News Roundup

News Roundup - August 13, 2007

By SRI ⋅ August 13, 2007 ⋅

BBC News: Kazakh Stake in Nuclear Company
Japanese firm Toshiba has sold a 10% stake in its majority-owned nuclear firm Westinghouse to uranium maker Kazatomprom for $540m…
Reuters: Toshiba Sells 10 Percent in Westinghouse for $540 Million
Japan’s Toshiba Corp. sold a 10 percent stake in U.S. company Westinghouse to Kazakh uranium producer Kazatomprom for $540 million on Monday…
NewEurasia.net: Transformation of Space in Almaty - Interview
You might have seen posts on Kazakhstan’s art scene by Daniel Gallegos, an American artist who is now in Almaty. I visited Daniel and his colleagues from the Artpologist project Zhanara, Aminotou and Gaisha at Soros Centre for Contemporary Art in Almaty…
International Press Institute: IPI Condemns Takeover of Kazakh newspaper Karavan
According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), the weekly newspaper Karavan received a letter, dated 6 August, from the printing house Asia Press, which said it would no longer produce the paper…
Financial Times: Kazakh Banks
The reverberations from the credit crunch are spreading wider. Kazakhstan provides an opportune reminder that, during periods of financial turmoil, banks often end up being a contingent liability of governments, and credit ratings provide little comfort…
Interfax: Investment in Kazakh Fixed Assets Up 11.6% in Jan-July
Investment in fixed assets in Kazakhstan totaled 1.4982 trillion tenge in January-July, an 11.6% increase year-on-year…
Reuters: Indicators - Kazakhstan - August 13, 2007
Kazakhstan’s economic indicators based on data provided by the State Statistics Agency, government institutions, the central bank and exchanges…