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Internet titans shine light on secret US requests
Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US government.
04 February 2014
Heroin found in Hoffman's apartment: official
Investigators confirmed Monday that heroin was found in the New York apartment of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of a suspected drugs overdose.
04 February 2014
S. Korea cleans up after oil spill
South Korea's coastguard said Monday it would take at least two weeks to clean up the shoreline fouled by an oil spill off the southwestern port of Yeosu.
04 February 2014
Kazakhstan Central Bank Governor on consumer loan rates and NPLs
Kazakhstan Central Bank is negotiating with second-tier banks to reduce the NPLs figure down to 15% by January 1, 2015 from the current 35.8%.
03 February 2014
Kazakhstan’s Central Bank moves to reduce dollarization of economy
The share of tenge-denominated deposits decreased from 70.2% back in December 2012 to 62.6% in December 2013.
03 February 2014
Russia to deliver 5 S-300 missile battalions to Kazakhstan
Russia will deliver five S-300PS surface-to-air missile battalions to Kazakhstan for free, according to Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.
03 February 2014
Kazakhstan's Maria Mudyak among notable European opera singers
Kazakhstan opera singer Maria Mudyak has been included into the list of notable European opera singers.
03 February 2014
Fears death toll could rise in Indonesia volcano eruption
Indonesian officials searched through thick ash for bodies Sunday after Mount Sinabung volcano erupted, killing at least 15 people.
03 February 2014
H.K. tycoon rescinds $130 mn 'marriage bounty' for gay daughter
A Hong Kong tycoon has withdrawn his $130 million "marriage bounty" to find his lesbian daughter a male suitor after she defended her sexuality in a heartfelt open letter, but emphatically refused to accept her partner into the family.
03 February 2014
Student kills two in Moscow school hostage crisis
An armed student on Monday briefly took 20 teenagers hostage in a Moscow school and killed a policeman and a teacher before being detained amid security jitters ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
03 February 2014
Kazakhstan Education Minister critical of quality of new schools
A school in south Kazakhstan was commissioned in January 2012. A month later the floor caved in and the heating system broke down.
03 February 2014
Kazakhstan's Golovkin is next Tyson in middleweight
Like Mike Tyson in 1980, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin was KOing his opponents throughout 2013.
03 February 2014
Japan asks Netherlands to act against anti-whalers
Japan on Monday said it was asking the Netherlands to take "practical measures" against a Dutch-registered vessel that collided with a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean.
03 February 2014
Israel offers $20 mn to Turkey flotilla victims: report
Israel has offered Turkey $20 million in compensation to the families of those killed and wounded in its botched 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
03 February 2014
State-own media obliged to have its religion-related videos and articles approved by Agency for Religion
All the videos and printed pieces are to be coordinated with the Agency from now on: Agency for Religion Head.
03 February 2014
Malaysian court jails man who raped, then married minor
A Malaysian court on Monday sentenced a man to 12 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old whom he later married, as an activist urged the Muslim-majority nation to ban all child marriages.
03 February 2014
Baby sales in South Kazakhstan: Starting from $200
A South Kazakhstani woman who sold her 4 children is pregnant again.
03 February 2014
Pacific castaway lands back in civilisation
Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro.
03 February 2014
Air Astana to get a new Boeign-767 in May: Company’s President Peter Foster
According to Peter Foster, the Company’s fleet consists of 29 aircraft, including 10 aircraft fully owned by the Company.
03 February 2014
S. Korea prosecutors seek 20 years in MP sedition trial
South Korean prosecutors demanded a 20-year jail term for a leftist lawmaker on trial for allegedly plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea.
03 February 2014
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