Kazakh minister says industrial production growing five percent

ASTANA – Minister for Investments and Development Zhenis Kassymbek reviewed the nation’s industrial production at the Aug. 14 government meeting saying  industrial production has increased 5.1 percent...


Kazakhstan updates business development road map, improves conditions for entrepreneurs

ASTANA – The Kazakh government updated the country’s business development road map devised to ensure sustainable and balanced growth in regional entrepreneurship, support existing businesses and create...


Kazakh government to provide cities and villages with 5G Internet connection next year

ASTANA – Kazakh officials discussed the progress of projects to provide broadband Internet access and introduce 5G and equally high-quality data centres in both urban and rural...


Salben Comics brings Marvel Comics to Kazakhstan, publishes first Kazakh comic

ASTANA – Salben Comics, the Almaty-based publisher founded in December 2013, has brought Marvel comics to Kazakhstan. Known as the inspiration for movies and TV series adaptations,...


Kazakh singer NAsia brings passion and authenticity to jazz

ASTANA – Kazakh singer Naziya Alzhanova, better known to her listeners as NAsia, is making waves at home and abroad in jazz, funk, blues and soul. In...


Moskva Business Centre – unique multifunctional complex in heart of Astana

ASTANA – Moskva Business Centre, a multifunctional complex containing offices, conference halls, a shopping area, restaurants and sports clubs, is a landmark project symbolising friendship between Moscow...


Legendary boxer Roy Jones meets with Kazakh national team boxers

ASTANA – Legendary boxer Roy Jones, 1988 Olympic Games silver medalist and many times world champion, recently met with boxers from the national boxing team of Kazakhstan...


Historic Caspian Sea convention caps decades of negotiation

Followers of international politics will know the complex challenges of negotiating to resolve issues affecting several countries, where each side is understandably looking to protect its national...


Cooperation with EU is source of development for Kazakhstan

Strengthening Kazakhstan’s global authority goes hand in hand with the improvement of relations with the states forming part of the European Union. The programme, Path to Europe,...


Kazakhstan launches a multimodal transport hub on Caspian shores

AKTAU – President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially inaugurated the ferry complex of the Kuryk Port – a multimodal hub on the shore of Caspian Sea on Aug. 11....


Caspian Sea nations sign historic convention laying solid framework for use of resource-rich sea

AKTAU – After two decades of diplomatic efforts, the five Caspian Sea nations signed the convention on the water reservoir legal status that had been in the...


Kazakh tenge hits record low, as National Bank says slide due to geopolitical tensions, emerging markets volatility

ASTANA – The Kazakh tenge continued to lose its value against U.S. dollar as it hit its all-time low Aug. 13, valuing 363.15 per $1. That number...


National news in brief

The Denis Ten Public Foundation will be created in Almaty, according to Kazinform. The city administration also plans to open a figure skating academy and hold an...


External news in brief

Euronews NBC will air a segment of “Adventures” in September featuring Kazakhstan, reported inform.kz. “Adventures,” one of the channel’s most popular programmes with an audience of more...


Business News in Brief

Leroy Merlin, the largest French retailer selling home and interior products, building materials, and repair and garden products, opened its first supermarket in Kazakhstan in Almaty Aug....


Economic News in Brief

The demand for Kazakh cement is growing in Uzbekistan, 24.kz reports, with consumers especially interested in goods produced in Shymkent, Karaganda and Taraz. According to construction market...


Astana Opera’s fifth season ends with fanfares

ASTANA – Astana Opera’s fifth season coincided this summer with the capital’s 20th anniversary, and world opera and ballet masterpieces filled the halls of Kazakhstan’s largest opera...


Regional, international cooperation key to preserving trans-boundary rivers, lakes

Whatever the extraordinary progress of the last century, it was also an era in which the reckless exploitation of natural resources and casual damage to the environment...


Kazakh youth judo team wins bronze, individuals win gold at European Championships in Berlin

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s youth judo team placed third at the recent European Judo Championships in Berlin. Individual team members also two gold medals and five medals total....


Fighting brain drain: Ukrainian investors envision innovation park in Astana

ASTANA – Ukrainian investment group Ufuture plans to build an “Innovation Park” in Astana with the help of the Kazakh government and local businesses. The park is...


Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop: Religious harmony in Kazakhstan means respecting our faith, respecting others’

ASTANA – Yuri Novgorodov, Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan and representative of the World Lutheran Association, discussed church activities, the role of the Congress...


Ex-Secretary of Security Council appointed Kazakh Minister of Defence

ASTANA – Nurlan Yermekbayev, until recently the Assistant to the President – Secretary of the Security Council, was appointed Kazakhstan’s Minister of Defence Aug. 7. “In the...


Caspian Sea legal status: from disassociation to collaboration

The presidents of five littoral states are set to meet at the Fifth Caspian Summit, to be held in Aktau Aug. 12. The agenda of the meeting...


Astana to add street name prefixes to help residents, visitors navigate the city

ASTANA – The Astana City Administration is proposing a gradual adding of identification prefixes to the existing names of city streets, reported the akimat (city administration) press...


Kazakhstan will help Russia develop a super heavy-lift rocket

ASTANA – Kazakhstan will be involved in the development of a Russian super-heavy rocket, ria.ru reports with reference to the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Defence...


Kyzylorda Theatre presents ‘Akbayan’ folk legend at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

ASTANA – Kyzylorda Theatre of Music and Drama premiered Aug. 6-8 “Akbayan” folk legend directed by Hussein Amir Temir at the Fringe International Theatre Festival in Edinburgh....


Kazakh Foreign Ministry presents journalism awards

ASTANA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded the winners of the fifth annual Kazakhstan through the Eyes of Foreign Media contest at an Aug. 6 ceremony....


Compassion and good neighbourliness define Ukrainian community’s relations within Kazakhstan, says community leader

ASTANA – Vatra, the capital-based Ukrainian cultural centre founded in 1993, has contributed toward the educational and cultural development of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Ukrainian community. It is among...


Sociologist studies contemporary art across Central Asia

ASTANA – Diana Kudaibergenova, a Cambridge University PhD graduate and Lund University postdoctoral fellow, is a political and cultural sociologist studying the ways in which contemporary art...


Open-air art exhibit practices urbanism while promoting Kazakh culture

ASTANA – The façade of a three-story residential building in the capital’s Saryarka district turned into an art object with the conclusion of Urban Street Art Fest...