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Venezuela celebrates birthday of late leader Chavez
Hugo Chavez died five months ago, but that hasn't stopped his hand-picked successor from holding week-long festivities honoring the late Venezuelan leader's birthday.
29 July 2013
S. Korea sends final offer for dialogue with N. Korea
South Korea sent its "final" proposal Monday for talks with North Korea over the fate of a shuttered joint industrial zone.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan's robots ready for planting in Vietnam
Kazakhstan's landscaper robots developed for the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest ABU Robocon 2013 in Vietnam have been presented.
29 July 2013
Jewels worth 40 million euros stolen in Cannes: investigator
An armed man stole jewels with an estimated value of 40 million euros ($53 million) in a brazen heist in broad daylight at a diamond exhibition in the French Riviera resort of Cannes Sunday.
29 July 2013
German hang glider dies in Kostanay, Kazakhstan
A German citizen, Engel A., born in 1959, has died in a hang glider crash 3km from Zatobolsk village near Kostanay in Kazakhstan.
29 July 2013
Marchenko unveiles Kazakhstan women's retirement schedule
Chairman of Kazakhstan National bank Gregory Marchenko has unveiled the schedule of the gradual raise of the retirement age for women in Kazakhstan.
29 July 2013
Nazarbayev condoles to King of Spain over rail accident
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev sent a telegram of condolences to the King of Spain Juan Carlos I over the railroad accident in Galicia region.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan's Adam performs with Makpal Issabekova at New Wave 2013
On the 2nd day of the New Wave 2013, Adam from Kazakhstan sang with Makpal Issabekova, People's Choice award winner of the festival in 2005.
29 July 2013
Ban warns Egyptian leaders over demonstration deaths
UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Egypt's interim leadership on Sunday that every death in demonstrations is making it harder to drag the country out of its crisis.
29 July 2013
Almaty scientist can diagnose cancer in 10 minutes
Doctor of Chemistry Diyas Myrzakozha from Almaty has developed a principally new method of highly accurate early diagnostics of cancer.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan hopes to reap 15 million tons of grain in net weight: KazAgro National Company
According to the country’s Agriculture Ministry, grain exports in the 2013-2014 marketing year will stand at about 7 million tons.
29 July 2013
Helios pays over 100 million tenge to victims of petrol truck accident
Helios company is dealing with the consequences of the petrol tank lorry flaring accident in Almaty.
29 July 2013
Malians go to polls in watershed election
Mali voted on Sunday for a new president in a bid to usher in peace and stability in the first election since a military coup helped plunge the country into chaos.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan designer impresses Japanese fashion maitre
Olga Stanishevskaya, designer from Aktau, Kazakhstan, has received a scholarship of the Japanese fashion maitre Shingo Sato's school in Milan, Italy.
29 July 2013
Kazakhstan to spend $92 million on 2013 grain reserves
13.75 billion tenge ($91.7 million) were allocated from the state budget for procurement of grain for the state resources.
29 July 2013
Myanmar-China gas pipeline goes into operation: Xinhua
Gas has started flowing to energy-hungry China through a pipeline from Myanmar, Beijing's official media reported, in a major project that highlights their economic links even as political ties weaken.
29 July 2013
Launch of the Single Pension Fund depends on negotiations between the Government with shareholders of major privately-owned pension funds: Central Bank Governor
Completion of the talks was expected in May-June so that the actual merger could start from July 1. The National Banks expects the talks to be over in August.
29 July 2013
Apple China supplier imposes overtime, hires minors: group
Three Chinese factories making Apple products impose excessive overtime and employ minors, a US-based advocacy group said, renewing scrutiny of labour practices by the US tech giant's suppliers.
29 July 2013
Boxing: American boxer intends to KO Kazakhstan's Golovkin
28-y.o. American boxer Curtis Stevens believes he is able to KO the current WBA and IBO champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan.
29 July 2013
KazMunaiGas instructed to train personnel for oil projects
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with the chairman of KazMunaiGas National Company Sauat Mynbayev.
29 July 2013