In order to improve legal protection of women and children, the Ministry of Justice proposed through a bill to toughen penalties for certain crimes against sexual freedom and youth, the press service of the Ministry of Justice reported.

The Tashkent Interdistrict Economic Court cancel the permit of Quramax Medikal to conduct pharmaceutical activities in Uzbekistan, issued by the Pharmaceutical Industry Development Agency on December 10, 2019, the press service of the Supreme Court said.

The Ministry of Justice has developed and posted for public input draft amendments and addenda to the legislation of Uzbekistan in terms of protection of rights, freedoms and interests of women and children, the Ministry of Justice said.

Currently, the territory of Uzbekistan is covered by the southwestern periphery of a wide and very cold anticyclone over the eastern provinces of Kazakhstan.

Acting Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov hosted the Ambassador of Tajikistan Abdujabbor Rahmonzoda. The parties noted that friendship and good neighborly relations, strategic partnership and alliance ties between the brotherly countries were expanding even further.

138,900 Uzbeks went abroad to study in 11 months of 2022, with about 1,000 of them choosing the United States as the destination, the State Statistics Committee said.

The severe frost that has gripped Uzbekistan interferes with the operation of ATMs, Qishloq Qurilish Bank said. Uzbeks were advised to use ATMs, which are located indoors, including inside banks.

Today, First Deputy Foreign Minister Furqat Sidiqov hosted Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Korea Republic of to the country Kim Hee-sang.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev made remarks at the online session of the Voice of the Global South Summit, chaired by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Uzbek president’s press service of the head of state reported.

At the hearings in the criminal case on the events in Nukus, Karakalpakstan autonomy on July 1-2, which continues in Bukhara, the prosecutor's office of Karakalpakstan autonomy demanded many years of imprisonment for most of the 22 defendants, in particular 18 years on the collective charges to the main suspect Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, and 11 years for Lolagul Kallykhanova.

Due to extreme cold weather, the volume of natural gas supplies to some large industrial enterprises was sharply cut, and to the methane filling stations was temporarily it was stopped for a short period, the press service of the Ministry of Energy said in a statement.

Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will expedite the implementation of Kambarata HPP-1 and China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway projects. Talks were held on January 11 between the Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov and the Minister of Economy and Commerce of Kyrgyzstan Daniyar Amangeldiyev.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will attend the online Voice of the Global South Summit.

1 million local and foreign tourists visited Samarkand's Registan square last year. According to the Ministry of Tourism, the service in the square’s facilities is organized at a high level. 

Former Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov got a new role. By Dec 30. presidential decree, Vladimir Norov was appointed director of the International Institute of Central Asia (IICA).

40 foreign technology and internet firms had been registered in Uzbekistan as of December 1, 2022. According to the State Tax Committee, their number has doubled in 2 years.

Sardor Sadullaev Ismatullo Ugly, 29, resident of Buraevo village, a mercenary of Wagner group, died in the occupied Donbass. The farewell ceremony took place on January 7 in Buraevo village, chief of the Buraev district administration, Rushan Garayev said on his VKontakte page.

Cabinet of Ministers issued amendments to the resolution “On measures to simplify the procedure for registering foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Republic of Uzbekistan” due to the improvement of legislation for providing foreign citizens the right to obtain a residence permit in Uzbekistan.

The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov received the Russian ambassador Oleg Malginov, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

Uzbekistan and Germany have identified ways to expand mutual cooperation. Bilateral documents were signed at the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade in the presence of First Deputy Minister of Investments Laziz Qudratov and German Ambassador Tilo Klinner.