Non-extraction industries to double by 2025 and triple by 2040: President Nazarbayev
According to him, in 2012 Kazakhstan will be numbered among the top 50 nations in the world in terms of its GDP.
UN atomic team in Iran for nuclear talks
A team from the UN atomic watchdog led by chief inspector Herman Nackaerts arrived early Thursday for talks with nuclear officials on Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
Beginning of 2013 will be difficult for Central Asian countries
The beginning of 2013 will be difficult for Central Asian countries because of this year’s drought in the grain-yielding regions of the world.
Japan scrambles fighters for China plane
Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after one Chinese state-owned aeroplane entered airspace over islands at the centre of a dispute between Tokyo and Beijing.
Honduras fears new crisis over Supreme Court row
The Honduran Congress fired four Supreme Court justices on Wednesday, raising fears of a new political crisis three years after a coup.
Danial Akhmetov and Akhmetzhan Yessimov received First President's awards
Prior to the Independence Day Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev handed state awards.
Serik Akhmetov met with head of Chevron
Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov met with chairman and CEO of Chevron corporation John Watson.
Nazarbayev will make State-of-Union Address to people of Kazakhstan tomorrow
The official meeting will be held in the new Opera and Ballet Theater on Astana’s Left Bank.
India condemns N. Korea rocket launch, tests own missile
India condemned North Korea's long-range rocket launch on Wednesday even as it tested one of its own ballistic weapons, which were developed when India was a nuclear pariah itself.