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Singapore, China giants 'mull Spain gas investment': report Singapore state investment giant Temasek and Chinese oil group Sinopec aim to snap up a multi-billion-euro stake in Spain's Gas Natural.

08 October 2013

Niger to 'review' Areva uranium contracts Niger, one of the world's top sources of uranium, will review its dealings with French firm Areva, which has been mining there for nearly 50 years.

07 October 2013

Crude production resumed at Kashagan oilfield “October 6, upon completion of all the repairs, the wells at the oilfield have been restarted (…) production was resumed with no complications”, according to the country’s Oil and Gas Ministry.

07 October 2013

Twitter wants to fly with billion-dollar IPO Twitter on Thursday unveiled plans to pump up the globally popular one-to-many messaging service with a $1 billion stock market debut.

04 October 2013

Aktau tablet plant plays off Chinese devises as Kazakhstan-made Aktau-based tablets-producing plant has been buying Chinese devices and passing them off as Kazakhstan-made.

03 October 2013

$23 billion Tengiz expansion project approved A project of the Tengiz field production facilities expansion worth $23 billion has been approved.

02 October 2013

Air Astana explains reasons behind registration of aircrafts in Aruba Registration of Air Astana planes outside Kazakhstan has no effect on the tax payments into the state budget: Air Astana.

02 October 2013

Soft drink giants failing to stop land grabs: Oxfam US soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo must make their sugar suppliers act to stop so-called land grabs in countries such as Brazil and Cambodia.

02 October 2013

Ailing BlackBerry agrees to $4.7 billion buyout Tech pioneer BlackBerry made a last roll of the dice Monday and agreed to a probable $4.7 billion buyout by a consortium planning to take the struggling smartphone maker private.

25 September 2013

Samsung, LG end patent dispute on display technology South Korean electronic giants Samsung and LG have agreed to end a year-long battle over display technology patents that spawned a series of lawsuits.

24 September 2013

KazAtomProm to launch uranium conversion plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk A new uranium conversion plant will be built in Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk by 2018.

23 September 2013

Outgoing Microsoft CEO most regrets lapse in mobilephones Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday his biggest regret is missing the boat on smartphones -- but he said the software giant should not admit defeat just yet.

21 September 2013

Boeing to end C-17 military aircraft program in 2015 Boeing announced Wednesday it would end production of its C-17 military transport aircraft in 2015, citing a difficult environment amid government spending cuts.

20 September 2013

Microsoft announces $40b share buyback Microsoft announced a new $40 billion share buyback on Tuesday as part of an effort by the transitioning US tech giant to return more cash to stockholders.

18 September 2013

Nissan to begin production in Myanmar: report Japanese automaker Nissan plans to begin producing small cars and trucks in Myanmar with its Malaysian partner as early as this year, the Nikkei business daily.

16 September 2013

Chevron, Transocean settle over Rio oil spill US energy giant Chevron and Swiss-based rig operator Transocean signed a deal with Brazilian prosecutors on Friday to settle lawsuits over an oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

14 September 2013

Twitter announces IPO plans, on Twitter Twitter announced Thursday, in a tweet, that it has submitted papers for the most hotly anticipated stock offering in the tech sector since Facebook's last year.

13 September 2013

NCOC poised to start commercial production at Kashagan in October The operator of Kashagan oilfield in Kazakhstan, NCOC consortium, is interested in starting the commercial production in October 2013.

11 September 2013

British Max Petroleum strikes oil in Kazakhstan British Max Petroleum PLC has discovered oil at Sagiz West and Uitas fields in Atyrau oblast in western Kazakhstan.

11 September 2013

Yahoo News names editor, plans major expansion Yahoo News named a new editor-in-chief Monday who comes from The New York Times and promised a "major expansion" of news gathering at the US Internet giant.

11 September 2013

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