Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - August 24, 2009

HEADLINES:

BTA to shift focus on domestic market - presentation
(SRI) - In a presentation to investors, BTA Bank said it plans to turn its focus on Kazakh market and dispose of all “non-core” assets like its retail subsidiary Temirbank. In Kazakhstan, it expects to trim staff and cut branches.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:

BTA dismisses two top managers (SRI)

White & Case helps draft Kazakh restructuring laws (The Lawyer)

About $1.13 billion invested in development of roads in Kazakhstan (TREND)

Food Corporation to purchase 3 million tons of grain at $165 per ton (Interfax)

Kazakh satellite on course for ’space burial’ (RIA Novosti)

New head of Kazakhstan Engineering appointed (Kazakhstan Today)

Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 22-24, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)

POLITICS:

Kazakhstan approaches OSCE chairmanship as a “national strategic project” (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

Kazakhstan to participate in IAEA general conference in Vienna (Interfax)

SOCIETY:

International committee appeals for legitimate investigation of the Eugeniy Zhovtis case (Ferghana.ru)

Kazakhstan’s first Islamic TV launched with Ramadan (RFE/RL)

Kazakhstan Society Roundup - August 24, 2009

International committee appeals for legitimate investigation of the Eugeniy Zhovtis case (Ferghana.ru)

Kazakhstan’s first Islamic TV launched with Ramadan (RFE/RL)

Kazkahstan Politics Roundup - Augsut 24, 2009

Kazakhstan approaches OSCE chairmanship as a “national strategic project” (Eurasia Daily Monitor)

Kazakhstan to participate in IAEA general conference in Vienna (Interfax)

Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - August 24, 2009

BTA to shift focus on domestic market - presentation (SRI)

BTA dismisses two top managers (SRI)

White & Case helps draft Kazakh restructuring laws (The Lawyer)

About $1.13 billion invested in development of roads in Kazakhstan (TREND)

Food Corporation to purchase 3 million tons of grain at $165 per ton (Interfax)

Kazakh satellite on course for ’space burial’ (RIA Novosti)

New head of Kazakhstan Engineering appointed (Kazakhstan Today)

Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 22-24, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)

BTA dismisses two top managers

(SRI) - BTA Board of Directors dismissed two members of the Management Board, Nurzhan Botabayev and Saduakas Mameshtegi, on Friday, according to a press release published by the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE).

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