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Biden calls for tough choice to strike Pacific trade deal Thousands of ageing farmers took to the streets of Tokyo Tuesday, underscoring opposition in Japan to an ambitious free trade deal, as US Vice President Joe Biden called on countries to make "tough choices".

03 December 2013

Nazarbayev concerned over squatting around Astana and declares moratorium Lands around Astana are distributed haphazardly and their further use is not controlled. President Nazarbayev wants more order and less squatting.

01 December 2013

Kazakhstan wants more large cities like Almaty and Astana Kazakhstan will focus on urban expansion of Astana, Almaty, Aktobe, Aktau and Shymkent and making them economic growth hubs.

30 November 2013

French MPs vote to penalise sex workers' clients French lawmakers on Saturday adopted a highly controversial provision in a bill that punishes clients of prostitutes amid fierce argument that the new measure will be counterproductive.

30 November 2013

Is EU's eastern Europe policy in tatters after Russia row? Though the European Union appears to have lost to Russia in the first round of an East-West tussle over winning friends and influence in eastern Europe, some analysts would disagree.

30 November 2013

Canada let NSA spy on G20, G8 summits: report Canada allowed America's National Security Agency to spy on G20 talks in Toronto in 2010 and at the G8 summit days earlier, according to documents cited by public broadcaster CBC.

29 November 2013

Russia’s Foreign Ministry sends note of protest to Kazakhstan over killing of Russian fisherman November 25 Kazakh border guards fired shots when trying to detain two boats with eight Russians of Dagestan origin, killing one of them and injuring another.

29 November 2013

China media urges countermeasures against Japan planes China's state media called Friday for "timely countermeasures without hesitation" if Japan violates the country's newly declared air zone, after Beijing sent fighter jets to patrol the area following defiant military overflights by Tokyo.

29 November 2013

Belgium close to agreeing euthanasia for children Eleven years after making euthanasia legal for adults, Belgium came a step closer to extending mercy-killing to terminally-ill children Wednesday after an intense public debate on the ethical issues at stake.

29 November 2013

Gulshara Abdykalikova appointed Deputy Prime-Minister of Kazakhstan Gulshara Abdykalikova has been appointed Deputy Prime-Minister of Kazakhstan.

29 November 2013

Japan's Abe appoints first ever female PM aide Japan's Shinzo Abe on Friday named the country's first ever female aide to the prime minister, just weeks after Caroline Kennedy arrived as the first woman US ambassador to Tokyo.

29 November 2013

Kazakhstan may contribute to liquidation of chemical weapons in Syria We believe the Middle East should be a zone free of weapons of mass destruction: Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department for Multilateral Cooperation.

29 November 2013

Fireworks at world's tallest tower as Dubai wins Expo 2020 Dubai beat off opposition from Brazil, Russia and Turkey on Wednesday to win the right to host the 2020 World Expo, sparking celebrations in the Gulf city and a stunning fireworks display at the world's tallest building.

29 November 2013

Cutting or damaging conifer trees punishable by law in Kazakhstan Cutting of 7 or more conifer trees in Kazakhstan is a criminal offense in Kazakhstan.

28 November 2013

Kazakhstan to continue assisting Afghanistan President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev told the Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Jan Kubis that Kazakhstan was ready to continue providing assistance to Afghanistan.

28 November 2013

'Free Ukraine, not me': Tymoshenko urges EU leaders Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko called on EU leaders to drop all demands and sign a historic pact with Ukraine without any preconditions at a summit that opens Thursday.

28 November 2013

Kazakhstan hoping to join IAEA Board of Governors Kazakhstan holds 19% of the global explored reserves of uranium, with the country’s uranium reserves estimated at 802 000 tons.

28 November 2013

UN women's rights resolution passed despite backlash A UN General Assembly committee has agreed a landmark first resolution on women's rights defenders such as Malala Yousafzai, despite a hard fought campaign by an alliance including the Vatican to weaken the measure.

28 November 2013

I'm no saint or icon, says Myanmar's Suu Kyi Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday insisted she was no saint and no icon, saying she disliked the titles and had always seen herself as an honest politician.

28 November 2013

Summit to spotlight EU-Russia row over Soviet-era states An EU summit designed to draw six ex-Soviet states to the West opens with its ambitions dented Thursday after Ukraine, the biggest of the six, caved into Moscow to hand Europe a mighty "Nyet".

28 November 2013

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