Almaty, Kazakhstan News

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.

Kazakh domestic politics is bubbling as Astana prepares to head the OSCE. From EurasiaNet.

It may look like a rejected set-piece from Peter Jacksona s Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the Hotel Kazakhstan is undoubtedly the dominating form on Almatya s horizon.

For his part, Chairman of Civil Aviation at the Kazakh Ministry of Transport and Communications Radilbek Adimolda said the new Abu Dhabi-Astana route is set to further strengthen the economic, trade, cultural and tourism between the two friendly countries.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines , part of the Volga-Dnepr Group, has begun B747 freighter services from Amsterdam to Almaty, Kazakhstan via Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.

High on confidence after bagging gold in the Asian Clay Shooting Championship, Olympian Manavjit Singh Sandhu is now aiming to better his 2006 Commonwealth Games bronze when Delhi hosts the quadrennial event next year.

Belarus recorded a second commanding victory over Kazakhstan in Group 6 as Bernd Stange's side look to finish their FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign on a high.

Public-sector lender Punjab National Bank is scouting for acquisition of a bank in Kazakhstan as part of its plans to expand its presence, a top bank executive said.

United Arab Emirates: 50 minutes ago Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, announced today that it will launch twice-weekly service from Sharjah, UAE, to Samara, Russia, beginning October 26, 2009.