the Nature Valley...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s gasoline prices have dropped, and an Energyprom study found that the country has sufficient supply for the domestic market and is planning to gradually...
NUR-SULTAN – Japanese-Kazakh relations have acquired a partnership character, as the countries are developing economic ties, trade and investment, cultural and educational cooperation. “The country grows not...
NUR-SULTAN – Chaudhary Group (CG Global) is planning to build a ski resort, instant noodle factory and food park in the Turkestan Region. The Indian company intends...
NUR-SULTAN – Karaganda Region will launch a pilot project on compulsory social health insurance from September. The pilot will test practices for providing services, identifying insurance status...
NUR-SULTAN – Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Governor Kairat Kelimbetov and an AIFC delegation met June 18 with the executives of Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and more...
NUR-SULTAN – The Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry and Zerde Holding, the national information and communication technology (ICT) company, have launched digital literacy training...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh Ministry of Justice plans to create an intellectual property rights coordination centre to secure investments and protect intellectual property using the experience of...
NUR-SULTAN – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) is opening competence centres at Kazakhstan’s major universities to improve investment literacy. The initiative also intends to help develop...
NUR-SULTAN – K-Chopsticks opened June 11 with a unique collection of Korean tableware featuring approximately 400 works by 46 renowned applied art masters from Jeonju. The exhibit,...
NUR-SULTAN – The Kyzyolrda Region is famous as the home of Korkyt Ata, the ninth-century Kazakh philosopher, thinker and creator of the kobyz (stringed musical instrument). The...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev directed June 17 the creation of the Ministry of Trade and Integration and the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev outlined his views of the priorities for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at a June 13 meeting of the heads of...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s digitisation efforts generated $578 million for its economy in 2018, said Kazakh Vice Minister of Digital Development, Defence and Aerospace Industry Ablaikhan Ospanov at...
NUR-SULTAN – Nazarbayev University’s (NU) First Annual Gender Forum gathered more than 100 researchers, policymakers and practitioners June 13-14 to discuss challenges and changes in gender in...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev participated in the June 14-15 plenary session of the 5th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in...
NUR-SULTAN – Cattle from Russia and the Czech Republic were imported to the Pavlodar Region for its animal husbandry development, Kazinform reported June 10. The 2,485 head...
NUR-SULTAN – Doing business is easiest in Almaty, Aktau and Aktobe among the 16 locations in Kazakhstan rated by the second World Bank’s Subnational Doing Business in...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan and Japan are negotiating the export of Kazakh horse meat to the Japanese market, where it will be used to prepare the delicacy basashi...
NUR-SULTAN – Prime Minister Askar Mamin reviewed the Akmola region’s socio-economic development during a June 15 working trip, finding that the region had seen a steady increase...
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh enterprises will soon begin exporting camel wool and powdered camel and horse milk to China, the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture announced June 6. Negotiations...
NUR-SULTAN – The IT HUB technopark opened in Uralsk, West Kazakhstan Region, June 7, as a part of the nationwide Digital Kazakhstan programme. The technopark is intended...
NUR-SULTAN – Turkish YDA Holding company will invest 110 billion tenge (US$286.24 million) in the construction and equipment of two medical facilities in Petropavlovsk and Turkestan. The...
NUR-SULTAN – The classic ballet “Giselle,” written by opera and ballet composer Adolphe Adam and first staged in 1841 in Paris, premiered June 14 in the Kazakh...