- Friday, 31 July, 2026
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- Astana 95 °F / 35 °C
ASTANA – Environmental concerns were the topic of a conference Sept. 28 in New York on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly session. The session...
ASTANA – KAZ Minerals Bozymchak has invested more than $350 million in the last 10 years to develop Kyrgyzstan’s Bozymchak copper-gold deposit, reported inform.kz. “The necessary...
ASTANA – Medet Chotabayev, one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces, is an opera artist currently preparing for an Australian tour, where he will perform his most difficult...
ASTANA – Additional one-way roads and congestion pricing will decrease traffic jams in the capital, said a city akimat (administration) representative at a Sept. 27 press conference....
ASTANA – Starting in 2020, foreign banks will be allowed to open direct branches in Kazakhstan. Under the country’s commitments upon accession to the World Trade Organisation...
ASTANA – “Find Your B – Find your inner Batyr” podcast founder and presenter Kairzhan Albazarov found himself deeply dissatisfied, anxious and lost in his youth. Thinking...
ASTANA – The Kazakh crime rate has declined, reported Minister of Internal Affairs Kalmukhanbet Kassymov at a Sept. 25 government meeting. In the first eight months of...
ASTANA – Akmola region authorities, public activists and scholars recently revived the 18th century Burabai-Ulytau-Turkestan caravan route, often called Khan Zholy with direct reference to Abylai Khan...
ASTANA – A number of projects introducing digital technologies into Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial complex (AIC) are underway. Full digitisation will increase labour productivity and the export of processed...
ASTANA – First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin and First Vice Premier of the State Council of China and co-Chairman of the Kazakhstan-China Cooperation Committee...
ASTANA – An exhibition supported by Kazakhstan’s national modernisation programme, Ruhani Zhangyru, featuring Kazakh and Central Asian contemporary artists opened September 22 at in Moskva Business Centre....
ASTANA – Kazakhstan allocated 194.3 billion tenge (US$547.96 million) to its regions development programme in 2018, reported Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov at a Sept. 25...
ASTANA – Astana hosted the Social Good Summit Sept. 21, joining countries around the world to explore the role of technology in achieving the United Nations Sustainable...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan announced plans to create a joint communications satellite serving the Central Asian states at a Sept. 21 international conference in the capital....
NEW YORK – Tajikistan assumed the chair of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) during a Sept. 24 meeting of the organisation’s...
ASTANA – Astana will host the eighth World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Global Summit on Urban Tourism in 2019 following a decision taken at the recently concluded similar...
This year Kazakhstan will celebrate the 27th anniversary of its independence. No one can deny that the transformation which the country has undergone during that time has...
ASTANA – As the Kazakh capital is preparing to host the World Petroleum Council Oct. 1-3, The Astana Times talked to Asset Magauov, Director General of KAZENERGY,...
ASTANA – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov and German Minister of State of the Federal Foreign Office Niels Annen discussed bilateral cooperation during their Sept. 17...
The capital hosted the annual international Astana Marathon 2018 Sept. 16 with approximately 5,000 runners from nearly 20 countries, including Australia, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan,...
ASTANA — FC Astana and Ukraine’s Dinamo Kyiv ended their first match of the UEFA Europa League group stage with a 2:2 draw. The match was challenging...
Kazakhstan has long been providing active support for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, helping both financially and by promoting the stabilisation of the situation at the political level....
WARSAW, Sept. 14 – The annual meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw on...
The Nur Otan Party has organised free English language elective courses for 9th-11th grade students in 84 rural districts and centres as part of the English for...
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) and the Turkish government-owned railway company TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş signed an agreement on strategic cooperation at Ankara’s Kazakh-Turkish investment forum Sept. 12, reported...
A novel by Kazakh prose writer Saken Zhunusov called “Amanai and Zamanai” has been translated into English and was recently presented in the framework of the Rukhani...
A delegation of Kazakh Supreme Court judges and representatives of the country’s judicial board and economic courts led by Deputy Minister of Economy Serik Zhumangarin met in...
The US dollar exchange rate fell by 7.6 tenge Sept. 21 relative to similar trades the previous day. The weighted average US dollar rate was 352.09 tenge...
ASTANA – Parents in Astana now have more educational options for their kids, as the first Montessori school in Kazakhstan opened in the capital welcoming first ten...
The nexus between disarmament, arms control and development The idea that disarmament and arms control are connected to development is not new. Article 26 of the Charter...
