Kazakh businessmen have raised money for a generator and sent the equipment to the Kyrgyz hospital, where doctors had to scandalously make a open heart surgery during an blackout. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

This oil price slump is turning into a ‘black swan’: one of those economic events that seem to come from nowhere with strange and unforeseen effects. As Brent Crude dips… Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk

A selection of highlights from the Central Asian contemporary art scene Source: calvertjournal.com

Kazakhstani opera singer Saltanat Akhmetova has become the winner of the Big Opera television competition for young artists. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

Kazakhstan to bring its modern art works to France Source: kazakh-tv.kz

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded in Kazakhstan on Dec. 4 Source: en.trend.az

Agreement on the construction of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway was signed in 2007, while construction work began in 2009 Source: itar-tass.com

Kazakhstan is ready to adopt the European construction standards or Eurocodes starting 2015. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

AK YAYLA, Turkmenistan, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Turkmenistan,Kazakhstan and Iran on Wednesday inaugurated a new railway routethat will improve resource-rich Central Asia’s access to marketsin the Middle East… Source: in.reuters.com

A 900-kilometre railway through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran was launched on Wednesday. Source: http://www.dawn.com