Almaty. March 10. Kazakhstan Today - The prices in the world market of steel products have gone up. The price of the Mediterranean half-finished products (Steel Mediterranean) with an immediate delivery and the price of Far East half-finished products (Steel Far East) have increased at the London Metal Exchange (LME) for the last month.

Almaty. March 10. Kazakhstan Today - Transit of one ton of the Kazakhstan grain through the territory of China will be reduced by $40. First Vice Premier of Kazakhstan, Umirzak Shukeev, informed at the session of the deputy group Onir in the Parliament of Senate, the agency reports citing official mass media.

Astana. March 10. Kazakhstan Today - The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov, intends to put things in order in regards to the issue of illegal import of the Chinese goods through Kyrgyzstan, the agency reports.

Almaty. March 10. Kazakhstan Today - Colonel General, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, has been appointed first deputy chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The decision was accepted by the CSTO Ministerial Defense Council, the press service of the Secretariat of the organization informed, the agency reports citing ITAR-TASS.