Monthly Archive

Nordic telecommunications firm Telia Company will pay the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Dutch and Swedish regulators US$ 965 million to resolve bribery allega... read more..

Police in the capital of Kazakhstan have decided to give themselves a serious upgrade by moving from their dingy old offices into a five-star hotel. Interior Minister Kalmukhanbet Kasymov told repo... read more..

In Kazakhstan, children with special educational needs and disabilities are kept out of sight and out of mind. For most Kazakh citizens, children with special educational needs and disabilities (SE... read more..

Private schools in the UK have been urged to make sure wealthy parents are not using laundered money to pay for their children’s education, The Financial Times reported. UK private schools are know... read more..

Want to know if a politician is corrupt? Look at his face. At least, so says a new study published Wednesday by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the journal Psycho... read more..

China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims Summary The training has only one purpose: to learn laws and regulations…to eradicate from the mind thoughts about religious extremism and... read more..

Kazakhstan is making strides towards digital transformation in many areas. One of the significant moves is the Astana Hub, an international technopark of start-ups that provides multilevel support to ... read more..

Can Kazakhstan create an international financial centre in the middle of the steppes or is it just the latest central Asian pipe dream? No one can accuse Kazakh policymakers of lacking ambition. In... read more..

Kazakh authorities said on Friday they would buy 450 billion tenge ($1.2 billion) of agricultural sector loans from Tsesnabank in order to boost its financial strength, while the country's No.2 lender... read more..

The new fall of the Kazakh tenge against the US dollar has again hit the pockets and purchasing power of ordinary Kazakhstanis. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Almaz Kumen... read more..

Tony Blair – friend to dictators, enemy of socialist principles – wants a breakaway party. It would be a vehicle for the powerful Let us look at who Tony Blair regards as palatable and who he does ... read more..

A massive corruption trial is to kick off on Tuesday, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged bribes, top executives of Sweden's largest telecommunications company and the jet-set daughte... read more..

Kazakhstan restricts freedom of religion and belief, along with interlinked freedoms of expression, association, and assembly. Forum 18's survey analyses violations including increasing numbers of ... read more..

For most of the past 25 years, the issue of saving the Aral Sea has dominated all discussions of water sharing and use in Central Asia. But now that the death of that sea has become irreversible, t... read more..