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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Kazakhstan to quash a prison sentence handed to journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov on criminal libel charges last month, calling the ruling the latest example of how the country “persecutes” journalists, RFE/RL reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin chaired a meeting of the Coordinating Council on Attracting Investments at the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC) on October 21, his press service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s efforts to tap into its offshore oil and gas wealth has taken a hit with the withdrawal of major foreign investors from two Caspian Sea projects, RFE/RL reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has handed his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, more sweeping powers, according to a presidential decree published on October 21, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — A new Chinese-Kazakh cement plant with designed daily production capacity of 2,500 tons of clinker cement was officially put into operation last Friday in southwest Kazakhstan’s Kyzylorda region, Xinhua news agency reported.
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SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The Kazakhstan-Czech Business Forum was held in Shymkent, south Kazakhstan as part of the official visit of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Radek Vondracek to Kazakhstan last week, Kazakh Invest national investment promotion company reported.
