- Sunday, 24 May, 2026
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ASTANA – Kazakhstan has made what officials called an “incredible” leap forward on the prison index, moving from the third-ranked country in the world in terms of...
ASTANA –Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently formed the Global Happiness Coalition. Initiated by the UAE, the coalition aims to...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture has presented plans to focus this year on introducing precision technology and intensive irrigation, livestock development and renewing agricultural machinery....
ASTANA – Mangistau region’s berkutchi, or eagle hunters, plan to open their own falconry school in Tushybek village in an effort to preserve the ancient tradition, reported...
ASTANA – The Ministry for Investment and Development will concentrate this year on manufacturing, focusing on export-oriented sectors and labour productivity under the Accelerated Industrial and Innovative...
ASTANA – The Ministry of National Economy leadership outlined Kazakhstan’s economic results for 2017 and shared its plans for the current year at a Feb. 12 press...
ASTANA – The Union of Kazakhstan Oilfield Service Companies wants to increase the involvement of domestic businesses and state support for the $45 billion in projects underway...
ASTANA – More than 3,400 people, or 767 families of migrants and “oralmen” (ethnic Kazakhs who have immigrated back to Kazakhstan since its independence), will move to...
ASTANA – Picturesque Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve has developed tourist routes and launched a tulip festival as part of the Great Silk Road cluster revival. Far from the...
ASTANA – Kazakh singer Dimash Kudaibergen is gaining popularity worldwide and was named Most Popular Singer of the Year for the second year in a row at...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will focus on formalising the self-employed workforce and continue digital transformation in the field in 2018, according...
ASTANA – Decreasing Kazakh public debt to 23.7 percent by 2022 using eurobonds and Islamic Sukuk securities and other priorities for economic development, including privatisation, industrial development,...
ASTANA – A draft action plan has been developed detailing the phased transfer of the Kazakh alphabet to Latin script by 2025. Sacral Geography of Kazakhstan, a...
ASTANA – Nineteen-year-old dombra player Alexey Lodochnikov has been named one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces. An ethnic Russian, the gifted educator at Kachirsky children’s home in...
ASTANA – The Jambyl Cement plant near Mynaral in the Zhambyl region, the first in Kazakhstan to use the dry method for cement production, is currently the...
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, in his state-of-the-nation address earlier this year, as a priority, underlined the importance of increasing requirements for energy efficiency and energy saving...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s national futsal team reached the European Championship semifinals in Slovenia carrying high expectations, given their 2016 European Championship bronze medal, but fell to Spain...
PYEONGCHANG – The 2018 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in PyeongChang, South Korea, with the Feb. 9 opening ceremony. The Kazakh flag was carried by short-tracker Abzal...
ASTANA – This year’s first meeting of the Dialogue Platform on the Human Dimension, involving the Foreign Ministry, public authorities and civil society, was held in Astana...
ASTANA – The first virtual museum in Kazakhstan recently launched in Taldykorgan, 24.kz reported. A group of young artists created the “Zhetysu 360” project under the Digital...
In foreign policy terms, Kazakhstan can look back at many achievements over the last 26 years. It has forged, almost from scratch, excellent relations with nations across...
ASTANA – TSE Art Destination, which combines a modern art gallery, educational centre and experimental art lab, seeks to make art an indispensable part of capital life....
PYEONGCHANG – Kazakhstan freestyle skier Yulia Galysheva won Kazakhstan’s first medal at the 2018 Olympics, taking bronze in the individual moguls. The Kazakh athlete was considered one...
ASTANA – Not many know that Kazakhstan has been providing aid to other countries for the last two decades. A few years ago, the country adopted a...
ASTANA – Aset Durmagambetov, eminent mathematician and scientist, recently proposed his version of a solution to Riemann hypothesis, one of Millennium Prize Problems. The solution is particularly...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan will devote approximately 20 billion tenge (US$61.4 million) annually over the next three years to develop the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and the...
ASTANA – The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), which opened Jan. 1, is set to register companies and launch its exchange, court and arbitration centre this year....
ASTANA – An exhibition recently opened in Atyrau’s local history museum on the history of the Kazakh folk instrument, dombra. A dombra is a round and flat...
ASTANA – The Astana city government recently launched a facial recognition system to identify people entering Astana’s government administration building and hopes to launch the technology in...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Energy and the World Bank recently launched an online platform to monitor and report greenhouse gases (GHG) emission sources. “Kazakhstan’s emissions...
ASTANA – Popular New York Times articles and educational materials from the global education nonprofit Khan Academy will be soon available in the Kazakh language, KazContent Board...
ASTANA – Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin, the WBC, WBA (Super), IBF and IBO middleweight champion was named ambassador of the first international boxing forum held in early February...
ASTANA – The video of 60-year-old Zheksen Ayupov from Aktau city in western Kazakhstan doing an ab roller wheel exercise recently went viral on Kaznet. Born in...
ASTANA – The fairy tale illustrations of Kazakh-born artist Svetlana Popova, known under the pseudonym Veta, fascinate at first sight. Looking at them, children and adults are...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan received 53 points in 2017, compared to 51 the previous year, in the Open Budget Index (OBI) ranking. The rating uses a 100-point scale...
ASTANA – One year after celebrating their 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations, Malaysian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Syed Mohamad Bakri recently told The Astana Times the two countries...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is set to implement the principles of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), which will allow the results of testing in Kazakhstan’s laboratories to be recognised...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev lamented the “pervasive theft of the state’s and people’s money” at the Feb. 9 extended government meeting he chaired. “When are...
ASTANA – Members of the Kazakh government reported to President Nursutlan Nazarbayev during the Feb. 9 extended government meeting, outlining the key outcomes of 2017 and setting...
ASTANA – International media and experts expect Kazakh sportsmen to win medals in mogul and 50K Mass Start at the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea. The...
ASTANA – Some of the best eagle hunters from across Kazakhstan met Feb. 2-4 in the Urdzhar district of the East Kazakhstan region to compete in the...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s economy moved up one spot to 41st on the recently released 2018 Index of Economic Freedom annual report published by the Heritage Foundation. It...
ASTANA – Two recreation areas and a five-star hotel will open this year on Alakol Lake. The construction of a railway station and repair work on area...
ASTANA – The Visit Almaty tourist information centre presented the Almaty 72 project Feb. 6 for tourists and business travellers visiting the city for up to 72...
The 10 priority tasks that President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced on Jan. 9 indicate that the statesman is in a hurry to modernise Kazakhstan. The resourceful leader knows...
ASTANA – Air Astana’s passenger traffic grew 12 percent and revenues 22 percent in 2017 after declines in 2015 and 2016. The airline carried 4.2 million passengers...
ASTANA – The Forte-Trio ensemble will present an evening of French chamber music entitled “L’Impression” Feb. 9 at the Astana Opera House in the capital. The musicians...
ASTANA – The responsibilities for product quality control should be divided among government ministries, as only 77 percent of goods produced in 2017 complied with quality regulations,...
ASTANA – A new Regional Small Business Programme (RSBP) launched by the European Union (EU) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Almaty Jan. 30...
ASTANA – Despite the fact that the 10th regular Continental Hockey League (KHL) Championship is not over yet, for the fans of Astana Barys it has become...
ASTANA – Almaty residents now have their own recycling guide. The Tazalyk app, developed and created by three university students, has a map showing the location of...
ASTANA – Investments in human capital play a key role in developing the digital industry. State officials, businesspeople and scientists at the Feb. 2 International Digital Kazakhstan...
ASTANA – Kazakh medical organisations should be headed by professional managers, said Healthcare Minister Yelzhan Birtanov at a Feb. 6 government meeting. He reported on measures to...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s men’s tennis team beat Switzerland in the first round of the Davis World Cup, held Feb. 2 to 4 at National Tennis Centre of...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan recently passed an audit of aviation security of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, joining the world’s leading nations in civil aviation security, said Minister...
ASTANA – More than 17,000 jobs were created last year as part of the Business Roadmap 2020 programme aimed at supporting the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government plans to build a $1.6 billion beltway around the city of Almaty to reduce traffic in the city limits and decrease air...
ASTANA – The loan portfolio among Kazakh banks declined 12 percent, and assets 5 percent, in 2017. Fifteen of 32 banks operating in the country had a...
ASTANA – The Eurasian Economic Union’s (EAEU) digital agenda and mechanisms for implementing policies were the main topics of the Feb. 2 meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental...
ASTANA – New apartment complexes are appearing in the city nearly every day. Thousands of new windows appear with them, a large proportion supplied by Funke Kunststoffe....
ASTANA — An agrotechnical hub for specialists in that field will be created in the Kostanai region, Deputy Akim (Governor) of Kostanai region Meirzhan Myrzaliyev told a...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s government and National Bank will focus on maintaining macroeconomic stability; ensuring a favourable business climate; developing economic sectors, including digitisation; and developing transport and...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption Agency registered 1,835 corruption-related crimes in 2017 and prosecuted 320 individuals, according to agency chair Alik Shpekbayev. The...
ASTANA – Kazakh producer Timur Bekmambetov’s new film “Search” won the Audience Award and Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. North America’s...
WBC, WBA (Super), IBF and IBO middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Saul “Canelo”Alvarez have signed a contract for another fight, according to anofficial announcement by the...
ASTANA – Poland’s Polpharma Group will invest an additional $37 million to digitise and further automate production at its Shymkent Chimpharm plant in South Kazakhstan. “The construction...
ASTANA – The draft law “On Amendments to Legislative Acts on Activities of Nonprofit Organisations” was approved in its first reading Jan. 31 in the Mazhilis (lower...
ASTANA – Gulzhan Sarsenbayeva, one of Kazakhstan’s 100 New Faces, is among those who conducted pioneer research in paediatric heart surgery. “I am one of the few...
ASTANA – The Kazakh government is continuing efforts to reduce activities for state and quasi-public companies in order to protect and promote competition in the country. Last...
ASTANA – By 2020, 70 percent of Kazakh schools will provide inclusive education. In an interview with The Astana Times, Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education (NU...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture is seeking to incorporate advanced agricultural technologies in the search for digital solutions to boost the nation’s economy as it...
ASTANA – Drivers in Kazakhstan can now reserve and purchase uniquely numbered license plates through the Government for Citizens Corporation front offices. This service was launched by...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Academic Library is continuing its international project to promote Kazakh literature by opening centres in different countries. Seventeen centres have been launched...
ASTANA – The Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) is financing CATEC Green Energy’s construction of a wind power plant near the capital. The initial section, with a...
ASTANA – What is behind a global social enterprise? What are the trends and challenges in social entrepreneurship? What lies at the core of socially-driven activities? The...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry of Finance, the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and Euroclear Bank SA (Euroclear) have signed a memorandum on cooperation to develop a...
ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s latest visit to the United States, its assessment and outlook were discussed Jan. 26 at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC....
“Honesty, swiftness and courtesy” – this is our motto for the coming year. We want to achieve the goal of becoming the number one service company in...
On Jan. 18, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev chaired one of the flagship events of the nation’s presidency of the UN Security Council – a high-level briefing themed...
The tasks set by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in his state-of-the-nation address to the people of Kazakhstan aim at bringing the country to a whole new level...
Kazakhstan has presided at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in January 2018. The presidency and membership in the UNSC for 2017-2018 is an important event not...
ASTANA – The Kazakh Ministry for Investment and Development suggested establishing a new national company to manage civil aviation. “We have developed approaches to the implementation of...
NEW YORK – In a first for both the U.N. Security Council and the Central Asian region, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov presided over a meeting of the...
ASTANA – Latvian air carrier airBaltic will launch April 28 direct Almaty-Riga flights. The flights will be carried out three times a week by a new Bombardier...
ASTANA – The achievements and direction for the development of the Kazakh capital were discussed Jan. 25 as part of the city’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The forum...
ASTANA – Pensions have increased, prices for foreign passport registration and railway tickets have risen and police will be warning before fining. The coming year will bring...
No organisation is perfect or without challenges. And one which has to meet the sometimes conflicting needs of, at the moment, 28 different countries and well over...
I do not really like “woman entrepreneurship” approach; I don’t agree with gender separation in business. If you decide to enter this path, you do not have...
ASTANA – Young Kazakh golfer Daulet Tuleubayev from Almaty has joined the Stanford University golf team. The athlete will continue his education and sports career at the...
ASTANA – The number of domestic tourists reached 3.5 million people and increased by 25 percent in a nine-month period of 2017, Minister of Culture and Sports...
ASTANA – In November, the Caspi Bitum plant exported its first 60 tonnes of road bitumen to China. But the first export experience for the company was...
ASTANA – The Astana football team is preparing for the new season and the UEFA Europa League play-offs against Portugal’s Sporting. The team is at training camps...
ASTANA – As President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the month of January, Kazakhstan chaired Jan. 25 the quarterly UNSC open debate focusing on...
ASTANA – Kazakh and foreign airlines are planning to launch new international flights to and from Kazakhstan this year. Regular flights will be opened from Astana to...
NEW YORK – The voice was low, almost soft-spoken. Yet the words of President Nursultan Nazarbayev – in both the United Nations Security Council and at a...
ASTANA – The Association of Kazakhstan Automobile Business recently predicted that the Kazakh car market would grow 15-20 percent this year. The recovery of the market after...
ASTANA – Famous international climbers are going to conquer 20 peaks of Kazakhstan as part of celebrating the 20th anniversary of Astana, Board Chairman of Kazakh Tourism...
ASTANA – Approximately 1.5 billion tenge (US$4.7 million) was collected on the Astana-Shchuchinsk toll road in 2017. According to the information provided by the press service of...
ASTANA – The Kazakh National Bank recently published an alert concerning the risks of using cryptocurrency. “Advertising agencies have recently been actively involved in promoting investments in...
ASTANA – Astana Opera mezzo-soprano soloist Malika Minisini will make her debut in the opera house’s Main Hall Jan. 28 as Batsaiy in Yevgeniy Brusilovsky’s “Kyz Zhibek.”...
