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Japan ramps up rescue efforts as typhoon leaves more than 30 dead TOKYO. KAZINFORM - Japan ramped up rescue efforts on Sunday for survivors of a typhoon that brought record-breaking amounts of rain, flooding huge swaths of residential districts and leaving at least 33 dead and nearly 20 others missing, Keyodo News reports.

13.10.2019 21:18

19 dead, dozen missing as powerful typhoon rips through Japan TOKYO. KAZINFORM - At least 19 people have died, and another 16 are missing as Typhoon Hagibis lashed Japan, including the Tokyo metropolitan area on Saturday, with many rivers overflowing into residential areas across a wide area of the country.

13.10.2019 12:47

Senate Speaker gets involved in citywide cleanup day in Nur-Sultan NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Deputies and employees of the Senate apparatus, headed by the Chairwoman Dariga Nazarbayeva, have taken part in a traditional citywide cleanup, Kazinform reported with the reference to the press service of the Senate.

12.10.2019 14:11

Kazakh President planting trees in Botanical Garden NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Press Secretary of Kazakhstan President Berik Uali has published a video of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s participation in a republican volunteer clean-up.

12.10.2019 13:05

Nur-Sultan holds republican tree planting campaign NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - A republican tree planting campaign has been carried out in Nur-Sultan city as part of the ecological month. This event is timed to the World Forest Planting Day, Kazinform reports.

12.10.2019 12:45

President Tokayev partakes in republican clean-up event NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has taken part in a clean-up event which was held in the capital's Botanical Garden, Kazinform reported on Saturday.

12.10.2019 12:16

Typhoon threatens to disrupt public transport in Japan over weekend TOKYO. KAZINFORM Train operators and airlines said Thursday they are planning to or may suspend their services in eastern and western Japan this weekend, as a powerful typhoon is expected to hit the country.

10.10.2019 21:04

Kazakh Geology Minister launches #Birge #JasylQazaqstan challenge NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Kazakh Ecology, Geology and Mineral Resources Minister Magzum Mirzagaliyev launched the #Birge #JasylQazaqstan challenge.

10.10.2019 18:22

OSCE Secretary General met with Central Asian Youth Network alumni NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Five participants from the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) met with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger in Vienna on 4 October 2019.

09.10.2019 16:08

500bn tenge to be spent on development of Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector ALMATY. KAZINFORM 500bn tenge will be allocated for the development of agro-industrial complex in Kazakhstan, according to Vice Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Yerlan Nyssanbayev.

09.10.2019 15:51

London: More than 200 arrested in climate protests LONDON. KAZINFORM - More than 200 people have been arrested in London on the first day of a two-week-long planned rallies and blockades by an activist group, Extinction Rebellion.

08.10.2019 09:35

PM Mamin, Mayor of Turkestan region launch republican tree planting campaign TURKESTAN. KAZINFORM – Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin is on a working trip to Turkestan region, Kazinform reports citing the press service of the regional governor’s office.

03.10.2019 14:02

4 killed, 2 missing as Typhoon Mitag makes landfall in S. Korea SEOUL. KAZINFORM - Four people were killed and two others went missing as Typhoon Mitag lashed the southern and eastern regions of South Korea with heavy rain and strong winds, the authorities said Thursday.

03.10.2019 09:09

Scientists release 14 belugas from Srednyaya Bay in Sea of Okhotsk VLADIVOSTOK. KAZINFORM - Experts of the Russian Research Institute for Fishery and Oceanography (VNIRO) have released 14 beluga whales that had been previously kept in Srednyaya Bay in the Primorsky Region, VNIRO reported on Wednesday.

02.10.2019 18:42

Roundtable to discuss status of Kazakhstan's draft Environmental Code NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan will support a roundtable discussion on Kazakhstan’s draft Environmental Code.

30.09.2019 09:30

Almaty hosts seminar on climate change mitigation and adaptation in Central Asia NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supports a training seminar on sustainable environmental practices in Almaty on September 26-28.

26.09.2019 21:29

What 'green' energy projects will be implemented in Kazakhstan NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM On the margins of the III Renewable Energy Summit in Nur-Sultan, CEO of the Renewable Energy Association of Kazakhstan Arman Kashkinbekov announced what RES projects would be implemented in the country soon, Kazinform correspondent reports.

25.09.2019 13:58

Greta Thunberg tells world leaders ‘you are failing us’, as nations announce fresh climate action UNITED NATIONS. KAZINFORM Speaking at the beginning of the UN’s Climate Action Summit on Monday, the 16-year-old acclaimed climate activist Greta Thunberg, was unsparing in her criticism of world leaders, telling them that they are still «not mature enough to tell it like it is», the UN News Centre informs.

24.09.2019 15:24

OSCE supports 10th annual Central Asia environmental leadership programme in Kazakhstan NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM The OSCE-supported tenth annual Central Asian Leadership Programme (CALP) took place from 15 to 22 September 2019 in Almaty. Some 70 young environmental leaders, CALP alumni from the Central Asian countries and Afghanistan, representatives from the government and international organizations participated in the event.

23.09.2019 21:19

Kazakh company produces building materials from waste NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM – «EcostroyNII-PV» company makes in-home production and sales of innovative building materials made from ash and slag waste.

21.09.2019 20:17

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