Almaty, Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan finished building on Friday its segment of a pan-Central Asian gas pipeline designed to link the region's vast gas reserves with energy-hungry China.

The band from Almaty called "Guarova Kamed" [Guar Gum] performed on the prestigious international rock-fest "Open Windows" in St.-Petersburg on June 27.

Though it is just a three-day visit to Kazakhstan, AZURA ABAS falls in love with a country that's largely a mystery to many A modern infrastructure being built in Astana This mausoleum is dedicated to Khodzha Akhmed Yassawi, great Turkic holy man The Beatles band has been immortalised on the Koktobe hill in Almaty The Astana International Airport ...

As said before, I am studying in Almaty this summer, trying to get my Kazakh Language skills as high as possible.A Here's a link to some of my efforts - comments welcome.

Nazarbayev celebrates 20 years in power. Visitors to Astana, Kazakhstan's glittery capital, love to zoom up to the top of the Bayterek Tower in an elevator for a panoramic view over the new city that has sprung up on the steppe over the last decade or so.

CzechTrade, the national trade promotion agency of the Czech Industry and Trade Ministry, would like to open its office in Kazakhstan by the end of the year, Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Milan Hovorka said during a conference on EU-Kazakhstan strategic partnership Tuesday.

Arman reports on a silent action of protest in the downtown of Almaty, Kazakhstan, in which journalists of independent newspapers, media organizations and opposition politicians put on scarves on their mouths in a symbolic demand of more freedom of speech.

Aidar, a 19-year-old Almaty resident, has only known one leader in his lifetime: Nursultan Nazarbaev, who became Kazakh president a year before Aidar was born.

ALMATY. June 19. KAZINFORM /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ The development of active political dialogue between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has a positive influence on the cooperation in the framework of international and regional organizations such as the UN, SCO, CIS, EurAsEC, SCTO.

Following the collapse of the USSR, the Republic of Kazakhstan became a participant of major international negotiations and agreements concerning disarmament, arms control as well as confidence-building measures.

ALMATY. June 15. KAZINFORM /Serik Koibagarov/ Photo-master-class for orphaned children and children with deviant behavior initiated by Coordination Center of Volunteers Komanda SOS and International Organization Code-X International will be started in Almaty tomorrow; Kazinform correspondent reports.

ASTANA. 19 June. KAZINFORM - A highly ranking business delegation from India under the aegis of the Confederation of Indian Industry of New Delhi will visit Kazakhstan between June 21 and 25, 2009, the Indian Embassy press service informs.

ALMATY. June 12. KAZINFORM /Aigul Turysbekova/ "Cooperation between our countries in the field of informational technologies is actively developing.

ALMATY. June 16. KAZINFORM /Serik Koibagarov/ An Egyptian delegation chaired by Co-Chairman of Kazakhstan-Egypt Business Council Mokhammed Abdel-Fadil will visit Almaty on June, 18 on the invitation of the Kazakh Chamber for Commerce and Industry; Kazinform reports.

BERLIN. June 15. KAZINFORM /Yuliya Chernova/ - A delegation from Kazakhstan with Almaty akim Akhmetzhan Yessimov in the head visited Stuttgart June 14-15 as part of the Year of Kazakhstan in Germany.

ALMATY. June 11. KAZINFORM. /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ "In terms of the world economy globalization the transport sphere along with the financial sector becomes a factor of the integration process", Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov has said at the 5th Euro-Asian Transport Conference in Almaty today.

ALMATY. June 11. KAZINFORM. /Aigul Tulekbayeva/ Days of Almaty Culture will take place in Stuttgart June 13-16 within the Year of Kazakhstan in Germany.

ALMATY. June 11. KAZINFORM. /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ As part of the 5th Euro-Asian Transport Conference Kazakh Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abelgazy Kussainov has held a number of working meetings with the heads of transport departments and delegations of Slovakia, Georgia, Jordan, Afghanistan and Brazilian company "Embraer" in Almaty ...

ALMATY. June 10. KAZINFORM /Aigul Turysbekova/ The IV international forum of quality managers "TMQ KAZ - 2009" Quality is the guarantee of competitiveness reflects the importance of such category as management quality in the development of competitiveness of Kazakhstan products and service, industrial, food and information security as well as ...

ALMATY. June 9. KAZINFORM. /Dauren Zhailin/ "Kazakhstan's position has been formed and made public several years ago.