Baskin-Robbins, the largest chain of ice cream and cake specialty shop restaurants and world leader in the varieties, opened its first cafe in Tashkent's Samarkand-Darvoza mall.

The phase I of the construction project of the business aviation airport in place of the former Tashkent-Sharqiy (Eastern) airfield is scheduled to be completed in 2020, the main contractor Uzbekistan Railways said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in his annual message to the parliament on Friday declared 2019 as The Year of Active Investments and Social Development.

On December 26, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the bill on ratification of the Constitution of the International Organization for Migration into law. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on December 12 and approved by the Senate on December 14.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin press service said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Uzbekistan's Accession to the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against the Illegal Reproduction of their Phonograms Bill into the Law.

Behzod Musaev has been confirmed as chairman of the Tax Committee of Uzbekistan, a source in the government told Tashkent Times. He had been serving as interim chief of the committee.

President of Uzbekistan will address a message to the joint session of the parliament on December 28 of this year, a source in the government told The Tashkent Times.

Next year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan will focus on increasing the amount and range of exports, attracting foreign investments and promoting the tourism, the First Deputy Foreign Minister Ilkhom Nematov said on Uzbekistan 24 Tuesday at a briefing devoted to the annual activity results of the ministry.

On December 26, 2018, Ismatulla Ergashev, the Special Representative of the Uzbek President for Afghanistan met with the Iranian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Bahman Agharazi Dormani.

UMS, the state-owned mobile operator, will be providing mobile services for the government, and will create and develop a data processing center for the provision of e-government services, the Director General of UMS Sobir Aripov told Uzbekistan 24.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the new building of the State Security Service on Tuesday, where he chaired the meeting of the State Security Service (SSS), Uzbekistan 24 reported.

The vice-president of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) Mehmet Süreyya Er has been appointed as the new Turkish Ambassador to Uzbekistan, replacing Ahmet Başar Şen, who had in charge of the Turkish diplomatic mission since the end of 2016, Hürriyet Daily News reported.

Flydubai will operate regular flights between Tashkent and Dubai. About it reports the Uzbek Aviation Authority. According to the agency, Flydubai has been approved as a regular carrier on the Dubai-Tashkent route instead of the previously designated Emirates Airline.

Former State Advisor to the President, chief of the Customs Committee Muidjon Tokhiriy has been arrested, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Silk Visa for Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan could be launched in February 2019, First Deputy Chairman of the State Tourism Committee Ulugbek Kasimhodzhaev said at a press conference on Thursday.

Uzbekistan is planning to introduce visa-free regime for the nationals of another 22 countries. The draft resolution is being discussed in the Cabinet of Ministers, the First deputy chief of the Tourism Committee Ulugbek Kasimhodjaev announced at a press conference on Thursday.

Badriddin Obidov, who earlier served as the Uzbek Ambassador to Latvia, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade in charge of Uzbekistan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Ministry of Foreign Trade said.

There is no predesignated list of persons registered for extremism in Uzbekistan. There are no such lists, Deputy Prosecutor General Erkin Yuldashev said at the International Press Club meeting Tuesday, answering the question of how many people in Uzbekistan are still on the so-called black list.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, by his Dec. 18 decree, approved the concept and program of measures aimed at preventing non-communicable diseases, supporting healthy lifestyles and increasing the level of physical activity of the public for 2019-2022.