Altyn Adam World exhibition tour opens in North Macedonia
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh National Museum opened The Great Steppe: History and Culture exhibition July 11 at the Macedonian National Archaeological Museum in Skopje. The display, part of the Altyn Adam (Golden Man) World international exhibition, will afford residents an opportunity to see the mysteries of the vast area. The Altyn Adam World exhibition tour…
Kazakh government plans to provide 46,000 people with new skills this year
NUR-SULTAN – The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, in conjunction with the Centre for the Development of Labour Resources, has revised the approach for selecting educational institutions to conduct short-term training courses as part of the Enbek state programme to develop productive employment and mass entrepreneurship in 2017-2021. The ministry expects the change will…
KazAvtoProm increases car sales, number of domestically-assembled cars hikes
NUR-SULTAN – KazAvtoProm, the Kazakh Union of Automotive Enterprises, sold 24,700 new passenger and light commercial vehicles in the country from January-May, a 19.9-percent increase year-on-year. More than half of the cars, or 13,745 vehicles, were assembled domestically. The share increased from 47.1 in 2018 to 55.6 percent this year, reported ranking.kz. The number of…
Kazakhstan to create more favourable conditions for ethnic brethren returning from abroad
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan is attempting to create better conditions for oralmans (ethnic Kazakhs leaving in other states and returning to their historic motherland)) by improving the legislation concerning them and creating additional adaptation and integration centres, said Vice Minister of Labour and Social Security Akmadi Sarbasov. According to the current legislation, oralmans who want to…
Executing debt relief for approximately 500,000 Kazakhstan citizens to cost $274 million over two months, say ministers
NUR-SULTAN – Approximately 105 billion tenge (US$274.32 million) will be required to execute President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decree to provide debt relief to some of the country’s most vulnerable groups, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alikhan Smailov at a recent press conference. Of that figure, approximately 88 billion tenge (US$229.9 million) will…
Almaty Marathon’s open water swim promotes healthy lifestyle for all
NUR-SULTAN – The annual open water swim portion of the Almaty Marathon was held June 30 at the Heaven Club recreation area in the Almaty Region’s Kapshagai reservoir. The event, working in conjunction with the Samruk Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund, organised a special swim for children with autism. Amateur swimmers overcame distances of 500 metres,…
Alexey Lutsenko wins gold in individual, group races at national cycling championships
NUR-SULTAN – Astana Pro Team cyclist Alexey Lutsenko won gold in the 40-kilometre individual race June 26 and the 162-kilometre group race June 30 at the Akmola Region’s Kazakhstan National Time Trial Championships and Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, respectively. Representing the North Kazakhstan Region, Lutsenko finished the Kazakhstan National Time Trial Championships individual race…
Social spending is largest percentage of Kazakh budget in first half 2019
NUR-SULTAN – Spending on social programmes accounted for the largest part of Kazakhstan’s government spending from January to April. Social assistance spending accounted for 27.6 percent of Kazakhstan’s $9.98 billion state expenditures during that period. Total government spending increased 16.7 percent for that time period year-on-year with spending on social assistance increasing 20 percent to…
Kazakh mobile app provides legal assistance to young families
NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh government unveiled June 25 a mobile app to provide legal assistance to young families, announced Minister of Information and Societal Development Dauren Abayev at a public meeting. The app is not yet available but developers hope it will be available soon through the Apple Store and Google Market. The government created…
Maria Agapova to be first Kazakh woman to compete in UFC world promotion
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s first amateur mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion Maria Agapova has been invited to the second main fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series July 30 in Las Vegas. The winner will sign a contract with the world promoter. Agapova (6-0) will meet Tracy Cortes (5-1),…
More than 200 remote Kazakh villages to get broadband internet by September
NUR-SULTAN – More than 200 remote villages will receive broadband internet connection by Sept. 1, reported the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry press service. Fibre optic line construction in villages in the Kyzylorda, Pavlodar, Turkestan and Zhambyl regions will be completed in three months, giving 201 villages access to broadband internet. In…
Kazakh healthcare action plan shows results: screening exam identifies early stages of illnesses in more than half a million children
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 in approximately 522,000 youngsters, noted Minister of Healthcare Yelzhan Birtanov at the June 18 meeting with the population. “Currently, measures are being taken to cure them. Children with…
Kazakh mortgage programme helps thousands of military personnel acquire housing
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 of the Armed Forces. The new model makes it possible to acquire housing using a mortgage loan under programmes of second-tier banks. Since the beginning of the new…
Kazakh graduating high school students undertaking Unified National Testing June 20-30
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, of which 96,000 or 72 percent are senior high school students. “Today, Kazakhstan launched UNT,” wrote Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in a June 20 Tweet. “I commissioned the…
Gasoline prices drop in Kazakhstan as country reaches sufficient supply for domestic market
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 increase exports. According to May data, average prices in Kazakhstan dropped 6.9 percent for AI-92 gasoline, down to 147.6 tenge (US$0.38) per litre; 3.8 percent for AI-95/96, down…
Indian investors to build ski resort, noodle factory in Turkestan Region
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 to attract Spanish and Swiss specialists to assist with the ski resort. Meirzhan Myrzaliyev, the region’s deputy akim (governor), met in Almaty with CG Global board chair Binod…
Kazakhstan holds free digital literacy courses
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 programmes throughout the regions. The courses will develop human capital as part of the Digital Kazakhstan state programme, which includes achieving 80 percent digital literacy in the country.…
Kazakhstan’s digitisation generates $578 million for economy in 2018
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s digitisation efforts generated $578 million for its economy in 2018, said Kazakh Vice Minister of Digital Development, Defence and Aerospace Industry Ablaikhan Ospanov at the June 12-14 International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Summit in Nur-Sultan. IDC forecasts that 30 percent of Global 2000 companies will allocate at least 10…
Tokayev set to win Kazakhstan’s presidential election with 70 percent, exit poll predicts
NUR-SULTAN – Incumbent President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is expected to win the June 9 presidential election receiving the support of 70.13 per cent of the voters who cast their ballots, results of a nation-wide exit poll suggested. The results, released immediately after midnight of June 10, suggest that Tokayev won a clear victory over…
Kazakh Housing Construction Savings Bank completes 2019 plan for issuing military personnel mortgages
NUR-SULTAN – The Housing Construction Saving Bank of Kazakhstan (HCSBK) has fully disbursed funds for the 2019 military personnel housing programme. The programme started May 2 and ended May 27, as the bank announced it was completed ahead of schedule. The bank issued 680 loans worth 10.7 billion tenge ($US27.9 million). Another 3,143 loan applications…
Kazakhstan launches ‘Single Window’ process for all import-export documents
NUR-SULTAN – All import and export documentation in Kazakhstan can now be obtained through Single Window, according to the State Revenue Committee press service. The change, implemented by this Ministry of Finance committee and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is part of a larger initiative to promote operations and make them more…
Kazakh athletes pave way for Summer Olympics by participating in licensed competitions through June 2020
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh national teams will take part in 28 licensed world championships, 19 Asian championships and 12 world-qualifying tournaments this year to secure their Olympic quota. Individual athletes will participate in three world championships, 19 Asian and 18 world-qualifying tournaments and more than 50 competitions as part of the World Cup to win licensing…
“Aladdin” film in Kazakh draws record attendance in Nur-Sultan premiere
NUR-SULTAN – The film “Aladdin” directed by Guy Ritchie was released May 23 in Kazakh in the capital and a record 3,000 viewers watched the film in Kazakh during its first weekend. The figure doubled the performance of the film “Dumbo” released in Kazakh. The Meloman Company, the largest home entertainment company in Kazakhstan, stressed…
Kazakh National Bank presents investment activities overview
NUR-SULTAN – As of May 1, the portfolio of pension assets of the Single Accumulated Pension Fund (SAPF) was 9,761.9 billion tenge (US$25.5 billion). Cash and financial instruments denominated in tenge amounted to 6,613.1 billion tenge (US$17.3 billion) or 67.7 percent, denominated in foreign currency – 3,148.8 billion tenge (US$8.2 billion) or 32.3 percent, according…
Authorities seek to provide housing for large families in capital
NUR-SULTAN – Nur-Sultan Akimat (city administration) issued certificates for 150 apartments for rent to large families in the capital’s housing queue June 4 as part of the Berekely Baspana rental housing programme and to mark the Day of Kazakh State Symbols, reports its press service. There are more than 46,000 people in the capital’s housing…
