Image of six men standing in the ditch near a wheat field spread on social networks on October 27. The incident was found to have occurred in Akkurgan district of Tashkent province.

Fayzullo Gadoyev, former chief of the Interior Ministry Drug Enforcement Office of Tajikistan, has been sentenced in absentia to 28 years of imprisonment for involvement in large-scale drug trafficking Tajikistan’s Supreme Court, Asia-Plus said.

Alisher Navoi Cultural Centers aimed at promoting Uzbek language, culture and traditions are expected to be created in Uzbekistan and abroad, as part of the Program of cooperation with Uzbek people living abroad, approved the Presidential decree of October 25, 2018.

French Alandia Industries has offered its services to rehabilitate distressed companies in Uzbekistan. According to the CEO of Alandia, Nicolas de Germay, the company is ready to provide consultancy and assist in forming of working groups to draft recovery plan for company restructuring.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Sunday offered condolences to the President of the United States Donald Trump over the mass killings at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the President’s press service said.

A group of MEPs led by the Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Central Asia and Mongolia (DCAS) Iveta Grigule-Pēterse will arrive in Uzbekistan on Monday.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev familiarized himself with the project of business district in Yunusabad. In line with the President’s Measures To Create Modern Business Districts in Uzbekistan Decree dated August 2, 2018, this district is planned to be located on 45.5 hectares in Otchopar-2 area of Yunusabad district. It will host shopping malls, business offices, parks, entertainment, housing and other facilities.

The Uzbek President’s security aide, Viktor Makhmudov met with his Kazakh counterpart, Gabit Baizhanov and considered the current security issues. In the meeting were present the leaders of central government bodies.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev familiarized himself with the socio-economic state of affairs in Tashkent’s Yunusabad district as well as promising business projects.

Maiden international Muhammad al-Khwarezmi Mathematical Olympiad among university students will be held in Urgench on October 28-30.

The State Committee of Uzbekistan on land resources, geodesy, cartography and the state cadastre (DavQomYerGeodezKadastr) organized workshops on October 22, in Samarkand, and on 25 October, in Tashkent, to present a World Bank-supported project designed to improve public services in the area of cadastral and real property rights registration.

Regular inter-MFA consultations on consular issues took place in Astana in line with the Program of Cooperation between the Foreign Ministries of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for 2018.

Uzbekistan and the United States have strategic partnership ties, the U.S. Secretary Commerce Wilbur Ross told UzA. “Trade and economic ties between the countries are developing at a high pace. The agreements reached by the heads of state during the official visit of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the United States in May this year play an important role in this,” he said.

Cabinet of Ministers has been published the Draft Amendment to List of Socially Significant and Strategic Items (Services), Prices (Tariffs) which are subject to state regulation on the draft legal norms discussion portal.

The Cabinet of Ministers issued resolution on October 22, accrodign to which Uzbekistan nationals now can get the permanent residence permit (the so-called permanent propiska) in Tashkent city and Tashkent province if they buy apartments of any price in a newly build houses.

On 23 October 2018, a seminar entitled “Improved Drought Early Warning System: Opportunities and Prospects for Practical Application” initiated within the framework of a joint project of UNDP / AF and Uzhydromet was held in the Poytakht Business Center. Providing climate stability of farms and dekhkan farms located in arid regions of Uzbekistan.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been awarded the contract for development of project documentation and provision of consulting services as part of the Safe City project.

President Mirziyoyev signed Accelerating The Ddevelopment and Ensuring Financial Sustainability of Energy Sector Decree Tuesday creating the Ministry of Energy, which will be responsible for the entire range of issues of organization and regulation of energy sector.

The first Uzbek-Austrian joint faculty opened at the Tashkent Economic University jointly with the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, the presidential press service said.