The opening of the all-weather Amirsoy resort in the mountains of the Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province will take place on December 21. The resort will offer skiing in winter and cycling, hiking and swimming in the summer, said the Deputy PM, Aziz Abdukhakimov at a press conference Tuesday.

Sudden ground collapse accident occurred today at the contruction site of the Tashkent’s Yunusabad metro extension line. The cave-in happened early in the morning due to heavy rainfalls, with no information available if there were any casualties.

Nagoya University was the next destination of the official visit of President Shavkat Mirziyoev to Japan. Today, the Nagoya university has more than 16,000 students. There are over 1600 international students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the faculties of Nagoya University, while Uzbekistan is represented by more than 30 students, with a total of over 400 Uzbek students and researchers graduated Nagoya University.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday arrived in Nagoya, which is listed as the first destination in the program of his official visit to Japan, the presidential press service said.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that after taking "some steps" toward reforming Uzbekistan, President Shavkat Mirziyoev has not extended this "reform spirit" to this month’s elections.

Gulnor Sulaymonova, member of Uzbekistan Kurash Team, was suspended for four years, after she was positive for the presence of the prohibited substance, metabolite following an in-competition test at the Kurash World Cup in South Korea.

The Trump administration plans to publish a new U.S. strategy for Central Asia as China and Russia fight for influence in the energy-rich region and militants from Afghanistan threaten to destabilize it, a senior State Department official has said.

The senators at the 25th plenary meeting approved amendments to the Criminal Code, according to which administrative forcing to labour and the use of child labour at hazardous sites, committed repeatedly, shall be classified as a criminal offense.

The Uzbekistan-Japan business forum was held in Tokyo yesterday, ahead of the visit of the President Shanvkat Mirziyoyev to Japan. Executives of more than 500 Japanese companies and organizations attended the event, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution “aimed at ensuring the supremacy of the Constitution and the Law", Komil Allamjonov, director of the Agency for Information and Mass Communications (AIMC), said in his Telegram channel.

The Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov at a meeting with a delegation of observers from the IPA CIS spoke about the new legislation, explaining why some provisions were amended or postponed.

The Ministry of Justice has prepared a list of approximately 2,000 regulations to be recognized as null and void, stated the Minister of Justice, Ruslanbek Davletov in a report to the Senate at its 25th plenary meeting on Saturday.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent congratulatory messages to the leaders of several countries, the presidential press service said.

The Minister of Justice, Ruslanbek Davletov spoke about the problems of regulatory compliance and legal nihilism at the 25th plenary meeting of the Senate Saturday.

A massive poisoning of workers in a camp of Enter Engineering, a contractor at the Uzbekistan GTL plant project occurred in Kashkadarya’s Guzar district, announced the press secretary of the Ministry of Health, Furqat Sanaev.

The Senate at the 25th plenary meeting on Saturday passed the Accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the International Convention on Plant Quarantine and Protection Bill (Rome, December 6, 1951).

The Senate at the 25th plenary meeting on Saturday approved the Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bill, the upper house said.

The Senate at the 25th plenary meeting on Saturday amended some regulations. As per the article 49 (inviolability article of an employee of the prosecution authority of the Prosecutor's Office Law), it is the higher prosecutor decides on the liability of a prosecutor for disciplinary and administrative offenses. In the new edition, the last clause has been deleted - and now, to bring the prosecutor’s employee to administrative liability, the consent of the higher authority is not required.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe and will pay an official visit to Japan on December 17-20, the presidential press service said.

The Senate at the 25th plenary session on Saturday passed the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Law, the Senate press service said in a statement.