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Teen author Stefan Bachmann reaps full-grown success Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.

21 January 2013

Giant rubber duck brings Sydney festival to life A gigantic, bright yellow rubber duck floated into Sydney's Darling Harbour on Saturday as part of the Australian city's annual arts festival, a celebration where high-art meets popular entertainment.

06 January 2013

People's Favorites-2012 selected in Astana Our main goal is not only to hand awards to people. It is important that they value these awards more than others, because unlike in case of Oscar readers are the ones who make the choice here: organizer.

21 December 2012

Finding buyers, Malaysian art searches for a voice After art school, Haslin Ismail was the typical struggling artist, selling just a few of his mixed-media fantasy pieces for a few hundred dollars each over the next five years.

18 December 2012

500,000 entries for expanded Chinese dictionary: media China's "most inclusive" dictionary is set to expand by nearly a third to nearly half a million entries across 25 volumes.

12 December 2012

Uzbekistan claims ‘undiscovered’ Veronese masterpiece Central Asian state of Uzbekistan has with much fanfare put on display what it says is a lost masterpiece of Western art, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese.

03 December 2012

Philippines says 146 Marcos paintings missing More than 140 paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and other masters which were bought with stolen funds by former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos remain missing.

28 November 2012

Rare photo of Titanic iceberg coming up for auction A rare original photograph of the iceberg suspected of sinking the Titanic in the icy North Atlantic in 1912 is coming up for auction next month.

28 November 2012

First English guide of Astana published The first issue of English-language Astana guide has been published.

23 November 2012

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27 October 2013, 12:00

Cameco to transfer uranium processing technology to Kazakhstan’s KazAtomProm in 2018

23 May 2013, 15:25

VIDEO: Dilnaz Akhmadiyeva sings with Some Toir band

07 March 2012, 15:02

Samruk-Kazyna may purchase Halyk Bank Pension Fund through selling its stake in BTA Bank

27 March 2013, 15:30

First open heart surgery performed in Almaty Central Clinical Hospital

15 September 2011, 15:10

"The Dash" movie won Jury Award in Ukrainian Film Festival

16 March 2012, 17:55

Russia and Kazakhstan to complete talks on single air defense system by the end of 2012

11 July 2012, 12:24

Kazakhstanis share video of moose attacking hunter

25 November 2024, 08:12

Nazarbayev signed the law on countering terrorism

30 November 2011, 12:36

History of May 1 celebration in Kazakhstan

01 May 2014, 23:48

Kazakhstan to put new missile and artillery ship afloat tomorrow

29 April 2013, 13:55

Heavy toll as Australian farmers struggle through drought

02 March 2015, 15:31

'Hobbit' slays competition for second weekend in a row

24 December 2012, 18:37

David Letterman saying good night to 'Late Night'

04 April 2014, 13:56

Top 10 Kazakhstan's songs that you probably heard of

06 September 2024, 21:44

More than 50 million driven from homes by war, crisis: UN

20 June 2014, 13:49

The Best City goes to: Kazakhstan's most livable city

06 March 2015, 18:15

Tokayev met with Russia’s Federation Council Chair Matviyenko

12 December 2024, 15:27

New page in Syria war as rebel missiles hit aircraft

30 November 2012, 10:22

Online museum showcases Britain's hidden art Britain has some of the best galleries in the world, but the vast majority of the oil paintings in public ownership have for decades been hidden away in private offices or storage.

15 November 2012

Painting tied to Manhattan Project to be auctioned A 74-year-old painting depicting the Canadian mine that produced uranium for the world's first atomic bomb will go under the hammer in Toronto on November 22, set to fetch up to Can$300,000.

14 November 2012

Chinese art star Yue brings 'laughing men' to Europe The painted grins are stretched so wide they seem to hurt. And that is pretty much what Yue Minjun intended, the Chinese artist explained at the Paris opening of his first major show in Europe.

14 November 2012

Bridget Jones set to return in third novel next year The accident-prone British thirty-something Bridget Jones is to return in a third novel next year, her creator Helen Fielding announced on Friday.

11 November 2012

Writer's epic journey gets 'Ulysses' to Dublin stage Dermot Bolger was commissioned in 1993 by a US museum that holds the original manuscript of James Joyce's famed novel -- which chronicles a day in the life of a Dublin man -- to adapt the book for the stage.

10 November 2012

Picasso sells for $41.5 million in New York An erotically charged Picasso oil painting of his mistress alongside tulips and fruit sold Thursday for $41.5 million on an otherwise anemic night for high-end art in New York.

09 November 2012

Kandinsky painting sets $23 mn record in New York A painting by Wassily Kandinsky sold for $23 million in New York on Wednesday, setting an auction record for the Russian avant-garde artist.

08 November 2012

Canada circus shows off long-lost Dali painting A massive painting by Salvador Dali created in 1944 as a backdrop for a ballet put on by New York's Metropolitan Opera was recently found and displayed Monday in Montreal.

06 November 2012

Uzbek museum unearths forgotten Picasso ceramics Workers at a state art museum in ex-Soviet Uzbekistan have discovered a long-forgotten collection of Picasso ceramics in the archives and put them on display, more than four decades after the pieces were donated.

05 November 2012

'Fifty Shades' aiming to seduce in Japan Erotic bestseller "Fifty Shades of Grey" will hit Japanese bookshelves this week, its publisher said Tuesday, hoping to repeat the breathless success it has enjoyed around the world.

30 October 2012