President says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder'The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized last week with hundreds of children on board acted in a way "tantamount to murder," President Park Guen-Hye said Monday, as four more crew members were arrested.
22 April 2014
Philippine leader apologises over 'world's worst airport'Philippine President Benigno Aquino publicly apologised on Wednesday for failures in air conditioning at Manila airport, already named by an online travel guide as the world's worst.
17 April 2014
Liberia's first post-war president diesFormer Liberian president Gyude Bryant, who led a peacetime government after two ruinous back-to-back civil wars, died aged 65 on Wednesday, the government said in a statement.
17 April 2014
President Nursultan Nazarbayev on the country’s financial industryHead of State gave a number of instructions to the National Bank and the Government to reduce the share of NPLs, accelerate introduction of Basel III standards, and strengthen safeguards to protect the rights of consumers of banking products.
16 April 2014
Kazakhstan and Bahrain to promote Islamic banking in KazakhstanWe are interested in Bahrain’s practices in this realm as the country is a major center of Islamic finances”, President Nazarbayev said following his talks with King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al-Khalifa in Astana April 14.
Solis elected as Costa Rica's new president: officialPolitical centrist Luis Guillermo Solis was elected president of Costa Rica in a runoff vote Sunday, becoming the first third-party candidate to win in decades.
Malta gets new female presidentMalta's Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was on Friday sworn in as the island state's ninth president after being named by the prime minister and approved by parliament.
President Nazarbayev on languages in KazakhstanMeasures should be taken to calm down the excessively ardent public servants discriminating against candidates seeking public service on the basis of the language the latter speak: President Nazarbayev.
02 April 2014
President Nazarbayev on stability and unity of the nationThe new leadership of Ukraine is threatening to deprive part of its people of the Ukrainian citizenship and prohibit them from speaking their mother tongue (…) it is unthinkable here in Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev.
'Letters to father' deepen Uzbek first daughter mysteryThe appearance of rambling letters said to have been written by Uzbekistan's once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova has heightened the mystery over her astonishing fall from grace in the ex-Soviet state.