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Kazakhstan Plans First Sale of Islamic Debt in 2010 (Update2)

Kazakhstan, central Asia’s biggest energy producer, may sell Islamic bonds for the first time as it seeks to attract overseas money to finance its budget deficit. The government plans to become a “significant player” in the Islamic finance market by offering debt that complies with Muslim tenets as early as this year, Finance Minister Bolat Zhamishev said in the capital Astana today.
Mar 16, 2010

PACE's Turkish President in Kazakhstan for talks

The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is on the first day of his four-day official visit to Kazakhstan. The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said that Kazakhstan could make significant contribution to the European Union's values.
Mar 16, 2010

PACE president visits Astana

Kazakhstan could make a significant contribution to the European Union’s values, the visiting president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, or PACE, said Monday. On the first day of his four-day official visit to Kazakhstan, PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with Kazakh Parliament Speaker Oral Muhammedcanov, Senate Chairman Kassym Jomart Tokayev and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
Mar 16, 2010

Indian envoy inaugurates exhibition in southern Kazakh capital Shymkent

India's Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Ashok Sajjanhar, on Thursday, inaugurated an exhibition of Indian paintings called "Kalpana" comprising works of 14 of some of the most renowned Indian artistes at a glittering ceremony in Shymkent, the capital of South Kazakhstan.
Mar 13, 2010

NYK establishes presence in Kazakhstan

Tokyo: NYK Logistics Rus, an NYK Group company in Russia, has opened a representative office in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. This is the first office to be established in Kazakhstan by the NYK Group and is expected to ‘proactively developing logistics business in the country for automotive as well as other industries.’
Mar 13, 2010

EBRD puts up $1bn to help Kazakhstan diversify, Clare Nuttall in Almaty

There is a window of opportunity to diversify Kazakhstan's economy as the crisis ebbs and before commodity prices shoot up again, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's country director for Kazakhstan tells bne, and the EBRD plans to invest up to $1bn to support the government's development plans.
Mar 13, 2010

Three more states ready to accede Conference on Interaction & Confidence Building Measures in Asia

The two-day session of the special workgroup and senior officials of the Conference on Interaction & Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) has been completed in Baku today. Following the session deputy foreign minister Nurlan Yermekbayev of Kazakhstan claimed that interest to CICA’s activity was growing now.
Mar 13, 2010

Kazakhstan Pharmaceuticals And Healthcare Report Q2 2010 - New Market Report Published

Our five-year outlook for the Kazakhstan pharmaceutical market has become markedly more upbeat as our five and ten-year economic forecasts indicate strengthening GDP growth, driven by such factors as anticipated global oil and gas price growth. Strong increases in export capacity also boost the country as major projects like the Kashagan oil field come online.
Mar 13, 2010

Air Astana flying high

Kazakhstan’s Air Astana has posted record results as it continues its operational restructure and expansion.
The carrier achieved a record profit after tax of $47 million on revenues of $546 million for 2009. That's a gain of 176 per cent over 2008 and a 34 per cent increase over the previous best year of 2007 and comes despite a 16 per cent decline in revenues.
Mar 13, 2010

Uranium One mulls participation in second Kazakh acid plant, by Liezel Hill

Uranium miner uranium one is investigating the possibility of becoming a partner in another new sulphuric acid plant in Kazakhstan, CEO Jean Nortier told Mining Weekly Online on Thursday.
Although the company is not concerned with the actual availability of sulphuric acid in the country, it has warned that the logistical supply lines are “stretched”, particularly as a number of projects and expansions ramp up.
Mar 13, 2010
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