Kazakhstan’s American-flavored first cattle auction a success
(Hal Foster appears in the Baltimore Post-Examiner under a partnership with Tengrinews of Kazakhstan. ) It was one of the biggest days
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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
Astana Economic Forum features 11 Nobel winners, several heads of state
The luster of a conference depends on its headliners – and by that account, the Fifth Astana Economic Forum will
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A young woman’s 9/11 kindness comes back to her 11 years later
Forty-eight hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a 28-year-old woman in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, wrote a song to
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Hollywood actor Armand Assante was one of the speakers in the inaugural World Forum of Spiritual Culture in Kazakhstan’s capital
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It started as the kind of night I always feel with you: Love and joy and tenderness – An intoxicating
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Kazakh musical superstar wants to take America by storm
Shortly after I arrived in Kazakhstan five years ago, friends took me to a benefit concert that featured many of
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