- Tuesday, 28 July, 2026
- Almaty 72 °F / 22 °C
- Astana 76 °F / 24 °C
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...
At the end of June in Moscow, people bid final farewell to Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, a prominent Russian politician of global significance and scholar with colossal credibility...
ASTANA – The end of the Bolashak Presidential Scholarship’s five-year plan has coincided with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s election campaign call for a development push based on...
ASTANA – First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Rapil Zhoshybayev said Kazakhstan was both moving forward with further liberalisation of its visa regime for foreigners...
ASTANA – The Training Café, an eatery staffed by 20 individuals with mental illness, opened recently in Almaty. The project, financed by the Soros Foundation, is organised...
ASTANA – Amendments to liberalise the Kazakh antimonopoly regulation were signed into law May 5 by President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Known as “On Introduction of Amendments and Additions...
ASTANA – President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Astana Art Fest, a festival showcasing modern art and technologies under the themes of fire energy, water energy and air energy....
ASTANA – On the eve of Astana Day, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry and the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan announced the winners of their second international journalism...
ASTANA – On July 7-8, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visited Kazakhstan, meeting the leadership of the country, delivering an address at Nazarbayev University, attending a...
ASTANA – A Kazakh-Indian business forum with the participation of Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi took place in Astana...
ASTANA – Astana Day, the annual combined celebration of the birthday of Kazakhstan’s capital city and the President who has shaped its modern form, was marked this...
The economic empowerment of women and the promotion of small- and medium-sized businesses are important elements of Chevron’s social investments in Kazakhstan. In 2015, Chevron launched a...
More than 250 people celebrated Alpiniad July 4 by climbing Abai Peak in the Zailiisky Alatau mountain range. The organisers dedicated the event to the 170th anniversary...
ASTANA – DHL Global Forwarding and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Express have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide greater rail connectivity between China, Kazakhstan and the...
ASTANA – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide Aktobe-based vegetable oils producer Savola Foods with a tenge loan equivalent to $60 million, the...
A meeting of defence ministers of member countries of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 30, the Ministry of Defence of...
Chairman of the Public Association of Germans in Kazakhstan Alexander Dederer recently announced that an international economic centre is going to be opened in the city of...
