Ye Shiwen and Sun Yang seized gold as China issued a challenge to U.S. supremacy in the Olympic pool on July 28 amid a day of disappointment for U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps.
Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan won a gold medal in the men's cycling road race on July 28, outsprinting Colombian Rigoberto Uran, who took silver.
The Kazakh border guard suspected of killing 14 fellow guards and a forest ranger has been found sane by doctors.
A bilateral Kazakh-Hong Kong agreement on no-visa travel came into force as of July 26.
Voice of America's Uzbek Service interviewed U.S. Representative Dan Burton (Republican-Indiana), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia, about his recent trip to Central Asia and U.S. priorities there.
Kazakh security forces and police have sealed off the center of the western town of Zhanaozen, amid a renewal of tensions in the town where security forces shot dead at least 16 people inst December.
The military prosecutor's office in Kazakhstan has confirmed that Kazakh border guard Vladislav Chelakh has recanted his earlier confession of killing of 14 fellow soldiers and a forest ranger.
A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced a Kazakh citizen to five years in jail over alleged Islamic extremism.
Officials in Kazakhstan say they are investigating a shooting by an army officer that injured two other soliders.
A Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully launched several small research satellites into orbit.
The International Olympic Committee has never given cash prizes to medalists. But many countries are now promising lucrative bonus awards to their athletes who win Olympic medals at London 2012.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I was slightly surprised to discover that it was a Kazakh photographer behind an eye-catching series of underwater shots featured recently by "The Telegraph."
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