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KazMunaiGas considering a Eurobond issue
The Company has turned to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Halyk Finance and VISOR Capital to arrange meetings with prospective investors to be held starting from April 16.
16 April 2013
Figure Skating: Denis Ten invited to World Team Trophy in Japan
Patrick Chan, Brian Joubert, Daisuke Takahashi will participate in the tournament together with Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten.
16 April 2013
Weightlifting: Kazakhstan’s Zulfiya Chinshanlo gets Jeno Boskovic Award
Jeno Boskovic Trophy is awarded to best weightlifters based on their performances during one year.
16 April 2013
Kazakhstan government instructed to narrow gap between rich and poor
Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed Kazakhstan government to work on narrowing the gap between rich and poor.
15 April 2013
Billionaire Bulat Utemuratov mulls buying Temir and Alliance Banks: media
The cost of Alliance Bank and Temirbank may range from $500 million to $1 billion.
15 April 2013
Rock Climbing: Kazakhstan climbers win nine medals in Kyrgyzstan
17 athletes represented Kazakhstan at the tournament as part of the Kazakhstan youth national rock climbing team.
15 April 2013
Nauryz-2013 Rock Climbing Festival held in Kazakhstan
Athletes competed in four categories: dry-tooling, jumaring, Dombay Roped Couples and obstacle course.
15 April 2013
Rare 7.3-liter Aston Martin One-77 brought to Almaty
The car’s engine develops 750 horsepower and it is capable of accelerating to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds.
15 April 2013
Q 1 oil production output stands at 17.3 million tons
Kazakhstan plans to produce 82 million tons of crude and condensed gas in 2013, with the figure brought up to 83 million in 2014 and 90 million in 2015.
15 April 2013
Kazakhstan planning to boost uranium extraction
The uranium production output in Kazakhstan made up 20 900 tons in 2012. In 2011 the country’s share in global uranium supplies stood at 35%.
15 April 2013
Water deficit may triple in Kazakhstan by 2050
If we don’t act, water supplies will be three times lower than the demand in Kazakhstan by 2050: Kazakhstan Environment Minister Kapparov.
15 April 2013
Kazakhstan to spend 1 percent of GDP on green economy
There are many scenarios and we will compare them, but I think we will invest at least 1 percent: Kazakhstan Minister.
15 April 2013
Cycling: Gasparotto from Astana hit by truck during training in Italy
The accident put Gasparotto’s participation in Amstel Gold Race at risk.
15 April 2013
Boxing: Astana Arlans and Mexico Guerreros set forth boxers for first semifinal match
The return semifinal match between Kazakhstan's Astana Arlans and Mexico Guerreros will be held in Almaty on April 20.
15 April 2013
Weightlifting: Kazakhstan weightlifter wins gold at Youth World Championship
Kazakhstan's Albert Linder lifted 295 kg in total after two exercises (135 kg in snatch and 160 kg in clean and jerk) and won the gold.
15 April 2013
CCO Jim Cochrane resigns from ENRC
Chief Commercial Officer of Eurasia Natural Resources Corporation PLC (ENRC) Jim Cochrane has resigned.
15 April 2013
Kazakhstan’s President prohibits use of the National Oil Fund’s assets to finance banks
Second-tier banks have a lot of other opportunities and tools to raise money and other reserves to turn to: Nursultan Nazarbayev.
12 April 2013
Italian TV channel to launch Pascalistan show about Kazakhstan
The show will tell about the life of Italian singer Son Pascal in Kazakhstan.
12 April 2013
Kazakhstan to continue space cooperation with Russia at Baikonur even beyond 2050: KazKosmos National Space Agency
Tengrinews.kz reported earlier, citing Russia’s Izvestia, that Russia may bring its operations at the Baikonur cosmodrome close to zero as early as by 2020.
12 April 2013
Russia’s President believes Kazakhstan-based Baikonur is obsolete
We are aligning projects so that Baikonur could be also used. Surely, we will be exploiting it in partnership with space experts and agencies of Kazakhstan: Vladimir Putin.
12 April 2013