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Kazakhstan News

Total CEO says sees no giant Kashagan oilfield restart until 2014

It temporarily restarted on Oct. 6 but shut again a few days later when another leak was found. November 11 2013, 10:28 1 916 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to lift foreign workforce restrictions to be ready for EXPO-2017 in time

Experienced guest workers will be involved to construct EXPO-2017 facilities in Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan Government is going to amend the Employment Law to bring in more foreign workers and experts that the regular yearly quota permits to participate in the organization and holding of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana, Tengrinews reports. November 8 2013, 12:27 2 215 views

World News

Obama apologizes for Americans losing insurance due to Obamacare

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said sorry to Americans who are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the president's signature health care overhaul that is aimed at expanding the country's health care coverage, xinhua reports. November 8 2013, 12:17 1 357 views

World News

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford expressed embarrassment over smoking crack cocaine

Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong says a consensus is emerging that Mayor Rob Ford must take an immediate leave of absence and council should work to “show him the door” if he doesn’t take their advice, cbc.ca reports. November 8 2013, 11:24 1 549 views

World News

Super typhoon makes landfall in the Philippines

A massive typhoon packing winds approaching 200 mph and called one of the most powerful storms ever recorded blasted into the Philippines on Friday, killing at two people. November 8 2013, 10:46 1 923 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan develops new law on subsoil use

Kazakhstan is developing a new draft law 'On subsoil use', Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and New Technologies, Asset Issekeshev said on November 7 in Astana, trend.az reports. November 8 2013, 09:08 1 744 views

Ecology

Kashagan pipe "in a hole"?

One month passed since the second leak (during a short period) in the pipeline coming to Bolashak processing facility. The public still doesn't know anything about the reasons of pipeline failures neither in the first, nor in the second cases. November 8 2013, 09:55 10 351 views

World News

Tajikistan president re-elected

Tajikistan's electoral commission says the president has won re-election in a landslide victory. November 7 2013, 17:08 1 664 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan sets the task of being 40th in World Bank LPI

Kazakhstan sets the task to climb in the World Bank LPI (Logistics Performance Index) from rank 86 to rank 40, stated the president of  Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC Askar Mamin, kazinform reports. November 7 2013, 14:37 1 600 views

Kazakhstan News

DP World to assist Kazakhstan in port and logistics

Global marine terminal operator DP World and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), Kazakhstan’s national railway company, today signed an agreement that will see DP World provide management advisory services for the development of the Khorgos Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Inland Container Depot (ICD). DP World will also provide similar services under a separate contract at the Port of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s main cargo and bulk terminal on the Caspian Sea albawaba.com reports. November 7 2013, 14:23 1 860 views

World News

Olympic Torch Blasts Into Space Ahead of Games

A rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off Thursday from earth ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. November 7 2013, 14:02 1 657 views

Kazakhstan News

Unknown Spacecraft Debris Found in Kazakhstan

Debris of an unidentified spacecraft has been found in the Kyzylorda province in southern Kazakhstan where the Baikonur space center is located, the country’s Emergencies Ministry reported Wednesday. November 7 2013, 13:44 3 070 views

World News

Bolshoi ballet boss testifies at acid attack trial

The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi ballet has described having acid thrown in his face during the trial of a dancer accused of ordering the attack, bbc.co.uk reports.      November 7 2013, 13:38 1 394 views

World News

Amnesty accuses Shell of making false claims on Niger Delta oil spill

An Amnesty International report issued Wednesday blasts Shell Oil Co. for its handling of the hundreds of oil spills that occur each year in Nigeria and accuses the company of "serious deficiencies and abuses" that render "wholly unreliable" its claims about how much oil is spilled and how often, cnn.com reports. November 7 2013, 13:25 2 376 views

Ecology

North Caspian Oil Spill Response Base: We can encircle and destroy

On November 5, the official ceremony of lend-lease of the North Caspian Oil Spill Response Base to the North Caspian consortium took place. The lease is signed between KMG-TransCaspian LLP (100 % Kazmunaygas subsidiary and NCOSRB owner) and NCPOC Consortium agent Company (the tenant). November 6 2013, 11:46 5 048 views

World News

New Jersey Mall Shooter Found Dead

The gunman who opened fire at a mall in northern New Jersey Monday night was found dead early Tuesday morning. nation.time.com reports. November 6 2013, 10:04 1 375 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan Renews Readiness to Host Iran-G5+1 Talks

A senior Kazakh parliamentarian once again expressed his country’s willingness to host a fresh round of negotiations between Iran and the six major world powers on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program, Tasnim news agency reports. November 6 2013, 10:02 1 701 views

World News

India launches Mars exploration mission

Rocket carrying unmanned probe lifts off from southern coast for 780-million-km journey to study the Martian atmosphere. November 5 2013, 16:50 2 718 views

Politics

Atyrau citizen arrested in Dubai

Ten days passed since the detention of 12 Kazakhstan nationals in Dubai. The first person who was arrested was Myrzabek Kautbaev, the citizen of Atyrau. He was arrested at the Dubai International Airport when he and his grandmother were passing through the passport control point. November 5 2013, 15:09 10 478 views

World News

Blair’s Kazakhstan Odyssey, Two Years On

Tony Blair’s consultancy business is growing again. He’s started advising Albania, and Vietnam says it is negotiating a consultancy deal with the former British prime minister on development issues. He’s also in contact with Peru and Burma. “Our government advisory practice is expanding and we are in discussions with various countries”, Blair’s spokesman recently told the Daily Telegraph. November 5 2013, 12:20 3 637 views

World News

Arrests Made At Russian Nationalist Rally On Unity Day

Thousands of Russian nationalists have marched in Moscow - with about 30 detained by police for using Nazi slogans or symbols, or wearing masks, rferl.org reports.  November 5 2013, 11:31 1 129 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh PM reprimands several vice-ministers

Kazakh Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov at a government meeting on Tuesday reprimanded three vice ministers for unimplemented budget, trend.az reported. November 5 2013, 11:19 1 690 views

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan Mayor wants American owner to sell Ridder Thermal Plant to Samsung

Ridder Thermal Plant may be sold to Samsung. The Mayor of Kazakhstan's Ridder town want the plant to change hands, Tengrinews reports referring to YK-news.kz. November 5 2013, 11:04 1 648 views

World News

Newly elected President of Georgia discuss bilateral relations with the Ambassador of Kazakhstan

Georgian President Georgiy Margvelashvili has met with the Ambassador of Kazakhstan Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, kazinform reports. November 5 2013, 10:57 1 336 views

World News

Nationalists stage Russian pride march in Moscow

Thousands of Russian nationalists planned to march in Moscow on Monday in an annual show of anger against the presence of Muslim migrants that has previously spilled into violence, news.yahoo.com reports. November 4 2013, 16:18 1 802 views