AI to be used in Kazakh healthcare

ASTANA – Kazakhstan is planning to launch a pilot programme incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology treatment by the end of this year. The technology will help...


Altyn Zhurek award winners named

ASTANA – The names of Kazakhstan’s newest charity givers were announced in  October. Altyn Zhurek awards ceremony at Abay State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Almaty....


Shymkent hosts AgriTek 2017

ASTANA – More than 50 companies from Kazakhstan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Uzbekistan exhibited products including agricultural machinery and equipment, irrigation technologies, fertilisers, protective equipment for...


Number of transit flights through Kazakhstan increased by 5.2 percent

ASTANA – The Civil Aviation Committee, which recently reported the number of transit flights (indirect flights with a connection) through Kazakh airspace has grown by 5.2 percent,...


Kazakh President addresses global issues in Astana Club speech

ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Astana Club, a neutral platform to debate public issues based on Chatham House rules, during its Nov. 13 third...


Role of new regional policy of Uzbekistan in political and economic processes in Central Asia

Vladimir Norov, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and current Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of...


Madina Nurshayeva wins gold at ASBC Asian women’s boxing championship

ASTANA – Kazakhstan won one gold, one silver and four bronze medals at the ASBC (Asian Boxing Confederation) Women’s Boxing Championships, held Nov. 2-8 in Ho Chi...


On first visit to Kazakhstan, GE Digital CEO says digital transformation transforms global industry

ASTANA – Bill Ruh, CEO of GE Digital and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of GE, lectured at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business Nov. 14 about the...


Kazakhstan and Africa step up South-South development exchange

ASTANA – The capital is serving as the host Nov. 14-17 for the South-South Development Exchange on Economic Diversification and Industrialisation in Africa symposium in line with...


EXPO site to host AIFC, educational centre

ASTANA – EXPO 2017 may have concluded, but that doesn’t mean the grounds have become a ghost town. Once the international pavilions have been reconstructed, the vacated...


Astana Club’s third meeting focuses on viability of cooperation in Eurasia

ASTANA – More than 60 participants from 28 countries, including prominent politicians, scholars and leading experts, spoke about global policy issues requiring resolution, sanctions confrontations and prospects...


Sundet Baigozhin becomes Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s newest soloist

ASTANA –Astana Opera House principal soloist and Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Sundet Baigozhin will soon be signing a contract with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, reported the...


Kostanai teacher creates steampunk masterpieces

ASTANA – Dmitry Govorkov, a teacher at Kostanai Construction College, has an interesting hobby. He creates carnival masks, notebooks and jewellery boxes in steampunk style, using mechanisms...


Fifth Abai Keshi charity gala dinner raises funds for education

ASTANA – The life and works of Kazakhstan’s most famous poet were celebrated Oct. 29 as the Abai Social Trust Foundation held its fifth annual Abai Keshi (Abai’s...


Kazakh fintech start-up holds its first global ICO

ASTANA – LendEx financial-tech (fintech) start-up plans to initiate an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) using the Ethereum platform based on block chain technology. The investments will be...


EU-Central Asia ministerial meeting reiterates mutual commitment to cooperation

ASTANA – Participants in the Nov. 10 13th European Union – Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan adopted a joint communiqué reconfirming mutual commitment to...


Kazakhstan’s adaption to changing world should help it succeed

President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s article “Course towards the future: modernising Kazakhstan’s identity” is well written and should be of great interest to many around the world. He displays a...


Global Shapers Astana Hub empowers youth, provides channels for action

ASTANA – The Global Shapers community empowers youth and contributes to driving change and action to address salient local issues. Former capital hub curator Aiman Yedigeyeva and...


Turgai geoglyphs to host pilgrim tourism int’l forum in 2018

ASTANA – An international forum on developing Kazakh pilgrim tourism and popularising sacred places is planned for next year near the Turgai geoglyphs, said deputy head of...


Subsistence level and pension reform increases to be put into effect next year

ASTANA – Kazakh Vice Minister of Labour and Social Security Svetlana Zhakupova recently explained the upcoming changes in the country’s pension system. Solidarity pension will rise by...


Experts say Kazakhstan’s European aspirations merit support, recognition

ASTANA – The issues of Kazakhstan’s identity relating to how it sees itself, its future and its place in the world are drawing increased interest among scholars...


Central Asian nations agree to increase cooperation within region and with EU

ASTANA – Foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan signed Nov. 10 in Samarkand a programme of cooperation between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of...


Kazakh, Russian Presidents discuss developing human capital at interregional forum

ASTANA – A number of interstate, intergovernmental, regional and commercial documents were signed Nov. 9 at the 14th Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in...


Kazakhstan, China discuss improving controls at Khorgos border trading centre

ASTANA – Kazakh and Chinese customs authorities agreed during Nov. 6-8 meetings in Beijing to launch a platform to better control vehicles, goods and individuals on the...


Digital Kazakhstan initiative presented at Web Summit 2017

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s digital economy development programme and opportunities for IT activities were presented Nov.6-7 at the Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon. Deputy Prime Minister Askar Zhumagaliyev...


Nurlan Sauranbayev appointed Shymkent mayor

ASTANA – Nurlan Sauranbayev has been appointed new Akim (Mayor) of Shymkent, the third largest city in Kazakhstan. He replaced Gabidulla Abdrakhimov, who was appointed Secretary of...


Crown Agents brings its experience to Kazakhstan

ASTANA – Crown Agents, one of the world’s leading experts in strategic decision-making for public sector management which has been operating for more than 185 years with...


Kazakh-British investment forum participants sign agreements, enhance cooperation

ASTANA – The Kazakhstan-United Kingdom Investment Forum became the venue Nov. 8 for discussing Kazakhstan’s vast investment opportunities and signing a number of documents between the nations’...


Cosmonaut makes orphanage boy’s dream come true

ASTANA – As part of the Believe in the Dream! Project, the Kazpravda.kz online edition team gave Anatoly “Tolik” Oleinik, a boy living in an Astana orphanage,...


Kazakh expo pavilion to reopen as showcase for green technologies

ASTANA – EXPO 2017 ended in September but Kazakhstan’s eight-floor, spherical national expo pavilion will remain open as the Museum of the Future, showcasing alternative energy technology....