By the Dec. 30 presidential decree, Vladimir Norov was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said. On December 31, he was presented at a meeting of the collegium of the ministry.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulated the Uzbek people on the New Year and proposed to declare 2022 as the "Year of Ensuring Human Interests and Development of Mahalla".

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports issued a statement on how much users of the Healthy Lifestyle app were paid for walking in 2021.

Employment Minister Nozim Husanov held a conference call with executives of the German OPASCA GmbH, Dunyo said in a statement.

In accordance with the Dec. 28 resolution of the Senate council, Farhod Arziev was appointed Ambassador of Uzbekistan to China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today.

Paleolithic era monument was found at Mount Kohitang in Sherabad district of Surkhandarya province, the Academy of Sciences said in a statement on Thursday.

Tashkent Metro issued statement on the running hours of Metro services on holidays. On December 31, 2021, the metro will run service on an approved schedule. Working hours will be extended by 1 (one) hour, that is, all metro stations will serve passengers from 05:00 AM on December 31 to 01:00 AM on January 1.

On December 28, 2021, the UzAuto Motors production line in the city of Hajigabul (Azerbaijan) moved to the second stage of production development - the assembly of Chevrolet Damas, Labo, Lacetti, Tracker and Malibu cars was launched at the plant.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has awarded the chess player Nodirbek Abdusattorov with the state award Mard Oglon (transl. Brave Son), the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov announced.

The 50% reduction in the supply of electricity from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan is due to the repair works at one of the 220 kV two power transmission lines (Naibobod-1), the Ministry of Energy said in a statement.

Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) is building a unique and successful entrepreneurship ecosystem in Uzbekistan. As a result, innoWIUT Entrepreneur's lab invited its recent graduate, a successful IT developer and the first hero of CNN’s new project #TheGenerationNext Durdona Bakhronova for an open discussion “Empowering Female Tech Entrepreneurs” on campus.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Anglesey Food Foreign Enterprise LLC (Korzinka) have signed $12 million in debt financing to promote food security and sustain the livelihoods of more than 5,000 employees and 1,200 farm workers in Uzbekistan.

The Uzbek Ambassador to Canada, stationed in Washington, Javlon Vakhabov, held a number of meetings in Ottawa with Director General of the Bureau for Eastern Europe and Eurasia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heidi Kutz, the Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister for Europe, the Middle East and Maghreb Sandra McCardell and the Executive Director Department for Afghanistan and Pakistan Christopher Gibbins, Dunyo said.

Amendments to the Civil Code were considered in the first reading at a meeting of the Legislative Chamber, which are aimed at improving the procedure for paying compensation for harm to victims of torture.

Officers of the State Security Service (DXX) detained two men involved in the illegal dispatch of Uzbeks to the United States. They planned to send them to the United States along the Uzbekistan-Turkey-Bolivia-Colombia-Mexico-USA route.

On December 28, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the informal meeting of the heads of state of the CIS in St. Petersburg.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on December 27 handed over special machinery, equipment, training manuals and personal protective equipment to the Plant Protection Agency of Uzbekistan to improve pest control processes, the FAO office in Uzbekistan said.

The former Uzbekistan international Nikolai Shirshov died at the age of 48, the Rostov football club said in a statement on Tuesday.

New cable car, Amirsoy Express, was launched in the mountains of the Tashkent province on Sunday. The cable leads to the Amirsoy ski resort. The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov attended the event.

On December 27, hand-over ceremony took place in Seoul of eight units of special automobile fire-fighting and medical equipment, as well as protective gear and equipment donated by the South Korean government for the needs of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan, Dunyo reported.