Kazakhstan News

As bad weather continued to hamper rescue efforts for a lost tramper in Mt Aspiring National Park near Wanaka yesterday, her former partner remained hopeful she would still be found alive. Irina Yun, 36, has been missing since New Year's Eve....

Two-time defending champion Robert Morris remains the team to beat according to the Northeast Conference preseason women's basketball poll released Thursday, but the Colonials have company from two Connecticut schools at the top. Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart were next in...

The package, equivalent to 20 per cent of the oil-rich central Asian country’s GDP, includes emergency funding for the banking, property and agricultural sectors and small and medium sized businesses.

For the past 30 years the world has lived under the spell that the market gets its right. This was the basis for economic and financial policies first in the US, then Europe and after that most

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is not revising its economic growth forecast for the Philippines this year despite moves to the contrary by the government and other multilateral institutions, but a revision of the bank’s projections for 2009 is likely....

The energy sector, Kazakhstan’s erstwhile reliable engine for growth, has stalled out. The trouble is related mostly to the global economic crisis, which has helped to spur a rapid decline in energy prices in recent weeks. But a backlash factor...

Kazakhstan — Energy-rich Kazakhstan could cut crude oil export tariffs by one-third in an effort to ease the burden on domestic producers, Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said Monday. The Kazakh government introduced an export tariff in May in a bid...

Kazakhs "must not wait and keep their money in their stockings," Nazarbayev said last week during a meeting of his party NurOtan in the capital Astana, the state-run Kazinform news service reported. "I am sure there will be an increase...

China Development Bank quadrupled a credit line to its counterpart in energy-rich Kazakhstan after oil prices plunged. It agreed to increase a US$100 million line of credit for infrastructure, energy and metals projects to US$400 million, the Astana-based National Wellbeing...