Supreme Mufti of Kazakhstan called citizens to put doomsday out of their heads
Rumors have been spreading that we will have to face an apocalypse. People are getting scared and stocking up on food. All this is a groundless lie: Mufti.
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.
Plane deicing cost 30-folded in heavy snowfall in Almaty
Treatment of one Air Astana plane with deicing fluid cost $90 thousand during heavy snowfall on December 1.
Chinese part derailed freight train in Kazakhstan
A freight train ran off the track near Astana and caused delays of 17 passenger trains in both directions.
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.
German company suspected of bribery in Kazakhstan
GfT Bautechnik, an affiliated company of ThyssenKrupp, took part in construction of artificial islands in the Caspian Sea and supplied cutoff piling there.
The region doesn't want to depend on oil: Mangistau oblast Akim
Akim of Mangistau oblast stated that the region should not depend on the oil sector.
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry makes a statement on the launch of a long-range rocket by North Korea
“We believe the move may have an adverse effect on the global non-proliferation regime and poses a threat of both regional and global scale”, the statement reads.
Best Kazakhstan-made goods being selected in Astana
A state contest-exhibition Best Kazakhstan Goods-2012 kicked off in Korme exhibition center in Astana on December 11.
Kazakhstan to launch the first Islamic educational website
The e-ISLAM portal is being developed as instructed by Head of State following the 38th sitting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers August 15, 2011.
Pensions to be raised by 9% starting from January 1, 2013
As of December 1, 2012 the average retirement allowance stands at $257.
Kazakh guard sentenced to life for mass border killing
A court in Kazakhstan Tuesday sentenced a border guard to life in prison for murdering 14 fellow servicemen in a mysterious May massacre in the remote Tian Shan mountains.
Border control officers at Atyrau airport questioned over a Hungary citizen’s suicide
The man had been kept in the border control zone for three days before he committed suicide November 30.
China wants to divide transborder rivers with Kazakhstan depending on the number of people living along the rivers
We turned down this particular argument of the Chinese side: Vice Minister of Agriculture.
Kazakhstan plans to settle transborder rivers issue with China by 2015
Water diverting is growing exponentially in China and we understand that procrastination [with regards to a possible agreement] is getting more dangerous for Kazakhstan: Vice Minister of Agriculture.
Argentinean cows need good nourishment: Nazarbayeva
Kazakhstan Parliament has once again discussed unsuccessful results of the country's cattle breeding program.
Experts comment development of Kazakhstan tourism
UNESCO poll shows that 70% of tourists don’t need any facilities and would prefer a camping ground to a hotel.
Samruk-Kazyna mulls dividing its affiliated companies into public and non-public
This was suggested by an independent director of KazTransGas at the meeting of independent directors of Samruk-Kazyna group of companies with the Fund's chairman.