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Zhansaya Abdumalik wins men’s International Chess Tournament
13-year-old Zhansaya Abdumalik from Kazakhstan has won the Men’s International Chess Tournament Brno Open 2013 in the Czech Tour Series.
26 November 2013
Harmony Lessons awarded with Golden Unicorn at International Film Festival in France
Kazakhstan film Harmony Lessons by film director Emir Baigazin has been awarded with Grand-Prix Golden Unicorn at the 33th International Film Festival in France.
26 November 2013
French zombie show takes top International Emmy prize
French series "Les Revenants" (The Returned) took the prize Monday evening for the best international drama series at the International Emmy Awards in New York.
26 November 2013
Taylor Swift, Timberlake win at American Music Awards
Pop diva Taylor Swift was named Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards (AMA) Sunday, while other big winners included British boy band One Direction and crooner Justin Timberlake.
25 November 2013
Two Kazakhstan films nominated for Asian Oscar
Kazakhstan films Shal (The Old Man) by Yermek Tursunov and Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin have been put on the nominees list of the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
14 November 2013
Kazakhstan's Harmony Lessons receives Grand-Prix in Sao Paulo
Harmony Lessons film by Emir Baigazin from Kazakhstan has received the Grand-Prix of the 37th international Film Festival in Sao Paulo.
11 November 2013
Kazakhstan's Harmony Lessons is best Asian film at Adu-Dhabi Film Festival
Kazakhstan's Harmony Lessons film by Emir Baigazin has been nominated as the Best Asian Film by NETPAC jury at the 7th International Film Festival in Abu-Dhabi, UAE.
11 November 2013
Nurzhamal Usenbayeva from Kazakhstan receives Golden Europea
A famous soprano from Kazakhstan Nurzhamal Usenbayeva has been awarded with the prestigious Golden Europea award by the European Union of Arts.
11 November 2013
Eminem takes top honor at YouTube music awards
YouTube's first-ever music awards thrilled and spilled, with Eminem named Artist of the Year though most winners were lesser known acts who featured in an eclectic show filled with stunts.
04 November 2013
Kazakhstan's Harmony Lessons earns two more awards
Harmony Lessons film of Kazakhstan's Emir Baigazin has earned two more awards at film festivals in Poland and Belgium.
28 October 2013
Syria film scoops top awards despite danger
A Syrian film that has scooped a string of prestigious awards in recent months barely made it to screens because of the dangers the crew faced in the war-ravaged country.
23 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Booker Prize
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, claiming the award for her novel "The Luminaries".
17 October 2013
Two takes on love clinch Busan film prize
Two wildly diverse takes on modern love and obsession have taken the top prize Asia's largest film festival, which draws to a close Saturday.
12 October 2013
Edward Snowden given 'integrity in intelligence' award
US fugitive Edward Snowden has been honored with a prize awarded annually by former CIA staff for exhibiting "integrity in intelligence".
11 October 2013
Malala picks up another award as Nobel beckons
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' schooling, added another award to a growing list on Friday.
06 October 2013
Judo: Kazakhstan judoka gets $81 thousand for silver at World Championship
Kazakhstan judoka Azamat Mukanov has been awarded with 12.5 million tenge ($81 thousand) for winning the silver medal at the World Championship in Brazil.
06 October 2013
Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin gaines Grand-Prix at film festival in Switzerland
Harmony Lessons of Kazakhstan film director Emir Baigazin has become a winner of the post-soviet film festival Films from Russia and beyond in Switzerland.
02 October 2013
Shal by Kazakhstan's Yermek Tursunov nominated for Oscar
Shal (Old Man) movie directed by Yermek Tursunov from Kazakhstan has been submitted for the American Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
30 September 2013
Hugh Jackman gets lifetime achievement award in Spain
Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the star of "Wolverine" and "X-Men", received a lifetime achievement award on Friday at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain.
29 September 2013
Jia Zhangke and Pavel Chukhrai award 'Harmony Lessons' with best director
Harmony Lessons of Kazakhstan film director Emir Baigazin received the Best Director award at the 3d International Sakhalin Film Festival On the Edge.
25 September 2013