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Nazarbayev supports introduction of wealth tax in Kazakhstan

President Nazarbayev has declared his support to the parliament's initiative to introduce wealth tax in Kazakhstan October 21 2013, 09:37 1 392 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan gains status of EITI follower

Kazakhstan has received the status of a follower of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the press service of KAZENERGY reports. October 19 2013, 17:20 1 100 просмотрs

World News

Court hands Berlusconi two-year ban from public office

 A Milan court on Saturday ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud. October 19 2013, 17:15 1 684 просмотрs

Crime

We are guilty and we provide housing to family

The representative of Petroleum Facilities Е&С Limited (PetrofacKazakhstanLimited) contacted our newspaper regarding the road accident, when through the fault of their employee, company off-road vehicle collided with TCO shuttle bus and as the result of that collision the bus crushed into the residential house (see “TCO bus crashes into house”). October 18 2013, 18:22 1 947 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh parliament ratifies amendments to Protocol on customs duties

Kazakhstan's Majilis (lower chamber of parliament) has ratified the amendments to the 'Protocol' on the terms and procedure for applying import customs duty rates differing from rates prescribed by the Unified Customs Tariff in exceptional cases, trend.az reports. October 18 2013, 16:41 1 185 просмотрs

Economy

Tengizchevroil intends to increase price of gas for Atyrau region

Department of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation of Natural Monopolies of Atyrau region has received a petition from "Zhylyoygaz" Ltd. about intention of "Tengizchevroil" to increase the selling price of natural gas in 2014-2015, inform.kz reports. October 18 2013, 16:33 3 272 просмотрs

World News

Snowden says he didn’t take secret documents to Russia, ‘zero’ chance Russia or China got any

Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says that he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States. October 18 2013, 16:28 995 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Nur Otan Party: New name, new logo and charter

The decision on the change of the name, the logo and the charter of the National Democratic "Nur Otan" Party was made at the XV extraordinary congress of the party in Astana on Friday, inform.kz reports. October 18 2013, 14:36 1 753 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Disabled former miner uses Molotov cocktail against ArcelorMittal in Karaganda

Former employees of ArcelorMittal who were injured at work and ended up disabled have been rallying near the Coal Department of ArcelorMittal Temirtau in Karaganda today, NV.kz reports. They gathered to demand that the company resumes payment of allowances for their injuries and disability that it has suspended for some reason.  October 18 2013, 12:03 1 476 просмотрs

World News

Air pollution a leading cancer cause: WHO

International health experts have found "sufficient evidence" that outdoor air pollution is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths.The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in humans, sbs.com.au reports. October 18 2013, 10:38 1 162 просмотрs

World News

11 Nobel Laureates Ask Putin to Free Greenpeace’s ‘Arctic 30’

Eleven laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize have petitioned the Russian president, asking him Thursday to aid the release of the 30 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia. October 18 2013, 10:13 1 472 просмотрs

World News

India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria on slavery's list of shame, says report

A new report claiming to be the most comprehensive look at global slavery says 30 million people are living as slaves around the world, cnn.com reports. October 18 2013, 09:39 1 914 просмотрs

Crime

Nine Sentenced In Atyrau On Terrorism Charges

Atyrau court has sentenced nine local men to prison terms between 6 and 14 years for their involvement in terrorist activities, azh.kz reports.  October 18 2013, 09:07 3 296 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh official denies information that a new type of HIV arrived in Kazakhstan

A new form of HIV-1 virus has been found in Russia and cases of this type of HIV have also been registered in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported referring to Russian scholars, timesca-europe.com reports. October 18 2013, 10:04 1 378 просмотрs

Other News

TCO bus crashes into house (+update, +update)

Late October 10, a big size shuttle bus belonging to Tengizchevroil LLP crashed into a residential house at 211 Moldagulova Street in Atyrau and knocked down half the building. October 17 2013, 10:09 11 369 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan Corps A is not an elite, it’s national service: Nazarbayev

Kazakhstan Corps A is not an elite but the national service, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said during meeting with civil servants of the administrative case A, BNews.kz correspondent reports. October 17 2013, 14:57 1 090 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

International nuclear fuel bank to be hosted in Kazakhstan poses no environmental risks

The planned international nuclear fuel bank to be hosted in Kazakhstan poses no environmental risks, Tengrinews reports, citing the country’s Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov as saying before the country’s Senate. October 17 2013, 14:27 1 084 просмотрs

World News

U.S. Congress ends default threat, Obama signs debt bill

Capping weeks of political brinkmanship that had unnerved global markets, President Barack Obama quickly signed the spending measure, which passed the Senate and House of Representatives after Republicans dropped efforts to use the legislation to force changes in his signature healthcare law, reuters.com reports. October 17 2013, 14:18 1 013 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Tokayev unanimously elected as the Chair of the Senate

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, ex-Director-General of the United Nations in Geneva, was unanimously elected as the Chair of the Senate (Upper Chamber) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, reports AkZhaik newspaper.   October 16 2013, 18:57 1 585 просмотрs

World News

An Uzbek national has been found dead in Moscow's troubled Biryulyovo district

A spokesman for the Moscow branch of Russia's Investigative Committee said on October 16 that the body of a 51-year-old Uzbek citizen had been discovered a day earlier. Officials say he had been stabbed multiple times, rferl.org reported. October 16 2013, 16:32 1 279 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

US embassy promises to provide non-restricted access to House of Army in Almaty

The scandalous checkpoint of the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty was discussed in a meeting at Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry last week, Tengrinews reports citing the Ministry’s official representative Zhanbolat Ussenov. October 16 2013, 16:01 1 268 просмотрs

Sport

Wrestler from Atyrau Won Gold in World Sambo Championship

Amanbai Kyzdarbaev, sambo wrestler from Atyrau, won gold in World Sambo Championship held in Bulgaria. In weight category up to 90 kg Amanbai was the 1st, leaving behind the athletes from France, Ukraine and Russia, reports azh.kz. October 16 2013, 15:05 5 005 просмотрs

World News

Russian Police Detain Azeri Suspect In Murder That Sparked Clashes

Police in Moscow have detained hundreds of youths who had gathered on October 15 to protest the killing of an ethnic Russian in a southern district of the Russian capital, rferl.org reports. October 16 2013, 12:41 1 331 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Gorgeous Glass House In the Mountains of Kazakhstan Encircles an Entire Tree

A. Masow Design Studio just unveiled plans to build a gorgeous glass house that wraps around an entire tree in the woods of Almaty, Kazakhstan, writes inhabitat.com. October 16 2013, 12:20 3 546 просмотрs

Kazakhstan News

Kazakh Consul In Frankfurt Arrested For Alleged Smuggling

Kazakhstan's consul-general in the German city of Frankfurt-on-Main has been detained for alleged involvement in smuggling, rferl.org reports. October 16 2013, 11:30 1 338 просмотрs