- Wednesday, 19 August, 2026
- Almaty 79 °F / 26 °C
- Astana 63 °F / 17 °C
For nearly 70 years, the Doomsday Clock has shown how close our world is to global catastrophe. The news that on January 22 the clock’s timing has...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is working to expand its cooperation with African nations across the board, Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov told a number of African...
ASTANA – For Lena Toxanbayeva, the saying “it is never too late” has a literal meaning. The 80-year-old grandmother, who had never been beyond Kazakhstan’s borders until...
The Almaty region farmers have demonstrated the collected harvest that has been grown by innovative technologies, zakon.kz reported on June 22. “Today we are holding a seminar...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Academy of Public Administration has joined the Global Network of Schools of Government of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and a...
ASTANA – National Bank Chairman Kairat Kelimbetov announced widening the tenge’s trading band against the U.S. dollar at a Central Communications Service briefing July 15. The lower...
ASTANA – Almaty-based quartet Qazaq Quartet was named a laureate of the June 14-21 International Contest Award in Padua, Italy, liter.kz reported. The young musicians, Timur Talanov...
ASTANA – The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan issued a statement on July 15 In which it welcomed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action over the Iranian nuclear...
“Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie,” a book aimed at children and young teenagers by American author Jordan Sonnenblick, was presented in the Sapargali Begalin State Children’s Library in...
It would be early to rate the popularity of yoga in Kazakhstan from five years ago, since the idea of this ancient practice was not welcomed very...
ASTANA – Alibek Koylakayev, a leading designer-artist in one of the Astana souvenir companies, has been in Kazakhstan for only two years, but in that time has...
ASTANA – The first Kazakh-German forum on energy and infrastructure networks was held July 14 in the city. The delegations, headed by Kazakh Ministry of Investment and...
ASTANA – This May saw another release of falcons from the United Arab Emirates into their natural habitat in western Kazakhstan, thanks to the Sheikh Zayed Falcon...
The Almaty Zoo will undergo a 483 million tenge (US$2.6 million) facelift beginning in December, according to Almaty TV. Part of the funding will come from zoo...
Nearly 400 families in the Uralsk region’s Priuralye area received keys to state-funded affordable housing apartments as part of the country’s Astana Day celebrations. Arman Utegulov, deputy...
ASTANA – By year 2020, the share of innovatively active enterprises is expected to increase to 20 percent of all enterprises, announced Laura Sadykova, deputy director of the...
Seventeen-year-old Kazakh pianist Alim Beisembayev won $10,000 and first place at the first Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition on June 28 at Texas Christian University in Fort...
ALMATY – After a brilliant victory over Italy, Kazakhstan’s Davis Cup team is readying for its fourth Davis Cup quarterfinals appearance in five years. They will face...
ASTANA – Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler Dastan Zarlykhanov from the Akmola region won gold in the 55-kilogrammes category at the July 9-12 2015 Junior Asian Free Style, Greco-Roman...
WASHINGTON, DC – As Janet Givens watched the terrible events of September 11, 2001, unfold, and the subsequent U.S. “global war on terror,” she felt she needed...
ASTANA – The main cause of the mysterious “sleeping sickness” that has been plaguing the Krasnogorsk and Kalachi villages in the country’s Akmola region is the combined...
ASTANA – The European football season started for three Kazakh contenders with the first qualification round of the Europa League on July 2 and 9. Two of...
World Population Day 2015 reminds us that women and girls are particularly vulnerable in humanitarian emergencies – but also play an active role in helping their communities...
It does not matter who or what you are, but bold ambitions are never enough on their own. They always have to be matched with a practical...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev travelled to Ufa, Russia July 9-10 to take part in the fifteenth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the seventh summit of...
National oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) plans to sell 50 percent of its shares in the consortium developing the giant Kashagan oil field, Reuters reports. KMG...
French supermarket chain Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, will be expanding into Kazakhstan, Forbes.kz reports. The first Carrefour store is expected to open in...
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations Durga Prasad Bhattarai and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Kairat Abdrakhmanov signed...
Kazakhstan’s newest airline, Qazaq Air, was presented on July 6 at Astana International Airport. The airline is fully owned by the Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Welfare Fund and...
ASTANA – A new study by the UN Development Programme in Kazakhstan in cooperation with the Centre for Legal Policy Research and the Centre for Public Opinion...
