| 04/26/2018 00:45 | Kazakhstan seeks managers for $300 mln in pension fund assets ( Reuters )
ALMATY, April 25 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's central bank has sent out a request for proposals to asset managers to invest about $300 million in state pension fund assets in a global passive equity portfolio, it said on Wednesday. The pension fund, replenished by mandatory contributions from working ... |
| 04/25/2018 11:00 | The cost of changing an entire country's alphabet ( BBC News )
In the Russian-influenced northern provinces and city centres, like Almaty and the capital Astana, Russian is used both on the street and in state offices. But in the south and west, Kazakh is more regularly used. That the Kazakh language is currently written in Cyrillic â and the persistent use of Russian in ... |
| 04/25/2018 08:50 | Progress on Kazakhtelecom's Overseas Listing ( Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (press release) (blog) )
With a presence on Kazakhstan's primary bourse in Almaty and an estimated market capitalization of some 308 billion tenge (US$ 937 million), Kazakhtelecom is the first of nine major state-owned companies being prepared to list no stakes of less than 25% by the Ministry of National Economy, which ... |
| 04/25/2018 01:05 | Kazakhstan: President's remarks precipitate crisis at bank ( EurasiaNet )
Such was Astana Bank's parlous situation, that even rival Qazkom scrolled a sign of solidarity on the broad electronic facade of its Almaty headquarters reading: âHardships make us strong. Astana Bank, everything will be fine.â Kazakhstan-based brokerage Freedom Finance described Nazarbayev's ... |
| 04/24/2018 20:45 | Rusal sanctions seen risk to Kazakh coal venture: Samruk Energy ( Reuters )
ALMATY (Reuters) - The Bogatyr Komir coal mining joint venture between Kazakhstan's state-run Samruk Energy and Rusal could face risks linked to U.S. sanctions against the ... Bogatyr Komir produces 41 million tonnes of coal a year, which it sells in Kazakhstan and Russia, mostly to power plants. |
| 04/19/2018 04:55 | #Kazakhstan has 'zero tolerance' policy on torture, officials tell European parliamentarians ( EU Reporter )
Kazakh officials briefed European parliamentarians, representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the media April 16 on the country's effort to prevent domestic torture and protect citizens' human rights, Almaty Internal Affairs Department reported. Senior representatives of the Kazakh ... |
| 04/18/2018 18:50 | Kazakhstan: European delegates meet local prisoners ( Times of Central Asia )
ALMATY (TCA) â A European delegation has met with inmates in Kazakhstan whom rights activists consider political prisoners in the tightly controlled Central Asian country, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. The delegation led by Polish lawmaker Marcin Swiecicki and the president of the Italian ... |
| 04/17/2018 22:50 | European Delegates Meet Kazakh Prisoners, Hear Torture Claim ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ALMATY -- A European delegation has met with inmates in Kazakhstan whom rights activists consider political prisoners in the tightly controlled Central Asian country. The delegation led by Polish lawmaker Marcin Swiecicki and the president of the Italian League for Human Rights, Antonio Stango, met ... |
| 04/17/2018 18:50 | Kazakhstan has 'zero tolerance' policy on torture, officials tell European parliamentarians (Latin American Herald Tribune)
Kazakh Government Highlights Progress on Human Rights - Latin American Herald Tribune |
| 04/17/2018 02:55 | 140 projects are implemented in Kazakhstan as part of the public-private partnerships ( http://www.kazakh-tv.kz/ )
AIDOS KOBETOV, VICE PRESIDENT, KAZAKHSTAN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CENTER: - We are currently considering using public-private partnership agreements as liquid collaterals and attracting funds based on that. Foreign investors will be involved in the construction of the Big Almaty ... |
| 04/17/2018 02:55 | Kazakhstan central bank cuts rate to 9.25pc, expects lower inflation ( Business Recorder (press release) )
ALMATY: Kazakhstan's central bank cut its policy rate to 9.25 percent from 9.50 percent on Monday, its third such move this year, citing expectations of lower inflation. Some analysts had expected the regulator to pause the monetary easing after turbulence caused by the drop of the Russian rouble which ... |
| 04/13/2018 18:45 | Paik Nam-sun, director of EwhaWomans University Cancer Center for Women, passes medical ... ( Korea IT Times (press release) )
At the invitation of Kazakhstan's Almaty State Government, Paik Nam-sun, director of Ewha Womans University Cancer Center for Women, came back from a visit to Kazakhstan's Almaty district from April 7 to April 11 after providing the advanced medical techniques of Ewha Womans University Medical ... |
| 04/08/2018 23:10 | New York CEO dreams of launching tours, volunteer programmes to bring US to Kazakhstan (Astana Times)
Kazakh President briefed on Astana's development progress - Astana Times |
| 04/07/2018 10:50 | PM chairs meeting on regional development issues ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
KAZINFORM - Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev has started today a series of working sessions on achieving the 2018 ... In the course of the meeting, Mayor of Almaty Bauyrzhan Baibek and Governor of Almaty region Amandyk Batalov reported on the work done for the ... |
| 04/06/2018 18:50 | Kazakhstan Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Astana with Photo Exhibit in Madrid ( Latin American Herald Tribune )
The event was just one way the Kazakh embassy in Madrid along with the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan celebrated ... The capital of Kazakhstan was moved from Almaty, the largest city in the country, to Astana on June 10, 1998 on the initiative of the President Nursultan ... |
| 04/06/2018 03:05 | Ailing Jehovah's Witness Released From Kazakh Prison After Pardon ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has pardoned a Jehovah's Witness who was serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly inciting religious and ethnic hatred. The Christian Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kazakhstan said on April 5 that 61-year-old Teimur ... |
| 04/06/2018 01:15 | Nursultan Nazarbayev partakes in meeting on Astana development ( http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release) )
It was the Head of State who suggested the idea of creating a new capital of Kazakhstan. The decision to relocate the capital from Almaty to Akmola was made on July 6, 1994. The official relocation of the capital took place on December 10, 1997. By the Presidential Decree dated May 6, 1998, Akmola ... |
| 04/05/2018 04:50 | Nazarbayev's 'Era of independence' presented in Moscow ( vestnik kavkaza )
The state has created a unique education - the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan, where all peoples and nationalities are represented. And they delegate these nationalities to the parliament of the republic." "When Nazarbayev moved the capital from Almaty to Astana, I was the president of ... |
| 04/04/2018 22:50 | Won't Fade Away: Former, Current Kyrgyz Presidents On Collision Course ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Atambaev also wrought incredible harm to Kyrgyz-Kazakh relations by repeatedly criticizing and insulting the leadership and policies in Kazakhstan after Babanov was welcomed in Almaty by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in September, in a meeting seen as an endorsement of the opposition ... |
| 04/04/2018 12:55 | Kazakh state budget's expenditures for 2018 revealed ( AzerNews )
Within the framework of these funds, measures and projects will be financed for the further development of the cities of Astana and Almaty, provision of housing for servicemen,â Sultanov added. The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev, having heard the report, instructed the draft law to ... |
