Google Cloud has been registered as a taxpayer in Uzbekistan, the Tax Committee said. Google Cloud is a suite of cloud services and includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.

The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov held online talks the with the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea Hong Nam-ki, the Uzbek Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said.

The date of the Uzbekistan elections is proposed to be moved from December to October. The draft bill amending the Constitution was discussed by factions of political parties in the Legislative Chamber, the press service of the Chamber and the Central Election Commission said.

Demolition of an unfinished six-story residential building part of which collapsed in early January has begun in Jizzakh city. According to the Ministry of Construction, the demolition is carried out at the expense of the business owner who built the building.

The presidential press service posted a special report on the trip of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Bukhara province.

On January 24, simultaneously in Tashkent city and the Syrdarya province were held the ceremonies to launch of the 1,500 MW capacity Syrdarya thermal power plant project, the Ministry of Energy said. The project will be implemented jointly with ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a five-day Field Epidemiological Frontline Training Program (FETP) for 20 Uzbek epidemiologists from the Services for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being (SSEW) and 10 mentors from the Tashkent Medical Academy. The CDC FETP is a service-based training program for public health workers at all levels of the public health system, to improve the ability of health workers to conduct epidemiological investigations and respond to disease outbreaks.  

The authorities allowed the pegging of prices to foreign currencies and conventional units, according to the amendments of January 22to the Currency Regulation Law.

Health, NGO, environmental, information, and business codes are set to be developed in Uzbekistan. This is provided for by the National Strategy for Human Rights, the press service of the National Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Human Rights reports.

What was implemented as part of the National Strategy in 2020 was discussed at the meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on Compliance with the International Commitments of Uzbekistan in the field of human rights held on January 22, 2021.

The representatives of the National Center for Human Rights, the Ministry of Justice, the Ombudsman for the Rights of the Child briefed about the progress in the implementation of the National Strategy on Human Rights and its Road Map.

The National Human Rights Strategy was adopted on June 22, 2020 at the initiative of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and reportedly became the first strategic document in the history of Uzbekistan that defined a set of long-term targeted measures to ensure personal, political, economic, social and cultural human rights.

Of the 78 items of the Road Map, 32 were said to have been achieved in 2020.

In particular, the Strategy provides for the development of 33 bills, including 20 new ones, of which 4 laws have been adopted: Education Law (new edition), Combating Trafficking in Persons Law (new edition), Employment Law and Rights of Persons With Disabilities Law.

As noted above, 5 new codes are being developed, as well as new editions of existing codes: Civil, Labor, Criminal, Criminal Procedural, Criminal Executive, Housing and the Code of Administrative Responsibility.

The head of the workshop at Yangi-Angren thermal power plant S. Sh. was found hanged at his home on January 23. This was confirmed by the spokesman to the Tashkent province governor’s office Behzod Kabulov and the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office.

A delegation led by the Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia, Khalid al-Falih, arrived in Bukhara yesterday evening, Dunyo news agency reported.

During his visit to Spain, the Deputy Prime Minister/Chairman of the Tourism Development Committee Aziz Abdukhakimov was hosted by King Philip VI, the Committee said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at an extraordinary session of the Bukhara province's council of people's deputies on Friday warned the Minister of Agriculture Jamshid Khodjaev and the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the development of agrarian and food areas, Shukhrat Ganiev that they would be sacked if they failed to implement drip irrigation in the agriculture.

The Angren prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of an explosion at the Yangi-Angren thermal power plant, as a result of which three people died and three were injured.

On January 22, 2021, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the adviser to the President of Uzbekistan on economic development, effective governance and international cooperation Suma Chakrabarti.

The National Commission on Combating Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labor, together with the State Labor Inspectorate, began to study cases of forced mobilization of graduate students of medical universities to collect anthropometric data in local outpatient clinics, the commission stated.

Head of the company, who demanded US$ 3.72 million from a businessman to finalize documents for allocation of a land plot, was detained red-handed While receiving bribe in Kuyichirchik district of Tashkent province. The operation was carried out by employees of the State Security Service and the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office.

On January 20, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the new Ambassador of Jordan, Demiye Zuher Haddad, the Foreign Ministry said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent a congratulatory message to the President of the United States Joseph Biden on his assumption of office, the presidential press service of the Uzbek leader said.

A draft Children’s Ombudsman bill will be developed in order to increase the effectiveness of protection of children's rights. Such an item is contained in the draft 2021 state program.