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US Holocaust survivor meets Polish savior 70 years on
A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.
28 November 2013
Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher finalize divorce
Former Hollywood power couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are officially divorced, two years after she announced their split, according to legal documents released Wednesday.
28 November 2013
Hernandez declared winner of disputed Honduras vote
The head of Honduras' electoral tribunal on Wednesday declared conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez the winner of the presidential poll, amid allegations of vote-rigging from the losing leftist candidate.
28 November 2013
New Zealand looks to uncork 'lifestyle' wine niche
New Zealand winegrowers launched a $14 million research project Wednesday aimed at capitalising on growth in demand for so-called "lifestyle" wines, with low calories and less alcohol.
28 November 2013
South Korean LOTTE Confectionery finalizes deal to purchase 76% in Almaty-based Rakhat confectionary
LOTTE Confectionery is planning to make a bid to buy out the rest of the shares held by minority shareholders.
27 November 2013
Kazakhstan’s President furious over prices for real estate in Astana
Why isn’t the Agency for Competition taking measures to stop that? There should be some margin, but not 5 or 6-fold: President.
27 November 2013
9 Ambassadors to Kazakhstan present credentials
Kazakhstan Secretary of State Marat Tazhin has accepted the credentials from Ambassadors of Denmark, Uruguay. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Philippines, Zambia, Nigeria and Fiji.
27 November 2013
Kazakhstan introduces Labor Day
Kazakhstan is introducing a new holiday -- the Labor Day.
27 November 2013
More than 20 Toyota spare parts shops closed in Almaty
More than 20 Toyota and Lexus spare parts shops closed in Kazakhstan starting from November 25.
27 November 2013
Chevron alleges Ecuador fraud in oil pollution case
Chevron claimed Tuesday that corrupt Ecuadoran plaintiffs mounted an elaborate fraud to win a multi-billion-dollar case against it for polluting the Amazonian rainforest, in arguments before a US court.
27 November 2013
New tariffs set for KazTransOil pipeline oil pumping
Kazakhstan Agency for Regulation of Natural Monopolies (Anti-Monopoly Agency) has approved new tariffs on oil pumping through the KazTransOil pipeline.
27 November 2013
China 'monitored' US B-52 air zone flights: ministry
China "monitored" US B-52 bomber flights in its newly-declared air defence identification zone, the defence ministry said Wednesday, in an assertion of its authority that stopped short of threatening direct action.
27 November 2013
Thirty Haitians dead after ship capsizes in Bahamas: US
About 30 Haitian migrants died after an overloaded freighter capsized in the Bahamas and 110 others were rescued in rough seas, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday.
27 November 2013
'It's not relief work in Sudan': Streep on acting
Meryl Streep is brilliant as a domineering, drug-addicted, cancer-suffering grandmother in her latest film "August: Osage County" but she won't pretend to have the worst job in the world.
27 November 2013
Japan's Panasonic to sell chip plants to Israeli firm: report
Japan's Panasonic is nearing a deal to sell three domestic semiconductor plants to an Israeli company as it presses ahead with a move to cut money-losing operations, a report said Wednesday.
27 November 2013
Russia, UAE, Turkey, Brazil await decision on Expo 2020 host
Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Brazil will Wednesday find out if their chosen cities have won the right to host the 2020 World Expo, an event which boosts tourism and business.
27 November 2013
End 'sharp words' over Ukraine, Putin tells EU leaders
Russia's president on Tuesday called for European leaders to end their criticism over Ukraine's decision to delay a key EU pact, as thousands rallied in Kiev in a third day of protests.
27 November 2013
Nazarbayev University corruption free: Vice PM
The University employs about 250 foreign universities and is a providing education service to 1200 students.
27 November 2013
Riding proud in Ivory Coast with the Elephant's Bikers
Decked out in leather gear, their powerful Harley-Davidsons girded in sleek chrome, the Elephant's Bikers make an almost surreal sight in the poor and sometimes barren Ivory Coast villages they visit.
27 November 2013
Kazakhstan ahead of Soviet Union in terms of life expectancy
The average life expectancy in Kazakhstan in 2012 stood at 69.6 years.
27 November 2013
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