Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are planning to open three border checkpoints, Kaktus.Media reported. Footage surfaced on the social networks showing Uzbek authorities demolishing a wall on the border of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. As it turned out, the video was filmed on the border of the Jalal-Abad province of Kyrgyzstan and the Andijan province of Uzbekistan.

The Senate at the 41st plenary meeting, which will be convened on June 1, will review the Conflict of Interest Bill, the press service of the Senate said.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the billionaire businessman, CEO of the Egypt-based Orascom Investment Holding, Naguib Sawiris.

On May 24, the President Mirziyoyev signed the Improving the mechanisms of state control and introducing the “digital energy control” system in the fuel and power industry Decree.

Uzbekistan Airways will resume the Tashkent to Urumqi regular flight as of June 30, the company said. Reportedly, regular flights will be operated twice a week on Fridays and Saturdays (transfer flight) as per the following schedule:

In the Andijan province, a 20-year-old boy died trying to save a drowning girl, the spokesman to the Prosecutor General's Office Khayot Shamsutdinov said.

Cloudy and dry weather will continue throughout the week across the flat territory of Uzbekistan, Uzhydromet said on Monday.

The New Straits Times, one of the major daily newspapers of Malaysia, said that Before the year-end, Batik Air will launch Kuala Lumpur to Tashkent direct flights.

Namangan province hosted an opening ceremony for the Climate Situational Centre located in the newly opened weather radar post building. H.E. Mr. Hatori Takashi, Ambassador of Japan in Uzbekistan, and Ms. Matilda Dimovska, UNDP Resident Representative, visited the province to take part in the opening ceremony.

Forum of officials of the SCO member states, observers and partners, kicked off, which is dedicated to reducing poverty and ensuring a decent life for people In the Chinese city of Yanlin.

Fourth meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan of the European Union and Central Asian countries took place in Ashgabat on May 26.

On May 28, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in a telephone conversation congratulated the President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  on his convincing, historic victory in the presidential elections on the eve, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan has not removed the nuclear plant project from the table, and at the same time studies the achievements in the field of small nuclear reactors, the Minister of Energy Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov told to Energy Intelligence in an interview.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Chief executive officer of Air Products. The parties considered the ways to further expand cooperation with Air Products, which is a global leader in its field, to promote high-tech projects in strategic sectors of the economy of Uzbekistan.

Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov held talks with Tim Reid, Chief Executive of UK Export Finance (UKEF).

Three boys drowned in Zarafshan river in Samarkand province. The body of one of them was found. The other two children are missing. The incident happened on May 25, 2023 at 14:00 in Pakhtachi district of Samarkand province, the spokesman to the General Prosecutor's Office said.

On May 25, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the 30th meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council via conference call. Since 2020, Uzbekistan has been an observer in the Eurasian Economic Union, the members of which are Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.

On May 24, the Tashkent Metro State Unitary Enterprise and STIE, a company from Singapore, signed an agreement on the development of the Tashkent metro at the Uzbekistan-Singapore business forum in Tashkent. The forum took place as part of the state visit of the President of Singapore, Halimah Yakub.

Gas purifiers failed at Galkynysh gas field in Turkmenistan. A large amount of sulfur-contaminated gas has escaped in the line of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline, which passes through the territory of Uzbekistan, the turkmen.news portal has recently reported citing a source in the Turkmengaz concern.

Ukrainian flag hanging on the balcony of an apartment on the eighth floor of a residential complex in TAshkent' Mirzo-Ulugbek district was removed with the help of special equipment. The owner of the apartment, who was not at home at that time, said that before the incident, he received a call from a police officer. Photos surfaced on social networks showinf the fire truck's ladder being used to take down the flag.