News Roundup - July 17, 2007

TheStreet.com: The Borat Trade: Four Kazakhstan Plays Are Very Nice
Kazakhstan’s vast reserves of oil, natural gas and uranium near the Caspian Sea are the reason for a flood of foreign investment…
Mondo Visione: Wiener Börse Launches Kazakhstan Index, KTX
With today’s launch of the Kazakh Traded Index (KTX), Wiener Börse has gone one step further East, and as of now, will calculate the index tracking the most important companies in Kazakhstan…
Bloomberg: Kazakh Alliance Bank Sells $704 Million of Stock in London
AO Alliance Bank sold shares for $704 million in London, the third Kazakh lender to sell stock abroad in less than a year…
Eurasia Daily Monitor: Pro-Presidential Party Dominates Election Campaign in Kazakhstan
The party-list segment of Kazakhstan’s parliamentary elections, set for August 18, will be an uphill battle for opposition political forces in Kazakhstan. For all their irreconcilable differences and divergent policies, the assorted opposition contenders all must face the formidable, pro-presidential Nur Otan People’s Democratic Party…
Trend News Agency: ODIHR Deploys Long-term Election Observation Mission to Kazakhstan
The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has opened an election observation mission for the 18 August parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan…
Forbes: KazakhGold Signs Deal with Maed for re-treatment Plants in Kazakhstan
KazakhGold Group Ltd said it has signed a contract with engineering group Maed Ltd for the construction of new tailings re-treatment plants at its Bestobe and Zholymbet gold mines in northern Kazakhstan, each resulting in 2 mln tonnes per year (mtpa) of reclaimed tailings…