Archive for September, 2009
Kazakhstan Daily News Roundup - September 30, 2009
HEADLINES:
IFC to take 12.5-percent stake in Bank CenterCredit
(SRI) - Bank CenterCredit (BCC) said in a press release on Monday that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private equity arm of the World Bank, will take a 12.5-percent equity stake in the bank and provide a subordinated loan of $85 million.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
Investigators search Moscow offices of BTA bank (Reuters)
Kazakh paper offers bank own bonds for damages (Reuters - Forbes)
Development Bank of Kazakhstan to raise capitalization (SRI)
IBM opens Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan (PR Newswire)
Air Astana launching Almaty-Kuala Lumpur service (Flightglobal)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates September 30, 2009 (Kazinform)
Indicators - September 29, 2009 (Reuters)
POLITICS:
SOCIETY:
Kazakhstan bans public smoking, raises drinking age (AFP)
Kazakhstan allows transgender operation (Interfax)
Rocket readied at Kazakh steppe for ISS mission (AP)
REGIONAL:
Tajikistan says no to beards, yes to galoshes for teachers (AFP)
Tajik migrants divorce by SMS, causing grief at home (AFP)
Kyrgyz officials urge return to death penalty (AP)
Trans-Caspian trepidations: How serious? (CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan Business and Economy Roundup - September 30, 2009
IFC to take 12.5-percent stake in Bank CenterCredit (SRI)
Investigators search Moscow offices of BTA bank (Reuters)
Kazakh paper offers bank own bonds for damages (Reuters - Forbes)
Development Bank of Kazakhstan to raise capitalization (SRI)
IBM opens Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan (PR Newswire)
Air Astana launching Almaty-Kuala Lumpur service (Flightglobal)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates September 30, 2009 (Kazinform)
Indicators - September 29, 2009 (Reuters)
Development Bank of Kazakhstan to raise capitalization
(SRI) - Kazakhstan’s government plans to increase the capitalization of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) by KZT167.7 billion ($1.1 billion) to KZT264.4 billion ($1.8 billion), the bank said in a statement published on the website of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE).
Kazakhstan Society Roundup - September 30, 2009
Kazakhstan bans public smoking, raises drinking age (AFP)
Kazakhstan allows transgender operation (Interfax)
Rocket readied at Kazakh steppe for ISS mission
(AP) - Workers at Russia’s manned space-launch facility lifted to the launch pad on Monday a rocket that is to send Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 30, 2009
Tajikistan says no to beards, yes to galoshes for teachers (AFP)
Tajik migrants divorce by SMS, causing grief at home (AFP)
Kyrgyz officials urge return to death penalty (AP)
Trans-Caspian trepidations: How serious? (CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan says no to beards, yes to galoshes for teachers
(AFP) - Teachers aged under 50 in Tajikistan can no longer grow beards but are allowed to give their lessons in rain boots, according to new government guidelines published Monday.
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Tajik migrants divorce by SMS, causing grief at home
(AFP) - Nodira knew that life would be difficult when her husband left their home in Tajikistan for a job packing lorries in distant Russia, but they had two children and needed the money to survive.
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Kyrgyz officials urge return to death penalty
(AP) - Officials in Kyrgyzstan called Wednesday for the death penalty to be reinstated and said public executions could be carried out, a sharp reversal that will likely draw international condemnation.
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