Astana, January 14, 2010 (Khabar) - 1 500 crimes were committed in Kazakhstan last week, and policemen managed to reveal 1 200 crimes on hot pursuit.

Ust-Kamenogorsk, January 14, 2010 (Khabar) - In Ust-Kamenogorsk, 8 kindergartens will be returned to state property this year. The city budget allocated 600 million tenge for this purpose.

Astana, January 14, 2010 (Khabar) - Two new monuments to Kerey and Zhanibek khan as well as Abay will be built in Astana this year.

Pavlodar, January 14, 2010 (Khabar) - A grave of one more Pavlodar soldier who died on the front of the Second World War has been found.

Almaty, January 14, 2010 (Khabar) - Almaty has witnessed the beginning of the International Zhautyk academic competition.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 14 (Bernama) -- The government has no plan in the near future to carry out any regularisation programme to register illegal workers in the country, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein

SANA'A, Jan. 13 (Saba) - Islamic Relief (IR) in Yemen is to launch next Saturday a two-year series of training courses for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

From Amer Hamzah Md Sap

Hanoi (VNA) – Deaths caused by traffic accidents in 2009 fell by only 0.7 percent compared to the previous year, far lower than the target of 5 percent.

ULAN-UDE, January 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Buryatia's Institute of Management and Education Personnel and the Centre of the Mongolian Language at the Mongolian College "Bridge" will engage in the dissemin