In the 2011 Doing Business Report prepared by the World Bank together with the International Finance Corporation. It provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the sub national and regional level. Overall, Singapore has been ranked in first position, with Chad in Africa coming in final place. IFC's Oliver Griffith tells us more about the findings of the report.
Kyrgyzstan's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has arrived in the city of Taraz, in neighbouring Kazakhstan, after fleeing his country in the wake of last week's violent uprising.
Heavy rains and an early spring have led to massive flooding in southern Kazakhstan that have killed at least 30 people, washed away dozens of homes and threatened vital infrastructure, with the death toll expected to rise.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board took off from Kazakhstan on Monday to join a U.S.-Russian duo who have been manning the International Space Station (ISS) since October.
French energy companies Total and GDF Suez will respectively take 17 percent and 8 percent of the Kazakh gas field project Khvalynskoye. The deal is supposed to be signed during an official visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Kazakhstan.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in energy-rich Kazakhstan as part of a two-year diplomatic push aimed at securing French companies valuable space, energy and defence contracts in the Central Asian country.
Astana, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador's cycling team, could lose its licence to compete in the top races over unpaid salaries, according to the head of the International Cycling Union (UCI), Pat McQuaid (picture).
Thirty-eight people have been killed in a fire at a health clinic for drug addicts in the southeastern Kazakh city of Taldykorgan. Forty people were rescued from the blaze which broke out early Sunday morning.
Kazakhstan has agreed to let the US ship non-lethal supplies to US and NATO troops serving in Afghanistan, days after the Kyrgyz goverment ordered the closure of an airbase that served as a vital supply route for the cargo.
Wayne Rooney scored two of England's five goals against Kazakhstan in their 2010 World cup qualifier, while Germany had a harder time beating Russia 2-1 thanks to goals by Ballack and Podolski.
