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World class oil and gas training center opens in Atyrau

World class oil and gas training center opens in Atyrau

APEC – Atyrau Petroleum Education Center – opened its doors on March 11 to train, retrain and upskill oil and gas workers. Following the grand opening its first hundred students sat down to desks. March 14 2013, 15:09 8 173 просмотрs

West Kazakhstan marks Korisu

West Kazakhstan marks Korisu

March 14, Kazakhs in the west of Kazakhstan have started celebration of Korisu, a holiday of seeing each other after the winter. March 14 2013, 14:08 5 626 просмотрs

Xi Jinping named president of China

Xi Jinping named president of China

Leaders in Beijing have confirmed Xi Jinping as president, completing China's 10-yearly transition of power. March 14 2013, 13:31 1 530 просмотрs

Kazakhstan hardest drinking country in Central Asia

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan hardest drinking country in Central Asia

Kazakhstan is the most drinking state in Central Asia, where every citizen consumes almost 11 liters of ethanol. March 14 2013, 13:06 1 801 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to transform basic pension into guaranteed minimum pension

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to transform basic pension into guaranteed minimum pension

As part of expanding the coverage of the employed population by pension system services it is planned to transform the basic pension into a guaranteed minimum pension, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Serik Abdenov announced on March 12. March 14 2013, 13:10 1 468 просмотрs

Vienna court finds no political grounds in Aliyev's case

Kazakhstan News

Vienna court finds no political grounds in Aliyev's case

Superior Land Court of Vienna has certified the reasonability of accusations against former Kazakhstan ambassador to Austria Rakhat Aliyev, Tengrinews.kz reports citing Viennese lawyer Gabriel Lansky as saying at the press-conference in Almaty. Lansky represents the widows of the murdered Nurbank managers Zholdas Timraliyev and Aibar Khassenov. March 14 2013, 12:48 1 624 просмотрs

Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio Elected as New Pope

Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio Elected as New Pope

Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was elected new Pope Wednesday, a cardinal announced from the Sistine Chapel. March 14 2013, 12:38 1 601 просмотрs

EP KMG Deputy Gen. Director appointed

Kazakhstan News

EP KMG Deputy Gen. Director appointed

Bakyt Imanbayev has been appointed the new deputy general director of Exploration and Production Kazmunaygas JSC, a subsidiary of Kazmunaygas national oil company, one of three leading oil producers in Kazakhstan. March 13 2013, 16:26 2 653 просмотрs

Kazakhstan's leadership in global flour trade challenged

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan's leadership in global flour trade challenged

Kazakhstan has reduced its wheat flower export expectations and its leadership at the market might be challenged by its closest rival this season, World Grain reports. March 13 2013, 15:39 1 890 просмотрs

Iran to sue Hollywood over Oscar-winning ‘Argo’

Iran to sue Hollywood over Oscar-winning ‘Argo’

Iran has indicated its intent to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning ‘Argo’ because it allegedly gives an ‘unrealistic portrayal’ of the country, local media reported on Wednesday. March 13 2013, 14:03 1 610 просмотрs

OSC strikers at Kalamkas field return to work

OSC strikers at Kalamkas field return to work

To recall, a few days ago, employees of Oil Service Company, a member of AktauNefteServis LLP, refused to turn up to work. March 13 2013, 12:37 1 929 просмотрs

Max Petroleum started drilling at Zhana Makat of Atyrau oblast

Max Petroleum started drilling at Zhana Makat of Atyrau oblast

«Max Petroleum» company began drilling of the production well in "Zhana Makat" field in the old oil region of the Atyrau oblast. March 13 2013, 12:04 2 896 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to halve private universities by 2015

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Kazakhstan to halve private universities by 2015

The number of private universities will be slashed in Kazakhstan by 2015 March 13 2013, 10:47 1 470 просмотрs

No winner in first vote to elect new pope

No winner in first vote to elect new pope

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel Tuesday night, indicating that cardinals gathered at the Vatican to elect a new pope had not chosen one in the first ballot of their conclave. March 13 2013, 10:37 1 677 просмотрs

The World's Oldest Carpet Story: The Pazyryk

The World's Oldest Carpet Story: The Pazyryk

Every carpet tells a story. But few tell one as fascinating as the oldest intact carpet ever found. It is the Pazyryk carpet, discovered frozen in a tomb beneath the Siberian steppe. March 13 2013, 07:58 27 269 просмотрs

Should we make Friday a day off, not Sunday?

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Should we make Friday a day off, not Sunday?

A Kyrgyz lawmaker, Tursunbai Bakir-ulu, proposed to announce Friday a day off in the country. March 12 2013, 16:31 1 580 просмотрs

Knife attack in China's Xinjiang province kills four

Knife attack in China's Xinjiang province kills four

Four people have been killed and eight injured in a knife attack in western China's Xinjiang, officials said. March 12 2013, 15:51 1 506 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to supply at least 12 mln tons of oil to China in 2013

Kazakhstan News

Kazakhstan to supply at least 12 mln tons of oil to China in 2013

Kazakhstan plans to supply no less than 12 million tons of oil to China, KazTransOil Director General Kairgeldy Kabyldin said on Monday, reported Novosti-Kazakhstan. March 12 2013, 15:01 1 702 просмотрs

Falklands vote to remain part of Britain

Falklands vote to remain part of Britain

Falklanders have voted to remain a British Overseas Territory, following months of political tensions between Britain and Argentina over the fate of the islands. Three decades ago the two nations fought a short war over the disputed territory. March 12 2013, 14:41 1 492 просмотрs

Kazakhstan to join UN peacekeepers

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Kazakhstan to join UN peacekeepers

Kazakhstan intends to send peace keeping units to one of the United Nations missions, reports the country's defense ministry. March 12 2013, 13:51 2 808 просмотрs

U.S. expels 2 Venezuelan diplomats

U.S. expels 2 Venezuelan diplomats

Diplomatic tensions between the United States and Venezuela showed no signs of slowing Monday as the State Department announced that two Venezuelan diplomats had been expelled, reports Kazinform. March 12 2013, 11:32 1 488 просмотрs

OSC workers striking over low salaries

OSC workers striking over low salaries

Employees of one of the largest contractors in the region, Oil Service Company (OSC), refused to turn up to work at the field of Kalamkas in Mangystau Oblast. March 12 2013, 09:28 2 049 просмотрs

Tengizchevroil to mark 20th anniversary

Tengizchevroil to mark 20th anniversary

March 11, Atyrau Oblast governor Baktykozha Izmukhambetov received Scott Davis, managing director of Eurasia Unit of Chevron. March 11 2013, 18:51 4 156 просмотрs

When is the big sea quake: Why TCO do not provide us data

When is the big sea quake: Why TCO do not provide us data

March 11, Kazakh National Data Center [www.kndc.kz] announced a 4.4 earthquake took place in the Caspian Sea. March 11 2013, 18:03 2 480 просмотрs

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians march for autonomy in Romania

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians march for autonomy in Romania

Around five thousand ethnic Hungarians rallied Sunday in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures to call for autonomy for the Szeklers' Land, home to most of their minority. March 11 2013, 17:48 1 531 просмотрs