Uzbekistan Travel News

The total length of roads in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken oblast exceeds 1.2 thousand km.

The 5th international exhibition "Uzagroexpo-2009 - Agriculture and food industry", an annual project carried out by IEG Uzbekistan company directed on the development of agriculture and food industry of Uzbekistan, was held in Tashkent on 25-27 November.

Koreans in Uzbekistan held a meeting at the House of the Tashkent Regional Cultural Department on Nov.

In 1965, a mural was discovered in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when local authorities decided to build a road in the middle of the Afrasiab tepe.

The pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi says it will demonstrate against the removal of a Soviet war memorial from Uzbek capital, Tashkent, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.

The Authorized of Oliy Majlis [parliament] of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Human Rights has received in Tashkent the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs George Krol.

Last week Tashkent hosted a gala-concert of Yangi Avlod festival of organized and presented by the Fund Forum and Kamalak with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund .

US Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, George Krol, is in Uzbekistan for a series of high-level meetings.

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Concerns about the spread of swine flu are creating an additional hurdle for Central Asian believers hoping to make the Hajj, or the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

XI'AN: Authorities in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, are hoping the ruins of a 1,300-year-old market will be inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a landmark along the ancient Silk Road.

Thank you, cotton-growers! That'll be it for now. Translation of Musafirbek 's post For the past few days, Uzbekistan's media has been littered with painfully Soviet-style headlines: "A Great Victory for Our Cotton-Growers," "The Nation Praises the Heroes in Her Fields," and so on.

Translation of mursya a s post This was the question addressed by blogger bellamar , who shared his point of view with neweurasia.net. Ita s a pity that wea re in the middle of a crisis.

A variety of special events and exhibits will be highlighted throughout the grounds at the 66th annual Holiday Folk Fair International, America's premiere multi-cultural festival, to be held Fri., Nov.

Then here are two stories to read before you go. The first, from a recent New York Times , reads like travel horror to those unfamiliar with Central Asia, but to old initiates it rings true, and probably reminds one of previous trips.

Narrow medieval streets leading to blue-tiled palaces and mosques. Crowded oriental bazaars filled with merchants hawking their wares.

All State Tourism Action Council staff nationwide will be absorbed into state tourism departments upon the abolishment of the councils at the end of this year.

A press conference devoted to the forthcoming 15th anniversary Tashkent International Tourist Fair "Tourism on the Silk Road" was held in Tashkent on 19 October.

The Forgotten Greeks of Uzbekistan By Catherine Tsounis "Greek music and cuisine played a major part of my childhood, in the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, that was part of the Soviet Union.

Signaling a sense of strategic urgency to counter recent Taliban gains, the Northern Distribution Network is being adapted to handle the transit of weaponry and hardware destined for US and NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan.