Archive for August 12th, 2009
Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - August 12, 2009
HEADLINES:
KazMunaiGas appoints new head of Pavlodar refinery
(SRI) - KazMunaiGas named Rustem Bekturov the new head of the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, local media reported.
Temirbank reports $181-million loss in Q2
(SRI) - Temirbank, a subsidiary of BTA Bank, reported losses of KZT27.2 billion ($181 million) in the second quarter of 2009.
ENERGY:
Sumitomo Corp. to form JV with Kazatomprom - Nikkei
(SRI) - Sumitomo Corp. plans to form a joint venture with the Kazakh national uranium company Kazatomprom to produce rare-earth metals.
Oil and natural gas production up January - July (SRI)
BMB Munai income falls in Q2 (SRI)
Astana to host Kazakhstan Energy Week Astana to host Kazakhstan Energy Week (TREND)
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
Drought damages 400,000 hectares of wheat in Kostanai oblast (Interfax)
Government to reveal draft Customs Code by the end of August (Interfax)
Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 12, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)
Indicators - August 11, 2009 (Reuters)
POLITICS:
Astana to host CSTO rapid reaction force drill in October (EurasiaNet)
Journalists may become codefendants in Bekturganov’s slander case (Interfax)
SOCIETY:
RSF says “appalled” by Kazakh journalist’s jailing (Reuters)
Kazakh rights activists question journalist’s guilty verdict (RFE/RL)
Kazakhstan Politics Roundup - August 12, 2009
Astana to host CSTO rapid reaction force drill in October (EurasiaNet)
Journalists may become codefendants in Bekturganov’s slander case (Interfax)
Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - Augsut 12, 2009
Temirbank reports $181-million loss in Q2 (SRI)
Drought damages 400,000 hectares of wheat in Kostanai oblast (Interfax)
Government to reveal draft Customs Code by the end of August (Interfax)
Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 12, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)
Indicators - August 11, 2009 (Reuters)
Kazakhstan Energy Roundup - August 12, 2009
KazMunaiGas appoints new head of Pavlodar refinery (SRI)
Sumitomo Corp. to form JV with Kazatomprom - Nikkei (SRI)
Oil and natural gas production up January - July (SRI)
BMB Munai income falls in Q2 (SRI)
Astana to host Kazakhstan Energy Week Astana to host Kazakhstan Energy Week (TREND)
BMB Munai income falls in Q2
(SRI) - BMB Munai, an independent oil producer, reported a net income of $31 thousand in the second quarter of 2009, a significant decrease compared to the same period last year when the company recorded net income of $13.3 million.
Kazakhstan Society Roundup - August 12, 2009
RSF says “appalled” by Kazakh journalist’s jailing (Reuters)
Kazakh rights activists question journalist’s guilty verdict (RFE/RL)
KazMunaiGas appoints new head of Pavlodar refinery
(SRI) - KazMunaiGas named Rustem Bekturov the new head of the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, local media reported.
Temirbank reports $181-million loss in Q2
(SRI) - Temirbank, a subsidiary of BTA Bank, reported losses of KZT27.2 billion ($181 million) in the second quarter of 2009, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) said in a statement.
Sumitomo Corp. to form JV with Kazatomprom - Nikkei
(SRI) - Sumitomo Corp. plans to form a joint venture with the Kazakh national uranium company Kazatomprom to produce rare-earth metals, Bloomberg reported citing Nikkei English News.
Oil and natural gas production up January - July
(SRI) - Crude oil production in Kazakhstan in January through July increased by 5.4 percent year-on-year to 43.6 million tons, while natural gas production rose by 6.2 percent to 20.6 billion cubic meters, the state statistics agency reported.
