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Schools in Kyrgyzstan may transition from paper textbooks to tablets in 5-6 years - President Japarov

Four days, 27 agreements, over $2 billion: how Kazakhstan is attracting European businesses to Alatau City

Tengrinews.kz — British capital and German technology: Kazakhstan continues to build international cooperation for Alatau City, this time in Europe. A five-day roadshow by a government delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev recently concluded. The Kazakh side held successful talks with leading int…

Armenia and Kazakhstan Explore New Logistics Routes to Boost Trade

Armenia and Kazakhstan have discussed expanding transport and logistics routes, strengthening trade ties and exploring new opportunities for cooperation, including the development of the Middle Corridor.

KazMunayGas, Transneft Seek to Expand Oil Transit Cooperation

Chief Executive Officer of Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG), Askhat Khasenov, met with Nikolay Tokarev, President of Russian oil pipeline operator Transneft, in Moscow to discuss cooperation in oil transportation and transit, the KMG press service said.

Azerbaijan, UN Discuss Middle Corridor, Regional Connectivity

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Li Junhua in Baku on November 6.

What are we breathing? Oskemen residents can now access real-time air quality data

Tengrinews.kz – A new automated air quality monitoring system with 25 stations is now operating in East Kazakhstan Region. Residents can finally access real-time air pollution data. During autumn and winter, Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk) regularly finds itself blanketed in smog. Windless days become more frequent, while e…

Harvard acceptance letter controversy: Education officials in Pavlodar respond

Tengrinews.kz – The story of a schoolgirl from Pavlodar who reportedly received admission offers from Harvard and other foreign universities has taken a new turn. The Pavlodar Region Education Department says the reported offers, including one from Harvard Extension School, require further verification. The girl's par…

“He demanded we delete the bad review and threatened a child”: Landlord detained in Almaty

Tengrinews.kz – A woman from Pavlodar has shared how her sister encountered problems while renting an apartment in Almaty. According to her, after the family posted a negative review, the property owners demanded its removal and began threatening her sister. Tengri Life looked into the incident. What happened during t…

“The deadline is approaching, but the feature is missing”: Kazakh woman unable to verify second IMEI for three months

Tengrinews.kz – A woman in Kazakhstan says she has been unable to verify the second IMEI number of her iPhone for several months. Tengrinews.kz looked into the situation to find out why the problem remains unresolved. Complaint on social media A woman shared a post on social media describing difficulties with her phon…

Russian LNG Exports to China Surge More Than Twofold

Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to China have more than doubled since 2021, rising from 4.5 million to 9.8 million metric tons, according to an analytical report by the PORA Expert Center, The Caspian Post reports, citing TASS.

Schoolboy mocks classmate for being late to class: Father held responsible by court

Tengrinews.kz – A district court in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Region has issued an official warning to a local resident over the bullying behavior of his underage son. The incident occurred in September at a school in the Zhualy District. An eighth-grade student arrived late to class, prompting a classmate to mock and humi…

Ukraine Proposes New Logistics Route Linking Azerbaijan to Europe

Strong transport links between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea could create new opportunities for trade and energy supplies, with Ukraine proposing the development of logistics routes connecting Azerbaijan to European markets.

Russia and Iran Sign New Deal to Advance 162-Km Railway Project

Russia and Iran have signed key documents granting access to land plots along the planned route of the Rasht-Astara railway line, paving the way for further engineering work on the strategic transport project.

Russian Railways Offers 40.4% Discount on Exports Through Azerbaijan

Russian Railways (RZD) has introduced a 40.4% discount on export rail shipments of selected timber industry products through border crossings with Azerbaijan, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The king returns: Why Jordan's monarch is back in Kazakhstan

Tengrinews.kz – King Abdullah II of Jordan has arrived in Astana for another official visit. It is far from his first trip to Kazakhstan: over the past two decades, the monarch has visited the country eight times. During that period, the world order has shifted, Astana has transformed, and Kazakhstan itself has change…

“Order a cash-in-transit vehicle”: Scammers impersonate National Bank to deceive Kazakhstanis

Tengrinews.kz – Scammers are sending fake letters to Kazakhstanis on behalf of the National Bank, promising to recover allegedly stolen money or deliver an incoming money transfer. In return, they demand advance payments, sometimes claiming the money is needed to arrange a cash-in-transit vehicle. Scammers promise ref…

Nearly 60 percent of Almaty's air pollution emissions come from vehicles, officials say

Tengrinews.kz – Motor vehicles in Almaty produce around 113,000 tonnes of pollutant emissions annually, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the city's air pollution emissions. Cars are not the only source of air pollution According to Almaty's Department of Ecology and Environment, air pollution is caused not only by …

US dollar falls by 4 tenge in Kazakhstan

Tengrinews.kz – The US dollar weakened against the Kazakh tenge during trading on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on November 6. Here's the exchange rate recorded at the end of the trading session. At the close of daytime trading on KASE, the weighted average exchange rate stood at 447.14 tenge per US dollar, dow…

DenAr takes on Turkey’s first offshore wind seabed survey campaign

Turkish marine survey specialist DenAr Ocean Engineering Services has been selected by the country’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to carry out geophysical and geotechnical seabed investigations for Turkey’s first offshore wind development programme. The NCS-01 project covers two areas in the Sea of Marmara…

State Customs Service intercepts psychotropic drugs smuggled from Kazakhstan

Venergy doubles VLCC order at Hengli

Greek shipowner Vyron Vasileiadis has firmed up another two VLCCs at China’s Hengli Heavy Industries, doubling Venergy Maritime’s debut supertanker order to four vessels. The Piraeus-based company exercised the options attached to its October contract for two firm 306,000 dwt crude carriers, with all four vessels sche…

Capital Tankers scores up to $82m suezmax fixture

Evangelos Marinakis-backed Capital Tankers has secured a 15-month charter for one of its modern suezmaxes in a deal expected to generate between $73.1m and $82.2m in revenue. The Oslo-listed tanker owner said on Friday that its 155,348 dwt Amor has been fixed to an unnamed global energy company, with employment starti…

Leaders of Kazakhstan, Jordan and Central Asian countries gather for summit in Astana

Tengrinews.kz — The Aqaba Process Summit on “Security in the Field of Artificial Intelligence” is taking place in Astana, according to Akorda. The summit is being attended by President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of T…

“Surviving itself is a miracle”: Almaty teenager falls from eighth floor

Tengrinews.kz — A 13-year-old boy in Almaty fell from the eighth floor and suffered multiple fractures, brain injuries and damage to internal organs. The child required several operations. The city’s Health Department press service shared details of the incident. Multiple fractures to arms and legs: what happened A 13…

Powerful solar flare erupts on the Sun

Tengrinews.kz — Scientists have recorded a powerful solar flare. It occurred after a prolonged period of relative calm. “The strongest flare since early October” Details were reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the laboratory, an M…

Organizers of illegal billion-tenge crypto business convicted in Kazakhstan

Tengrinews.kz — Organizers of an illegal cryptocurrency exchange operation have been convicted in Kyzylorda Region, according to the Financial Monitoring Agency. How the scheme worked Investigators found that the convicted individuals illegally traded cryptocurrency through Binance’s P2P platform outside the trading v…

AI could trigger a pandemic worse than COVID-19, Bill Gates says

Tengrinews.kz — Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger a pandemic far more dangerous than COVID-19, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on November 4 while speaking at the Future of AI Summit, according to Oninvest. According to Gates, the capabilities of modern AI models are such that “the potential for both ben…

Kazakhstan to revise road tolls: who will be affected

Tengrinews.kz — Kazakhstan is discussing possible changes to its road toll system, with a proposed focus on commercial freight transport. However, there are no plans to change toll conditions for private passenger car owners, citing the government's press service. Who could be affected by the changes The first meeting…

Kazakhstan to complete investigation into deaths of servicemen during Caspian Sea exercises soon

Brazilian builds boat from rubbish to collect more rubbish

A former Brazilian ocean canoeing champion has taken recycling to a floating extreme, constructing a boat from 230 discarded plastic containers so he can collect even more rubbish from the sea. Marcos Arnhold spent two months building the unusual craft in Guaratuba, southern Brazil, using 125 two-litre plastic bottles…