Russia welcome Kazakhstan to Arena Khimki for their international friendly today Russia are heavy favorites for their clash with Kazakshtan today, the last time the two teams met was back in 2008 and finished 6-0 to the Russians. Source: fansided.com

According to the press service of the Majilis of the Parliament, at the plenary session chaired by Kabibulla Dzhakupov, the Chamber approved a number of new bills and received two ratification bills for consideration. Source: nurotan.kz

Central Asia Metals’s Buy Rating Reaffirmed at WH Ireland (CAML)sleekmoneyCentral Asia Metals (LON:CAML) traded up 4.516% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting GBX 162.000. The stock had a trading volume of 152,211 shares. Source: sleekmoney.com

Read Kazakhstan to commission new wind project by 2016 and other wind energy news & analysis on Windpower Monthly Source: http://www.windpowermonthly.com

Kazakhstan have announced that they are considering making a bid to host the 2026 World Cup. Source: www1.skysports.com

A court in Kazakhstan has convicted an ethnic Russian woman of inciting ethnic hatred over derogatory references to Kazakhs and calls for the Central Asian country to become part of Russia. Source: http://www.rferl.org

Kazakh-Hungarian business forum with participation of representatives of state bodies and national companies to be held in Astana, April 1 Source: http://www.inform.kz

In the mobile-driven population of China, there’s already a clear leader in mobile payments — Alipay, Alibaba’s mobile payment system. Can Apple keep up even if Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Banks are increasingly worried about the likelihood that they’ll look like the bad guys if merchants haven’t upgraded their point-of-sale systems to support EMV Source: http://www.pymnts.com

It’s already clear that in an EMV equipped world, what was once traditional POS fraud will morph into an onslaught of online and mobile hacking. The pressure is Source: http://www.pymnts.com