Coal production volume in Uzbekistan will be raised to 10 million tons in 2025. This was discussed at a government meeting chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev on May 13.

Dry and warm weather is expected across most of Uzbekistan in the first half of the week, the Uzgidromet said today.

Chinese Hunan Industrial Equipment Installation is mulling a 171-kilometer toll road project in Uzbekistan. The proposal was discussed during a meeting between Surkhandarya province governor Ulugbek Kasimov and a delegation from the Chinese company. The project is a toll road parallel to the M41 highway, which connects Bishkek, Dushanbe, and Termiz.

The Ministers of Transport of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, Ilkhom Makhkamov and Marat Karabayev held a meeting to explore the ways to discuss collaboration and advance joint projects, emphasizing their shared commitment to enhancing transport connectivity between the two countries.

Tashkent hosted the 9th meeting of the Uzbekistan-Hungary intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation.

Delegation headed by the Vice Premier of China’s State Council Liu Guojun will visit Uzbekistan on a four-day visit, the Dunyo said.

Uzbek nationals will again be able to go to the Republic of Korea for seasonal work, the Minister of Employment and Poverty Reduction Bekhzod Musayev announced after at a meeting with Korean Minister of Justice Park Sung-jae during negotiations in Seoul, the press service of the Ministry of Employment said in a statement.

The volume of capital investments in Uzbekistan topped 107.1 trillion soums, or USD 90 billion in January-March 2024.

According to UNESCO's 2021 report on students studying abroad (the most recent 2-year report has not yet been released), Chinese and Indian students have the most students studying abroad.

115 thousand labor migrants have returned to Uzbekistan from abroad year-to-date, the president said at the government meeting today.

Speaker of the Senate Tanzila Norboeva hosted the delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea.

Delegation of the Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry visited Lithuania with the support of the Uzbek embassy.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev engaged in discussions with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during his visit to Moscow on May 8.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed decrees paving the way for two wind power plant projects in Samarkand and Jizzakh provinces.

On May 9, at about 17:00, a fatal accident occurred in the Sergeli district of Tashkent, the press service of the traffic police department said.

The delegation headed by the Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov yesterday met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif.

The STIHIA electronic music, art and science festival will take place from June 5 to 8 in Muynak. STIHIA has been held annually since 2018. This year the festival will again take place in a historically significant place - in the city of Muynak, where it has been held since its inception, except last year.

In 2024, the Delegation of European Union to Uzbekistan commemorates Europe Day and 30 years of partnership between the European Union and the Republic of Uzbekistan. To mark this significant milestone, a public festival and concert celebrating "30 Years of European Union - Uzbekistan Partnership» will take place on Saturday 18 May 2024 at the Tashkent Botanical Garden.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the 10th meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Moscow on May 8 as the leader of an observer state.

Canal France International (CFI), the French media development agency, has organised for the first time a Regional Forum in Tashkent, from 6 to 8 May at the Panarams Hotel.