Paul Abelsky
Kazakhstan is becoming a "pure China play," supporting the country's economic growth and bolstering the equity market as links increase with the world's fastest growing major economy, according to Troika Dialog.
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SRI
(SRI) - The 2010 budget for the development of the Kashagan field in Kazakhstan could be cut to $7.4 billion from an earlier plan of $10.4 billion, Kazakh state oil and gas company KazMunaiGas (KMG) proposed last week.
AFP Global Edition
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia had won Turkey's backing for Moscow to build a key section of a new gas pipeline seen as a rival of an EU-backed project in Turkish waters.
Jeffrey Sparshott
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Kazakhmys PLC (KAZ.LN) Wednesday said it has signed a $200 million loan facility with China Development Bank Corp. and Kazakh sovereign wealth fund JSC Samruk-Kazyna to develop existing mining projects, the latest installment from a $2.7 billion finance package.
Michael Welsh
China is in an unfortunate position regarding their energy consumption.
Karim Massimov defends growing links with China
By Nariman Gizitdinov
Kazakhstan's central bank widened the corridor used to control the exchange rate of the national currency against the dollar.
Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Kazakhstan's economic performance in 2010 will be closely correlated to international macroeconomic developments and trends in world commodity markets.
By Telman MEDEU-ULY
Trade hardly can be called a locomotive of Kazakhstani economics, because main money in the country is from oil and metals. However, trade is a back bone of social well-being, because 25 to 28 per cent of economically active population, by analysts' estimate, is engaged in it. Nowadays the trade sphere suffers hard times.
By Wu Jiao
China will soon reach an agreement to receive nuclear power assistance from Kazakhstan, a source told China Daily.
Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation
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Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war
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