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Mexico to extract 12,000-year-old teen skeleton
Mexican researchers plan to extract the more than 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl whose discovery in an underwater cave has given new clues about the origins of the first Native Americans.
21 May 2014
Fukushima water decontamination system down
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday it had again suspended a trouble-plagued system used to clean radiation-tainted water.
21 May 2014
Personal sports camera GoPro to hit stock market
The company behind GoPro cameras used to capture sports action from players' perspectives filed on Monday to raise $100 million in a public stock offering.
21 May 2014
Australia's Treasury Wines rejects $2.85 bn takeover offer
Australia's Treasury Wine Estates on Tuesday revealed it received a Aus$3.05 billion (US$2.85 billion) takeover bid from US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and rejected it as too low.
21 May 2014
Kazakhstan bans heavy trucks from highways during daytime
Kazakhstan is banning heavy trucks from national highways during daytime in summer to save the road-surface.
20 May 2014
Golovkin-Quillin fight negotiations fail
Negotiations of Gennady Golovkin and Peter Quillin fight have failed.
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan approves new geological exploration program
Kazakhstan's geological exploration will focus on precious metals, especially gold, rare earth metals and copper.
20 May 2014
South Korea's Kumho to upgrade Philippine airport
A South Korean firm has won an $82.9-million contract to upgrade an airport at one of the Philippines' hottest tourist destinations, authorities said.
20 May 2014
Bulat Utemuratov finalizes Temirbank and Alliance Bank purchase and talks about their future
Samruk-Kazyna National Wealth Fund finalized sale of its shares in two Kazakhstan banks, Temirbank and Alliance Bank, to Bulat Utemuratov.
20 May 2014
Tennis: Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas beats world's No 22 in France
A professional tennis player from Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas has advanced into the second round of the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg.
20 May 2014
China accuses US of 'hypocrisy' as hacking row escalates
Beijing summoned the US ambassador and accused Washington of double standards Tuesday over its unprecedented indictment of five Chinese military officers for cyber-espionage.
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev meets executives of major Chinese companies
President Nazarbayev is on a state visit to China and has already met Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two have launched construction of a Kazakhstan’s terminal at the Lianyungang seaport.
20 May 2014
Almaty to beat Moscow by trade areas supply
Almaty will outgrow Moscow by Gross Leasable Area per capita in two years.
20 May 2014
Internet penetration at 70% in Kazakhstan: ASTEX-2014 in Astana
Astana is hosting the international conference and exhibition ASTEX-2014 on May 19-20, 2014.
20 May 2014
Credit Suisse guilty on US felony charge, pays $2.6 bn
Credit Suisse pleaded guilty and was fined $2.6 billion Monday for helping Americans avoid taxes, the first time in 20 years a major bank has been punished on US criminal charges.
20 May 2014
Japan's Hitachi unveils joking robot
Japanese scientists unveiled a robot with a sense of humour Tuesday, and claimed it was capable of knowing when its jokes had fallen flat.
20 May 2014
Throat singing extraordinary Radik Tyulyush to perform at The Spirit of Tengri
The master of Tuvan throat singing Radik Tyulyush will perform in Almaty at The Spirit of Tengri festival.
20 May 2014
Thai army invokes martial law to quell unrest
Thailand's army declared martial law Tuesday after months of deadly anti-government protests, deploying armed troops in central Bangkok and censoring the media but insisting the move was "not a coup".
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Kazakhstan will render $2 million worth of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan this year.
20 May 2014
European election: And the winner is ... Angela Merkel
Largely untouched by the eurosceptic wave sweeping the continent, Germany's Angela Merkel looks set to emerge the biggest winner of Sunday's European elections.
20 May 2014
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