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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- The future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's Astana team is again in doubt after cycling's ruling body made new demands for financial guarantees.
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ALMATY (Reuters) - The government of the Central Asian state of Tajikistan is failing to protect women from violence and abuse, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
AirTransportNews.aero (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Embraer is pleased to welcome the expanding Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana to its E-Jets family of customers. The airline will operate two EMBRAER 190 jets out of Almaty, Kazakhstan,...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
ALMATY, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Kazakh lender Astana Finance said on Monday it had signed an agreement with foreign creditors laying out terms of its debt restructuring.
The Oil and The Glory (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Oil and gas were go-go drivers of the former Soviet economy for years -- until the U.S. subprime catastrophe cut off the flow of easy Western loans. Businesspeople in Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere socked away their personal profits and skimmings, while relying on Western loans often coursed through local banks to finance easy loans for investment. To call the resulting real estate bubble huge would...
kazakhstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The WordPress blog platform, which services most of the Kaznet, is inaccessible in several Almaty offices. This blockade has been the result of internal rules and electronic filters. Since it began, several Kazakh ...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN (MARKET WIRE) Cigma Metals Corporation (the "Company," "Cigma") (PINKSHEETS: CGMX) (FRANKFURT: C9KA) is pleased to announce very encouraging results of metallurgical tests for its Beskauga deposit in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Webstan - Internet in Central Asia (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
In Google Trends, tool which compares search volume for given queries, you can see that Facebook has now caught Odnoklassniki by Google search queries numbers in Kazakhstan. As you can see on the graph Odnoklassniki queries emerged in the country in November 2007 since then it boomed until middle 2008. Facebook raised in October 2008 and started to catch up with Russian social network in September...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The joys of lying about: Madame Arcati's idea of hedonism One mark of a hedonist is an aversion to travel. Getting on a plane these days is not travelling. That's just sitting about. You get to the hotel - that's sitting about, too. Poolside, that's lying about. You want to see that quaint RC church with the transexual painting (really) in Ronda because you happen to be in Marbella? You get in a car...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
ALMATY, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Kazakh lender Kazkommertsbank will redeem a $470 million Eurobond issue this week, the bank's managing director, Beibit Apsenbetov, said on Monday.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
ALMATY, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Kazakh lender Kazkommertsbank will redeem a $470 million Eurobond issue this week, the bank's managing director Beibit Apsenbetov said on Monday.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
With spending on luxury goods down across the developed world in the economic crisis, luxury brands are increasingly looking far beyond the chic avenues of New York, London or Paris for revenue. The new names on the lips of luxury professionals are far less familiar -- Almaty, Shenzhen, Ulan Bator -- respectively, the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, a major Chinese provincial centre and the capital...
kazakhstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Published with a permission of subaur: When it rains in Almaty, sun shines in Charyn Canyon, there is often cloudless there. Last Saturday I spent in Charyn Canyon, made some photos. On the way to Charyn Canyon ...
kazakhstan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Chatoyant melodies of Alpine horn, mountain echo, unique green of Swiss Alpine meadows, freezy freshness of air, crystal cleanness of mountain lakes, birds’ warbles in a shadows of the trees and something more were brought ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will remain with the Astana team until his contract expires at the end of next year, Kazakh Cycling Federation deputy president Nikolai Proskurin says.
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