Category: Kazakhstan

Asia’s Top Three Towns for Air Quality All in Kazakhstan, Finds New Study — The Times of Central Asia

November 27, 2025

A new study into global air quality by the independent website HouseFresh has found that Kazakhstan is home to some of the world’s cleanest towns. The report also notes that one Kazakh city is also among the most polluted.  Using data from IQAir’s 2024 research, HouseFresh examined the average PM2.5 level – the number of … More Asia’s Top Three Towns for Air Quality All in Kazakhstan, Finds New Study — The Times of Central Asia

Kazakhstan Gifts 1,500 Saiga Antelope to China — The Times of Central Asia

November 12, 2025

Loved for its handsome, bulbous nose, the saiga is found in large numbers across the Kazakh steppe. Once endangered in Kazakhstan, numbering as few as 40,000 in 2005, the antelope is in fact now overpopulated, as numbers have reached a record 4.1 million in 2025. … More Kazakhstan Gifts 1,500 Saiga Antelope to China — The Times of Central Asia

Speaking on Khabar TV in Kazakhstan: ‘Life’s Path’ with author Bayangali Alimzhanov

November 2, 2025

In November 2025 Kazakhstan’s national TV channel, Khabar, made a programme about Bayangali Alimzhanov’s life for its Omir Ornegi (Өмір өрнегі, ‘Life’s Path’) series, and asked me to speak about our collaborations.  … More Speaking on Khabar TV in Kazakhstan: ‘Life’s Path’ with author Bayangali Alimzhanov

A meeting with Kazakhstan

February 24, 2025

In 2017 I booked a trip to Almaty, a lively city tucked against Kazakhstan’s Tien Shan mountains, and the dream finally came true. Only there was a twist: this was a business trip, for my new job in the wine & spirits industry. The people I would be speaking with were managers at alcohol companies; the markets I was there to learn about were business markets. … More A meeting with Kazakhstan

Life in Central Asia: Photographs from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

January 7, 2025

Some of my photographs from Central Asia can be purchased through my store on Picfair. The collection is called Life in Central Asia.

The 25 scenes – from cities and rural locations in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – are available both as high-quality art prints, and as digital downloads for websites and businesses. … More Life in Central Asia: Photographs from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

Interview about Kazakhstan and the Astana SCO Summit — Mir24 TV

October 30, 2024

In July I was in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, to cover the 2024 Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for The Times of Central Asia.

The day after the Summit I gave a short interview to Mir24 TV, a prominent Russian-language television channel in Eurasia, about the SCO and Kazakhstan’s role in Central Asia. … More Interview about Kazakhstan and the Astana SCO Summit — Mir24 TV