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Japan utilities dive on atomic plant shutdown fears Shares in Japanese power companies plunged Tuesday after a panel of experts said one of the nation's nuclear plants may sit over an active seismic fault, raising fears it would have to be scrapped.

12 December 2012

Brief Facebook outage after infrastructure change Facebook was unreachable briefly on Monday after the social network made a change to part of its infrastructure dealing with routing traffic to its online address.

11 December 2012

Experts comment development of Kazakhstan tourism UNESCO poll shows that 70% of tourists don’t need any facilities and would prefer a camping ground to a hotel.

11 December 2012

EXPO-2017 facilities will be used along Olympic village principles It is important to consider future use of EXPO-2017 facilities in Kazakhstan in advance: President Nazarbayev.

11 December 2012

Kazkosmos to sell satellite images to French Kazakhstan National Space Agency Kazkosmos plans to sell images made by its Earth remote sensing system to French companies.

10 December 2012

Kazakhstan and Russia may edge away from lease-based relations over the Baikonur cosmodrome Baikonur town may be transferred under the Kazakhstan’s jurisdiction, according to KazKosmos Head.

10 December 2012

Biggest Kazakhstan greenhouse launched near Almaty The greenhouse has the area of 51 thousand square meters and will produce 4000 tones of vegetables a year.

10 December 2012

Russia works to fix satellite's off-target orbit Russian scientists were working to correct the orbit of a communications satellite Sunday after it failed to reach its designated location in space -- the latest setback for the country's once-pioneering space industry.

10 December 2012

Airport handover 'seamless': Maldives government The Maldivian government on Saturday described as "seamless" the retaking of the country's international airport from an Indian developer following a bitter row that triggered a spat with its neighbour.

08 December 2012

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New company aims to send humans back to the moon Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there.

08 December 2012

Kazakhstan President instructed to improve cellular communications If the cellular operators continue working as bad as they do now in Astana, we will disgrace ourselves: Nazarbayev.

07 December 2012

Tablet technology takes teaching into 21st century In September, the British School of Paris (BSP), where McCluskey teaches, became one of a handful of schools across Europe to take the plunge and decide to restructure their teaching around the technology.

07 December 2012

Scientists say NASA's budget inadequate for its goals NASA suffers from a "mismatch" between its goals and the budget it has been given to achieve them, according to a panel that said the US space agency may need a complete overhaul.

07 December 2012

Nazarbayev launched electric locomotive plant in Astana The ceremony of opening of the electric locomotive plant was held in the industrial park of Astana on December 4.

06 December 2012

Award.kz awarded the Best Website of the Decade in Kazakhstan Tengrinews.kz was declared the Best Website of the Decade in Kazakhstan.

05 December 2012

Deal reached to end major US port strike: LA mayor Negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to end a week-long strike crippling the key US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

05 December 2012

NASA to send new rover to Mars in 2020 NASA plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, the US space agency said Tuesday.

05 December 2012

India warns Maldives over airport deal row India warned its neighbour the Maldives on Monday that it might freeze annual aid worth $25 million amid anger over an attempt to kick out the Indian firm managing the main airport in the country.

05 December 2012

Sulphur gas boosts theory of Venus volcanoes European scientists said on Monday they had found tantalising clues to back theories that Venus -- Earth's cursed sister -- has active volcanoes.

04 December 2012