Freight carriers will have to pay a guarantee deposit of 86,500 tenge (about 2.26 million soums) to book an electronic queue slot at three border crossings between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from Nov. 9, the Turkestan Province State Revenue Department said.

Uzbekistan recorded 123,400 deaths in the first nine months of 2026, 6.7% fewer than a year earlier and the lowest figure for the period in five years, the National Statistics Committee said in a report published Tuesday.

Average air temperatures in November are expected to be near the climate norm, and 1-1.5 degrees Celsius above it in some places, according to a monthly forecast for Uzbekistan.

Six people died in Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district on Oct. 25, apparently from gas poisoning, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said emergency services received a call at 9:53 a.m. about nine people found unconscious in a house in the Alisherobod mahalla, or neighborhood. The two-storey residential building, on an 800-square-meter plot, was under construction and connected to natural gas, the ministry added.

The Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports is preparing to propose a 15-day visa exemption for travellers from Colombia, Mexico, and Uzbekistan, aiming to resolve severe processing delays and boost long-haul arrivals, officials announced on Monday (October 27).

The average monthly gross wage in Uzbekistan reached 7,274,100 soums in January-September 2026, up 18% from a year earlier, the National Statistics Committee said in a report.

Competition Committee found 65 violations in a review of 116 promotions and discounts at 58 retail and service outlets and is proposing digital mechanisms to monitor such offers, the committee said.

Uzbekistan will cap white sugar imports for food-industry companies at 300,000 tonnes a year from Jan. 1, 2027, under a Cabinet of Ministers resolution that has not been made public.

Uzbekistan plans to attract doctors who have worked at foreign clinics, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said today at a meeting with health care and pharmaceutical workers, according to his spokesman, Sherzod Asadov.

Signs of an imminent Apple Pay launch appeared in Uzbekistan on Oct. 27, when iPhone users gained access to a list of eight local banks and fintech services whose cards can be added to Apple Wallet.

Iran’s embassies in Armenia, Bulgaria, Zimbabwe, Finland and China removed politically charged posts about Uzbekistan’s historical and cultural heritage from their pages on X on Oct. 26, Foreign Ministry spokesman Omonulla Fayziev said.

Minister of Digital Technologies, Sherzod Shermatov, said legislation alone will not solve the problem of children’s social media use, commenting on a possible ban for those under 16.

The implementation of new rules governing entry to Egypt for citizens of Uzbekistan has been postponed until March 1, 2027, Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry press service said.

Afghan nationals made up about 90.5% of the foreigners who visited Uzbekistan for business purposes in the first nine months of 2026, the National Statistics Committee said.

Husan Asadov, chief of the Tashkent District Medical Association, has appointed his wife, Gulnora Asadova, as head of the Interdistrict Perinatal Center, according to an order he issued.

Businesspeople from the Uzbek Surkhandarya and Afghan Balkh provinces held talks in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif and signed a number of agreements. The sides also agreed to arrange a visit by Afghan doctors to a medical center in Termez.

Warm, dry weather is expected in Tashkent over the coming week, with an atmospheric inversion forecast to last until Nov. 1 and potentially worsen air quality, the weather agency Uzhydromet said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is meeting filmmakers at the Uzbekfilm studio. He announced a move to a new system in which the tasks of managing the film sector, financing it and making films are clearly separated.

Citizens of Uzbekistan were the largest group to enter Russia for work in the first half of the year, with 1,178,609 people stating work as the purpose of their visit, TASS reported, citing materials it had seen.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is meeting filmmakers at the Uzbekfilm studio, the president’s press service said, citing a sharp rise in state funding for the industry over the past decade.