Almaty, Kazakhstan News

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 ALMATY: Afghanistan's Taliban may seek to establish a foothold in ex-Soviet Central Asia to recruit supporters and disrupt supplies for US troops in Afghanistan, regional security officials said on Tuesday.

Almaty's Green Market offers stacks of nuts and dried fruit from across the region.

Company cements position in Central Asian oil and gas industry with second national comedy tour and raises US$4000 for the Children's Health Charity, Aktau 20 November 2009 - shipping, marine and logistics services provider GAC Group has hosted its second comedy tour of Kazakhstan, as promised at the conclusion of the highly acclaimed inaugural ...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has begun a third round of discussions in Almaty about upcoming counterterrorism exercises, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

New Delhi Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has pulled out of a project to develop an oil field in Kazakhstan in partnership with Oil and Natural Gas Corp and is looking for buyers for its stake in another company in the Central Asian nation.

The event brought together teachers from higher education institutions of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and other countries, TURKSOY representatives and heads of national cultural centers.

A modern replica of Moscow State University, donated by the mayor of Moscow, is one of the new constructions in Astana.

His bank card and mobile phone were blocked. He was detained on the way to the airport.

On this auspicious anniversary of the fall of the wall, I will post for you a link to a piece I wrote earlier this year for the website of Foreign Policy magazine in which I wrote that it was not Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev, or even the Pope, who "brought down" the wall.

KAZAKHSTAN: Well-equipped, profitable language school in Almaty City for sale. MARKETPLACE Don't use the so-called 'action words' like "streamlined"; "accelerated"... in your c.v./resume. Apparently they are passe.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan's state energy company has signed a $2.5 billion deal to create a joint venture with Malaysia's Petronas and South Africa's Sasol to build a synthetic liquid fuel production plant, the state company announced Friday.

Deputy Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev announced yesterday laws to cut the paperwork required for flights on private planes, some of which are "no more expensive than a jeep". "Come to any African country and they have a small runway, they take a small plane when they need to, start it like a car and go shopping to a neighbouring village," Shukeyev ...

The president of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, presided at the ceremonial opening of an Ingush Cultural Center in Almaty on October 30, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

Move to cash in on 'pockets of wealth' WITH spending on luxury goods down across the developed world in the economic crisis, luxury brands are increasingly looking far beyond the chic avenues of New York, London or Paris for revenue.

The Air Astana inaugural flight from Kazakhstan to Malaysia carrying 220 passengers landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 2.35pm Saturday.

As Kazakhstan prepares to assume the chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, US diplomats are exerting pressure on Astana to enact promised reforms.

Almaty, Kazakhstan - Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will remain with the Astana team until his contract expires at the end of next year, Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin says.

Kazakhstan's second largest mobile operator by subscribers, KaR-Tel has announced that it has received permission from the Agency on Information and Communications to deploy trial Long Term Evolution networks in Astana and Almaty, Telecompaper reports.

Almaty, 18 OCT: It has already occupied a pride of place in menues in various parts of the world and now chicken tikka is making inroads into this former Aoviet Republic.

An international media rights group has criticized a Kazakh court that upheld a three-year prison sentence against an editor convicted of publishing state secrets.