Uzbekistan News

During 6 months of 2008, Altai Krai has exported timber to Uzbekistan for US$49 million.

Published October 5, 2008 at 7:27 a.m. TASHKENT, Uzbekistan _ Sorana Cristea of Romania won her first WTA Tour title Sunday, rallying to beat Sabine Lisicki of Germany 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 in the Tashkent Open final.

A weekend earthquake killed up to 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and levelled a village in the south of the Central Asian nation, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU sanctions on Uzbekistan expire on 13 November despite the country's relapse into disturbing human rights abuses, with Germany exploiting the EU legal system to try and scrap a visa ...

KUWAIT, Sept 29, : The Cabinet agrees with the National Assembly on the list of priorities and proposed projects to be featured in the Parliament's next session, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State ...

A cotton field near Samarkand, Uzbekistan The use of school-students to pick cotton further tarnishes the reputation of Islam Karimov's repressive state, says Andrew Stroehlein.

The Uzbek authorities released the country's oldest political prisoner on Wednesday - the 83-year-old Ahmatjon Adylov who has been in jail for almost 24 years.

A month of self-control exploded with elation, food and cotton candy Wednesday, as more than a thousand Muslims ended Ramadan at the San Mateo County Expo Center.

Recently, the Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev has signed a decree that puts a ban on using the child labor in cotton plantations in Uzbekistan.

Chairman of Uzbekistan's Muslim Board Usmonhon Alemov congratulated the country's Muslims on Eid al-Fitr and the end of Ramadan on 30 September.

Lisicki reaches second round at Tashkent Open TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -Fourth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany advanced to the second round of the Tashkent Open with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Dilyara Saidkhodjaeva of ...

Raising the intellectual and spiritual potential of the youth, formation of the new generation in the spirit of patriotism, high morality, respect for national and universal values is a task crucial for the ...

Famous Japanese designer Takada Kenzo will visit Uzbekistan to attend the Week of Design and Fashion - Style.uz, which will take place in Tashkent and Samarkand in October , Fund Forum of Culture and Art of ...

Uzbek authorities have stepped up surveillance of mosques and tightened control on religious activity since the start of the holy month of Ramadan.

Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyayev signed a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on 19 September to approve an action programme on protection of environment in Uzbekistan for 2008-2012. The ...

For some people, it is normal to earn their living at the expense of others' quiet life, happiness and health.

The Uzbek embassy in France together with Uzbekistan's permanent representative office at UNESCO has held a festive reception devoted to the 17th anniversary of Uzbekistan's Independence Day.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has conformed to the Russian view that the conflict in South Ossetia is tantamount to shaking, if not entirely changing, the global balance of power that has orbited around ...

Uzbekistan's National Security Service has exposed a chain of organized criminal groups, which transited drugs from Tajikistan through Uzbekistan to other countries, the National Security Service's press center ...

The official Turkmenistan.gov.tm website reported on September 16 that President Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov had a phone call in which they discussed the prospects for ...