Kazakhstan News Archives

“Because of the nomadic tradition, the guest is the highest priority in my country.”

The travel industry depends on TLAs. The Three Letter Acronym is particularly prevalent in aviation, where the right trio can make your heart sink or sing. via The Belfast Telegraph

Kazakhstan is close to the completion of the legal registration of documents on joining the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Kazakh Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev said here on ... via Tass

“With a good social environment, fast economic development and rising international stature, China has become more and more attractive to foreign students in recent years”

The country is pushing ahead in its efforts to become a leading destination for international students, riding on the wave of a growing number of foreigners coming to study in recent years. via Xinhuanet

KAZINFORM. Kazakhstan's parliament ratified on Thursday a United Nations convention on preventing nuclear terrorism, the press service of the upper house announced. via Kazinform

“Such a law will not be in the interest of the Afghan people, who have now started breathing afresh after years of Taliban tyranny”

HindustanTimes 04/25/2008 By [Printer Friendly Version] Former Afghanistan foreign minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah has decried any move by the government to legislate a law to ban men's jeans, long hair, makeup, ... via E-Ariana

April 24. KAZINFORM /Daniyar Sikhimbayev/ 'Since gaining its independence Kazakhstan is an example of the state that didn't undermine its regional and global security,' President of Kazakhstan Nursultan ... via Kazinform

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan Kagazy PLC , one of Kazakhstan ' s leading industrial groups, today announced that the market value of land and warehouse facilities owned by its subsidiaries amounted to US$ ... via Earth Times

The American magazine Catholic Response has published an English translation of a provocative article, originally published in the official Vatican newspaper, calling for an end to the practice of receiving ... via Global Catholic Network EWTN

“There is no immediate implication to the Soyuz vehicle on orbit. If we need to return for an emergency case, we can get in the Soyuz and come home”

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED: Russia's space craft have been given the thumbs up despite a heavy landing, 400km off course, by a capsule returning from the International Space Station. via Manawatu Evening Standard

Experts from Asia and Europe have gathered at a United Nations-backed meeting which opened today in Bangkok to discuss progress made in efforts to link landlocked developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region ... via United Nations

“I'm optimistic about Kazatomprom meeting the objectives”

The flame-licked doors of a hydrogen furnace clattered open at a Cold War-era bomb factory in Kazakhstan's Ural Mountains, spilling a tray of baked metal capsules into the pale winter light. via The Moscow Times

“It is clear that it doesn't bring more honesty to the state and people...The government was hoping to use this to divert public opinion from today's troubles, to calm the people down.”

A televised documentary accuses the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev of plotting to overthrow the government. via Rferl.org News

“And we also looked at the possibility of including Kyrgyzstan in transnational projects for supplies of blue fuel [natural gas].”

CENTRAL ASIA: KYRGYZ PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM ASTANA WITH WHEAT-EXPORT DEAL 4/18/08 By Bruce Pannier A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev has returned home after a two-day visit ... via EurasiaNet

“The craft will land at 12:31 Moscow time (4.31pm Singapore time) around 80 kilometres north of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan”

SOUTH Korea's first astronaut ended her nine-day stay on the International Space Station on Saturday as her spacecraft started a three-and-a-half hour descent to Earth, a Russian official said. via The Straits Times

“It is therefore helpful in training ourselves today, in the work of monitoring, to look back at monitoring efforts in the past - to see how well we did and what the challenges were.”

From correspondents in Washington, United States, 01:01 PM IST Newly released data from Semipalatinsk, the primary nuclear weapons testing site of the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, can help today's ... via India eNews

“In order to provide [domestically] for the needs of our people, we would have to grow more than twice the wheat we currently produce”

Stocking up on bread in Dushanbe Officials in Kazakhstan have announced a four-month ban on wheat exports aimed at protecting consumers from the effects of global grain shortages. via Radio Free Europe

“Implementation [of EU strategy] is well under way and the EU is working with partners in the region on joint priorities papers detailing future action”

Testimonials 09 April 2008 Reuters ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Senior EU officials will descend on Turkmenistan this week to promote cooperation with Central Asia, a region that is key to Europe's ambitions to ... via The Moscow Times

Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, today opened its second fully-dedicated sales shop in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. via Maktoob Business

“The preferential terms of this loan make it possible to fund projects, primarily those industrial and infrastructural, for the next 20 years”

The Kazakhstan Development Bank will draw a $300 million loan from the China Export-Import Bank. via Interfax

“By 2020 all piloted space programmes will be moved to this cosmodrome”

Russia will end manned space launches from Kazakhstan's Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome by 2020, replacing it with a launch pad in Russia, a top official said on Friday, Interfax news agency reported. via Independent Online

The Kazakh government is spending 242.5 billion tenge to prop up the construction industry, which is suffering from a shortage of financing amid the global credit crunch. via St.Petersburg Times

“I was deeply touched by the city's beautiful scenery and the professors' earnest attitude on study”

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov was awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree and "outstanding alumnus" by his alma mater Wuhan University on Thursday in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province. via People's Daily Online

April 10. KAZINFORM. Kazakhstan intends to invest about $10 billion to create a Caspian oil and gas industry center in the country's west, the press office of the Kazakhstan president said on Wednesday. via Kazinform

New Delhi, Apr 10 : Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari is returning home this afternoon after a week long successful tour of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. via Newkerala.com

“The PROD corporation never buys our crops at high prices, always at a [lower-than-market] price”

Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov says Almaty plans this week to either introduce new duties on grain, or impose a complete ban on exports. via Rferl.org News

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov arrived in Beijing this morning, kicking off his four-day official visit to China. via English.eastday.com

“The president was very forthright on the energy and food production areas and mentioned that a lot of groundwork still needs to be done”

Kazakhstan Tuesday offered to assist in India' efforts to ensure its energy security even as it hoped for greater cooperation in the food production and education spheres. via Uzbekistan News.net

Ashgabat, Apr 6 : After his successful visit to Turkmenistan, Vice President Hamid Ansari on Sunday left for Kazakhstan. via Newkerala.com

From correspondents in Asia Pacific, 10:30 PM IST Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari arrived here Sunday on the second and concluding leg of his week-long visit to the Central Asian republics of ... via India eNews

China on Thursday urged related French officials not to encourage disturbing actions against the upcoming Olympic torch relay in Paris. via People's Daily Online

New Delhi, Apr 4: Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will begin his week-long tour to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan from today. via Daily India

“I think now is the time to look at Kazakh equity”

Most Kazakh companies have traditionally relied on bank borrowing and bonds for their funding needs, unwilling to share control and disclose more information about themselves. via The Moscow Times

The Olympic torch has arrived in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev carried it a short distance through Almaty, the commercial capital, on Wednesday.

Security has been tight, with thousands of policemen watching out for potential protests by Tibetan activists or those from Kazakhstan's Uighur community.

The Uighurs have a sizable population in western China, particularly in Xinjiang, an autonomous region that borders Tibet.

Radio Free Asia has reported that several hundred Uighurs have been taken into custody since demonstrating in Xinjiang on March 23. Read more

Central Asia News.Net Tuesday 1st April, 2008 Colombo, April 1 Almaty: Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev will participate in Wednesday's torch relay in Almaty, the mayor of Almaty has said. via Central Asia News.Net

“Overall, on the positive side, an increase of the state role could underpin greater stability and certainty for all the players in the Kazakh oil and gas sector”

Fitch Ratings has said that an increased state role in the Kazakh oil and gas industry announced recently by the Kazakh prime minister looks unlikely to have implications for the credit ratings of companies ... via Interfax