Asia Uzbekistan Proposals will be accepted through today for the master plan for privatization and operation of the park at the Tashkent business district; among other requirements, management will keep all jobs, and leave all trees and bushes
Asia Uzbekistan According to UNESCO, the literacy rate in 2021 reached 99.99% due to an increase in preschool education coverage - growing from 24% in 2017 to 62% in 2021 - and higher education up to 28%
Asia Uzbekistan IKEA applied for registration of its trademark on the Uzbek territory as part of an expansion program: the Swedish company plans to enter 12 new markets by 2025
Asia Uzbekistan The city of Khiva hosted this week the UNESCO International Cultural Forum "Central Asia at the Crossroads of World Civilizations"; experts from 46 countries discussed the role of the region for dialogue and mediation in the current geopolitical context
Asia Uzbekistan The first solar power plant with a capacity of 100 megawatts, worth US$110 million financed by Masdar Energy Company (UAE), has been inaugurated in Navoi region and is now operative
Asia Uzbekistan Within the XIII Tashkent International Film Festival, closing today, a pilot version of a multimedia streaming platform - a local analogue of the Netflix platform - has been presented
Asia Uzbekistan An online information platform and a mobile application will be launched for controlling funds spent on road construction and repair, as well as for reporting holes in roads
Asia Uzbekistan Over 83.200 "best looking” car license plates were sold through online auctions for a total of about US$15,8 million in the first half of the year
Asia Uzbekistan A pilot population census will be completed by the end of 2021: according to preliminary data, the current population reached 34.860.170 people, or 302 thousand more than at the end of 2020
Asia Uzbekistan A branch of the University of Pisa to open in Tashkent: an agreement has been signed to activate study and research courses and the first one will be a Bachelor of Science in Geology
Asia Uzbekistan The traditional manual wool industry and karakul sheep breeding to be revived in the Kashkadarya, Samarkand and Surkhandarya regions
Asia Uzbekistan The Uzbek-Finnish Pedagogical Institute will open in Samarkand for the next academic year
Asia Uzbekistan Enter Engineering building company, in cooperation with Russian Uralmashzavod, will build a copper-processing plant in