Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - August 25, 2009

HEADLINES:

Alliance Bank: Clear as mud
(SRI) - Former CEO of Alliance Bank and Eurasian Bank Zhomart Yertayev and his deputy Aleksei Ageyev have been arrested last weekend in connection with several deals sealed during their tenure at Alliance.

Bank assets grow slightly in Jan-July
(SRI) - Kazakh banks’ aggregate assets increased 1.7 percent in the first seven months of 2009 to KZT12.1 trillion ($80.7 billion) from KZT11.9 trillion ($79.3 billion).

ENERGY:

KCTS boon for Caspian oil (UPI)

U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy to arrive to Kazakhstan to discuss energy cooperation (Kazakhstan Today)

Tethys Petroleum: Board changes (Marketwire)

Aktyubinsk court invalidates dividend resolutions of the annual shareholders’ meeting of CNPC-Aktobemunaigas (Interfax)

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:

Food Contract Corporation issued banking license - FSA (SRI)

Kazakhstan to increase grain exports in 2009 – president (Interfax)

Foreign trade turnover in H1 reduced by 41.8 percent (Kazakhstan Today)

Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 25, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)

POLITICS:

Special Envoy of UN Secretary General to visit Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan Today)

SOCIETY:

Vinokourov returns to Astana after doping ban (AP)

Kazakhstan puts pressure on bloggers (The National)

Kazakhstan Politics Roundup - August 25, 2009

Special Envoy of UN Secretary General to visit Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan Today)

Kazakhstan Energy Roundup - August 25, 2009

KCTS boon for Caspian oil (UPI)

U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy to arrive to Kazakhstan to discuss energy cooperation (Kazakhstan Today)

Tethys Petroleum: Board changes (Marketwire)

Aktyubinsk court invalidates dividend resolutions of the annual shareholders’ meeting of CNPC-Aktobemunaigas (Interfax)

Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - August 25, 2009

Alliance Bank: Clear as mud (SRI)

Bank assets grow slightly in Jan-July (SRI)

Food Contract Corporation issued banking license - FSA (SRI)

Kazakhstan to increase grain exports in 2009 – president (Interfax)

Foreign trade turnover in H1 reduced by 41.8 percent (Kazakhstan Today)

Foreign currency exchange rates by National Bank - August 25, 2009 (Kazakhstan Today)

Bank assets grow slightly in Jan-July

(SRI) - Kazakh banks’ aggregate assets increased 1.7 percent in the first seven months of 2009 to KZT12.1 trillion ($80.7 billion) from KZT11.9 trillion ($79.3 billion), the Financial Supervision Agency reported.

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Food Contract Corporation issued banking license - FSA

(SRI) - The Financial Supervision Agency (FSA) issued a banking license to the Food Contract Corporation, the trading arm of the state agricultural holding KazAgro, according to a statement on the FSA’s website.

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Kazakhstan Society Roundup - August 25, 2009

Vinokourov returns to Astana after doping ban (AP)

Kazakhstan puts pressure on bloggers (The National)

Vinokourov returns to Astana after doping ban

(AP) - Alexandre Vinokourov is returning to Astana two years after his positive test for blood doping forced the team to withdraw from cycling’s premier event and caused it to be banned from the race in 2008.
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