- Monday, 24 August, 2026
- Almaty 68 °F / 20 °C
- Astana 63 °F / 17 °C
ASTANA – The ASEAN Summer Festival brought Southeast Asia closer to Kazakhstan on Aug. 22, turning the Kazakh capital into a showcase of the region’s cultures, traditions,...
TASHKENT – Digital and financial connectivity could become the next frontier of regional integration in Central Asia, as Uzbekistan seeks to accelerate its fintech development and advance...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan is preparing to establish a national credit rating agency as part of a broader effort to develop its domestic capital market, but the institution’s...
ALMATY – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has made a number of senior state appointments, reappointing the heads of the National Bank, National Security Committee and Supreme Judicial Council,...
ASTANA — Kazakhstan has received the least restrictive travel advisory level from the United States, adding to a series of developments leading to strengthening the country’s position...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s national judo team secured its first-ever gold medal in the mixed team event at the World Judo Championships among cadets in Guayaquil, Ecuador, marking...
ASTANA – The Adilet party secured 71.17% of the vote in Kazakhstan’s first elections to the Kurultai, according to preliminary results announced by the Central Election Commission...
ASTANA — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s participation in the G20 summit in Miami this December is set to put Kazakhstan’s carefully balanced foreign policy to a new test,...
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Bank CenterCredit today announced a partnership to help Kazakh importers and exporters, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs),...
ASTANA – The Adilet party was projected to receive around 72% of the vote in Kazakhstan’s inaugural election to the Kurultai on Aug. 23, according to three...
ASTANA – Voting in Kazakhstan’s first elections to the Kurultai concluded at all polling stations across the country at 8 p.m. on Aug. 23, with 9,352,151 voters,...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s transition to a unicameral parliament and the implementation of its new constitutional framework were among the key issues raised by foreign observers during the...
ASTANA – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the new Vice President is expected to be appointed within the next week or 10 days, speaking to media representatives after...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s transition to a single-chamber legislature entered a new stage Aug. 23 as voters went to the polls to elect the country’s first Kurultai, with...
ALMATY – Voter turnout in Kazakhstan’s first elections to the Kurultai reached 37.05% as of noon on Aug. 23, with 4,670,816 voters having received ballots, according to...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan opened 10,363 polling stations across the country on Aug. 23 for Kazakhstan’s first elections to the Kurultai, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC)....
ASTANA – S&P Global Ratings raised Kazakhstan’s long- and short-term sovereign credit ratings on Aug. 21 to BBB/A-2 from BBB-/A-3, while maintaining a stable outlook. The agency...
ASTANA — Archaeologists from across the Turkic world are moving towards a new model of cooperation that could make the region’s archaeological heritage easier to study as...
I had lived in Astana for years before I finally visited the greenhouse at the city’s Botanical Garden. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure why it took...
ASTANA – The Kurultai has long served as one of the defining institutions of governance across the Eurasian steppe. Long before the emergence of the Kazakh Khanate,...
ASTANA – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called Kazakhstan’s first elections to the new unicameral Kurultai a historic event and urged citizens, notably young people, to take part...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first campaign for the new Kurultai has brought all seven registered political parties into a national political debate, with televised discussions and public meetings...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s proposed international volunteer portal could be more than an image project, giving the country an opportunity to turn its global volunteer agenda into a...
ASTANA – The Astana Times has selected articles on Kazakhstan featured in international media worldwide this week. Today’s foreign media digest covers Kazakhstan’s AI education initiatives, political...
ASTANA – From gallery openings and live music to high-octane drift shows, Astana and Almaty are heading into the weekend with a packed cultural and entertainment calendar....
ASTANA – Kanye West’s first solo concert in Central Asia generated an estimated 5 billion tenge (US$11 million) in tourism-related economic impact for Almaty, highlighting the growing...
ASTANA – Kazakhstan is moving rapidly to position artificial intelligence at the center of its economic modernization strategy, investing in computing infrastructure, skills, startups and Kazakh-language technologies...
ALMATY – Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific will launch direct flights between Almaty and Hong Kong on Jan. 9, 2027, establishing the first direct air link between...
ALMATY – The final Aug. 19 televised debate before Kazakhstan’s Aug. 23 Kurultai elections showed that the country’s seven political parties are entering the vote with competing...
ALMATY – Umit, the female Amur tiger released into the wild in Kazakhstan’s Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve on July 31, has successfully begun hunting independently, killing a...
