Asia Uzbekistan Teen friends from Jizzakh won 'World of 8 Billion International Student Video Contest' with their fresh ideas on nurturing child well-being; their 60'' video, Brighter Future for Every Child, emerged among thousands of entries from teens in 67 countries
Asia Uzbekistan Doctors and nurses in primary healthcare will only work full-time, obstetricians and gynecologists will be doubled according to new system presented following Ishtikhon polyclinic model; family doctors would earn $1.500/month, nurses up to 800
Asia Uzbekistan RFERL reports that dozens of farmers would have been forced to surrender land to Chinese businesses, that would reportedly be taking thousands of hectares of cotton and wheat fields out of local owners with operations disguised as state-backed development
Asia Uzbekistan After many citizens fell victim to fraud and face serious difficulties upon arrival in Turkey for work reasons, the Consulate General in Istanbul issued a warning regarding the increasing number of employment scams involving job offers and fake agencies
Asia Uzbekistan All government agencies of the 15 cities and districts of Uzbekistan will be relocated to a single multi-storey building in the centre of the districts; 150 buildings that will be vacated in these districts will be auctioned to companies
Asia Uzbekistan The month of 'Safe and Healthy Capital' took place in the city of Tashkent from 15 January to 15 February; police officers managed to reduce the crime rate by 43%
Asia Uzbekistan The 4th edition of the international trade fair AGROPRO EXPO 2025 kicked off in the modern exhibition centre in the Dzhambay district, Samarkand, with 110 exhibitors from Turkey, the USA, Iran, Russia, Netherlands, China, Belarus, Lithuania and more
Asia Uzbekistan More than 400 greenhouses, factories and social facilities were found in violation of emission regulations in the capital and Tashkent province, reported the press service of the Ministry of the Environment
Asia Uzbekistan President Mirziyoyev signed a 'Decree on Additional Measures for the Introduction of Modern Mechanisms for the Judicial Protection of the Rights of Persons and Business Entities'
Asia Uzbekistan ChatGPT was the fourth most visited website in Uzbekistan last December, according to SEMrush; platform traffic from Uzbekistan reached 42,73 million visits
Asia Uzbekistan The draft state programme for 2025, published for public input, includes an item proposing to assess the degree of corruption propensity of at least 500 senior civil servants and those in reserve for these positions
Asia Uzbekistan All pharmacies and hospitals in Uzbekistan will have to pay VAT as of 1 April 2025, regardless of income
Asia Uzbekistan The 10% excise tax on mobile communication services will be abolished starting January 1, 2025; the announcement was made after reviewing the country's progress in 2023 and in the frame of key plans for 2025 to support entrepreneurship