E-Commerce Volume Expected to Hit Kazakhstan’s 2025 Targets

NUR-SULTAN –  The share of e-commerce in total retail during the lockdown has approached Kazakhstan’s 2025 target of 10 percent, said Minister of Trade and Integration Bakhyt...


How Legal Technology will Improve Justice for All

In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Jack Cade described the Utopian world he would establish when he became king. A world in which all people are equal, there is...


A Determined Path to the SDGs in 2030 Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic

As lockdowns ease in countries across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear—a return to business as usual is...


Technovation Girls Competition Gives Kazakh Students Award For Innovative Augmented Reality App

NUR-SULTAN –  A team of Kazakh school students took home the Regional Winner in Asia title awarded by Technovation Girls 2020 for developing the Cerebrate brain training...


Kazakhstan to List Caspian Seal in Red Book of Endangered Species 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan plans to include the Caspian seal in its Red Book of Endangered Species, reported the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Ecology, Geology...


Kazakh Craftsmen and Artists Fill Up Virtual Marketplace With Unique Handicrafts 

NUR-SULTAN – Recent university undergraduates kicked off Este, a stylish and unique marketplace collecting the works of more than 120 Kazakh handmade artists in a single place....


New Art Space, Murals Appear in Kazakh Capital

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan just got another upgrade. New murals and an art space have transformed the city landscape and given life to some...


Kazakhstan and Russia Launch Joint Mineral Reserve Development Project in Zhambyl Region 

Kazakhstan and Russia have signed July 21 an intergovernmental agreement on the implementation of a joint mineral fertilizer plant, primeminister.kz reported. Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia Yermek...


Kazakhstan to Provide More Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will continue to render humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, according to a July 20 government decree.  According to the document, Kazakhstan will send...


Money Transfers Within Kazakhstan Reach $44.76 Million in First Five Months

NUR-SULTAN – The money transfer volume within Kazakhstan reached 18.5 billion tenge (US$44.76 million) in the first five months of 2020, which is 18.7 percent more than...


Kazakh Car Producers Prop Up Kazakh Economy In First Half Year

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh car industry has seen an overwhelming increase in domestic car production, an increase in exports, and car sales over the first half-year. The...


World Bank: Kazakh Economy Set to Recover By 2.5% After 2020 Left Behind

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan’s economic growth will probably shrink by three percent in 2020 for the first time since the late 1990s and will recover by 2.5 percent...


Spotify Launches in Kazakhstan, Welcomed By Music Fans All Over the Country

NUR-SULTAN – People in Kazakhstan now have more options to listen to music, as Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming service with 286 million users, recently...


Kazakhstan to Limit Access to Tourist Zones Near Nur-Sultan Through End of July

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will limit access to tourist zones in the Akmola Region from July 24 to Aug. 3, announced Burabai district Deputy Akim (Governor) Ualikhan Gabdullin....


Kazakhstan Launches Charity Fund to Lend Support to Medical Personnel, People in Need

NUR-SULTAN – The Menin Atamekenim (My Homeland) public association and Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs launched the Virus Dobra (Virus of Goodwill) charity action July 21 to...


Kazakhstan Expands Construction Materials Market 3.3 Times Over Thanks to New Economic Program

NUR-SULTAN – The production volume of building materials for construction works has increased 3.3 times over, said Minister of Industry and Infrastructural Development Beibut Atamkulov during a...


Kazakhstan to Establish National Emergency Stabilization Fund for Essential Medicines

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakhstan will create a national pharmaceutical reserve to ensure the country’s 18 million population has sufficient access to medicines amid the pandemic, said Kazakh Healthcare...


Kazakh Healthcare Minister Cautiously Optimistic, COVID-19 Numbers Appear to Be Stabilizing

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh health officials are optimistic, as the number of COVID-19 cases appears to be stabilizing. The daily increase in coronavirus cases halved from 4 percent...


Argentinean Dimash Dears Launch “La Era Dimash” Radio Station With Round-the-Clock Dimash Hits 

NUR-SULTAN – Millions of Dears (the term for die-hard fans of popular Kazakh singer Dimash Kudaibergen) around the world are united in a mission to get everyone...


Kazakh Youth Activists Engage Fellow Citizens, Encourage Socially Responsible Mask-Wearing Behavior

NUR-SULTAN – The youth movement of Kazakhstan’s Assembly of People launched a nationwide social campaign over the weekend to encourage people to comply with quarantine measures and...


Popular Uzbek Singer Supports Kazakh People with Patriotic Song

NUR-SULTAN – Famous Uzbek singer and actor John Roomy (Jalaladdin Rumi) sang “Atameken (homeland),” one of the most prominent patriotic songs in Kazakh, to morally support all...


EU Launches $3.4 Million Program to Help Central Asia Fight COVID-19

NUR-SULTAN – The European Union launched July 20 the Central Asia COVID-19 Crisis Response Program (CACCR), a 3 million euro (US$3.4 million) package meant to help the...


Eurasian Intergovernmental Council Commits to More Interstate Cooperation Projects

NUR-SULTAN – The prime ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states have adopted and approved July 17 a number of multilateral initiatives such as comprehensive...


Is Privatisation The Panacea?

Five years ago, Kazakhstan’s first President Nursultan Nazarbayev unveiled The National Plan – 100 concrete steps on implementation of five institutional reforms. At its launch, during the...


One Region, One Health: Preparing Central Asia for Future Pandemics

It is nothing new to suggest that regional cooperation in Central Asia holds significant potential for the region. Nor is it novel to recall the shared heritage...


19-Year-Old Kazakh Artist Becomes Accidental Overnight Hit With His ‘Roses’ Hit Remix (Video)

NUR-SULTAN – The New York Times ran a human interest piece about an unsuspecting new star out of Kazakhstan with a hit remix that, strictly legally speaking,...


Abai in Moscow – Open Air, Recitals and Songs

MOSCOW – Like many great writers, Abai Kunanbayev was remarkably modest about his literary works and their usefulness for mankind. Here is what he wrote in his...


Archaeologists Find Rare Jewelry Tools During New Dig at the Ancient Kultobe Settlement in Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN –  The Kazakh Research Institute of Culture recently found 150-year-old jewelry tools, one of the rarest categories of finds, during a dig at the Kultobe settlement...


Kazakh Musician Performs Dauletkerey’s Composition With Lake Kobeytuz As Backdrop (Video)

NUR-SULTAN – The 23-year musician Marzhan Kapsamat surprised her followers with her recent music video on the pink-coloured Lake Kobeytuz. A well-known Kazakhstan social media sensation, this...


Kazakh Foreign Minister Speaks at Successful First High-Level Central Asia-China Talks 

NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi participated July 16 in the first Central Asia – China high-level meeting that gathered foreign ministers of China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,...