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Mobile phones are the future of Kazakhstan's payment system: Massimov
Payment system in Kazakhstan may be rebased to mobile phones in future, according to Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov.
16 July 2014
20 postcards from 2014 World Cup
The World Cup in Brazil has ended but the memories will stay with us for a long time.
16 July 2014
How do fake legs address Almaty's pothole problem?
Almaty activists have invented an unusual way to draw attention of the authorities to the problem of potholes in the city.
16 July 2014
Across 27 countries in 75 days: adventures of Indian filmmaker
Lal Jose and his friends will drive across two continents, crossing 27 countries, including Kazakhstan, and covering 24,000 kilometers in 75 days with a message of good will.
16 July 2014
UK to provide military equipment to Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Defense will receive all terrain vehicles (ATV) and night vision equipment from the United Kingdom.
16 July 2014
Brain drain worries Kazakhstan's PM Massimov
Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov named brain drain as one of the main challenges to the economy of Kazakhstan.
16 July 2014
11 y.o. Kazakh pianist wins competition in Cannes
11-y.o. pianist from Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, Alina Galiyeva has won a prestigious international competition in
France.
16 July 2014
Caterpillar plague in eastern Kazakhstan
Green caterpillars have flooded Shygys and Novoyavlenka villages in East Kazakhstan Oblast.
16 July 2014
Corruption in Kazakhstan's education system
Corruption in the education system of Kazakhstan has been increasing lately in spite of all the measures taken to harness it.
16 July 2014
Pirates attack Malaysian tanker in South China Sea
Pirates have attacked a Malaysian tanker and stolen the gas oil cargo before releasing it in the latest attack in Southeast Asian waters, officials said.
16 July 2014
Russia detains two over deadly Moscow metro crash: investigators
Russian investigators said on Wednesday they had detained two Moscow metro workers in a probe into a devastating crash that killed 22 people and injured dozens.
16 July 2014
China's growth speeds up to 7.5%, beats expectations
Chinese growth accelerated to a forecast-beating 7.5 percent in the second quarter, official data showed Wednesday, as government stimulus provided a much-needed boost to the world's second-largest economy.
16 July 2014
Petrol production in Kazakhstan grows 17% from January to June
Earlier the country’s Oil Minister Uzakbai Karabalin assured journalists the country wasn’t going to face any petrol shortages.
16 July 2014
11 000 Kazakhstanis may face disruption of their planned holidays abroad
All of them were unlucky to buy non-refundable air tickets for chartered flights to be performed by Turkey-based Atlas Jet that has halted its regular flights.
16 July 2014
Orbital cargo ship nears arrival at space station
An unmanned cargo ship that was rocketed into space this weekend by Orbital Sciences Corporation is nearing the International Space Station where it plans to dock.
16 July 2014
25 injured as Hong Kong-bound jet hits turbulence
Twenty-five people were injured when a passenger jet from South Africa to Hong Kong hit turbulence on Wednesday, police said, with two men seriously hurt and hospitalised in the southern Chinese city.
16 July 2014
Russian President signs law on Good-Neighborliness and Alliance in 21 Century
Vladimir Putin has signed the Law On Ratification of the Agreement on good-neighborliness and alliance in the XXI century.
16 July 2014
Mexican police find hundreds, mainly children, living in squalor
Mexican authorities found nearly 600 people, most of them children, living in squalid conditions amid rats and insects in a residential facility.
16 July 2014
New Israeli strikes raise Gaza toll above 200: medics
New Israeli air and tank strikes in Gaza early Wednesday killed several people, medics said, bringing the death toll from Israel's operation in the besieged Palestinian territory to 204.
16 July 2014
Deadly typhoon shuts down Philippine capital
Typhoon Rammasun shut down the Philippine capital on Wednesday as authorities said the first major storm of the country's brutal rainy season claimed at least four lives and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.
16 July 2014