'How to live simple?' Part 2

29.12.2004

Surfing the web Part V I hope that the last huge bank observation was very helpful to you. And now you definitely know how to pay through the Internet or where to go and enrich your bank account. You have learned about all Kazakhstani bank websites, can check the financial information everyday, analyze currency rates and carefully read annual reports about the Kazakhstani bank sector, and also even manage your bank account online. But the question is still on our agenda - pay for what? Now we can offer you some sites which can also make your life much more comfortable. 1170 

'How to live simple' Part 1.

29.12.2004

Surfing the web Part IV One of my friends - a successful development manager in a big international company, who is British by origin and works in Prague, said to me: "I just want to live simple. I have no free time for myself, not even per usual things like house payment. I wish I could do this through the Internet!" And I just realized that many of us do not have time to do private things such as paying for the apartment, cell phone, cable television, check the account, buy food or even clothes. Especially you, foreigners, who has just come to Kazakhstan and don't know where to do this in real life or in the Internet. What you need is here: only useful information about HOW TO DO simple things not distracting yourselves from work. 1451 

You're in the army now

29.12.2004

You see them in the streets, on the buses and buying cigarettes at a kiosk. They are fresh faced and dressed in green, their caps pushed lazily to the back of their head. This is the Kazakhstani army. Made up almost entirely of conscripts earning USD6 a month. Our correspondent visits the Interior Forces' Military Base. 485 

Drugs are not expensive in Kazakhstan

28.12.2004

There has been an 18 per cent increase in the number of drug addicts in Kazakhstan last year according to the city's Drug Abuse Clinic. The most worrying is a 12 per cent increase in the number of teenagers taking drugs. Doctors and other specialists are again discussing a possibility of legalizing "light" drugs. 1909 

The deaf people country

27.12.2004

Unofficially there are over 90,000 deaf people in Kazakhstan. Nearly 14,000 of them are registered in the independent Kazakh Society of Deaf People. Invalids do not receive any welfare payments from the government at all. Many foreigners like Chevron Oil, Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, the Dutch Embassy sponsor them, but still it is not enough, and so they have to find work to survive. 602 

50th anniversary of our cosmodrome

24.12.2004

A few days ago a special Russian commission at Baikonur cosmodrome considered possibilities of using to launching pads for rocket launches. 526 

Pharmaceutical business wins customs service

22.12.2004

A conflict that occurred between pharmaceutical companies and the Customs Control Agency (CCA) of RK seems to promise a happy end for the former. 375 

Surfing the web - the best sites of Kazakhstan
Part III

15.12.2004

'Kazakhstan for life' Kazakhstan is a good choice for vacations. You can be very surprised by the nature's integrity, mountains beauty and service level. But what about living here? Now you begin to examine Kazakhstan from the other side - like where I'll take the medical assistance or where my kids will learn? This will definitely help you not to be scared and just still be happy you are here. 2638 

Surfing the web - the best sites of Kazakhstan
Part II

14.12.2004

'Going to Kazakhstan?' A foreign country means a foreign life. You will never know what is happening there till the end. But you can try to become closer. Departing for another country everyone gets acquainted with it, buys a phrase book or a book on the history of the country. Lately most of travellers navigate the Internet to get the necessary information. But not all of them are lucky in their search. For you to be lucky when you go to our country we will give an advice to have a look at the following sites. About each of them - in details. 2258 

How to swindle a Kazakhstani businessman

10.12.2004

A sign of the highest skill in any type of fraud is to manage to do everything so that the "victim" would remain thankful to you, and remember the fact of being relieved from his/her own money with gratitude, as one of the best episodes of his/her life. 310 

Religious factor in the Republic of Kazakhstan

08.12.2004

Until recently the Republic of Kazakhstan managed to avoid extremist violence of the type that episodically manifested itself in the neighbouring Uzbekistan, where Islam has been the most widespread since the fall of the Soviet Union. 392 

This small consumer basket

06.12.2004

A word on new standards of the cost of living. The amount and content of the minimum "consumer basket" in the transition period are always becoming more than a socioeconomic figure. 1414