• n  100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan
• n  the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan

News & Articles

• Kazakhstan’s Central Bank Sees No Grounds for Tenge Devaluation
  Kazakhstan’s central bank said it sees no grounds for a devaluation of the national currency, the tenge, which has depreciated against the dollar for 21 consecutive trading sessions.
  July 25, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

• Nursultan Nazarbayev in Gazeta.KZ
  The state has lowered VAT and devaluated tenge so that the earned money work well in the country. As a result of the undertaken measures, the enterprise of mining branches in the country have had the minimum losses,N. Nazarbayev said.
• Karim Masimov in Reuters India
  From December 1, the retail (price should be) no more than 82 tenge ($0.55),Prime Minister Karim Masimov told a government meeting in the capital Astana, referring to the price of one litre of gasoline with 92 octane rating.
• Grigori Marchenko in ShareCast
  Kazakh central bank chairman Grigory Marchenko said on Wednesday that "fundamentals were right for Kazakhstan's tenge currency to appreciate".