ASTANA – Early age education is a sensitive issue in the state, but the government is searching for remedies, such as inspiring business people to establish new...
ASTANA – It has never been easy to find live jazz in the Kazakh capital, but with the launch of the Ubuntu Art Club monthly jazz nights,...
A CrossFit festival that took place in Astana on May 10 gathered 80 participants from Russia and Kazakhstan and was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the...
Kazakh Boxer Gennady Golovkin extended his back-to-back knockout streak to 20 on May 20 in Inglewood, Ca., when he floored Willie Monroe Jr. in the sixth round...
In observance of the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II, residents witnessed the May 9 opening of the Alley of Glory to Heroes of...
ASTANA – An FC-19 high-speed powerboat, the 23rd powerboat produced by the Zenit plant in the Western Kazakhstan region, was floated in Uralsk, according to the BNews...
ASTANA – Twenty-eight schools in Astana marked Europe Day on May 13 with ambassadors and senior diplomats from 15 European Union member states offering “European Union hour”...
ASTANA – The nation’s postal service, Kazpost, presented a souvenir sheet of three new stamps dedicated to the 70th anniversary of victory in WWII at a ceremony...
The Kazakh national taekwondo team recently ended training sessions for the 2015 world championships being held May 12-18 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The final workouts took place at...
According to the press service of the West Kazakhstan Akimat (regional administration), the West Kazakhstan region offers better working conditions, as only 5.3 percent of the population...
ASTANA – The 8th Astana Economic Forum (AEF), to be held May 21-22, will bring world leaders, experts and representatives from the business world together in the...
Abu Dhabi hosted a May 3 meeting between representatives of the Almaty socio-entrepreneurial corporation (SEC) and the management of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Khalifa Industrial Zone...
ASTANA – Five Kazakh startups have won the opportunity to be flown to the Echelon Asia Summit in Singapore next month, after beating out nine other local...
Kuanysh Sultanov, chairman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Kazakhstan discussed the organisation in an interview with this newspaper. Practice proves that national...
China accounts for more than 20 per cent of Kazakhstan’s foreign trade and in the past 24 months the two nations signed $73.5 billion in agreements to...
ASTANA – Nazarbayev University’s Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) programme attracts middle and upper-level managers with its Duke University strategic collaboration and convenience to Astana. But perhaps...
ASTANA – Travel itineraries for the guests of EXPO 2017 will be ready by the end of this year, announced Deputy Chairman of the Astana EXPO 2017...
ASTANA – Remittances to Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucusus have fallen to 2009 levels, impeding the growth rates of Central Asian economies, according to a...
ASTANA – There is a lot of progress to be made in regards to the condition of Kazakhstan’s roads and the nation’s driving etiquette. Driving schools focused...
A mere three or four years ago, the issues associated with the threats that emerged within cyberspace hardly occupied top places on the international agenda. Today, however,...
In a globalised world in which the movement of goods and knowledge is a key driver of prosperity, the removal of artificial barriers is increasingly essential to...
ASTANA – The capital’s LRT company signed an agreement on May 7 with Chinese consortium China Railway International Group and Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co. to establish...
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy is considering the possibility of introducing a uniform energy tariff for all regions, director of the department of electric power Baurzhan Sarsenov announced....
A new civil procedure law to establish specialised courts to handle investment disputes is being developed in Kazakhstan. Supreme Court Judge Nurzhan Kaiypzhan at a recent briefing...
In honour of the 70th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the Nur Otan Party presented “The people of Kazakhstan, Heroes of the Soviet Union,”...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan recently celebrated two military holidays in a row, Defender of the Fatherland Day on May 7 and Victory Day on May 9. This year,...
Kyrgyzstan officially became the fifth member the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) May 8, joining Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Armenia. The meeting of the five leaders, Nursultan Nazarbayev,...
The first five-year phase of the State Programme for Accelerated Industrial and Innovative Development (SPAIID) has ended. Olzhas Khudaibergenov, a prominent economics analyst and head of the...
BISHKEK – Bishkek’s new public school No. 82, which was funded by Kazakhstan, has been in full swing for a little more than a month, and the...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev unveiled a monument to legendary Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Ivan Panfilov in Astana’s Zheruyik Park on May 7....