China Visa Center has opened in Tashkent, the press service of the Chinese embassy said in a statement. From May 16, 2023, applicants with passports of Uzbekistan and other countries must apply to the visa center to obtain a Chinese visa (including a Hong Kong visa), the statement said.

Uzbek start-ups in fintech, e-commerce and software are benefitting from foreign investment thanks to green economy strategies, the privatisation of Uzbek banks and public-private partnership laws, the Euronews website reported in a PR article sponsored by Uzbek Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Zhusipbek Kazbekov hosted the Deputy Regional Director for Asia and Head of the Department for Developing Countries of the Global Green Growth Institute Jason Lee, Dunyo reported.

Footage surfaced on social media showing two girls lying on the ground after being hit by a car near an Almalyk school. As reported by the Tashkent province police department, the traffic accident occurred on May 15 at 7:40 on Tinchlik street.

Opening ceremony of the special tactical training exercise Shield-2023 conducted jointly between the units of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was held at the Angren field training ground of the Tashkent military district.

The Lithuanian government donated 684,900 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to Uzbekistan as humanitarian aid, the Service for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health said. The plane with the vaccine landed in Tashkent on Sunday.

Deputy Transport Minister Jasur Choriev hosted the Hungary's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Uzbekistan Gyula Kovács and the head of Unit at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Adrienn Gobel.

The Project Office for coordination over the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan railway project has been officially opened in Tashkent, Dunyo said on Sunday.

On May 12, in Mons, at the headquarters of the NATO Joint Command in Europe, the Day of NATO Partner States took place with the participation of representatives of member countries and partners of the organization, Dunyo news agency reported.

Most of Uzbek energy companies engaged in electricity generation, heat generation and coal mining suffered losses in Q1 of 2023. These findings were revealed in the financial statements of enterprises on the Unified Corporate Information Portal.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on May 15, the presidential press service said.

Uzbekistan will transfer US$ 100 thousand as a voluntary contribution in 2023 to the fund of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This was stated in the president’s May 12 Wide celebration of the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Decree.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on May 12 signed a law on amendments to the Code of Administrative Responsibility, expanding the powers of the National Guard, the Ministry of Justice reported.

On May 12, the Political Council of the Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP) approved the candidacy of Shavkat Mirziyoyev for the early presidential elections on July 9, the press service of the party said.

Over 630,000 Uzbeks left for Russia for jobs in the first 3 months of 2023. Nearly 1.3 million foreigners in search of jobs entered Russia in Q1 of 2023. Almost half of them are Uzbeks. This was reported by the Russian state statistics portal.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Prime Minister of Tajikistan, Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the next meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission.

Extraordinary meeting of the central council of the Adolat Social Democratic Party took place today in Tashkent. The council members made a decision to nominate Robakhon Makhmudova as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, UzA reported.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution aimed at developing the service sector, in particular, the activities of enterprises engaged in catering and delivery of goods on Thursday.

Footage surfaced on social media showing a man dressed as a police officer  beating several times a man lying on a bed with his hands and feet tied in a sobering-up station.

Chief of the Foreign Ministry’s department for cooperation with the EU countries and institutions, Oybek Shakhavdinov hosted the head of the EU delegation, Ambassador Charlotte Adrian yesterday, Dunyo said .