Section: The Astana Times (Kazakhstan)
Kazakhstan: Imagining Globalisation 2.0
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. Kazakhstan has taken a very different trajectory to most other former Soviet Republics. Rather than aligning with Western countries and closing opportunities for trade and cooperation with Russia, it has taken an open approach to cooperation with Russia, China,...
Special Kazakh Biolabs Working Overtime to Fight COVID-19
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. In the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, many people are beginning to ask questions about the function of expensive biolabs in their countries and the role that they play in society. Furthermore, what have these biolabs done to safeguard society and fight the...
Future Capital Technologies creates first Kazakh payroll service
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – Future Capital Technologies has launched PayDay, a service that allows employees to receive their salary any day of the month. The new programme will help ease individual debt burden and reduce companies’ salary budgets. The firm creates and...
Golovkin ranks among top 10 boxers in world, fights among best of decade
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – U.S. website Business Insider ranked Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin ninth on its list of the 15 best boxers in the world right now. The list was released Dec. 25. Photo credit: inbusiness.kz. “Before Golovkin turned professional, he was a wildly...
Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theatre to perform at Astana Opera
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – The Yevgeny Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre will perform for the first time on the Astana Opera Grand Hall stage in 2020, reported Astana Opera press centre. The theatre will present scenes from Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” Jan. 8-9...
Kazakh start-ups win funding at SAP UP competition in Russia
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh start-ups Kishkentai and Kid Security won funding as prizes in the SAP UP competition in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 18. Photo credit: toppress.kz. “We were in Moscow for three days. It was very interesting… The money will help us with our plans,...
Business news in brief
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. The Nur-Sultan Department for Investment and Enterprise Development has devised a programme allowing large retailers to obtain soft loans in exchange for maintaining prices on certain products, reported inbusiness.kz Nov. 14. Because the mechanism is aimed at...
Economic news in brief
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. Kazakhstan’s local budget revenues jumped 19.4 percent in the first nine months of 2019 to a record 4.2 trillion tenge (US$10.89 billion). The revenue plan was exceeded in all regions of the country except the capital. Local budgets’ own revenues...
Kazakh, Swiss presidents discuss cooperation opportunities
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – Swiss President Ueli Maurer and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev discussed international and business cooperation opportunities Nov. 22 during the former’s visit to the Central Asian country. L-R: Ueli Maurer and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev....
Nur-Sultan’s new international composers contest discovers young talents
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh capital drew 115 composers under 35 years old from 24 countries to compete in the first New Music Generation international composers’ competition in Zhambyl Zhabayev Hall at the Kazakh National University of Arts Nov. 15 to 19,...
