Thursday, 28, August, 2025

National

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev inspected the progress of the governmental and business aviation airport project at the former Tashkent-Sharqiy (Eastern) military airfield.

Today the European Union (EU), the Migration Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) have launched the first Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) in Uzbekistan in the framework of EU-funded project “PROTECT: Improving Migration Management and Migrant Protection in selected Silk Routes and Central Asian Countries”.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Pardoning a group of persons serving a sentence who sincerely repented of their deeds and firmly embarked on the path of correction Decree.

The government has issued a resolution cutting the duties for movement of foreign heavy and large-sized vehicles across the territory of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Justice's Legal Information channel said.

Uzbek civil servants will be able to get training abroad under a scholarship program of Japanese government, the Japanese Embassy in Tashkent said.

Uzbekistan is becoming a new manufacturing hub for global textile brands, the chief of a department at the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade Timur Bazarov said in a story entitled Textile Revolution in Uzbekistan.

Patient, an eight-year-old boy, died in one of the private clinics in Tashkent during an operation on Monday, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said.

A gas outburst from a well at Muynak field in Karakalpakstan was handled after a month, the press service of Uzbekneftegaz said on Tuesday.

19-year-old driver who hit a man and a boy (father and son) at a zebra crossing while speeding in April in Samarkand has been handed six years in prison. The ruling was handed down on July 22 by the Samarkand City Criminal Court.

A Chinese company vowed to invest $500 million for the development of a transport and logistics corridor in Andijan province, the provincial governor office said.

The British Council, the UK’s organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, celebrates a finalist from Uzbekistan in the prestigious Study UK Alumni Awards 2025.

A number of changes in regulations and other novelties will take effect on September 1, 2025 in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday.

Criminal case has been opened against workers of the Migration Agency who were involved in sending people to work in Korea for money, the State Security Service said.

The Migration Agency has appealed to Uzbeks abroad, reminding them of criminal punishment for participating in armed conflicts Tuesday.

Following the talks in Samarkand, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein signed a Joint Statement on Partnership Relations, and oversaw the exchange of the following signed accords:

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein in Samarkand, the presidential press service said.

President Mirziyoyev signed decree amending the procedure for collecting sponsorship donations. Now funds shall be collected in the interests of specific recipients of assistance and within a pre-announced timeframes. The amendments also stipulate:

The Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will pay an official visit to Uzbekistan on August 26-27, 2025. This is his first visit of a Japanese Foreign Minister to the country in the past three years.

The Anti-Corruption Agency identified violations in a public procurement by Uzbekistan Airports in the purchase of body cameras worth 6.8 billion soums.

Amendments and addenda were made to some regulations, which are aimed at simplifying and facilitating the procedures for registering intellectual property objects, as well as enhancing measures to effectively protect the rights of intellectual property owners.