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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…

Affinity Tanker Weekly, 6 November 2026

VLCCs have softened throughout the week as limited enquiry and increasingly competitive Suezmax alternatives have tempered owners’ Source: Affinity Research LLP

Oil Traders Want U.S. to Release Sanctioned Tankers as Freight Costs Soar

Some of the world's biggest oil traders are asking Washington for permission to put sanctioned tankers back to work, as a global vessel shortage pushes oil transportation costs to extraordinary levels. Trafigura, Vitol, Mercuria and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. are negotiating with U.S. officials for licenses to purchas…

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…

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…

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…

India’s HPCL Struggles to Secure Oil Tankers as Hormuz Risks Persist

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a major Indian state-owned refiner, is struggling to hire tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz and pick up cargoes in the Gulf, chairman Vikas Kaushal has told Bloomberg. Despite the recovery of crude oil flows from the Gulf via Hormuz to nearly pre-war levels, buyers…

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…

China’s Carbon Emissions Plunge 3.1% as Oil Demand Slumps

A decline in fuel use in China’s industrial sector has led to a 3.1% decline in carbon dioxide emissions in the third quarter of the year, the Finnish climate outlet Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air has reported, as cited by Reuters. The lower emissions from the world’s largest generator of CO2 resulted fro…

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…

Oil Prices Head for 12% Weekly Loss Despite Fresh Tanker Attacks

Crude oil prices were on course for a sharp weekly drop, with both Brent crude and WTI shedding 12% since Monday, following the results of the U.S. midterm elections, which gave rise to hopes that the war in the Middle East could be brought to a swift end. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $99.42 per …

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

Seven Shadow Fleet Tankers Spoof AIS to Hide Novorossiysk Voyages

Sanctioned Tankers Fake Their Positions Near the Bosphorus A cluster of seven sanctioned Russian tankers were found to have routinely and deliberately manipulated AIS over the past 90 days to falsely claim they were drifting off the Black Sea close to the Bosphorus entrance. The tankers were instead identified by Wind…

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…

US and Turkmenistan Explore New Gas Routes Across the Caspian

US and Turkmen diplomats focused on expanding trans-Caspian connectivity and promoting energy export diversification during annual consultations in Ashgabat. Turkmen officials are signaling a strong desire to improve trade ties with both South Asia and the West, while maintaining the country’s long-standing status as …