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Yerzhanov's The Owners wins Grand Prix at International Film Festival in Lebanon
Yerzhanov's The Owners has won the Grand Prix at Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon.
03 December 2014
Kazakhstan startup seeks investor support in London
A robotics educational startup founded by Kazakhstanis in London aims to attract investment for production of children's robo-sets.
03 December 2014
Taiwan's Ma quits as ruling party head after vote defeat
Taiwan's Beijing-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou stepped down Wednesday as chairman of the ruling party.
03 December 2014
Tens of thousands get sneak peek of Japan Imperial Palace
Tens of thousands of people were offered a rare -- but congested -- glimpse of Japan's exclusive Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo.
03 December 2014
Japan launches rocket carrying asteroid probe
Japan launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft's historic landing on a comet.
03 December 2014
Pacific states say tuna talks making slow progress
Pacific island states expressed frustration at a lack of progress in talks aimed at protecting the region's valuable tuna resources.
03 December 2014
Kerry hosts first anti-Islamic State coalition meeting
US Secretary of State John Kerry hosts the first high-level meeting of the 60-member coalition trying to crush the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and in Syria.
03 December 2014
WHO makes cervical cancer protection easier, cheaper
The WHO introduced new cervical cancer guidelines, making it easier and cheaper to protect women against one of the deadliest, but most preventable, diseases.
03 December 2014
Facebook Argentina fined over fake profiles
Facebook Argentina was ordered to pay a firefighter one million pesos for failing to comply with an order to delete insulting fake profiles of the plaintiff.
03 December 2014
Victoria's Secret 'Angels' strut in London for first time
Top models wearing gold wings and diamond-encrusted bras strutted the London catwalk in the first Victoria's Secret annual lingerie show to be held in London.
03 December 2014
Ashton Carter likely next Pentagon chief: reports
The former number-two ranking official at the Pentagon, Ashton Carter, will likely be named as the next US defense secretary.
03 December 2014
NATO ministers boost support for Ukraine
NATO foreign ministers approved fresh support for Ukraine and condemned Russia for backing pro-Moscow rebels.
03 December 2014
Railway link from Kazakhstan to Iran across Turkmenistan to be inaugurated today
The agreement on construction of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway link was signed by the three leaders back in 2007, the actual construction works commenced in 2009.
03 December 2014
Hong Kong protest founders to 'surrender', urge students to retreat
The original founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy movement tearfully announced they would "surrender" by turning themselves in to police.
03 December 2014
Kazakhstan’s President meets his Turkmenistan counterpart
Owing to the railway link towards the Persian Gulf, the trade turnover this year has grown by 38%. It is an unprecedented growth: President Nazarbayev.
02 December 2014
Protest over 43 missing Mexicans ends in violence
A peaceful rally over the presumed massacre of 43 Mexican students ended with violence in the capital.
02 December 2014
Bruce Springsteen fills in at surprise U2 AIDS show
Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay's Chris Martin tried to replace Bono's legendary vocal cords in a surprise U2 concert in New York to rally support for fighting AIDS.
02 December 2014
Japan kicks off election campaign in 'Abenomics referendum'
Official campaigning kicked off in Japan before a December 14 election which Prime Minister has described as a referendum on his faltering "Abenomics" growth blitz.
02 December 2014
Studies probe why osteoporosis drugs may prevent cancer
International researchers said they have made steps toward understanding why the most commonly used drugs for osteoporosis worldwide may also prevent some kinds of cancers.
02 December 2014