Kazakhstan’s bad-loan rate to increase this year
Kazakhstan has signaled it’s going to get tough on its banking sector’s bad-loan rate, which at 32 percent of all
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Hal Foster is a longtime journalist and journalism professor who has worked in the United States, Japan, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. His news career has included writing and editing at the Los Angeles Times and nine years as a journalist in Japan. He is an associate professor of Communication at the new Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. Catch one of his other blogs at en.tengrinews.kz.
Author: Hal Foster
Eulogy to abandonment
This poem is dedicated to those with borderline personality disorder. He was your love, your rock, your life’s delight, And
Read moreBaltimore Post-Examiner story opens the door in Bollywood
When Bollywood producer A.M. Rathman and director Arjun Varma Alluri saw “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” they marveled at the film’s
Read moreTwo smart alecks go head-to-head against each other
I love smart-alecky humor. This is the kind where you stick a needle in someone. The needle can be long
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Ode to Bryan
Hey there, Mama, look at me! I’m a firefighter, can’t you see? Saving lives — as brave as can be.
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My daughter showed great courage dealing with her baby’s murder
(Bryan at 11 weeks old) In the weeks leading up to her husband’s murder trial in September of last year,
Read moreForget Russia: Gerard Depardieu – Kazakhstan is beckoning
French actor Gerard Depardieu’s quest for Russian citizenship to escape a wealth tax in his homeland has been great fun
Read moreMasters of persuasion don’t need to say a lot
(Writer Hal Foster appears here under a partnership with Tengrinews) I’m teaching a course at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University this semester on
Read moreConference spotlights Kazakhstan’s fast-moving bid to join World Trade Organization
(EU trade project leader Marius Bordalba addresses the WTO conference in Astana.) A lot of Kazakhs have expressed concern that
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Goodbye, sweet Bryan: 11-week-old’s murder changes a mother and family forever
Above, Bryan at 11 weeks. (Writer Hal Foster appears here under a partnership with Tengrinews) One of my daughter Angie’s last
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